Introducing Telnety: The Modern Connection Manager

We are building Telnety, a desktop application that will unify six network protocols into a single, beautiful interface. Built with Tauri 2.0 (Rust) and React 19, Telnety delivers native performance with modern UI design.

The Problem

DevOps engineers, system administrators, and developers use an average of 3-5 different tools to manage their remote connections. PuTTY for SSH, mstsc for RDP, WinSCP for SFTP, a separate VNC viewer, and maybe a serial terminal for IoT devices. Each tool has its own credential storage, its own UI paradigm, and none of them talk to each other.

The Solution

Telnety brings SSH, RDP, VNC, SFTP, Telnet, and Serial into a unified tabbed interface. One host list. One credential vault. One set of keyboard shortcuts. One app to learn.

Key Features

• 6 Protocols: SSH, RDP, VNC, SFTP, Telnet, Serial
• 36 Built-in Tools: Network diagnostics, snippets, broadcast mode, auto-discovery
• Encrypted Vault: AES-256-GCM with Argon2id, Windows Hello biometric unlock
• MCP AI Server: Let Claude manage your infrastructure with 4-tier safety
• Plugin System: Docker, Kubernetes, and custom plugins in sandboxed JS
• Cloud Sync: Real-time WebSocket sync across all your devices

Built with Rust

We chose Tauri 2.0 over Electron for a smaller binary size (~85 MB vs ~200 MB), lower memory usage, and the safety guarantees that Rust provides. The SSH implementation uses russh, which gives us async I/O without the overhead of spawning OpenSSH processes.

What's Next

This is just the beginning. Our roadmap includes native IronRDP for in-app Remote Desktop, xterm.js v6 when it reaches stable, and expanded plugin marketplace. We are also working on enterprise features like SSO, advanced RBAC, and on-premise deployment.

Join the waitlist for early access and be the first to try Telnety. The Community edition will be free forever.