CLUSTER EMULATOR-TERMINAL-REMOTE · 7 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2017-05-12
Terminal emulators with remote session management
This cluster consists of terminal emulators that manage remote connections via multiple protocols, integrate SSH managers, and support session reconnection with client and server components. Entries are dated sporadically from May 2017 through December 2025, with a gap between 2021 and 2024 and two entries in late 2025. Among the three members with traction signals, terminus leads with 3 stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 6 unlabelled
Operator · 1 commercial · 5 open source · 1 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 7 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01terminus3★20 days—Terminal emulator for SSH and SFTP sessions with snippets, command history, and cross-device sync.
- 02banchoxterm0★17 daysliveopen sourceTerminal emulator that connects to remote systems over multiple protocols and manages sessions from one interface.
- 03eternalterminal0★3 moliveopen sourceTerminal emulator that supports reconnecting to sessions, with both client and server components.
- 04kerminal0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal emulator with integrated SSH manager for remote connections.
- 05zashterminal0★4 moliveopen sourceDesktop terminal emulator offering session management, SSH connection handling, and built-in security safeguards for terminal users.
- 06Prompt 30★12 dayslivecommercialTerminal emulator for Apple platforms that connects to servers over SSH, Mosh, and Telnet.
- 07wistty0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line tool that configures remote terminal parameters on a Wi-Se hardware device.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.