SSH Pilot Alternatives

Apps similar to SSH Pilot include PuTTY, which is free and open source. Other options are Tabby, OpenSSH, Termux and PowerShell. There's no shortage of SSH Clients like SSH Pilot, with more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone.

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  1. Poderosa icon
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    Poderosa is a tabbed terminal emulator for Windows.

    Against common terminal emulators such as Putty or TeraTerm, Poderosa has following features.

    Tabbed style GUI It is convenient to open multiple connections at the same time. Moreover, you can split the window into panes a.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. iLead icon
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    Native SSH client and encrypted vault for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Keep hosts, keys, notes, and tunnels on your machine without cloud inventory or telemetry. Use tabbed SSH, SFTP, port forwards, fleet commands, and an approval-based local MCP bridge.

    51 iLead alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. ExtraPuTTY icon
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    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

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. OpenSSH for Windows is a minimal installation of the Cygwin port of OpenSSH and related utilities to provide SSH and SCP services on the Windows platform.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. AbsoluteTelnet / SSH is a secure flexible terminal client with rock-solid emulations that is suitable for developers, administrators, or deployment across the enterprise. It includes the industry standard SSH protocols to secure terminal session data across insecure environments...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. Zync icon
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    Zync is a free SSH workspace for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It’s for people who live in terminals and SSH all day and don’t want their host keys and passwords sitting in someone else’s cloud.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. PenguiNet icon
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    You've discovered PenguiNet, the simple all-in-one SSH client for Windows! PenguiNet includes an SCP browser, so that you can easily transfer files with just a few mouse clicks.

    32 PenguiNet alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. sshh icon
     1 like

    An SSH TUI connection manager for the terminal built in rust. Use it just like ssh: it remembers your servers and keeps their sessions open side by side.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Arch Linux
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  9. dRemote icon
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    dRemote is an easy and free tool to handle mutiple remote connections of different types. This tool comes in handy when you have to connect to differnt remote connections all the want to have to change all the settings manually.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. SSH Tunnel Manager is a free, open source menu bar app for macOS that manages SSH port forwarding. You set up your tunnels once, toggle them on or off from the menu bar, and the app reconnects them automatically when the connection drops.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  11. Manage multiple SSH tunnels from the macOS menu bar or a central window, using local, remote, or dynamic SOCKS forwarding. Profiles support Keychain credentials, server identity checks, startup, reconnection, notifications, tags, iCloud sync, and Shortcuts automation.

    36 TunnelBar Connect alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  12. TermAI icon
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    TermAI is an AI-native mobile SSH terminal for iOS and Android. It pairs a normal SSH/SFTP client with an AI assistant in the terminal (describe a task in plain language, get a command to review before it runs — high-risk commands like rm -rf require confirmation), and built-in...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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