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We have listed 26 alternatives for PowerShell which have similar features like PowerShell including commercial, freemium, free and open source alternatives.

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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.
GNOME Terminal

Open Source

GNOME Terminal is a terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop environment written by Havoc Pennington and others.
cmder

Open Source

cmder is a software package that provides great console experience even on Windows.
iTerm2

Open Source

iTerm2 is a GPL-licensed terminal emulator for macOS. It was derived from and has mostly supplanted the earlier "iTerm" application.
Terminal (Terminal.app) is the terminal emulator included in the macOS operating system.
clink

Open Source

Clink is a savings and investing application which facilitates your savings by making you save every time you dine out.
mintty

Open Source

mintty is a free and open source terminal emulator for Cygwin, the Unix-like environment for Windows.
ConsoleZ

Open Source

ConsoleZ is a modified version of Console 2 for a better experience under Windows Vista/7/8/10 and a better visual rendering.
iTerm

Open Source

iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm.
LXTerminal

Open Source

LXTerminal is the standard terminal emulator of LXDE.
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.
PowerCmd

Commercial

PowerCmd enhances your command prompt with an easy-to-use Windows GUI-style interface and allows you to run multiple consoles within a single tabbed window.
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.
Console

Open Source

Console is a Windows console window enhancement. Console features include multiple tabs, text editor-like text selection, different background types, alpha an…
MinGW

Open Source

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

Open Source

Yakuake (Yet Another Kuake) is a KDE terminal emulator. Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of…
Windows Command Prompt, also known as cmd.exe or cmd, is the command-line interpreter on Windows.
fish

Open Source

fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for macOS, Linux, and the rest of the family.
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…
PyCmd

Open Source

PyCmd is a smart command prompt extension for Windows' cmd.exe; its purpose is to emulate a few power features.
MSYS2

Open Source

FireCMD

Commercial

FireCMD (Fire Command) is an enhanced command line environment for Windows operating system which makes interacting with your computer both user-friendly and …
JuiceSSH is a free SSH client for Android.
Hyper

Open Source

Hyper is a terminal emulation program capable of connecting to systems through the internet via Telnet or SSH, by Dial-Up Modem, or directly connected by a RS…

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