PowerGui Alternatives

PowerGui is described as 'A graphical user interface and script editor for Microsoft Windows PowerShell' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are five alternatives to PowerGui for Windows, Linux, Windows Mobile, Oracle Solaris and Mac. The best PowerGui alternative is win-bash, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PowerGui are Powershell ISE, PowerShell Studio, PASH and PowerShell Plus.

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A graphical user interface and script editor for Microsoft Windows PowerShell .

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PowerGui alternatives page was last updated Jul 3, 2017
  1. 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.

    37 win-bash alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows

    win-bash Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Interpreter
    Discontinued

    The project is no longer developed since 2016. Last version, 1.1, released in March 2011, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.

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    Comments about win-bash as an Alternative to PowerGui
     
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    This is Unix bash ported to Windows, not a PowerShell ISE application

    Negative commentJun 19, 2015
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    • win-bash is the most popular Windows alternative to PowerGui.

    • win-bash is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to PowerGui.

    • win-bash is Free and Open SourcePowerGui is Free and Proprietary
  2. Powershell ISE icon
     9 likes

    The Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) is a host application for Windows PowerShell. In Windows PowerShell ISE, you can run commands and write, test, and debug scripts in a single Windows-based graphic user interface with multiline editing, tab completion...

    6 Powershell ISE alternatives
    Viewing command help

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Powershell ISE Features

    1.  Support for scripting
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  3. PowerShell Studio icon
     3 likes

    PowerShell Studio is the premier editor and tool-making environment for PowerShell. This single tool will meet all your scripting needs. Work the way YOU want with PowerShell.

    4 PowerShell Studio alternatives
    PowerShell Studio 2023

    License model

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Support for Themes

    Features

    1.  Autocompletion
    2.  Support for scripting
    3.  Works Offline
    4.  WYSIWYG Support
    5.  Dark Mode
    6. Git icon  Git Support
    7.  Code Formatting
    8.  Syntax Highlighting
    9.  Command line interface
    10.  Live Preview
    11.  PowerShell Scripting
    12.  Support for Samba
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    • PowerShell Studio is the most popular commercial alternative to PowerGui.

    • PowerShell Studio is Paid and ProprietaryPowerGui is Free and Proprietary
  4.  6 likes

    PowerShell open source reimplementation for "others" (Mac, Linux, Solaris, etc...) and Windows (including Windows Mobile and Windows CE).

    3 PASH alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Windows Mobile
    • Solaris

    PASH Features

    1.  Support for scripting
    Discontinued

    The GitHub repository was archived in February 2019.

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    • PASH is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to PowerGui.

    • PASH is Free and Open SourcePowerGui is Free and Proprietary
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    PowerShell Plus is an Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) which includes unique features like an interactive learning center, hundreds of pre-loaded scripts from the QuickClick Library, and other useful features.

    3 PowerShell Plus alternatives
    Application Window

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    PowerShell Plus Features

    1.  Support for scripting
    Discontinued

    The last release of PowerShell Plus was March 12th, 2016.The version and last updated date are not listed on the website. Downloading the latest version is provided in a zip file and the modified date of the installer in the zip is March 12th, 2016. This date seems likely as the system requirements that are on the website are old, not mentioning Windows 11, only mentioning versions of PowerShell before version 5 and old versions of .NET

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