Free for individuals · macOS, Windows and Linux · Telnet, SSH and SFTP
Sessions, credentials, topology maps and change control in one desktop app, with an AI assistant that reads the same terminal you do. Bring your own model: Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
Every image on this site is a capture of the application running against a lab network. Nothing is mocked up.
Recorded from the app against a lab of Cisco IOS-XE devices. The clips loop; each runs 10 to 25 seconds. Each one links to the full narrated walkthrough on YouTube.
Connect, look, ask, change, write it down. NetStacks keeps those steps in one window and gives each of them a real tool.
Folders and groups, colour tags, credential profiles, jump hosts and tunnels. Import from SecureCRT or NetBox, connect a whole folder at once, and keep every tab in the same window.
NetBot sees the device you are on, its CLI flavour and the output you just got back. Ask a question in the side panel, or select output and right-click for Explain, Fix and Suggest. Answers come back as commands you can run, not paragraphs of theory.
Attach incidents, root causes, tickets and standing notes to a session. The next engineer to connect sees them the moment the prompt appears, and the same history is fed to the assistant with credentials scrubbed.
Build a map from the sessions you already have, draw the links with interface names, and switch between 2D and 3D. Enrich it from NetBox, LibreNMS or a Netdisco crawler, poll SNMP for live interface state, and double-click any device to open a terminal to it.
Multi-line pastes open a review dialog first. The left pane is editable, the right pane shows exactly what the device will receive after the flavour's preset has normalised line endings and stripped comments. Ctrl+Shift+V still sends raw bytes when that is what you want.
A method of procedure in NetStacks is a typed list of steps, not a Word document. Pre-checks gate the change, each step has expected output, post-checks confirm the result and the rollback is written before anything runs.
Save command output straight from the context menu, keep Markdown runbooks and incident notes in the app, and turn a troubleshooting session into a write-up with one AI pass. Everything is searchable from the same box as your commands.
Pick Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, a local Ollama, LiteLLM or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Keys live in the same encrypted vault as your device credentials. Each automatic AI feature has its own switch, and the AI engineer profile lets you set the name, working style and autonomy level you want.
The session management you already rely on, plus the parts that were never there.
| Feature | NetStacks | SecureCRT / PuTTY |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal | ||
| Tabbed, dockable UI with a command palette | ||
| Native performance | ||
| Session organization | ||
| Multi-send mode | ||
| Jump hosts | ||
| Split panes | ||
| AI & Intelligence | ||
| AI assistance | ||
| Built-in documentation generator | ||
| Visual traceroute | ||
| Network topology view | ||
| NetBox integration | ||
| Automation | ||
| Config templates & automation | ||
| Methods of Procedures (MOPs) | ||
| AI-powered NOC agents | ||
| Plugin/SDK extensibility | ||
| Approval workflows | ||
| Enterprise | ||
| Controller-proxied SSH (creds server-side) | ||
| Browser-based terminal access | ||
| SSO / SAML / OIDC | ||
| RBAC with granular permissions | ||
| Clipboard history with credential scrubbing | ||
Import your existing sessions in one click. Keep your workflows; pick up modern tooling.
Free for individuals, no account required. Import your SecureCRT sessions, add one API key, and you are working in a few minutes. Teams that need shared credentials, audit logs and SSO can add the NetStacks Controller later.
