Buy once instead of Paid terminal
2 apps in the directory cover what people use Paid terminal for. All of them cost nothing at all.
Read the catch on each one before you switch — a one-time price is not automatically the better deal, and we say so where it is not.
The replacements
Ghostty
MIT-licensed terminal with a real SwiftUI Mac app behind it
Free Open source
Support is GitHub issues, and some niche iTerm2 features are still missing
iTerm2
the terminal most Mac developers install first, free since 2010
Free Open source
One maintainer sets the pace, and very high-volume output feels slower than GPU terminals