picocom AlternativesTerminal Emulators and other similar apps like picocom

picocom is described as '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' and is a terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are eight alternatives to picocom for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Cygwin apps. The best picocom alternative is CuteCom, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like picocom are YAT - Yet Another Terminal, Minicom, GtkTerm and dterm (terminal emulator).

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  1. 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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  2. 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

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  3.  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

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  4.  4 likes

    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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  5. 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...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
    • Cygwin
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  6. 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...

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  7. NoTer icon
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    The idea is to create a simple and good looking terminal for being able to transmit to and from electronic boards and hardware. It can be configured to show data in hex or string format. It allows manual configuration of the port to use.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Simple and handy serial communication tool written with python and qt.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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