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Mintty vs Alacritty: catalog facts
Mintty	Alacritty
Free Free and open source.	Free Free and open source, with no paid edition.
Windows	Windows, macOS, Linux
Thorough xterm and DEC terminal emulation Strong Unicode, bidi and emoji rendering	Vi mode for moving around and making selections with Vi bindings Search across the scrollback buffer, and regex hints for marking text
Windows only Needs Cygwin, MSYS2 or WSL underneath to be useful	The project describes itself as beta, with features still missing and bugs to fix No tabs or built-in multiplexer by design; you need tmux or your window manager
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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