mRemoteNXT

The native macOS alternative to mRemoteNG. SSH, RDP, Telnet, SFTP and HTTP/HTTPS in tabs.

~21 MB · macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon · GPL-2.0

Why mRemoteNXT?

If you use mRemoteNG on Windows and you want the same connection tree, encrypted passwords, panels and tabs on your Mac, mRemoteNXT imports your confCons.xml directly — no conversion, no re-typing.

The format is preserved byte-exact: passwords stay encrypted with the same scheme (PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA1 + AES-256-GCM, default mR3m passphrase or a custom one), and files saved by mRemoteNXT on macOS are read back by mRemoteNG on Windows without complaint. You can keep one file in Dropbox or iCloud and work from both platforms.

Features

Tree with foldersAttribute inheritance, drag&drop reorder, original mRemoteNG icons, guide lines.
PanelsGroup connections into top-level tabs, like on Windows.
Search / filterBy name, host, protocol, description.
SSH + TelnetEmbedded in tabs via SwiftTerm. PuTTY-style copy-on-select + right-click paste.
SFTPRight-click an SSH connection → Transfer files.
RDPEmbedded via FreeRDP. GFX pipeline, live resize, Retina DPI, Ctrl+Alt+Del.
HTTP / HTTPSWKWebView with auto-fill for router / iLO / switch web UIs.
External toolsCustom commands with macros (%Host%, %Username%, ...).
Auto-backupEvery save creates a timestamped copy. Your original file is never lost.
ThemesDefault, Solarized, Dracula, Nord, macOS Light, more. Live font-size adjust.
Bilingual UIEnglish (default) or Romanian, switchable from Settings.
Self-contained .dmgNo Homebrew install needed. FreeRDP, OpenSSL etc. are bundled.

Install

Download the latest .dmg from the releases page.
Open the .dmg, drag mRemoteNXT.app to the Applications shortcut.
Because the bundle is ad-hoc signed (no paid Apple Developer ID yet), Gatekeeper will refuse to open it on first launch. Clear the quarantine flag once:
```
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/mRemoteNXT.app
```
Open mRemoteNXT.app from /Applications and use ⌘O to load your confCons.xml or ⌘N to start from scratch.

No Homebrew required. The .dmg bundles FreeRDP and OpenSSL inside the app (~21 MB total). Build-from-source details and the packaging script are on GitHub.

What's not yet there

FullFileEncryption="true" (whole-XML encryption).
Schema ConfVersion > 2.6 — untested.
RDP image-clipboard, drive / sound redirect, remote-cursor visibility.
VNC (planned), external applications (IntApp nodes).

License & credits

mRemoteNXT is released under GPL-2.0-or-later. It bundles FreeRDP (Apache-2.0) and SwiftTerm (MIT). The icon set is taken from the official mRemoteNG project (also GPL-2.0).

This project is not affiliated with the mRemoteNG team. The name is referenced only for file-format compatibility.

Feedback

Bugs and feature requests: issue tracker.
Direct contact: razvan@cremenescu.ro.