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 in order to minimize the use of system resources.

Cmder is described as 'Open-source replacement for the Windows command-line. It relies on ConEmu , extending it with the power of clink and some great looking defaults including a Monokai color scheme and custom prompt' and is a very popular terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Cmder for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Cmder alternative is ConEmu, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Cmder are Tabby, PowerShell, Windows Terminal and MobaXterm.
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 in order to minimize the use of system resources.

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


terminalpp (terminal++) is a minimalist but powerful terminal emulator which provides the same features and user experience on both Windows and Linux.




Tilda is a Linux terminal taking after the likeness of many classic terminals from first person shooter games, Quake, Doom and Half-Life to name a few, where the terminal has no border and is hidden from the desktop till a key or keys is hit.


An AutoHotkey script that enables a quake-style terminal-on-a-hotkey for mintty.

A science fiction terminal emulator designed for large touchscreens that runs on all major OSs. - GitSquared/edex-ui




Based on rxvt. Tabbed interface. Very lightweight. Few dependencies. Only drawback is poor unicode support (theres an SVN branch with working but slightly buggy support)
z/Scope is a multi-protocol, multi-host terminal emulator that provides access to multiple terminal-based applications in a way that is familiar to every user, using a modern tabbed interface.

z/Scope is the most popular Web-based alternative to Cmder.
FireCMD command shell has features like recursive aliases, command substitution using files, HTML and CSS support, which makes it a next generation command shell. It also remembers command history and last working directory for next session.


Shellngn is a cloud based SSH client with SFTP and Telnet support. Manage your servers anywhere you are, with a professional and feature-rich SSH and SFTP Client.




Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient Windows installer that installs about 130 extremely useful

Create GUIs for command line commands. Then drag files in to get their paths. And click buttons to choose switches.

