The Best 13 Windows Quake Style Console Alternatives

  • Guake terminal icon

    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).

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

    Quake style Dropdown terminal
  • tilda icon

    tilda

    Tilda is a Linux terminal taking after the likeness of many classic terminals from first person shooter games, Quake, Doom and Half-Life to name a few, where the terminal has no border and is hidden from the desktop till a key or keys is...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • TotalTerminal icon

    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?

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

  • ConsoleZ icon

    ConsoleZ

    console - This is a modified version of Console 2 for a better experience under Windows Vista/7/8 and a better visual rendering.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Stjerm icon

    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.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • yeahconsole icon

    yeahconsole

    YeahConsole turns an xterm into a gamelike console. This means it will slide down from top of your screen if you hit a shortcut key. (You will need xterm version 168...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • Qonsole icon

    Qonsole

    "A Quake-like Console Emulator." Proudly under the MIT License.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • mintty-quake-console icon

    mintty-quake-console

    An AutoHotkey script that enables a quake-style terminal-on-a-hotkey for mintty.

    Free Open Source Windows mintty

  • TermBar icon

    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.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • WinGuake icon

    WinGuake

    A Windows-oriented version of the popular Guake Terminal for Linux.

    Free Open Source Windows