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Compare the Top Terminal Emulators of 2021

Terminal Emulators Guide

What are Terminal Emulators?

Terminal emulators enable users to emulate a terminal on their machine, and gives them access to a host. Different terminal emulators are designed for different purposes and operating systems. Compare the best Terminal Emulators currently available using the table below.

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    MobaXterm

    MobaXterm

    MobaXterm

    MobaXterm is your ultimate toolbox for remote computing. In a single Windows application, it provides loads of functions that are tailored for programmers, webmasters, IT administrators and pretty much all users who need to handle their remote jobs in a more simple fashion. There are many advantages of having an All-In-One network application for your remote tasks, e.g. when you use SSH to connect to a remote server, a graphical SFTP browser will automatically pop up in order to directly edit your remote files. Your remote applications will also display seamlessly on your Windows desktop using the embedded X server. When developing MobaXterm, we focused on a simple aim: proposing an intuitive user interface in order for you to efficiently access remote servers through different networks or systems. You can download and use MobaXterm Home Edition for free. If you want to use it inside your company, you should consider subscribing to MobaXterm Professional Edition.
    Starting Price: $69 per user per year
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    PowerTerm InterConnect
    The PowerTerm InterConnect Series is comprised of several robust terminal emulation applications supporting the host access needs of large and small organizations. It allows enterprises to standardize on a single host access solution. PowerTerm InterConnect products provides fast and reliable access to data residing on the broadest range of hosts, such as IBM Mainframe zSeries, IBM AS/400 iSeries, UNIX, OpenVMS, Tandem, HP. Each of the PowerTerm InterConnect products enables terminal emulation via various communication modes. PowerTerm InterConnect offers a flexible and extensive feature set to maximize users' time while providing a wide range of options. Using Power Script Language, users can automate tasks and increase efficiency. PowerTerm InterConnect's small footprint makes it a simple, fast and effective means of running legacy applications and it is easily installable on any PC.
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    PowerTerm Pro
    The PowerTerm Pro Series is Ericom Software's premier terminal emulation solution for Windows that simplifies and extends legacy access functionality. Supporting a diverse range of hosts and emulation types, PowerTerm Pro enables corporations to standardize on a single host access solution. Featuring a customizable GUI, SSL, SSH and secure file transfer (SFTP), PowerTerm Pro and PowerTerm Pro Enterprise offer a number of options, so corporations can choose the PowerTerm Pro product that meets their host, security, server and productivity needs. Easy-to-use intuitive GUI (graphic user interface) enables users to do their work quickly and efficiently, with drag-and-drop tools for quick data accessibility and AS/400 DFT for easy file transfer between PC and AS/400 host. PowerTerm Pro terminal emulation software is installed on a central server and accessed via a Windows desktop with per-user licensing.
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    Flynet Viewer TE
    Flynet Viewerâ„¢ TE (Terminal Emulation) provides a browser based, terminal emulator to access key business systems. Access Mainframe, iSeries, Unix, VMS or MultiValue systems, on any device with zero client software. The terminal emulator is installed in a server environment, either on-premise or in the cloud, and centrally managed via the Flynet Viewer administration centre. Flynet Viewer works on all browsers and devices with no Java or ActiveX plugins. Flynet Viewer has all the features you would expect in an enterprise terminal emulator, including client and server-side macro creation, file transfer, single sign-on, MFA and keyboard remapping. Flynet Viewer Terminal Emulation provides the same level of functionality that is associated with a full fat desktop Terminal Emulation client but is delivered over the web and served up via a browser. Flynet Viewer Terminal Emulation will run on any device regardless of operating system or indigenous browser.
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    HostAccess

    HostAccess

    Perforce

    HostAccess is PC terminal emulation software. It offers a suite of terminal emulation tools for Microsoft Windows users. This allows secure access to various platforms, including Linux, Unix, IBM, Windows, etc. The main usage of the HostAccess is to connect to PICK (multivalue) system, such as UniVerse, UniData, D3, ONware, etc., and use own package of programs written in PICK Basic. These programs provide APIs for data exchange and expansive GUI capabilities. Produce reports quickly and integrate data with Windows applications. Connect to multiple systems within one integrated environment. HostAccess offers all the key terminal emulation software features you need in a single page. So, whether you’re looking for asynchronous/synchronous connections, server-based administration, concurrent users, or multiple session access, HostAccess is an ideal solution for you.
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    Tera Term

