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.

The best open source SSH Client alternative to Remote Desktop Manager is ConnectBot. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Remote Desktop Manager and seven of them are open source SSH Clients so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source SSH Client alternatives to Remote Desktop Manager are Vinagre, 1Remote, PAC Manager and Blink Shell.
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.

A VNC/SSH Client for the GNOME Desktop



1Remote (previously PRemoteM) is a modern personal remote session manager and launcher. It is a single place to manage all your remote sessions supporting a number of different protocols.


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.




Blink Shell is the professional, desktop-grade terminal emulator for iOS. It's a full-featured and highly configurable open-source terminal that can be compiled from the source at GitHub or purchased as a pre-compiled app from the App Store to support the developers.




FireSSH is a free, cross-platform SSH terminal client for Mozilla Firefox. Written entirely in Javascript!

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: