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!

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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!

Links to official PuTTY sites

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

The Best 88 PuTTY Alternatives

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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
143 Like

KiTTY

KiTTY is a fork of PuTTY that adds extra features. KiTTY is only designed for the Microsoft Windows platform.

Free Open Source Windows

Portable Session management SSH Auto login
139 Like

MobaXterm

An advanced terminal that gives Windows users a powerful, Unix-like command-line experience.

Freemium Windows

Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Portable Tabbed interface Support for SFTP Multiple protocols Macros Feature Windows Explorer integration Multi Session Autoimport of Putty sessions Secure Copy (SCP)
139 Like

cmder

cmder is an open-source replacement for the windows command-line. it relies on conemu , extending it with the power of clink and some great looking defaults including a monokai color scheme and custom prompt layout.

Free Open Source Windows clink ConEmu Windows Command Prompt PowerShell

Portable Tabbed interface Command line interface ANSI color support Built in SSH client Command line/bash
119 Like

Guake terminal

Guake is a top-down terminal for Gnome (in the style of Yakuake for KDE, Tilda or the terminal used in Quake). Guake is already package by a number of distribution (among them are Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu or ArchLinux).

Free Open Source Linux BSD

Quake style Dropdown terminal
61 Like

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
37 Like

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
34 Like

tilda

Tilda is a Linux terminal taking after the likeness of many classic terminals from first person shooter games, Quake, Doom and Half-Life to name a few, where the terminal has no border and is hidden from the desktop till a key or keys is...

Free Open Source Linux BSD
30 Like

mintty

Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin that is based on code from PuTTY 0.60 by Simon Tatham and team. It can be downloaded from the main site or it can be installed through Cygwins setup.

Free Open Source Windows
28 Like

Terminals

Terminals is a secure, multi tab terminal services/remote desktop client. It uses Terminal Services ActiveX Client (mstscax.dll). The project started from the need of controlling multiple connections simultaneously.

Free Open Source Windows

Tabbed interface Remote desktop Wake on LAN SSH Trace Route
27 Like

rxvt-unicode

Rxvt-unicode is a highly customizable terminal emulator forked from rxvt. Commonly known as urxvt, rxvt-unicode can be daemonized to run clients within a single process in order to minimize the use of system resources.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux
27 Like

Codinn SSH Proxy

SSH Proxy can help you turn any remote SSH server into a SOCKS v5 proxy, intuitive and easy to use. SSH Proxy is able to remember the SSH login password & private key passphrase and save it to OS X's keychain.

Commercial
27 Like

gow

Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient Windows installer that installs about 130 extremely useful open source UNIX applications compiled as native win32 binaries.

Free Open Source Windows
26 Like

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
24 Like

MTPuTTY (Multi-Tabbed PuTTY)

mtputty (multi-tabbed putty) is a small free utility enabling you to wrap unlimited number of putty applications in one tabbed gui interface.

Free Windows

Command line interface Multi Session
24 Like

MSYS2

MSYS2 is an independent rewrite of MSYS, based on modern Cygwin (POSIX compatibility layer) and MinGW-w64 with the aim of better interoperability with native Windows software.

Free Open Source Windows
22 Like

Chrome Secure Shell

Secure Shell is an xterm-compatible terminal emulator and stand-alone ssh client for Chrome. It uses Native-Client to connect directly to ssh servers without the need for external proxies.

Free Mac OS X Windows Linux Chrome OS Chrome
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
14 Like

FireCMD

FireCMD command shell has features like recursive aliases, command substitution using files, HTML and CSS support, which makes it a next generation command shell.

Commercial Windows
11 Like

Codinn SSH Tunnel

SSH Tunnel is the best way to manage your SSH tunnels, with OS X Keychain integration.

Commercial

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The Best 88 PuTTY Alternatives

OpenSSH

KiTTY

MobaXterm

cmder

Guake terminal

ZOC

PAC Manager

tilda

mintty

Terminals

rxvt-unicode

Codinn SSH Proxy

gow

SecureCRT

MTPuTTY (Multi-Tabbed PuTTY)

MSYS2

Chrome Secure Shell

FireSSH

FireCMD

Codinn SSH Tunnel

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