Sheltora

Download Sheltora

Free · self-updating · Windows, macOS & Linux.

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Completely free right now — with no limit on the number of sessions. Later, Sheltora may move to a freemium model (free up to a number of sessions, a paid plan for unlimited use). For now everything is unlocked.

On Windows, the easiest way is the Microsoft Store — Microsoft-signed, no SmartScreen warning, auto-updates: Get Sheltora on the Microsoft Store →

curl -fsSL https://apt.sheltora.com/gpg.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/sheltora.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/sheltora.gpg] https://apt.sheltora.com stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sheltora.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install sheltora

What works today

• Privacy-first no account, no telemetry, no ads — Sheltora doesn’t track you or phone home with usage data. Your sessions, keys and passwords stay on your machine unless you export them.
• Terminal SSH shell with tabs, broadcast input to all sessions, manual reconnect & per-session logging.
• Remote desktop RDP & VNC in a tab next to your shells — full-screen or windowed.
• Server monitor agentless live CPU, RAM, disk, disk-I/O and network across all your SSH sessions at once — nothing installed on the servers.
• File transfer SFTP, FTP/FTPS and S3 — dual-pane browser, drag-and-drop, recursive folder download.
• Compressed download SFTP “Download as archive” streams a tar.gz built on the server — no temp file, no disk pressure.
• Sessions organized tree with folders, protocol badges, duplicate & “duplicate as” another protocol.
• Quick connect a fuzzy palette (Ctrl/⌘+Shift+O) to jump to any session by name or host and connect with one keystroke.
• Tags & filter tag sessions (prod, db, eu-west…) and filter the tree by name, host or tag across folders.
• Tunnels local / remote / SOCKS port forwarding per SSH session.
• Vault Argon2id master password, or OS-bound (macOS Keychain / Windows DPAPI) — no prompt.
• Portable export move sessions, profiles, settings & secrets between machines, cross-OS, in one encrypted file.
• Import bring sessions over from MobaXterm.
• Self-updating in-app updates; OS auto-detected per session.

Coming next: Telnet (already in the engine, UI being polished).

Manage your whole fleet

Go beyond a single connection — operate on many servers at once, not just one shell at a time.

• Run once, everywhere send a command to many servers at the same time and watch the output stream in, side by side, live — then copy one server's output, or all of it, to the clipboard.
• Merged live logs combine tail -f from many hosts into one window, colored per server, with live grep, highlighting and match counting.
• Config drift diff the same file across servers and instantly see which host is out of line.
• Bulk find / replace change a file across servers safely — with a per-server preview and an automatic timestamped backup.
• Edit in place open a file straight from a server, edit it with a real code editor, and write it back atomically — a backup of the original is always kept.
• Deploy files push a file — or a whole archive, streamed over SFTP with no size limit — to many servers at once, optionally extracting it, with an atomic write, a backup and a sha256 verify.
• Health check a pre-flight scan of the selected servers: reachability and SSH authentication, before you run anything.
• Server status a quick reachability sweep that colors a live status dot next to each server in the tree.
• Targeted broadcast type into several terminals at once — and pick exactly which subset, so production stays out of it.

Every fleet action also works on a single session, and from the Tools ▸ Fleet menu.

Runbooks that actually run

Keep the procedure where the server is — and execute it, don't just read it.

• Notes per server attach a Markdown runbook to any session (or reuse it from a template library) — it travels with the session and in your encrypted export.
• Click to run in preview, every command in a code block gets a ▶ button that sends it to the live terminal. The runbook becomes a set of one-click steps, not a wall of text.
• Always at hand a togglable side panel and a marker in the tree show which servers have a runbook — open it with a click or a shortcut.

A look inside

One calm, focused workspace — shells, file transfers and every protocol in one place.

Sheltora Commander

A fast, keyboard-driven dual-pane file manager — a standalone companion to Sheltora.

• Dual-pane two folders side by side — copy, move, rename, create files & folders, the classic orthodox-commander workflow with F-keys.
• View modes details, compact, medium and a gallery with image thumbnails.
• Archives pack & extract ZIP and TAR.GZ.
• Folder sizes calculate space used — per selection or the whole pane.
• Drag & drop between panes and to/from the system file manager.
• Remote optionally connect to your own SFTP/FTP servers — browse, edit and transfer both ways.
• Permissions view & change Unix permissions (chmod) on macOS & Linux.

Direct Windows, macOS & Linux downloads are self-updating (Velopack). The macOS installer is signed & notarized by Apple, so it opens normally. A Microsoft Store release is on the way.