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16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Serial Terminals

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

A serial terminal is software that allows communication with devices through a serial port, often used for debugging embedded systems.

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Whippy Term – modern GUI based terminal program

September 30, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Whippy Term is a modern terminal program. It has been designed to have a modern UI and to run on modern OS’s including Linux.

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QSerial – cross-platform serial port utility

August 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

QSerial is a cross platform serial port utility with batteries included.

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HTerm – terminal program for serial communication

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

HTerm is a cross-platform terminal program for serial communication. It uses wxWidgets, fmt, and spdlog.

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opencu – minimalistic serial terminal emulator

July 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

opencu is serial terminal emulator. It’s a port of OpenBSD’s serial terminal emulator cu to Linux.

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ttysterm is a simple serial terminal

July 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ttysterm is a minimalist terminal program like *minicom* or *cu*.

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COMTool – serial debug tools

July 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

COMTool is a cross platform serial debug tool. It’s written in Python.

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CuteCom – graphical serial terminal

July 11, 2025 Steve Emms Software

CuteCom is a graphical serial terminal that’s aimed mainly at hardware developers or other people who need a terminal to talk to their devices.

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ssterm – console-based serial port terminal

July 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ssterm is a simple console-based serial port terminal featuring painless serial port configuration.

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Serial Studio – cross-platform telemetry dashboard and real-time data visualization tool

July 7, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Serial Studio is a cross-platform telemetry dashboard and real-time data visualization tool. It supports input from serial ports

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Seriot – serial monitor and serial plotter

July 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Seriot is a GNOME desktop serial monitor and serial plotter that’s written in the Vala programming language.

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GTKTerm – serial port communication software

July 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

GTKTerm is a simple, graphical serial port terminal emulator for Linux and possibly other POSIX-compliant operating systems.

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moserial – serial terminal for GNOME desktop

July 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

moserial is a clean, friendly GTK-based serial terminal for the gnome desktop. It’s written in the Vala language.

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SerialTool – Serial-Port/TCP/UDP debugging tool

July 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

SerialTool is a serial/network debugging tool. It supports serial debugging assistant, terminal, waveform display and file transfer.

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SerialTest – test tool for serial port, Bluetooth, TCP and UDP

July 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

SerialTest is a cross-platform test tool for serial port, Bluetooth, TCP and UDP.

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minicom – serial communication program

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Minicom is a text-based modem control and terminal emulation program modeled after the popular MS-DOS program Telix.

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yeTTY views logs from serial ports

May 28, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

yeTTY is an application for embedded developers to view logs from a serial port.

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PonyProg is a serial device programmer

April 22, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

PonyProg is a serial device programmer software with a user friendly GUI (Qt-based) framework.

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