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Tui projects on GitHub
Text-based user interfaces that render rich layouts inside a terminal.
As of , the most-starred Tui projects on GitHub are openclaw (392.2K stars), pi (115.7K stars) and neovim (103K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 203 Tui repositories with 3.4M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was magpie, with +656 stars in a day.
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16
magpie
yetone/magpie · ★ 14.4KMagpie is a menu bar app that lists every AI coding agent installed on your machine next to the model each one is currently set to; click a value and pick a different model from a dropdown.
pi
earendil-works/pi · ★ 115.7KPi is an agent harness: a toolkit of packages for building and running AI agents, including a self-extensible interactive coding agent CLI, a unified multi-provider LLM API, an agent runtime, and a terminal UI library.
jiuwenswarm
openJiuwen-ai/jiuwenswarm · ★ 7.1KAn AI agent system built on openJiuwen: you describe a task in natural language, and it orchestrates multi-agent collaboration, Skill self-evolution, and tool invocation to deliver a result end-to-end.
+206cost-xray
tigerless-labs/cost-xray · ★ 5.4Kcost-xray is a local tool that captures the raw API traffic between Claude Code or Codex and their providers, then breaks down exactly what's in each request and what each part costs — system prompts, tool schemas, MCP blocks, cached vs fresh tokens, and more.
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Top 100 of 203 · by stars
- 392.2K
#1 · openclaw/openclawopenclaw
An open-source AI assistant that runs on your own computer and meets you in the chat apps you already use — WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, iMessage, Slack and 20+ more.
- 115.7K
#2 · earendil-works/pi
pi
Pi is an agent harness: a toolkit of packages for building and running AI agents, including a self-extensible interactive coding agent CLI, a unified multi-provider LLM API, an agent runtime, and a terminal UI library.
- 103K
#3 · neovim/neovimneovim
Neovim is a fork of Vim, a modal text editor, rebuilt to be more extensible, maintainable, and friendly to multiple contributors and advanced UIs.
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deer-flow
84Kbytedance/deer-flow · PythonDeerFlow is an open-source long-horizon super-agent harness from ByteDance that researches, codes, and creates by orchestrating sub-agents, memory, sandboxes and extensible skills, handling tasks that can take minutes to hours.
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lazygit
83.3Kjesseduffield/lazygit · GoLazygit is a simple terminal UI (TUI) for git that lets you stage, commit, rebase, merge and branch through an interactive visual interface instead of memorizing git CLI commands.
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oh-my-openagent
70.1Kcode-yeongyu/oh-my-openagent · TypeScriptOmO (oh-my-openagent) is a command-line AI agent: you type one 'omo' command with a task, and it researches, plans, writes code, and verifies the result until the job is actually finished, mixing multiple AI models as needed.
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rich
57.6KTextualize/rich · PythonRich is a Python library that adds color, styling, and rich formatting to terminal output: tables, progress bars, markdown, syntax-highlighted code, and pretty tracebacks, all out of the box.
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dive
54.6Kwagoodman/dive · Godive is a CLI tool that breaks a Docker or OCI image into its layers, shows what each layer contains, and points out where the image wastes space so you can shrink it.
- 9

lazydocker
53.2Kjesseduffield/lazydocker · GoLazydocker is a simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose, written in Go with the gocui library - 'the lazier way to manage everything docker', as its tagline goes.
- 10

awesome-java
49.3Kakullpp/awesome-javaA curated list of frameworks, libraries, tools and resources for the Java programming language, organized into categories like AI, build tools, caching, CLI, bytecode manipulation and more.
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helix
46.6Khelix-editor/helix · RustHelix is a modal text editor inspired by Kakoune and Neovim, written in Rust, with built-in language server support and tree-sitter powered syntax highlighting and code editing out of the box.
