Awesome TUIs

List of projects that provide terminal user interfaces

Dashboards
Development
Docker/Containers/K8s
Editors
File Managers
Games
Libraries
Messaging
Miscellaneous
Multimedia
Productivity
Web

Dashboards

AdGuardian-Term A TUI dashboard for monitoring real-time traffic from an AdGuard Home instance
bandwhich Terminal bandwidth utilization tool
bashtop Resource manager written in bash
below A time traveling resource monitor for modern Linux systems
binsider A TUI for analyzing Linux binaries.
bmon A monitoring and debugging tool to capture networking related statistics and prepare them visually.
bottom A customizable graphical process/system monitor for the terminal.
bpytop A Python-based system monitor with lots of information.
btop++ Resource monitor with extras
cgdb Console front-end to the GNU debugger
chdig Dig into ClickHouse with TUI interface
cheatshh A fzf TUI for managing custom made command-line cheatsheet for Unix.
cointop The fastest and most interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies
CoreFreq CPU monitoring software designed for the 64-bits Processors
damon TUI interface for Hashicorp Nomad
dolphie Your single pane of glass for real-time analytics into MySQL/MariaDB & ProxySQL
fubar Formidable Unix Binary Arsenal & Repository. TUI built for gtfobins power users.
Glances Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative.
Goaccess GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in nix systems or through your browser.
gobang A cross-platform TUI database management tool written in Rust
gotop A terminal based graphical activity monitor inspired by gtop and vtop
gping Ping, but with a graph
Grafterm Metrics dashboards on terminal, a Grafana inspired terminal version
htop Interactive text-mode process viewer for Unix systems. It aims to be a better 'top'
htui Heroku Terminal User Interface
kaskade TUI for kafka, which allows you to interact and consume topics from your terminal in style!
kmon Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor
macmon Sudoless performance monitoring for Apple Silicon processors written in Rust
netscanner Network scanner
nvtop GPUs process monitoring for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA
oryx A TUI for sniffing network traffic using eBPF
Planor The Cloud Aviator, dashboard for AWS, Vultr, Heroku, ...
process-compose TUI for running apps and processes
Puffin A beautiful terminal dashboard for hledger
s-tui CPU stress and monitoring utility
sysz An fzf terminal UI for systemctl
tdash A terminal dashboard with stats from Google Analytics, GitHub, Travis CI, and Jenkins. Very much built specific to me
tegratop Monitoring tool (top like) for Nvidia jetson boards
TermUI Golang terminal dashboard
trek ncurses explorer for Hashicorp Nomad clusters
trippy A network diagnostic tool that includes functionality like mtr and more
ttop System monitoring tool with historical data service, triggers and top-like TUI
tufw Terminal UI for ufw
wander HashiCorp Nomad terminal client
WTF The personal information dashboard for your terminal.
zenith In terminal graphical metrics for your *nix system written in Rust

Development

act3 Glance at the last 3 runs of your Github Actions
amtui Alertmanager TUI - Your Terminal Companion for Alertmanager
ATAC A feature-full TUI API client made in Rust. ATAC is free, open-source, offline and account-less.
austin-tui The top-like text-based user interface for Austin
blinkenlights TUI that may be used for debugging x86_64-linux or i8086 programs across platforms
brows CLI GitHub release browser
burf TUI for Google Cloud Storage (GCS)
cnTUI Replay chrome requests from your terminal using curl
csope C source code browser based on cscope
CuTE TUI to help build, execute and save curl commands, recursively download from remote sources, test your API endpoints, and mange your keys
dbee Fast & Minimalistic Database Browser
dblab The database client every command line junkie deserves
ddqa Jira TUI to help with software releases
delta A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output
euporie Jupyter notebooks in the terminal
fx Terminal JSON viewer & processor
gitui blazing fast terminal-ui for git written in rust
git-crecord interactive selective commit tool
grv Terminal interface for viewing git repositories
harlequin The SQL IDE for Your Terminal
jqp A TUI playground to experiment with jq
lazygit Simple terminal UI for git commands
lazysql A cross-platform TUI database management tool written in Go.
logshark A debugger CLI for JSON logs written in Go
mitmproxy A free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy
nap Code snippets in your terminal
nodebro Easily view most recent Github releases/tags and release notes from the terminal
play A TUI playground to experiment with your favorite programs, such as grep, sed, awk, jq and yq
posting A powerful HTTP client that lives in your terminal
prs Stay updated on PRs without leaving the terminal
pudb A console-based visual debugger for Python
pyautogit A terminal UI for managing git repositories, written using py_cui
runme Discover and run code snippets directly from your README.md or other markdowns
sls-dev-tools Dev Tools for the Serverless World
termdbms A TUI for viewing and editing database files.
terraform-tui view and interact with Terraform state
toolui Dotnet core application to manage installed nuget tools
soft-serve A tasty, self-hostable Git server for the command lineicecream
tig Text-mode interface for git
vctui Console interface for vCenter
violet Colorful TUI frontend to run Vagrant commands

