PowerShell Alternatives

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 Shell in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to PowerShell for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and iPad apps. The best PowerShell alternative is PuTTY, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PowerShell are Tabby, Cmder, fish and iTerm2.

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PowerShell alternatives are mainly Terminal Emulators, but if you're looking for Shells or SSH Clients you can filter on that. Other popular filters include iPad, Windows, Linux and Mac. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to PowerShell.
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  1. superconsole icon
     3 likes

    SuperConsole is a software collection based on ConEmu, MSYS2, Mintty, Zsh, Git for Windows, grml-zsh-config, Antigen and agkozak-zsh-theme projects, customized and configured for everyday use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. win-bash icon
     14 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. LXTerminal icon
     16 likes

    LXTerminal is the standard terminal emulator of LXDE. The terminal is a desktop-independent VTE-based terminal emulator for LXDE without any unnecessary dependency.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. CLIX icon
     2 likes

    CLIX ('command line interface for OS X') makes it easy to harness the power of Unix. It becomes both a fish to buy and a series of lessons in how to fish and ultimately a handy way to work.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. PentestBox is an Opensource PreConfigured Portable Penetration Testing Environment for the Windows Operating System that allows users to use it without any virtual machine. It has got maximum of Kali Linux tools in it. And it requires very less space.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Colorconsole icon
     8 likes

    ColorConsole brings a little color to your black and white world of Windows console .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. nsh icon
     Like

    A command-line shell like fish, complete with tab completion and syntax highlighting, but also POSIX compatibility. Made with Rust, featuring built-in zero configuration.

    31 nsh alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  8. MacTerm icon
     7 likes

    MacTerm (was MacTelnet) on OS X is now a complete replacement for Terminal, allowing access to both local and remote applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. ROXTerm icon
     5 likes

    ROXTerm: a full-featured VTE terminal emulator.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  10. Ghostly Bridge is a lightweight Windows tray app that lets you quickly access and manage your servers, including cloud instances like UpCloud, from one place.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11.  Like

    Execute shell commands on Android or the JVM.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  12.  2 likes

    Based on rxvt. Tabbed interface. Very lightweight. Few dependencies. Only drawback is poor unicode support (theres an SVN branch with working but slightly buggy support)

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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