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Terminals & CLI tools for Windows (page 2)

Terminal emulators, shells and command-line utilities.

This category lists 738 Windows apps: 87% open source, 3% free closed source. The most popular are PowerShell, QPDF and Oh My Posh. 238 have a native ARM64 build and 735 a documented silent install. Last update: October 24, 2026.

#App Licence
51 cloudfoundry-cliThe official command line client for Cloud Foundry 8.19.0 Open source — 67.5K ↓
52 onefetchCommand-line Git information tool 3.1.0 Open source October 19, 2026 — 3.9K ↓
53 lessLess is a free, open-source file pager. 710 Open source September 30, 2026 — 91.4K ↓
54 vt-cliVirusTotal Command Line Interface 1.3.1 Open source May 19, 2026 — 31.1K ↓
55 psmuxTerminal multiplexer for Windows - tmux alternative for PowerShell and Windows Terminal 3.4.0 Open source October 13, 2026 — 10.3K ↓
56 RioRio terminal is a hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator, focusing to run in desktops and browsers. 0.5.28 Open source September 17, 2026 — 2.8K ↓
57 Extraterm - Terminal emulatorThe swiss army chainsaw of terminal emulators 0.82.0 Open source August 19, 2026 — 12.3K ↓
58 HashCheck Shell ExtensionHashCheck Shell Extension for Windows with added SHA2, SHA3, and multithreading 2.6.3.0 Open source October 7, 2026 — 152.2K ↓
59 Haskell Dockerfile LinterDockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell 2.15.1 Open source August 20, 2026 — 7.4K ↓
60 ServyServy lets you run any app as a native Windows service with full control over the working directory, startup type, process priority, CPU affinity, logging, health checks, hooks, and parameters. 10.6 Open source October 21, 2026 — 6.6K ↓
61 OSV ScannerVulnerability scanner written in Go which uses the data provided by https://osv.dev 2.7.0 Open source October 15, 2026 — 3.6K ↓
62 Open Code ReviewThe open source AI code review agent. 1.13.3 Open source October 22, 2026 — 529 ↓
63 hcloudCommand-line interface for Hetzner Cloud 1.70.2 Open source October 23, 2026 — 11.9K ↓
64 MSYS2 InstallerSoftware Distribution and Building Platform for Windows 20260927 Open source October 24, 2026 — 19.2K ↓
65 PuTTY CACWindows Secure Shell Client With Support For Smart Cards & Certificates 0.85.2.0 Open source September 29, 2026 — 35.7K ↓
66 tickerTerminal stock watcher and stock position tracker 5.3.0 Open source June 21, 2026 — 5.3K ↓
67 procsA modern replacement for ps written in Rust. 0.14.12 Open source July 15, 2026 — 6.5K ↓
68 fselectFind files with SQL-like queries. 0.10.4 Open source October 23, 2026 — 6.3K ↓
69 monolithBundle any web page into a single HTML file. Unlike the “Save page as”, monolith not only saves the target document, it embeds CSS, image, and JavaScript assets all at once, producing a single HTML5 document that is a joy to store and share. 2.10.1 Open source April 1, 2025 — 4.6K ↓
70 WindTermA professional, quicker, and better SSH/SFTP/Shell/Telnet/Tmux/Serial client terminal. 2.7.0 Open source February 3, 2026 — 3.4K ↓
71 WinSSHTermA tabbed SSH solution for Windows, combining PuTTY, WinSCP and VcXsrv 2.43.2 Free September 21, 2026 — 66.7K ↓
72 innoextractA tool to unpack installers created by Inno Setup 1.9 Open source January 31, 2023 — 38.4K ↓
73 rceditCommand line tool to edit resources of exe file on Windows. 2.0.0 Open source October 24, 2024 — 15.4K ↓
74 Microsoft Win32 Content Prep ToolA tool to wrap Win32 App and then it can be uploaded to Intune. 1.8.7 Other licence December 3, 2025 — 26.1K ↓
