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: 8/18/2020 3:45:00 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.
- Completely different functionality. Guest • Feb 2020 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees
- 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 • 10 agrees and 1 disagrees
- MobaXterm is not so much a shell replacement, but an ssh terminal, sftp, ftp client, integrated x windows server, linux emulation (via integrated cygwin) and as such cmder is not an alternative to mobaXterm Guest • Jan 2020 • 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 • 7 agrees and 0 disagrees
- They do entirely different things. Guest • May 2018 • 17 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Open Source Windows clink ConEmu Windows Command Prompt PowerShell
Terminal emulator ANSI color support Built-in SSH client Command line/bash ... Command line interface Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Portable Tabbed interface Terminal emulator 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.
- mRemoteNG is the only one on this list that is actually an alternative to MobaXterm in terms of functionality offered and core features. Guest • Jul 2020 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Open Source Windows
RDP Functionality Support for Multiple protocols RDP SSH ... Built-in SSH client RDP sessions in a tab Tabbed interface Connect via RDP Remote desktop Supports SSL certificate Tree view VNC Viewer Linux Management Remote desktop Secure Copy (SCP) Tabs Vnc protocol Add a feature

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Remmina

Remmina is a remote desktop client written in GTK+. Remmina primarily targets system administrators and travelers that need to work with computers remotely in front of either large monitors or tiny netbooks. It supports multiple network protocols within an integrated and consistent user interface.

Free Open Source Linux BSD
RDP Fullscreen support Native translations RDP Functionality ... Remote desktop SSH Tabbed interface Group management HTTP Web seeding Support for Multiple protocols Remote desktop Scalable Vnc protocol Add a feature

170 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
Split-screen view Support for Themes Configurable Function Key Shortcuts ... Support for Multiple Monitors Plugins Split windows Terminal emulator Tiling Layouts Add a feature

150 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 Ssh tunnel Auto-saving ... Auto-login Built-in editor Support for Keyboard Shortcuts Multiple Browser Tabs Session management Terminal emulator Add a feature

166 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.
- Hyper is just a terminal. No file manager, port forwarding or session management (X11, VNC, etc..) Guest • Jul 2020 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Split-screen view Tiling Panes Clean design ... Command line interface Customizable Divisible Electron based Multiple Font Colors Plugin API Skinnable Terminal emulator Support for Themes Uses Packages Add a feature

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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
GPU Support Lightweight No input delay Terminal emulator Add a feature

27 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

89 Like
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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 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Open Source Windows
Regular updates Command line/bash IDE Add a feature

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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

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