Awesome TUIs
List of projects that provide terminal user interfaces
Table of Contents
Dashboards
- [AdGuardian-Term](https://github.com/lissy93/AdGuardian-Term) A TUI dashboard for monitoring real-time traffic from an AdGuard Home instance
- [bandwhich](https://github.com/imsnif/bandwhich) Terminal bandwidth utilization tool
- [bashtop](https://github.com/aristocratos/bashtop) Resource manager written in bash
- [below](https://github.com/facebookincubator/below) A time traveling resource monitor for modern Linux systems
- [bmon](https://github.com/tgraf/bmon) A monitoring and debugging tool to capture networking related statistics and prepare them visually.
- [bottom](https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom) A customizable graphical process/system monitor for the terminal.
- [bpytop](https://github.com/aristocratos/bpytop) A Python-based system monitor with lots of information.
- [btop++](https://github.com/aristocratos/btop) Resource monitor with extras
- [cgdb](https://github.com/cgdb/cgdb) Console front-end to the GNU debugger
- [chdig](https://github.com/azat/chdig) Dig into ClickHouse with TUI interface
- [cheatshh](https://github.com/AnirudhG07/cheatshh) A fzf TUI for managing custom made command-line cheatsheet for Unix.
- [cointop](https://github.com/miguelmota/cointop) The fastest and most interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies
- [ctop](https://github.com/bcicen/ctop) Top-like interface for container metrics
- [CoreFreq](https://github.com/cyring/CoreFreq) CPU monitoring software designed for the 64-bits Processors
- [damon](https://github.com/hashicorp/damon) TUI interface for Hashicorp Nomad
- [dockly](https://github.com/lirantal/dockly) Immersive terminal interface for managing docker containers and services
- [dolphie](https://github.com/charles-001/dolphie) Your single pane of glass for real-time analytics into MySQL/MariaDB & ProxySQL
- [dry](https://github.com/moncho/dry) A Docker manager for the terminal
- [ducker](https://github.com/robertpsoane/ducker) A slightly quackers Docker TUI based on k9s
- [eks-node-viewer](https://github.com/awslabs/eks-node-viewer/) visualizing dynamic node usage within a kubernetes cluster
- [fubar](https://github.com/irishmaestro/fubar) Formidable Unix Binary Arsenal & Repository. TUI built for gtfobins power users.
- [Glances](https://github.com/nicolargo/glances) Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative.
- [Goaccess](https://github.com/allinurl/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](https://github.com/TaKO8Ki/gobang) A cross-platform TUI database management tool written in Rust
- [gotop](https://github.com/xxxserxxx/gotop) A terminal based graphical activity monitor inspired by gtop and vtop
- [gping](https://github.com/orf/gping) Ping, but with a graph
- [Grafterm](https://github.com/slok/grafterm) Metrics dashboards on terminal, a Grafana inspired terminal version
- [htop](https://github.com/htop-dev/htop) Interactive text-mode process viewer for Unix systems. It aims to be a better 'top'
- [htui](https://github.com/PierreKieffer/htui) Heroku Terminal User Interface
- [kaskade](https://github.com/sauljabin/kaskade) TUI for kafka, which allows you to interact and consume topics from your terminal in style!
- [kdash](https://github.com/kdash-rs/kdash) A simple and fast dashboard for Kubernetes
- [k9s](https://github.com/derailed/k9s) TUI for managing a Kubernetes cluster
- [kmon](https://github.com/orhun/kmon) Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor
- [ktop](https://github.com/vladimirvivien/ktop) A top-like tool for your Kubernetes clusters
- [lazydocker](https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker) The lazier way to manage everything docker
- [macmon](https://github.com/vladkens/macmon) Sudoless performance monitoring for Apple Silicon processors written in Rust
- [netscanner](https://github.com/Chleba/netscanner) Network scanner
- [nvtop](https://github.com/Syllo/nvtop) GPUs process monitoring for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA
- [oxker](https://github.com/mrjackwills/oxker) A simple tui to view & control docker containers
- [Planor](https://github.com/mrusme/planor) The Cloud Aviator, dashboard for AWS, Vultr, Heroku, ...
- [process-compose](https://github.com/F1bonacc1/process-compose) TUI for running apps and processes
- [Pocker](https://github.com/pommee/Pocker) TUI based application for docker related tasks.
