

Guake terminal is not available for Windows but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality. The best Windows alternative is Tabby, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Guake terminal and many of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Guake terminal are Windows Terminal, ConEmu, MobaXterm and Cmder.


Contour is a modern terminal emulator, for everyday use. It is aiming for power users with a modern feature mindset.





SuperConsole is a software collection based on ConEmu, MSYS2, Mintty, Zsh, Git for Windows, grml-zsh-config, Antigen and agkozak-zsh-theme projects, customized and configured for everyday use.



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




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





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.




Windows Quake style console wrapper (cmd wrapper), that shows at Win+~ key and allow to run inside it different programs, e.g. FAR Manager.





Hardware-accelerated terminal emulator using WebGPU for smooth high frame rates, customizable GPU usage, asynchronous Rust foundation, efficient redux-based rendering, WebAssembly extensibility for tab systems, and both desktop and browser support.



