CuteCom is a graphical serial terminal, like minicom.

<ul><li>easy to use GUI</li><li>no cryptic keyboard shortcuts</li><li>line-oriented interface instead of character-oriented</li><li>Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Q and Ctrl+S control sequences work (use CMD+ on MacOS)</li><li>input history</li><li>a cute GUI ;-)</li><li>session support via -s specified at the command line</li><li>switching sessions via a session manager</li><li>control panel hides when not used</li><li>xmodem, ymodem, zmodem support (requires the sz tools)</li><li>easy to differentiate between typed text and echoed text</li><li>select between read/write, read-only and write-only open mode</li><li>hexadecimal input and output</li><li>configurable line end characters (LF, CR, LFCR)</li><li>configurable delay between characters</li><li>optionally show control characters like line feed or tabs in output</li><li>optionally prefix each line in output with a timestamp</li><li>plugins (macros, netproxy)</li></ul>