❌ Does not allow mouse positioning in input editor.

❌ Does not have IDE-style editing keyboard shortcuts. NOTE: There are keyboard shortcuts like CTRL-A that allow you to navigate to the beginning of a line, but that is related to the shell and not iTerm2 itself.

🤨iTerm2 does support vim keybindings to edit input, but this requires the developer to run a command (specific to their shell) to get it working.

✅ Supports smart selection (clicking to automatically copy a URL, IP address, etc).

✅ You can click anywhere in your command input with your mouse to edit.

✅ Supports modern editing keyboard shortcuts like CMD+Z to undo, or OPT+RIGHT to navigate to the end of a word.

✅ Supports vim keybindings to edit input. Toggle this on in the settings panel (works across all supported shells).

✅ Supports smart selection (clicking to automatically copy a URL, IP address, etc).

✅Offers basic AI support to generate commands in your terminal based off natural language input. Note that this is currently in beta.

❌UI does not support asking conceptual questions, like “Why can’t I have 2 processes running on the same port.”

❌Has no built-in support for debugging terminal errors using AI.

❌Not free. Users must provide their own OpenAI key before using this AI support within iTerm2.

✅Offers AI support to generate commands in your terminal based off natural language input.

✅Can answer conceptual questions to explain what a command does or show why a certain solution works.

✅Has built-in support for debugging terminal errors using AI.

✅Free, for the first 100 requests per user per day.

❌ No built-in features for collaboration. 

❌ No way to share terminal input or output.

✅Store and share reusable workflows that sync in real-time with a team Warp Drive.

✅Share blocks of terminal input and output with a permalink.

❌Using VTEbench,

iTerm2 underperformed compared to Warp across all measured benchmarks.

🤨Using Termbench, iTerm2 and Warp had similar performance for regular benchmark sizes but underperformed handling small test sizes.

✅ Mostly written in Objective-C. GPU rendering on by default but can be turned off in settings.

✅Using VTEbench,

Warp is over 90% faster at  scrolling tests, 70% faster at the dense_cell benchmark, and 29% faster on the unicode benchmark.

✅Using Termbench, Warp was 20% faster at handling small data sizes (~1mb) and 3% faster at regular benchmark sizes.

✅ Built with Rust and rendered directly on the GPU, optimizing for speed and responsiveness

🤨 Delegates command completions to the shell. Additional configuration necessary for supporting third party tools like git, docker, npm and more that the shell doesn't support out of the box.

❌ Does not support autosuggestions out-of-box. Delegates to the shell.

❌ Does not support alias command completions out-of-box. It delegates to the shell.

🤨iTerm2 supports command history, but it delegates to the shell’s history functionality. According to its documentation, this feature requires some configuration first.

✅Allows user to broadcast input across multiple different sessions.

✅Command completion for 400+ CLI tools, out-of-the-box.

✅Autosuggestion support out-of-box.

Supports aliases in command completion menu.

✅Command history view & search out-of-box.

✅Allows user to broadcast input across multiple different sessions.

✅Supports basic search within the terminal output.

❌ Does not support regex in the search bar.

❌ Does not support “bookmarking” a specific command to save it as important.

❌ Does not automatically redact secrets in your command output (IP address, passwords).

❌Does not visually group command input & output into a cohesive unit.

✅Supports basic search within the terminal output.

✅ Supports regex in search. For example, “.b” would highlight any word containing a letter, and then ‘b’. 

✅ Supports “bookmarking” a specific command. This allows the user to come back to important commands during a long session.

✅ Automatically redacts secrets in your command output (IP address, passwords) so your terminal output is more secure.

✅Warp introduces the concept of blocks, which allows you to easily visually distinguish one command from another.

✅Allows you to customize font type and size.

✅Allows you to upload a custom background image.

✅Allows you to toggle window transparency.

❌Does not allow you to toggle where your input editor is positioned.

✅Allows you show important information like host name, clock, git state & more through the status bar. NOTE: iTerm2 has a couple of components more than Warp here, offering information like CPU and memory utilization as well.

✅Allows you to customize font type and size.

✅Allows you to upload a custom background image.

✅Allows you to toggle window transparency.

✅ Allows you to easily toggle whether your input is positioned at the top or bottom of your terminal, for visual and ergonomic benefits.

✅Allows you to show important information like host name, timestamp, git state & more through the prompt. Also allows you to easily edit the default prompt using a drag-and-drop GUI.

✅ Allows split panes.

✅ Allows coloring and renaming tabs.

✅ Supports quake mode (referred to as hotkey window in iTerm2).

✅ Supports extensibility. Allows you to access sessions, tabs, and windows through a Python API.✅ Supports tmux though configuring “control-mode”

✅ Allows split panes.

✅ Allows coloring and renaming tabs.

✅ Supports quake mode (referred to as hotkey window in iTerm2).

✅ Supports extensibility. Allows you to configure windows, panes, and commands-on-start using launch configurations. Edit the configs using .yaml files.

🤨Tmux support exists but conflicts with Warp features like blocks.

✅Has GUI option to configure setting (unlike other terminals, which just offer a config file).

✅Allows you to configure your keyboard shortcuts.

❌No command palette. Search through the Mac Help menu.

✅Has GUI option to configure setting (unlike other terminals, which just offer a config file).

✅Allows you to configure your keyboard shortcuts.

✅Offers a command palette (similar to Mac Spotlight or Raycast) to search many configurability options within the application.

✅Mac

❌Linux

❌Windows

✅Mac

✅Linux

❌Windows (Coming soon)