Awesome TUIs

List of projects that provide terminal user interfaces

Dashboards
Development
Editors
Games
Libraries
Messaging
Miscellaneous
Multimedia
Productivity
Web

Dashboards

bashtop Resource manager written in bash
below A time traveling resource monitor for modern Linux systems
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.
btop++ Resource monitor with extras
cointop The fastest and most interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies
ctop Top-like interface for container metrics
CoreFreq CPU monitoring software designed for the 64-bits Processors
damon TUI interface for Hashicorp Nomad
dockly Immersive terminal interface for managing docker containers and services
dry A Docker manager for the terminal
eks-node-viewer visualizing dynamic node usage within a kubernetes cluster
fff A simple file manager written in bash.
fubar Formidable Unix Binary Arsenal & Repository. TUI built for gtfobins power users.
Glances Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative.
Glow Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz!
Goaccess GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in nix systems or through your browser.
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
k9s TUI for managing a Kubernetes cluster
kmon Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor
lazydocker The lazier way to manage everything docker
nnn n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
nvtop GPUs process monitoring for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA
Planor The Cloud Aviator, dashboard for AWS, Vultr, Heroku, ...
Podman-tui TUI for Podman containers
sen Terminal User Interface for docker engine
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
TermUI Golang terminal dashboard
trek ncurses explorer for Hashicorp Nomad clusters
ttop System monitoring tool with historical data service, triggers and top-like TUI
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

austin-tui The top-like text-based user interface for Austin
burf TUI for Google Cloud Storage (GCS)
cnTUI Replay chrome requests from your terminal using curl
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
gitui blazing fast terminal-ui for git written in rust
git-crecord interactive selective commit tool
grv Terminal interface for viewing git repositories
jqp A TUI playground to experiment with jq
lazygit Simple terminal UI for git commands
mitmproxy A free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy
nap Code snippets in your terminal
pyautogit A terminal UI for managing git repositories, written using py_cui
pudb A console-based visual debugger for Python
runme Discover and run code snippets directly from your README.md or other markdowns
sls-dev-tools Dev Tools for the Serverless World
terraform-tui view and interact with Terraform state
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

Editors

amp A complete text editor for your terminal
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
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

Games

2048-cli The game 2048 for your Linux terminal
bastet Evil falling block game
botany Virtual plant buddy
cbonsai A bonsai tree generator
clidle Play Wordle in your terminal. Also works over SSH!
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!
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
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
snake 🎮 A super minimal TUI snake game written in pure BASH v5.1+
sshtron multiplayer lightcycle game that runs through SSH
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!
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
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 notcurses-based software rasterizer inspired by OpenGL 1.X that renders directly to the terminal.
FINAL CUT 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 library, supporting 256 ANSI colors and mouse/keyboard input.
ink React for interactive command-line apps
Lanterna A Java library for creating text-based UIs, very similar to the C library curses but with more functionality.
ncurses
nimwave Build text interfaces for the terminal or browser
notcurses blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses
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.
tcell Tcell is an alternate terminal package, similar in some ways to termbox, but better in others.
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.
tui-go A 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 terminal UI library, capable of creating mouse-driven, interactive applications on the command line.
tview Terminal UI library with rich, interactive widgets — written in Golang
tvision A modern port of 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
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
toot Mastodon CLI & TUI
tut Mastodon TUI client
twitch-tui Twitch chat in the terminal
Weechat Extensible chat client

Miscellaneous

adbtuifm A TUI file manager for Android, based on the Android Debug Bridge(ADB).
adguardian A TUI dashboard for monitoring real-time traffic from an AdGuard Home instance.
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.
broot A new way to see and navigate directory trees
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.
dive A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image
draw Draw in your terminal
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.
fzf A general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder
gif-for-cli Convert a gif into ASCII
gobang A cross-platform TUI database management tool written in Rust
gpg-tui A terminal user interface for GnuPG
HumBLE Explorer A cross-platform, command-line and human-friendly Bluetooth Low Energy scanner
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
neoss Socket statistics visualization and explanation tool for Unix systems.
nmtui ncurses network manager
oha HTTP load generator
profanity A cross-platfrom XMPP client.
ncdu disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface
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.
termdbms A TUI for viewing and editing database files.
termshark Terminal UI for tshark
thokr a sleek typing tui written in rust
ttyper Terminal-based typing test
tui-shop Something between a CLI and a GUI way of downloading TUIs/CLIs
vifm A TUI file manager with vi-keybindings and other vim like behaviour.
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.

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.
favicon-editor Spartan grayscale favicon editor
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.
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
ncspot Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client written in Rust
pyradio TUI web radio player with thousands of stations from around the world
roku-cli A command line TUI remote for Roku
soundcloud2000 A terminal client for soundcloud
spotify-tui Spotify for the terminal written in Rust
spotui Spotify client written in Python
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
fml 📁 A stupid simple, fast file manager written in BASH v4.2+
fjira TUI application for Atlassian Jira
goful a powerful TUI file manager written in Go
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
khal A standards based CLI calendar program, able to synchronize with CalDAV servers
lf A terminal file manager written in Go with heavy inspiration from ranger file manager.
mcfly Intelligent context-aware search engine for your shell history
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+
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.
ranger A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console
sc-im An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal. Reignited version of sc
taskline Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat
taskwarrior-tui A Terminal User Interface for Taskwarrior
tmux Terminal multiplexer
todoman A simple, standards-based (ics, DAV), cli task-manager
topydo A powerful todo list application using the todo.txt format
TUIFIManager A cross-platform terminal-based file manager (supports termux)
TUI_ProjectManager A simple project-based todo list written in Rust
tuihub A utility hub/dashboard for personal use
Visidata A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data
zelliji A terminal workspace with batteries included
Vifm File manager with Vim bindings and scripting/configuration style
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
Rainbowstream A smart and nice Twitter client on terminal written in Python
rttt A Hackernews, RSS and Reddit reader for the terminal written in C++.
rtv Browse Reddit from your terminal
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!

Tim's blog cover more tools for no X, over ssh, and all CLI (not necessarily TUI tho).

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