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Top 9 C terminal-emulator Projects

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  1. ttyd

    Share your terminal over the web

    Project mention: How terminal-sharing tools put your shell in a browser | dev.to | 2026-07-26

    Tools like ttyd, TermPair, and sshx put your actual terminal in someone else's browser. Real text. Real selection.

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  3. notcurses

    blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses.

    Project mention: Terminals should generate the 256-color palette | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-17

    https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses

    For my plan9 brothers: one day we will have a new acme, written in common lisp and displaying all the correct colors, and lo it will be glorious.

  4. mtm

    Perhaps the smallest useful terminal multiplexer in the world.

  5. terminology

    The best terminal emulator based on the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries

    Project mention: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-01

    I haven't seen anyone else mention Terminology yet. It uses an unconventional GUI framework (Enlightenment / EFL), but that aside, it's fast and has more or less all of the features you'd expect of a terminal:

    https://github.com/borisfaure/terminology

    Its "moment" as a new novel terminal was over a decade ago, but it still chugs on working just fine. Notably(?), gregkh uses it (or used to use it):

    https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/greg-kroah-hartman...

  6. devour

    X11 window swallower

  7. wayst

    A simple terminal emulator

  8. lxterminal

    VTE terminal emulator written in GTK

  9. upp-components

    A collection of packages for U++ framework.

  10. vbeterm

    Custom terminal based on VTE

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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What are some of the best open-source terminal-emulator projects in C? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 ttyd 12,190
2 notcurses 4,665
3 mtm 1,212
4 terminology 735
5 devour 430
6 wayst 342
7 lxterminal 195
8 upp-components 37
9 vbeterm 23

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