Docker/LXC/K8s

ctop Top-like interface for container metrics
dive A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image
dockly Immersive terminal interface for managing docker containers and services
dry A Docker manager for the terminal
ducker A slightly quackers Docker TUI based on k9s
eks-node-viewer visualizing dynamic node usage within a kubernetes cluster
k9s TUI for managing a Kubernetes cluster
kdash A simple and fast dashboard for Kubernetes
ktop A top-like tool for your Kubernetes clusters
kubetui A TUI tool designed for monitoring Kubernetes resources.
lazydocker The lazier way to manage everything docker
oxker A simple tui to view & control docker containers
Pocker TUI based application for docker related tasks.
Podman-tui TUI for Podman containers
sen Terminal User Interface for docker engine

Editors

amp A complete text editor for your terminal
C-Edit A text editor with drop down menus in the style of MS-DOS Editor
helix A post-modern text editor.
frogmouth A Markdown browser for your terminal
kakoune A modern, modal text editor with focus on interactivity and efficiency
micro A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
orbiton Text editor limited by VT100, suitable for programming, writing git commit messages and editing Markdown
slap Sublime-like terminal-based text editor
thymus An interactive browser & editor for network configuration files.
turbo An experimental text editor for the terminal, based on Scintilla and Turbo Vision
zee A modern text editor for the terminal written in Rust

File Managers

adbtuifm A TUI file manager for Android, based on the Android Debug Bridge(ADB).
broot A new way to see and navigate directory trees
fff A simple file manager written in bash.
fml 📁 A stupid simple, fast file manager written in BASH v4.2+.
goful a powerful TUI file manager written in Go.
lf A terminal file manager written in Go with heavy inspiration from ranger file manager.
mc GNU Midnight Commander. A free cross-platform orthodox file manager.
nnn n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager.
ranger A VIM-inspired file manager for the console.
superfile Pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager.
TUIFIManager A cross-platform terminal-based file manager (supports termux).
Vifm A TUI file manager with vi-keybindings and other vim like behaviour.
yazi Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.

Games

2048-cli The game 2048 for your Linux terminal
awkaster Pseudo-3D shooter written completely in gawk using raycasting technique
bastet Evil falling block game
botany Virtual plant buddy
brickgame-4bit Brick Game emulator (4-bit Holtek chip)
BrogueCE Beautiful roguelike dungeon crawler
cbonsai A bonsai tree generator
chess-tui Play Chess in your terminal, built in rust
clidle Play Wordle in your terminal. Also works over SSH!
DOOM-ASCII Text-based DOOM running in terminal.
Gameboy Emulator A PHP Terminal GameBoy Emulator
go-life Terminal based Conway's Game of Life
Greed A game of consumption. Eat as much as you can before munching yourself into a corner!
Micro Snake A small snake game, utilizing ANSI escape sequences to draw the board.
Micro Tetris One of the smallest Tetris implementations in the world, utilizing only ANSI escape sequences to draw the board.
moon-buggy Drive some car across the moon
MyMan MyMan is a video game for color and monochrome text terminals in the genre of Namco's Pac-Man
nchess Chess in the terminal, written in C.
NetHack Dungeon exploration game
nInvaders Space Invaders
nSnake The classic snake game with textual interface
nudoku ncurses based sudoku game
onx Noughts & Crosses client-server game with your partner. Based on textual and python.
pokete A terminal based Pokemon like game
Rebels in the sky P2P terminal game about spacepirates playing basketball across the galaxy.
snake 🎮 A super minimal TUI snake game written in pure BASH v5.1+
Square Tic Tac Toe Like Tic Tac Toe, but form a square with 4 corners instead of a line
ssHattrick Play Hattrick in your terminal over SSH.
sshtron multiplayer lightcycle game that runs through SSH
sssnake The classic snake game for the terminal that can play itself and be used like a screensaver.
steam-tui Just a simple TUI client for steamcmd. Allows for the graphical launching, updating, and downloading of steam games through a simple terminal client.
sudoku-rs Sudoku built with tui-rs
sweeper Minesweeper game using curtsies
terminal-phase Space shooter game that runs in your terminal!
tinytetris 80x23 terminal tetris!
tty-solitaire Solitaire runs in your terminal!
typeinc ncurses based typing speed test with various difficulty levels.
typing-game-cli Command line game to practice your typing speed by competing against typer-robot or against your best result
Wordle Script and library for Wordle, written in Raku

