WindTerm Alternatives

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

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  1. SecurSSH icon
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    SecurSSH centralizes SSH credentials, keys, and server access in a zero-knowledge encrypted vault with granular team permissions, live session sharing, and a built-in SFTP manager.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. mintty icon
     40 likes

    Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin that is based on code from PuTTY 0.60 by Simon Tatham and team.

    54 mintty alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
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  3. GNOME Console icon
     6 likes

    A simple user-friendly terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop.

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    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Linux Mobile
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  4. Ghostel icon
     2 likes

    Ghostel is a terminal emulator for Emacs powered by libghostty-vt, the VT engine behind the Ghostty terminal.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • FreeBSD
    • BSD
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  5. Muxy icon
     2 likes

    Muxy is a lightweight, memory-efficient terminal app for macOS, built with SwiftUI and libghostty. It offers a project-based workflow to organize terminals by project with persistent workspace state, vertical tabs with drag-and-drop reordering, pinning, and renaming, as well as...

    54 Muxy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  6. SSH Pilot icon
     3 likes

    Desktop SSH manager featuring a user-friendly graphical interface, integrated terminal, tabbed sessions, port forwarding, secure credential storage, SCP upload, keypair generation, privacy controls, customizable appearance options, and .ssh/config import support.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  7. Xshell icon
     42 likes

    Xshell is a powerful SSH1, SSH2, SFTP, TELNET, RLOGIN and SERIAL terminal emulator for Windows platforms. It allows users to gain access to Unix/Linux hosts easily and securely on a Windows workstation.

    79 Xshell alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • US flagUnited States
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  8. ZOC icon
     71 likes

    ZOC is a powerful and well-established terminal emulator and telnet client, well known for its outstanding user interface with tabbed multi session support.

    100 ZOC alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  9. SSH Tunnel Manager is a free, open source menu bar app for macOS that manages SSH port forwarding. You set up your tunnels once, toggle them on or off from the menu bar, and the app reconnects them automatically when the connection drops.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. KillerShell icon
     1 like

    KillerShell puts a file browser, a terminal and a text editor in one window, on one tab strip and one set of keys, so you stop alt-tabbing.

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. 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.

    19 EasySSH alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • elementary OS
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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