PuTTY Alternatives for MacFiltered by 'Developer Tools'

PuTTY is not available for Mac but there are a few alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is PortX, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to PuTTY and four of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to PuTTY are ShellCraft, Core Shell and Truck.

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  1. PortX icon
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    PortX is a lightweight cross-platform (Windows/Mac/Linux) SSH Client, as well as local shell/terminal emulator. Beautiful tabbed UI for managing multiple sessions. Google Drive syncing session files across devices and OSes is a very handy tool.

    7 PortX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. ShellCraft icon
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    With convenient and powerful user interface, ShellCraft significantly improve your efficiency. ShellCraft implements the standard SSH/Telnet protocol, it can simply connect to various servers. The session management function make you managing sessions easily, connecting to...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. Core Shell icon
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    Core Shell is a full-featured terminal with built-in OpenSSH support, focused on managing and login to hosts efficiently.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. Truck icon
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    Still using FTP? Truck hauls data 30x faster thanks to its modern rsync engine (included) which compresses, de-duplicates and encrypts – giving significantly higher performance and security, right from the first transfer.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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