terminal user interface tools
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Terminal user interface tools provide text-based dashboards, interactive applications, and development frameworks that operate entirely within the command line. They are built for developers, system administrators, and power users who prefer keyboard-driven workflows without leaving their terminal environment. Unlike basic command line utilities or full graphical desktop apps, these products combine structured visual layouts, menus, and real-time monitoring directly in the console.
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Members
| Name | Source | Upvotes ▲ | Launched |
|---|---|---|---|
| Limoni TUI Engine | PH | 2 | 2026-09-14 |
| WAHA-TUI | PH | 2 | 2026-09-19 |
| DockMate | HN | 5 | 2025-12-29 |
| Nocterm | HN | 5 | 2026-02-04 |
| Fsel –. a Rust TUI launcher, fuzzy picker and clipboard browser | HN | 5 | 2026-08-21 |
| A Terminal Interface for Jira | HN | 5 | 2026-03-30 |
| Wmux | HN | 5 | 2026-06-13 |
| axil | HN | 5 | 2026-03-30 |
| Smux | HN | 5 | 2026-03-10 |
| Terminal UI for GCP | HN | 5 | 2026-01-11 |
| Sofka | HN | 5 | 2026-08-19 |
| I made a Rust Terminal UI for OpenSnitch, a Linux application firewall | HN | 6 | 2025-11-21 |
| Lazycal | HN | 6 | 2026-02-27 |
| WeatherOrNot a maximal weather app in the terminal | HN | 6 | 2025-11-24 |
| LFK | HN | 6 | 2026-05-15 |
| Go-TUI | HN | 7 | 2026-03-06 |
| flash.nvim, but for tmux…sort of | HN | 7 | 2026-01-12 |
| HyperCMD, write CLI applications using plain HTML | HN | 7 | 2026-10-05 |
| ZigZag | HN | 7 | 2026-02-07 |
| Ktop | HN | 8 | 2026-02-10 |
| Ember | GITHUB | 8 | 2026-09-10 |
| sap-lsd | GITHUB | 8 | 2026-09-12 |
| sap-tui | GITHUB | 8 | 2026-09-12 |
| HTML, CSS and JavaScript in the Terminal | HN | 9 | 2026-07-13 |
| kakao-in-codex | GITHUB | 9 | 2026-10-07 |
| devin-tui | GITHUB | 9 | 2026-09-25 |
| linecast | HN | 9 | 2026-08-23 |
| cornercase-terminal | GITHUB | 10 | 2026-10-03 |
| sclide | GITHUB | 10 | 2026-10-06 |
| Concord | HN | 10 | 2026-06-05 |
| Virtui | HN | 11 | 2026-03-31 |
| Azure DevOps TUI Management Style | HN | 11 | 2026-06-16 |
| tmux-scrollable | GITHUB | 12 | 2026-10-03 |
| dsh-whale-sway | GITHUB | 12 | 2026-09-29 |
| pokemon-slowdown | GITHUB | 13 | 2026-09-20 |
| Toad. A unified terminal UI for coding agents | HN | 14 | 2025-12-18 |
| tanim | GITHUB | 14 | 2026-09-27 |
| Pvm | HN | 14 | 2026-04-18 |
| daily-dev-tui | GITHUB | 14 | 2026-10-07 |
| agy-powerline | GITHUB | 15 | 2026-10-11 |
| fadescii | GITHUB | 15 | 2026-09-13 |
| tui-design | GITHUB | 16 | 2026-10-04 |
| TermDOM | HN | 18 | 2026-08-11 |
| Courtside | HN | 19 | 2026-06-05 |
| Concord | HN | 21 | 2026-05-29 |
| FrankenTUI in the Browser | HN | 22 | 2026-02-12 |
| proxhawk-tui | GITHUB | 23 | 2026-10-06 |
| Giggles | HN | 23 | 2026-03-03 |
| Grafana TUI | HN | 24 | 2026-03-27 |
| HUD, an open-source minimal terminal UI for ClaudeCode, Codex, OpenCode | HN | 26 | 2026-08-05 |