PuTTY

Open Source

PuTTY is a free SSH client.

Cygwin

Open Source

Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows.

MobaXterm

Freemium

MobaXterm is a free X server for Windows with tabbed SSH terminal, telnet, RDP, VNC, Xdmcp, Mosh and X11-forwarding.

PowerShell

Open Source

PowerShell (including Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core) is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a comm…

Windows Command Prompt

Commercial

Windows Command Prompt, also known as cmd.exe or cmd, is the command-line interpreter on Windows.

BusyBox

Open Source

BusyBox is software that provides several stripped-down Unix tools in a single executable file.

PyCmd

Open Source

PyCmd is a smart command prompt extension for Windows' cmd.exe; its purpose is to emulate a few power features.

TCC/LE

Freemium

Take Command Console (TCC) is a command line interpreter designed as a substitute for the default command interpreter in Microsoft Windows, CMD.EXE.

Sakura

Open Source

Sakura is a terminal emulator based on GTK and libvte.

ConEmu

Open Source

ConEmu-Maximus5 is a full-featured local terminal for Windows devs, admins and users.

KiTTY

Open Source

KiTTY is an implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 platforms.

cmder

Open Source

cmder is a software package that provides great console experience even on Windows.

MinGW

Open Source

MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows), formerly mingw32, is a free and open source software development environment for creating Microsoft Windows applications.

Git for Windows

Open Source

Git for Windows focuses on offering a lightweight, native set of tools that bring the full feature set of the Git SCM to Windows.

gow

Open Source

Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient Windows installer that installs about 130 extremely useful open source UNI…