RealTerm Alternatives

RealTerm is described as 'Terminal program specially designed for capturing, controlling and debugging binary and other difficult data streams. It is far better for debugging comms than HyperTerminal. It has no support for dialing modems, BBS, etc. - that is what HyperTerminal does' and is a terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to RealTerm for Windows, Linux, Mac and FreeBSD. The best RealTerm alternative is CoolTerm, which is free. Other great apps like RealTerm are Tera Term, CuteCom, YAT - Yet Another Terminal and GtkTerm.

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  1. moserial icon
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    moserial is a clean, friendly gtk-based serial terminal for the GNOME desktop. It is primarily intended for technical users and hardware hackers who need to communicate with embedded systems, test equipment, and serial consoles.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  2. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Terminal emulator written with Qt for serial communication.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  4. AccessPort is serial port monitoring tool for technicians, engineers and software developers designing or debugging serial port related projects.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. FrameTerm icon
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    FrameTerm — a byte-oriented serial/TCP protocol workbench: declarative framing, CRC verification, field parsing and highlighting. Part of the TestBench.tools desktop suite.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. RS-232 and RS-485 serial terminal and serial port monitor for macOS, Windows, Linux, with a Modbus RTU decoder and RS-485 sniffer, time-stamped logging, macros, triggers and ESP32, STM32, AVR firmware flashing, plus optional Lua scripting, charts, an AI assistant (BYOK) and an MCP server.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. Listen32 icon
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    Listen32 tap into RS-232 transmit signals for monitoring bi-directional communications between two devices. Two COM ports are used in the listening device, the receive line of each connected to the transmit line of one of the communicating devices.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8.  1 like

    Simple and handy serial communication tool written with python and qt.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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