An all-in-one SSH client for macOS

Many developers and sysadmins arriving on macOS from Windows miss having a single terminal app that bundles every remote protocol they need. The standard Mac stack ends up being iTerm2 plus Cyberduck plus Microsoft Remote Desktop plus a VNC viewer plus an authenticator — five apps to manage what was historically one tool. SSHive is built around the all-in-one philosophy: SSH terminal, SFTP file manager, embedded RDP, embedded VNC, SSH tunnels (-L, -R, -D), multi-host broadcast, snippet library, network tools — all in the same window, with the macOS Keychain handling credentials. If you have a `MobaXterm.ini` session list saved in cleartext from your previous Windows setup, SSHive can import it directly: every Host entry becomes a SSHive profile in seconds. Encrypted MobaXterm backups are not supported — you need the cleartext export from MobaXterm itself. Same for `~/.ssh/config`, PuTTY and Royal TSX exports: SSHive parses them and creates the equivalent profiles, preserving folder hierarchy.

SSH terminal powered by xterm.js with WebGL rendering. Dual-pane SFTP file manager with drag-and-drop and a built-in remote editor (CodeMirror, Cmd+S to save). Embedded RDP via IronRDP / freerdp-native — no external Microsoft Remote Desktop window. Embedded VNC viewer via noVNC with a built-in WebSocket-to-TCP proxy. SSH tunnels with a visual UI (Local, Remote, SOCKS5). Multi-host broadcast (Cmd+Shift+B). Snippet library with 14 presets and custom commands. Network tools: DNS lookup, ping, traceroute, whois, DNSBL, MX, interfaces. Built-in TOTP/HOTP authenticator with encrypted vault.

Click "+ → Import" and SSHive accepts: cleartext `MobaXterm.ini`, PuTTY registry exports, Royal TSX `.rtsz`, and OpenSSH `~/.ssh/config`. The importer parses hostnames, ports, users, key paths, jump hosts and folder hierarchy. Credentials get stored in the macOS Keychain on first connect — your `.ini` file does not stay in cleartext on disk after import.

SSHive ships with a local MCP (Model Context Protocol) server on `127.0.0.1:49422`, protected by a Bearer token. Toggle it ON in Settings → MCP and SSHive auto-injects an `mcpServers.sshive` entry into the config files of detected clients (Claude Code, Cursor) and shows a copy-paste block for Claude Desktop. The 7 tools cover `ssh_list_sessions`, `ssh_execute`, `sftp_list`, `sftp_read_file`, `sftp_write_file`, `sftp_write_file_chunk` and `sftp_write_from_local_path`. Translation: ask your AI assistant "tail the last 200 lines of nginx error log on prod" and it does it through your SSHive session, no extra setup. MCP is Pro-only.