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Hyper vs Windows Terminal: catalog facts
Hyper	Windows Terminal
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Free Free and open source, published by Microsoft.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows
Themes are CSS and plugins are npm packages, so customisation is familiar territory The same appearance and configuration across Windows, macOS and Linux	One window for Command Prompt, PowerShell, WSL distributions and Azure Cloud Shell Tabs, split panes and tab tear-out into separate windows
Electron, so startup time and memory use are well above a native terminal Rendering performance on heavy output is noticeably worse than native terminals	Windows only, and it needs a reasonably current Windows 10 or 11 It is a terminal, not a shell: the shell you run inside it is still cmd, PowerShell or…
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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