KiTTY Alternatives

KiTTY has been discontinued. Similar apps include PuTTY, which is free and open source. Other options are Ghostty, Tabby, OpenSSH and Termux. Terminal Emulators like KiTTY are a crowded field, with more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone.

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KiTTY alternatives page was last updated Aug 27, 2026

Axessh
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Axessh is Windows SSH Client for secure connections.
Cost / License
Paid
Proprietary
Application type
SSH Client
Platforms
Windows
Good alternative?Is Axessh a good alternative to KiTTY?
rxvt-unicode
29 likes
Rxvt-unicode is a highly customizable terminal emulator forked from rxvt. Commonly known as urxvt, rxvt-unicode can be daemonized to run clients within a single process in order to minimize the use of system resources.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Terminal Emulator
Platforms
Mac
Linux
Good alternative?Is rxvt-unicode a good alternative to KiTTY?
Core Shell
3 likes
Core Shell is a full-featured terminal with built-in OpenSSH support, focused on managing and login to hosts efficiently.
Cost / License
Freemium
Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Terminal Emulator
SSH Client
Origin
China
Platforms
Mac
China
+2
Good alternative?Is Core Shell a good alternative to KiTTY?
EasySSH
2 likes
A complete, efficient and easy-to-use manager. Create and edit connections, groups, customize the terminal, with multiple instances of the same connection.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
SSH Client
Origin
Brazil
Platforms
Linux
elementary OS
Flathub
Flatpak
Brazil
Good alternative?Is EasySSH a good alternative to KiTTY?
Codinn SSH Proxy
29 likes
SSH Proxy can help you turn any remote SSH server into a SOCKS v5 proxy, intuitive and easy to use.
Cost / License
Paid
Proprietary
Origin
China
Platforms
Mac
China
+2
Good alternative?Is Codinn SSH Proxy a good alternative to KiTTY?
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gow
28 likes
Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient Windows installer that installs about 130 extremely useful
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Compiler
Origin
United States
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Windows
United States
G
Good alternative?Is gow a good alternative to KiTTY?
tilda
39 likes
Tilda is a Linux terminal taking after the likeness of many classic terminals from first person shooter games, Quake, Doom and Half-Life to name a few, where the terminal has no border and is hidden from the desktop till a key or keys is hit.
50 tilda alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Terminal Emulator
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Linux
BSD
Good alternative?Is tilda a good alternative to KiTTY?
Serial
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Full-featured serial terminal for the Mac.
Cost / License
Paid
Proprietary
Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
United States
+1
Good alternative?Is Serial a good alternative to KiTTY?
xs
1 like
Simple alternative to ssh (<5% SLOCC) written from scratch in Go, with support for PQC KEMs (Post-Quantum Cryptography Key-Encapsulation Mechanisms).
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application typeApplication types
Terminal Emulator
Shell
Platforms
Windows
Linux
Android
BSD
Cygwin
FreeBSD
Termux
Good alternative?Is xs a good alternative to KiTTY?
ShellCraft
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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
Application typeApplication types
Terminal Emulator
SSH Client
Platforms
Mac
Good alternative?Is ShellCraft a good alternative to KiTTY?
Putty for Mac
2 likes
Putty is one of the Best Terminal Emulators available today. It Supports different types of Network Protocols such as SSH, FTP, SCP, Telnet etc. In Windows it is used as SSH Client to connect to Your Linux server or for some other purpose.
85 Putty for Mac alternatives
Cost / License
Paid
Proprietary
Platforms
Mac
+4
Good alternative?Is Putty for Mac a good alternative to KiTTY?
Voktty
2 likes
Voktty is an open-source, ultra-lightweight (~8MB) terminal-first developer workspace and AI-native environment built with Tauri 2, Rust, React 19, and xterm.js WebGL. Designed as a fast, resource-friendly alternative to heavy Electron IDEs and proprietary AI terminals, Voktty...
44 Voktty alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application typeApplication types
Terminal Emulator
SSH Client
Origin
Spain
EU
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Arch Linux
Spain
EU
+1
Good alternative?Is Voktty a good alternative to KiTTY?