Libraries

Ashen An Elm inspired framework written in Swift
blessed A high-level terminal interface library for Node.js
blessed Blessed is an easy, practical library for making Python terminal apps
blessings A Python wrapper lib for ncurses that makes your code pretty to look at
bubbletea A Go framework based on Elm to build functional and stateful TUI apps, complete with extensions known as bubbles
CursedGL A C notcurses-based software rasterizer inspired by OpenGL 1.X that renders directly to the terminal.
Consolonia Dotnet core terminal-based GUI framework with support of XAML
FINAL CUT C++ library for creating terminal applications with text-based widgets
FTXUI 💻 C++ Functional Terminal User Interface. ❤️
gocui Minimalist Go package aimed at creating Console User Interfaces
gui.cs Console-based user interface toolkit for .NET applications
gum A tool for glamorous shell scripts
imtui An immediate mode text-based user interface C++ library, supporting 256 ANSI colors and mouse/keyboard input.
ink React for Node.js interactive command-line apps
Lanterna A Java library for creating text-based UIs, very similar to the C library curses but with more functionality.
moulti A CLI-driven TUI displaying arbitrary outputs inside visual, collapsible blocks. Designed with shell scripts in mind. Ansible-friendly too.
ncurses A classic C library with bindings for many languages
nimwave Build text interfaces for the terminal or browser in Nim
notcurses blingful character graphics/TUI library for C and Python. definitely not curses.
php-tui comprehensive TUI library for PHP based heavily on Ratatui.
pterm A modern Go module to beautify console output. Featuring charts, progressbars, tables, trees, and much more! It's completely configurable and 100% cross-platform compatible.
py_cui Python library aimed at making widget based TUI/CUI interfaces as simple as possible. Supports standard widgets and popups like menus, textboxes, forms, file explorers etc.
pytermgui A simple yet powerful TUI framework for your Python (3.7+) applications.
pyTermTk self-contained TUI library for Python with a QT-like API semantics
Python Prompt Toolkit Library for building powerful interactive command line applications in Python
Ratatui A Rust crate for building Terminal UIs (actively maintained fork of tui-rs).
Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.
stickers Building blocks for charmbracelet/lipgloss in Go
tcell Tcell is an alternate Go terminal package, similar in some ways to termbox, but better in others.
termbox2 A terminal rendering library for creating TUIs.
textual is a TUI (Text User Interface) framework for Python inspired by modern web development.
Thermage Thermage is a PHP library that provides a fluent and incredibly powerful, object-oriented interface for customizing CLI output text color, background, formatting, theming and more.
TermGL A terminal-based graphics library for 2D and 3D graphics.
tui-go A Go UI library for terminal applications (deprecated)
tui-rs Terminal user interfaces and dashboards using Rust (no longer maintained, use Ratatui instead).
tuibox A single-header C terminal UI library, capable of creating mouse-driven, interactive applications on the command line.
Tui Widgets A high-level widget based toolkit for terminal applications.
tview Terminal UI library with rich, interactive widgets — written in Go
tvision A modern port of C++ Turbo Vision 2.0, cross-platform and Unicode support.
UniCurses A Python module that is aimed at providing the Curses functionality on all operating systems.
urwid A console user interface library for Python on Linux, OSX, Cygwin or other unix-like OS.

