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minicom VS Zterm

Compare minicom VS Zterm and see what are their differences

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

Zterm logo Zterm

ZTerm is a terminal emulation program for the Macintosh.
  • minicom Landing page
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    2023-06-18
  • Zterm Landing page
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    2019-03-17

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to minicom and Zterm)
SSH
79 79%
21% 21
Server Management
82 82%
18% 18
Server Configuration And Automation
Terminal Tools
79 79%
21% 21

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Zterm seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 1 time since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

minicom mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of minicom yet. Tracking of minicom recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Zterm mentions (1)

  • Getting an old Powerbook to connect to a BBS: What Client to use ?
    Using a WiFi modem? Probably ZTerm (see the 1.0.1 link at the bottom, which should work great on System 7) will be your best bet. Source: about 1 year ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing minicom and Zterm, you can also consider the following products

PuTTY - Popular free terminal application. Mostly used as an SSH client.

RealTerm - RealTerm is a terminal program specially designed for capturing, controlling and debugging binary...

Tera Term - Tera Term (Pro) is a free software terminal emulator (communication program) for MS-Windows.

MobaXterm - Enhanced terminal for Windows with X11 server, tabbed SSH client, network tools and much more

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

iTerm2 - A terminal emulator for macOS that does amazing things.