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Termstead
Native macOS SSH client with jump hosts, panes and SFTP
I'm Pavel, a DevOps engineer, and I made Termstead.
At work I live in SSH sessions, and on Windows MobaXterm covers it all: a tree of saved servers, tabs, SFTP next to the terminal. On the Mac I couldn't find the same thing — native, free and built on the ssh I already trust — so I built it.
What it does:
• Sessions in a tree with groups and colors; import your ~/.ssh/config in one click
• Jump hosts, chained as deep as you need
• Split panes (2 or 4), with broadcast input to type into several servers at once
• SFTP beside the terminal, over the connection that's already open — no second login
• Server load (CPU, memory, disk, network) in the status bar
• Passwords and key passphrases in the macOS Keychain, handed only to the host they belong to
Under the hood every tab is the system OpenSSH, so your agent, config, known_hosts and ProxyJump work exactly as in Terminal. Termstead has no SSH code of its own.
It's free and open source (GPL-3.0), for macOS 14+, on Apple silicon and Intel:
brew install --cask pkhorenyan/tap/termstead
I'd love your feedback: what's missing for your daily SSH work, and what would make you switch from your current client?
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About Termstead on Product Hunt
“Native macOS SSH client with jump hosts, panes and SFTP”
Termstead was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #134 on the daily leaderboard. Termstead is a free, open-source SSH client for macOS: a native MobaXterm alternative with a session tree, jump hosts, SFTP and Keychain passwords.
Termstead was featured in Mac (103.8k followers), Open Source (69k followers), Developer Tools (521.6k followers) and GitHub (41.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 149.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Termstead?
Termstead was hunted by Pavel Khorenyan. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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