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  1. sysz

    An fzf terminal UI for systemctl

    Project mention: A set of smooth, fzf-powered shell aliases&functions for systemctl | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-15

    The linked inspiration project is blowing my mind.

    https://github.com/joehillen/sysz/blob/master/sysz

    A TUI in pure shell script?? I read the script and don't even see how it's done.

  2. SaaSHub

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  3. wikiman

    Wikiman is a universal offline documentation search engine for manual pages, tldr-pages, ArchWiki, Gentoo Wiki, DevDocs, and FreeBSD documentation

  4. tmux-fzf-url

    🚀 Quickly open urls on your terminal screen!

  5. sway-launcher-desktop

    TUI Application launcher with Desktop Entry support. Made for SwayWM, but runs anywhere

  6. dorothy

    🧙🏻‍♀️ Terminal ecosystem, featuring: ① Framework for cross-shell/cli/tui scripting: bash/nu/deno/unix/… ② Overlay for cross-shell/env/dotfile interop: bash/zsh/fish/nu/… ③ Manager for cross-source packages/apps/utilities: github/brew/apt/flatpak/appimage/cargo/npm/… ④ Hundreds of cross-os commands: macos/linux/windows, x86/arm/riscv.

    Project mention: Whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-01

    Dorothy, https://github.com/bevry/dorothy has a `setup-util` command that can install packages on any system, eg. `setup-util-bat` behind the scenes can do apt, aur, or github; eg. `setup-util --cli=bat APT=bat AUR=bat …` — works on windows, macos, linux; supports dozens of package systems; installs, upgrades, and uninstalls

  7. pseudo3d

    a raycaster in bash

  8. jj-fzf

    Text UI for Jujutsu based on fzf, centering around the jj log with key bindings for common operations

    Project mention: Magit Is Amazing | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-10-21

    I find JJ to make things much easier for me than Git:

    - No staging needed, edit your commit directly in your working directory

    - Rebasing is automatic, I regularly edit historic commits and the messages

    - jj absorb will automatically split and merge hunks into related ancestry commits

    - Defer conflict resolution; many conflicts are resolved later by splitting/squashing/moving commits/hunks further (possible only for first-class conflicts)

    - No interactive rebase needed, since jj commands automatically rebase while editing historic commits, it feels like constantly living within an interactive rebase

    - Easily refer to the same revision (change) across rebase commands by using a jj change_id, without scribbling down Git commit hashes that change across a rebase

    - Easily undo (+redo) your last commands through the jj operation log without having to backup the entire git repo at each step

    And jj-fzf (https://github.com/tim-janik/jj-fzf/) gives me every useful jj command with a single hotkey (e.g. Ctrl-P for push, Ctrl-N for a new commit with 1+ parents, Alt-B to edit bookmarks/tags, Alt-R to rebase, Alt-Z for undo, …) while browsing the log with commit+diff preview.

  9. cylon

    A Terminal user interface for maintaining an Arch Linux distribution. (by gavinlyonsrepo)

  10. Apple-Music-CLI-Player

    A simple command-line Apple Music controller script which includes a "Now Playing" widget function, a playback function, and a list-out function for your Mac's Music.app library, written in sh.

  11. FuzPad

    A minimalistic note management solution. Powered by fzf

  12. purr

    purr is a zsh CLI tool for viewing and searching through Android logcat output. It leverages fzf to provide a simple yet powerful user interface, fuzzy-finding capabilities, and much more.

  13. ipfs-chat

    Real-time P2P messenger using go-ipfs pubsub. TUI. End-to-end encrypted texting & file-sharing. NAT traversal.

  14. snake

    :snake: A super minimal TUI snake game written in pure BASH v5.1+ (by wick3dr0se)

  15. bash-tui-toolkit

    Toolkit to create simple Terminal UIs using plain bash builtins

  16. dots

    🌀 my linux configuration (by GideonWolfe)

  17. bashmultitool

    A library for bash shell scripting containing useful helper functions.

  18. fml

    :card_index_dividers: A stupid simple, fast TUI file manager written in BASH v4.2+

  19. MusicPlayerPlus

    Featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc with integration for Beets, spectrum visualization,Bandcamp/Soundcloud, asciimatics, cantata, and more

  20. ytmp

    a shell script for searching, playing, downloading, and keeping track of music from youtube and local files with extensive queue management using fzf, vim, or cli

  21. sourcedialog

    Easily create TUI forms with pure Bash (no external tools)

  22. DistroHopper

    Quickly download, create and run VM of any#TODO operating system.

  23. toolbox

    Bash scripts providing a collection of terminal applications in a simple UI for Manjaro and Arch based systems (Bash TUI) (by puxplaying)

  24. shmenu

    Menu TUI tool written solely in bash

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).

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What are some of the best open-source TUI projects in Shell? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 sysz 1,852
2 wikiman 967
3 tmux-fzf-url 714
4 sway-launcher-desktop 677
5 dorothy 555
6 pseudo3d 271
7 jj-fzf 242
8 cylon 201
9 Apple-Music-CLI-Player 169
10 FuzPad 161
11 purr 160
12 ipfs-chat 151
13 snake 113
14 bash-tui-toolkit 108
15 dots 106
16 bashmultitool 100
17 fml 99
18 MusicPlayerPlus 98
19 ytmp 68
20 sourcedialog 57
21 DistroHopper 53
22 toolbox 32
23 shmenu 29

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