Awesome TUIs

List of projects that provide terminal user interfaces

Dashboards
Development
Editors
File Managers
Games
Libraries
Messaging
Miscellaneous
Multimedia
Productivity
Web

<details open><summary><h2>Dashboards</h2></summary>

AdGuardian-Term A TUI dashboard for monitoring real-time traffic from an AdGuard Home instance.
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.
bpytop A Python-based system monitor with lots of information.
btop++ Resource monitor with extras
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
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
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.
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
kdash A simple and fast dashboard for Kubernetes
k9s TUI for managing a Kubernetes cluster
kmon Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor
lazydocker The lazier way to manage everything docker
macmon Sudoless performance monitoring for Apple Silicon processors written in Rust
netscanner Network scanner
nvtop GPUs process monitoring for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA
Planor The Cloud Aviator, dashboard for AWS, Vultr, Heroku, ...
process-compose TUI for running apps and processes
Pocker TUI based application for docker related tasks.
Podman-tui TUI for Podman containers
Puffin A beautiful terminal dashboard for hledger
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
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
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

</details> <details open><summary><h2>Development</h2></summary>

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
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
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.
mitmproxy A free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy
nap Code snippets in your 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
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

</details> <details open><summary><h2>Editors</h2></summary>

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
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

</details> <details open><summary><h2>File Managers</h2></summary>

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 :file_folder: 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.

</details> <details open><summary><h2>Games</h2></summary>

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 :video_game: 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