10 alternatives to terminal
microsoft/terminal — The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place! (105,223 stars, MIT, ui, testing, infra).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 1,044 licence-cleared components from microsoft/terminal itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | xtermjs/xterm.js | 7.6 | MIT | 21,297 |
| 2 | wavetermdev/waveterm | 7.1 | Apache-2.0 | 22,591 |
| 3 | jesseduffield/lazygit | 6.4 | MIT | 83,341 |
| 4 | antonmedv/fx | 7.4 | MIT | 20,695 |
| 5 | unjs/consola | 4.8 | MIT | 7,342 |
| 6 | copilotkit/agentcore-cli | 4.8 | Apache-2.0 | 5 |
| 7 | tinyhumansai/plugins-workspace | 5.7 | Apache-2.0 | 1 |
| 8 | tldr-pages/tldr | 4.9 | MIT | 64,043 |
| 9 | psmux/psmux | 5.6 | MIT | 3,717 |
| 10 | sharkdp/bat | 1.8 | Apache-2.0 | 60,878 |
The alternatives in detail
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A terminal for the webscore 7.6/10 · MIT permissive · 21,297 stars · 204 components · search them
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An open-source, AI-integrated, cross-platform terminal for seamless workflows
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simple terminal UI for git commands
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Terminal JSON viewer & processorscore 7.4/10 · MIT permissive · 20,695 stars · 73 components · search them
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🐨 Elegant Console Logger for Node.js and Browserscore 4.8/10 · MIT permissive · 7,342 stars · 19 components · search them
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The new terminal experience for AgentCore!score 4.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 5 stars · 468 components · search them
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All of the official Tauri plugins in one place!score 5.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1 stars · 265 components · search them
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Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands 📚.
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Tmux on Windows Powershell - tmux for PowerShell, Windows Terminal, cmd.exe. Includes psmux, pmux, and tmux commands. This is native High-Performance Tmux designed for Windows in Rust 🦀score 5.6/10 · MIT permissive · 3,717 stars · 558 components · search them
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A cat(1) clone with wings.
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