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We've compiled a list of 38 free and paid alternatives to Windows Command Prompt. The primary competitors include ConEmu, Cygwin. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between Windows Command Prompt and cmder, MobaXterm, KiTTY. Also you can look at other similar options here: Development Tools.


ConEmu
Free Open Source

Windows console emulator with tabs, which presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as...

Cygwin
Free Open Source

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

cmder
Free Open Source

Portable terminal app that bundles ConEmu and Clink with great looking defaults.

An advanced terminal that gives Windows users a powerful, Unix-like command-line experience.

KiTTY
Free Open Source

KiTTY is a fork from version 0.70 of PuTTY. It adds extra features to PuTTY.

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.

MinGW
Free Open Source

MinGW ("Minimalistic GNU for Windows") is a port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and...

Console
Free Open Source

Console is a Windows console window enhancement.

Hyper
Free Open Source

Extensible, cross-platform terminal built on open web standards.

mintty
Free Open Source

Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin that is based on code from PuTTY 0.

The Windows built-in command prompt. Found in Windows NT 4.0 and later.

Windows Command Prompt Platforms

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Windows Command Prompt Overview

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.COM in DOS and Windows 9x systems (where it is also called "MS-DOS Prompt"), and analogous to the Unix shells used on Unix-like systems.

Windows Command Prompt Features

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