Kaden Terminal
A privacy-focused terminal emulator forked from Warp with customizable keybindings, clipboard support, and no AI, telemetry, or cloud features.
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Description
A lot of modern terminal apps have quietly turned into cloud products: you sign in with an account, your usage gets logged, and AI features run in the background whether you asked for them or not. Kaden Terminal strips all of that back out. It's a fork of the popular Warp terminal with the account system, telemetry, and AI features removed, leaving a plain, fast, local-only terminal.
Kaden Terminal is a privacy-focused terminal emulator built in Rust, forked from Warp, with fully customizable keybindings, enhanced clipboard functionality (smart copy/kill), and no cloud storage, drive integration, background network requests, or auto-updates. It's dual-licensed under MIT (for the UI framework) and AGPLv3, and targets developers who want Warp's interface quality without its telemetry or account requirements.
💬 Our review
The short version: Kaden Terminal is a straightforward trade — you give up Warp's AI features and cloud sync, and you get a terminal that makes zero network calls you didn't explicitly ask for.
Against Warp itself, the differentiator is entirely about what's removed: no account, no telemetry, no AI autocomplete pinging a server, no auto-update checking in. Against Alacritty, a well-established minimal terminal, Kaden Terminal instead keeps Warp's more polished UI and clipboard ergonomics while still being local-first — so it sits between "stripped-down and fast" (Alacritty) and "feature-rich but phones home" (Warp). As a fork maintained by one person, it will lag behind Warp's upstream feature development and carries the usual fork risk (a maintainer who stops updating it), so it's best suited to developers who specifically want Warp's look and feel without the network chatter — not to teams looking for a terminal with active AI-assisted features.
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Gratuit, double licence MIT (framework UI) et AGPLv3, code source disponible sur GitHub.
Pros
Zéro télémétrie ni requête réseau en arrière-plan
Pas de compte requis, fonctionnement 100% local
Écrit en Rust, clavier et presse-papiers personnalisables
Interface héritée de Warp, plus poussée qu'un terminal minimaliste
Cons
Fork mono-mainteneur, risque d'abandon ou de retard sur Warp
Perd les fonctionnalités IA et de synchronisation cloud de Warp
Communauté et écosystème plus restreints que Warp ou Alacritty