A free SSH client — the whole app, not a crippled trial.

01  /  what free means here

No host limits. No expiry. The desktop app is free, forever.

"Free" usually means a trial with a countdown or a demo capped at three hosts. Termalin's Free tier is neither: it's the whole desktop app, local-only, with everything running on your machine — including the SFTP browser with its built-in editor.

• ▸SSH & SFTP — real xterm-256color sessions in browser-style tabs, plus a file browser with a real editor: syntax highlighting, search & replace, in-place save.
• ▸A live status bar — CPU, memory, disk and network for the box you're on, always current.
• ▸Session recording & replay and the watch grid — every open session mirrored side by side as a live tile.
• ▸The MCP agent — an AI agent can open its own SSH sessions through Termalin — and a local encrypted vault behind one master password.

02  /  the honest part

What Pro adds — and what it costs.

Pro is the encrypted cloud: a cloud vault that's end-to-end encrypted, sync across all your devices, cloud recordings, and letting an agent step into your live session. It's $8/mo billed yearly or $10 monthly. Every new account starts with a 14-day Pro trial — no card required — and when it ends, the Free tier keeps working forever. The app works fully offline, and you keep everything you created locally even without a subscription. Full pricing →

03  /  other free clients

PuTTY and Tabby are genuinely free too. Here's what Termalin adds.

Fair is fair: PuTTY and Tabby are free, open-source, and battle-tested — if they do everything you need, use them. What Termalin adds on top: every server in one window with browser-style tabs and a hosts sidebar instead of one window per connection, an SFTP browser with a built-in editor next to the terminal, a live server stats bar, session recording & replay, the watch grid, and an MCP server for AI agents that no other client ships. And switching is painless — Termalin reads PuTTY's saved sessions in one click.

04  /  platforms & no lock-in

Windows, macOS and Linux — and your hosts come and go freely.

One client for Windows 10 or later (single .exe), macOS 11 or later (universal .dmg) and Linux (AppImage). Bring your hosts from an ~/.ssh/config, a CSV, or PuTTY's saved sessions in one click — and export back to an SSH config or CSV at any time, so there's no lock-in, either direction. It's an unsigned beta build for now — SmartScreen may warn on Windows — and the app updates itself.