Available
SSH hosts
Full terminal, tabs and tmux-style splits. Jump-host chains. Visual local, remote, and dynamic port forwards.
v0.24 · Available now
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The control plane for your infrastructure. Every server, bucket, and cluster in one native window.
SSH and SFTP today. Kubernetes contexts, S3 buckets, Docker hosts, and database consoles next. One fast, native app for everything you operate — macOS, Linux, Windows.
One dashboard
Your infrastructure, in one window.
Cleat is the home base for everything you operate. Connect to a server. Browse a bucket. Switch a Kubernetes context. Tail a database log. All from the same fast, native app — no cloud account, no subscription, no Electron.
Centralized connections
Every resource you operate in one searchable list. Color-coded environments, folders, jump-host chains. Type, hit Enter, you're in.
Built for daily work
Real xterm-256color terminal with tmux-style splits. Dual-pane SFTP with resumable transfers. Visual port forwarding. The basics, done right.
Native speed
Rendered in SDL and Dear ImGui — not Electron. Cold start under 100ms. Memory measured in megabytes, not gigabytes.
Extensible in Lua
Plugin host with a real API: status-bar widgets, live charts, custom screensavers. Browse the marketplace from inside the app.
See the app
Native chrome, native speed.
Cleat is rendered in SDL and Dear ImGui — not Electron. Cold start under 100ms. Memory measured in megabytes, not gigabytes. Dockable panels, an extensible plugin host, and a status bar that tells you what you need to know.
Dockable panels
Connections, terminal, tunnels, activity — split, stack, or tear off into their own windows.
Plugin host
Disk usage, SSH latency, status-bar widgets — install only what you need from the marketplace.
At-a-glance status
Live latency, uptime, disk and memory — right in the status bar, per connection.
Visual tunneling
Local, remote, dynamic forwards — no
-L, -R, -D syntax to remember.What Cleat connects to
One dashboard. Every resource you operate.
Cleat started with SSH, SFTP, and tunnels. The platform is built to add resource types — and the roadmap is public. Every cloud thing you connect to, in the same window, with the same connection list and the same shortcuts.
Available
SFTP servers
Dual-pane file browser, drag-and-drop in both directions, resumable transfers, queue with ETA.
Available
SSH tunnels
Local, remote, and dynamic SOCKS forwards configured as forms — not -L / -R / -D flags.
Beta · 1.1
Kubernetes
Cluster picker by context, namespace and pod browsing, kubectl exec into a pod from your connection list, log tail in a side panel.
Beta · 1.1
Docker hosts
List containers on a host, exec into one, tail logs, follow stats. Works over SSH or against a local socket.
Coming · 1.2
S3 & object stores
Buckets in the same connection list. Browse, upload, set ACLs. S3-compatible: AWS, R2, MinIO, B2, Spaces.
Coming · 1.2
Database consoles
Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, Redis. Query editor with history. Auto-tunnel through the host you'd normally SSH into anyway.
Roadmap
Cloud providers
AWS, GCP, Azure resource browsing tied to your saved profiles. SSM Session Manager. IAM-aware connections.
Built to extend
A plugin system, not a settings menu.
Cleat plugins are Lua scripts with a real platform API — programmable status-bar segments, live monitoring widgets, custom screensavers, per-connection loadouts. Browse, install, and auto-update from inside the app.
cleat.monitoring
statusbar-disk
Live disk usage segment in the status bar. One glance, every active connection.
★ 2.1k installs
cleat.diagnostics
ssh-latency
Latency heatmap drawn inside any terminal tab. Notices regressions before you do.
★ 1.8k installs
cleat.screensavers
harbor-lights
A slow, sandboxed terminal screensaver. Because your terminals deserve one.
★ 940 installs
Pricing
Buy it once. Own it.
No subscription. No cloud account. Free updates for the life of the major version. See all license types →
Cleat · Single user
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- 3 activations
- Free 1.x updates
- 30-day refund
- 14-day free trial
$49One-time
Available on
Native binaries for every desktop.
One C++ codebase, three platforms. No Electron, no web view, no Chromium dragged in for the ride.
macOS
Universal · 12.0 Monterey+
Coming soon
Linux
x86_64 · arm64
Coming soon
Windows
10 / 11 · x64
Coming soon
