Minicom Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to Minicom for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is CoolTerm, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Minicom and nine of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Minicom are SerialTool, ZOC, MacTerm and dterm (terminal emulator).

Minicom alternatives are mainly Terminal Emulators but may also be SSH Clients or Shells. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Minicom.

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Minicom

Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator

Minicom is a text-based modem control and terminal emulator program for Unix-like operating systems, originally written by...

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CoolTerm
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Free • Proprietary
Terminal Emulator
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24 CoolTerm alternatives
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.
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Serial-port
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Most users think CoolTerm is a great Minicom alternative.
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Worked on latest Mac Version. Minicom did not run on Monterey 12.3. Donation ware is very kind.
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SerialTool
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Free • Proprietary
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12 SerialTool alternatives
Serial Port Communication software ideal for COM communication. Multiplatform utility running on Windows, MacOS and Linux. It is completely free
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SerialTool Features
Serial terminal
Serial-port
ZOC
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Paid • Proprietary
Terminal Emulator
SSH Client
Shell
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61 ZOC alternatives
ZOC is a powerful and well-established terminal emulator and telnet client, well known for its outstanding user interface with tabbed multi session support.
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ZOC Features
1. Support for scriptingZOC supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.
Tabbed interface
Telnet client
SSH
BBS Support
Binary trace files
Incoming data as hex dump
Support for Hotkeys
Auto Highlighting
Stream Capture
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Some users think ZOC is a great Minicom alternative, some don't.
MacTerm
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Shell
Mac
79 MacTerm alternatives
MacTerm (was MacTelnet) on OS X is now a complete replacement for Terminal, allowing access to both local and remote applications.
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MacTerm Features
SSH
dterm (terminal emulator)
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
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Cygwin
15 dterm (terminal emulator) alternatives
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...
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dterm (terminal emulator) Features
Serial-port
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CuteCom
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Mac
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FreeBSD
18 CuteCom alternatives
CuteCom is a graphical serial terminal aimed mainly at hardware developers or other people who need a terminal to talk to their devices.
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CuteCom Features
1. PortableCuteCom can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
Configurable
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.
Zterm
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Free • Proprietary
Terminal Emulator
Mac
21 Zterm alternatives
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...
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Zterm Features
Serial terminal
Driverless
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SerialTools
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Free • Proprietary
Mac
8 SerialTools alternatives
Serial Tools is a set of serial port tools for Mac OS X. Serial ports are usually USB to Serial converters.
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pqcom
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Free • Open Source
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15 pqcom alternatives
Simple and handy serial communication tool written with python and qt.
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pqcom Features
Serial-port