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



The best Shell alternative to Windows Command Prompt is Tabby, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Windows Command Prompt and 16 are Shells so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Shell alternatives to Windows Command Prompt are Cmder, PowerShell, Cygwin and WindTerm.
Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.






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.

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.




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.




Clink enhances your productivity in Microsoft Windows' "cmd.exe". If you're familiar with Bash then you will be familiar with the changes that clink brings to "cmd.exe" (it uses the same 'Readline' library that Bash uses). It is a small utility.

Git for Windows provides a BASH emulation used to run Git from the command line. *NIX users should feel right at home, as the BASH emulation behaves just like the "git" command in LINUX and UNIX environments.


console - This is a modified version of Console 2 for a better experience under Windows Vista/7/8 and a better visual rendering.


Console is a Windows console window enhancement. Console features include: multiple tabs, text editor-like text selection, different background types, alpha and color-key transparency, configurable font, different window styles.



Hamilton C shell™ is a complete Unix shell environment for Windows, including all the important utilities, mv, cp, rm, more, grep, fgrep, head, tail, diff, sed, cron, tar and so on. There’s even a real chown, a real su (super user) and a sudo alias to run a command elevated.


FireCMD command shell has features like recursive aliases, command substitution using files, HTML and CSS support, which makes it a next generation command shell. It also remembers command history and last working directory for next session.


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