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WezTerm

WezTerm is a terminal emulator, available on Windows and Linux: hardware acceleration, tabbed interface and split view.

  • Completely free
  • Windows and Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

WezTerm is a terminal emulator, available on Windows and Linux.

Features described in its GitHub repository, in its Winget manifest and in its Flathub listing: hardware acceleration, tabbed interface and split view.

Services and protocols mentioned: SSH.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer implemented in Rust.” — Winget, 10 November 2026
  • “A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer implemented in Rust.” — Winget, 10 November 2026
  • “WezTerm is a terminal emulator with support for modern features such as fonts with ligatures, hyperlinks, multiple windows, tabs and split panes.Configuration is expressed using Lua and many powerful functions are…” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “WezTerm is a terminal emulator with support for modern features such as fonts with ligatures, hyperlinks, multiple windows, tabs and split panes.Configuration is expressed using Lua and many powerful functions are…” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of WezTerm is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Weaknesses

  • Few recent updates

About

WezTerm is a terminal emulator with support for modern features such as fonts with ligatures, hyperlinks, multiple windows, tabs and split panes.Configuration is expressed using Lua and many powerful functions are provided to help you customize your terminal to your workflow.Integrated ssh allows using multiple tabs and panes without requiring tmux to be installed on the remote host, and remote wezterm multiplexer support allows tmux+mosh style workflows without using tmux or mosh, while providing a fully native GUI locally.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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