Top Alternatives to PowerShell

PuTTY is a free SSH client.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

iTerm2 is a GPL-licensed terminal emulator for macOS. It was derived from and has mostly supplanted the earlier "iTerm" application.

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 the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again. It supports skinning, split viewing, and profiles, as Konsole does.

Terminal (Terminal.app) is the terminal emulator included in the macOS operating system.

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

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

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

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

Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient Windows installer that installs about 130 extremely useful open source UNIX applications compiled as native win32 binaries.

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

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

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

An alternative to PowerShell with similar functionality.

LXTerminal is the standard terminal emulator of LXDE.

FireCMD (Fire Command) is an enhanced command line environment for Windows operating system which makes interacting with your computer both user-friendly and powerful.

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

JuiceSSH is a free SSH client for Android.

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.

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 RS232 serial cable and COM port.