# Warp terminal 84 Hacker News commenters recommended Warp terminal and 86 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 11 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 1 years (5 owners). **Verdict:** Praised for block-based output, command suggestions, and easy editing in a modern terminal; critics say it pushes AI features, login and analytics. ## Why people recommend it - Block-based output navigation (4 comments): "I use Warp. I like it - notifications for failed processes, terminal pages so you can easily navigate between input+output pairs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47126760)) "The _block_ system where you could navigate up and down without scrolling the whole buffer rigidly" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972161)) "what i like about warp is that it treats the output of each command as a separate entity" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083748)) - Familiar text editing and input (3 comments): "Warp’s convenience shell wrapping is amazing. It’s the only terminal where I can actually edit a long command in place" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937170)) "treated the input as a normal text input field so I could use my normal keyboard text editing shortcuts" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173439)) "Multiline input that works like text editor, separated input and output blocks" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47944101)) - Fast, stable terminal core (2 comments): "just build a really nice, fast terminal emulator and figure out the money later" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942542)) "Warp is equally stable, almost as fast, while being more usable than Ghostty." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47944359)) - Open-source with FOSS licenses (3 comments): "Warp made heavy use of open source itself, and then realized that even more open was the only good way to make this work." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47970896)) "there are a few projects with interesting ideas already, warp terminal, which was recently released as FOSS is one" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063596)) "They are available on many platforms with FOSS licenses with very limited centralization." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847531)) ## What people warn about - Pushes AI features on users (6 comments): "Great terminal, annoying that everytime it updates I have to go back to the settings to disable new AI features or layout changes." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940640)) "rip out all the AI and cloud shit, and turn it into just a nice terminal with some neat features" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936835)) "The terminal experience is the best, but I don't have any use for the agentic stuff" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937896)) - Requires login or account (2 comments): "Looking forward to use all these nice AI features without using the warp account/service." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941325)) "doesn't seem to work without login. after going through all the setup i got stuck at a prompt asking me to log in with no option to skip it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969266)) - Sends telemetry and network calls (2 comments): "The very moment you start Warp, it sends 5 HTTP requests, (1 version check, 1 LLM model list, 3 telemetry events)." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950721)) "Just silly that my terminal is sending a bunch of analytics and also refuses to start of there's no internet." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47970102)) - Paid plans push subscriptions (3 comments): "Warp terminal got the job done. It blew through half a month’s tokens on the Build subscription tier." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293161)) "the second my own _terminal_ tried to get me to subscribe to a monthly plan I uninstalled that shit so fast" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50209305)) "When Warp owns both agent and the terminal, they can a) give terminal for free and charge on the agent" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176300)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Ghostty](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ghostty.md): 401 recommend - [Termux](https://hackerapproved.com/p/termux.md): 188 recommend - [iTerm2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/iterm2.md): 95 recommend - [Kitty terminal emulator](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kitty.md): 79 recommend - [WezTerm](https://hackerapproved.com/p/wezterm.md): 59 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://www.warp.dev/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Warp terminal", https://hackerapproved.com/p/warp-terminal/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).