Tabby Alternatives

Tabby is described as 'Infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections' and is a very popular terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Tabby for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and iPhone apps. The best Tabby alternative is PuTTY, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Tabby are Ghostty, Termux, Windows Terminal and PowerShell.

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  2. Pantheon Terminal icon

    Pantheon Terminal

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    A super lightweight, beautiful, and simple terminal. It's designed to be setup with sane defaults and little to no configuration. It's just a terminal, nothing more, nothing less.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Pantheon Terminal running YouTube Music Player mpsyt
     
  4. CleverTerm icon

    CleverTerm

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    CleverTerm is a program to communicate with devices via RS232, RS422 or RS485 by using a serial port.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. LXTerminal icon

    LXTerminal

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    LXTerminal is the standard terminal emulator of LXDE. The terminal is a desktop-independent VTE-based terminal emulator for LXDE without any unnecessary dependency.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  6. RXVT icon

    RXVT

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    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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  7. Sakura icon

    Sakura

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    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
    version 2.3.4, right click menu, 2 open tabs.
     
  9. FireSSH icon

    FireSSH

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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
    FireSSH screenshot 1
     
  10. pTerm icon

    pTerm

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    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

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  11. mrxvt

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    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
     
  12. CLIX icon

    CLIX

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    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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  13. MobileTerminal icon

    MobileTerminal

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    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
    MobileTerminal screenshot 1
     
  14. AutoPuTTY icon

    AutoPuTTY

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    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
    AutoPuTTY screenshot 1
     
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