Author: HelloGitHub – ChungZH

When you’re tired of the boring black screen of CMD and the monotonous blue background of PowerShell, try using a more customizable terminal emulator. Here are some open source terminal emulators collected from GitHub. They have rich functions and beautiful interface, which can perfectly replace the ordinary terminal system. Radish and cabbage have their own love, pick and choose to see if you have a bright, the whole article the most beautiful that “son”.

1. Windows Terminal

  • Making project: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal

  • Number of Stars: 58.7K

  • Roadmap：https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/master/doc/terminal-v1-roadmap.md


If you’re a Windows user, Windows Terminal, developed by Microsoft Dad, is definitely your best bet. It supports multiple tabs, Unicode and UTF-8 characters, emojis, GPU acceleration, and custom themes, styles, and configurations. WT uses C++ development and is very fast. (The background in the above picture is modified and Fluent effect is available by default)

2. Hyper

  • Making project: https://github.com/zeit/hyper

  • Number of Stars: 32.7K

  • Website: https://hyper.is


The Hyper uses the Electron frame, which allows it to be pretty and cool, but also brings with it the drawbacks of being slow and bulky. It has a wealth of plugins and themes, see awesome- Hyper, arguably the most. If you don’t care about performance, the Hyper is a great choice. It supports Windows, Linux and MacOS.

3. Terminus

  • Making project: https://github.com/Eugeny/terminus

  • Number of Stars: 13.1K

  • Website: https://eugeny.github.io/terminus/


Terminus is a highly customized terminal emulator that also uses Electron and can be set to a Fluent Design-style background that works well with Windows 10. It integrates SSH client and connection manager, fully supports Unicode, including full-corner characters, and has a graphical Settings page. Supports Windows, Linux and MacOS. Terminus also has some plugins and themes.

4. Alacritty

  • Making project: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty

  • Number of Stars: 21.1K


Developed using Rust, Alacritty strives for simplicity and performance. Claimed to be the fastest terminal emulator in existence, using GPU rendering. Supports macOS, Linux, BSD and Windows. It’s still in Beta.

Alacritty opens “in seconds,” much faster than Windows Terminal.

5. ConEmu

  • Making project: https://github.com/Maximus5/ConEmu
  • Number of Stars: 6.6K
  • Website: https://conemu.github.io/

This terminal uses C++ development, excellent performance, very powerful function, has more than ten years of history. You can run some old DOS programs or games, the window resizes smoothly, but as you can see, ConEmu is pretty ugly.

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Terminal emulator tools like IDE for their own is the best, if there are other excellent open source terminal simulation tools welcome to tell us.

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