PowerBASIC is described as 'Formerly Turbo Basic, is the brand of several commercial compilers by PowerBASIC Inc. that compile a dialect of the BASIC programming language. There are both MS-DOS and Windows versions, and two kinds of the latter: Console and Windows' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to PowerBASIC for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Android apps. The best PowerBASIC alternative is PureBasic, which is free. Other great apps like PowerBASIC are FreeBASIC, Xojo, thinBasic Programming Language and Lobster.