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mitmproxy
45.7Kmitmproxy/mitmproxy · Pythonmitmproxy is an interactive, SSL/TLS-capable intercepting proxy for HTTP/1, HTTP/2, and WebSockets, used by penetration testers and developers to inspect and modify traffic. mitmdump is its CLI version, and mitmweb is a web-based interface.
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bubbletea
45.4Kcharmbracelet/bubbletea · GoBubble Tea is a Go framework for building terminal user interfaces (TUIs), based on The Elm Architecture. It handles rendering, input, and state management so you can focus on your app's model, update, and view logic.
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herdr
44.4Kherdrdev/herdr · RustHerdr is a terminal runtime that coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, and Grok live on — it is a background server/multiplexer that keeps their terminal sessions running even after you close the client or lose your SSH connection, while organizing multiple agents into panes you can monitor at a glance.
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yazi
42.9Ksxyazi/yazi · RustYazi (means 'duck') is a blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, built on non-blocking async I/O for an efficient, user-friendly and customizable file management experience.
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vim
41.1Kvim/vim · Vim ScriptVim (Vi IMproved) is a greatly improved version of the classic UNIX editor Vi - a text editor geared to editing programs and other plain text files. The current release is version 9.2.
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Codewhale
41.1Kcodewhale-hq/Codewhale · RustCodewhale is an open-source coding agent that runs in your terminal: it reads your project, edits files, runs shell commands, and checks its own work, using whichever hosted or local model you pick.
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ink
40.1Kvadimdemedes/ink · TypeScriptInk is React for the terminal: a library for building interactive command-line apps out of components, with the same component-based UI experience React offers in the browser.
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textual
37.5KTextualize/textual · PythonTextual is a lean application framework for Python: you build text-based user interfaces with a simple Python API, and the finished apps run both in the terminal and in a web browser.
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DeepSeek-Reasonix
35.8Kesengine/DeepSeek-Reasonix · GoReasonix is a coding agent for complex software engineering tasks, built as a single local engine that you access through a terminal, desktop app, browser, or your editor via ACP.
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QwenPaw
35.8Kagentscope-ai/QwenPaw · TypeScriptQwenPaw is a personal AI assistant that you deploy yourself (locally or in the cloud), which remembers context across sessions, runs tasks/automations, and reaches you through chat apps like Discord, Telegram, and WeChat. It is extensible with Skills, Plugins, and MCP tools.
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zellij
35.8Kzellij-org/zellij · RustZellij is a terminal workspace (often called a terminal multiplexer) that lets you split your terminal into panes and tabs, with layouts, plugins, and a focus on being easy to use out of the box while still powerful.
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oh-my-pi
35.7Kcan1357/oh-my-pi · TypeScriptomp (oh-my-pi) is a terminal coding agent — a fork of Mario Zetchner's Pi with the IDE wired in, built by Stencil Labs: 60+ model providers, 31 built-in tools, 14 LSP and 28 debugger ops, around 80k lines of Rust core.
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btop
35Karistocratos/btop · C++A terminal resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes. It is the C++ version and continuation of bashtop and bpytop.
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k9s
34.8Kderailed/k9s · GoK9s is a terminal UI that lets you navigate, observe and manage Kubernetes clusters in real time instead of typing raw kubectl commands.
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glances
33.8Knicolargo/glances · PythonGlances is an open-source cross-platform system monitoring tool, a top/htop alternative that shows CPU, memory, disk, network, containers, sensors, and running processes in one dashboard, reachable via terminal, web UI, API, or an MCP server for AI assistants.
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atuin
32Katuinsh/atuin · RustAtuin replaces your shell history with a SQLite database, records extra context for every command, and adds a full-screen interactive search UI — with optional fully encrypted sync of history between machines.
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micro
29.7Kmicro-editor/micro · Gomicro is a terminal-based text editor aiming to be easy to use and intuitive — a kind of successor to nano, packaged as a single static binary that's comfortable enough for full-time work in a terminal or over SSH.
