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.
Holy Cow
How have I missed this app?! I have been needing this for the last 11 years of using a Mac and being in the IT business. I have always just ran parallels with Windows/Putty to access my firewalls and switches. I ahve the new M1 Mac and I couldn't get the USB to Serial adapter to work with Windows 11 ARM, so I check one more time for a Mac App and holy cow my mind was blown. This app worked perfectly. It saw the USB to Serial adapter and just worked! It is worth every penny! I will not delete parallels and save that yearly money. — Chapindad
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
It just works
As other have said it just works. Used to connect to Watchguard firewalls and EMC Data Domains, very happy with it, worth every penny. — Onlynik
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.