# XShell Reviews **Vendor:** NetSarang Computer **Category:** [Terminal Emulator Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/terminal-emulator) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 12 ## About XShell NetSarang Computer, Inc. develops performance driven network connectivity software for the global market. ## XShell Reviews ### 1. Review of Xshell **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sheetal K. | Assistant Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2023 **What do you like best about XShell?** Most users appreciate XShell's user-friendly interface, tabbed management, support for various protocols (SSH, SFTP, Telnet), and scripting capabilities.It is easy to use as there are multiple tabs system in it,and very fast. **What do you dislike about XShell?** Some users reported that the free version of XShell lacks some advanced features found in the paid version. Also sometimes customer support and occasional user reviews about bugs.tabs of Xshell often does not get displayed due to which we need to re run the script and use it again. **What problems is XShell solving and how is that benefiting you?** XShell, as a terminal emulator, helps users securely access and manage remote systems through various protocols like SSH, SFTP, and Telnet. It solves the problem of remote command-line access, facilitating system administration, configuration, and troubleshooting tasks. ### 2. XShell: Great networking tool to remote connect Linux Machines **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shamir J. | Technical Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2023 **What do you like best about XShell?** Multiple Linux Terminals can be connected and viewed in multiple tabs in single Window when is not available in tools like Putty. It is really fast, reliable. One other most liked feature for me is creating duplicate Sessions in Xshell which helps when multiple Instances of same connection needed. It could be useful during System Test. **What do you dislike about XShell?** Nothing major which I disliked about this tool. It serves the purpose very well.It could be better if auto reconnection is provided when there are network fluctutations. **What problems is XShell solving and how is that benefiting you?** User friendly Interface for remote connecting multiple Linux Machines simultaneously. Duplicate Sessions helps in System Test and improves productivity. Example: SIP call flow Orig and Term flow need multiple instances of the Terminal. ### 3. Nice SSH client for windows **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishal M. | Technical Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2023 **What do you like best about XShell?** User friendly interface, and have all the must have features as on the standard Unix/linux variants. Good to have tool for windows and especially for people coming from terminal, putty, mobaxterm kind of stuff **What do you dislike about XShell?** One potential issue with Xshell could be its user interface, I find outdated or less intuitive compared to other terminal emulators. Additionally, Xshell's licensing fees feels to be relatively high compared to other similar software. Xshell does not have the features such as advanced scripting or automation capabilities, which could limit its usefulness. **What problems is XShell solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it as the interface to connect to the remote server over SSH and it provides reliable connection and all basic stuff that unix user expects on windows ### 4. The best SSH client. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mahmud H. | Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2023 **What do you like best about XShell?** Xshell is a very powerfull tool in networking field. As a network engineer I use this tool on a day to day basis, its fast, reliable and with a really good session management system. **What do you dislike about XShell?** Haven't found one yet, I have been using this for over a year and it has never caused an issue so far. **What problems is XShell solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using xshell we are performing our remote access to network devices such as routers and switches, it has been a great alternative to something like putty and the features help our work get done faster. ### 5. Very useful product for Web Server Management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nazarii K. | Software Enginner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2022 **What do you like best about XShell?** I am a web developer, so I am working with many Web Hostings. Usually their system is Linux. So I use terminal to manage the hostings. For this my purpose, Xshell is very suitable and helpful. Thank you. **What do you dislike about XShell?** The weekness of Xshell is working with other tools such as XManager, XFtp, etc for many purposes. Of course, their features are different, but hope to use One tool for those purposes. Thank you. **What problems is XShell solving and how is that benefiting you?** With XShell, I can easily many my web hosting systems and resources, users, softwares with high speed and correctly. It helps me to host many web sites easily. ### 6. Xshell is a terminal emulator used to login to the servers via ssh, telnet and rlogin. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Praveen M. | AWS Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2022 **What do you like best about XShell?** The interface is good; the setup menu can be easily accessible and easy to use. It can be used for file transferring from local machines to remote servers easily. **What do you dislike about XShell?