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. Terminal Tags icon
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    terminal –tags (“Terminal Tags”) does two jobs at once. First: it puts floating color-coded labels on your terminal windows so you can tell which window is running which task at a glance — no more hunting through 15 identical-looking Terminal tabs.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. Another Term icon
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    SSH / Telnet / UART dongles (USB and Bluetooth) / own PTY client for Android.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Android
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  3. FireCMD icon
     15 likes

    FireCMD command shell has features like recursive aliases, command substitution using files, HTML and CSS support, which makes it a next generation command shell. It also remembers command history and last working directory for next session.

    44 FireCMD alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4.  2 likes

    Mintty as a terminal for WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Cygwin
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  5. EasySSH icon
     2 likes

    A complete, efficient and easy-to-use manager. Create and edit connections, groups, customize the terminal, with multiple instances of the same connection.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • elementary OS
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  6. evilvte icon
     3 likes

    VTE based, highly customizable terminal emulator. Features: tabs, tabbar autohide, right click to switch encoding, supports almost all VTE features, build-time configuration

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  7. Opaque icon
     1 like

    Opaque is a GPLv3 licensed secure, super fast oVirt, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV), and Proxmox VDI client that allows you to connect graphically to all your virtual machines running in the cloud from anywhere in the world.

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    Platforms

    • Android
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  8. tmiix icon
     2 likes

    Tmiix is a terminal with builtin tmux, ssh and snippets support. Tmiix manages local and remote tmux sessions in a beautiful, intuitive, fast UI.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  9.  7 likes

    Looking for a tabbed version of famous PuTTY? PuTTY Connection Manager is a free PuTTY Client Add-on for Windows platforms which goal is to provide a solution for managing multiple PuTTY instances. This is one of the most important missing feature of PuTTY (referring to this and.

    33 PuTTYCM alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PuTTY
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  10. MATE Terminal icon
     4 likes

    MATE Terminal is a terminal emulator for the MATE desktop environment. Terminal emulators allow users to execute commands using a real UNIX shell while remaining on their graphical...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenIndiana
    • GhostBSD
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  11. superconsole icon
     3 likes

    SuperConsole is a software collection based on ConEmu, MSYS2, Mintty, Zsh, Git for Windows, grml-zsh-config, Antigen and agkozak-zsh-theme projects, customized and configured for everyday use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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