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Terminal user interaces My favorites

TuxLux40 edited this page Feb 1, 2026 · 1 revision

A list of cool TUIs I use (or plan to use)

Network & Radio

  • netscanner - Network scanner
  • nmtui - ncurses network manager (WiFi management)
  • oryx - A TUI for sniffing network traffic using eBPF
  • termshark - Terminal UI for tshark
  • impala - TUI for managing wifi (AUR, doesn't work on RPi4 with Arch)
  • tsui - An (experimental) elegant TUI for configuring Tailscale

Performance Monitoring

  • atop - root level system and process monitor for Linux
  • bmon - A monitoring and debugging tool for networking statistics
  • btop - Resource monitor with extras
  • glances - Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative
  • gotop - A terminal based graphical activity monitor
  • gping - Ping, but with a graph
  • kmon - Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor
  • nvtop - GPUs process monitoring for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA
  • rustnet - A cross-platform network monitoring tool
  • trippy - A network diagnostic tool like mtr and more
  • gtop - System monitoring dashboard for terminal (AUR)
  • sockttop - Remote system monitor with a rich TUI, inspired by top/btop (AUR)
  • kyanos - Linux network analysis tool based on eBPF (AUR)
  • corefreq - CPU monitoring software designed for 64-bits Processors (AUR)

Database management

  • rainfrog - A database management TUI for Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite
  • lazysql - A cross-platform TUI database management tool written in Go (AUR)

Development & Build Tools

  • opencode - AI coding agent, built for the terminal
  • python-textual - TUI framework for Python
  • crush - The glamourous AI coding agent (AUR)
  • lazymake - Modern TUI for Makefiles with interactive target selection (AUR)

Docker & Podman

  • ctop - Top-like interface for container metrics
  • lazydocker - The lazier way to manage everything docker (AUR)
  • oxker - A simple tui to view & control docker containers (AUR)
  • ducker - A slightly quackers Docker TUI based on k9s (AUR)

Files & Storage

  • caligula - A user-friendly, lightweight TUI for imaging disks
  • diskonaut - Terminal disk space navigator
  • fzf - A general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder
  • ranger - A VIM-inspired file manager for the console
  • yazi - Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust
  • ncdu - disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface
  • zoxide - A smarter cd command with fuzzy finding
  • gdu - Fast disk usage analyzer with console interface written in Go (AUR)

Misc.

  • bluetui - A TUI for managing bluetooth devices
  • gpg-tui - A terminal user interface for GnuPG
  • intelli-shell - Manage command templates/snippets with dynamic completions and AI integration
  • khal - A standards based CLI calendar program
  • termscp - A TUI file transfer and explorer, with support for SCP/SFTP/FTP/S3
  • wavemon - A wireless device monitoring application
  • glow - A markdown reader designed to showcase the elegance and capabilities of TUI (AUR)
  • cronboard - A terminal-based dashboard for managing cron jobs (AUR)
  • sshm - SSH made easy and fast: browse, connect, and control from your terminal with a modern TUI
  • gocheat - A beautiful TUI cheatsheet for keybindings, hotkeys, gestures and aliases
  • multranslate - A TUI for translating text in multiple translators simultaneously
  • searxngr - Web search TUI for SearXNG
  • distrobox-tui - TUI for managing distrobox containers
  • nemu - A TUI for QEMU
  • systemd-manager-tui
systemd-manager-tui

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