- [Podman-tui](https://github.com/containers/podman-tui) TUI for Podman containers
- [Puffin](https://github.com/siddhantac/puffin) A beautiful terminal dashboard for hledger
- [sen](https://github.com/TomasTomecek/sen) Terminal User Interface for docker engine
- [s-tui](https://github.com/amanusk/s-tui) CPU stress and monitoring utility
- [sysz](https://github.com/joehillen/sysz) An fzf terminal UI for systemctl
- [tdash](https://github.com/jessfraz/tdash) A terminal dashboard with stats from Google Analytics, GitHub, Travis CI, and Jenkins. Very much built specific to me
- [tegratop](https://github.com/pythops/tegratop) Monitoring tool (top like) for Nvidia jetson boards
- [TermUI](https://github.com/gizak/termui) Golang terminal dashboard
- [trek](https://github.com/franckverrot/trek) ncurses explorer for Hashicorp Nomad clusters
- [trippy](https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy) A network diagnostic tool that includes functionality like mtr and more
- [ttop](https://github.com/inv2004/ttop) System monitoring tool with historical data service, triggers and top-like TUI
- [tufw](https://github.com/peltho/tufw) Terminal UI for ufw
- [wander](https://github.com/robinovitch61/wander) HashiCorp Nomad terminal client
- [WTF](https://github.com/senorprogrammer/wtf) The personal information dashboard for your terminal.
- [zenith](https://github.com/bvaisvil/zenith) In terminal graphical metrics for your *nix system written in Rust
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Development
- [act3](https://github.com/dhth/act3) Glance at the last 3 runs of your Github Actions
- [amtui](https://github.com/pehlicd/amtui/) Alertmanager TUI - Your Terminal Companion for Alertmanager
- [ATAC](https://github.com/Julien-cpsn/ATAC) A feature-full TUI API client made in Rust. ATAC is free, open-source, offline and account-less.
- [austin-tui](https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin-tui) The top-like text-based user interface for Austin
- [blinkenlights](https://github.com/jart/blink) TUI that may be used for debugging x86_64-linux or i8086 programs across platforms
- [brows](https://github.com/rubysolo/brows) CLI GitHub release browser
- [burf](https://github.com/razeghi71/burf) TUI for Google Cloud Storage (GCS)
- [cnTUI](https://github.com/fipso/cntui) Replay chrome requests from your terminal using curl
- [csope](https://github.com/agvxov/csope) C source code browser based on cscope
- [CuTE](https://github.com/PThorpe92/CuTE) TUI to help build, execute and save curl commands, recursively download from remote sources, test your API endpoints, and mange your keys
- [dbee](https://github.com/murat-cileli/dbee) Fast & Minimalistic Database Browser
- [dblab](https://github.com/danvergara/dblab) The database client every command line junkie deserves
- [ddqa](https://github.com/DataDog/ddqa) Jira TUI to help with software releases
- [delta](https://github.com/dandavison/delta) A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output
- [euporie](https://github.com/joouha/euporie) Jupyter notebooks in the terminal
- [fx](https://github.com/antonmedv/fx) Terminal JSON viewer & processor
- [gitui](https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui) blazing fast terminal-ui for git written in rust
- [git-crecord](https://github.com/andrewshadura/git-crecord) interactive selective commit tool
- [grv](https://github.com/rgburke/grv) Terminal interface for viewing git repositories
- [harlequin](https://github.com/tconbeer/harlequin) The SQL IDE for Your Terminal
- [jqp](https://github.com/noahgorstein/jqp) A TUI playground to experiment with jq
- [lazygit](https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit) Simple terminal UI for git commands
- [lazysql](https://github.com/jorgerojas26/lazysql) A cross-platform TUI database management tool written in Go.
- [logshark](https://github.com/ugosan/logshark) A debugger CLI for JSON logs written in Go
- [mitmproxy](https://www.mitmproxy.org) A free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy
- [nap](https://github.com/maaslalani/nap) Code snippets in your terminal
- [nodebro](https://github.com/jonaburg/nodebro) Easily view most recent Github releases/tags and release notes from the terminal
- [play](https://github.com/paololazzari/play) A TUI playground to experiment with your favorite programs, such as grep, sed, awk, jq and yq
- [posting](https://github.com/darrenburns/posting) A powerful HTTP client that lives in your terminal
- [prs](https://github.com/dhth/prs) Stay updated on PRs without leaving the terminal
- [pudb](https://github.com/inducer/pudb) A console-based visual debugger for Python
- [pyautogit](https://github.com/jwlodek/pyautogit) A terminal UI for managing git repositories, written using py_cui
- [runme](https://github.com/stateful/runme) Discover and run code snippets directly from your README.md or other markdowns
- [sls-dev-tools](https://github.com/Theodo-UK/sls-dev-tools) Dev Tools for the Serverless World
- [termdbms](https://github.com/mathaou/termdbms) A TUI for viewing and editing database files.
