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| title | source | author | published | created | description | tags | |
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| Tabby - a terminal for a more modern age | https://tabby.sh/ | 2026-04-17 | Tabby is a free and open source SSH, local and Telnet terminal with everything you'll ever need. |
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A terminal for the modern age█
Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.
Here's a demo 👇
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The important stuff
- Runs on Windows, Mac and Linux
- Integrated SSH client with a connection manager
- Integrated serial terminal
- PowerShell, PS Core, WSL, Git-Bash, Cygwin, Cmder and CMD support
- Full Unicode support including double-width characters
- File transfer from/to SSH sessions via SFTP and Zmodem
- Theming and color schemes
- Fully configurable shortcuts and multi-chord shortcuts
- Remembers your tabs and split panes
- Proper shell experience on Windows including tab completion
- Integrated encrypted container for SSH secrets and configuration
Terminal features
- Multiple nested panes
- Progress bars and activity notifications for tabs
- Tabby remembers open tabs and panes where you left off
- Tabs on any side of the window
- Optional quake mode (terminal docked to a side of the screen)
- Optional global hotkey to focus/hide the terminal
- Bracketed paste
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SSH Client
- SSH2 client with a connection manager
- SFTP and Zmodem file transfers
- X11 and port forwarding
- Jump hosts
- Agent forwarding - including Pageant and Windows native OpenSSH Agent
- Login scripts
- Optional built-in password manager with a master passphrase
- Proxy command support
Windows, but nice
- Support for different shells in the same window
- Better tab completion cmd.exe thanks to Clink.
- Explorer menu integration
- Optional portable mode
- Current directory detection that works
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Serial Terminal
- Multiple connection profiles
- Newline conversion
- Text, readline and byte-by-byte input modes
- Text and hexdump output modes
- Zmodem
- Non-standard baud rates
And just too much stuff to mention here:
- Themes customizable with CSS
- Extensible via plugins (in JS)
- A bunch of color schemes already included
- Telnet client
- Font ligatures and font fallback
- Clickable URLs, IPs and paths
- WinSCP integration
- Shell profiles
- Simultaneous multi-pane input
- Optional PuTTY style right-click paste and copy on select
- macOS vibrancy and Win 10 fluent background support source: "https://tabby.sh/about/features" Download Donate
Features
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Smart tabs
Tabs that detect progress and can notify you when a process is done.
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24-bit color
Support for True Color and base16 infrastructure, as well as over 150 community ANSI color schemes.
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Customizable hotkeys
Freely customizable single and multi-chord shortcuts.
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SSH and the kitchen sink
A built-in SSH client with profiles, SFTP, key management, jump hosts, X11 and the rest.
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Persistent port forwards
Preconfigure often-used port forwarding setups.
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Zmodem transfers
Send and receive files directly from the prompt in SSH, telnet and serial session.
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Quake mode
Dock on the side of the screen? Check. Spawn with a key? Sure. Tabs on bottom? No problem.
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Split tabs
Freely rearrangeable split panes which you can also save as a profile.
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Profile manager
Save all your configured options into hotkey-assignable profiles.
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Delicate fontwork
Ligature support, Powerline and Nerd Fonts, emoji, pixel-perfect boxes.
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Persistent history and tabs
Tabby remembers your open tabs, and when you accidentally close them, restores the complete terminal state.
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Careful pasting
Multi-line paste warnings and bracketed paste support prevent accidentaly executing stuff when pasting multiple lines.