Blink Shell Alternatives

Blink Shell is described as 'The professional, desktop-grade terminal emulator for iOS. It's a full-featured and highly configurable open-source terminal that can be compiled from the source at GitHub or purchased as a pre-compiled app from the App Store to support the developers' and is a terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Blink Shell for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, iPhone and BSD apps. The best Blink Shell alternative is PuTTY, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Blink Shell are Ghostty, Tabby, Termux and PowerShell.

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  1. QuTTY icon
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    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 supported.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. xCute icon
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    Sending commands to a server can be as simple as sending a text message to a friend.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  3. PenguiNet icon
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    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 mouse clicks.

    31 PenguiNet alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. Harness the native Linux command-line potential of Android with this Terminal. BTEP is an advanced Terminal Emulator and SSH client for your phone or tablet. Unleash the command line potential of the Android console with this terminal. Best if rooted, but root not required. Run n.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Android
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  5. csshX icon
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    csshX is a tool to allow simultaneous control of multiple SSH sessions. It will attempt to create an SSH session to each remote host in separate Terminal.app windows. A master window will also be created. All keyboard input in the master will be sent to all the slave windows.

    34 csshX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  6.  1 like

    Rapid SSH is the powerful and complete IP terminal emulator for iPad and iPhone - supports SSHv1, v2, SSH Agent, Telnet, Raw, fully scriptable, Dropbox.com, multi-session and much more!

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  7. Oxide Terminal is a native macOS terminal emulator, written entirely in Rust. GPU-rendered on GPUI, with a file-tree drawer you drive like vim and a status bar that knows where your shell is.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Homebrew
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  8. cterm icon
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    cterm is a tiny terminal emulator I built from frustrations of not being able to use st across different platforms. Much like st, it is very, very small--even smaller than st. For this reason, however, cterm does not have the "standard" terminal emulator features such...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (ISC)

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  9. DumbTerm icon
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    A stupidly simple web-based terminal emulator, with common tools and Starship enabled (via Docker)!

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  10. More than a simple SSH client, La Terminal provides a fully-native, first-class touch experience for command-line hackers on iPhone and iPad.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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    YAET is a terminal emulator built on Xterm.js and Electron. It can interpret escape sequences that allow shell scripts and other programs to write HTML content directly to the terminal, or display content from the web.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • npm
    • Node.JS
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
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    Your Mac dev environment on your iPhone and iPad: the iOS Simulator mirrored live with touch, Xcode builds installed on the real device in your hand, AI coding agent sessions and a real terminal.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Mac
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