KiTTY Alternatives

KiTTY is described as 'Opensource terminal emulator, forked from PuTTY , that adds many extra features to the original software' and is a very popular terminal emulator in the network & admin category. There are more than 100 alternatives to KiTTY for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best KiTTY alternative is PuTTY, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like KiTTY are Ghostty, Tabby, OpenSSH and Termux.

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  1. Engineering, testing and debugging of serial communication. Supports RS-232/422/423/485 as well as TCP/IP Client/Server/AutoSocket, UDP/IP Client/Server/PairSocket and USB Ser/HID. Optimized for simple command sets of e.g. embedded systems.

    23 YAT - Yet Another Terminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. BossTerm icon
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    Pure Kotlin terminal emulator. Works with SSH and PTY.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
     
  3. CMD++ icon
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    CMD++ is a command line program, which was devoloped as alternative to the Windows (R) console. You can use it at public places (eg. at school) when the native console is locked but you do need to run a program in the console (eg. to type arguments).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Qonsole icon
     3 likes

    "A Quake-like Console Emulator." Proudly under the MIT License.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. PieTTY icon
     8 likes

    PieTTY is a free SSH client based on PuTTY and dedicated to multilingual (especially CJK) environments, accessibility, and simpler user interface. "Glass Window Mode" : Alpha-blending / HW-accelerated transparency & drop-shadow.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6.  Like

    YAET is a terminal emulator built on Xterm.js and Electron. It can interpret escape sequences that allow shell scripts and other programs to write HTML content directly to the terminal, or display content from the web.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • npm
    • Node.JS
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
     
  7. Voltius icon
     2 likes

    A local-first & Open-source SSH/SFTP/Serial client with E2EE sync, plugins, and no account required — a modern alternative to Termius.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8.  2 likes

    Based on rxvt. Tabbed interface. Very lightweight. Few dependencies. Only drawback is poor unicode support (theres an SVN branch with working but slightly buggy support)

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Ghostly Bridge is a lightweight Windows tray app to manage servers and expose local apps instantly. Access UpCloud, DigitalOcean, and your own machines from one place.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Rio Terminal icon
     1 like

    Hardware-accelerated terminal emulator using WebGPU for smooth high frame rates, customizable GPU usage, asynchronous Rust foundation, efficient redux-based rendering, WebAssembly extensibility for tab systems, and both desktop and browser support.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • FreeBSD
    • Flatpak
     
  12. May 28, 2015 New version https://sourceforge.net/p/doffensshtunnel

    We needed a way to easily organize our complex network of servers and connect to them with one click. Hard to satisfy server admins use it every day and they love it.

    If you have to open more than one putty sess.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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