    Tera Term

    Tera Term

    Tera Term is the terminal emulator for Microsoft Windows, that supports serial port, telnet and SSH connections. Among many other features it also has built-in Macro scripting language. Tera Term is often used to automate tasks related to remote connections initiated from PC. Tera Term is a free software terminal emulator (communication program) which supports serial port connections, TCP/IP (telnet, SSH1, SSH2) connections, log replaying, named pipe connection, and IPv6 communication. It also supports VT100 emulation and selected VT200/300 emulation, TEK4010 emulation, file transfer protocols (Kermit, XMODEM, YMODEM, ZMODEM, B-PLUS and Quick-VAN), and scripts using the "Tera Term Language". Supports Japanese, English, Russian, Korean and UTF-8 character sets, UTF-8 character encoding, and message catalog (in Japanese, English, German, French, Russian, Korean and Chinese).
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    SecureCRT

    SecureCRT

    Van Dyke Software

    SecureCRT client for Windows, Mac, and Linux provides rock-solid terminal emulation for computing professionals, raising productivity with advanced session management and a host of ways to save time and streamline repetitive tasks. SecureCRT provides secure remote access, file transfer, and data tunneling for everyone in your organization. Whether you are replacing Telnet or Terminal, or need a more capable secure remote access tool, SecureCRT is an application you can live in all day long. With the solid security of SSH, extensive session management, and advanced scripting, SecureCRT will help raise your productivity to the nth degree. Highlight individual words, phrases, or substrings in the session window to identify errors in log files or streaming output and to highlight prompts. Regular expressions are also supported, making it easier to highlight strings like IP addresses. Keyword display attributes (bold, reverse video, and color) can be combined.
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    OpenText HostExplorer
    Terminal emulation is the ability to make one computer terminal, typically a PC, appear to look like another, usually older type of terminal so that a user can access programs originally written to communicate with the other terminal type. OpenText HostExplorer is one of best terminal emulator software packages available for IBM® 3270 Mainframes, AS/400s, UNIX and FTP hosts. OpenText™ HostExplorer is a terminal emulator that provides fast, secure and reliable connections from Microsoft® Windows® PCs to a variety of enterprise hosts. HostExplorer enables organizations to benefit from the latest PC and web technologies while protecting their investment in data, information assets and systems. Easy migration preserves user experience, eliminates need for retraining and avoiding business workflow interruptions. Reduces maintenance cost and effort through automatic upgrades and centralized administration.
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    StayLinked

    StayLinked

    StayLinked

    StayLinked enables you to migrate to state-of-the-art devices, measure and optimize productivity with cutting-edge business intelligence, and interface with ground-breaking technologies in the areas of automation, robotics, augmented reality, and location-based services. Keeping employees on the job is a key part of productivity. The architecture of traditional terminal emulation solutions often leads to erratic application connectivity and performance. This results in end users spending time troubleshooting issues with the help desk rather than performing important application tasks. By eliminating dropped or lost sessions, providing centralized application configuration and management, and delivering highly efficient help desk tools, StayLinked keeps applications and end users running at peak performance. StayLinked Terminal Emulation (TE) is the fastest TE solution available for mobile devices. Traditional terminal emulation products send all telnet/SSH traffic to the mobile device.
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    kitty

    kitty

    kitty

    kitty is designed for power keyboard users. To that end all its controls work with the keyboard (although it fully supports mouse interactions as well). Its configuration is a simple, human editable, single file for easy reproducibility (I like to store configuration in source control). The code in kitty is designed to be simple, modular and hackable. It is written in a mix of C (for performance sensitive parts) and Python (for easy hackability of the UI). It does not depend on any large and complex UI toolkit, using only OpenGL for rendering everything. Finally, kitty is designed from the ground up to support all modern terminal features, such as unicode, true color, bold/italic fonts, text formatting, etc. It even extends existing text formatting escape codes, to add support for features not available elsewhere, such as colored and styled (curly) underlines. One of the design goals of kitty is to be easily extensible so that new features can be added in the future.
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    iTerm2

    iTerm2

    iTerm2

    iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.14 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted. iTerm2 has a lot of features. Every conceivable desire a terminal user might have has been foreseen and solved. And these are just the main attractions! Divide a tab up into multiple panes, each one showing a different session. You can slice vertically and horizontally and create any number of panes in any imaginable arrangement. Register a hotkey that brings iTerm2 to the foreground when you're in another application. A terminal is always a keypress away. You can choose to have the hotkey open a dedicated window. This gives you an always-available terminal at your fingertips. iTerm2 comes with a robust find-on-page feature. The UI stays out of the way. All matches are immediately highlighted. Even regular expression support is offered!
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    ConEmu

