Alternatives

Products that do what Tailscale SSH does

More easily and securely manage SSH connections

1. 1
   Tailscale▲82

   A secure network that just works

   2021

2. 2
   TailMux▲114

   Multiple Tailscale tailnets at once, no switching + no VM

   Jul 2026

3. 3AS
   A simple SSH VPN client▲113

   2017 · github.com

4. 4KA
   Kryptonite – a new home for your SSH private key▲338

   2017 · krypt.co

5. 5
   WARP by Cloudflare▲198

   Free VPN for Desktop — Privacy & Speed for Everyone.

   2021

6. 6UE
   Use encrypted passwords in shell scripts signed with your SSH key▲117

   2018 · github.com

7. 7
   Pluto Door▲86

   Secure MacOS SSH with AI editor, file browser, drag-drop

   Mar 2026

8. 8SC
   Shellvault – Cloud SSH terminal accessible from any browser▲114

   2019 · shellvault.io

9. 9SA
   SeKey: An SSH Agent for OS X, Using Secure Enclave and TouchID, in Rust▲169

   2017 · github.com

10. 10MA
    Mole – an open source tool to easily create ssh tunnels▲142

    2018 · davrodpin.github.io

11. 11TS
    tor_ssh.sh – One command to enable SSH access via Tor▲93

    2019 · gitlab.com

12. 12MS
    Managing SSH Access to AWS EC2 Instances Using SSM▲131

    2020 · github.com

13. 13EW
    Easy Webserver for Node.js, Python, PHP, with Free SSL▲123

    2017 · github.com

14. 14AS
    A simple Go utility to ease deployments via SSH and SCP▲50

    2018 · github.com

15. 15
    strongDM▲98

    Trust strongDM to manage an engineers access to everything

    2019

16. 16
    Termux Lite▲76

    A powerful SSH terminal with FTP & SFTP support

    May 2026

17. 17
    Second State VM▲78

    High performance secure & portable Rust functions in Node.js

    2020

18. 18SR
    Simple realtime two-way sync with SSH, fswatch and rsync▲71

    2019 · github.com

19. 19OS
    Open source SSH honeypot with an API▲49

    2014 · sshpot.com

20. 20SS
    Ssh2, simplifying EC2 ssh'ing▲51

    2015 · github.com

21. 21SA
    S – a tool for ssh like z for cd▲35

    2015 · github.com

22. 22SB
    ShellDash – Browser server dashboard with SSH and globe monitoring▲6

    Hey all. I built ShellDash, an interactive server admin dashboard with shell scripting and an appealing globe UI. https://shelldash.com The goal is to provide a global monitoring view of your servers, with shell script access, in a way that feels natural and productive, plus a minimal and appealing UI/UX. The technology is fairly interesting. This being a browser app, I built a Go WASM SSH client running in the browser, proxied through my server WebSocket endpoints. This means I can provide you a Web UI to access your servers via SSH, without ever needing to see your…

    Nov 2025 · shelldash.com

23. 23EC
    Encrypted Communication via GitHub Using Node.js and SSH Keys▲39

    2015 · github.com

24. 24ST
    Sish – Tunnels to localhost using SSH▲7

    2021 · github.com

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