Putty for Mac Alternatives

Putty for Mac is described as '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' and is an app in the file sharing category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Putty for Mac for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPhone apps. The best Putty for Mac alternative is PuTTY, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Putty for Mac are OpenSSH, Termux, Windows Terminal and mRemoteNG.

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  1. MyEnTunnel icon
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    MyEnTunnel is a simple system tray application (or NT service) that establishes and maintains TCP SSH tunnels. It does this by launching Plink (PuTTY Link) in the background and then monitors the process. If the Plink process dies (e.g.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. evilvte icon
     3 likes

    VTE based, highly customizable terminal emulator. Features: tabs, tabbar autohide, right click to switch encoding, supports almost all VTE features, build-time configuration

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. SSH Terminal Emulator by devFluid connects to linux, unix, and other SSH capable devices directly through an SSH2 connection.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. WinSSHTerm icon
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    WinSSHTerm is a tabbed SSH solution for Windows, combining PuTTY, WinSCP and VcXsrv. It helps you to be more productive. Using keyboard shortcuts and intelligent navigation tools allows you to quickly switch between or start new SSH sessions even if you have to manage many...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. ExtraPuTTY icon
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    ExtraPuTTY is a fork from 0.65 version of PuTTY and has all the features from the original while adding new ones as described below:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. OpenSSH for Windows is a minimal installation of the Cygwin port of OpenSSH and related utilities to provide SSH and SCP services on the Windows platform.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7.  4 likes

    TinyShell is ideal for anyone who wants command line access to their server, but is limited by HTTP access. Furthermore TinyShell comes with a native MySQL command line client, that some say is even better than MySQL’s own command line interface.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Termite icon
     3 likes

    Termite - a simple RS232 terminal for Microsoft Windows Termite is an RS232 terminal that is very easy to configure and use (developers can pre-configure it too, so that it runs out of the box).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Truck icon
     1 like

    Still using FTP? Truck hauls data 30x faster thanks to its modern rsync engine (included) which compresses, de-duplicates and encrypts – giving significantly higher performance and security, right from the first transfer.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. PuTTYCS icon
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    PuTTYCS is a small windows application that is intended to be used along with multiple instances of PuTTY (including PuTTYtel, TuTTY, and PieTTY). Its purpose is to send the same command to each PuTTY window.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. HyperTerminal is a terminal emulator capable of connecting to systems through TCP/IP Networks, Dial-Up Modems, and COM ports. Until Windows XP, it is included with the operating system, but, starting from Windows Vista, it has to be bought separately.

    21 HyperTerminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. SSH Tunnel Manager is a macOS application to manage your SSH tunnels. If you don't know what that is, quite honestly, maybe you don't need SSH Tunnel Manager, but if you appreciate the power of connecting together two networks using the SSH protocol, then STM is for you.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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