Tabby Alternatives

Apps similar to Tabby include PuTTY, which is free and open source. Other options are Ghostty, Termux, Windows Terminal and PowerShell. Terminal Emulators like Tabby are a crowded field, with more than 100 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and iPhone.

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  1. Beam Terminal icon
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    Beam is a terminal organizer for macOS that helps developers manage multiple terminal sessions across different projects.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  2. Chuchu icon
     1 like

    Chuchu is a native Android SSH client powered by libghostty, a terminal-first Compose UI, and has support for both standard SSH and Tailscale SSH workflows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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  3. RXVT icon
     6 likes

    RXVT –our extended virtual terminal– is a terminal emulator for X11. It is a popular replacement for the standard ‘xterm’.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. Rio Terminal icon
     2 likes

    Hardware-accelerated terminal emulator using WebGPU for smooth high frame rates, customizable GPU usage, asynchronous Rust foundation, efficient redux-based rendering, WebAssembly extensibility for tab systems, and both desktop and browser support.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • FreeBSD
    • Flatpak
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  5. BossTerm icon
     1 like

    Pure Kotlin terminal emulator. Works with SSH and PTY.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
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  6. Sakura icon
     13 likes

    sakura is a terminal emulator based on GTK and VTE. It's a terminal emulator with few dependencies, so you don't need a full GNOME desktop installed to have a decent terminal emulator. Current terminal emulators based on VTE are gnome-terminal, XFCE Terminal, TermIt and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  7. pTerm icon
     1 like

    pTerm provides an SSH, Telnet, and raw TCP client for your iPhone or iPod Touch! It is based on the popular desktop client PuTTY .

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  8.  2 likes

    Based on rxvt. Tabbed interface. Very lightweight. Few dependencies. Only drawback is poor unicode support (theres an SVN branch with working but slightly buggy support)

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  9. FireSSH icon
     16 likes

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

    71 FireSSH alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Waterfox
    • Pale Moon
    • Firefox
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  10. CLIX icon
     2 likes

    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
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  11. A terminal emulator for your jailbroken iPhone. With this you can be the daring system administrator, always ready for the action.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
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  12. AutoPuTTY icon
     4 likes

    AutoPuTTY is a simple connection manager / launcher

    · Manage a server list and connect thru PuTTY, WinSCP, Microsoft Terminal Server and VNC (only VNC 3.3 encryption is supported for passwords yet), · Connect to multiple servers at once using the "Enter" key.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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