About

XPipe is a connection hub that allows you to access your entire server infrastructure from your local desktop. It works on top of your installed command-line programs like SSH, docker, or others, and does not require any setup on your remote systems. It integrates with your favourite text editors, terminals, shells, VNC/RDP clients, password managers, and command-line tools. The platform is designed to be extensible, allowing anyone to add easily support for more tools or to implement custom functionality through a modular extension system.

It currently supports:

SSH connections, config files, and tunnels
Docker + compose, Podman, LXD, and incus containers
Proxmox PVE, Hyper-V, KVM, and VMware Player/Workstation/Fusion virtual machines
Tailscale, Netbird, and Teleport connections
AWS and Hetzner Cloud servers
RDP and VNC connections
Windows Subsystem for Linux, Cygwin, and MSYS2 environments
Kubernetes clusters, pods, and containers
Powershell Remote Sessions

Connection hub

Easily establish and manage connections to remote systems from a central hub interface
Organize all your connections in hierarchical categories to maintain an overview over hundreds of connections.
Create custom shell login environments to instantly jump into a properly set up shell for every use case
Quickly perform various commonly used actions like starting/stopping systems, establishing tunnels, and more
Create desktop shortcuts and macros that automatically open remote connections in your terminal without having to open any GUI

Connection hub

File browser

Interact with the file system of any remote system using a workflow optimized for professionals
Utilize your entire arsenal of locally installed programs to open and edit remote files
Dynamically elevate sessions with sudo when required without having to restart the session
Seamlessly transfer files from and to your system desktop environment
Work and perform transfers on multiple systems at the same time with the built-in tabbed multitasking
Quickly open a terminal session into any directory in your favourite terminal emulator
Customize every action through the scripting system

Browser

Terminal launcher

Launches you into a shell session in your favourite terminal with one click. Automatically fills password prompts and more
Comes with support for all commonly used terminal emulators across all operating systems
Supports opening custom terminal emulators as well via a custom command-line spec
Works with all command shells such as bash, zsh, fish, cmd, PowerShell, and more, locally and remote
Integrates with multiplexers like tmux and zellij, plus prompts like starship and oh-my-zsh
Supports opening multiple sessions in split terminal pane views
Connects to a system while the terminal is still starting up, allowing for faster connections than otherwise possible

Terminal

Versatile scripting system

Create reusable simple shell scripts, templates, and groups to run on connected remote systems
Automatically make your scripts available in the PATH on any remote system without any setup
Setup shell init environments for connections to fully customize your work environment for every purpose
Open custom shells and custom remote connections by providing your own commands
Use custom scripts in the file browser

scripts

And much more

You can synchronize your vault across multiple systems and share it with other team members via your own self-hosted git repository
All data is stored exclusively on your systems in a cryptographically secure vault. You can also choose to increase security by using a custom master passphrase for further encryption
XPipe is able to retrieve secrets automatically from your installed password manager and doesn't have store secrets itself
There are no servers involved, all your information stays on your systems. The XPipe application does not send any personal or sensitive information to outside services
XPipe has an integrated MCP server that you can enable. This allows you to easily use all of XPipe's features from an AI agent
Run coherent desktop applications remotely via the uniform desktop application system in XPipe for RDP, VNC, and X11 forwards
Securely tunnel and automatically open remote services with one click with the services integration

Downloads

Note that this is a desktop application that should be run on your local desktop workstation, not on any server or containers. It will be able to connect to your server infrastructure from there.

For a full reference and instructions, see the installation docs and managed installation docs.

Windows

Installers are the easiest way to get started and come with an optional automatic update functionality:

If you don't like installers, you can also use a portable version that is packaged as an archive:

Alternatively, you can also use the following package managers:

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Xpipe

Install / Use

README

About

Connection hub

File browser

Terminal launcher

Versatile scripting system

And much more

Downloads

Windows