Top 15 Cygwin Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

1. FireCMD

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. A UNIX like environment and UNIX commands are also provided using UWIN package developed...... TpSort Score | 194,000,000

2. dash

DASH is a POSIX-compliant implementation of /bin/sh that aims to be as small as possible. It does this without sacrificing speed where possible. In fact, it is significantly faster than bash (the GNU Bourne-Again SHell) for most tasks. DASH stands for Debian Almquist Shell....... TpSort Score | 9,680,000

3. ContextConsole Shell Extension

The ContextConsole Shell Extension adds an "Open Command Prompt" menu item to the context menus (right-click menus) in Windows Explorer so that you can open a command prompt in the selected directory (or directories) or in the current directory that you are viewing....... TpSort Score | 3,880,000

4. win-bash

win-bash is a Windows port of the famous GNU bash (see GNU Bash homepage).The goal of the win-bash project is to finish the port to Windows and provide a full functional bash.exe binary for windows nt and derived systems. win-bash can be used as a input shell as well as...... TpSort Score | 28,500,000

5. ROXTerm

ROXTerm: a full-featured VTE terminal emulator....... TpSort Score | 194,000,000

6. sash

a stand-alone shell with many built-in commands. The built in commands of sash have all libraries linked statically, so unlike most shells, the standard UNIX commands do not rely on external libraries. In case of emergencies, you can boot directly into sash and use it as a recovery environment....... TpSort Score | 6,720,000

7. ConsoleZ

console - This is a modified version of Console 2 for a better experience under Windows Vista/7/8 and a better visual rendering....... TpSort Score | 28,500,000

8. fish

fish is a user friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux.Finally, a command line shell for the 90s. The new fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for OS X, Linux, and the rest of the family. With autosuggestions, VGA color, man-page completions, web...... TpSort Score | 16,600,000

9. HyperTerm

A beautiful and extensible experience for command-line interface users, built on open web standards."In the beginning, our focus will be primarily around speed, stability and the development of the correct API for extension authors.In the future, we anticipate the community will come up with innovative additions to enhance what could...... TpSort Score | 247,000

10. Black Screen

Black Screen is a terminal emulator for the 21st century. Unlike most emulators, it uses HTML and CSS for its UI (exactly as Atom does), which means we can stop misusing unicode characters and make a better looking terminal with appropriate tools.AutocompletionBlack Screen shows the autocompletion box as you type...... TpSort Score | 7,640,000

11. Console

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....... TpSort Score | 16,600,000

12. DTerm

DTerm provides a context-sensitive command line that makes it fast and easy to run commands on the files you're working with and then use the results of those commands. Command line work isn't a separate task that should live on its own—it's an integrated part of your natural workflow....... TpSort Score | 194,000,000

13. WinTabber

WinTabber is a tabmanager which enables you to tab almost any window (yes, also terminals) under windows 2000/XPWinTabber is initially made to add a fully functional tab-interface to terminal programs, like a tabbed putty and tabbed cmd, but it wil work with many more programs in the near future....... TpSort Score | 28,500,000

14. TLDR pages

Sorry, we have added any description on TLDR pages...... TpSort Score | 58,100,000

15. XMLStarlet

XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) which can be used to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for plain text files using UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc commands....... TpSort Score | 180,000,000