--- title: ConEmu Reviews meta_title: 'ConEmu Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 13 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how ConEmu works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.8 review_count: 13 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-05-05' parent_category: name: IT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-management --- # ConEmu Reviews **Vendor:** GitHub **Category:** [Terminal Emulator Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/terminal-emulator) **Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 13 ## About ConEmu ConEmu-Maximus5 is a Windows console emulator with tabs, which presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window with various features. ## ConEmu Reviews ### 1. ConEmu makes my life a lot easier! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steve C. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2023 **What do you like best about ConEmu?** ConEmu makes using CygWin a lot easier! And it remembers my configurations during version upgrades. **What do you dislike about ConEmu?** I can't think of a significant negative - I am very pleased with it. **What problems is ConEmu solving and how is that benefiting you?** My main use for ConEmu is to run CygWin on my Windows system. I use CygWin a lot - running it via ConEmu has definite advantages! I set ConEmu to automatically run CygWin and then automatically start OhMyZShell. ZShell is far more user friendly than BASH, and it makes running Cygwin much more pleasurable. I also use ConEmu for Ubuntu. ### 2. More effective support and better management within a single environment. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jacob G. | Jacob Sistema, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2019 **What do you like best about ConEmu?** It makes me a lot easier to work with the commands since I work with more than one command console, this makes my job much easier and saves me from having to open more than one window. I see much more organized and detailed information regarding console commands. It is very nice and you can customize it a bit. **What do you dislike about ConEmu?** Although it is a console emulator is often limited with the options of work with linux consoles, it does not have support for the mac or the IOs. **Recommendations to others considering ConEmu:** You can see and control all the consoles within a single window, this will greatly facilitate your work environment and you will be more agile controlling your windows. **What problems is ConEmu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having more than one design I can control the environment of the console windows in a better way to see and solve any detail in a single window. ### 3. A good replacement for terminal consoles. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alfonso F. | Alfonso Design, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2019 **What do you like best about ConEmu?** For my point of view it is totally useful to manage the console of terminals in window, it facilitates much the way in how you develop with the tools of console since it allows you a better visualization of the commands in the console, can handle it like any text editor In addition to providing a transparent interface so you can see a guide, it is very nice to work with this console manager since I can have more than one console in a single window. **What do you dislike about ConEmu?** It is only available for window and it does not have the main characteristics that a shell could have that are the commands of general aids and the history of some command. **Recommendations to others considering ConEmu:** Working with consoles is a bit tedious if you need to start a server or run a console that requires special commands, with this window command you can include all of them in a single window. **What problems is ConEmu solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is only available for window and it does not have the main characteristics that a shell could have that are the commands of general aids and the history of some command. ### 4. Great product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alberto C. | Great Product, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2019 **What do you like best about ConEmu?** ConEmu is a free and open-source tabbed terminal emulator for Windows whic has multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window with tabs and status bar. **What do you dislike about ConEmu?** Everything is good at the moment, what i dislike is somehow this product can be used as well using Mac device. **Recommendations to others considering ConEmu:** You wont regret using ConEmu and it will help your company to make the job a little bit easier for everyone. **What problems is ConEmu solving and how is that benefiting you?** ConEmu is a Windows console emulator with tabs, which by default, the interface is not the prettiest, but that only affects presentation, not functionality. ### 5. Upgraded terminal client for windows **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Juan D. | Sr Coporate Services Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2018 **What do you like best about ConEmu?** I like that I can have multiple tabs with different shells and terminals in one window. It can run command prompt, PowerShell, and bash terminals and keep it all neat and within reach of the same windows like most browsers which is what people are used to know a days **What do you dislike about ConEmu?** there is not much to dislike. I guess the only thing is that maybe I'm missing out on many other things that this product can do and there is so many ways to customize it and configure it that it can be somewhat hard to understand all of the options **Recommendations to others considering ConEmu:** I would definitely suggest you give it a try. You can connect other terminals to it like gitbash and even azzure powershell (have not tried this), and it very easy to use right after install. **What problems is ConEmu solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it mostly for our admins. The main benefit is that we can run our scripts from our windows machines for powershell and gitbash from the same interface and save time ### 6. Excellent GUI for windows terminal **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kensei K. | Support Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2019 **What do you like best about ConEmu?** Open source, which makes it very easy to see documentation on updates and revision changes made, as well as being free **What do you dislike about ConEmu?** GUI does not look at modern as other terminal like applications that I've seen in other places. **Recommendations to others considering ConEmu:** If you need an open sources application for windows terminal access, highly recommend this for low cost but high functionality. **What problems is ConEmu solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use this primarily in our linux environments to be able to emulate the windows terminal for when we need to run specific windows applications on our environment. ### 7. Practical **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gledson R. | Analista de Redes 2 Pleno em Transmissão, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2019 **What do you like best about ConEmu?