Tera Term Alternatives

Tera Term is described as '(Pro) is a free software terminal emulator (communication program) for MS-Windows. It supports VT100 emulation, telnet connection, serial port connection, and so on' and is a terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Tera Term for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPhone apps. The best Tera Term alternative is PuTTY, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Tera Term are OpenSSH, Windows Terminal, KiTTY and Bitvise SSH Client.

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  1. TTYEmulator is a free terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH, Telnet, rlogin, raw TCP and serial computing protocols. TTYEmulator is written for Microsoft Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. ShellCraft icon
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    With convenient and powerful user interface, ShellCraft significantly improve your efficiency. ShellCraft implements the standard SSH/Telnet protocol, it can simply connect to various servers. The session management function make you managing sessions easily, connecting to...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  3. QuTTY icon
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    QuTTY is a multi-tabbed, multi-paned SSH/Telnet client with a terminal emulator. The goal is to support advanced features similar to iterm2. Following features are supported.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. 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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  5. Private Shell is an advanced and easy-to-use SSH and SecureFTP client for Windows providing remote computer access with SSH1 and SSH2 protocols.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  6. Putty for Mac icon
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    Putty is one of the Best Terminal Emulators available today. It Supports different types of Network Protocols such as SSH, FTP, SCP, Telnet etc. In Windows it is used as SSH Client to connect to Your Linux server or for some other purpose.

    83 Putty for Mac alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  7. PieTTY icon
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    PieTTY is a free SSH client based on PuTTY and dedicated to multilingual (especially CJK) environments, accessibility, and simpler user interface. "Glass Window Mode" : Alpha-blending / HW-accelerated transparency & drop-shadow.

    47 PieTTY alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    The modern SSH and Telnet terminal client for Windows 8 and Win-RT on Intel and ARM platforms.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  9.  QuteSerial icon
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    QuteSerial is a RS232 terminal in the veins of minicom, hyperterminal, and br@y's Terminal.exe. It allows you to access a old-fashioned RS232 (serial) port and display the received data in either a Hex or ASCII format.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
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  11. WhippyTerm icon
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    WhippyTerm is a modern GUI based terminal program. It was designed to have a modern UI and to run on modern OS's like Windows and Linux. It also has a number of unique features such as bookmarks, built in hex dumps, extending through plugins, and native support for binary...

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. Axessh icon
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    Axessh is Windows SSH Client for secure connections.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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