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We've compiled a list of 14 free and paid alternatives to minicom. The primary competitors include ZOC, Poderosa. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between minicom and Blink Shell, Tera Term, CuteCom. Also you can look at other similar options here: OS and Utilities.


Terminal emulator, SSH client, telnet client, serial connection terminal.

Poderosa is a tabbed terminal emulator for Windows.

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.

CuteCom
Free Open Source

Features: easy to use GUI no cryptic keyboard shortcuts

picocom
Free Open Source

picocom is a minimal dumb-terminal emulation program.

GtkTerm
Free Open Source

Gtkterm is a simple GTK+ terminal used to communicate with a serial port.

pqcom
Free Open Source

Simple and handy serial communication tool written with python and qt

Zterm
Free

ZTerm is a terminal emulation program for the Macintosh.

Minicom is a menu driven communications program. It emulates ANSI and VT102 terminals.

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minicom Overview

Minicom is a menu driven communications program. It emulates ANSI and VT102 terminals. It has a dialing directory and auto zmodem download.

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