Connect to routers, servers, firewalls, industrial control and IoT devices with ease.
See every byte received in raw hex format allowing you to work with devices lacking a text-based interface. A new send panel allows you transmit data in hex format too.
Serial is now a full featured SSH client with a comprehensive built-in identity manager and the ability to organize and group your favorite hosts.
Serial now includes comprehensive support for Telnet, including the RFC2217 extension for remote serial port control supported by many serial device servers. Serial supports raw TCP sockets as well.
Serial is a full-featured terminal emulator supporting Xterm, VT102, and ANSI terminal controls. This allows you to navigate the menu-driven interfaces found in many routers, firewalls and switches and use text based programs including emacs, vi, and nano as if you were connected over the network.
Serial includes built-in, reliable support for almost every serial device on the market, sparing you the hassle of finding, installing, and updating drivers.
Does the job
If you need it, you'll be happy to pay for it. The pleasure of finding your device ready to connect upon opening the application without having to mess with drivers is priceless. After that, it just works. — GGuida
Mandatory tool to any network engineer
I am a network engineer who's been working for a manufaturers for the past 25yrs.
Serial is my goto program when I have no choice but hit the console port of those boxes in our lab.
It is perfect when coupled with an FTDI usb-serial adapter and provides the nice bells and whistles that come with a GUI.
Whether you end up needing VT100/220 Xterm etc. all those needed emulations are here. Tha't quite appreciated when you work on headless CPE VM hosts...
All-in-all, excellent piece of software. Thanks! — Hal06
Worth It
I’m an old school guy that has been using GNU screen in Mac OS X terminal for years for serial connections. I finally decided to spend the money on this app, and I’m glad that I did. The fact that the drivers are included is a huge time saver and this app is much easier to work with then GNU screen.
If you need serial connections on a regular basis, do yourself and favor and get this. — AaronF LA
Supports devices from FTDI, Silicon Labs, Prolific, TI, Microchip, and many more.
Save time by storing frequently used settings for use with multiple devices.
Capture timestamps for received data.
Reliable break support enables password recovery, Cisco ROM monitor mode and more.
Supports XMODEM, YMODEM, ZMODEM and Kermit for file transfers and firmware uploads.
Manual or automatic logging for auditing or debugging purposes.
Access non-standard baud rates.
Connect to Bluetooth Serial (SPP) and some Bluetooth Smart devices.
Version 2.0.17 — 21.7 MB — Release Notes
Free demo is fully functional for 7 days.
Requires macOS El Capitan (10.11) or later.
Compatible with macOS Monterey (12.0) and runs natively on both Apple and Intel Processors.