Messaging

aerc Email client
Devzat Chat over SSH, written in Golang with self-hosting ability.
discordo A lightweight, secure, and feature-rich Discord terminal client
Gomphotherium A command line Mastodon client.
gomuks Matrix client
gord TUI discord client. updated fork of the now-outdated cordless.
irssi An IRC terminal client
matterhorn A Mattermost terminal client.
mcabber XMPP (Jabber) client
meli Email client
Mutt Email client
nchat Telegram/WhatsApp client
nostui Nostr client
Profanity XMPP (Jabber) client
sclack Slack terminal client
scli A simple terminal user interface for signal messenger
siggo A terminal ui for signal-cli, written in Go
Slack-term Slack client for your terminal
sup A curses threads-with-tags style email client
Superhighway84 USENET-inspired decentralized internet discussion system
tgt A TUI for Telegram written in Rust
toot Mastodon CLI & TUI
tuisky TUI client for BlueSky
tuix TUI for managing screens
tut Mastodon TUI client
twitch-tui Twitch chat in the terminal
Weechat Extensible chat client
zulip-terminal Official Zulip terminal client (similar to matterhorn)

Miscellaneous

arttime An app that brings beauty of text-art together with functionality of clock, timer, and pattern-based time manager.
asciiMol Curses based ASCII molecule viewer for linux terminals.
bluetuith A TUI-based bluetooth connection manager, which can interact with bluetooth adapters and devices.
bluetui A TUI for managing bluetooth devices.
Captain's log A small TUI journaling tool
cava Cross-platform Audio Visualizer
diary A diary app written in Rust that encrypts both text and file data, and can decrypt and build a rich HTML representation of your diary when required.
diskonaut Terminal disk space navigator
distrobox-tui TUI for managing distrobox containers
ec2-instance-selector A CLI tool and go library which recommends instance types based on resource criteria like vcpus and memory
emu2 A simple DOS emulator for the Linux text console, supporting basic DOS system calls and console I/O.
flawz A Terminal UI for browsing security vulnerabilities (CVEs)
fzf A general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder
gdu Fast disk usage analyzer with console interface written in Go
gif-for-cli Convert a gif into ASCII
godap A complete TUI for LDAP written in Golang
gpg-tui A terminal user interface for GnuPG
HumBLE Explorer A cross-platform, command-line and human-friendly Bluetooth Low Energy scanner
IconicFonts A collection of patched fonts featuring over 60,000 icons, tailored specifically for TUIs.
impala TUI for managing wifi
isw A simple terminal stopwatch application for pomodoro etc.
jrnl Collect your thoughts and notes without leaving the command line. human-friendly. future-proof. secure.
lnav An advanced log file viewer for the small-scale
mapscii Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console
mqttui MQTT Client written in rust
moc console audio player
neoss Socket statistics visualization and explanation tool for Unix systems.
nmtui ncurses network manager
oha HTTP load generator
packemon Packet generator and monitor.
profanity A cross-platfrom XMPP client.
ncdu disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface
nemu A TUI for QEMU
recoverpy A TUI to recover overwritten or deleted data.
rocket.term Text based chat client for the Rocket.chat messaging solution.
tcpterm tcpterm is a packet visualizer in TUI.
tab-pal Add and edit custom colour palettes in Tableau from the command-line.
terminalperiodictable A beautiful TUI periodic table for Unix systems coded in C.
termshark Terminal UI for tshark
thokr a sleek typing tui written in rust
tlock Two-Factor Authentication Tokens Manager in Terminal
ttyper Terminal-based typing test
tui-shop Something between a CLI and a GUI way of downloading TUIs/CLIs
wb A TUI vocabulary notebook app for Linux based devices.
wego Weather app
wavemon A wireless device monitoring application
WG Commander A TUI for a simple WireGuard VPN setup: peer management, QR codes, setup wizard.
wttr.in The right way to check the weather
xplr A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer, stealing ideas from nnn and fzf.
x-cmd A vast and interesting collection of tools that can then bootstrap lots of other programs / functions in a consistent and structured way.

