PowerShell AlternativesTerminal Emulators & Shells like PowerShell
PowerShell is described as '(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' and is a very popular terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to PowerShell for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and PortableApps.com apps. The best PowerShell alternative is PuTTY, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PowerShell are Tabby Terminal, ConEmu, Cmder and iTerm2.
PowerShell alternatives are mainly Terminal Emulators but may also be Shells or SSH Clients. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of PowerShell.- Free • Open Source
- Terminal Emulator
- SSH Client
108 PuTTY alternatives- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- PortableApps.com
- ReactOS
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.
- - PuTTY is the most popular Windows & Linux alternative to PowerShell.
- - PuTTY is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to PowerShell.
PuTTY Features
Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.
- - Tabby Terminal is the most popular Mac alternative to PowerShell.
Tabby Terminal Features
Comments about Tabby Terminal as a Alternative to PowerShell
Great looking, fast, convenient.
0- 52 ConEmu alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Terminal Emulator
- Windows
Windows console emulator with tabs, which presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window with various features.
ConEmu Features
Comments about ConEmu as a Alternative to PowerShell
SamBConEmu 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...
8Shell != Console Emulator
0 - Free • Open Source
- Terminal Emulator
37 Cmder alternatives- Windows
- clink
- ConEmu
- Windows Command Prompt
- PowerShell
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...
Cmder Features
Opinions about Cmder as a Alternative to PowerShell
- 73 iTerm2 alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Terminal Emulator
- Mac
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.
iTerm2 Features
- 85 KiTTY alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Terminal Emulator
- SSH Client
- Windows
KiTTY is an opensource terminal emulator, forked from PuTTY , that adds many extra features to the original software.
KiTTY Features
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.
Cygwin Features
- 61 GNOME Terminal alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Terminal Emulator
- Linux
- BSD
- GNOME
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.[
GNOME Terminal Features
Fish is a user friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux.
- 72 Kitty terminal alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Terminal Emulator
- Mac
- Linux
Kitty ( not to be confused with KiTTY ) is a powerful, cross-platform GPU-based terminal emulator. It offloads rendering to the GPU and uses OpenGL for fast, cross-platform performance with built-in tiling layouts as well as graphic, unicode...
Kitty terminal Features
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.
Hyper Features
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...