- [terraform-tui](https://github.com/idoavrah/terraform-tui) view and interact with Terraform state
- [soft-serve](https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve) A tasty, self-hostable Git server for the command lineicecream
- [tig](https://github.com/jonas/tig) Text-mode interface for git
- [vctui](https://github.com/thebsdbox/vctui) Console interface for vCenter
- [violet](https://github.com/braheezy/violet) Colorful TUI frontend to run Vagrant commands
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Editors
- [amp](https://github.com/jmacdonald/amp) A complete text editor for your terminal
- [helix](https://helix-editor.com/) A post-modern text editor.
- [frogmouth](https://github.com/Textualize/frogmouth) A Markdown browser for your terminal
- [kakoune](http://kakoune.org/) A modern, modal text editor with focus on interactivity and efficiency
- [micro](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro) A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
- [orbiton](https://github.com/xyproto/orbiton) Text editor limited by VT100, suitable for programming, writing git commit messages and editing Markdown
- [slap](https://github.com/slap-editor/slap) Sublime-like terminal-based text editor
- [thymus](https://github.com/blademd/thymus) An interactive browser & editor for network configuration files.
- [turbo](https://github.com/magiblot/turbo) An experimental text editor for the terminal, based on Scintilla and Turbo Vision
- [zee](https://github.com/zee-editor/zee) A modern text editor for the terminal written in Rust
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File Managers
- [adbtuifm](https://github.com/darkhz/adbtuifm) A TUI file manager for Android, based on the Android Debug Bridge(ADB).
- [broot](https://github.com/Canop/broot) A new way to see and navigate directory trees
- [fff](https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff) A simple file manager written in bash.
- [fml](https://github.com/wick3dr0se/fml) :file_folder: A stupid simple, fast file manager written in BASH v4.2+.
- [goful](https://github.com/anmitsu/goful) a powerful TUI file manager written in Go.
- [lf](https://github.com/gokcehan/lf) A terminal file manager written in Go with heavy inspiration from ranger file manager.
- [mc](https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc) GNU Midnight Commander. A free cross-platform orthodox file manager.
- [nnn](https://github.com/jarun/nnn) n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager.
- [ranger](https://github.com/ranger/ranger) A VIM-inspired file manager for the console.
- [superfile](https://github.com/MHNightCat/superfile) Pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager.
- [TUIFIManager](https://github.com/GiorgosXou/TUIFIManager) A cross-platform terminal-based file manager *(supports termux)*.
- [Vifm](https://github.com/vifm/vifm) A TUI file manager with vi-keybindings and other vim like behaviour.
- [yazi](https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi) Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.
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Games
- [2048-cli](https://github.com/tiehuis/2048-cli) The game 2048 for your Linux terminal
- [awkaster](https://github.com/TheMozg/awk-raycaster) Pseudo-3D shooter written completely in gawk using raycasting technique
- [bastet](https://github.com/fph/bastet) Evil falling block game
- [botany](https://github.com/jifunks/botany/) Virtual plant buddy
- [brickgame-4bit](https://github.com/ilyakurdyukov/brickgame-4bit) Brick Game emulator (4-bit Holtek chip)
- [BrogueCE](https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE) Beautiful roguelike dungeon crawler
- [cbonsai](https://gitlab.com/jallbrit/cbonsai) A bonsai tree generator
- [chess-tui](https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui) Play Chess in your terminal, built in rust
- [clidle](https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/clidle) Play Wordle in your terminal. Also works over SSH!
- [DOOM-ASCII](https://github.com/wojciech-graj/doom-ascii) Text-based DOOM running in terminal.
- [Gameboy Emulator](https://github.com/gabrielrcouto/php-terminal-gameboy-emulator) A PHP Terminal GameBoy Emulator
- [go-life](https://github.com/sachaos/go-life) Terminal based Conway's Game of Life
- [Greed](https://gitlab.com/esr/greed) A game of consumption. Eat as much as you can before munching yourself into a corner!
- [Micro Snake](https://github.com/troglobit/snake) A small snake game, utilizing ANSI escape sequences to draw the board.
- [Micro Tetris](https://github.com/troglobit/tetris) One of the smallest Tetris implementations in the world, utilizing only ANSI escape sequences to draw the board.
