TermDesk

Spec sheet

Purpose

TermDesk is an open-source desktop app for SSH, SFTP, VNC and RDP with a local encrypted vault.Read 5 Oct 2026 · termdesk.pro

Privacy

The site says there is no mandatory cloud account or telemetry and that hosts, keys and history stay on the user's machine.Read 5 Oct 2026 · termdesk.pro

Support

The site directs users to GitHub Issues for bugs and feature requests and provides a contact form for other questions and security disclosures.Read 5 Oct 2026 · termdesk.pro

AI integrations

Its built-in MCP server supports Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients for listing hosts and running commands; agent access is off by default and approval-gated.Read 5 Oct 2026 · termdesk.pro

Availability limit

The site says TermDesk runs from source today and that prebuilt signed installers are on the way.Read 5 Oct 2026 · termdesk.pro

Keychain support

The site names macOS Keychain, Windows DPAPI and Linux libsecret as supported secret-storage systems.Read 5 Oct 2026 · termdesk.pro

Open source

TermDesk is MIT-licensed, developed in public and available to build from source.Read 5 Oct 2026 · termdesk.pro

Remote desktop

VNC sessions are tunneled over SSH, and Windows hosts connect over RDP with trust-on-first-use certificate pinning.Read 5 Oct 2026 · termdesk.pro

Security controls

The site says the renderer is sandboxed without Node access and secrets remain in the main process behind a Zod-validated IPC contract.Read 5 Oct 2026 · termdesk.pro

SSH and SFTP

It supports saved hosts, jump hosts, agent and port forwarding, drag-and-drop SFTP transfers, tabs, splits and tagged host groups.Read 5 Oct 2026 · termdesk.pro

SSH configuration

TermDesk reads the user's existing ~/.ssh/config.Read 5 Oct 2026 · termdesk.pro

Vault storage

Hosts, keys, snippets and known hosts are stored in a local SQLite vault, while passwords and passphrases are encrypted using the operating system keychain.Read 5 Oct 2026 · termdesk.pro

Plans and prices

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Where Specifiction places it

• Remote Connection Manager Software#25 of 297.3