rothgar/awesome-tuis

Awesome TUIs is a curated community list of TUI applications, meaning tools that run inside a terminal window and provide an interactive, visual interface using keyboard navigation rather than a graphical desktop window. The idea is that terminals are everywhere and often faster than a GUI, so this list collects the best tools that take advantage of that environment. The list is organized into categories like Dashboards, Development, File Managers, Editors, Games, Messaging, Multimedia, Productivity, and Web. Each entry links to a separate project. Examples include system monitors like htop, database browsers, Kubernetes managers, Kafka consumers, network analyzers, and even games, all designed to run entirely inside a terminal. You would browse this list if you spend time in a terminal and want to discover purpose-built interactive tools for tasks you currently do through clunky command-line flags or a heavy GUI application. It is especially useful for developers and system administrators who want to manage servers, monitor infrastructure, or handle files without leaving the command line.