MobaXterm Alternatives and Similar Software

Well known and loved for its remote connection features, Windows terminal app MobaXterm sports a massive set of features spanning a much broader range of use cases. Notably, it bundles an X11 server with all the key terminal apps in one package. On that note, it's also portable so admins can easily use it at arbitrary locations without having to install it.

Similar portable tools can be found with the portable feature. Being able to switch between different sessions using tabs is important for connection apps like these so you can filter for that with the tabbed interface feature.

Most of these types of tools are strictly for the desktop though there are a few mobile tools for Android and iPhone. Windows is a more commonly supported platform, though many tools support Mac as well. Linux users tend to have a wider range of options through their terminals though some of these tools support it as well.

The list of alternatives was last updated: 6/11/2019 4:20:00 PM

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Alternatives to MobaXterm for all platforms with any license

cmder

Cmder is an open-source replacement for the Windows command-line. It relies on ConEmu , extending it with the power of clink and some great looking defaults including a Monokai color scheme and custom prompt layout.
- Cmder manages local consoles, MobaXTerm manages remote sessions over a range of protocols. While you could use Cmder and then open an SSH from the local commandline, to call it an alternative is a bit of a stretch. Guest • Jul 2019 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Mobaxterm simulations a whole host of protocols and console emulator is only a tiny portion of what it can do. Guest • Mar 2019 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees
- They do entirely different things. Guest • May 2018 • 15 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Open Source Windows clink ConEmu Windows Command Prompt PowerShell
ANSI color support Built-in SSH client Command line/bash Command line interface ... Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Portable Tabbed interface Add a feature

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mRemoteNG

mRemoteNG is a fork of mRemote , an open source, tabbed, multi-protocol, remote connections manager. It allows you to view all of your remote connections in a simple yet powerful tabbed interface.

Free Open Source Windows
RDP Functionality SSH Support for Multiple protocols Tabbed interface ... VNC Viewer Built-in SSH client Linux Management RDP sessions in a tab Remote desktop Secure Copy (SCP) Vnc protocol Add a feature

156 Like
Remmina

Remmina is a remote desktop client written in GTK+, aiming to be useful for system administrators and travellers, who need to work with lots of remote computers in front of either large monitors or tiny netbooks. Remmina supports multiple network protocols in an integrated and consistent user interface.

Free Open Source Linux BSD
HTTP Web seeding Support for Multiple protocols Persistent Linux Remote desktop ... SSH Vnc protocol Add a feature

147 Like
Terminator

Terminator, multiple terminals in one window. The goal of this project is to produce a useful tool for arranging terminals. It is inspired by programs such as gnome-multi-term, quadkonsole, etc. in that the main focus is arranging terminals in grids (tabs is the most common default method, which Terminator also supports).

Free Open Source Mac Linux BSD
Configurable Function Key Shortcuts Support for Multiple Monitors Plugins ... Split windows Tiling Layouts Add a feature

140 Like
KiTTY

KiTTY is an opensource terminal emulator, forked from PuTTY , that adds many extra features to the original software.

Free Open Source Windows
Portable SSH Auto-saving Auto-login ... Built-in editor Support for Keyboard Shortcuts Multiple Browser Tabs Session management Add a feature

163 Like
Hyper

Hyper™ is a beautiful and extensible, cross-platform terminal built on open web standards. It provides an elegant command-line experience that is consistent across all supported platforms which includes macOS, Windows and various Linux distributions like Fedora and Debian. For developers, extensions are universal Node.js modules loaded by both Electron and the renderer process.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Clean design Command line interface Customizable ... Divisible Electron based Multiple Font Colors Plugin API Skinnable Split-screen view Support for Themes Tiling Panes Uses Packages Add a feature

53 Like
ConnectBot

ConnectBot is a Secure Shell client for the Android platform. Its ultimate goal is to create a secure connection through which you can use a shell on a remote machine and transfer files back and forth to your phone.

