HyperTerminal Alternatives
HyperTerminal is described as 'terminal emulator capable of connecting to systems through TCP/IP Networks, Dial-Up Modems, and COM ports. Until Windows XP, it is included with the operating system, but, starting from Windows Vista, it has to be bought separately' and is a Terminal Emulator in the OS & Utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to HyperTerminal for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and Android Tablet. The best alternative is PuTTY, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like HyperTerminal are Royal TSX (Freemium), JuiceSSH (Free), YAT - Yet Another Terminal (Free, Open Source) and RXVT (Free, Open Source).
- PuTTY is a free and open-source terminal emulator, serial console and network file transfer application. It supports several network protocols, including SCP, SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw socket connection. It can also connect to a serial port.
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- PortableApps.com
- ReactOS
- Royal TS provides easy and secure access to your remote systems Unlock the power to remotely manage your systems on multiple platforms!
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- The all in one terminal client for Android including SSH, Local Shell, Mosh and Telnet support.
- Free • Proprietary
- Android
- Android Tablet
- mosh
- OpenSSH
- Dropbear SSH Server and Client
- 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.
- A terminal emulator for X11.
Discontinued
Last updated in 2013.
- 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.
- HTerm is a terminal emulator for serial communication.
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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.
Discontinued
The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.22.0, released in June 2009, can be still downloaded from the official website. It does not support terminal type emulation.