Terminal.Gui Alternatives

Apps similar to Terminal.Gui include Ratatui, which is free and open source. Other options are FINAL CUT, FTXUI, Gui.cs and tui-rs. In total there are seven Terminal Emulators like Terminal.Gui for Linux, Windows, Mac and self-hosting.

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Terminal.Gui alternatives page was last updated Aug 26, 2026

Ratatui
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Ratatui is a Rust library for cooking up delicious text user interfaces (TUIs). It is a lightweight library that provides a set of widgets and utilities to build simple or complex rust TUIs.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
Rust
Self-Hosted
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Good alternative?Is Ratatui a good alternative to Terminal.Gui?
FINAL CUT
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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
Terminal Emulator
Platforms
Mac
Linux
BSD
Cygwin
Oracle Solaris
FreeBSD
NetBSD
OpenBSD
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FTXUI
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FTXUI is a simple C++ library for terminal based user interfaces featuring a functional style inspired by React, UTF8 and fullwidth char support and keyboard and mouse navigation.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Origin
France
EU
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
France
EU
T
Good alternative?Is FTXUI a good alternative to Terminal.Gui?
Gui.cs
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Gui.cs is a simple UI toolkit for .NET, .NET Core and Mono and works on both Windows and Linux/Unix. The toolkit contains various controls for building text user interfaces from buttons, checkboxes and lists to menus, frames and windows.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
Windows
Linux
T
Good alternative?Is Gui.cs a good alternative to Terminal.Gui?
tui-rs
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tui-rs is a Rust library to build rich terminal user interfaces and dashboards. The library is based on the principle of immediate rendering with intermediate buffers.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Linux
T
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newt
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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.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Origin
United States
Platforms
Linux
United States
T
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ConsoleGUI
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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)
Origin
Poland
EU
Platforms
Windows
Poland
EU
T
Good alternative?Is ConsoleGUI a good alternative to Terminal.Gui?