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ConnectBot vs electerm

ConnectBot

connectbot.org

electerm

electerm.org

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FigureConnectBotelecterm
Price fromFreeFree
Free planYesYes
Free trial——
Open source—Yes
Web—Yes
Windows—Yes
macOS—Yes
Linux—Yes
iOS—Yes
AndroidYesYes
API—Yes
Self-hosted—Yes
Plans published11
Spec score · SSH Clients7.9 (#13)8.9 (#2)
SupportThe project directs users with questions to the #connectbot channel on Libera.Chat.The project provides GitHub issue reporting, discussions, documentation, and community translations.

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electerm

electerm combines a terminal emulator, graphical SFTP file manager, and remote connection tools in free, open-source software under the MIT License. It supports SSH, SFTP, FTP, Telnet, serial, RDP, VNC, and Spice sessions, with both public-key and password authentication. Connection options include proxies, SSH tunneling, agent forwarding, port forwarding, X11 forwarding, and connection hopping. The SFTP manager lets users open remote files for editing. Its AI assistant supports OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses, and Anthropic Messages formats for generating commands and scripts, creating bookmarks, and explaining things. Bookmarks, themes, and quick commands can sync through GitHub or Gitee secret gists, WebDAV, a custom server, or electerm cloud. Desktop builds cover Windows 7+, macOS 10.15+, and Linux across several processor architectures; mobile versions are available for Android, iOS, and HarmonyOS. The browser version works without installation and supports several remote protocols, but lacks local terminal, serial-port, and web-page features. In electerm online, credentials are stored on the server and SSH connections are proxied through it; the site provides no security guarantees.

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