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crush
28.7Kcharmbracelet/crush · GoA terminal-based AI coding agent from Charm: it wires your tools, code, and workflows into the LLM of your choice and works as a coding partner right in your terminal.
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glow
27.7Kcharmbracelet/glow · GoGlow is a terminal-based markdown reader: it renders markdown files with style, discovers local markdown files for you, and lets you read documentation right on the command line.
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LazyVim
27.7KLazyVim/LazyVim · LuaLazyVim is a pre-made Neovim configuration built on the lazy.nvim plugin manager, designed to be easy to customize and extend.
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grok-build
27.4Kxai-org/grok-build · RustGrok Build is SpaceXAI's terminal-based AI coding agent. It runs as a full-screen TUI that understands your codebase, edits files, executes shell commands, searches the web, and manages long-running tasks, either interactively, headlessly for scripting/CI, or embedded in editors via the Agent Client Protocol (ACP).
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gum
24.5Kcharmbracelet/gum · GoGum is a tool for glamorous shell scripts: interactive prompts, spinners, and styled output for bash or any shell, powered by Charm's Bubbles and Lip Gloss — without writing any Go code.
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superfile
23.8Kyorukot/superfile · GoA pretty and modern terminal file manager — a keyboard-driven TUI app written in Go for browsing and managing files right from your shell.
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ratatui
23Kratatui/ratatui · RustRatatui is a Rust crate for building terminal user interfaces — text-based UIs for command-line applications, dashboards and other interactive console programs.
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claude-code
22.9Kclaude-code-best/claude-code · TypeScriptClaude Code Best (CCB) is a full open-source engineering reconstruction of Anthropic's official Claude Code CLI agent — buildable, runnable and debuggable — extended with extra features like goal-driven workflows, multi-agent orchestration, voice input and computer/browser control, while keeping full compatibility with the original Claude Code configuration.
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witr
22.7Kpranshuparmar/witr · Gowitr answers one question: 'why is this running?' Point it at a process, port, container, or file, and it traces the exact chain of supervisors, services, and shells that started it.
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gitui
22.6Kgitui-org/gitui · RustGitUI is a blazing-fast terminal UI for git written in Rust: the comfort of a git GUI, but running entirely in your terminal.
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nnn
22.1Kjarun/nnn · Cnnn (n3) is a terminal file manager built for speed and low resource use. The binary is typically around 100KB, it usually needs less than 3.5MB of resident memory, and it runs fine even with 8 colors.
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prime-agent
22.1KPrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent · RustPrime Agent is an open-source coding and research agent for general and long-running work. It is built on two abstractions: the Recursive Language Model (RLM) programming model and a Continual Harness that keeps prompts, memories and skills as durable, refinable state.
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Ciphey
21.7Kbee-san/Ciphey · Rustciphey automatically decrypts ciphertext without knowing the key or cipher, decodes encodings and cracks hashes. It is the Rust-built next generation of Ciphey — roughly 7x faster per decode — and the same team intends it to fully replace the original.
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lazy.nvim
21.7Kfolke/lazy.nvim · Lualazy.nvim is a modern plugin manager for Neovim. It installs and updates your plugins, shows them in a built-in UI, and keeps startup fast through automatic caching, bytecode compilation and lazy-loading.
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Inquirer.js
21.6KSBoudrias/Inquirer.js · TypeScriptInquirer.js is a collection of ready-made interactive command line prompts for Node.js CLIs — input fields, selectable lists, checkboxes, confirms and more — so you don't build terminal question UIs by hand.
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awesome-neovim
21.5KrockerBOO/awesome-neovim · ShellA curated catalog of Neovim plugins, grouped by what they do - from plugin managers and LSP tooling to colorschemes, Git integration and AI assistants.
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goaccess
21.1Kallinurl/goaccess · CGoAccess is an open source real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer. It parses your web server access logs and shows HTTP statistics live, either in a terminal UI or as an HTML dashboard in your browser.