Free Open Source Android
Telnet client SSH Add a feature

88 Like
MSYS2

MSYS2 is an independent rewrite of MSYS, based on modern Cygwin (POSIX compatibility layer) and MinGW-w64 with the aim of better interoperability with native Windows software. The name is a contraction of Minimal SYStem 2, and aims to provide support to facilitate using the bash shell, Autotools, revision control systems and the like for building native Windows applications using MinGW-w64 toolchains.
- MSYS2 is a terminal much like cmder. Mobaxterm is primarily a remote management tool with ssh/rdp session tree. Guest • Dec 2018
Free Open Source Windows
Command line/bash IDE Add a feature

29 Like
Alacritty

Alacritty is the result of frustration with existing terminal emulators. Using vim inside tmux in many terminals was a particularly bad experience. None of them were ever quite fast enough. Even so, Linux does have some decent alternatives. For example, urxvt and st give good experiences. The major downside with those options is difficulty of configuration and inability to run on non-X11 platforms.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Fast loading time GPU Support Lightweight No input delay Add a feature

19 Like
Windows Command Prompt

Command Prompt, also known as cmd.exe or cmd (after its executable file name), is the command-line interpreter on Windows NT, Windows CE, OS/2 and eComStation operating systems. It is the counterpart of COMMAND.COM in DOS and Windows 9x systems (where it is also called "MS-DOS Prompt"), and analogous to the Unix shells used on Unix-like systems.

Commercial Windows
Command line interface Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Scripting Add a feature

56 Like
mintty

Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin that is based on code from PuTTY 0.60 by Simon Tatham and team. It can be downloaded from the main site or it can be installed through Cygwins setup.exe program, where it can be found in the Shells category. The Cygwin installer creates a shortcut for mintty in the Windows start menu. Features include: - Xterm-compatible terminal emulation, including support for modifier keys and application mouse mode.

Free Open Source Windows
No features added Add a feature

37 Like
Bitvise SSH Client

SSH and SFTP client for Windows incorporates: * one of the most advanced graphical SFTP clients; * state-of-the-art terminal emulation with support for the bvterm, xterm, and vt100 protocols; * support for corporation-wide single sign-on using SSPI (GSSAPI) Kerberos 5 and NTLM user authentication, as well as Kerberos 5 host authentication; * support for RSA and DSA public key authentication with comprehensive user keypair management; * powerful SSH port forwarding...
- Port forwarding easy and it WORKS ! Guest • Oct 2017
Free Personal Windows
Multi-Session Port Forwarding Portable Support for SFTP ... SSH Terminal-based Add a feature

51 Like
Royal TSX

Royal TS provides easy and secure access to your remote systems Unlock the power to remotely manage your systems on multiple platforms! Royal TS is the perfect tool for server admins, system engineers, developers and IT focused information workers who constantly need to access remote systems with different protocols. For the first time in the industry you're able to use Royal TS on Windows, OS X and soon, on iPad & iPhone.
- Can't easily send commands to multiple terminals and allow user to choose which open terminals to send to like MobaXTerm, also UI isn't as good...it's the details that matter Guest • Apr 2018 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Most alternatives mentioned here have nothing to do with what MobaXterm provides as features. This is the ONLY real alternative for MobaXterm. And no, i have nothing to do with Royal TSX and i hate that it's not open source. Guest • Feb 2018 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees
Freemium Mac Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet ... iPad
Clientless Remote Connection Explorer-like RDP sessions in a tab Remote desktop ... SSH Stability Tabbed interface Add a feature

33 Like
JuiceSSH

The all in one terminal client for Android including SSH, Local Shell, Mosh and Telnet support. Features: - Full colour terminal / ssh client - Popup keyboard with all those normally hard to find characters - Use the volume keys to quickly change font size - External keyboard support - Community and third party plugins

Free Android Android Tablet mosh OpenSSH Dropbear SSH Server and Client
SSH Ssh tunnel Telnet client Add a feature

23 Like
Remote Desktop Manager

Remote Desktop Manager lets you centralize all your remote connections, passwords and credentials into a unique platform that can be securely shared between users. Drive security, speed and productivity through your organization while reducing risks for your IT department. Join over 400 000 users in more than 140 countries who enjoy our remote connection management solution. Remote Desktop Manager is available in two editions: Free and Enterprise.

