$ termdex

Terminal · Microsoft

Windows Terminal

Tabbed, pane-based host for PowerShell, Command Prompt and WSL shells on Windows. It runs the system ssh command in a shell; there is no SSH connection manager.

Official site

~/facts

platforms
Windows
price
FreeFree (seen 2026-10-20); no price shown on Microsoft Learn or GitHub, installable from Microsoft Store, winget or GitHub releases
source
Open sourceLicence: MIT
github
microsoft/terminal 105.2k stars, seen 2026-10-20

~/features

✓ documented · – absent or not in its feature list · ? not verified

+ strengths

  • Tabs, split panes, tab tear-out and a command palette in one window, with GPU-accelerated text rendering
  • Auto-generated profiles for WSL distributions and PowerShell versions; startup layouts via the wt command-line arguments
  • Settings via UI or settings.json, with JSON fragment extensions for sharing profiles and color schemes

! weak points

  • Windows 10 2004 (build 19041) or later only; no macOS or Linux build
  • No built-in SSH client, saved-host manager, SFTP or port-forwarding UI; it only hosts the system ssh in a shell
  • Installs from GitHub release files do not auto-update; only the Store version does

~/who it is for

best for
Windows developers who switch between PowerShell, cmd and WSL shells in one tabbed window.
look elsewhere if
Anyone who wants a saved-host SSH manager or file transfer UI, or who works on macOS/Linux.

~/sources

Checked 2026-10-20. Prices and features change; the vendor's page is the authority.

Not verified