Windows Command Prompt Alternatives

ConEmu

Powerful, fast and reliable Windows terminal that can run any console WinAPI or Unix PTY app.

Features:

• Tabbed interface
• Quake-style
• Command line
• Customizable
• Multi-tabs
• Multiple window layouts
• Shell integration
• Split-screen view
• ANSI color support
• Create SSH users
• Developer Tools
• Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
• Kubernetes
• Portable
• Programmatic Tab and Window Management
• Remote Debugging
• Tabs

Cygwin

Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows. Cygwin provides native integration of Windows-based applications, data, and other...

Features:

• ANSI color support
• Command line
• Compatibility layers
• Portable Linux
• Python
• SSH

cmder

Cmder is an open-source replacement for the Windows command-line. It relies on ConEmu , extending it with the power of...

Features:

• Terminal emulator
• ANSI color support
• Built-in SSH client
• Command line/bash
• Command line interface
• Customizable
• Developer Tools
• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• Lightweight
• Portable
• Tabbed interface
• Terminal emulator

MobaXterm

An advanced terminal that gives Windows users a powerful, Unix-like command-line experience.

Features:

• Support for SFTP
• X server
• Tabbed interface
• Embedded Xserver
• SSH
• Built-in SSH client
• Support for FTP
• Multiple Terminal
• Autoimport of Putty sessions
• RDP Functionality
• RDP sessions in a tab
• Secure Copy (SCP)
• User interface
• Customizable
• Windows Explorer integration
• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• Integrates with Putty configuration
• Support for Multiple protocols
• Multi-Session
• Portable
• Telnet client
• Terminal emulator
• Vnc protocol

KiTTY

KiTTY is an opensource terminal emulator, forked from PuTTY , that adds many extra features to the original software. The very...

Features:

• Portable
• SSH
• Ssh tunnel
• Auto-saving
• Auto-login
• Built-in editor
• Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
• Multiple Browser Tabs
• Session management
• Terminal emulator

PowerShell

PowerShell (including Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core) is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line...

Features:

• Optimized for Windows
• PowerShell Scripting
• Scripting

MinGW

MinGW ("Minimalistic GNU for Windows") is a port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and GNU Binutils. It provides a complete Open Source programming toolset...

Features:

• Compiler
• Developer Tools
• Portable

Console

Console is a Windows console window enhancement. Console features include: multiple tabs, text editor-like text selection, different background types, alpha and...

Features:

• Command line
• Portable
• Tabbed interface

Hyper

Hyper™ is a beautiful and extensible, cross-platform terminal built on open web standards. It provides an elegant command-line experience that is consistent across all...

Features:

• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• Split-screen view
• Tiling Panes
• Clean design
• Command line interface
• Customizable
• Divisible
• Electron based
• Multiple Font Colors
• Plugin API
• Skinnable
• Terminal emulator
• Support for Themes
• Uses Packages

clink

Clink enhances your productivity in Microsoft Windows' "cmd.exe". If you're familiar with Bash then you will be familiar with the changes that clink...

mintty

Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin that is based on code from PuTTY 0.60 by Simon Tatham and team. It can be downloaded from the main site or it can be...

MSYS2

MSYS2 is an independent rewrite of MSYS, based on modern Cygwin (POSIX compatibility layer) and MinGW-w64 with the aim of better interoperability with native Windows...

Features:

• Regular updates
• Command line/bash
• IDE

rxvt-unicode

Rxvt-unicode is a highly customizable terminal emulator forked from rxvt. Commonly known as urxvt, rxvt-unicode can be daemonized to run clients within a single process...

iTerm

iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa.

ConsoleZ

console - This is a modified version of Console 2 for a better experience under Windows Vista/7/8 and a better visual rendering.

Features:

• Command line
• Tabbed interface
• Terminal emulator

Babun

Would you like to use a linux-like console on a Windows host without a lot of fuzz? Try out babun! Babun features the following: Pre-configured Cygwin with a...

Features:

• Developer Tools
• Terminal emulator

Terminus

Cross-platform, Electron-based terminal that works with Bash, Powershell, Cygwin and more.

Features:

• Electron based
• Command line
• Terminal emulator

Windows Terminal

Windows Terminal is a new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users.

Features:

• Customizable
• Background transparency
• Command line
• Command line interface
• Emoji Text support
• Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
• Multi-tabs
• Multiple shells
• Multiple window layouts
• Tabbed interface
• Configured in JSON
• Terminal emulator
• WSL integreation

Git Bash

Git for Windows provides a BASH emulation used to run Git from the command line. *NIX users should feel right at home, as the BASH emulation behaves just like the...