Colorconsole Alternatives

Colorconsole is described as 'ColorConsole brings a little color to your black and white world of Windows console' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are six alternatives to Colorconsole for Windows, Linux, Snapcraft and Mac. The best Colorconsole alternative is PowerShell, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Colorconsole are Windows Command Prompt, win-bash, Take Command and CMD++.

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  1. PowerShell icon
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    PowerShell (including Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core) is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on the .NET Framework.

    68 PowerShell alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
     
    • PowerShell is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Colorconsole.

    • PowerShell is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Colorconsole.

    • PowerShell is Free and Open SourceColorconsole is Free and Proprietary
    • PowerShell is LightweightColorconsole is not according to our users
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    Command Prompt, also known as cmd.exe or cmd (after its executable file name), is the command-line interpreter on Windows NT, Windows CE, OS/2 and eComStation operating systems. It is the counterpart of COMMAND.

    42 Windows Command Prompt alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. win-bash icon
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    win-bash is a Windows port of the famous GNU bash (see GNU Bash homepage).

    The goal of the win-bash project is to finish the port to Windows and provide a full functional bash.exe binary for windows nt and derived systems. win-bash can be used as a input shell as well as an inte.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Take Command icon
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    The most powerful Windows console command line tools and batch scripting solution available. Create batch file commands and Windows batch files that you can use every day - for everything from launching applications to serious file management and scripting.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Take Command is the most popular commercial alternative to Colorconsole.

    • Take Command is Paid and ProprietaryColorconsole is Free and Proprietary
  5. CMD++ icon
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    CMD++ is a command line program, which was devoloped as alternative to the Windows (R) console. You can use it at public places (eg. at school) when the native console is locked but you do need to run a program in the console (eg. to type arguments).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    GS.EXE (Gregs DOS Shell) is an alternative DOS shell, with improved editing features, command history, and support for glass.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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