dialog Alternatives
dialog is described as 'Display dialog boxes from shell scripts. Curses based. Works in console mode' and is a Shell in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to dialog for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Python apps. The best dialog alternative is Zenity, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like dialog are Modern Message Box Generator, Glade, Yad and KDialog.
Alternatives list
This is a tiny hack to display message boxes from Windows batch files and command line programs. There are many like it but the developer didn't find any that was open source, non-copyleft and had no external dependencies (.NET Framework, GTK+, etc.).
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows

CocoaDialog is an OS X application that allows the use of common GUI controls such as file selectors, text input, progress bars, yes/no confirmations and more with a command-line application. It requires no knowledge of Cocoa, and is ideal for use in shell and Perl scripts (or...
XRCed is a simple resource editor for wxWidgets/wxPython GUI development which supports creating and editing files in XRC format It is written in Python and uses wxPython GUI toolkit.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux


Anthemion DialogBlocks is a sizer-based resource editor that quickly gets you creating professional-looking dialogs, wizards and frames for deployment on Windows, Linux, Mac or any other supported wxWidgets platform.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD



Xdialog is designed to be a drop in replacement for the "dialog" or "cdialog" programs. It converts any terminal based program into a program with an X-windows interface. The dialogs are easier to see and use while adding even more functionalities (e.g.
Gtkdialog is a small utility for fast and easy GUI building. It can be used to create dialog boxes for almost any interpreted and compiled programs which is a very attractive feature since the developer does not have to learn various GUI languages for the miscellaneous...








