Top 15 Windows Quake Style Console Alternative and Similar Softwares | Apr 2024

1. Final Term

Final Term is a new breed of terminal emulator. It goes beyond mere emulation and understands what is happening inside the shell it is hosting. This allows it to offer features no other terminal can, including: A) Semantic text menus, B) Smart command completion, C) GUI terminal controls. It brings...... TpSort Score | 64,100,000

2. 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

3. Stjerm

Stjerm is a roll-down, quake-like terminal emulator. It's window is shown with a key shortcut. Stjerm is very minimalistic and works well with Compiz window manager....... TpSort Score | 194,000,000

4. Yakuake

Yakuake is a drop-down (Quake-style) terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology. 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.Yakuake, in the...... TpSort Score | 28,300,000

5. Guake terminal

Guake is a top-down terminal for Gnome (in the style of Yakuake for KDE, Tilda or the terminal used in Quake). Guake is already package by a number of distribution (among them are Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu or ArchLinux)....... TpSort Score | 3,450,000

6. Telix for Windows

a fully-windowed terminal emulator including VT-220, WYSE-75, ANSI, and RIPscrip terminals. Other features include full color resizable concurrent scrollback buffer, two powerful scripting languages (one for programmers, one for non-programmers)...... TpSort Score | 138,000,000

7. RXVT

RXVT –our extended virtual terminal– is a terminal emulator for X11. It is a popular replacement for the standard ‘xterm’....... TpSort Score | 193,000,000

8. TermBar

TermBar is a terminal app that puts the command line in the Mac Menu Bar for easier access that can help alleviate clutter on the desktop....... TpSort Score | 269,000

9. Terra

Terra is a GTK+3.0 based terminal emulator with useful user interface, it also supports multiple terminals with splitting screen horizontally or vertically....... TpSort Score | 5,140,000

10. Qonsole

"A Quake-like Console Emulator."Proudly under the MIT License....... TpSort Score | 17,100,000

11. TotalTerminal

A system-wide terminal accessible via a hot-key. TotalTerminal is a plugin for Terminal.app. It provides persistent Visor Window which slides down when you press a hot-key. Remember Quake Console?...... TpSort Score | 194,000,000

12. Emerge Desktop

Emerge Desktop is a replacement Windows "shell" (the desktop environment normally provided by Windows Explorer) for Windows 2000 and above. In order to replace Windows Explorer as a shell, it provides a system tray (the area that collects the icons collected at the lower right corner in Explorer), called emergeTray....... TpSort Score | 168,000

13. SphereXP

The SphereXP is a 3D desktop replacement for Microsoft Windows. Taking the known concept of three-dimensional desktops to its own level. It offers a new way to organize objects on the desktop such as icons and applications. It has been tried out by millions worldwide....... TpSort Score | 28,300,000

14. GtkTerm

Gtkterm is a simple GTK+ terminal used to communicate with a serial port.It is has fewer features than minicom, but is designed to be as easy to use as possible....... TpSort Score | 197,000,000

15. picocom

picocom is a minimal dumb-terminal emulation program. It is ideal for embedded systems since its memory footprint is minimal (less than 20K, when stripped). Apart from being a handy little tool, the source distribution includes a simple, easy to use, and thoroughly documented terminal-management library....... TpSort Score | 198,000,000