PowerShell Alternatives and Similar Software

Alternatives to PowerShell for Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD, Android and more. Filter by license to discover only free or Open Source alternatives. This list contains a total of 25+ apps similar to PowerShell.

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. If you're looking for more info about PowerShell like screenshots, reviews and comments you should visit our info page about it. Below you find the best alternatives.

The list of alternatives was last updated: 3/16/2020 2:48:00 PM

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PuTTY

PuTTY is a free and open-source terminal emulator, serial console and network file transfer application. It supports several network protocols, including SCP, SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw socket connection. It can also connect to a serial port. A simple, lightweight client for connecting to a Linux shell from your Windows machine!

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com ReactOS
SSH Built-in SSH client Telnet client Host management ... Support for SFTP Configurable Download Accelerators Lightweight Session management Tabbed interface Terminal emulator Xterm emulation Add a feature

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cmder

Cmder is an open-source replacement for the Windows command-line. It relies on ConEmu , extending it with the power of clink and some great looking defaults including a Monokai color scheme and custom prompt layout.

Free Open Source Windows clink ConEmu Windows Command Prompt PowerShell
Terminal emulator ANSI color support Built-in SSH client Command line/bash ... Command line interface Customizable Developer Tools Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Portable Tabbed interface Terminal emulator Add a feature

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ConEmu

Windows console emulator with tabs, which presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window with various features. Initially, the program was created as a companion to Far Manager . Today, ConEmu can be used with any other console application or simple GUI tools (like PuTTY for example). ConEmu is an active project, open to suggestions.
- ConEmu is not a shell, and PowerShell is not a console emulator. I suppose you could argue that PowerShell ISE sort-of is, but that's not the /point/ of PowerShell ISE, so... SamB • Aug 2015 • 7 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Open Source Windows
Tabbed interface Quake-style Command line Customizable ... Multi-tabs Multiple window layouts Shell integration Split-screen view ANSI color support Create SSH users Developer Tools Support for Keyboard Shortcuts Kubernetes Portable Programmatic Tab and Window Management Remote Debugging Tabs Add a feature

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Cygwin

Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows. Cygwin provides native integration of Windows-based applications, data, and other system resources with applications, software tools, and data of the Unix-like environment.

Free Open Source Windows
ANSI color support Command line Compatibility layers Portable Linux ... Python SSH Add a feature

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KiTTY

KiTTY is an opensource terminal emulator, forked from PuTTY , that adds many extra features to the original software.

Free Open Source Windows
Portable SSH Ssh tunnel Auto-saving ... Auto-login Built-in editor Support for Keyboard Shortcuts Multiple Browser Tabs Session management Terminal emulator Add a feature

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Hyper

Hyper™ is a beautiful and extensible, cross-platform terminal built on open web standards. It provides an elegant command-line experience that is consistent across all supported platforms which includes macOS, Windows and various Linux distributions like Fedora and Debian. For developers, extensions are universal Node.js modules loaded by both Electron and the renderer process.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Split-screen view Tiling Panes Clean design ... Command line interface Customizable Divisible Electron based Multiple Font Colors Plugin API Skinnable Terminal emulator Support for Themes Uses Packages Add a feature

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iTerm2

iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.10 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.

Free Open Source Mac
Customizable Annotate history Api Clean design ... Dropdown terminal Dual Pane Support Growl integration Integrated Search Key binding Multiple languages Multiple Profiles Notifications Password management Quake-style Scriptable Scripting support Shell integration Split windows SSH Supports Python Terminal emulator Add a feature

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MinGW

MinGW ("Minimalistic GNU for Windows") is a port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and GNU Binutils. It provides a complete Open Source programming toolset which is suitable for the development of native MS-Windows (x86) applications, which do not depend on any 3rd-party C-Runtime DLLs. MinGW compilers provide access to the functionality of the Microsoft C runtime and some language-specific runtimes.

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD
Compiler Developer Tools Portable Add a feature

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GNOME Terminal

GNOME Terminal is a terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop environment written by Havoc Pennington and others. Terminal emulators allow users to execute commands using a real UNIX shell while remaining on their graphical desktop.[

Free Open Source Linux BSD
Terminal emulator Add a feature

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fish

Fish is a user friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux. Finally, a command line shell for the 90s. The new fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for OS X, Linux, and the rest of the family. With autosuggestions, VGA color, man-page completions, web configuration, and threading.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Autocompletion Color coding Colored Text Command line ... Interpreter Sane defaults Terminal emulator Add a feature

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