** Experienced some minor issues like crashing the software etc, hope they will fix it in the next updates. **What problems is XShell solving and how is that benefiting you?** SSH to the servers from windows machines can be done quickly by using XShell, and we can setup some scripts in the XShell interface to rn it automatically once we login to the server. ### 7. Best of both worlds. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harsimran S. | Design, Implementations and Deployments, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2022 **What do you like best about XShell?** Ease of use Windows version is pretty stable Easy to do automation Lots and lots of short commands options. Loads of tunnels/proxy options Much easier to use compared to mobaxterm **What do you dislike about XShell?** Apple version Below secure crt in terms of Automation options Tmux doesn't work properly Builtin tools for diff and comparison are not there Sftp options completely missing Strong macros Cloud based short commands Linuxsimulation like cygwin **What problems is XShell solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having 100+ ssh sessions at one time Running bunch of commands at same time Short commands can be shared within team Modem commands do work well ### 8. A Very good SSH client **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2023 **What do you like best about XShell?** Ypu can launch sessions and edit your remote setup very easily with Xshell compared to other clients out there **What do you dislike about XShell?** Unlike other clients, Xshell is not free. You can get a 30 day trial but after that you have to shelve out money **What problems is XShell solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to login to my web-hosted instances remotely and with confidence. ### 9. I use xshell daily **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nuwan K. | Senior Systems Engineer - Linux, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2022 **What do you like best about XShell?** I am using xshell daily for my linux server access task, i orgernized my ssh servers and create passwors less authentication using key wizard of the xshell, i can log to the servers faster **What do you dislike about XShell?** There is few colors for tabs, need to add colors to tab, and also can not create folder in folder in saved sesion. Some times the ssh private key preaspase not working correctly **What problems is XShell solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can manage multiple ssh sessions and i can work many servers at one time so i can resolve my issues very fastly and i can ssh to thr servers very soon as soon as possible ### 10. I feel excited when I use Xshell because it was outstanding product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mridul S. | Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 02, 2023 **What do you like best about XShell?** The quality of product actually they given a trust to use again again his service because it was different others service **What do you dislike about XShell?** Nothing because I used again again but I can't see any dislike part **What problems is XShell solving and how is that benefiting you?** The coustmor support and resolve essues ### 11. Experience with using terminal manager **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shabbir H. | Development Team Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2022 **What do you like best about XShell?** Its more like using Putty or Terminal manger with more customisable options. **What do you dislike about XShell?** The Pricing structure and more of User interface, UI looks so old school. **What problems is XShell solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its helpful when managing multiple server will multiple credentials and all of them have different security implementation, Its good to manage everything at one place. ### 12. Xshell review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2022 **What do you like best about XShell?** simple, roboust, powerful tool for devs. **What do you dislike about XShell?** xshell is not available for Mac which i use personally. **What problems is XShell solving and how is that benefiting you?** on Windows i completely replaced putty with xshell. multi tab, dir structure view etc are my favourites - [View XShell pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/xshell/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-11+21%3A08%3A37+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=357c9cc9-c8e7-4cc3-9369-fe3da400c721&secure%5Btoken%5D=50f3021f1b25507b6ba3ce2594f01ad1e50abfec45451e46321e36d84356902c&format=llm_user) ## XShell Features **Performance** - Plugins - Resource Usage - Latency **Operating System** - Linux Support - Windows Support - Mac Support - Unix Support **User Interface** - Scrolling - Customization - Logging - Command-line interface **Licensing ** - Concurrent Licensing - Subscription Licensing - Named User Licensing - Perpetual Licensing **Security** - Multifactor Authentication (MFA) - Secure Sockets Layer encryption - Portal Access - SAML Service Provider Integration **Functionality** - Robotic Process Automation (RPA) - Replication ## Top XShell Alternatives - [MobaXTerm](https://www.g2.com/products/mobaxterm/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (101 reviews) - [PuTTY](https://www.g2.com/products/putty/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (341 reviews) - [SecureCRT](https://www.g2.com/products/securecrt/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (53 reviews)