Built by people who live in the terminal.
mobaXterm began as a side project with a single goal: keep dozens of SSH sessions under control without losing context. Today it's a full terminal workspace on Windows for engineers whose work lands on Linux.
Where we came from
mobaXterm exists because the alternatives forced us to install five programs to accomplish one job. PuTTY handled SSH. WinSCP moved the files. Xming ran X11. mRemoteNG tracked sessions. That left six terminal windows open and a sticky note full of passwords.
Our first prototype lived on one laptop in a shared office. Engineers in more than 100 countries run it today, yet the job hasn't changed: one window holds every session, and there's no plumbing to maintain.
We're a small team and proud to be independent. Professional Edition purchases pay the bills — not ads, not telemetry resale, not venture capital. That means we answer to the people who use the product, not to a roadmap committee.
Using it personally will always be free. That's been true since day one, and it isn't changing.
What guides our work
Every session in one window
Needing to alt-tab into another program to finish a task means a feature is missing — that's how we see it, and it's never treated as an acceptable workaround.
Local-first, always
Sessions and settings stay on your own disk. There's no account you must create, no forced cloud sync, and no telemetry phoning home.
A good neighbor to Linux
The Unix tools you already know ship right in the box — identical flags, identical behaviour, identical scripts — only now they run on Windows.
Everything is scriptable
Macros, a command palette, packaged tools — anything you can click through with a mouse, you can drive with a keystroke or a script.
No unwelcome surprises
Updating is your choice. Settings remain exactly where you left them. The free edition stays free. Nothing gets quietly pulled out from under you in a release.
Keyboards come first
There's a shortcut to every menu item, and every shortcut can be rebound. A mouse is welcome here, but it should never be mandatory.
Catch up on this quarter's releases.
Releases go out about every six weeks, and the changelog records each meaningful change — additions, fixes, and anything we chose to remove on purpose.