Ten head-to-head pages, grouped by category. Each one ships a feature-by-feature table, a "where the other tool still wins" section, and a five-minute switching path. Honest verdicts — some are switch, some are use both, some are supplement.
Free forever · No credit card · Postman / SecureCRT / PuTTY / OpenSSH / Hudu / IT Glue imports built in
Remote-access & connection managers
The SSH-and-RDP crowd. ShellYard ships the connection, the vault, and the toolkit around the session.
Termius is a polished SSH client. ShellYard is the workspace around it — same SSH polish plus HTTP, DB, network kit, vault, docs, and AI.
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RDM is Windows-first with thin Mac and Linux builds. ShellYard is the same app on every desktop OS, with the kit built in.
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Database tools
DataGrip, Workbench, pgAdmin. ShellYard ships six engines with live Health dashboards next to the SSH session and the API client.
Keep DataGrip for SQL refactoring, query plans, and 20+ engines. Use ShellYard for everything else — including Health dashboards DataGrip does not ship.
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Workbench is dated and painful on Mac. ShellYard runs MySQL alongside Postgres, SQL Server, SQLite, Redis, and Mongo — modern native desktop, live Health.
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pgAdmin is a slow-starting Postgres-only web app. ShellYard runs Postgres natively next to five other engines, with pg_stat_replication built in.
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API testing
Postman, Bruno, Hoppscotch, Insomnia. ShellYard ships a Postman-class HTTP / GraphQL / Realtime client plus a tunnel-via-SSH dropdown on every request — and the rest of your stack in the same window. If you only use your API client to test APIs, switch.
If your daily Postman use is 'open request, hit Send, read response', switch. Same HTTP / GraphQL / WebSocket surface, plus SSH-tunnel routing, plus DB + network tools — no account required. Keep Postman only if mock servers, Newman, or governance are load-bearing.
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Bruno fixed Postman's Cloud lock-in by going file-first. ShellYard fixes the rest of the stack. Keep Bruno for Git-versioned .bru collections; add ShellYard for SSH-tunneled requests, DB queries, and the AI assistant.
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Hoppscotch is great for a quick GET in a browser tab. For everything else in your day — SSH-tunneled requests, database queries, network diagnostics — you want a desktop workspace.
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Insomnia worked beautifully until Cloud login became the default. ShellYard is the same kind of clean flow, locally, no account on Free — plus SSH, DB, network tools, and an AI assistant.
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MSP / IT documentation & toolkits
Hudu, IT Glue, Confluence, and the SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset. ShellYard is the workspace where the docs and the diagnostics live together — per-client Spaces, per-Space KMS on Team+, importers for the ones you came from.
Hudu nails MSP documentation. ShellYard adds the workspace your techs actually live in — SSH, RDP, DB, network tools — scoped per client. Hudu importer included.
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IT Glue is a Kaseya-owned documentation portal. ShellYard ships docs plus the connections, the vault with per-client KMS, the network kit, and Magellan AI — native desktop, importer included.
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Confluence is a great company-wide wiki. ShellYard is where the runbook lives next to the SSH session and the database it describes — Magellan drafts it from the real output.
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$1,995/year/tech, Windows-only, ~80 utilities. ShellYard covers ~80% of the everyday ETS workflow plus HTTP, DB, and Magellan AI — $288/yr on Pro, on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
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What's on every deep page
Every page in this hub follows the same five-section layout. You can read it cover to cover, or skip to the part that matches the decision you're already making.
Two side-by-side cards: stay on your current tool if X, switch (or add ShellYard) if Y. Self-sort in five seconds.
Parity rows, ShellYard-advantage rows (accent), and other-tool-advantage rows (amber) in the same table body. No row-hiding.
A red-toned card naming the things the other tool genuinely does better. If we don't say it, smart buyers stop trusting the page.
Numbered steps with the actual importers — Postman v2.1, OpenSSH config, SecureCRT, PuTTY, Hudu, IT Glue, CSV. Most are a weekend, not a quarter.
Every objection an evaluator from that tool's audience lands here already asking. Pricing math, parity gaps, hybrid use, vault behaviour. Honest answers.
Don't see your tool?
If you're evaluating against a tool that isn't here — Royal TS, MobaXterm, mRemoteNG, DBeaver, Insomnia, Bruno, Notion, BookStack — tell us. We write these pages from real evaluation threads, not from a positioning matrix.
Install. Open one SSH connection you already use. Run a query against the database behind it. Send an HTTP request through that same session. Ten minutes is enough to know whether the comparison even matters.
Free forever · No credit card · Postman / SecureCRT / PuTTY / OpenSSH / Hudu / IT Glue imports built in