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Tabby

Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

Application type

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
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Features

Properties

  1.  Customizable
  2.  Support for Themes
  3.  Lightweight
  4.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  SSH
  2.  Command line interface
  3.  Support for SFTP
  4.  Multiple Servers
  5.  Dark Mode
  6.  Portable
  7.  Serial-port
  8.  Electron based
  9.  Ad-free
  10.  Works Offline
  11.  Tabbed interface
  12.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  13.  Syntax Highlighting
  14.  Telnet client
  15.  Persistent History
  16.  Multiple Profiles
  17.  Split tabs
  18.  Autocompletion
  19.  No Tracking
  20.  Support for scripting
  21.  No registration required

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Comments and Reviews

   
Comment summary: Tabby Terminal receives mixed feedback. Users praise its cross-platform compatibility, customization, and beautiful UI. It's seen as an improvement over other terminals like Cmder and KiTTY, offering features such as tabbed interface, SSH support, and synchronization. However, some criticize its resource usage and font issues on Windows, labeling it as heavy with few unique features. While some find it promising, others report unreliability and server bans.
Top Positive Comment
2

For my work I use a lot the command line and specially Bash. From time to time, I have to use Windows, and I've been often lost by using PuTTY or even SSH over PowerShell. I just found Tabby which I'm able to install on my Linux, Mac and Windows and simply sync my configuration files with Syncthing then the magic happen!! :)

Top Negative Comment
Kris Regina
4

Tabby is a resource hogging terminal that does nothing different in comparison to other terminals that provide the same function. Sure, it looks prettier than most terminals, but, I prefer performance to looks.

raingros
0

Good alternative for Terminal and PuTTY.

Kodi Jack
2

It's a really beautiful terminal with a LOT of features. BUT, like with many/most "modern" things: It's beautiful, yes. But also a slow ressource-hog. Even scrolling through the settings is done with what feels like 30fps at best. In a GUI in 202x?

Don't get me wrong, it's really great. And a lot of work and love went into this. If you just don't care for that sluggish-y feeling and the extra waste on ressources. For a terminal-app, which is kinda the epitome of efficiency :)

Ilya Kashnitsky
0
Senior Researcher at Statistics Denmark

beautiful, powerful, and custamizable

Richie Scassellati
0

This is a really nice terminal host! I really like how easy it is to open up different terminal types in other tabs.

It does tend to act a little bit slow, but it still works well nonetheless.

MetaFlow
0

best terminal as of today

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What is Tabby?

Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.

FEATURES:

  • Built-in SSH and SFTP client
  • Theming and color schemes
  • Fully configurable shortcuts
  • Full Unicode support including double-width characters
  • Built-in serial terminal
  • Doesn't choke on fast-flowing outputs
  • Proper shell-like experience on Windows including tab completion (via Clink)
  • CMD, PowerShell, PowerShell Core, Cygwin, Cmder, Git-Bash and WSL (Bash on Windows) support
  • Tab persistence on macOS and Linux

Tabby information

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GitHub repository

  •  74,782 Stars
  •  4,272 Forks
  •  2821 Open Issues
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Our users have written 15 comments and reviews about Tabby, and it has gotten 133 likes

Tabby was added to AlternativeTo by David on and this page was last updated .