PuTTy is the most popular SSH clients for Windows-based systems. It’s very small in size and easy use. Most of the people in Linux world prefer to use putty. But they are aware that there are many tools available to provides many features which putty doesn’t have. I have used many ssh clients and adding 5 Alternatives to PuTTY client below which I found better. I hope you will get some experience with them
Alternatives of PuTTy for Windows –
1. Solar-PuTTY
Solar PuTTY is an excellent and free tool provided by SolarWinds. Solar Putty supports Multiple Protocols including SSH, SCP (Secure Copy), Telnet & SFTP/FTP. It has Multi-Tabbed interface for quickly Switch between multiple Sessions. Provides auto login using saved credentials. If any connection is dropped, it reconnects automatically.
Auto Reconnect if a Connection Drops
2. KiTTY
KiTTY is a fork from version 0.63 of PuTTY, the best telnet / SSH client in the world. KiTTY is only designed for the Microsoft Windows platform. For more information about the original software, or pre-compiled binaries on other systems, you can go to the Simon Tatham PuTTY page.
3. MobaXterm
MobaXterm is an advanced terminal for Windows with an X11 server, It provides tabbed SSH client and many of other networking tools for remote computing. MobaXterm provides all the essential Unix commands to Windows desktop, in a single portable executable file which works out of the box.
4. mRemoteNG
mRemoteNG is a fork of mRemote, an open source, tabbed, multi-protocol, remote connections manager. mRemoteNG adds bug fixes and new features to mRemote. It allows you to view all of your remote connections in a simple yet powerful tabbed interface.
mRemoteNG supported protocols:
- RDP (Remote Desktop/Terminal Server)
- VNC (Virtual Network Computing)
- ICA (Citrix Independent Computing Architecture)
- SSH (Secure Shell)
- Telnet (TELecommunication NETwork)
- HTTP/HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
- rlogin
- Raw Socket Connections
5. Xshell
Xshell is a powerful terminal emulator that supports SSH, SFTP, TELNET, RLOGIN and SERIAL. It delivers industry-leading performance and feature sets that are not available in its free alternatives.
6. Bitvise SSH Client
Bitvise SSH Client is used to initiate connections to SSH servers. It is usually used interactively, so it will only run when a user runs it, but it can also be launched unattended to run scripted commands or file transfers, or to maintain an SSH connection for port forwarding. The SSH client is used to access a terminal console on an SSH server, to initiate port forwarding, or to initiate file transfers to and from SSH servers using SFTP.
Conclusion
We hope your search is finished here by getting best option for your remote SSH client. You can choose one of above listed free putty alternatives with best features.
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My fav is Bitvise SSH Client, after Putty
“KiTTY is a fork from version 0.63 of PuTTY, the best telnet / SSH client in the world.”
No. The best SSH client in the world is ssh.
I use Eltima’s Serial Port Monitor (https://www.eltima.com/products/serial-port-monitor/) for serial communication as an advanced alternative to terminal apps like Putty. The utility has the terminal mode which helps to emulate sending data.
it was great and useful my freind…
My F-Secure antivirus software said that Bitvise tried to change the antivirus software!
I suggest that you contact F-Secure to ask if you should keep Bitvise on the list still…
I am using putty on my ubuntu 16.04 desktop pc, But I can not login using it. Do you have article about this?
Thanks
I always like putty, but silly putty is king.
That’s a Great Alternatives of Putty & it could actually work as a great SSH Clients.
I should leave using Putty now .
Cheers.
If you like it simple and clean you should check out WinSSHTerm
SecureCRT?
MobaXterm is a wonderful tool to work for windows, gives a good working experience. I really felt happy when started working with this tool even though I am new to this one.
Thanks MobaXterm!!
Nothing beats Mobaxterm yet. Really astonishing that it took so long before someone finally strted thinking what would be useful to put into the software instead of just creating bloatware. Mobs rocks, Am using it for years now.
mobaxterm would be the best, but it is crashing forme since 7.1. Icontacted the team but so far no news for my issue.
XShell is the top master , been using it with very different equipments and never failed me once ………
Thank you for this very useful post !
I did not know MobaXterm, so just try it and it is really great.
I get all the feature I miss in others. By the way the SSH gateway is awesome for RDP and VNC connection.
mRemoteNG rocks! I’m fine with putty, but I wanted an easy “menu”-like list of urls to choose from. I’m getting that and much more.
If we talking about SSH clients then mRemoteNG is NOT replacement.
It is a nice GUI wrapper for bunch of protocols, but internally mRemoteNG using old Putty (or one can replace with KiTTY, but it isnt SSH client.
mRemoteNG gets my vote aswell
i personally tested all and prefer to stick with mRemoteNG which is free.
Thank you very much for these alternatives to Putty: I found MobaXterm very useful and suitable for my daily work. The graphical Sftp browser is really a killer feature!! There is a screencast on their website which shows all the advantages of this solution: http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net
Given tools are very useful but I always like PuTTy. Thanks for list