Core Shell AlternativesTerminal Emulators & SSH Clients like Core Shell

Core Shell is described as 'Full-featured terminal with built-in OpenSSH support, focused on managing and login to hosts efficiently' and is a terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Core Shell for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best Core Shell alternative is PuTTY, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Core Shell are Tabby, OpenSSH, Windows Terminal and MobaXterm.

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  1. PuTTY icon
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    Free and open-source terminal emulator for connecting to remote systems via SSH, Telnet, and SCP. Portable with no installation required, providing lightweight functionality. Ideal for secure connections with features like command line support and customizable settings. Works offline effortlessly.

    134 PuTTY alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
    • ReactOS
    • Flathub
     
  2. Tabby icon
     129 likes

    Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.

    132 Tabby alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. OpenSSH icon
     393 likes

    OpenSSH is a free version of the SSH connectivity tools that technical users rely on. OpenSSH encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks.

    63 OpenSSH alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • iPhone
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
    • Haiku
    • Linux Mobile
     
  4. Windows Terminal icon
     100 likes

    Windows Terminal is a new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community including support for tabs, rich text, globalization, configurability...

    127 Windows Terminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. MobaXterm icon
     231 likes

    MobaXterm is an 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.

    145 MobaXterm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. iTerm2 icon
     177 likes

    Terminal emulator for macOS enabling split panes, session restoration, advanced customization, search, SSH, automation features, tmux integration, Unicode, mouse support, notifications, inline images, broadcast input, and profile management.

    104 iTerm2 alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. Kitty terminal icon
     68 likes

    Kitty ( not to be confused with KiTTY ) is a powerful, cross-platform GPU-based terminal emulator. It offloads rendering to the GPU and uses OpenGL for fast, cross-platform performance with built-in tiling layouts as well as graphic, unicode...

    100 Kitty terminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  8. mRemoteNG icon
     228 likes

    Manage remote connections efficiently with this open-source tool, featuring a tabbed interface supporting RDP, VNC, SSH, Telnet, HTTP, and more protocols, without any ads.

    101 mRemoteNG alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. KiTTY icon
     189 likes

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

    120 KiTTY alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Hyper icon
     84 likes

    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.

    113 Hyper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
     
  11. Termora icon
     10 likes

    Termora is developed using Kotlin/JVM and partially implements the XTerm protocol (with ongoing improvements). Its ultimate vision is to achieve full platform support (including Android, iOS, and iPadOS) through Kotlin Multiplatform.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
     
  12. WezTerm icon
     24 likes

    A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust

    125 WezTerm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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