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iTerm2

Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-09-23 — deterministic & reproducible

iTerm2 is a free Terminal replacement for macOS with extended features.

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Legit.Show scored iTerm2 60/100 on 2026-09-23, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/iterm2-com/2026-09-23

Is iTerm2 production-ready?

Legit.Show scores iTerm2 60 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on iTerm2 (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 99/100
• Accessibility — 71/100
• Security — 10/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 25/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 82/100
• Discoverability — 35/100

What we measured

• No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 69 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• No privacy policy found.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who it's for

macOS users · developers · terminal power users · system administrators

Pricing

Free

Sources and updates

Description

Taken from iterm2.com's own website on 2026-08-03.

Benchmark

Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-23.

Put together from public information, without iTerm2's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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