MacTerm (was MacTelnet) on OS X is now a complete replacement for Terminal, allowing access to both local and remote applications.
Free Tabby Alternatives for Mac
There are many alternatives to Tabby for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best free Mac alternative is Ghostty, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Tabby and many of them are free and available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Mac alternatives to Tabby are PowerShell, iTerm2, Kitty terminal and Alacritty.
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Tabby alternatives are mainly Terminal Emulators, but if you're looking for SSH Clients or Shells you can filter on that. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Tabby.
Alternatives list
68 Electerm alternativeselecterm is a terminal/ssh/sftp client(linux, mac, win) based on electron/node-pty/xterm/antd and many other libs, it works like a combination of guake and xshell.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Electron
- Homebrew
- AppImage
- npm
- JavaScript
- Fedora
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Rxvt-unicode is a highly customizable terminal emulator forked from rxvt. Commonly known as urxvt, rxvt-unicode can be daemonized to run clients within a single process in order to minimize the use of system resources.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
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Tempest is a free, cross platform, privacy first, SSH client, Local terminal and Kubernetes terminal.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Desktop SSH manager featuring a user-friendly graphical interface, integrated terminal, tabbed sessions, port forwarding, secure credential storage, SCP upload, keypair generation, privacy controls, customizable appearance options, and .ssh/config import support.
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Oysape is a cutting-edge SSH client and terminal solution, tailor-made for DevOps and CI/CD workflows. It simplifies server management by allowing users to maintain a list of servers, and execute customizable Tasks on selected servers dynamically.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
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FireSSH is a free, cross-platform SSH terminal client for Mozilla Firefox. Written entirely in Javascript!
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Waterfox
- Pale Moon
- Firefox
CLIX ('command line interface for OS X') makes it easy to harness the power of Unix. It becomes both a fish to buy and a series of lessons in how to fish and ultimately a handy way to work.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
China
United States
