Turbo Vision AlternativesTerminal Emulators and other similar apps like Turbo Vision

Turbo Vision is described as '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' and is a terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Turbo Vision for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best Turbo Vision alternative is Ratatui, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Turbo Vision are ncurses, FINAL CUT, newt and libmabuff.

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  1. Ratatui icon
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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

    Platforms

    • Rust
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Ratatui is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Turbo Vision.

    • Ratatui is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Turbo Vision.

    • Ratatui is Free and Open SourceTurbo Vision is also Free and Open Source
  2. ncurses icon
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    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.

    14 ncurses alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
    • ncurses is the most popular Linux alternative to Turbo Vision.

    • ncurses is Free and Open SourceTurbo Vision is also Free and Open Source
  3. FINAL CUT icon
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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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
    • Oracle Solaris
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
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    • Almost everyone thinks FINAL CUT is a great Turbo Vision alternative.

    • FINAL CUT is the most popular Mac alternative to Turbo Vision.

    • FINAL CUT is Free and Open SourceTurbo Vision is also Free and Open Source
  4. newt icon
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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

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. libmabuff icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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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

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • ConsoleGUI is the most popular Windows alternative to Turbo Vision.

    • ConsoleGUI is Free and Open SourceTurbo Vision is also Free and Open Source
  7. Gui.cs icon
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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

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. termbox icon
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    Termbox is a library that helps making terminal-based pseudo-GUIs. It is a simple and clean ncurses alternative.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    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
     
  10. tui-rs icon
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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

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. FTXUI icon
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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.

    14 FTXUI alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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