Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.



Windows Command Prompt is described as 'Command Prompt, also known as cmd.exe or cmd (after its executable file name), is the command-line interpreter on Windows NT, Windows CE, OS/2 and eComStation operating systems. It is the counterpart of COMMAND' and is a popular terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Windows Command Prompt for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Snapcraft apps. The best Windows Command Prompt alternative is Tabby, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Windows Command Prompt are Cmder, ConEmu, PowerShell and Windows Terminal.
Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.






Based on ConEmu with sane defaults and some bells and whistles.


Windows console emulator with tabs, which presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window with various features.




ComEmu is the easiest one to handle commands
tabbed console with dynamic resizing, global shortcuts, window split, etc etc


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.

Powershell has more features than command prompt. One of its biggest ups is that it allows scripting.

Windows Terminal is a new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community including support for tabs, rich text, globalization, configurability...




MobaXterm is an enhanced terminal app that brings the advanced features of a Unix-like command-line to Windows. It takes the power of Cygwin and wraps it in a sleek, visual interface that's super easy to use, lightweight and portable.




It works independently of it


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.

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


Putty is remote console to a remote Linux/Unix machine. Cmd is local WIndows conssole.





A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust



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.




Termora is developed using Kotlin/JVM and partially implements the XTerm protocol (with ongoing improvements). Its ultimate vision is to achieve full platform support (including Android, iOS, and iPadOS) through Kotlin Multiplatform.

yes it is because I use it all the time and it's better then CMD