Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.
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PuTTY AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Shells for Mac
PuTTY is not available for Mac but there are some alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac Shell alternative is Tabby, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to PuTTY and ten of them are Shells available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac Shell alternatives to PuTTY are PowerShell, ZOC, WindTerm and Terminal.
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- 116 Tabby alternatives
70 PowerShell alternativesPowerShell (including Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core) is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on the .NET Framework.
80 ZOC alternativesZOC is a powerful and well-established terminal emulator and telnet client, well known for its outstanding user interface with tabbed multi session support.
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110 Terminal alternativesTerminal (also referred to as Terminal.app) is a terminal emulator included in Apple's Mac OS X operating system. It originated in Mac OS X's predecessors, NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, and allows the user to interact with the computer through a command line interface.
Tempest is a free, cross platform, privacy first, SSH client, Local terminal and Kubernetes terminal.
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- Freemium
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MacTerm (was MacTelnet) on OS X is now a complete replacement for Terminal, allowing access to both local and remote applications.
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I think Tabby is overall easier and more smoother to work with. Specially since you get tabs, themes etc. If you just want to ssh into this than that I don't know why you wouldn't switch to tabby.