Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Gooey

Turn (almost) any Console Program into a GUI application

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Gooey launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal▲1,094

   I made a built-from scratch Wayland Compositor to display any GUI app* in the terminal! I think there is a lot of unexplored potential in custom Wayland compositors, a lot of really cool things you can embed existing applications into! So, I started with embedding apps into the terminal because that is the easiest input/output (output is just utf-8 and I use the great `chafa` library for that, and I just read from stdin for the input). If you have any other ideas for cool Wayland compositors, let me know. I purposedly wrote 80% the app in Typescript to appeal to the most developers and…

   2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Fluid▲215

   Turn Your Favorite Web Apps into Real Mac Apps

   2014 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   console.doge()▲78

   Wow. Such console. So pretty.

   2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Goji▲227

   The Keyboard for Fun

   2014 · goji.me · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Cameyo▲61

   Turn the applications you want into online, cloud apps

   2015 · cameyo.google · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Goosh▲66

   Command line style Google search

   2016 · goosh.org · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Coherent UI▲89

   HTML5 GUI designed for real-time applications and games

   2015 · coherent-labs.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Programmar▲88

   A place for developers to read and write

   2015 · programmar.io · its alternatives →

9. 9
   cmd.to▲97

   A command line interface for the web

   2015 · cmd.to · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Character Generator▲145

    Create your unique character

    2017 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Zazu▲193

    Open source launcher, an alternative to Alfred

    2017 · zazuapp.org · its alternatives →

12. 12
    The Fuck▲108

    Automatically corrects your command line mistakes

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Flinto▲52

    Super easy tool for prototyping

    2014 · flinto.com · its alternatives →

14. 14TN
    Turn NPM installs into a Space Invaders style game in your terminal▲105

    2016 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    KeyBox▲70

    A web-based SSH console

    2014 · sshkeybox.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Prepros▲61

    GUI compiler for preprocessing languages

    2014 · prepros.io · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Game Thinking Masterclass▲118

    Turn your hot idea into a product people come back to

    2014 · mvpdesignhacks.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    BOSS Console▲94

    A tiny OS for your always-on agents

    6d ago · bossconsole.ai · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Breakouts▲73

    Helping you choose a JavaScript game engine

    2015 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Astronaut▲105

    Launch webapps from your dock, in a click.

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    TinyScreen▲94

    Put A Tiny Screen On Almost Anything

    2014 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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    cmder▲69

    Portable console emulator for Windows

    2014 · bliker.github.io · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Playbrush▲69

    Transform toothbrushes into gaming controllers

    2015 · sunstargum.com · its alternatives →

24. 24AF
    A framebuffer console viewer, pure Go▲7

    Another Sunday afternoon project: add some pizzaz to your boring bare metal or virtual machine consoles! Written as a single Go binary; no dependencies. https://github.com/Fusion/modernfbv As usual, feedback please!

    2022 · its alternatives →

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