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Cmder vs iTerm2: What are the differences?

Developers describe Cmder as "Portable console emulator for Windows". It is a software package created out of pure frustration over the absence of nice console emulators on Windows. It is based on amazing software, and spiced up with the Monokai color scheme and a custom prompt layout. On the other hand, iTerm2 is detailed as "macOS Terminal Replacement". A replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.12 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.

Cmder and iTerm2 can be categorized as "Terminal Emulators" tools.

iTerm2 is an open source tool with 10.4K GitHub stars and 995 GitHub forks. Here's a link to iTerm2's open source repository on GitHub.

WISESIGHT, useinsider, and Kaidee are some of the popular companies that use iTerm2, whereas Cmder is used by OPLOG, Codevelopment, and Blocktron. iTerm2 has a broader approval, being mentioned in 36 company stacks & 220 developers stacks; compared to Cmder, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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What is Cmder?

It is a software package created out of pure frustration over the absence of nice console emulators on Windows. It is based on amazing software, and spiced up with the Monokai color scheme and a custom prompt layout.

What is iTerm2?

A replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.12 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.

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What are some alternatives to Cmder and iTerm2?

Putty

It is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform. It is open source software that is available with source code and is developed and supported by a group of volunteers.

Windows Terminal

A new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community.

Hyper Terminal

The goal of the project is to create a beautiful and extensible experience for command-line interface users, built on open web standards. Focus will be primarily around speed and stability.

ConEmu

It aims to be handy, comprehensive, fast and reliable terminal window where you may host any console application developed either for WinAPI (cmd, powershell, far) or Unix PTY (cygwin, msys, wsl bash).

Alacritty

It is the fastest terminal emulator in existence. Using the GPU for rendering enables optimizations that simply aren't possible without it. It currently supports macOS, Linux, BSD, and Windows.

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