Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.
- Terminal Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Termora is developed using Kotlin/JVM and partially implements the XTerm protocol (with ongoing improvements). Its ultimate vision is to achieve full platform support (including Android, iOS, and iPadOS) through Kotlin Multiplatform.
- Terminal Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Homebrew
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.
- Terminal Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
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.
- Terminal Emulator
- Free • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
RealTerm is a 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.
Discontinued- Terminal Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
Print raw (ZPL, ESC/P, FGL), HTML, PDF as well as communicate with USB, HID, and serial devices through a cross-platform browser plugin.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Microsoft Edge
- Google Chrome
- Safari
- Opera
- Firefox
+1Send the real-time data you need to as many apps as you want. Virtual COM ports let you share data from one GPS tracking device with several applications. GpsGate Splitter is ideal for enterprise deployments, police and fire departments, and other mobile workers with in-vehicle laptops.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
VSPE is intended to help software engineers and developers to create/debug/test applications that use serial ports. It is able to create various virtual devices to transmit/receive data.
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
+1Serial Port Communication software ideal for COM communication. Multiplatform utility running on Windows, MacOS and Linux. It is completely free.
- Free • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
+6Minicom 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)...
- Terminal Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Linux
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.
- Terminal Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
Displays, logs, and analyzes real-time serial data from RS232/422/485 ports with customizable interface, flexible configuration, and event tracking filters.
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
A no install serial terminal that runs in the web browser compatible with google Chrome and Microsoft edge browsers. Works on windows, linux, and Chromebooks. Uses webserial API to connect to local serial devices from within the web browser.
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Chrome OS
- Self-Hosted
+1dterm 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...
- Terminal Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
- Cygwin
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...
- Terminal Emulator
- Free • Open Source
- Linux