- [moon-buggy](https://github.com/seehuhn/moon-buggy) Drive some car across the moon
- [MyMan](https://sourceforge.net/projects/myman/) MyMan is a video game for color and monochrome text terminals in the genre of Namco's Pac-Man
- [nchess](https://github.com/billyvinning/nchess) Chess in the terminal, written in C.
- [NetHack](https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack) Dungeon exploration game
- [nInvaders](http://ninvaders.sourceforge.net/) Space Invaders
- [nSnake](https://github.com/alexdantas/nSnake) The classic snake game with textual interface
- [nudoku](https://github.com/jubalh/nudoku) ncurses based sudoku game
- [onx](https://github.com/vyalovvldmr/onx) Noughts & Crosses client-server game with your partner. Based on textual and python.
- [pokete](https://github.com/lxgr-linux/pokete) A terminal based Pokemon like game
- [Rebels in the sky](https://github.com/ricott1/rebels-in-the-sky) P2P terminal game about spacepirates playing basketball across the galaxy.
- [snake](https://github.com/wick3dr0se/snake) :video_game: A super minimal TUI snake game written in pure BASH v5.1+
- [Square Tic Tac Toe](https://github.com/learnbyexample/TUI-apps/tree/main/SquareTicTacToe) Like Tic Tac Toe, but form a square with 4 corners instead of a line
- [ssHattrick](https://github.com/ricott1/sshattrick) Play Hattrick in your terminal over SSH.
- [sshtron](https://github.com/zachlatta/sshtron) multiplayer lightcycle game that runs through SSH
- [sssnake](https://github.com/AngelJumbo/sssnake) The classic snake game for the terminal that can play itself and be used like a screensaver.
- [steam-tui](https://github.com/dmadisetti/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](https://github.com/MitchelPaulin/sudoku-rs) Sudoku built with tui-rs
- [sweeper](https://github.com/igor47/sweeper) Minesweeper game using curtsies
- [terminal-phase](https://gitlab.com/dustyweb/terminal-phase) Space shooter game that runs in your terminal!
- [tinytetris](https://github.com/taylorconor/tinytetris) 80x23 terminal tetris!
- [tty-solitaire](https://github.com/mpereira/tty-solitaire) Solitaire runs in your terminal!
- [typeinc](https://github.com/AnirudhG07/Typeinc) ncurses based typing speed test with various difficulty levels.
- [typing-game-cli](https://github.com/akgondber/typing-game-cli) Command line game to practice your typing speed by competing against typer-robot or against your best result
- [Wordle](https://github.com/m-dango/raku-wordle/) Script and library for Wordle, written in Raku
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Libraries
- [Ashen](https://github.com/colinta/Ashen) An Elm inspired framework written in **Swift**
- [blessed](https://github.com/chjj/blessed) A high-level terminal interface library for **Node.js**
- [blessed](https://github.com/jquast/blessed) Blessed is an easy, practical library for making **Python** terminal apps
- [blessings](https://github.com/erikrose/blessings) A **Python** wrapper lib for ncurses that makes your code pretty to look at
- [bubbletea](https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea) A **Go** framework based on Elm to build functional and stateful TUI apps, complete with extensions known as [bubbles](https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles)
- [CursedGL](https://github.com/saccharineboi/CursedGL) A **C** notcurses-based software rasterizer inspired by OpenGL 1.X that renders directly to the terminal.
- [FINAL CUT](https://github.com/gansm/finalcut) **C++** library for creating terminal applications with text-based widgets
- [FTXUI](https://github.com/ArthurSonzogni/FTXUI) 💻 **C++** Functional Terminal User Interface. ❤️
- [gocui](https://github.com/jroimartin/gocui) Minimalist **Go** package aimed at creating Console User Interfaces
- [gui.cs](https://github.com/migueldeicaza/gui.cs) Console-based user interface toolkit for **.NET** applications
- [gum](https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum) A tool for glamorous **shell** scripts
- [imtui](https://github.com/ggerganov/imtui) An immediate mode text-based user interface **C++** library, supporting 256 ANSI colors and mouse/keyboard input.
- [ink](https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink) React for **Node.js** interactive command-line apps
- [Lanterna](https://github.com/mabe02/lanterna) A **Java** library for creating text-based UIs, very similar to the C library curses but with more functionality.
- [moulti](https://github.com/xavierog/moulti) A CLI-driven TUI displaying arbitrary outputs inside visual, collapsible blocks. Designed with **shell** scripts in mind. **Ansible**-friendly too.
