The Best 15 minicom Alternatives

  • Tera Term icon

    Tera Term

    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. .

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Poderosa icon

    Poderosa

    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.

    Free Open Source Windows

    Support for SFTP SSH Secure Copy (SCP)
  • CuteCom icon

    CuteCom

    Features: easy to use GUI no cryptic keyboard shortcuts lineoriented interface instead of character-oriented Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Q and Ctrl+S control sequences work ...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux FreeBSD

  • CoolTerm icon

    CoolTerm

    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...

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • MacTerm icon

    MacTerm

    MacTerm (was MacTelnet) on OS X is now a complete replacement for Terminal, allowing access to both local and remote applications.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

  • Blink Shell icon

    Blink Shell

    Blink Shell is the professional, desktop-grade terminal emulator for iOS. It's a full-featured and highly configurable open-source terminal that can be compiled from...

    Commercial

  • GtkTerm icon

    GtkTerm

    Gtkterm is a simple GTK+ terminal used to communicate with a serial port. It is has fewer features than minicom, but is designed to be as easy to use as possible.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Zterm icon

    Zterm

    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...

    Free Mac OS X

  • picocom icon

    picocom

    picocom is a minimal dumb-terminal emulation program. It is ideal for embedded systems since its memory footprint is minimal (less than 20K, when stripped). Apart from...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • BXO Terminal icon

    BXO Terminal

    BXO Terminal is a simple terminal emulation program and better suited for use in systems integration. Changing ports, baudrate or other options is done easily and a lot...

    Free Windows

  • pqcom icon

    pqcom

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

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Get Console icon

    Get Console

    Get Console is the first ipad and iphone serial port terminal application providing serial terminal connectivity without jailbreaking. The app store description advises...

    Commercial iPhone iPad

  • TTYEmulator icon

    TTYEmulator

    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...

    Free Windows