Alternatives

Products that do what Metalterm — the terminal your GPU draws does

A GPU-rendered macOS terminal built with Rust and Metal

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   Omni Terminal▲3

   Your aperture to the universe: a GPU terminal in Rust

   18d ago

2. 2HT
   HTerm, The Graphical Terminal for iOS, MacOS and Linux▲67

   2013 · 41j.com

3. 3SF
   Spotify for the Terminal Written in Rust▲212

   2019 · github.com

4. 4
   Terminal Candy▲117

   A native macOS terminal you can skin and theme

   Aug 2026 · terminalcandy.com

5. 5
   APX Terminal▲99

   Encrypted terminal and SSH client with built‑in AI assistant

   Jan 2026

6. 6RA
   RustyBox – a Busybox fork written in Rust▲114

   2019 · github.com

7. 7
   Otty▲142

   A Mac native and beautiful terminal emulator

   Jun 2026

8. 8
   Effekt for macOS▲115

   Generative art on the GPU

   2022

9. 9RA
   Rust, ARM Cortex M, and a Generated HAL▲137

   2016 · jamesmunns.com

10. 10
    Pinto▲100

    A free stylized terminal for macOS

    2025

11. 11
    JusTTY▲85

    A simple native macOS terminal built on Swift and libghostty

    Jul 2026 · github.com

12. 12
    Clide ▲93

    Grid-layout terminal with an AI that drives your shells.

    Apr 2026

13. 13AA
    Amp – A text editor for your terminal, written in Rust▲43

    2018 · amp.rs

14. 14
    Tell▲111

    Mac widgets, made fun.

    Apr 2026

15. 15
    Fleet▲87

    The blazing fast build tool for Rust

    2022

16. 16
    Freeze▲118

    Generate images of code and terminal output

    2024

17. 17VA
    Veil – A Minimal Neovim GUI for macOS with Metal Rendering▲7

    I built a lightweight Neovim GUI client for macOS. The goal was something simple — just render Neovim in a proper macOS window with multi-window support, like MacVim did for Vim. Features: - Metal GPU-accelerated rendering (falls back to CoreText) - Multi-window — each window is an independent Neovim process - Neovim's native tabline with Cmd+1-9 - Full IME support for CJK input - Standard macOS shortcuts work out of the box (Cmd+C/V/X/Z/S/W) - CLI launcher with gvimdiff support - Uses your system-installed Neovim — no bundled binary The whole thing was built in a…

    Mar 2026 · github.com

18. 18
    WebTerm▲63

    Safely run even rm -rf / — all in your browser.

    Feb 2026

19. 19TA
    termwm: A floating WM of terminals inside your terminal▲66

    2018 · gitlab.com

20. 20FR
    Ferroterm – Rust / WebAssembly Terminal Emulator and Library▲6

    FerroTerm is a Terminal Emulator (xterm/vt100) / Library witten in Rust and compiled to WebAssembly. It is approx 4x faster than xterm.js which is used by VSCode etc. and prodvides wide spec coverage. https://datanoisetv.github.io/ferroterm/ Would love some feedback and hear what people want to build with it.

    Jul 2026

21. 21AM
    A minesweeper clone in the terminal, written in Elixir▲17

    2017 · github.com

22. 22AW
    A Wordle clone for the terminal. Written in Rust▲7

    2022 · github.com

23. 23GC
    Get CRON translation in your terminal – Written in Rust▲11

    2020 · github.com

24. 24
    RACE▲2

    Terminal Multiplexer with an Infinite, Zoomable Canvas

    6d ago · race-term.com

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