SSHive
SSHive is a Mac app that brings SSH, SFTP, FTP/FTPS, RDP, VNC, Telnet and serial console sessions together in one window, designed as a MobaXterm alternative for macOS. Saved servers live in a sidebar with folders, favorites and recent connections. The SSH terminal has tabs, split panes, snippets and broadcast to several servers, with a CPU, RAM and uptime bar for Linux and macOS servers. An SFTP browser opens next to the terminal, alongside a dual-pane file manager with drag and drop, resumable uploads and a remote editor. It handles local, remote and SOCKS5 tunnels, jump hosts, and SSH agents such as 1Password, Strongbox, Secretive or Bitwarden. Windows Remote Desktop and VNC sessions open in tabs. Network tools, an OTP authenticator and an optional MCP server for AI assistants are built in. No account and no telemetry; passwords are encrypted with the macOS Keychain. Free on the Mac App Store with a one-time Pro purchase, and also available on iPhone and iPad.
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AbsoluteTelnet SSH Client
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AbsoluteTelnet/SSH is a Telnet and SSH client for Windows, providing secure terminal access with integrated SFTP file transfer and robust terminal emulation.
Developed by Celestial Software, AbsoluteTelnet is commercial terminal emulation software used by developers, system administrators, and enterprise environments. It supports industry-standard SSH protocols to protect session data across untrusted networks such as the internet.
Features include SSH (encryption, compression, port forwarding), SFTP file transfer, tabbed sessions, keyboard mapping, terminal emulation, and support for serial and legacy connections.
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Terminals
For developers and system administrators, it’s a necessity to frequently log on to Linux servers from a Windows computer. Unlike Linux OS, Windows does not have a native ssh client. Putty is the most used freeware ssh client for Windows OS. It supports telnet and ssh protocols. One constraint with Putty is that it does not have support for tabbed windows. Putty Connection manager is developed to solve this problem but it has got a lot of issues in using the utility. Terminals supports not just telnet and ssh but also RDP, VNC, and RAS connections. You can save the login id and password of the remote servers and with a single click, you can connect to the server. You can create a group of servers and with a single click, you can open connections to all the servers added to the group. You can save multiple user credentials for the same server and can select the user name while connecting to the server.
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PuTTY
PuTTY is a free implementation of SSH and Telnet for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. PuTTY is a client program for the SSH, Telnet, Rlogin, and SUPDUP network protocols. These protocols are all used to run a remote session on a computer, over a network. PuTTY implements the client end of that session, the end at which the session is displayed, rather than the end at which it runs. In really simple terms, you run PuTTY on a Windows machine, and tell it to connect to (for example) a Unix machine. PuTTY opens a window. Then, anything you type into that window is sent straight to the Unix machine, and everything the Unix machine sends back is displayed in the window. So you can work on the Unix machine as if you were sitting at its console, while actually sitting somewhere else. All of PuTTY's settings can be saved in named session profiles. You can also change the default settings that are used for new sessions.
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