PuTTY Alternatives
PuTTY
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 for Linux
Are you looking for alternatives to PuTTY? Please see our top picks. In this article, we provide the list of some PuTTY alternatives that will work on Windows and other platforms.
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
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
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