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 MobaXterm.

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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.
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  1. FireSSH icon
     16 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Waterfox
    • Pale Moon
    • Firefox
     
  2.  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
     
  3. 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
     
  4. Terminal Tags icon
     2 likes

    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

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
     
  5. 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
     
  6. svte icon
     3 likes

    svte is a terminal that is flexible and has a small codebase. Its aim is to be lightweight and fast, while providing nice integration with a modern Linux environment. svte is yet another minimal GTK incarnation of VTE. svte is an alternative to Sakura, Lilyterm, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. mRemoteNC icon
     1 like

    mRemoteNC is the next stage of mRemote development. mRemote is a full-featured, multi-tab remote connections manager.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Ghostly Bridge is a lightweight Windows tray app to manage servers and expose local apps instantly. Access UpCloud, DigitalOcean, and your own machines from one place.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Rio Terminal icon
     1 like

    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.

    51 Rio Terminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • FreeBSD
    • Flatpak
     
  10. Auto/Shell is a tool for system administrators who want to monitor servers wherever they are in the world. The app lets you add as many servers as you want, and for each one specify a set of commands you want to run over SSH.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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