The Bitvise alternative that goes beyond Windows.

01  /  beyond one PC

One client on every desk — and your hosts follow you.

Bitvise SSH Client is Windows-only, and its profiles live on the machine they were made on. Termalin is one client for Windows, macOS and Linux — and it syncs hosts, keys and command history across your devices, encrypted on your device before upload, so the server stores ciphertext it can't read. Read the security model →

• ▸Native builds for all three desktop platforms, with signed auto-updates.
• ▸End-to-end encrypted vault — hostnames, keys and passwords never leave your device in the clear, and the master password can't be reset by design.
• ▸The browser cabinet at termal.in/account covers everything else — a real terminal, SFTP and recordings from a laptop, phone or tablet, no install.

02  /  one window, not several

Terminal, files and stats — together, in tabs.

Bitvise opens a terminal console here and an SFTP window there. Termalin puts the whole workflow in one tabbed window: browser-style tabs with a hosts sidebar, an SFTP panel with a real editor right next to the terminal, and a status bar with live CPU, memory, disk and network for the box you're on.

• ▸Tabs that stay alive when you switch, with activity indicators and session restore that brings your scrollback back.
• ▸Edit remote files in place — syntax highlighting, search & replace and in-place save, no round-trip to a local copy.
• ▸Port forwarding in plain words — no flags to memorize; it saves per host and reconnects.

03  /  the part no one else has

Built for your agents, too.

Termalin ships a real MCP server in two forms. A hosted endpoint lets Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex and Cursor sign in and reach the hosts you choose keylessly — through an outbound Connector, with per-connection command rules and an audit log. The in-app MCP lets an agent open its own sessions or step into yours, while a key custodian signs on its behalf, so it never holds a key — you watch every move in the grid, and each agent action is marked in the recording. A handful of clients now speak MCP; nothing with that hosted, keyless, governed shape ships in Bitvise.

04  /  honestly

What Bitvise still does well — and moving over.

Fair is fair: Bitvise SSH Client is genuinely free, even for commercial use, and it's a solid, mature tool — deep tunneling with SOCKS/HTTP proxy and Remote Desktop forwarding, an FTP-to-SFTP bridge, scriptable command-line tools, a dark mode now, and support for Windows versions going back years. If you're all-Windows and it fits your workflow, it remains a respectable free choice. When you want tabs, other platforms or sync, Termalin imports hosts from an ~/.ssh/config, a CSV, PuTTY or MobaXterm — and exports back any time, so there's no lock-in, either direction.