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 ZOC, CoolTerm, YAT - Yet Another Terminal and SerialTool.

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  1. 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.

    49 Tera Term alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  2. ZOC icon
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    ZOC is a powerful and well-established terminal emulator and telnet client, well known for its outstanding user interface with tabbed multi session support.

    96 ZOC alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  3. CoolTerm icon
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    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.

    26 CoolTerm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. 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.

    24 YAT - Yet Another Terminal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  5. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. Poderosa icon
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    Poderosa 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  7. WhippyTerm icon
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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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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. 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.

    51 TTYEmulator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  9.  1 like

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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