Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to PuTTY

Product categories

Command Line Tools DevOps Tools Developer Tools OS & Utilities Remote Control Remote Desktop Remote PC Access SSH Server Configuration And Automation Server Management Terminal Terminal Tools

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to PuTTY are ConEmu, iTerm2, and mRemoteNG. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

ConEmu Landing Page
1

ConEmu

ConEmu-Maximus5 is a full-featured local terminal for Windows devs, admins and users. Get better console window with tabs, splits, Quake style, copy+paste, DosBox and PuTTY integration, and much more.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#SSH #Server Management #Terminal Tools 18 social mentions
iTerm2 Landing Page
2

iTerm2

A terminal emulator for macOS that does amazing things.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Terminal #Developer Tools #SSH 98 social mentions
mRemoteNG Landing Page
3

mRemoteNG

mRemoteNG is a fork of mRemote, an open source, tabbed, multi-protocol, remote connections manager.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Remote Desktop #SSH #Remote PC Access 21 social mentions
wezterm Landing Page
4

wezterm

GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer made with Rust.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#SSH #Server Management #Terminal Tools 42 social mentions
mintty Landing Page
5

mintty

Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin that is based on code from PuTTY 0.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#SSH #Server Management #Terminal Tools
tabby.sh
6

Tabby.sh

Tabby is a free and open source SSH, local and Telnet terminal with everything you'll ever need.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Terminal Tools #Command Line Tools #DevOps Tools 17 social mentions
Windows Terminal Landing Page
7

Windows Terminal

A new command line interface for Windows machines
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Terminal Tools #SSH #Server Management 2 social mentions
Fig Terminal Landing Page
8

Fig Terminal

Fig adds VSCode-style autocomplete to your existing terminal. Move faster with Fig.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#SSH #Server Management #Terminal Tools 37 social mentions
MacTerm Landing Page
9

MacTerm

Jan 1, 2018 - A powerful replacement for the macOS / OS X Terminal, with 24-bit color and graphics features.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#SSH #Server Management #Terminal Tools
Electerm Landing Page
10

Electerm

electerm is a terminal/ssh/sftp client(linux, mac, win) based on electron/ssh2/node-pty/xterm/antd and many other libs
Pricing:
- Open Source
#SSH #Server Management #Terminal Tools
Kitty terminal Landing Page
11

Kitty terminal

Super fast, GPU and OpenGL based terminal emulator with tiling support
Pricing:
- Open Source
#SSH #Terminal Tools #Server Management 88 social mentions
tmux Landing Page
12

tmux

tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals (or windows), each running a...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Terminal Tools #SSH #Server Management 26 social mentions