dterm (terminal emulator) AlternativesTerminal Emulators and other similar apps like dterm (terminal emulator)

dterm (terminal emulator) is described as 'Dterm is a simple terminal emulator, which doesn’t actually emulate any particular terminal. Mainly, it is designed for use with xterm and friends, which already do a perfectly good emulation, and therefore don’t need any special help; dterm simply provides a means by which' and is a terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to dterm (terminal emulator) for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best dterm (terminal emulator) alternative is PuTTY, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like dterm (terminal emulator) are CoolTerm, ZOC, Tera Term and CuteCom.

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  1. PuTTY icon
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    Free and open-source terminal emulator for connecting to remote systems via SSH, Telnet, and SCP. Portable with no installation required, providing lightweight functionality. Ideal for secure connections with features like command line support and customizable settings. Works offline effortlessly.

    138 PuTTY alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
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    • BSD
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    • ReactOS
    • Flathub
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  2. CoolTerm icon
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    CoolTerm is a simple serial port terminal application (no terminal emulation) that is geared towards hobbyists and professionals with a need to exchange data with hardware connected to serial ports such as servo controllers, robotic kits, GPS receivers, microcontrollers, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. ZOC icon
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    ZOC is a powerful and well-established terminal emulator and telnet client, well known for its outstanding user interface with tabbed multi session support.

    95 ZOC alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  4. Tera Term icon
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    Tera Term (Pro) is a free software terminal emulator (communication program) for MS-Windows. It supports VT100 emulation, telnet connection, serial port connection, and so on.

    48 Tera Term alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  5. CuteCom icon
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    CuteCom is a graphical serial terminal aimed mainly at hardware developers or other people who need a terminal to talk to their devices.

    19 CuteCom alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
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  6. Engineering, testing and debugging of serial communication. Supports RS-232/422/423/485 as well as TCP/IP Client/Server/AutoSocket, UDP/IP Client/Server/PairSocket and USB Ser/HID. Optimized for simple command sets of e.g. embedded systems.

    24 YAT - Yet Another Terminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  7.  9 likes

    Minicom is a text-based modem control and terminal emulator program for Unix-like operating systems, originally written by Miquel van Smoorenburg, and modeled after the popular MS-DOS program Telix. Minicom includes a dialing directory, ANSI and VT100 emulation, an (external)...

    18 Minicom alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
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    Gtkterm is a simple GTK+ terminal used to communicate with a serial port. It is has fewer features than minicom, but is designed to be as easy to use as possible.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  9. SerialTool icon
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    Serial Port Communication software ideal for COM communication. Multiplatform utility running on Windows, MacOS and Linux. It is completely free.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    picocom is a minimal dumb-terminal emulation program. It is ideal for embedded systems since its memory footprint is minimal (less than 20K, when stripped). Apart from being a handy little tool, the source distribution includes a simple, easy to use, and thoroughly documented...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  11. Poderosa icon
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    Poderosa is a tabbed terminal emulator for Windows.

    Against common terminal emulators such as Putty or TeraTerm, Poderosa has following features.

    Tabbed style GUI It is convenient to open multiple connections at the same time. Moreover, you can split the window into panes a.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  12. Zterm icon
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    ZTerm is a terminal emulation program for the Macintosh. In its day, many people used it to connect to Bulletin Board Systems and download files. Now we have the internet. Its still a useful utility for those systems that only offer dialup connections and for connecting to...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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