Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Terminal of Woe
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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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I made a built-from scratch Wayland Compositor to display any GUI app* in the terminal! I think there is a lot of unexplored potential in custom Wayland compositors, a lot of really cool things you can embed existing applications into! So, I started with embedding apps into the terminal because that is the easiest input/output (output is just utf-8 and I use the great `chafa` library for that, and I just read from stdin for the input). If you have any other ideas for cool Wayland compositors, let me know. I purposedly wrote 80% the app in Typescript to appeal to the most developers and…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I created a daily challenge for Prompt Engineers to build the shortest prompt to break a system prompt. You are provided the system prompt and a forbidden method the LLM was told not to invoke. Your task is to trick the model into calling the function. Shortest successful attempts will show up in the leaderboard. Give it a shot! You never know what could break an LLM.
2025 · vaultbreak.ai · its alternatives →
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Otty▲142Otty is a native, beautiful terminal app. Designed for anyone who cares about the feel of every keystroke.
Jun 2026 · otty.sh · its alternatives →
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CodeMote▲144Claude Code, Codex, any CLI agent. Driven from your iPhone
Jul 2026 · codemote.caste.work · its alternatives →
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Maestri▲183An infinite canvas where coding agents work in concert
Mar 2026 · themaestri.app · its alternatives →
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2012 · worqshop.com · its alternatives →
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Cosyra▲203Cosyra is a mobile coding terminal for iPhone and Android. Run Claude Code or Codex CLI on phone from a cloud Ubuntu terminal without managing your own VPS.
Apr 2026 · cosyra.com · its alternatives →
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Hi hi, I made a little Halloween themed game this week to show off my new terminal. You can play it in the browser. at https://joel.tools/halloween/ Two years ago, I started building an experiment tracking tool for myself as I have been venturing into ai research, and it has morphed into a terminal with rich content support and a bunch of fancy features. https://github.com/JoelEinbinder/snail/ I can't recommend people start using snail for important stuff today, but I think the game is fun and it shows off a lot of the capabilities of the…
2023 · joel.tools · its alternatives →
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TermHere▲147“Open Terminal Here” shortcut for Finder
2016 · hashbang.productions · its alternatives →
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Clide ▲93Grid-layout terminal with an AI that drives your shells.
Apr 2026 · clide.app · its alternatives →
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2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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iOS MDR Refiners Terminal Simulator
2025 · mszpro.com · its alternatives →
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Includes OpenJDK 17 and IntelliSense. I don't know what led me to make this but here it is.
2024 · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, I have been trying to build a terminal based app for sometime now and this is an attempt at trying to build a chess app that one can play right inside terminal. I was inspired by `chess-tui`[1] which is a rust based project and was looking to build something similar using python. Luckily I stumbled upon textual[2] recently and it made my task of building this far more easier than I thought. [1] https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui [2] https://github.com/textualize/textual
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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It's based on the jediterm library developed for IDEs, but it can also be put to work as a standalone terminal emulator with tabs. The library has been around for more than 10 years, but I don't think anyone made a terminal emulator app from it?
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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iSwift.dev▲120Create apps in minutes with AI, export straight to Xcode
2025 · iswift.dev · its alternatives →
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Termly▲82Hey HN! I'm one of the developers of Termly. Problem: I love using Claude Code for development, but being chained to my laptop all day wasn't working. SSH + terminal emulators felt clunky for interactive AI coding sessions. Solution: Built a WebSocket relay that mirrors your AI coding session to mobile with zero-knowledge E2E encryption. How it works: 1. npm install -g @termly-dev/cli 2. termly start (wraps your AI tool) 3. Scan QR code with mobile app 4. Your session syncs in real-time, encrypted end-to-end Tech stack: • Open source CLI (MIT licensed) - inspect the code yourself •…
Nov 2025 · termly.dev · its alternatives →
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