Multimedia

chafa A powerful utility that converts image data, including animated GIFs, into graphics formats or ANSI/Unicode character art suitable for display in a terminal.
cmdpxl Totally practical command-line image editor
cmus A small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
draw A simple drawing tool in the terminal.
favicon-editor Spartan grayscale favicon editor
gadacz Audiobook player
image-sorter Terminal user interface for sorting images using key bindings written in Rust
invidtui A TUI Invidious client for Windows, Linux and MacOS, that fetches and plays audio/video from an invidious instance. Supports viewing and playing from playlists and channels as well.
kew A terminal music player for Linux
line Tiny command-line midi sequencer and language for live coding
mps-youtube Terminal based YouTube player and downloader
mpvc A mpc-like control interface for mpv
nap Linux napster client
ncspot Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client written in Rust
pyradio TUI web radio player with thousands of stations from around the world
RadioGoGo Go-powered CLI to surf global radio waves via a sleek TUI.
roku-cli A command line TUI remote for Roku
rmpc A configurable MPD client inspired by ncmpcpp and ranger with album art support via various graphics protocols.
soundcloud2000 A terminal client for soundcloud
spotify-player A Spotify player in the terminal with full feature parity
spotui Spotify client written in Python
terminal-yt A small newsboat-inspired terminal youtube manager
textual-paint MS Paint in your terminal
timg A terminal image viewer
tizonia-openmax-il Command-line cloud music player for Linux with support for Spotify, Google Play Music, YouTube, SoundCloud, Dirble, Plex servers and Chromecast devices
upiano A Piano in your terminal
vlc VLC includes an ncurses interface, vlc --intf ncurses. See documentation at https://wiki.videolan.org/Console/
ytui-music Listen to music from youtube. Configurable, minimal, lightweight, private & beautiful music client.
ytdl-tui TUI for downloading Youtube videos
ytfzf A POSIX script that helps you find Youtube videos (without API) or Peertube videos and opens/downloads them using mpv/youtube-dl

Productivity

calcure Modern TUI calendar and task manager with minimal and customizable UI.
calcurse calendar and scheduling application for the command line
elia A terminal ChatGPT client build with Textual
fjira TUI application for Atlassian Jira
Glow A markdown reader, designed from the ground up to showcase the elegance and capabilities of TUI.
gocheat A beautiful TUI cheatsheet for keybindings,hotkeys,gestures and aliases
hledger-ui A fast TUI for browsing double entry bookkeeping data
h-m-m Hackers Mind Map
kabmat TUI program for managing kanban boards with vim-like keybindings
kanban-python Kanban Terminal App written in Python
khal A standards based CLI calendar program, able to synchronize with CalDAV servers
mcfly Intelligent context-aware search engine for your shell history
pagerduty-tui Minimalistic terminal UI to manage triggered incidents
patat Terminal-based presentations using Pandoc
pdiary A simple terminal diary journal application written in Python with encryption support
pkm A super minimal TUI package manager wrapper written in BASH v4.2+
pream-team a TUI utility that helps you keep track of your teams GitHub PRs across multiple repositories
procmux - a TUI for running multiple commands in parallel in easily switchable terminals
productivity-timer A command line time tracker application with a sleek TUI.
sc-im An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal. Reignited version of sc
slides A terminal based presentation tool, supporting markdown syntax.
taskline Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat
taskwarrior-tui A Terminal User Interface for Taskwarrior
tenere A TUI for ChatGPT written in Rust.
termscp A TUI file transfer and explorer, with support for SCP/SFTP/FTP/S3.
tmux Terminal multiplexer
todoman A simple, standards-based (ics, DAV), cli task-manager
topydo A powerful todo list application using the todo.txt format
ttyplot A realtime plotting utility for terminals with data input from stdin/pipe.
TUI_ProjectManager A simple project-based todo list written in Rust
tui-deck A TUI frontend for Nextcloud Deck app written in GO
tui-slides A terminal presentation tool capable of rendering images and many other widgets.
tuihub A utility hub/dashboard for personal use
tvterm A terminal emulator that runs in your terminal
Visidata A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data
zellij A terminal workspace with batteries included
zeit A command line tool for tracking time spent on activities.

Web

bombadillo A TUI browser for the non-web: Gopher, Gemini, Finger
browsh A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers
Canard A command line TUI client for the Journalist RSS aggregator.
carbonyl Chromium running inside your terminal
castero A TUI app to listen to podcast
hackernews-TUI A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News
haxor-news Browse Hacker News like a haxor: A Hacker News command line interface (CLI)
LYNX A text based Terminal browser
newsboat An RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console
nyaa A nyaa.si TUI for browsing and downloading torrents
rtorrent A text-based BitTorrent client written in C++
rttt A Hackernews, RSS and Reddit reader for the terminal written in C++.
tblogs Read and browse development blogs from your terminal
twterm A full-featured TUI Twitter client
w3m A text-mode WWW browser

There's a crazy amount of TUI projects out there, and we can't list them all (though we try!)

For more, see awesome-opensource's TUI Projects page.

Looking for lightweight but not necessarily TUI? check out mayfrost's alternatives list!

Enjoy Vim keybinds and don't want to learn new ones? check out the Big Pile of Vim-like

First-hand reviews for a lot of these tools and many, many more at k.mandla's Inconsolation blog. The site also has a "surprise me with a random tool" link!

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