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jcode
20.9K1jehuang/jcode · Rustjcode is a high-performance coding agent harness written in Rust — a terminal-based AI coding agent that connects to LLM providers like Claude, OpenAI and Gemini and drives coding work from your TUI.
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awesome-tuis
20.9Krothgar/awesome-tuisA community-maintained catalog of TUI applications — programs that run in your terminal and offer some level of interactivity — organized into themed sections.
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fx
20.7Kantonmedv/fx · Gofx is a terminal JSON viewer and processor — a command-line tool for exploring and transforming JSON data right in your terminal.
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hummingbot
20.5Khummingbot/hummingbot · PythonAn open-source Python framework for building and deploying automated crypto trading bots across centralized and decentralized exchanges. Its users generated over $34 billion in volume across 140+ venues in the past year, and it is free under the Apache 2.0 license.
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SpaceVim
20.2Kwsdjeg/SpaceVim · Vim ScriptSpaceVim is a modular configuration for Vim and Neovim, inspired by spacemacs, that turns a plain editor into a batteries-included development environment.
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nerdtree
20.1Kpreservim/nerdtree · Vim ScriptNERDTree is a file system explorer plugin for Vim: it shows your directories as a tree inside the editor, so you can browse, open files, and run basic file operations without leaving Vim.
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carbonyl
19.5Kfathyb/carbonyl · RustCarbonyl is a Chromium-based browser that runs entirely inside your terminal, so you can browse the modern web without leaving the command line.
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spotify-tui
19.4KRigellute/spotify-tui · RustSpotify TUI is a Spotify client that runs entirely in the terminal, written in Rust. The binary is called spt — a keyboard-driven way to search music and control Spotify playback without opening the GUI app.
- 54

LunarVim
19.3KLunarVim/LunarVim · LuaLunarVim is an IDE layer for Neovim: a free, community-driven setup that turns a plain Neovim install into a full IDE with sane defaults.
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browsh
19.1Kbrowsh-org/browsh · JavaScriptBrowsh is a fully modern text-based browser: it renders real web pages and web apps as pure text in your terminal, with a headless Firefox doing the actual browsing behind the scenes.
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json-render
18.7Kvercel-labs/json-render · TypeScriptjson-render is a Generative UI framework: AI generates interfaces from natural language prompts, but output is constrained to a catalog of components you define, so you keep reliability and predictability while letting AI drive the UI.
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vim-airline
18Kvim-airline/vim-airline · Vim Scriptvim-airline is a statusline and tabline plugin for Vim: a lean, fast bar at the bottom of every Vim window that shows your mode, current file, VCS info and cursor position at a glance.
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ctop
17.8Kbcicen/ctop · Goctop is a terminal tool that shows a top-like, real-time overview of metrics for all your running containers, plus a detailed single-container view.
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navi
17.8Kdenisidoro/navi · Rustnavi is an interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line: you browse cheatsheets — written by you or downloaded from maintainers — and execute commands straight from them.
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ranger
17.4Kranger/ranger · PythonRanger is a console file manager with VI key bindings — a minimalistic curses interface for browsing the directory hierarchy, with previews, tabs and bookmarks.
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wtf
17.1Kwtfutil/wtf · GoWTF (aka 'wtfutil') is a personal information dashboard for your terminal, giving at-a-glance access to your important but rarely-needed stats and data. It is free and open-source and is used by thousands of developers and tech people.
- 62

DeepCode
16.7KHKUDS/DeepCode · PythonAn open agentic coding platform from HKUDS: a multi-agent harness that turns natural language and even research papers into production-ready code, working directly in your repository.
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OpenShell
16.5KNVIDIA/OpenShell · RustOpenShell is an open-source runtime for running autonomous AI agents inside isolated sandboxes. Declarative YAML policies protect your files, credentials, and infrastructure from unauthorized access and data exfiltration.
