Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Carbonyl
Chromium running inside your terminal
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Carbonyl launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Chrome Devtools Protocol rust API. Contribute to mattsse/chromiumoxide development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Doogie is a Chromium-based web browser with tree-style pages
2017 · cretz.github.io · its alternatives →
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Carbonyl Browser ❤️ Windows/Linux/MacOS/Web Terminal - niutech/carbonyl-terminal
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Reaper is a Chrome (or Chromium) browser extension that terminates browser processes when they use too much CPU. Anything that the browser regards as a process is a potential target. This includes tabs, renderers, subframes, other extensions, and itself. It works on stable channel Chrome for Linux but requires dev channel on Windows, MacOS, or ChromeOS. See README for details.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN community, I’m Zach, founder and CEO of Warp, and am excited to show you Warp, a fast Rust-based terminal that’s easy to use and built for teams. As of today, Warp is in public beta and any Mac user can download it. It works with bash, zsh, and fish. The terminal’s teletype-like interface has made it hard for the CLI to thrive. After 20 years of programming, I still find it hard to copy a command’s output; I always forget how to use `tar`; and I always have to relearn how to move my cursor. To fix fundamental accessibility issues, I believe we need to start innovating on the terminal,…
2022 · warp.dev · its alternatives →
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Carbon▲209A directory theme built with Astro, Tailwind CSS & MDX
2023 · lexingtonthemes.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · breach.cc · its alternatives →
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nodegui▲195Build cross-platform desktop applications with JavaScript🚀
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Carbonize▲180Beautiful images of code by Carbon, natively on your Mac
2019 · dangercove.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, we just shipped a browser with an inbuilt MCP server! We're a YC startup (S24) building BrowserOS — an open‑source Chromium fork. We're a privacy‑first alternative to the new wave of AI browsers like Dia, Perplexity Comet. Since launching ~3 months ago, the #1 request has been to expose our browser as an MCP server. -- Google beat us to launch with chrome-devtools-mcp (solid product btw), which lets you build/debug web apps by connecting Chrome to coding assistants. But we wanted to take this a step further: we packaged the MCP server directly into our browser binary. That gives…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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tterm▲109A terminal, a real browser, and Claude Code under one roof
Jul 2026 · tterm.sh · its alternatives →
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We’ve been building infrastructure to spin up browsers for AI agents. Originally, we built[0] it as a pool of warm Docker containers running Chromium, exposing: - Chrome DevTools Protocol (for Playwright/Puppeteer) - noVNC (for live view) We’ve been following the unikernel space for a while, so we decided to see if we could get our image on one. We went with Unikraft Cloud[1]. Here’s how it did: - Boot-up time: 10–20ms (vs. ~5s for Docker containers) - Near 0 CPU/memory consumption when idle - Still ~8GB RAM when active (headful Chromium) Potential use cases: - Standby mode during…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I run a lot of Claude Code and Codex sessions in parallel. I was using Ghostty with a bunch of split panes, and relying on native macOS notifications to know when an agent needed me. But Claude Code's notification body is always just "Claude is waiting for your input" with no context, and with enough tabs open, I couldn't even read the titles anymore. I tried a few coding orchestrators but most of them were Electron/Tauri apps and the performance bugged me. I also just prefer the terminal since GUI orchestrators lock you into their workflow. So I built cmux as a native macOS app in…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We’ve reached a major milestone in making any software run with WebAssembly. Thanks to the newest release of Wasmer (4.4) and the Wasmer JS SDK (0.8.0) ...
2024 · wasmer.io · its alternatives →
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Run WebAssembly made for outside the browser, inside the browser.
2022 · runno.dev · its alternatives →
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Beautiful images of your code from your command line
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Glance ▲87Real browser for Claude Code Test, Screenshot, Automate
Mar 2026 · glance.debugbase.io · its alternatives →
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Stash▲140Syncs your fav links across multiple browsers & accounts
2023 · rafaelgandi.notion.site · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, Gridland is a runtime + ShadCN UI registry that makes it possible to build terminal apps that run in the browser as well as the native terminal. This is useful for demoing TUIs so that users know what they're getting before they are invested enough to install them. And, tbh, it's also just super fun! Gridland is the successor to Ink Web (ink-web.dev) which is the same concept, but using Ink + xterm.js. After building Ink Web, we continued experimenting and found that using OpenTUI and a canvas renderer performed better with less flickering and nearly instant load times. We're…
Mar 2026 · gridland.io · its alternatives →
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2017 · bash.rocks · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’m Mike, the founder and creator of Wave, a cross-platform open-source terminal that supports inline rendering, modern UI, and persistent sessions. I love the command line; I’ve been using it for over 25 years, starting with a Linux box I made with spare parts in my college dorm room. But while other devtools have been modernized, the terminal has been stuck, with the same basic functionality for over 40-years. What if your command line terminal could display more than just text? That’s crazy right (I can hear the screams of thousands of graybeard sysadmins). Not all the time, but…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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