whiptail AlternativesShells and other similar apps like whiptail

whiptail is described as 'Display dialog boxes from shell scripts' and is a Shell in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to whiptail for Linux, Windows, Mac, Bloodshed Dev-C++ and Code::Blocks. The best whiptail alternative is Zenity, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like whiptail are Glade, Yad, wxFormBuilder and easybashgui.

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whiptail alternatives page was last updated Feb 22, 2022
  1. Zenity icon
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    Zenity is a tool that allows you to display GTK dialog boxes in commandline and shell scripts.

    20 Zenity alternatives
    Zenity screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Zenity Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Command line interface
    3.  Gtk
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    Zenity VS whiptail

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    • Zenity is the most popular Linux alternative to whiptail.

    • Zenity is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to whiptail.

    • Zenity is Free and Open Sourcewhiptail is also Free and Open Source
  2. Glade icon
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    Glade is a RAD (Rapid Application Development) tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces for the GTK+ toolkit.

    17 Glade alternatives
    Login ui using glade

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Glade Features

    1.  Gtk
    2.  Rad
    Discontinued

    The tool is not developed anymore as it cannot handle Gtk4.Instead Cambalache UI Maker is being developed but it still needs funding.

    Glade icon

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    • Glade is the most popular Windows & Mac alternative to whiptail.

    • Glade is Free and Open Sourcewhiptail is also Free and Open Source
  3. Yad icon
     10 likes

    Yad (yet another dialog) is a fork of Zenity with many improvements, such as custom buttons, additional dialogs, pop-up menu in notification icon and more. It's useful for creating quick and easy GUIs for shell and batch scripting.

    20 Yad alternatives
    Sample dialog with tabs from YAD's SourceForge.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Yad Features

    1.  Support for scripting
    2.  Portable
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  4. wxFormBuilder icon
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    wxWidgets is an excellent framework that enables the creation of multi-platform applications with and without a graphical user interface. There are several applications that help create dialogs visually, even so, some practical problems have led me to start the development of a...

    20 wxFormBuilder alternatives
    wxFormBuilder screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    wxFormBuilder Features

    1.  Rad
    2.  C++
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  5. easybashgui icon
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    Bash functions library for *BSD and GNU/Linux that aims to give simple GUI functions using yad, gtkdialog, kdialog, zenity, Xdialog, (c)dialog, whiptail or bash builtins depending on KDE or GNOME running or not, Yad/Gtkdialog/Xdialog installed or not and, eventually, X...

    20 easybashgui alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    easybashgui Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Graphical User Interface
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  6. KDialog icon
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    kdialog allows you to display dialog boxes from shell scripts. The syntax is very much inspired from the "dialog" command (which shows text mode dialogs).

    21 KDialog alternatives
    KDialog screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    KDialog Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  KDE
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  7. wxDev-C++ icon
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    wxDev-C++ is an extension of Bloodshed Dev-C++ by Colin Laplace et. al. This program helps you to create dialogs and frames for wxWidgets visually using a form designer.

    15 wxDev-C++ alternatives
    wxDev-C++ screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Bloodshed Dev-C++

    wxDev-C++ Features

    1.  C++
    Discontinued

    The project is no longer developed. Last version, 7.4.2, released in June 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.

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  8. wxGlade icon
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    wxGlade is a GUI designer written in Python with the popular GUI toolkit wxPython, that helps you create wxWidgets/wxPython user interfaces. At the moment it can generate Python, C++, Perl, Lisp and XRC (wxWidgets' XML resources) code.

    17 wxGlade alternatives
    A sample session

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    wxGlade Features

    1.  C++
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  9. wxSmith icon
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    wxSmith is a Code::Blocks plugin for RAD editing of wxWidgets applications.

    16 wxSmith alternatives
    wxSmith screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Code::Blocks

    wxSmith Features

    1.  GUI Designer
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  10.  1 like

    display dialog boxes from shell scripts. Curses based. Works in console mode.

    21 dialog alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    dialog Features

    1.  Command line interface

    dialog VS whiptail

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  11.  1 like

    Visualwx aims to be the ultimate RAD tool, designed for c++, python, perl, ruby, lua and wxWidgets. Still there are many things to do, but we've achieved considerable progress.

    16 VisualWX alternatives
    VisualWX screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    VisualWX Features

    1.  Rad
    2.  C++
    3.  Ruby
    Discontinued

    Last version seems to be VisualWx 0.87.6.0 Alfa April 13 2007, see http://visualwx.altervista.org/downloads.php. There is no version for Python 3.

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  12. MessagePop icon
     1 like

    MessagePop is a simple application designed to help you convey a message to the computer user. The program allows you to specify the message text and the other parameters from the command line.

    15 MessagePop alternatives
    Default message

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    MessagePop Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Portable
    MessagePop icon

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