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Top 23 C TUI Projects
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Project mention: Shunpo: Minimalist bash tool to make directory navigation a little bit faster | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-26
I use https://github.com/jarun/nnn/ with `cd` on quit if I need to scan around manually. Otherwise, zoxide.
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GoAccess
GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.
Project mention: Ask HN: What do you use for analytics for a statically generated website? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-08GoAccess looks interesting; to be sincere, I haven't used it myself, but the demo website looks extremely fascinating to me! https://goaccess.io/
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pspg
Unix pager (with very rich functionality) designed for work with tables. Designed for PostgreSQL, but MySQL is supported too. Works well with pgcli too. Can be used as CSV or TSV viewer too. It supports searching, selecting rows, columns, or block and export selected area to clipboard.
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smenu
smenu started as a lightweight and flexible terminal menu generator, but quickly evolved into a powerful and versatile CLI selection tool for interactive or scripting use.
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astroterm
A planetarium for your terminal! Explore stars, planets, constellations, and more, all rendered right in the command line—no telescope required. ✨🪐
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Project mention: Sfm: Simple (suckless) file manager for Unix-like systems in C | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-13
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dte
A small, configurable console text editor (mirrored from https://gitlab.com/craigbarnes/dte) (by craigbarnes)
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There is also cy [0] which I came across the other day and am yet to try.
[0] https://github.com/cfoust/cy
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climenu
Compact application for creating text menus with executable entries. Use it to build straightforward static shortcut menus or dynamically generate advanced menus for more complex programs.
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notcurses-clojure-example
Demo showing how to use Notcurses library for building terminal UIs with Clojure
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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).
C TUI discussion
C TUI related posts
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Tig: Text-Mode Interface for Git
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DOjS – A DOS JavaScript Canvas with Sound
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🦊 GitLab: Forget GitKraken, Here Are The Only Git Commands You Need
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Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for Nvidia Users
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State of the Terminal
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Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
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Neonmodem: TUI for Lobsters, HN, etc.
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Index
What are some of the best open-source TUI projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | nnn | 19,807 |
| 2 | GoAccess | 19,105 |
| 3 | tig | 12,636 |
| 4 | pspg | 2,561 |
| 5 | smenu | 2,387 |
| 6 | toxic | 1,241 |
| 7 | ltui | 835 |
| 8 | astroterm | 760 |
| 9 | termbox2 | 460 |
| 10 | mandown | 248 |
| 11 | sfm | 234 |
| 12 | ptext | 206 |
| 13 | dte | 170 |
| 14 | ictree | 156 |
| 15 | cy | 133 |
| 16 | rmw | 78 |
| 17 | lichess-tv | 57 |
| 18 | Newtrodit | 42 |
| 19 | csope | 41 |
| 20 | pbook | 30 |
| 21 | climenu | 29 |
| 22 | variation-ui | 21 |
| 23 | notcurses-clojure-example | 18 |
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