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mouse-driven, interactive applications on the command line.

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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
bottom A customizable graphical process/system monitor for the terminal.
btop++ Resource monitor with extras
chkservice Systemd units manager with ncurses, terminal interface
cointop The fastest and most interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies
ctop Top-like interface for container metrics
damon TUI interface for Hashicorp Nomad
dockly Immersive terminal interface for managing docker containers and services
dry A Docker manager for the terminal
fff A simple file manager written in bash.
nnn n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
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
sen Terminal User Interface for docker engine
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
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
delta A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output.
gitui blazing fast terminal-ui for git written in rust
git-crecord interactive selective commit tool
grv Terminal interface for viewing git repositories
lazygit Simple terminal UI for git commands
mitmproxy A free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy
pyautogit A terminal UI for managing git repositories, written using py_cui
pudb A console-based visual debugger for Python
sls-dev-tools Dev Tools for the Serverless World
tig Text-mode interface for git
vctui Console interface for vCenter

Editors

amp A complete text editor for your terminal
helix A post-modern text editor.
kakoune A modern, modal text editor with focus on interactivity and efficiency
micro A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
o 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

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
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!

Libraries

Ashen An Elm inspired framework written in Swift
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
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
imtui An immediate mode text-based user interface library, supporting 256 ANSI colors and mouse/keyboard input.
ncurses
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.
Python Prompt Toolkit Library for building powerful interactive command line applications in Python
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.
tui-go A UI library for terminal applications (deprecated)
tui-rs Terminal user interfaces and dashboards using Rust
tuibox A single-header terminal UI library, capable of creating mouse-driven, interactive applications on the command line.
Terminal.Gui Cross Platform Terminal GUI toolkit for .NET
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.

Messaging

aerc Email client
Alpine Email client. Fork of Pine by University of Washington.
gomuks Matrix client
gord TUI discord client. updated fork of the now-outdated cordless.
matterhorn A Mattermost terminal client.
mcabber - XMPP (Jabber) client
Mutt Email 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
toot Mastodon CLI & TUI
Weechat Extensible chat client

Miscellaneous

asciiMol Curses based ASCII molecule viewer for linux terminals.
adbtuifm A TUI file manager for Android, based on the Android Debug Bridge(ADB).
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
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
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.
s-tui Terminal-based CPU stress and monitoring utility
tcpterm tcpterm is a packet visualizer in TUI.
termdbms A TUI for viewing and editing database files.
termshark Terminal UI for tshark
ttyper Terminal-based typing test
vifm A TUI file manager with vi-keybindings and other vim like behaviour.
wego Weather app
wavemon A wireless device monitoring application
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.
mps-youtube Terminal based YouTube player and downloader
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
ytui-music Listen to music from youtube. Configurable, minimal, lightweight, private & beautiful music client.

Productivity

goful a powerful TUI file manager written in Go
hledger-ui A fast TUI for browsing double entry bookkeeping data
khal A standards based CLI calendar program, able to synchronize with CalDAV servers
mcfly Intelligent context-aware search engine for your shell history
patat Terminal-based presentations using Pandoc
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
TUI_ProjectManager A simple project-based todo list written in Rust
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

Web

bombadillo A TUI browser for the non-web: Gopher, Gemini, Finger
browsh A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers
googlit A TUI frontend to googler
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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