CoolTerm AlternativesTerminal Emulators and other similar apps like CoolTerm

Apps similar to CoolTerm include RealTerm, which is free and open source. Other options are Tera Term, CuteCom, Minicom and goSerial. You're spoiled for choice with Terminal Emulators like CoolTerm: we list more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, iPhone and iPad.

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  1. RealTerm icon
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    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.

    20 RealTerm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. Tera Term icon
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    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.

    51 Tera Term alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  3. 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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  4.  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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  5. goSerial icon
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    A Universal Binary for simple serial terminal emulation. Note: Does not support VT terminal type emulation.

    8 goSerial alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  6. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7.  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.

    17 GtkTerm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

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

    16 SerialTool alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. 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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  10. HTerm icon
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    HTerm is a terminal emulator for serial communication.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  12. Terminal is a simple serial port (COM) terminal emulation program. It can be used for communication with different devices such as modems, routers, embedded uC systems, GSM phones,... It is very useful debugging tool for serial communication applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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