Alternatives to ZOC Terminal
A commercial SSH, Telnet and serial terminal emulator for Windows and macOS. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
ZOC Terminal
A commercial SSH, Telnet and serial terminal emulator for Windows and macOS.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as ZOC Terminal.
SecureCRT
A commercial SSH and Telnet client with session management and scripting for Windows, macOS and Linux.
SecureCRT is another paid, closed-source SSH and Telnet client, adding a Linux version and regex keyword highlighting alongside tab groups and scripting.
PuTTY
The small, stubbornly reliable SSH and Telnet client that has been on every Windows admin’s desktop for twenty-five years.
PuTTY is a free, MIT-licensed SSH and Telnet client with file tools and Plink for scripts, but an older interface and no Mac port from the project.
Tera Term
Long-running Windows terminal emulator for SSH, Telnet and serial connections.
Tera Term is a free BSD-licensed Windows client for SSH, Telnet and serial with a macro language, but it has no macOS version and a dated interface.
Xshell
A tabbed SSH, Telnet and serial terminal client for Windows from NetSarang.
Xshell is a paid Windows-only client for SSH, Telnet and serial with session profiles, triggers and RDP sessions, without ZOC's macOS build.
WindTerm
A fast SSH, SFTP, telnet, serial and tmux client for Windows, macOS and Linux, free for commercial use.
WindTerm covers SSH, SFTP, telnet and serial on Windows, macOS and Linux, free for commercial use, though only partly open source.
Tabby
A terminal, SSH client and serial console in one window, with a connection manager and an encrypted secret store.
Tabby is a free MIT-licensed terminal with SSH, Telnet and serial connections plus an encrypted secret store, built on Electron and heavier on memory.
MobaXterm
A Windows remote-computing toolbox: tabbed SSH, an X11 server, RDP, VNC, FTP and Unix commands in one portable executable.
MobaXterm bundles SSH, telnet, serial, X11, RDP and VNC in one Windows-only portable app, with a free edition that caps saved sessions.
C-Kermit
A scriptable command-line program for serial and network connections, terminal sessions and file transfer.
C-Kermit is a free open-source command-line program for scriptable serial and network sessions with file transfer, lacking ZOC's graphical address book.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Termius
A cross-platform SSH client for desktop and mobile that syncs hosts, keys and snippets between devices.
Remote Desktop Manager
A connection manager that keeps RDP, VNC, SSH and other remote sessions in one workspace.
OpenSSH
The standard SSH client and server suite for encrypted remote login, file copying and tunnelling.
Bitvise SSH Client
A Windows SSH client combining a terminal, SFTP file transfer and port forwarding.
