Terminals and shells
Your terminal and shell are the tools you open all day, so a surprise change hurts. Terminal emulators draw the window; shells such as PowerShell run the commands inside it. These 7 apps list older versions where they are available, so you can stay on the release you trust.
Terminal emulators
Shells
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What you’ll find here
This page covers terminal emulators and command-line shells for Windows and macOS. Terminal emulators provide the window, tabs and rendering, while shells interpret the commands you type. Compare the apps here, then open one to see its installers, checksums and a plain summary of what the installer does.
The 7 apps listed here are Alacritty, PowerShell, PowerShell Preview, Tabby, Warp, WezTerm, and Windows Terminal. All 7 run on Windows, and 4 also on macOS. Of these, 6 are open source. Between them the site lists 290 versions. Older versions are mostly available for Windows; for macOS the current release is usually the one listed. Everyversion hosts no installers: every download button goes to the download location named in the publisher’s package data, normally the publisher’s own server. For 6 of the 7 we downloaded the installers ourselves and re-computed their SHA-256; for the others the checksums come from the published package listings and are marked as such.