Alternatives to Hyper
A terminal built on web technologies, extended with JavaScript plugins and themed with CSS. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Hyper
A terminal built on web technologies, extended with JavaScript plugins and themed with CSS.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Hyper.
Tabby
A terminal, SSH client and serial console in one window, with a connection manager and an encrypted secret store.
Tabby is another cross-platform Electron terminal that adds SSH, Telnet, serial connections and an encrypted secret store, though its plugin ecosystem is small.
WezTerm
A GPU-accelerated terminal that is also a multiplexer, configured in Lua and the same on every platform.
WezTerm is a native GPU terminal for Windows, macOS and Linux with built-in multiplexing, configured in Lua rather than CSS and npm plugins.
Warp
Rust terminal with block-based output, AI assistance and shared workflows.
Warp is a Rust terminal on all three desktop platforms with command blocks and AI assistance, licensed AGPL-3.0 and MIT, with some features requiring paid plans.
Wave Terminal
A terminal with file previews, a remote file editor, web browsing and AI assistance arranged as blocks in one window.
Wave Terminal is also Electron-based and cross-platform, adding file previews, a remote file editor and AI assistance arranged as blocks instead of plugins.
Alacritty
A deliberately minimal OpenGL terminal that leaves multiplexing and tabs to other programs and just draws text fast.
Alacritty is a minimal OpenGL terminal for Windows, macOS and Linux focused on drawing text fast, but leaves out tabs and multiplexing by design.
Windows Terminal
Microsoft’s tabbed terminal for Windows, hosting Command Prompt, PowerShell and WSL in one GPU-rendered window.
Windows Terminal is a native GPU-rendered terminal with tabs and split panes, but it runs only on Windows and is customised by editing a JSON settings file.
kitty
GPU-accelerated terminal with tabs, splits, graphics and a kitten scripting system.
kitty is a GPU-accelerated terminal with tabs, splits and kittens for scripting, but has no Windows build and uses a text configuration file instead of CSS themes.
iTerm2
macOS terminal replacement with split panes, search and session restore.
iTerm2 is a native macOS terminal with split panes, search and session restore, but it runs only on macOS, unlike Hyper's three platforms.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Hyper as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Rio
Use a configurable terminal emulator across desktop platforms.
Hyper is an Electron terminal themed with CSS and extended with npm plugins, using more memory than Rio and last tagged in January 2023.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Gogh
A collection of hundreds of terminal color schemes, installed into your terminal with a single command.
Nerd Fonts
A collection of programming fonts patched with thousands of icons, plus a patcher for adding them to other fonts.
Starship
A shell prompt that shows the git branch, language version and other context, configured once and working in every shell.
Oh My Posh
Customize shell prompts across operating systems with configurable themes.