    ConEmu

    ConEmu

    ConEmu-Maximus5 aims to be handy, comprehensive, fast and reliable terminal window where you may host any console application developed either for WinAPI (cmd, powershell, far) or Unix PTY (cygwin, msys, wsl bash). As Windows console window enhancement (local terminal emulator), ConEmu presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications (like PuTTY for example) as one customizable tabbed GUI window with various features. ConEmu starts a console program in a hidden console window, and provides an alternative customizable GUI window with various features. Smooth and friendly window resizing; tabs for editors, viewers, panels and consoles. Run simple GUI apps like PuTTY in tabs. Windows 7 Jump Lists and Progress on Taskbar buttons. Easily run old DOS applications (games) in Windows 7 or 64-bit OS. Thumbnails and tiles in Far Manager. Normal, maximized and full screen graphical window modes.
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    GNOME Terminal
    Terminal is a terminal emulator application for accessing a UNIX shell environment which can be used to run programs available on your system. Terminal supports escape sequences that control cursor position and colors. A terminal is a text input point in a computer that is also called the Command Line Interface (CLI). IBM 3270, VT100 and many others are hardware terminals that are no longer produced as physical devices. To emulate these terminals, there are terminal emulators. Any input entered in the Terminal to be executed is referred to as a command. You can run both command line and graphical user interface (GUI) programs from the terminal. If you have a program that ends abruptly without any warning or error, you may want to run it in Terminal. This will allow the program to output any error or debugging messages to the Terminal window. This information can be helpful when filing a bug report.
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    Yakuake
    Yakuake is a drop-down terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology. Smoothly rolls down from the top of your screen. Tabbed interface, configurable dimensions and animation speed, skinnable, sophisticated D-Bus interface. After Yakuake has started you can click on configure Yakuake by clicking on the Open Menu button (middle button on the bottom right hand side of the interface) and select Configure Shortcuts to change the hotkey to drop/retract the terminal automatically, by default it is set to F12. While most configuration options can be changed from Yakuake GUI, there are some options only accessible from modifying the configuration file. Yakuake allows to control itself at runtime by sending the D-Bus messages. Thus it can be used to start Yakuake in a user defined session. You can create tabs, assign names for them and also ask to run any specific command in any opened tab or just to show/hide Yakuake window.
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    PuTTY

    PuTTY

    PuTTY

    PuTTY is a free implementation of SSH and Telnet for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. PuTTY is a client program for the SSH, Telnet, Rlogin, and SUPDUP network protocols. These protocols are all used to run a remote session on a computer, over a network. PuTTY implements the client end of that session, the end at which the session is displayed, rather than the end at which it runs. In really simple terms, you run PuTTY on a Windows machine, and tell it to connect to (for example) a Unix machine. PuTTY opens a window. Then, anything you type into that window is sent straight to the Unix machine, and everything the Unix machine sends back is displayed in the window. So you can work on the Unix machine as if you were sitting at its console, while actually sitting somewhere else. All of PuTTY's settings can be saved in named session profiles. You can also change the default settings that are used for new sessions.
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    Ivanti Terminal Emulation
    Terminal emulation, powered by Wavelink, extends your enterprise systems to warehouse workers’ mobile devices. Empower workers to pick faster, with improved order accuracy, completing more tasks each shift. Add barcode scanning, optimize with automation scripts, even add voice, all without modifying your host system. From inventory to picking, receiving to cross-docking, your workers execute tasks everywhere on the floor and beyond. Our solutions help them navigate tasks while leveraging the advanced data-capture technologies available in your chosen mobile devices and interface with all leading systems—including Manhattan, JDA, and Infor. Workers multi-task, and so do our telnet solutions. It’s all about getting more orders shipped during peak periods.
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    Jolly Giant

    Jolly Giant

    Jolly Giant

    Reliable, fast, efficient and secure Windows® O/S to IBM mainframe and AS/400 connectivity solutions and support, now with web and mobile interface options. Using TCP/IP and the Winsock interface, this application allows you to quickly connect to your IBM mainframe over LAN and dialup connections. QWS3270 Secure is a 3270 emulation application that allows PCs to connect to SSL enabled IBM mainframes over a secure TCP/IP connection. Using TCP/IP and the Winsock interface, this application allows you to quickly connect to your A/S400 over LAN and dialup connections. WIRE offers a web based modernization platform to enhance and improve the user interfaces of mainframe applications and deliver them to web and mobile platforms,
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    Micro Focus InfoConnect
    Connect business users and customers to your data-rich enterprise systems – from TPF, ALCS, and GDS hosts to IBM, Unisys, UNIX, Linux, OpenVMS, HP 3000, HP NonStop (Tandem 6530). You can run InfoConnect on Windows 10 with confidence. Gain the flexibility you need to manage changing desktops and user preferences. Integrate full-featured emulation within a corporate portal or web page. Customize installation configurations with ease. Centrally manage Terminal IDs for host connections. Print from shared printers, host devices, card readers, specialized ticket printers, point-of-sale terminals, and a variety of old and new communication protocols. Streamline and secure your host-access operation by teaming InfoConnect with MSS. InfoConnect Desktop works with your Identity and Access Management (IAM) system, including those that are SAML-enabled, to authenticate to MSS. Whereupon MSS seamlessly propagates changes to application settings and user-specific content from a central server.
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    Micro Focus Extra!

