SSH Config Editor is an excellent tool to keep your OpenSSH client configurations and known-hosts files under control. Manage identities, port forwarding, and other options within one coherent interface. Handy tool is for managing your OpenSSH ssh client configuration file. You can add or edit identity files, port forwardings (with graphical preview), and any other SSH config option.
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2.6.12 · FREE · Universal
- Size
- 9.5 MB
- Requires
- Universal
- Architecture
- Universal
- Features
- Screenshots 3
- Whats new?
Robust Editor: Instead of limited text editing, you get an intuitive system
- Search across host settings
- Organise configuration in groups
- Set of icons with common services and operation systems
- Reorder host configs with drag and drop
- Disable configurations that are no longer relevant
- All your SSH connections are accessible from the app
- Set identity files per host
- Pro Automatic login with securely stored passwords
- Customize default terminal in Preferences
- Quick connection from menu bar icon
- Pro Port knocking sequences for open or close ssh port
- Check availability of ssh port
- Visualizes the port forwarding process
- Show names for common port numbers
- Copy forwarding ssh command to clipboard
- Find host entries even if they are encrypted
- Mark entries as certification authority or revoked
- Remove or comment invalid or changed hosts
- Create or find ssh configuration for known host
- Open connection to a known host
- Shows detail information about identity keys
- Generate and store access keys in Secure Enclave
- Generate RSA, DSA, ECDSA and Ed25519 key pairs
- Copy public key to server
- Keys manager and Secure Enclave support
- Store and auto fill passwords for ssh connections
- Spotlight integration for connect host directly from it, just write “ssh host”
- Automation and scripting capabilities
- Generate keys with all supported key types, not just RSA
- Connect to servers with custom command line commands
- Support for included configurations
- Port knocking sequences for open or close ports on remote server
- Run ssh-copy-id automatically instead of create command which must be pasted to terminal and run
- Action for copy public key to clipboard
- Doesn’t require confirm access to config or known_hosts files
What's New in Version 2.6.12
- Host configurations can have assigned tags
- It is allowed to add a configuration option to a group and that option is added to all children in the group
- Generate Key Pair dialog redesigned
- New touch bar actions for Port Forwarding dialog
- Fix some issues with read config and known_hosts files
Older versions & Compatibility
Running macOS Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey, or Ventura? Download tested builds for Intel and Apple Silicon.
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2.6.12 LatestOct 14, 2026 · 9.5 MB · Universal
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2.6.11 ArchivedOct 15, 2026 · 9.5 MB · Universal
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