The terminal is on life support. Is it worth saving?

Terminal Apps

A collection of awesome TUI apps from around the web.

I Tried Every iOS Terminal Emulator So You Don't Have To

(that support Mosh because otherwise what are we even doing)

Terminal Apps need a DOM | C1

agent-tui runs terminal programs on a PTY and exposes the rendered screen as text or an outline with stable refs. Agents can drive live TUIs, including other AI agents, by snapshotting, pressing keys, and waiting for screen state.

I don't need Obsidian anymore, I just use Glow

One of the central tenets of my productivity workflow is that the fewer times I have to switch between app windows, the better. I've been replacing my desktop apps with Terminal-based ones, including being able to browse and watch YouTube from the command line, and it's made my workflow more streamlined.

Zellij

A terminal workspace that doesn't sacrifice simplicity for power. Features floating panes, layouts, multiplayer collaboration, plugins, and works in your browser.

Terminal Trove - The $HOME of all things in the terminal.

Terminal Trove showcases the best of the terminal, Discover a collection of CLI, TUI, and more developer tools at Terminal Trove.

I Tried Every iOS Terminal Emulator So You Don't Have To - alice

(that support Mosh because otherwise what are we even doing)

Terminal UI the Easy Way: BubbleTEA

For the past 18 months I've been tinkering with a terminal application that serves as an Algorand node frontend. I had a number of requireme...

A Designer’s Guide to the Terminal

You can learn how to use the terminal in a fairly short amount of time. You don’t need a C.S. degree. You don’t need to know how to hack any mainframes.

Fresh - The Terminal Text Editor

Via npm (recommended): npm install -g @fresh-editor/fresh-editor

This Quake-inspired terminal is my new favorite on Linux

There's no faster way to pull up a console than the way Quake did it.

rootshell - Terminal Emulator for Apple Platforms

A powerful, Metal-accelerated terminal emulator for iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro, and Mac.

This cool Linux app lets you play YouTube music from your terminal

Because everything is better while it's running in your terminal.

Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal

My startup for terminals wrapped up mid-2025 when the funding ran dry. So I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career convincing terminals they are actually GUIs.