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.
Minicom Alternatives for Windows
Minicom is not available for Windows but there are some alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality. The best Windows alternative is Tera Term, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Minicom and nine of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Minicom are CoolTerm, ZOC, YAT - Yet Another Terminal and SerialTool.
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Minicom alternatives are mainly Terminal Emulators, but if you're looking for SSH Clients or Shells you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Windows, Linux and Mac. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Minicom.
Alternatives list
- 42 Tera Term alternatives
25 CoolTerm alternativesCoolTerm 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.
Comments about CoolTerm as an Alternative to Minicom
- CoolTerm is Free and Proprietary
72 ZOC alternativesZOC 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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23 YAT - Yet Another Terminal alternativesEngineering, 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.
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14 SerialTool alternativesSerial 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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36 Poderosa alternativesPoderosa is a tabbed terminal emulator for Windows.
Against common terminal emulators such as Putty or TeraTerm, Poderosa has following features.
Tabbed style GUI It is convenient to open multiple connections at the same time. Moreover, you can split the window into panes a.
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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
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
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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Worked on latest Mac Version. Minicom did not run on Monterey 12.3. Donation ware is very kind.