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wharf

Keyboard-driven terminal SSH client with a local-first encrypted vault.

  • Completely free
  • Windows
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

wharf is a remote access program, available on Windows.

Features described in its GitHub repository, in its Winget manifest and on its official website: offline use, data encryption, command-line use and end-to-end encryption.

Services and protocols mentioned: SSH.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Keyboard-driven terminal SSH client with a local-first encrypted vault” — Winget, 10 November 2026
  • “Keyboard-driven terminal SSH client with a local-first encrypted vault” — Winget, 10 November 2026
  • “Keyboard-driven terminal SSH client with a local-first encrypted vault” — Winget, 10 November 2026
  • “Wharf is a keyboard-driven, terminal-based SSH client — manage your hosts, keys and team projects from a fast TUI.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Signing in adds end-to-end encrypted cross-machine sync and shared team projects, under a zero-knowledge model where the server only ever holds ciphertext.” — Winget, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of wharf is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 9 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Manifeste Winget (MIT)

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