Alternatives

Products that do what cool-retro-term does

Terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display

1
RetroMac▲221
Turn your Mac into a time machine.
Jun 2026
2
Delta Emulator▲68
Best Emulator for playing retro games on iOS
2022
3
RetroTerminal▲152
Chat with modern LLMs through a old-school terminal
2025
4
Black Screen▲215
A terminal emulator with autocompletion based on Electron
2016
5
Retrobit Game▲96
A monthly subscription box of retro video games
2017
6KA
Kitty – A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator▲192
2017 · github.com
7
RetroMac▲204
Turn your Mac into a time machine.
May 2026
8
Ghostty▲161
A fast, feature-rich, and platform-native terminal emulator
2024
9
Retro Wave Generator▲168
Bring back the 80s with this image creator
2016
10
Retrocat▲91
A 100% free retrospective tool for your tech team or squad.
2021
11
Retroly▲168
A fun simple tool for agile retrospectives
2019
12
Terminal Candy▲117
A native macOS terminal you can skin and theme
Aug 2026 · terminalcandy.com
13
Otty▲142
A Mac native and beautiful terminal emulator
Jun 2026
14
CC-BEEPER▲223
A floating macOS pager for Claude Code
Apr 2026
15
Retro 3d illustrations▲160
Stylish and nostalgic graphics for design projects
2022
16AO
An old terminal HTML template▲74
2019 · github.com
17
macintosh.js▲198
A 1991 Macintosh in an app - for Windows, Linux, and macOS
2020
18TT
Termux – Terminal emulator and Unix environment for Android▲94
2015 · play.google.com
19AN
An NES emulator written in Rust▲125
2013 · github.com
20
Metro Retro▲114
For productive, engaging and fun retrospectives
2019
21
Tabby▲103
A terminal for a more modern age
2019
22EB
Emulator-Backed Remakes, a new way to make classic game remakes▲87
2014 · gabrielgambetta.com
23
OpenEmu▲185
🎮Retro video game emulation for OS X
2015
24
Metro Retro 2.0▲177
Fun, collaborative whiteboard for remote meetings
2023

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