CLUSTER SERIAL-TERMINAL-DEVICES · 31 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2013-08-21
Serial terminal emulators
This cluster consists of 27 tools for serial communication with hardware and embedded devices, primarily terminal emulators that connect over serial ports, with a few adding network bridging, scripting, or file transfer. The dated entries before the index start show a low, consistent trickle of releases from 2013 to 2026, with slight concentrations in 2016 and early 2020. The traction leaders—serial-scout, protocol-studio, and ttynvt—all show zero stars, so no member stands out on activity.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 3 hand-coded · 17 unlabelled
Operator · 1 hobby · 1 indie · 16 open source · 2 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01ble2tty1★23 dayslivemacOS app that bridges Bluetooth and wired serial adapters to virtual serial ports and provides terminal emulation for debugging network device consoles.
- 02minicom-hangfix0★7 daysliveopen sourceSerial communication program that connects to serial devices, supports Bluetooth low-energy serial mode, and avoids interface hangs on unusual characters.
- 03devserial0★1 moliveopen sourceSerial terminal that captures output to a local buffer and provides command-line, text, graphical, network, and automation interfaces.
- 04USB-Relay-Web2★25 days—hobbyDesktop and browser app that controls USB serial relays on Windows by sending configurable commands over COM ports.
- 05serial-scout0★25 days—indieDesktop utility for makers to save serial device profiles, auto-detect reconnecting boards, and open terminal sessions with correct settings.
- 06protocol-studio0★1 mo—A browser-based serial UART terminal that enables developers to communicate with hardware devices through the Web Serial API.
- 07ttynvt0★26 daysliveopen sourceVirtual network terminal that exposes remote serial ports over a network connection using a standard control protocol.
- 08stuart0★3 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based serial port client with a text user interface for interacting with serial devices.
- 09tcterm0★5 moliveopen sourceSerial terminal application for communicating with hardware devices.
- 10microcom0★9 mostaleliveopen sourceSerial terminal emulator for interacting with devices over serial connections.
- 11easyterm0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceSerial port terminal emulator for connecting to serial devices via a serial interface.
- 12ssterm0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA console-based serial port terminal application for communicating with serial devices from the command line.
- 13noter0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceA serial port terminal providing communication with hex and text conversion utilities.
- 14opencu0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceA minimalistic serial terminal emulator for connecting to serial devices.
- 15coolterm-bin0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceGUI application that provides a serial port terminal for communicating with hardware devices.
- 16cutecom0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceA graphical serial terminal for connecting to devices through serial ports.
- 17yap-rs0★1 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line serial terminal application for connecting to and communicating with serial devices during embedded development.
- 18tio0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceSerial communication tool that provides a simple terminal I/O interface for connecting to and interacting with TTY devices.
- 19minterm-bin0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceLightweight terminal application for communicating over serial ports.
- 20script-communicator0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA scriptable communication terminal for connecting to devices over serial, TCP, UDP, or CAN.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.