iTerm2 Reviews

iTerm has a bunch of useful features that make it an indispensable replacement for the default OS X Terminal application. It supports tabs, split panes, configurable scrollback, and a great set of visual affordances.

The best thing, though, is that it's a first class OS X citizen -- links are clickable, it can be configured to treat tmux sessions as additional windows & panes, and can highlight text based on pre-defined criteria.

It's so configurable that it can be hard to get setup. Once you have a workflow that works for you, it's great! Getting there can be a bit of an adventure, though. It has a ton of options and documentation to match. However, getting a good setup involves a lot of trial and error.

Find a good set of profiles that works for you. Configure different profiles for each of your operating environments (development, staging, production).

I use iTerm as a programmer's terminal application -- I use it to connect to development, staging & production systems for debugging and monitoring.

It is easy to use, easy to customise and gives the user the true experience of a unix terminal, The password manager feature makes it safer to use,Being able to color code tabs makes it easier to identify your workspace when working with multiple tabs. The fact that its open source there is continuous improvement on the application. Automatic profile switching is also a great feature.If ever you loose a connection to a server you can easily use the restart session feature and this will ensure you do not loose history of the work you have been doing.The feature for showing timestamps makes it easier to follow up on what you have done and gives you details of exactly when you did it.

One thing that can be improved is the update process where it in most cases does not automatically update the application.Another cool feature for this would be the ability to open a folder in finder from the terminal,This can go a long way in improving how users interact with the software.

Tthis product is way better than the default terminal that comes with the OSx, I recommend this product and you should try it out.It makes efficient use of resources. Has many features that improve the way you interact with the terminal.

iTerm2 makes it easier to administer work on different servers at the same time and at doing it in a way that makes it easy for the user to understand what they are doing, how they are supposed to do it.

Customization provided. We can choose from so many fonts, change appearance, change the arrangement of the screen layout. The best part of this is it's free!!!. It's very stable too, I am using this application for past 6 months now but it never crashed.

It's only for mac. I think it should have been added for Windows and Linux too. No other Terminal application provide so much of the customization to the user at zero cost.

If you are back-end developer or if you use the terminal in any way please go for it. All of the developers who are using mac have installed Iterm on their machine in our company. Once you start to use Iterm you will never go back to the default terminal. As it's free it won't burn your pocket. Also if you install Iterm Please add oh-my-zsh plugin. it's here https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh.

Original default terminal on mac does not provide so much of the customization to the user. Also if you add oh-my-zsh plugin on top of ITerm it will make you pro developer!

iTerm2 offers lots of freedom in customization, and has the potential to look beautiful and make you more productive than with the default terminal. iTerm2 is a very decent successor to the older iTerm, and it's being continually improved, with almost weekly updates.

Because there's a ton of customization, sometimes navigating the menus can get bothersome, and finding a setting you need is not so easy unless you use Google to look for help, which I often have to do.

If you use Terminal.app on a daily basis, give iTerm2 a try, you can install it and keep both of them in case you don't like it.

Keeping track of open logs is easier, exporting and having infinite scrollback is a plus, and a must-have now.

i like alot to use iterm2, i think it brings the best from the terminals from any other unix like system, its customizable which its very nice to have, and the ability to split screen to have many windows on the same terminal, its very stable, no crashes.

theres no much to dislike, iterm2 team do it very nice, its very stable terminal, in 2 years just 1 crash, so i think its very reliable, i would like to have the option to change the color of the non focuses windows.

yes i recommend it alot, i think its a good alternative to the default terminal on the mac

we work alot with command line, and i think it powers your day by having options that you cant get on the default terminal, and the split options to have more windows on the same screen its very useful when using it to match info on different windows

When you're trying to replace an application/feature that comes standard with OSX you mean straddle the line between adding enough features to make it worth the upgrade without adding too much complexity.

This is what iTerm has been able to do. Almost visually identical to terminal, iTerm provides some much needed features and customizations that apple has not included.

Nothing! Really, I hope they don't change a thing!

None, just use it!

A clean and easy to use alternative to Terminal that includes features such as Split-pane view and Searching with word highlighting (like most browsers).

