electerm
A terminal and remote access client covering SSH, SFTP, FTP, Telnet, serial ports, RDP, and VNC.GetMIT
Termstead
Mac SSH, SFTP, RDP and Telnet client with a session tree, jump hosts and Keychain-stored passwords.
GPL-3.0+ · Downloads from github.com
- License
- GPL-3.0-or-later
- Open source
- Source
- GitHub
- pkhorenyan
- Verified
- 2026
About Termstead
Termstead is a Mac client for SSH, SFTP, RDP and Telnet, built for people who manage many servers and are coming from MobaXterm. Sessions sit in a tree with jump hosts, split panes, broadcast input and snippets, and an SFTP tab browses the server over the connection already open. Each SSH tab runs the system OpenSSH, so your agent, ~/.ssh/config and ProxyJump behave as they do in Terminal, and passwords are kept in the login Keychain.
It needs macOS 14 Sonoma or later and is universal, running on Apple silicon and Intel. You can install it with Homebrew or from the DMG on the releases page, and it checks for updates against a signed feed. The README says there are no accounts and no analytics. Remote desktop (RDP) and Telnet are built in alongside SSH.
Information
- Source code
- pkhorenyan/termstead
- License
- GPL-3.0-or-later
- Website
- github.com
- Download
- github.com
- Category
- Developer tools
- Alternative to
- MobaXterm
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- github.com/pkhorenyan/termstead
- github.com/pkhorenyan/termstead/blob/main/LICENSE
- github.com/pkhorenyan/termstead/releases
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