Minicom Alternatives

Minicom is described as '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)' and is a terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Minicom for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and iPad apps. The best Minicom alternative is CoolTerm, which is free. Other great apps like Minicom are Tera Term, ZOC, YAT - Yet Another Terminal and CuteCom.

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  1. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Get Console is the first ipad and iphone serial port terminal application providing serial terminal connectivity without jailbreaking. The app store description advises it works on network devices, but offers a standard VT100 emulation.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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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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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    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

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Serial Tools is a set of serial port tools for Mac OS X. Serial ports are usually USB to Serial converters.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Simple and handy serial communication tool written with python and qt.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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