Zenity is a tool that allows you to display GTK dialog boxes in commandline and shell scripts.


Zenity is the most popular Linux alternative to Yad.
Zenity is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Yad.
- Zenity is Free and Open Source
Yad is described as '(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' and is a Shell in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Yad for Linux, Windows, Mac and BSD. The best Yad alternative is Zenity, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Yad are Modern Message Box Generator, Glade, wxFormBuilder and KDialog.
Zenity is a tool that allows you to display GTK dialog boxes in commandline and shell scripts.


Zenity is the most popular Linux alternative to Yad.
Zenity is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Yad.
Generates a customizable "Task Dialog" box - a more modern version of the old Windows message box.'



Modern Message Box Generator is the most popular Windows alternative to Yad.
Glade is a RAD (Rapid Application Development) tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces for the GTK+ toolkit.




Glade is the most popular Mac alternative to Yad.
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...


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).

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.

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...
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.