- [ncurses](https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/announce.html) A classic **C** library with bindings for many languages
- [nimwave](https://github.com/ansiwave/nimwave) Build text interfaces for the terminal or browser in **Nim**
- [notcurses](https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses) blingful character graphics/TUI library for **C** and **Python**. definitely not curses.
- [php-tui](https://github.com/php-tui/php-tui) comprehensive TUI library for **PHP** based heavily on Ratatui.
- [pterm](https://github.com/pterm/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](https://github.com/jwlodek/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](https://github.com/bczsalba/pytermgui) A simple yet powerful TUI framework for your **Python** (3.7+) applications.
- [pyTermTk](https://github.com/ceccopierangiolieugenio/pyTermTk) self-contained TUI library for **Python** with a QT-like API semantics
- [Python Prompt Toolkit](https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit) Library for building powerful interactive command line applications in **Python**
- [Ratatui](https://github.com/tui-rs-revival/ratatui) A **Rust** crate for building Terminal UIs (actively maintained fork of tui-rs).
- [Rich](https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich) is a **Python** library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.
- [stickers](https://github.com/76creates/stickers) Building blocks for charmbracelet/lipgloss in **Go**
- [tcell](https://github.com/gdamore/tcell) Tcell is an alternate **Go** terminal package, similar in some ways to termbox, but better in others.
- [termbox2](https://github.com/termbox/termbox2) A terminal rendering library for creating TUIs.
- [textual](https://github.com/willmcgugan/textual) is a TUI (Text User Interface) framework for **Python** inspired by modern web development.
- [Thermage](https://github.com/thermage/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](https://github.com/wojciech-graj/TermGL) A terminal-based graphics library for 2D and 3D graphics.
- [tui-go](https://github.com/marcusolsson/tui-go) A **Go** UI library for terminal applications (deprecated)
- [tui-rs](https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs) Terminal user interfaces and dashboards using **Rust** (no longer maintained, use Ratatui instead).
- [tuibox](https://github.com/Cubified/tuibox) A single-header **C** terminal UI library, capable of creating mouse-driven, interactive applications on the command line.
- [Tui Widgets](https://github.com/tuiwidgets/tuiwidgets) A high-level widget based toolkit for terminal applications.
- [tview](https://github.com/rivo/tview/) Terminal UI library with rich, interactive widgets — written in **Go**
- [tvision](https://github.com/magiblot/tvision) A modern port of **C++** Turbo Vision 2.0, cross-platform and Unicode support.
- [UniCurses](https://github.com/unicurses/unicurses) A **Python** module that is aimed at providing the Curses functionality on all operating systems.
- [urwid](https://github.com/urwid/urwid) A console user interface library for **Python** on Linux, OSX, Cygwin or other unix-like OS.
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Messaging
- [aerc](https://aerc-mail.org/) Email client
- [Devzat](https://github.com/quackduck/devzat) Chat over SSH, written in Golang with self-hosting ability.
- [discordo](https://github.com/ayntgl/discordo) A lightweight, secure, and feature-rich Discord terminal client
- [Gomphotherium](https://github.com/mrusme/gomphotherium) A command line Mastodon client.
- [gomuks](https://github.com/tulir/gomuks) Matrix client
- [gord](https://github.com/yellowsink/gord) TUI discord client. updated fork of the now-outdated cordless.
- [irssi](https://irssi.org/) An IRC terminal client
- [matterhorn](https://github.com/matterhorn-chat/matterhorn) A Mattermost terminal client.
- [mcabber](https://mcabber.com/) XMPP (Jabber) client
- [meli](https://meli.delivery/) Email client
- [Mutt](https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt) Email client
- [nchat](https://github.com/d99kris/nchat) Telegram/WhatsApp client
- [nostui](https://github.com/akiomik/nostui) Nostr client
- [Profanity](https://profanity-im.github.io) XMPP (Jabber) client
- [sclack](https://github.com/haskellcamargo/sclack) Slack terminal client
- [scli](https://github.com/isamert/scli/) A simple terminal user interface for signal messenger
- [siggo](https://github.com/derricw/siggo) A terminal ui for signal-cli, written in Go
- [Slack-term](https://github.com/erroneousboat/slack-term) Slack client for your terminal
- [sup](https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup) A curses threads-with-tags style email client
- [Superhighway84](https://github.com/mrusme/superhighway84) USENET-inspired decentralized internet discussion system
- [tgt](https://github.com/FedericoBruzzone/tgt) A TUI for Telegram written in Rust
- [toot](https://github.com/ihabunek/toot) Mastodon CLI & TUI
- [tuisky](https://github.com/sugyan/tuisky) TUI client for BlueSky
- [tuix](https://github.com/pythops/tuix) TUI for managing screens
- [tut](https://github.com/RasmusLindroth/tut) Mastodon TUI client
- [twitch-tui](https://github.com/Xithrius/twitch-tui) Twitch chat in the terminal
- [Weechat](https://weechat.org/) Extensible chat client
- [zulip-terminal](https://github.com/zulip/zulip-terminal) Official Zulip terminal client (similar to matterhorn)
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Miscellaneous
- [arttime](https://github.com/reportaman/arttime) An app that brings beauty of text-art together with functionality of clock, timer, and pattern-based time manager.