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet ... iPad
Tabbed interface Active Directory integration Centralized credentials File management ... Remote desktop Role-based security access SSH VPN Add a feature

57 Like
Terminus

Terminus is an Electron-based terminal app that works across Windows, Mac and Linux while also supporting Windows shells including Powerfull and git-bash on Windows.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Command line Electron based Add a feature

12 Like
PAC Manager

PAC is a Perl/GTK Gnome replacement for SecureCRT/Putty/etc... It provides a GUI to configure SSH/Telnet connections: users, passwords, EXPECT regular expressions, macros, etc. Unique Linux application to impletement almost every SecureCRT's functionality. Remote and local macros. Remotely send commands with EXPECT regexp. Cluster connections!! Connections on same cluster share keystrokes!! Proxy support.
- Discontinued The project seems to be no longer developed. Last version, 4.5.5.7, released in November 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website.
- It is very similar to MobaXterm at least on Linux. It can save sessions with nice GUI. kayvantehrani • Feb 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
Free Open Source Linux
Tabbed interface Group connections Support for Multiple protocols RDP sessions in a tab ... Remote desktop SSH Add a feature

39 Like
ConsoleZ

console - This is a modified version of Console 2 for a better experience under Windows Vista/7/8 and a better visual rendering.

Free Open Source Windows
Command line Tabbed interface Add a feature

24 Like
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ZOC

ZOC is a powerful and well-established terminal emulator and telnet client, well known for its outstanding user interface with tabbed multi session support. ZOC lets you access character based hosts using Secure Shell (SSH/SSH2), telnet, modem, ISDN and most other means of communication. ZOC can be used to connect to Unix/Linux hosts and shell accounts, BBS's, IBM mainframes (via TN3270 or TN5250), Cisco CLI (command line interface) or internet muds.
- Similar features and works across both Windows & Mac platforms this is a HUGE value add for me! techieman75 • Nov 2016 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
Commercial Mac Windows
Tabbed interface Auto Highlighting BBS Support Binary trace files ... Hot keys Incoming data as hex dump Scripting SSH Stream Capture Telnet client Add a feature

67 Like
Ásbrú Connection Manager

Ásbrú Connection Manager is a user interface that helps organizing remote terminal sessions and automating repetitive tasks.

Free Open Source Linux
SSH RDP sessions in a tab Remote shell Ssh tunnel ... Tabbed interface Add a feature

12 Like
Termius

Termius 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. Termius Free Features: • Enjoy a beautiful, hand-crafted interface for all major mobile and desktop systems. • Termius is always ad-free. You are not the product. • Pair credentials and servers for quick access.

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Chrome OS iPad
Mosh client Support for SFTP SSH Built-in SSH client ... Cloud sync FTP Server Migration Secure Copy (SCP) Security focused Server Monitoring User session recording Add a feature

17 Like
Chrome Secure Shell

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.
- It only supports one time of connection, doensn't have any of the tools or features, and doesn't come close in session management etc. Guest • Mar 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees
Free Mac Windows Linux Chrome OS Chrome
SSH Secure Copy (SCP) Add a feature

24 Like
Xshell

Xshell is a powerful SSH1, SSH2, SFTP, TELNET, RLOGIN and SERIAL terminal emulator for Windows platforms. It allows users to gain access to Unix/Linux hosts easily and securely on a Windows workstation. SSH (Secure Shell) protocol supports encryption and user authentication for secure connections over the Internet, and it replaces legacy protocols such as TELNET and RLOGIN.

Free Personal Windows
Command line interface Support for SFTP SSH Add a feature

38 Like
rxvt-unicode

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. Developed by Marc Lehmann, some of the more outstanding features of rxvt-unicode include international language support through Unicode, the ability to display multiple font types and support for Perl extensions.
- Discontinued Last update was in 2016
Free Open Source Mac Linux
No features added Add a feature

29 Like
VcXsrv

Windows X-server based on the xorg git sources (like xming or cygwin's xwin), but compiled with Visual C++ 2010. Source code can also be compiled with VS2008, VS2008 Express Edition and VS2010 Express Edition.

Free Open Source Windows
SSH Add a feature

17 Like