Plurrrr

Sat 02 May 2026

Terminal applications for macOS

In the afternoon I wrote a reply to a Usenet post in both comp.os.linux.advocacy and comp.sys.mac.advocacy. In the post I replied to the author stated that there is an impressive choice of terminal applications for Linux, implying that this is not the case for macOS. I replied that I knew of at least 10 terminal applications for macOS. Soon after, I replied to my own post with the following list (reformatted to link directly):

  1. iTerm2
  2. Alacritty
  3. kitty
  4. Warp Terminal
  5. Ghostty
  6. WezTerm
  7. Hyper
  8. Rio Terminal
  9. Contour
  10. Tabby

Also the author complained about lack of customization features to make the command-line environment aesthetically pleasing on macOS. To which I replied that one could install starship and a neat font like Firacode Nerd Font Mono.

Alacritty with starship prompt and Firacode Nerd Font Mono
Alacritty with starship prompt and Firacode Nerd Font Mono.

Personally, I use Alacritty. In the past I have tried kitty but I like the simplicity of Alacritty more.