** Customization Several terminals on the same screen, divided into tabs Easy to use Simple and lightweight **What do you dislike about ConEmu?** I have not yet identified something I do not like. **Recommendations to others considering ConEmu:** I recommend the use of the tool, quite practical, easy to use, help in time management and support work. **What problems is ConEmu solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to have multiple endpoints on the same screen, helps a lot at work, easy management, does not waste time opening other screens and minimizing one to maximize another. Personalization also helps, we can change the background colors and fonts. ### 8. Best Open source terminal emulator for Windows **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2019 **What do you like best about ConEmu?** - If you are coming from linux background and want to work on Windows platform, this tool is for you for using command line interface where you could use major liunx command - Screencast option is really good - User interface is too good - Much better than windows terminal **What do you dislike about ConEmu?** I just loved this tool. Didnt find any issue working with this tool. **Recommendations to others considering ConEmu:** Just try once you would just love it! **What problems is ConEmu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using on daily basis for my software works ### 9. ConEMU: An adaptable command-line interface for windows **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2018 **What do you like best about ConEmu?** I love that I can manipulate multiple different console environments simultaneously inside the same program. **What do you dislike about ConEmu?** There's not much to dislike. Though I will say that the world of windows based terminals and other such options may soon render conemu unnecessary. **Recommendations to others considering ConEmu:** ConEmu is great if you're coming from OS X or Linux into an all Windows environment. While there are more comprehensive solutions to getting a terminal interface in windows, ConEmu is great because it is free, easy to set up, and compatible with a number of different environments. **What problems is ConEmu solving and how is that benefiting you?** We run mostly windows machines here, so with ConEmu we can easily use terminal commands beyond what is possible by piecing it together in the command prompt. ### 10. Like Guake for Linux but hard to run other terminals in it **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2018 **What do you like best about ConEmu?** The interface with multiple tabs is very nice, as is the ability to make the screen translucent so that you can refer to reference pages in the background. **What do you dislike about ConEmu?** The hotkeys are hard to set up and most have been mapped to something else already. So if your PC comes with some built in hotkey commands it's hard to find an available hotkey for minimization/maximization of the screen, for example. Also, I would like to be able to run different types of terminals (like Anaconda or Git bash) but it's tricky to figure out how to set this up. The support on this topic is not great. **Recommendations to others considering ConEmu:** If you want a Windows Guake, this is 90% of it. **What problems is ConEmu solving and how is that benefiting you?** It gives me something to use while I'm on a Win machine that is a similar experience to Linux. ### 11. Easy to manage consoles **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John W. | Web Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2018 **What do you like best about ConEmu?** As a developer, I often have multiple consoles opened. With ConEmu, multiple windows are converted to tabs that are very convenient. It also supports cygwin that I use it daily. **What do you dislike about ConEmu?** Occasionally the console will get hang. I don't know whether the CMS or ConEmu cause the hang. **Recommendations to others considering ConEmu:** You can have one windows with tabs to manage the consoles. Also it has portable version. **What problems is ConEmu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Maintain multiple tabs are way easier to windows. ### 12. Fantastic command line terminal for Windows **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike F. | Senior Developer, Retail, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2017 **What do you like best about ConEmu?** The ability to split my console into multiple tabs within the same window makes running multiple commands at the same time fantastic. **What do you dislike about ConEmu?** By default, the interface is not the prettiest, but that only affects presentation, not functionality. **Recommendations to others considering ConEmu:** Much better than using the command line on its own. Definitely recommend if you find yourself doing a lot of building of websites or scripting. **What problems is ConEmu solving and how is that benefiting you?** ConEmu allows execution of multiple tasks at the same time, which means management of multiple concurrent tasks to occur at the same time. ### 13. Tabbed view for multiple console/terminal type programs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2017 **What do you like best about ConEmu?** I am able to wrap up several windows into one tabbed interface including Console, Power Shell, TeraTerm and Bash (in Windows 10). It has many features that come in handy, I can't claim to have used them all. The tool is also actively maintained. **What do you dislike about ConEmu?** The wrapping of TeraTerm isn't quite as smooth as I'd like since I have an extra step to get to the menu, but it's a small inconvenience. **Recommendations to others considering ConEmu:** If you open multiple terminals in Windows, I highly recommend using this tool. **What problems is ConEmu solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to keep an uncluttered and organized environment for my projects. ## ConEmu Discussions - [What is ConEmu used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-conemu-used-for) - [View ConEmu pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/conemu/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-30+10%3A06%3A52+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=81d5d29c-0b07-4e57-b050-4d451131e7c7&secure%5Btoken%5D=d78667d17f3256a255ca320641a4bec29f18b41721081c815e5d718b1d72af97&format=llm_user) ## ConEmu Features **Performance** - Plugins - Resource Usage - Latency **Operating System** - Linux Support - Windows Support - Mac Support - Unix Support **User Interface** - Scrolling - Customization - Logging - Command-line interface **Licensing ** - Concurrent Licensing - Subscription Licensing - Named User Licensing - Perpetual Licensing **Security** - Multifactor Authentication (MFA) - Secure Sockets Layer encryption - Portal Access - SAML Service Provider Integration **Functionality** - Robotic Process Automation (RPA) - Replication ## Top ConEmu Alternatives - [MobaXTerm](https://www.g2.com/products/mobaxterm/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (102 reviews) - [iTerm2](https://www.g2.com/products/iterm2/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (51 reviews) - [PuTTY](https://www.g2.com/products/putty/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (342 reviews)