Extraterm is more than just a terminal emulator. It provides a toolbox for working with your terminal and command line applications.
Features
- Supports Linux and macOS, and on Windows WSL, CMD, and PowerShell
- Built in SSH client
- Images in terminal
- Mini-map
- 24 bit color
- Color emoji on all platforms
- Font ligatures
- Keyboard friendly “Command Palette”
- Output colorizing
- Multiple windows and tiling
- Configurable key bindings
- Easily insert Emoji
- Search
- Unicode support
- Text zoom
- Global shortcuts
- Shell integration; can isolate and ‘frame’ command output. (bash, zsh and fish supported)
- Easy uploads and downloads using the shell integration
- Previous command output can be used as input for new commands
- Supports iTerm2 themes
- Open source MIT license
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News
- 02 Jul 2025 - Extraterm Qt v0.81.3 released - Fixes Read more
- 08 Jun 2025 - Extraterm Qt v0.81.2 released - Fixes Read more
- 11 May 2025 - Extraterm Qt v0.81.1 released - Fixes Read more
- 25 Jan 2025 - Extraterm Qt v0.81.0 released - Features Read more
- 02 Jan 2025 - Extraterm Qt v0.80.0 released - This release add a mini-map or “Scroll Map” to the right hand side or terminal sessions, much like that seen in text editors like VSCode. This provides a zoomed out view of the contents of your terminal session, making it easier to navigate long command outputs or to find previous commands. Read more
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Development and Contributing
Extraterm is an Open Source project developed in the open at GitHub https://github.com/sedwards2009/extraterm. The primary developer is Simon Edwards. Bugs, issues and wishes can be submitted via the GitHub issues. The Development Roadmap is tracked in this issue on GitHub.
Extraterm logos were designed and provided by Gabriel Harel.