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.
Minicom AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Terminal Emulators
The best Terminal Emulator alternative to Minicom is Tera Term, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Minicom and 14 are Terminal Emulators so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Terminal Emulator alternatives to Minicom are CoolTerm, ZOC, YAT - Yet Another Terminal and CuteCom.
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- 42 Tera Term alternatives
25 CoolTerm alternativesCoolTerm 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.
Comments about CoolTerm as an Alternative to Minicom
- CoolTerm is Free and Proprietary
72 ZOC alternativesZOC is a powerful and well-established terminal emulator and telnet client, well known for its outstanding user interface with tabbed multi session support.
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23 YAT - Yet Another Terminal alternativesEngineering, 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.
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19 CuteCom alternativesCuteCom is a graphical serial terminal aimed mainly at hardware developers or other people who need a terminal to talk to their devices.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Discontinued
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- Mac
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- FreeBSD
- 17 GtkTerm alternatives
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.
93 Blink Shell alternativesBlink Shell is the professional, desktop-grade terminal emulator for iOS. It's a full-featured and highly configurable open-source terminal that can be compiled from the source at GitHub or purchased as a pre-compiled app from the App Store to support the developers.
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- 8 picocom alternatives
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...
MacTerm (was MacTelnet) on OS X is now a complete replacement for Terminal, allowing access to both local and remote applications.
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...
36 Poderosa alternativesPoderosa 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.
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...
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Worked on latest Mac Version. Minicom did not run on Monterey 12.3. Donation ware is very kind.