MacTerm

MacTerm (was MacTelnet) on OS X is now a complete replacement for Terminal, allowing access to both local and remote applications.

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Open Source
Mac OS X

macterm (was mactelnet) on os x is now a complete replacement for terminal, allowing access to both local and remote applications.

its many features include powerful terminals (with or without tabs), a very flexible preferences system, tek vector graphics, dynamic search, notifications and keepalive, macros, a floating command line window, special keypads, a session manager, and even a basic python scripting interface. it's also free software under the gpl.

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PuTTY

PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Windows and Unix platforms. A simple, lightweight client for connecting to a Linux shell from your Windows machine!

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD

Tabbed interface Support for SFTP Session management SSH Configurability Built in SSH client Telnet client Host management Xterm emulation
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OpenSSH

OpenSSH is a free version of the SSH connectivity tools that technical users rely on. OpenSSH encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks.

Free Open Source Linux iPhone BSD iPad Mac Haiku Cygwin

Support for SFTP Jailbreak required SSH
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iTerm2

iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.10 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.

Free Open Source Mac

Customizable Multiple languages Integrated Search Dual pane support Clean design Growl integration SSH Quake style Annotate history Terminal Emulator
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ZOC

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

Commercial Mac OS X Windows

Tabbed interface Scripting SSH Auto Highlighting BBS Support Binary trace files Hot keys Incoming data as hex dump Stream Capture Telnet client
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Remote Desktop Manager

Remote Desktop Manager lets you centralize all your remote connections, passwords and credentials into a unique platform that can be securely shared between users.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad

Tabbed interface Remote desktop SSH Role based security access
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PAC Manager

PAC is a Perl/GTK Gnome replacement for SecureCRT/Putty/etc... It provides a GUI to configure SSH/Telnet connections: users, passwords, EXPECT regular expressions, macros, etc.

Free Open Source Linux

Tabbed interface Remote desktop SSH Group connections Multiple protocols support
35 Like

Xshell

Xshell is a powerful terminal emulator that supports SSH, SFTP, TELNET, RLOGIN and SERIAL.

Free Personal Windows

Support for SFTP Command line interface SSH
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SecureCRT

SecureCRT combines rock-solid terminal emulation with the strong encryption, data integrity, and authentication options of the Secure Shell protocol.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

Scriptable SSH
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Royal TSX

Royal TS provides easy and secure access to your remote systems Unlock the power to remotely manage your systems on multiple platforms! Royal TS is the perfect tool for server admins, system engineers, developers and IT focused...

Freemium Mac OS X Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad

Tabbed interface Remote desktop Explorer like SSH
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JuiceSSH

The all in one terminal client for Android including SSH, Local Shell, Mosh and Telnet support.

Free Android Android Tablet mosh OpenSSH Dropbear SSH Server and Client

Ssh tunnel SSH Telnet client
14 Like

FireSSH

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

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Firefox Waterfox Pale Moon

Firefox extension Legacy Firefox Addon Browser based app SSH
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Gnome Connection Manager

Gnome Connection Manager is a tabbed ssh connection manager for gtk+ environments.

Free Open Source Linux

Tabbed interface Ssh tunnel SSH XML import / export
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SmarTTY

SmarTTY is a neat multi-tabbed SSH client with built-in SSH support. It makes it extremely easy to connect to your SSH servers and exchange files. It allows storing your...

Free Windows

Portable SSH Secure Copy (SCP)
6 Like

z/Scope

z/Scope is a multi-protocol, multi-host terminal emulator that provides access to multiple terminal-based applications in a way that is familiar to every user, using a modern tabbed interface.

Commercial

Tabbed interface Support for FTP Multiple protocols Remote desktop SSH Multi Session Integrated FTP client Printer Emulation
3 Like

AbsoluteTelnet

AbsoluteTelnet / SSH is a secure flexible terminal client with rock-solid emulations that is suitable for developers, administrators, or deployment across the enterprise.

Commercial Windows

Support for SFTP SSH
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PenguiNet

You've discovered PenguiNet, the simple all-in-one SSH client for Windows! PenguiNet includes an SCP browser, so that you can easily transfer files with just a few...

Commercial Windows

SSH Secure Copy (SCP)
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lterm

lterm is a vte-based terminal emulator for GNU/Linux systems. It is mainly used as ssh/telnet client but can be very easily configured to use any other protocol....

Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux Mac

Tabbed browsing Support for SFTP SSH Split screen view Secure Copy (SCP)
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Putty for Mac

Putty is one of the Best Terminal Emulators available today. It Supports different types of Network Protocols such as SSH, FTP, SCP, Telnet etc. In Windows it is used as SSH Client to connect to Your Linux server or for some other purpose.

Commercial Mac OS X

Session management SSH Telnet client Host management Xterm emulation Secure Copy (SCP)
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QuTTY

QuTTY is a multi-tabbed, multi-paned SSH/Telnet client with a terminal emulator. The goal is to support advanced features similar to iterm2. Following features are...

Free Open Source Windows

Portable SSH
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ShellCraft

A modern and powerful SSH/Telnet client with entire fresh design and excellent experience.

Commercial

SSH Telnet client

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