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Top 23 Python TUI Projects
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textual
The lean application framework for Python. Build sophisticated user interfaces with a simple Python API. Run your apps in the terminal and a web browser.
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asciimatics
A cross platform package to do curses-like operations, plus higher level APIs and widgets to create text UIs and ASCII art animations
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pytermgui
Python TUI framework with mouse support, modular widget system, customizable and rapid terminal markup language and more!
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RecoverPy
Interactively find and recover deleted or :point_right: overwritten :point_left: files from your terminal
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cli-apps
The largest Awesome Curated list of CLI/TUI applications with source data organized into CSV files
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picotui
Lightweight, pure-Python Text User Interface (TUI) widget toolkit with minimal dependencies. Dedicated to the Pycopy project.
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py_cui
A python library for intuitively creating CUI/TUI interfaces with widgets, inspired by gocui.
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TUIFIManager
A cross-platform terminal-based termux-oriented file manager (and component), meant to be used with a Uni-Curses project or as is.
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Project mention: Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-06
Project mention: Data Science at the Command Line, 2nd Edition (2021) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-06I'd like to call out one of my favorite pieces of software from the past 10 years: VisiData [1] has completely changed the way I do ad-hoc data processing, and is now my go-to for pretty much all use cases that I previously used spreadsheets for, and about half of those I previously used databases for.
It's a TUI application, not strictly CLI, but scriptable, and I figure anyone building pipelines using tools like jq, q, awk, grep, etc. to process tabular data will find it extremely useful.
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[1]: https://visidata.org
For small apps, I may choose a TUI (Terminal User Interface). Curses for Python is very lightweight, but quite low level and difficult to use for anything more than a very simple interface (if your app tries to draw outside of the drawing area, the app crashes, so you have to carefully manage every detail). Textual and asciimatics are both mature TUI frameworks that provide a higher level and more Pythonic way to create TUI's.
Project mention: Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-06
Project mention: Show HN: Consol3 – A 3D engine in the terminal that executes on the CPU | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-23Textual is not 3d too, but is also great for TUIs.
Textualize/Frogmouth has a TUI tree control: https://github.com/Textualize/frogmouth
FWICS browsh
Several libraries, such as urwid or PyTermGUI, allow the development of TUI applications in Python. For enhancing the functionality and aesthetics of TUI apps, they offer some fundamental and more sophisticated utilities. But there is one package that is truly exceptional and might even be so amazing that it sparks a TUI renaissance (I really wanted to put "TUI renaissance" somewhere in this article).
But how do I just run/open the god damn program? I've already installed dooit through the pip command and I know that's the right file location. I can literally see the file, just cant double click to open it any other way than with python. And the website doesn't have much more than some graphics of it.
Project mention: Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-06Euporie is the most complex TUI application I have built:
https://github.com/joouha/euporie
It consists of a TUI editor (and interactive REPL) for Jupyter notebooks, and supports displaying rich output in the terminal (images, LaTeX, HTML, interactive widgets, etc.).
Project mention: RecoverPy 2.1.3: A Linux tool to recover deleted or overwritten files | /r/opensource | 2023-10-23
Sounds like toot?
Project mention: Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-06I personally love TUI software, you don't have to worry about GUI toolkits, mouse focused interaction, you can run them remotely over SSH, they're often composable, and composability is much easier, and who doesn't like the hackerman aesthetic?
Some things I don't like about modern TUIs is developers getting away from the purpose of them, portability. Often you'll find really beautiful TUIs that require installation of custom fonts for icons and other overcomplicated stuff like that. They can be nice, but generally they sacrifice the practical benefit to a significant degree.
One I discovered yesterday, not really a TUI, more of a shell but still, extremely powerful, is kalc https://github.com/bgkillas/kalc which is a complete scientific and graphing calculator in the terminal. It depends on gnuplot which is unfortunate since that is a GUI program, but there we go with composability again! It's fine and works and does what it needs to, so not really a big deal I guess.
To find more:
https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis
https://github.com/toolleeo/cli-apps
Project mention: Textual: Rapid Application Development Framework for Python | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-18My favourite Textual demo at the moment is this one: https://github.com/1j01/textual-paint
It's a very decent Microsoft Paint imitation that runs in your terminal!
Project mention: Bought a replacement for my old x230, but didn't want to go bigger. Hello X280 :) | /r/thinkpad | 2023-06-08
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Python TUI related posts
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Pter: TUI and GUI for Todo.txt
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Show HN: Interactive GNU Awk tutorial for beginners (TUI app)
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Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal
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Show HN: Interactive TUI App for Python Regex Exercises
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Show HN: Django.wtf – Package Index for Django
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Using the Curses library on Windows - Terminal Display & Keys Input
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A TUI Interface to Django
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Index
What are some of the best open-source TUI projects in Python? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | rich | 47,552 |
| 2 | textual | 23,778 |
| 3 | visidata | 7,468 |
| 4 | s-tui | 3,960 |
| 5 | asciimatics | 3,545 |
| 6 | toolong | 2,769 |
| 7 | frogmouth | 2,288 |
| 8 | pytermgui | 2,093 |
| 9 | dooit | 1,946 |
| 10 | euporie | 1,490 |
| 11 | calcure | 1,342 |
| 12 | smassh | 1,273 |
| 13 | RecoverPy | 1,183 |
| 14 | toot | 1,108 |
| 15 | cli-apps | 1,127 |
| 16 | textual-paint | 923 |
| 17 | terraform-tui | 934 |
| 18 | tg | 882 |
| 19 | picotui | 782 |
| 20 | py_cui | 736 |
| 21 | topydo | 750 |
| 22 | TUIFIManager | 676 |
| 23 | pulsemixer | 683 |
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