Yad AlternativesShells and other similar apps like Yad

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 Glade, wxFormBuilder, easybashgui and KDialog.

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Yad alternatives page was last updated Feb 22, 2022
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  1. Zenity icon

    Zenity

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

    21 Zenity alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Zenity screenshot 1

    Zenity Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Portable
    3.  Gtk

    Zenity VS Yad

     

    • 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 SourceYad is also Free and Open Source
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    Glade

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    Glade is a RAD (Rapid Application Development) tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces for the GTK+ toolkit.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Login ui using glade
    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 Features

    1.  Gtk
    2.  Rad

    Glade VS Yad

     

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

    • Glade is Free and Open SourceYad is also Free and Open Source
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    wxFormBuilder

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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...

    21 wxFormBuilder alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    wxFormBuilder screenshot 1

    wxFormBuilder Features

    1.  Rad
    2.  C++

    wxFormBuilder VS Yad

     
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    easybashgui

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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...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    easybashgui Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Graphical User Interface

    easybashgui VS Yad

     
  6. KDialog icon

    KDialog

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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).

    22 KDialog alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux
    KDialog screenshot 1

    KDialog Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  KDE

    KDialog VS Yad

     
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    wxDev-C++

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Bloodshed Dev-C++
    wxDev-C++ screenshot 1
    Discontinued

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

    wxDev-C++ Features

    1.  C++

    wxDev-C++ VS Yad

     

  9. whiptail

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    display dialog boxes from shell scripts.

    21 whiptail alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    whiptail Features

    1.  Command line interface

    whiptail VS Yad

     
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    wxGlade

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    A sample session

    wxGlade Features

    1.  C++

    wxGlade VS Yad

     
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    wxSmith

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    wxSmith is a Code::Blocks plugin for RAD editing of wxWidgets applications.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Code::Blocks
    wxSmith screenshot 1

    wxSmith Features

    1.  GUI Designer

    wxSmith VS Yad

     

  12. xmessage

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    display a message or query in a window (X-based /bin/echo).

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    xmessage Features

    1.  Command line interface

    xmessage VS Yad

     
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    gxmessage

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    a GTK-based xmessage clone.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • GB flagUnited Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    gxmessage Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Gtk

    gxmessage VS Yad

     

  14. VisualWX

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    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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    VisualWX screenshot 1
    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.

    VisualWX Features

    1.  Rad
    2.  C++

    VisualWX VS Yad

     
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