vobuda compared with nine other terminals
Every terminal on this page is a good program and some of them are better than vobuda at things vobuda does not try to do. Here is what each one actually is, and where the differences fall.
How to read these
Comparison pages usually exist to make one program look inevitable. These are written the other way round: each one opens by saying what the other terminal is genuinely good at, because if you are already happy in iTerm2 after twelve years, the honest answer is often to stay there.
Everything claimed about vobuda is checkable in the build you can download from this site. Everything claimed about another program was read from that program or its own documentation in September 2026, and their own site is the authority if it has changed since. Nothing here is a benchmark, because a benchmark of a terminal measures the machine it ran on.
The three axes that actually separate them: what happens to a running AI agent, whether your configuration is a file you own, and whether the program needs an account. Most other differences are taste.
The whole field on four questions
Read September 2026. Follow a row to its own page for the detail behind it.
| Terminal | Platforms | Source | Account | Agent control bar |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vobuda | macOS | Closed, free | None | Yes, over the agent you installed |
| Warp | macOS, Linux, Windows | Closed | Sign-in, check their site for current terms | Its own built-in agent |
| iTerm2 | macOS | Open, GPL | None | No |
| Ghostty | macOS, Linux | Open, MIT | None | No |
| Terminal.app | macOS, ships with it | Closed | None | No |
| kitty | macOS, Linux | Open, GPLv3 | None | No |
| WezTerm | macOS, Linux, Windows | Open, MIT | None | No |
| Alacritty | macOS, Linux, Windows | Open, Apache 2.0 | None | No |
| Hyper | macOS, Linux, Windows | Open, MIT | None | No |
| Tabby | macOS, Linux, Windows | Open, MIT | None | No |
Agent control bar means the terminal reads a separately installed agent's own sessions, skills, models and permission mode and draws them as controls. Several of these run an agent perfectly well in a shell, which is not the same thing.
Which one to pick, honestly
Stay where you are if
You are happy, your configuration is exactly how you like it, and you do not spend the day handing work to an agent. iTerm2, Ghostty, kitty and WezTerm are excellent programs with years of work in them, and switching terminals costs a week of small irritations.
Look at vobuda if
You run Claude Code or Codex all day, across more than one project, and you have lost track of which one is waiting for you. Or you want your terminal's whole configuration in a folder you can put in git, with no account attached to it.
Look at something else if
You need Linux or Windows today, you need an SSH or serial connection manager, or you want a terminal whose source you can read and build. vobuda is macOS only and closed, and the rest of this field has good answers for all three.
The comparison people are actually looking for
Beside the terminal-against-terminal question there is a second one that comes up more often now: not which terminal, but which agent. Codex against Claude Code is its own page, written the same way as these: no verdict on which writes better code, because that is a question about models on the day you ask it, and a description of how the two programs actually behave, read from the files they keep on your own disk.
Or just try it for ten minutes
It installs in one line, opens with a single terminal block and takes nothing from you. The comparison you trust is the one you ran.
curl -fsSL https://vobuda.com/install.sh | sh