Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to A MCP for controlling terminal UI apps built with bubbletea and ratatui
I made a Playwright MCP for TUI apps so now you can vibe code terminal apps with a lot of features like code mode and session recordings. Already vibe coded a nice reddis viewer/editor with it https://github.com/michaellee8/redis-nav.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Multitui▲126I made Multitui to control the sandbox of coding agents easily without changing my dev environment (no special container or VM). There's no configuration required in your local dev environment... just launch ClaudeCode.app instead of claude in your general terminal. Containers and VMs can be useful, but I always have a bunch of projects going and those solutions feel heavy. Multitui creates single-purpose native macOS apps for any terminal app, with optional sandbox. It uses the built-in macOS sandbox-exec along with log monitoring to give you an easy UI to manage rules, see what's being…
Feb 2026 · multitui.com · its alternatives →
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VibeShift MCP▲141Hi HN, We are the devs behind VibeShift. We have been building this MCP server to put AI coding assistants in an automatic feedback loop. They code, test, debug, fix everything until we have a fully working, secure code. It tests like a real user, copies network/console and logical errors to give them back to cursor. (1 min demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN_RgQGa8B0) We felt this was the natural next step for AI coding assistants. And with new asynchronous assistants like codex, having a plug & play tester makes sure you don't have to spend time debugging and…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Screensavers for your terminal. Contribute to cxreiff/ttysvr development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Author here. I made this little TUI program for managing default applications on the Linux desktop. Maybe some of you will find it useful. Happy to answer any questions.
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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TUIs for the terminal, desktop, and web. Contribute to ansiwave/nimwave development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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tui-use lets agents interact with programs that expect a human at the keyboard — REPLs, debuggers, TUI apps, and anything else bash can't reach. - onesuper/tui-use
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News. Contribute to aome510/hackernews-TUI development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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tui automation kit for agents, like playwright for the terminal - honeybadge-labs/virtui
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Vibe Pocket▲135Run AI agents like Claude Code, Codex, Opencode on mobile
Dec 2025 · vibepocket.com · its alternatives →
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LinkShell▲74Control your AI terminal sessions from your phone.
Apr 2026 · liutianjie.github.io · its alternatives →
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Last month, I started learning a Python TUI framework called Textual. After working on a 4x4 board game, I made an interactive app to test your CLI text processing skills with 40 beginner to intermediate level exercises. The app is fairly basic in terms of features — only single input file, so no stdin data, multiple files, etc. Most of the exercises in this app is based on my Computing from the Command Line ebook (https://learnbyexample.github.io/cli-computing/preface.html). I hope to improve the TUI app to support all the 200+ exercises sometime next year.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've developed a terminal radio app in Go, leveraging the Bubbletea TUI framework and Radio Browser API. Excited to share and get feedback from this community!
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi there, This is just a shameless self-plug about a personal project of mine: "Using mpv and mpvc to play and manage the stuff I listen." To that end I've forked the great https://github.com/lwilletts/mpvc and started hacking around, so far I've focused on: getting a minimal TUI working, improving the CLI, playing online music (eg. youtube and other streaming services), and bugfixes (including the introducing new ones). The project is mainly developed, and, used under Debian/Ubuntu systems so expect the best results with these. What I expect from sharing in HN is: -…
2022 · gmt4.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hey! So I worked on a new website for my TUI called `dash` on https://gh-dash.dev The docs content was contributed by a community member @michaeltlombardi https://github.com/michaeltlombardi which I'm super grateful for. Also, for any community member I created a discord server (https://discord.com/invite/SXNXp9NctV) where we can share configs and nerd out about terminal. The site itself is built with Starlight by Astro. I've set up a VPS with Dokploy (https://dokploy.com/) which made things so easy! Each PR publishes a new version…
2025 · gh-dash.dev · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built a simple TUI for viewing and editing .md files in the terminal. More and more markdown files keep appearing in our projects, and I found myself needing a quick way to view(with syntax highlighting) and edit them without leaving the terminal, so I built this
Apr 2026 · mdee.bkh.dev · its alternatives →
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A native macOS terminal app built on Ghostty for running and supervising coding agents - yuuichieguchi/Calyx
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Built a terminal-based chat application that interact with AI models while keeping full control of chat data. Simple but effective MCP client implementation.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I needed to remote control a program (and read it’s output) while that tool should still be fully interactive for the user. Obviously there are things like tmux and more but they emulate an entire terminal. This is simpler in that it just sets up a pty and basic pipes or files to send stuff in and read from it.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This was by far the most common missing feature of the library since my first post, so I'm really happy I managed to figure it out. See the release for some code examples and a detailed changelog, and most importantly, have a great day!
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Recently, I found a long desired framework that treats the terminal via a DOM/CSS approach named Textual [https://textual.textualize.io]. In order to explore this framework I started developing a terminal based TUI RPN (styled in the aesthetic of a classic HP 15C pocket) calculator. So far this TUI RPN calculator has classic HP styled buttons, LCD display and some of the basic math operations. This is very much a W.I.P. Any engagement welcome.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We built a Rust MCP server, which wraps the excellent headless terminal (HT)[1] to makes it available for agentic coding tools. Most agentic coding tools struggle with blocking, interactive terminal tools (all the boilerplate generator, infra CLI tools etc). This is because many existing CLI dev tools are built for humans and require interactive input. We built this so agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Memex, etc) can “see” and “interact” with terminals exactly like humans do. In our demo video [2], you'll see it operating vim/emacs just as a human would - selecting options,…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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