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.

KiTTY is described as 'Opensource terminal emulator, forked from PuTTY , that adds many extra features to the original software' and is a very popular terminal emulator in the network & admin category. There are more than 100 alternatives to KiTTY for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and BSD apps. The best KiTTY alternative is PuTTY, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like KiTTY are Ghostty, Tabby, OpenSSH and Termux.
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.

Tera Term (Pro) is a free software terminal emulator (communication program) for MS-Windows. It supports VT100 emulation, telnet connection, serial port connection, and so on.



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







Solar presents the omniscient PuTTY SSH and Telnet client with extended interface enriched by a simple graphical SFTP explorer, all coming packed in a single exe file, which can be used without admin rights.




Tilix is a tiling terminal emulator which uses the VTE GTK+ 3 widget with the following features:




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


PortX is a lightweight cross-platform (Windows/Mac/Linux) SSH Client, as well as local shell/terminal emulator. Beautiful tabbed UI for managing multiple sessions. Google Drive syncing session files across devices and OSes is a very handy tool.




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



ExtraPuTTY is a fork from 0.65 version of PuTTY and has all the features from the original while adding new ones as described below:
Ásbrú Connection Manager is a user interface that helps organizing remote terminal sessions and automating repetitive tasks.








Just another local console (rather than remote-terminal like kitty).