Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.



Tabby vs PuTTY Comments

- Tabby is Free and Open Source
- Tabby is Customizable
PuTTY is not available for Mac but there are some alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac 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 six of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to PuTTY are ZOC, Terminal, Chrome Secure Shell and ShellCraft.
Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.




ZOC is a powerful and well-established terminal emulator and telnet client, well known for its outstanding user interface with tabbed multi session support.




Just let me say one thing: Try managing 200 hosts for 10+ clients in the host directory of Putty and ZOC.
Much nicer user interface.
tabs, ease of use, very easy to customize


Terminal (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.


written by google developers when they took down the ssh command from crosh


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...



ClusterSSH controls a number of xterm windows via a single graphical console window to allow commands to be interactively run on multiple servers over an ssh connection.

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.