    Micro Focus Extra!

    Micro Focus

    Extra! is integrated with Microsoft Office, which enables user to eliminate keystrokes to save time. Complete repetitive actions faster and more accurately with various productivity features. Completely customize your software before deployment with the custom installation wizard. Centrally manage the setting files with the group policy feature, saving time and increasing management control.
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    Micro Focus Reflection for the Web
    Configure sessions with hotspots, keyboard mapping, color settings, and more. Build web frameworks around mainframe applications. Centrally install and deploy for instant availability. Once you make updates, users automatically download the new version when they connect. Connect to any major GDS. Use the Airlines Printer component to generate tickets, baggage tags, and boarding passes. Connect to host systems, making IBM, UNIX, Unisys, OpenVMS, and HP data instantly available to browser users, no matter where they are, without the need for Java. The new Reflection for the Web Launcher enables end users to continue access to mainframe and host applications while removing any requirements for Oracle Java. Allow users to work the way that they work best providing terminal sessions, printing, and file transfer.
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    NetTerm

    NetTerm

    NetTerm

    InterSoft International, Inc. produces award winning products designed to run on Microsoft Windows based workstations, allowing connectivity to IBM, UNIX, Windows and VMS based host computers. Our products are used worldwide by individuals and companies to meet their client / server needs. The robust nature of NetTerm allows it to be used by the military, IBM, federal courts, National Institutes of Health, public libraries, automobile dealerships and thousands of individuals requiring access to Internet accounts, public library systems and their database connectivity requirements. Professionals within the medical, financial and law related industries use NetTerm to search diverse databases located all over the world. The award winning NetTerm is a robust, configurable terminal emulator designed for Internet and intranet connections with support for Telnet, rlogin, dialup, and other connection protocols.
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    Micro Focus Host Access for the Cloud
    Quickly deliver browser-based access from a central location – without the need to manage Java runtime environments. Make sure you know who is accessing your mainframe, and ensure that only authorized users get to the login screen. Leverage enterprise credentials to move from a potentially unsecure eight-character password, to a one-time pass ticket. Why reinvent the wheel? Provision terminal emulation like other corporate resources, through the corporate user directory. Quickly deploy secure, customized browser-based sessions, with supporting keyboards, quick keys, and macros. Provide HTML5 access to 3270, 5250, VT, Unisys and Airline host applications from a central location – without the need to manage workstation dependencies, or Java runtime environments.
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    FlexTerm

    FlexTerm

    FlexTerm

    FlexTerm is written entirely in C# .NET, providing a new user interface that is long overdue for the terminal emulation community. The user interface utilizes the modern ribbon command bar to organize the program's features into a series of tabs at the top of the window. This increases discover-ability of features and functions, enables quicker learning of the program, and makes users feel more in control of their experience with the program. The ribbon replaces both the traditional menu bar and toolbars and is now fully customizable, allowing users to create their own custom tabs and tab groups. A FlexTerm workspace can consist of a single session, or any number of sessions, which may be docked and displayed as tabs and/or floating. Sessions within each workspace can be easily arranged using drag-and-drop functionality.
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    PowerTerm WebConnect HostView
    In today's economy, one of the best ways for an organization to emerge as productive and agile is to optimize their IT resources. Ericom helps organization achieve this with PowerTerm® WebConnect HostView web-to-host emulation. Leverage the benefits of PC-client access software and server-based computing to take legacy assets to a new level. Centrally manage configuration and software updates - save on time and administrative resources. Increase productivity; enable anytime, anywhere access to business-critical applications using a standard web browser, regardless of the user's physical location. Reduce costs associated with individual licensing, maintenance, support and updates. SSL, SSH, SFTP, Active Directory and LDAP integration, Single Sign-On, authentication (including Kerberos), RADIUS, RSA® SecurID® and SecurEnvoy® SecureAccess and SecurICE two-factor authentication support, and more.
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    Rocket Terminal Emulator

    Rocket Terminal Emulator

    Rocket Software

    Rocket® Terminal Emulator (formerly Rocket® BlueZone®) is a different kind of solution. Highly configurable, users can customize their environment to maximize comfort and efficiency. Its native security ensures your critical business data remains protected, while providing a cost-effective alternative that delivers exceptional value. Switching from your existing terminal emulation solution is straightforward with our migration wizards and exceptional team supporting your move to Rocket Terminal Emulator. Rocket Terminal Emulator enables each user to customize their terminal environment to feel familiar and comfortable. Users of host systems often have shortcuts and hot-keys configured specifically to their most often-used tasks. With Rocket Terminal Emulator, many of those macros will easily migrate from your prior emulator.
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