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Top 23 TUI Open-Source Projects
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oh-my-openagent
omo; the one and only agent harness for complex codebases. the pickaxe for complex software engineering. For your Codex, for your OpenCode
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Project mention: I built an AI agent that does OSINT investigations from your terminal | dev.to | 2026-05-08
Built with Rich. Tool calls log inline as they happen so you can see the investigation unfold in real time rather than waiting for a final dump.
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dive (~54k⭐) lets you browse what's in it — file by file, interactively. It answers what is in a layer.
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For the terminal interface, I use the message model from Bubble Tea, a Go library for building TUI applications.
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For that specific use case you could also try `yazi`[0], which is a TUI file browser that has image (and other filetypes) preview built in.
[0] https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi
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textual
Lean TUI application framework for Python. Build sophisticated terminal user interfaces with a simple Python API. Run your apps in the terminal and a web browser.
Bubble Tea remains the v0.1 + v0.2 target. The v0.3 cycle starts the cross-framework work: ratatui first, then Textual, then Ink. The registry's per-frame URL prefix already accommodates the second axis; the work is in writing the adapter packs. Components stay copy-paste. The CLI keeps glyph add. The registry shape stays stable.
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Project mention: Opencode: AI coding agent, built for the terminal | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-06
Side note, if you're a lazygit fan, consider using gitui as an alternative. Feature wise they're pretty similar but gitui is much faster and I find it easier to use.
https://github.com/gitui-org/gitui
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Project mention: Introducing LlamaStash: a zero-overhead, terminal-native llama.cpp launcher | dev.to | 2026-06-02
Building LlamaStash brought me back to a lot of that, but the ground has shifted. ratatui (the maintained fork of tui-rs) is a real, polished framework now. tokio makes async daemons boring in a good way. hyper gives you a respectable HTTP server in a few hundred lines. crossterm handles the cross-platform terminal mess. sysinfo covers host metrics. The pieces are all there and you have LLMs to help you speed up everything to 10x.
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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.
GoAccess is a fast terminal and HTML log analyzer for nginx access logs (requests/sec, status codes, top URLs, referrers, user agents). This guide covers installation, optional S3 download, and typical run modes.
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Project mention: Fx: View and process JSON with JavaScript on the command line | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-15
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Project mention: wtfutil/wtf release v0.44.0 and my contribution long forgotten | dev.to | 2025-06-23
Recently I received a notification on a new release of the wtfutil wtf.
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Project mention: DeepSeek TUI on Windows: A Practical Look at a Terminal-Native Coding Agent | dev.to | 2026-05-11
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Project mention: Btop: A better modern alternative of htop with a gamified interface | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-08
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Project mention: Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about? | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-01
You might be interested in:
https://github.com/cantino/mcfly - fuzzy shell history (feels lighter than atuin to me, in rust)
https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec - rerun on file change, knows about .gitignore/.ignore etc (in rust)
https://github.com/jonas/tig - instead of lazygit, mostly for easier git log viewing for me as I use straight git most of the time
Otherwise a lot of crossover in what I use too.
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Project mention: Show HN: Deff – side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-26
Octo [0] for nvim lets you submit reviews, add comments on ranges, reply to threads, etc.
This in conjunction with gh-dash [1] to launch a review can get you a pretty nice TUI review workflow.
[0] https://github.com/pwntester/octo.nvim
[1] https://github.com/dlvhdr/gh-dash
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Project mention: I turned an abandoned Go project into a full terminal Arcade Game | dev.to | 2026-05-28
Lip Gloss for styling and retro terminal visuals
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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).
TUI discussion
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Show HN: Markdown Editor and Reader for Mac
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Show HN: Concord – Discord in Terminal
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Leaf Makes Markdown Readable Inside the Terminal
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Introducing LlamaStash: a zero-overhead, terminal-native llama.cpp launcher
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Show HN: Leaf – one month later: website, releases and lots of improvements
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Show HN: Concord – Discord, but Like Vim
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Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu
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Index
What are some of the best open-source TUI projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | oh-my-openagent | 60,999 |
| 2 | rich | 56,558 |
| 3 | dive | 54,238 |
| 4 | bubbletea | 42,853 |
| 5 | yazi | 39,035 |
| 6 | textual | 36,169 |
| 7 | CodeWhale | 35,037 |
| 8 | gitui | 22,062 |
| 9 | nnn | 21,607 |
| 10 | ratatui | 20,862 |
| 11 | GoAccess | 20,624 |
| 12 | fx | 20,520 |
| 13 | superfile | 17,430 |
| 14 | wtf | 16,948 |
| 15 | duf | 15,084 |
| 16 | DeepSeek-TUI | 13,516 |
| 17 | bottom | 13,401 |
| 18 | tig | 13,248 |
| 19 | posting | 12,007 |
| 20 | gh-dash | 11,736 |
| 21 | lipgloss | 11,367 |
| 22 | Terminal.Gui | 11,043 |
| 23 | lnav | 10,323 |
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