Tabby

Tabby (formerly known as Terminus) is a highly customizable, cross-platform terminal emulator and SSH client, developed by Eugene Pankov (Eugeny). Built with Electron and TypeScript, Tabby brings a modern, polished, and feature-rich terminal experience to Windows, macOS, and Linux, with a particular emphasis on usability features that are missing from traditional terminal emulators. Key features include: a tabbed and split-pane interface (multiple terminal sessions in tabs and panes, with drag-and-drop pane arrangement), a powerful SSH client (with connection profiles, SSH key and password management, port forwarding, SFTP integration, and SSH agent forwarding), serial terminal support (connecting to serial devices for embedded development and hardware debugging), built-in support for multiple shells (Bash, Zsh, Fish, PowerShell, CMD, and custom shells), a highly customizable appearance system with themes (including community-created themes), fonts, colors, and transparency controls, hotkey customization for all actions, a built-in search function for scrolling back through terminal output, a clipboard manager (storing recent clipboard entries and allowing quick pasting), a credential vault for securely storing SSH passwords and keys (encrypted at rest), terminal multiplexer integration (tmux and screen keybinding compatibility), clickable links and paths in terminal output, spell checking for typed commands, a plugin system (via npm packages) for extending functionality with additional terminal types, themes, and features, and support for Unicode and emoji rendering. Tabby is particularly popular among system administrators and DevOps engineers who manage large fleets of servers via SSH. As of 2026, Tabby has over 73,000 stars.