- [asciiMol](https://github.com/dewberryants/asciiMol) Curses based ASCII molecule viewer for linux terminals.
- [bluetuith](https://github.com/darkhz/bluetuith) A TUI-based bluetooth connection manager, which can interact with bluetooth adapters and devices.
- [bluetui](https://github.com/pythops/bluetui) A TUI for managing bluetooth devices.
- [Captain's log](https://github.com/NikolaDucak/caps-log) A small TUI journaling tool
- [cava](https://github.com/karlstav/cava) Cross-platform Audio Visualizer
- [diary](https://github.com/actuday6418/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](https://github.com/imsnif/diskonaut) Terminal disk space navigator
- [distrobox-tui](https://github.com/hyperreal64/distrobox-tui) TUI for managing distrobox containers
- [dive](https://github.com/wagoodman/dive) A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image
- [ec2-instance-selector](https://github.com/aws/amazon-ec2-instance-selector) A CLI tool and go library which recommends instance types based on resource criteria like vcpus and memory
- [emu2](https://github.com/dmsc/emu2) A simple DOS emulator for the Linux text console, supporting basic DOS system calls and console I/O.
- [flawz](https://github.com/orhun/flawz) A Terminal UI for browsing security vulnerabilities (CVEs)
- [fzf](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf) A general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder
- [gdu](https://github.com/dundee/gdu) Fast disk usage analyzer with console interface written in Go
- [gif-for-cli](https://github.com/google/gif-for-cli) Convert a gif into ASCII
- [godap](https://github.com/Macmod/godap) A complete TUI for LDAP written in Golang
- [gpg-tui](https://github.com/orhun/gpg-tui) A terminal user interface for GnuPG
- [HumBLE Explorer](https://github.com/koenvervloesem/humble-explorer) A cross-platform, command-line and human-friendly Bluetooth Low Energy scanner
- [IconicFonts](https://github.com/iconicFonts/iconic-fonts) A collection of patched fonts featuring over 60,000 icons, tailored specifically for TUIs.
- [impala](https://github.com/pythops/impala) TUI for managing wifi
- [jrnl](https://jrnl.sh/) Collect your thoughts and notes without leaving the command line. human-friendly. future-proof. secure.
- [kubetui](https://github.com/sarub0b0/kubetui) A TUI tool designed for monitoring Kubernetes resources.
- [lnav](https://lnav.org/) An advanced log file viewer for the small-scale
- [mapscii](https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii) Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console
- [mqttui](https://github.com/EdJoPaTo/mqttui) MQTT Client written in rust
- [moc](https://moc.daper.net/download) console audio player
- [neoss](https://github.com/PabloLec/neoss) Socket statistics visualization and explanation tool for Unix systems.
- [nmtui](https://developer.gnome.org/NetworkManager/stable/nmtui.html) ncurses network manager
- [oha](https://github.com/hatoo/oha) HTTP load generator
- [packemon](https://github.com/ddddddO/packemon) Packet generator and monitor.
- [profanity](https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity) A cross-platfrom XMPP client.
- [ncdu](https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu) disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface
- [nemu](https://github.com/nemuTUI/nemu) A TUI for QEMU
- [recoverpy](https://github.com/PabloLec/recoverpy) A TUI to recover overwritten or deleted data.
- [rocket.term](https://github.com/gerstner-hub/rocket.term) Text based chat client for the Rocket.chat messaging solution.
- [tcpterm](https://github.com/sachaos/tcpterm) tcpterm is a packet visualizer in TUI.
- [tab-pal](https://github.com/ben-n93/tab-pal) Add and edit custom colour palettes in Tableau from the command-line.
- [terminalperiodictable](https://github.com/velorek1/terminalperiodictable) A beautiful TUI periodic table for Unix systems coded in C.
