Apps with 'Serial terminal' feature

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  1. PuTTY icon
     1465 likes

    Free and open-source terminal emulator supporting SSH, Telnet, and SCP. Portable, lightweight, and works offline to connect to remote systems securely.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
    • ReactOS
    • Flathub
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
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    Tunnels interface
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    153 alternatives
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  2. RealTerm icon
     14 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    20 alternatives
  3. Tauno Monitor icon
     2 likes

    A Simple stand-alone serial port monitor for the GNOME desktop. It aims to be beginner friendly, small and easy to use. Not feature-rich and professional. Remembers the last settings (Theme, Baud Rate, Port etc.).

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • EE flagEstonia
    • European Union flagEU
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  4. CoreBus icon
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    CoreBus is a cross—platform terminal for working with COM ports and TCP sockets with support for Modbus TCP/RTU/ASCII protocols.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • RU flagRussia
    Modbus Dark Mode
    Modbus Light Mode
    Modbus data visualization
    +3
    Protocol free
    13 alternatives
  5. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Self-Hosted
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  6. SerialTool icon
     2 likes

    Serial Port Communication software ideal for COM communication. Multiplatform utility running on Windows, MacOS and Linux. It is completely free.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    16 alternatives
  7. WoTerm icon
     1 like

    WoTerm all-in-one tool: save money, save trouble, save memory.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • CN flagChina
    float window
    tunnel for socks4/5
    playbook like ansible
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    dashboard
  8. Zterm icon
     4 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    22 alternatives
  9. Portside icon
     1 like

    Portside is a session manager and terminal for operators who run fleets of Linux servers — plus their containers, Kubernetes pods, serial consoles, and legacy telnet endpoints — from a Mac. Connect over OpenSSH or mosh, plug into a switch with a native serial bridge, and keep...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • US flagUnited States
    One foldered library for SSH and mosh hosts, containers, Kubernetes pods, serial consoles, and telnet endpoints — with transport and environment badges.
    ?K Quick Connect fuzzy-searches every saved target and recent connection at once.
    MultiExec broadcasts your keystrokes to every included pane — with a loud banner counting what's live. Drop a host out for a single command and put it back (??M, or the status bar under any pane) without disarming.
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    The SFTP browser rides the same SSH connection as your shell — no second login — with drag-and-drop transfer right beside the terminal.
    5 alternatives
  10. Cross-platform connection manager for SSH, WinRM, RDP, VNC, AppleRD, Telnet, Serial, Web, FTP and SFTP, with tabs, an SFTP panel, jump hosts, tunnels and an encrypted credential vault.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • GE flagGeorgia
    Home dashboard: recent and favourite connections, vault status
    A Mac in a tab, over Apple's High Performance screen sharing
    PowerShell on a Windows server over WinRM
    +9
    A full terminal with your files beside it
    52 alternatives
  11.  QuteSerial icon
     1 like

    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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  12. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • US flagUnited States
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    port settings
    19 alternatives
  13. Nexus Terminal is a free, open-source extension that brings SSH sessions, SFTP file management, serial consoles and port forwarding into Visual Studio Code and VSCodium. Connection profiles are organized in a sidebar, alongside tunnels, macros and scripts.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Visual Studio Code
    Nexus Terminal configuring SSH jump hosts inside VS Code (still from the public demo).
    3 alternatives
  14. NovoTerm icon
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    If you're a firmware developer or an embedded software developer then this tool has been made for you. This modernly designed desktop application serves as a development tool to help view serial data on your COM port.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
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    13 alternatives
  15. 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
    • KR flagSouth Korea
    Demo mode: frames split, CRC-verified and field-parsed live, with the selected FAIL frame shown as hex and a field table.
    Frame definition: length-field framing, a CRC-16/MODBUS checksum with coverage offsets, and typed fields with per-field endianness.
    Send macros with placeholders computed at send time — A5 01 {len} "STAT" {crc16}, bound to F1-F3.
    9 alternatives
  16. Reach SSH icon
     1 like

    A free, open-source SSH client with SFTP, remote desktop, port tunneling and built-in database tools, for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Android
    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU
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    51 alternatives
  17. 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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    22 alternatives
  18. lvdTerm icon
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    lvdterm is an open-source alternative to tools like mputty, teraterm, ... : one window, tabs and split panes, saved connections organized in folders, and an SFTP file browser docked alongside your shell — built on Qt 6 and a vendored, Windows-ported copy of...

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • IT flagItaly
    • European Union flagEU
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  19. 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
    • PL flagPoland
    • European Union flagEU
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    12 alternatives