PuTTY Alternatives
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Alternatives to PuTTY for Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, BSD and more. Filter by license to discover only free or Open Source alternatives. This list contains a total of 25+ apps similar to PuTTY.
Popular free terminal application. Mostly used as an SSH client. If you're looking for more info about PuTTY like screenshots, reviews and comments you should visit our info page about it. Below you find the best alternatives.
Best PuTTY Alternatives
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OpenSSH
FreeOpen SourceMacWindowsLinuxiPhoneBSDCygwinHaikuOpenSSH 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. Additionally, OpenSSH provides secure tunneling capabilities and several authentication methods, and supports all SSH protocol versions.
Features:
- Encryption
- File transfer
- Jailbreak required
- Bundled with macOS
- Networking
- Support for SFTP
- SSH
MobaXterm
FreemiumWindowsMobaXterm is an enhanced terminal app that brings the advanced features of a Unix-like command-line to Windows. It takes the power of Cygwin and wraps it in a sleek, visual interface that's super easy to use, lightweight and portable. MobaXterm bundles an X11 server, SSH client and other crucial network tools such as FTP, VNC, RDP, telnet and rlogin, all in a single executable file. KEY FEATURES: Fully-configured X server based on Xorg.
Features:
- Support for SFTP
- X server
- Tabbed interface
- Embedded Xserver
- SSH
- Built-in SSH client
- Support for FTP
- Multiple Terminal
- Autoimport of Putty sessions
- RDP Functionality
- RDP sessions in a tab
- Secure Copy (SCP)
- User interface
- Customizable
- Windows Explorer integration
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Integrates with Putty configuration
- Support for Multiple protocols
- Multi-Session
- Portable
- Telnet client
- Terminal emulator
- Vnc protocol
KiTTY
FreeOpen SourceWindowsKiTTY is an opensource terminal emulator, forked from PuTTY , that adds many extra features to the original software.
Features:
- Portable
- SSH
- Ssh tunnel
- Auto-saving
- Auto-login
- Built-in editor
- Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
- Multiple Browser Tabs
- Session management
- Terminal emulator
mRemoteNG
FreeOpen SourceWindowsmRemoteNG is a fork of mRemote , an open source, tabbed, multi-protocol, remote connections manager. It allows you to view all of your remote connections in a simple yet powerful tabbed interface.
Features:
- RDP Functionality
- SSH
- Built-in SSH client
- Support for Multiple protocols
- Tabbed interface
- RDP sessions in a tab
- Remote desktop
- VNC Viewer
- Connect via RDP
- Linux Management
- Remote desktop
- Secure Copy (SCP)
- Supports SSL certificate
- Tabs
- Tree view
- Vnc protocol
PowerShell
FreeOpen SourceMacWindowsLinuxWindows PowerShell is an extensible command-line shell and associated scripting language from Microsoft. Windows PowerShell integrates with the Microsoft .NET Framework and provides an environment for execution of cmdlets, which are specialized .NET classes implementing a particular operation, scripts, which are composition of cmdlets along with imperative logic, executables, which are standalone applications, or by instantiating regular .NET classes.
Features:
- Optimized for Windows
- PowerShell Scripting
- Scripting
Guake terminal
FreeOpen SourceLinuxBSDGuake 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).
Features:
- Dropdown terminal
- Quake-style
- You can edit preferences without restart
- Built-in Terminal
- Split tabs
- Tabbed interface
- Terminal-based
- Terminal emulator
ConnectBot
FreeOpen SourceAndroidConnectBot is a Secure Shell client for the Android platform. Its ultimate goal is to create a secure connection through which you can use a shell on a remote machine and transfer files back and forth to your phone.
Features:
- Telnet client
- SSH
ZOC
CommercialMacWindowsZOC is a powerful and well-established terminal emulator and telnet client, well known for its outstanding user interface with tabbed multi session support. ZOC lets you access character based hosts using Secure Shell (SSH/SSH2), telnet, modem, ISDN and most other means of communication. ZOC can be used to connect to Unix/Linux hosts and shell accounts, BBS's, IBM mainframes (via TN3270 or TN5250), Cisco CLI (command line interface) or internet muds.
Features:
- Scripting support
- Tabbed interface
- Auto Highlighting
- BBS Support
- Binary trace files
- Hot keys
- Incoming data as hex dump
- Scripting
- SSH
- Stream Capture
- Telnet client
- Terminal emulator
Bitvise SSH Client
Free PersonalWindowsSSH and SFTP client for Windows incorporates: * one of the most advanced graphical SFTP clients; * state-of-the-art terminal emulation with support for the bvterm, xterm, and vt100 protocols; * support for corporation-wide single sign-on using SSPI (GSSAPI) Kerberos 5 and NTLM user authentication, as well as Kerberos 5 host authentication; * support for RSA and DSA public key authentication with comprehensive user keypair management; * powerful SSH port forwarding...
Features:
- Multi-Session
- Port Forwarding
- Portable
- Support for SFTP
- SSH
- Terminal-based
MSYS2
FreeOpen SourceWindowsMSYS2 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. The name is a contraction of Minimal SYStem 2, and aims to provide support to facilitate using the bash shell, Autotools, revision control systems and the like for building native Windows applications using MinGW-w64 toolchains.
Features:
- Regular updates
- Command line/bash
- IDE
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