- [termshark](https://github.com/gcla/termshark) Terminal UI for tshark
- [thokr](https://github.com/coloradocolby/thokr) a sleek typing tui written in rust
- [tlock](https://github.com/eklairs/tlock) Two-Factor Authentication Tokens Manager in Terminal
- [ttyper](https://github.com/max-niederman/ttyper) Terminal-based typing test
- [tui-shop](https://github.com/Gcat101/tui-shop) Something between a CLI and a GUI way of downloading TUIs/CLIs
- [wb](https://github.com/MertGunduz/wb) A TUI vocabulary notebook app for Linux based devices.
- [wego](https://github.com/schachmat/wego) Weather app
- [wavemon](https://github.com/uoaerg/wavemon) A wireless device monitoring application
- [WG Commander](https://github.com/andrianbdn/wg-cmd) A TUI for a simple WireGuard VPN setup: peer management, QR codes, setup wizard.
- [wttr.in](https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in) The right way to check the weather
- [xplr](https://github.com/sayanarijit/xplr) A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer, stealing ideas from nnn and fzf.
- [x-cmd](https://github.com/x-cmd/x-cmd) A vast and interesting collection of tools that can then bootstrap lots of other programs / functions in a consistent and structured way.
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Multimedia
- [chafa](https://hpjansson.org/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](https://github.com/knosmos/cmdpxl) Totally practical command-line image editor
- [cmus](https://cmus.github.io/) A small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
- [draw](https://github.com/maaslalani/draw) A simple drawing tool in the terminal.
- [favicon-editor](https://github.com/xyproto/favicon-editor) Spartan grayscale favicon editor
- [gadacz](https://github.com/rareitems/gadacz) Audiobook player
- [image-sorter](https://github.com/jgalat/image-sorter) Terminal user interface for sorting images using key bindings written in Rust
- [invidtui](https://github.com/darkhz/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](https://github.com/pd3v/line) Tiny command-line midi sequencer and language for live coding
- [mps-youtube](https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube) Terminal based YouTube player and downloader
- [mpvc](https://github.com/gmt4/mpvc) A mpc-like control interface for mpv
- [nap](https://nap.sourceforge.net/) Linux napster client
- [ncspot](https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot) Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client written in Rust
- [pyradio](https://github.com/coderholic/pyradio) TUI web radio player with thousands of stations from around the world
- [RadioGoGo](https://github.com/Zi0P4tch0/RadioGoGo) Go-powered CLI to surf global radio waves via a sleek TUI.
- [roku-cli](https://github.com/winsbe01/roku-cli) A command line TUI remote for Roku
- [soundcloud2000](https://github.com/grobie/soundcloud2000) A terminal client for soundcloud
- [spotify-player](https://github.com/aome510/spotify-player) A Spotify player in the terminal with full feature parity
- [spotui](https://github.com/ceuk/spotui) Spotify client written in Python
- [terminal-yt](https://github.com/jooooscha/terminal-yt) A small newsboat-inspired terminal youtube manager
- [textual-paint](https://github.com/1j01/textual-paint) MS Paint in your terminal
- [timg](https://github.com/hzeller/timg) A terminal image viewer
- [tizonia-openmax-il](https://github.com/tizonia/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](https://github.com/eliasdorneles/upiano) A Piano in your terminal
- [vlc](https://github.com/videolan/vlc) VLC includes an ncurses interface, `vlc --intf ncurses`. See documentation at https://wiki.videolan.org/Console/
- [ytui-music](https://github.com/sudipghimire533/ytui-music) Listen to music from youtube. Configurable, minimal, lightweight, private & beautiful music client.
- [ytdl-tui](https://github.com/darky/ytdl-tui) TUI for downloading Youtube videos
- [ytfzf](https://github.com/pystardust/ytfzf) A POSIX script that helps you find Youtube videos (without API) or Peertube videos and opens/downloads them using mpv/youtube-dl
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Productivity
- [calcure](https://github.com/anufrievroman/calcure) Modern TUI calendar and task manager with minimal and customizable UI.
- [calcurse](https://calcurse.org/) calendar and scheduling application for the command line
- [elia](https://github.com/darrenburns/elia) A terminal ChatGPT client build with Textual
- [fjira](https://github.com/mk-5/fjira) TUI application for Atlassian Jira
- [Glow](https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow) A markdown reader, designed from the ground up to showcase the elegance and capabilities of TUI.