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OpenHarness
16KHKUDS/OpenHarness · PythonOpenHarness is an open-source Python agent harness: the infrastructure that turns an LLM into a working agent with tool use, skills, memory and multi-agent coordination. It also ships ohmo, a personal agent that works for you in chat apps.
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blessed-contrib
15.8Kyaronn/blessed-contrib · JavaScriptblessed-contrib is a library for building terminal dashboards and other text-UI apps using ASCII/ANSI art and JavaScript, on top of the blessed terminal UI library.
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memray
15.4Kbloomberg/memray · PythonMemray is a memory profiler for Python. It tracks memory allocations in Python code, native extension modules and the interpreter itself, then builds reports like flame graphs from the captured data.
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duf
15.3Kmuesli/duf · Goduf is a terminal utility for checking disk usage and free space — a user-friendly, better-looking alternative to df for Linux, BSD, macOS and Windows.
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lime
15.3Klimetext/limeLime is an open source project aiming to be an API-compatible alternative to the Sublime Text editor, so existing Sublime Text plugins can be reused without authors supporting multiple APIs.
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sampler
14.8Ksqshq/sampler · GoSampler is a terminal tool that repeatedly runs shell commands and turns their output into live visualizations like charts and gauges, with optional alerts, all configured through a single YAML file.
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edit
14.7Kmicrosoft/edit · RustEdit is a small terminal text editor from Microsoft for quick, simple jobs — an homage to the classic MS-DOS Editor, rebuilt with a modern interface and input controls similar to VS Code.
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magpie
14.4Kyetone/magpie · GoMagpie is a menu bar app that lists every AI coding agent installed on your machine next to the model each one is currently set to; click a value and pick a different model from a dropdown.
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tview
14.1Krivo/tview · Gotview is a Go package that provides ready-made, interactive widgets for building terminal user interfaces: input forms, text views, text areas, tables, tree views, lists, images, layouts and modal windows.
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bottom
14.1KClementTsang/bottom · Rustbottom (btm) is a customizable graphical process/system monitor that runs in your terminal. It shows live charts of CPU, memory, network, disk and temperature usage, and works on Linux, macOS and Windows.
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webpack-dashboard
14KFormidableLabs/webpack-dashboard · JavaScriptA CLI dashboard for your webpack dev server: instead of a wall of scrolling build output, you get a tidy terminal dashboard with your build status, errors and log at a glance.
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opencode
13.8Kopencode-ai/opencode · GoIt's an AI coding agent for your terminal: a Go CLI with an interactive TUI where AI models help you code, debug and run commands without leaving the shell.
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MiMo-Code
13.7KXiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code · TypeScriptMiMoCode is a terminal-native AI coding assistant that can read and write code, run commands, manage Git, and keep a persistent memory of your project across sessions while continuously improving itself.
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termui
13.6Kgizak/termui · Gotermui is a cross-platform terminal dashboard and widget library for Go, used to build text-based UIs with charts, gauges, and tables right in the terminal.
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opentui
13.6Kanomalyco/opentui · TypeScriptOpenTUI is a library for building terminal user interfaces — interactive, text-mode apps that run in the terminal, written in TypeScript.
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tig
13.4Kjonas/tig · CTig is an ncurses-based text-mode interface for Git. It works mainly as a Git repository browser, but can also help stage changes for commit at the chunk level and act as a pager for output from Git commands.
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Cataclysm-DDA
13.4KCleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA · C++Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a turn-based survival game set in a procedurally generated post-apocalyptic world, where you scavenge supplies and fight zombies, giant insects, killer robots, and other survivors.
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ccstatusline
13.3Ksirmalloc/ccstatusline · TypeScriptccstatusline is a highly customizable status line for the Claude Code CLI, showing model info, git branch, token usage and other metrics right in your terminal.
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XHS-Downloader
13KJoeanAmier/XHS-Downloader · JavaScriptXHS-Downloader is a tool for extracting share links and downloading posts (images, videos, live photos and covers) from Xiaohongshu (XiaoHongShu / RedNote).
