Tabby: A Feature‑Rich Cross‑Platform Terminal Emulator

Tabby is a TypeScript‑based terminal emulator available on Windows, macOS, and Linux, offering extensive configurability including themes, shortcuts, and color schemes, and serving as an alternative to PowerShell ISE, PuTTY, macOS Terminal.app, and iTerm.

It is not a new shell nor a replacement for MinGW or Cygwin, and users seeking lightweight options may prefer Conemu or Alacritty.

Key features include:

Integrated SSH client and connection manager

Integrated serial terminal

Themes and color schemes

Fully configurable shortcuts

Split panes

Tab memory

Support for PowerShell (and PS Core), WSL, Git‑Bash, Cygwin, Cmder, and CMD

Zmodem file transfer within SSH sessions

Full Unicode support, including double‑width characters

Enhanced Windows shell experience with tab completion via Clink

Integrated encrypted container for SSH secrets and configurations

Additional capabilities include V220 terminal extensions, nested split panes, detachable tabs, dockable windows with global hotkeys, process detection and notifications, custom shell configuration files, and optional right‑click paste/copy (PuTTY style).

The built‑in SSH client provides a connection manager, X11 and port forwarding, automatic host jumping, proxy forwarding (including Pageant and native Windows OpenSSH), and login scripts.

Tabby also supports numerous plugins and themes installable directly from its settings, such as clickable‑links, docker integration, title‑control, quick‑cmds, save‑output, sync‑config, clippy, and search‑in‑browser.

As of now, Tabby has garnered 1.3K stars and 23.9K forks on GitHub (https://github.com/Eugeny/tabby).