- [hledger-ui](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger) A fast TUI for browsing double entry bookkeeping data
- [h-m-m](https://github.com/nadrad/h-m-m) Hackers Mind Map
- [kabmat](https://github.com/PlankCipher/kabmat) TUI program for managing kanban boards with vim-like keybindings
- [kanban-python](https://github.com/Zaloog/kanban-python) Kanban Terminal App written in Python
- [khal](https://github.com/pimutils/khal) A standards based CLI calendar program, able to synchronize with CalDAV servers
- [mcfly](https://github.com/cantino/mcfly) Intelligent context-aware search engine for your shell history
- [pagerduty-tui](https://github.com/Mk555/pagerduty-tui) Minimalistic terminal UI to manage triggered incidents
- [patat](https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat) Terminal-based presentations using Pandoc
- [pdiary](https://github.com/manipuladordedados/pdiary) A simple terminal diary journal application written in Python with encryption support
- [pkm](https://github.com/wick3dr0se/pkm) A super minimal TUI package manager wrapper written in BASH v4.2+
- [pream-team](https://github.com/nikoladucak/pream-team/) a TUI utility that helps you keep track of your teams GitHub PRs across multiple repositories
- [procmux](https://github.com/napisani/procmux) - a TUI for running multiple commands in parallel in easily switchable terminals
- [productivity-timer](https://github.com/h-sifat/productivity-timer) A command line time tracker application with a sleek TUI.
- [sc-im](https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im) An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal. Reignited version of sc
- [slides](https://github.com/maaslalani/slides) A terminal based presentation tool, supporting markdown syntax.
- [taskline](https://github.com/perryrh0dan/taskline) Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat
- [taskwarrior-tui](https://github.com/kdheepak/taskwarrior-tui) A Terminal User Interface for Taskwarrior
- [tenere](https://github.com/pythops/tenere) A TUI for ChatGPT written in Rust.
- [termscp](https://github.com/veeso/termscp) A TUI file transfer and explorer, with support for SCP/SFTP/FTP/S3.
- [tmux](https://github.com/tmux/tmux) Terminal multiplexer
- [todoman](https://github.com/pimutils/todoman) A simple, standards-based (ics, DAV), cli task-manager
- [topydo](https://github.com/topydo/topydo) A powerful todo list application using the todo.txt format
- [ttyplot](https://github.com/tenox7/ttyplot) A realtime plotting utility for terminals with data input from stdin/pipe.
- [TUI_ProjectManager](https://github.com/NicoDblc/TUI_ProjectManager) A simple project-based todo list written in Rust
- [tui-deck](https://github.com/mebitek/tui-deck) A TUI frontend for Nextcloud Deck app written in GO
- [tui-slides](https://github.com/Chleba/tui-slides) A terminal presentation tool capable of rendering images and many other widgets.
- [tuihub](https://github.com/ashis0013/tuihub) A utility hub/dashboard for personal use
- [tvterm](https://github.com/magiblot/tvterm) A terminal emulator that runs in your terminal
- [Visidata](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata) A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data
- [zellij](https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij) A terminal workspace with batteries included
- [zeit](https://github.com/mrusme/zeit) A command line tool for tracking time spent on activities.
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Web
- [bombadillo](https://bombadillo.colorfield.space/) A TUI browser for the non-web: Gopher, Gemini, Finger
- [browsh](https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh) A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers
- [Canard](https://github.com/mrusme/canard) A command line TUI client for the [Journalist](https://github.com/mrusme/journalist) RSS aggregator.
- [carbonyl](https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl) Chromium running inside your terminal
- [castero](https://github.com/xgi/castero) A TUI app to listen to podcast
- [hackernews-TUI](https://github.com/aome510/hackernews-TUI) A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News
- [haxor-news](https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news) Browse Hacker News like a haxor: A Hacker News command line interface (CLI)
- [LYNX](https://lynx.invisible-island.net/) A text based Terminal browser
- [newsboat](https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat) An RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console
- [nyaa](https://github.com/Beastwick18/nyaa) A nyaa.si TUI for browsing and downloading torrents
- [rtorrent](https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent) A text-based BitTorrent client written in C++
- [rttt](https://gitlab.com/BlackEdder/rttt) A Hackernews, RSS and Reddit reader for the terminal written in C++.
- [tblogs](https://github.com/ezeoleaf/tblogs) Read and browse development blogs from your terminal
- [twterm](https://github.com/ryota-ka/twterm) A full-featured TUI Twitter client
- [w3m](https://github.com/tats/w3m) A text-mode WWW browser
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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!