I tend to have a lot of logs or processes I need to run via Terminal. iTerm allows for this easily by having multiple windows available within the same tab.

Out of the box, it's pretty solid. I have a lot of customization that I need to perform in order to get it up to how I like it, and the Preferences section can be a little counter-intuitive at times.

It's free, so it's worth the download.

I'm the go-to debugger and server admin for our project. As such, I need to have a number of logs open and connections to different servers. One of the biggest issues with just using the built in MacOS Terminal is having multiple instances running. With iTerm, I can see everything I need in one location.

It has really awesome built-in autocomplete feature and tabbed navigation. It is as easy to use as regular Terminal app, and it comes all ready to go out of the box without any additional customizations. iTerm2's visual style is highly customizable, so you can adjust it anyway you want it to be whether it is different colour scheme, font, transparency etc. What I also like about it compare to different Terminal replacement apps is the fact that is completely free to use, and that it is open source application with great support and constant updates.

Honestly, there is nothing that I don't like about it. I wish that it was a default version for Terminal on all Macs.

If you are tired of default Terminal app's plain look and limited functionality, then you should definitely try using iTerm2. It is the best alternative and replacement in my opinion, and it is absolutely free to use!

As a front-end developer I use iTerm2 on daily basis. Some apps and features of my project can be run exclusively only from command line, such as different tasks for optimizing images, kickstarting gulp, npm, etc. Having to work with console on daily basis I prefer iTerm2 over any other Terminal app for its awesome fresh look that I easily customized to my liking.

I use Mac and iterm2 is my default tool to use . I can save multiple profiles and open multiple sessions with shortcut keys and broadcast commands to all windows. The options provided are customisable and saves you a lot of time.

If the system disconnects from VPN, the iterm2 window takes more time to disconnect the session. Using Ctrl+C to disconnect the session does not work. This is annoying when we are mid-work.

Highly recommended. This tool will save a lot of time, if you can learn how to configure the profiles, window arrangements and key shortcuts.

To connect to servers in all environments and check logs in multiples nodes at same time.

A ton of options for customizing the terminal for your workflow that are not available from the mac default. Features such as the notes toolbelt save time and reduce context switching.

There are a ton of configurations and it's not always clear exactly what each one does, but hey it's a developer tool.

Command line interface for the Mac operating system for development workflows.

I love how much I can customize it. I can get the entire look and feel just like I want it.

I can't really think of anything I dislike about iTerm. There are tons of options and settings that I feel like I've barely scratched the surface of it's capabilities, but there's nothing I can think of to dislike about it.

I use iTerm for my command line application on almost a daily basis to interact with the repository of my codebase, to interact with file and folders, to ssh into servers, etc.

Black background is the best thing. It becomes easy to eye. You can increase the buffer size a lot to cat large files on the screen.

The new command line takes some time to appear, if the ssh link is broken.

Run mac terminal and linux machine commands. It is a perfect editor for command lines.

The customization is really neat and beautiful.

The default options are not enough, themes have to be downloaded from GitHub

Feel free to download and use it. It is really simple and nice and unique.

It is really smooth and simple so easy to use and thus improving efficiency.

* Different colors of lines (so easy to read)

* Easy to find highlighted stuff with using grep

* Various commands

* Easy navigation

* Sometimes the screen freezes and i have to restart

I am using Iterm2 every day for accessing API logs and other stuff

- The colors and background contrast

- Clickable link in terminal

- Font size can be improved

- Font variety can be improved by adding custom fonts

- Take feedback from users

- Probably reward them for providing valuable feedback

- Shell scripting

Creation of multiple profiles and customization of themes and shortcut keys.

Setting up trigger to highlight important words is an useful feature.

Search feature in console is cool.

Saving Window Arrangement could have been made simpler. It requires lot of work if you want to use a shortcut key - and you want to open a couple of windows with commands executing in each window.

For connecting to remote systems.

Great terminal replacement. Adds on features that are very useful and also allows for easy themeing for a custom look

It has a lot of different options and settings that can be daunting for a first time user.

running git commands and doing other terminal and bash work.

customizable and multiple stacking windows.

nothing much, its very similar to treminal just takes getting used to

try it out

being able to run multiple windows at the same time