Ratatui is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to newt.
Ratatui is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to newt.
- Ratatui is Free and Open Source
newt Alternatives
newt is described as 'Newt is a programming library for color text mode, widget based user interfaces. Newt can be used to add stacked windows, entry widgets, checkboxes, radio buttons, labels, plain text fields, scrollbars, etc., to text mode user interfaces. Newt is based on the slang library' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to newt for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Cygwin and Oracle Solaris apps. The best newt alternative is Ratatui, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like newt are ncurses, FINAL CUT, libmabuff and Turbo Vision.
Alternatives list
- 14 ncurses alternatives
ncurses (new curses) is a programming library that provides an API which allows the programmer to write text-based user interfaces in a terminal-independent manner. It is a toolkit for developing "GUI-like" application software that runs under a terminal emulator.
ncurses is the most popular Linux alternative to newt.
- ncurses is Free and Open Source
FINAL CUT is a C++ class library and widget toolkit with full mouse support for creating a text-based user interface. The library supports the programmer to develop an application for the text console. It allows the simultaneous handling of multiple text windows on the screen.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (LGPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
- Cygwin
- Oracle Solaris
- FreeBSD
- NetBSD
- OpenBSD


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Almost everyone thinks FINAL CUT is a great newt alternative.
FINAL CUT is the most popular Mac alternative to newt.
- FINAL CUT is Free and Open Source
This is libmabuff, library for simple TUI creation in C++. It uses termbox, github.com/nsf/termbox (customized) as its backend. libmabuff's license is MIT.
It comes with a documentation (plain text, but usable).
The base idea of MABuffer are Zones. You can edit their conten.

A complete C++ Text User Interface (TUI) featuring windows, dialogs (buttons, check and radio boxes, input boxes, etc.), mouse support, menus, etc. It's available for various platforms and compilers.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Cygwin
- FreeDOS
- Solaris
- FreeBSD
- MS-DOS



Termbox is a library that helps making terminal-based pseudo-GUIs. It is a simple and clean ncurses alternative.

Gui.cs is the most popular Windows alternative to newt.
- Gui.cs is Free and Open Source
ConsoleGUI is a simple .NET framework for creating console-based GUI applications. It provides most essential layout management utilities as well as a set of basic controls.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Windows

S-Lang is a programming library that provides routines for embedding an interpreter for the S-Lang scripting language, and components to facilitate the creation of text-based applications.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux

























