A SecureCRT, MobaXterm, mRemoteNG and Royal TS alternative for Mac
Vectron is a native app for network and system engineers on Mac, iPhone and iPad, coming to the App Store in October 2026. This page is for people who already use another connection manager and want to know what changes.
In short: Vectron puts SSH, Telnet, serial, RDP and VNC sessions in one Mac window, up to four side by side in a grid. Type once and Broadcast sends it to every terminal pane. Your hosts and passwords live in one encrypted vault that opens on your Mac, iPhone and iPad. Bring your connections with you: Vectron imports from SecureCRT, MobaXterm, mRemoteNG, Royal TS / TSX, your SSH config or a CSV file.
Import your sessions from SecureCRT, MobaXterm, mRemoteNG and Royal TS
Vectron for Mac imports connections and folders from:
- SecureCRT
- MobaXterm
- mRemoteNG
- Royal TS / Royal TSX
- Your SSH config file
- A CSV file, for anything else
Saved passwords are not imported. You add them once, and from then on they are kept in Vectron’s encrypted vault. Folders can pass their credentials down to the hosts inside them, so one password per customer or site is often enough. See Moving from another app in Help.
Vectron as a MobaXterm or mRemoteNG alternative on the Mac
Both are Windows apps, so moving to a Mac usually means looking for something new. Vectron keeps the parts you rely on in one window:
- SSH, Telnet and serial consoles in tabs, separate windows or a grid of up to four
- Windows desktops over RDP, with copy and paste both ways, dragging files to Windows, and Ctrl+Alt+Del
- Mac and Linux desktops over VNC, next to your terminals
- SFTP for moving files
- A TFTP server for firmware and backups, free without a subscription
Vectron as a SecureCRT alternative on the Mac
You keep your session list and folders through the import. What Vectron adds:
- Broadcast: type once into up to four SSH, Telnet or serial panes. Pause a pane to leave it out. At a sign-in prompt, your user name and password go only to the panes that are signing in.
- Config templates with {{variables}}, a preview before sending, a warning when a template was written for another kind of device, and a ready-made library for common switches.
- Production hosts are marked, and Vectron asks before connecting to them.
- Tap an address in the output to ping it, trace the route, see who made the device, or find it on the switch.
Vectron as a Royal TS / TSX alternative
Your folder structure comes across with the import. In Vectron a folder is usually a customer or a site: credentials are shared by folder, production hosts are clearly marked, and subnets, VLANs and address records (IPAM) sit in the same encrypted vault.
What is different about Vectron: SSH, RDP and VNC with one encrypted vault and an AI assistant
- Mac, iPhone and iPad, one vault. With iCloud Drive on, the same encrypted vault opens on all three. It is encrypted on your device (AES-256-GCM, key from your master password with Argon2id), so Apple stores it but cannot read it. One subscription covers all three.
- An AI assistant that asks first. Optional, with your own AI account or a local model. It runs read-only commands to look, and anything that changes the configuration waits for your approval.
- No account, no analytics. The App Store privacy label is “Data Not Collected”. We run no server that sees your devices or data.
- 15 free network tools on the Mac, with or without a subscription: IP scanner, MAC vendor lookup, ping with sound, traceroute, MTR, port check, DNS, SNMP test, TFTP server, subnet calculator, Wake-on-LAN and more.
What Vectron does not do
- There is no Windows or Linux version. Vectron is for Mac, iPhone and iPad.
- On iPhone and iPad there is no Broadcast and no serial console, and iPad shows one session on screen at a time.
- Passwords are not imported from other apps.
Price of Vectron
$24.99 a year (US price; local prices vary), with a 14-day free trial for new subscribers, through the App Store. See Pricing.