WindTerm Alternatives

WindTerm is described as 'A professional SSH/Telnet/Serial/Shell/Sftp client for DevOps' and is a terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to WindTerm for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and BSD apps. The best WindTerm alternative is PuTTY, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like WindTerm are Ghostty, Tabby, OpenSSH and Termux.

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  1. SecurSSH icon
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    SecurSSH centralizes SSH credentials, keys, and server access in a zero-knowledge encrypted vault with granular team permissions, live session sharing, and a built-in SFTP manager.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. GNOME Console icon
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    A simple user-friendly terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop.

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    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Linux Mobile
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  3. Ghostel icon
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    Ghostel is a terminal emulator for Emacs powered by libghostty-vt, the VT engine behind the Ghostty terminal.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • FreeBSD
    • BSD
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  4. Muxy icon
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    Muxy is a lightweight, memory-efficient terminal app for macOS, built with SwiftUI and libghostty. It offers a project-based workflow to organize terminals by project with persistent workspace state, vertical tabs with drag-and-drop reordering, pinning, and renaming, as well as...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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  5. SSH Pilot icon
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    Desktop SSH manager featuring a user-friendly graphical interface, integrated terminal, tabbed sessions, port forwarding, secure credential storage, SCP upload, keypair generation, privacy controls, customizable appearance options, and .ssh/config import support.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  6. Xshell icon
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    Xshell is a powerful SSH1, SSH2, SFTP, TELNET, RLOGIN and SERIAL terminal emulator for Windows platforms. It allows users to gain access to Unix/Linux hosts easily and securely on a Windows workstation.

    70 Xshell alternatives

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  7. ZOC icon
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    ZOC is a powerful and well-established terminal emulator and telnet client, well known for its outstanding user interface with tabbed multi session support.

    95 ZOC alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  8. SSH Tunnel Manager is a free, open source menu bar app for macOS that manages SSH port forwarding. You set up your tunnels once, toggle them on or off from the menu bar, and the app reconnects them automatically when the connection drops.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  9. EasySSH icon
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    A complete, efficient and easy-to-use manager. Create and edit connections, groups, customize the terminal, with multiple instances of the same connection.

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    • Linux
    • elementary OS
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  10. KillerShell icon
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    KillerShell puts a file browser, a terminal and a text editor in one window, on one tab strip and one set of keys, so you stop alt-tabbing.

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    • Windows
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  11. Tilix icon
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    Tilix is a tiling terminal emulator which uses the VTE GTK+ 3 widget with the following features:

    98 Tilix alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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