75 elvishElvish is an expressive programming language and a versatile interactive shell, combined into one seamless package. It runs on Linux, BSDs, macOS and Windows. 0.21.0 Open source August 19, 2024 5.6 MB 5.5K ↓
76 gronA tool to make JSON content greppable 0.7.1 Open source May 24, 2023 — 2.8K ↓
77 crushA powerful terminal-based AI assistant for developers, providing intelligent coding assistance directly in your terminal. 0.98.1 Open source October 15, 2026 — 166 ↓
78 Windows TerminalThe new Windows Terminal, a tabbed command line experience for Windows. 1.25.2733.0 Open source October 2, 2026 — ★ 105.2K
79 hexylHex viewer, which uses colored output to distinguish different categories of bytes. 0.17.0 Open source June 15, 2026 — 1.4K ↓
80 tsshHighly OpenSSH-compatible client with extended features. 0.1.26 Open source July 30, 2026 — 2K ↓
81 The Silver SearcherA fast open source text search tool, optimised for software development. 2.2.7 Open source July 12, 2026 — 54.3K ↓
82 Primesieveprimesieve is a command-line program that generates primes using the sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm. It can generate primes and prime k-tuplets (twin primes, prime triplets, ...) up to 2^64 and find the nth prime. 12.16 Open source September 28, 2026 — 3.5K ↓
83 RLoginRLogin is a terminal software that runs on Windows. 2.31.9 Open source September 25, 2026 — 10.5K ↓
84 Resource HackerResource Hacker is a program that allows you to compile and decompile various resources and file types. 5.2.8 Free March 6, 2025 4.3 MB 143.4K ↓
85 Cairo Desktop EnvironmentA customizable, intuitive desktop environment for Windows. 0.4.434 Open source November 14, 2025 — 2.2K ↓
86 qrcp⚡ Transfer files over wifi from your computer to your mobile device by scanning a QR code without leaving the terminal. 0.11.6 Open source March 17, 2025 — 1.6K ↓
87 tealdeerA very fast implementation of tldr in Rust. 1.9.0 Open source August 24, 2026 — 1.3K ↓
88 wmuxWindows terminal multiplexer with MCP server for AI agents 4.9.0 Open source October 22, 2026 — 3.4K ↓
89 FileFile: determine file type; Complete package, except sources 5.03 Open source November 4, 2024 835 KB 18.4K ↓
90 MobaXtermEnhanced terminal for Windows with X11 server, tabbed SSH client, network tools and much more 26.5.0.5542 Free September 11, 2026 45.6 MB 547K ↓
91 GitKraken CLIGitKraken official command-line tool. 3.1.77 Open source October 14, 2026 — 2.4K ↓
92 OpenPubkey SSHA tool which enables SSH to be used with OpenID Connect, allowing SSH access management via identities like alice@example.com instead of long-lived SSH keys. 0.19.1 Open source October 23, 2026 — 1.3K ↓
93 ViveToolC# library and console app for using new feature control APIs available in Windows 10 version 2004 and newer 0.3.4 Open source March 11, 2025 — 1.1K ↓
94 ErdtreeA modern, cross-platform, multi-threaded, and general purpose filesystem and disk-usage utility that is aware of .gitignore and hidden file rules. 3.1.2 Open source August 5, 2024 — 2.8K ↓
95 thurboxTUI for orchestrating multiple coding-agent CLI sessions in persistent panels. 2.71.4 Open source October 24, 2026 — 5.5K ↓
96 Dapr CLIDapr's official command-line tool 1.19.1 Open source October 23, 2026 — 2.5K ↓
97 vscliA CLI tool to launch vscode projects, which supports devcontainers. 1.3.3 Open source August 9, 2026 — 2.2K ↓
98 Bitvise SSH ClientFree SSH file transfer, terminal and tunneling 9.66 Free July 20, 2026 27.6 MB 298.4K ↓
99 cmderPortable console emulator for Windows. (Mini version) 1.3.25 Open source — 896.8K ↓
100 llmfitHundreds of models & providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware. 1.1.10 Open source September 24, 2026 — 188 ↓