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gping
12.7Korf/gping · Rustgping is a command-line tool written in Rust that pings one or more hosts and shows the response times as a live graph right in your terminal, instead of the usual scrolling text output of ping.
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ViMax
12.7KHKUDS/ViMax · PythonViMax is an agentic AI framework that acts as an all-in-one director, screenwriter, producer, and video generator: give it a concept, script, or novel, and it autonomously handles scriptwriting, storyboarding, character creation, and final video assembly.
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gh-dash
12.6Kdlvhdr/gh-dash · Gogh-dash is a terminal UI (TUI) dashboard that shows your GitHub pull requests and issues right in the terminal, so you never have to switch to a browser to check them.
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posting
12.5Kdarrenburns/posting · GoPosting is an HTTP client that lives in your terminal — a keyboard-driven alternative to Postman and Insomnia for building and sending API requests.
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lipgloss
11.9Kcharmbracelet/lipgloss · GoLip Gloss is a Go library for styling terminal output and building terminal layouts: colors, borders, alignment, padding and composition, built with TUIs in mind.
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blessed
11.9Kchjj/blessed · JavaScriptA curses-like terminal UI library for Node.js: it reimplements ncurses on top of terminfo/termcap and layers a widget API on top for building terminal applications.
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slides
11.7Kmaaslalani/slides · GoSlides is a terminal-based tool for creating and presenting markdown presentations directly inside your terminal.
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spectre.console
11.7Kspectreconsole/spectre.console · C#Spectre.Console is a .NET library that makes it easier to build beautiful, cross-platform console applications, with tables, panels, markup, and rich text styling.
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Terminal.Gui
11.3Ktui-cs/Terminal.Gui · C#Terminal.Gui is a cross-platform toolkit for building sophisticated terminal UI (TUI) applications on .NET, running consistently on Windows, macOS, and Linux/Unix.
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bashtop
11.1Karistocratos/bashtop · ShellBashtop is a terminal-based resource monitor for Linux, macOS and FreeBSD that shows usage and stats for the processor, memory, disks, network and running processes.
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kakoune
11.1Kmawww/kakoune · C++Kakoune is a modal code editor that runs in the terminal and implements Vi's 'keystrokes as a text editing language' model. It was originally inspired by Vim and puts a strong focus on interactivity and multiple selections.
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nvtop
11.1KSyllo/nvtop · CNVTOP (Neat Videocard TOP) is a htop-like task monitor for GPUs and accelerators: it runs in the terminal, handles multiple GPUs at once and shows what each device is doing, including which processes are using it.
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inspector
11.1Kmodelcontextprotocol/inspector · TypeScriptMCP Inspector is a developer tool for inspecting Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, shipped as a single npm package with web, CLI, and TUI interfaces for testing and debugging.
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bpytop
10.9Karistocratos/bpytop · Pythonbpytop is a terminal resource monitor that shows real-time usage and stats for the processor, memory, disks, network, and running processes. It is a Python port and continuation of the earlier bashtop project.
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tui-rs
10.9Kfdehau/tui-rs · Rusttui-rs is a Rust library for building rich terminal user interfaces and dashboards, inspired by the JavaScript library blessed-contrib and the Go library termui.
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FTXUI
10.8KArthurSonzogni/FTXUI · C++FTXUI is a simple cross-platform C++ library for building terminal user interfaces — full-screen text apps with colors, layout, widgets, and keyboard and mouse input.
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git-bug
10.8Kgit-bug/git-bug · Gogit-bug is a distributed, offline-first bug tracker that lives inside your git repository: issues, comments and identities are embedded in the repo itself and sync through ordinary git pushes and pulls.
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wuzz
10.7Kasciimoo/wuzz · GoWuzz is an interactive command-line tool for inspecting and tweaking HTTP requests and responses in a terminal UI.
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