MobaXterm Alternatives

MobaXterm is described as 'Enhanced terminal app that brings the advanced features of a Unix-like command-line to Windows. It takes the power of Cygwin and wraps it in a sleek, visual interface that's super easy to use, lightweight and portable' and is a very popular terminal emulator in the network & admin category. There are more than 100 alternatives to MobaXterm for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and BSD apps. The best MobaXterm alternative is Ghostty, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MobaXterm are Tabby, mRemoteNG, Termux and Remmina.

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MobaXterm alternatives are mainly Terminal Emulators, but if you're looking for SSH Clients or Remote Desktop Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Linux, Mac, Windows, Open Source, Linux + Open Source, Android and Windows + Free. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to MobaXterm.
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  1. mRemoteNC icon
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    mRemoteNC is the next stage of mRemote development. mRemote is a full-featured, multi-tab remote connections manager.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. SecurSSH icon
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    SecurSSH centralizes SSH credentials, keys, and server access in a zero-knowledge encrypted vault with granular team permissions, live session sharing, and a built-in SFTP manager.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Xming icon
     17 likes

    Xming is a X Window System Server for Microsoft Windows®. It is fully featured, lean, fast, simple to install and because it is standalone native Windows, easily made portable (not needing a machine-specific installation or access to the Windows registry).

    9 Xming alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. MacTerm icon
     7 likes

    MacTerm (was MacTelnet) on OS X is now a complete replacement for Terminal, allowing access to both local and remote applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. tilda icon
     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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. 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
     
  7. PuTTY Tray icon
     26 likes

    PuTTY Tray is an improved version of PuTTY. It features a number of addons to make it more useful and much more fun to use.

    38 PuTTY Tray alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Putty for Mac icon
     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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. Core Tunnel icon
     14 likes

    Core Tunnel is the best way to manage your SSH tunnels, with OS X Keychain integration. You can manage multiple tunnels in parallel, supports password/keyboard/pubkey authentication methods, creates local/remote/dynamic port forwarding tunnels & more.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. ExtraPuTTY icon
     4 likes

    ExtraPuTTY is a fork from 0.65 version of PuTTY and has all the features from the original while adding new ones as described below:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11.  2 likes

    Mintty as a terminal for WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Cygwin
     
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