Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.
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Tabby vs PuTTY Comments
- Tabby is Free and Open Source
- Tabby is Customizable
PuTTY AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Terminal Emulators for Mac
PuTTY is not available for Mac but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac Terminal Emulator alternative is Tabby, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to PuTTY and many of them are Terminal Emulators available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac Terminal Emulator alternatives to PuTTY are Termius, ZOC, WindTerm and SecureCRT.
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- 110 Tabby alternatives
58 Termius alternativesTermius is more than a mere SSH client – it’s a complete command-line solution that’s redefining remote access for sysadmins and network engineers. Securely access Linux or IoT devices and quickly fix issues from the comfort of your couch via laptop or phone.
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- Flathub
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Termius vs PuTTY Comments
Can be used on Linux, has a cleaner Interface compared to PuTTY & it's free for students.
- Termius is Freemium and Proprietary
- Termius is Security-focused
76 ZOC alternativesZOC is a powerful and well-established terminal emulator and telnet client, well known for its outstanding user interface with tabbed multi session support.
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ZOC vs PuTTY Comments
Top Positive Commenthansolo1988Just let me say one thing: Try managing 200 hosts for 10+ clients in the host directory of Putty and ZOC.
Foworax J. SmithMuch nicer user interface.
grercltabs, ease of use, very easy to customize
- ZOC is Paid and Proprietary
62 SecureCRT alternativesSecureCRT combines rock-solid terminal emulation with the strong encryption, data integrity, and authentication options of the Secure Shell protocol. SecureCRT provides secure remote access, file transfer, and data tunneling for everyone in your organization.
SecureCRT vs PuTTY Comments
artcrimeSimply the best telnet/ssh client on the market. Excellent support too!
- SecureCRT is Paid and Proprietary
61 Termora alternativesTermora is developed using Kotlin/JVM and partially implements the XTerm protocol (with ongoing improvements). Its ultimate vision is to achieve full platform support (including Android, iOS, and iPadOS) through Kotlin Multiplatform.
105 Terminal alternativesTerminal (also referred to as Terminal.app) is a terminal emulator included in Apple's Mac OS X operating system. It originated in Mac OS X's predecessors, NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, and allows the user to interact with the computer through a command line interface.
Secure Shell is an xterm-compatible terminal emulator and stand-alone ssh client for Chrome. It uses Native-Client to connect directly to ssh servers without the need for external proxies.
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- Google Chrome
Chrome Secure Shell vs PuTTY Comments
written by google developers when they took down the ssh command from crosh
- Chrome Secure Shell is Free and Proprietary
7 PortX alternativesPortX 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.
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Tempest is a free, cross platform, privacy first, SSH client, Local terminal and Kubernetes terminal.
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- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
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...
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- Mac
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I think Tabby is overall easier and more smoother to work with. Specially since you get tabs, themes etc. If you just want to ssh into this than that I don't know why you wouldn't switch to tabby.