iTerm2

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “ITerm2 has a really great tmux integration where you get native windows or tabs for tmux windows and the panes are really easy to interact with”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-08

• “While running in iTerm2 on macos the main menu, after this, it complained about blocking scrollback-history clearing attempts, and then became unwilling to show typed digits”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-06-15

• “I'm fine with iTerm2 and Ghostty, but I somehow still feel this void where I wish the terminal was a little more abstract and rich”

  LUKEWARM · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-28

• “iTerm2 has so many features and so many settings that I have no idea whether I ever noticed it before this”

  LUKEWARM · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-18

• “Clickable paths is the unique feature of iTerm2 I use the most”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-18

• “I'm tired of iTerm2 - ssh conductor - AI features almost forced on us until the community complained - clickable links I just want a dumb, reliable terminal. Is that too much to ask?”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-18

• “iTerm2 makes it nice for example, even if it's only to use the meta/super key instead of the heavily overloaded control.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-13

• “I've been thoroughly impressed with tmux control mode[0] in iTerm2”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-13

• “iTerm2 requires no extra configuration after install on my end”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-01

• “iTerm2 had a performance bug where large amounts of underlined text would cause the terminal to slow down noticeably”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-03-01

• “On macOS, in iTerm2, Claude will trigger notifications. I was impressed!”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-12

• “my macOS workflow with a global hotkey iTerm2 window with 10 tabs and then just alt-tabbing + alt-tilde between apps”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-01-30

• “terminal app (iterm2) reliably crashing when I dare to change any keybinding”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-01-12

• “I was amused the iterm2 added select without having to type control-c”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-07

• “I used iTerm2 a lot, configured it to my liking, but then I tried Ghostty for curiosity and for some reason I sticked to it”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2025-12-04

• “sort of miss the additional hot-key invoking options iterm2 had (i could double tap control or cmd to invoke)”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-03

• “iterm2 has some options to fix key bind issues that hamper emacs in the terminal”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-11-05

• “I used iterm2 for ages, but then somehow defaulted to terminal.app”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2025-11-04

• “iTerm2 and Konsole have had them since about forever, and I use that feature a lot”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2025-10-31

• “What killed iTerm2 for me was the fact that syncing settings between machines with chezmoi was next to impossible.”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2025-10-30

• “gone wez from iterm2, and you hit upon why. Don't ever make me click on things. I can't script => modify => export clicking on things. When you make me click on things, you've defined my interface for me, which I did not ask for.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-10-29

• “iterm2 is about the only one that didn't work well for this, since you can't source control the configuration (import/export doesn't cut it)”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2025-10-29

• “iTerm2 integrates really well with it, for both local and remote sessions.”

  POSITIVE · integration · Hacker News · 2025-10-16

• “I can't believe I'm watching youtube cat videos in iterm2 \m/”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-10-02

• “I switched from iTerm2 to Ghostty and then eventually back to Terminal.app because terminal input latency really bothers me”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-10-01