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Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Gter – A terminal for GUI apps

embed a GUI app inside a terminal window or any other window - raoofha/gter

Gter is a terminal interface designed for GUI applications. Launched in 2020, it provides developers with a command-line environment to run graphical programs. The tool targets software developers who want to manage… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Gter – A terminal for GUI apps launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    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 →

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    Fig▲956

    Autocomplete for the Terminal

    2022 · fig.io · its alternatives →

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    Fig▲216

    Visual apps and shortcuts for your terminal

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    NocommandLine - A GUI for Google App Engine, Cloud Run & Datastore Emulator. Makes it super simple to run, deploy, view logs of your GAE/Cloud Run Apps.

    2021 · nocommandline.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone, Gridland is a runtime + ShadCN UI registry that makes it possible to build terminal apps that run in the browser as well as the native terminal. This is useful for demoing TUIs so that users know what they're getting before they are invested enough to install them. And, tbh, it's also just super fun! Gridland is the successor to Ink Web (ink-web.dev) which is the same concept, but using Ink + xterm.js. After building Ink Web, we continued experimenting and found that using OpenTUI and a canvas renderer performed better with less flickering and nearly instant load times. We're…

    Mar 2026 · gridland.io · its alternatives →

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    A terminal renderer written in pure PHP. Contribute to soloterm/screen development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    declarative GUI framework for Go. Contribute to NV404/gova development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Create Python GUIs with Qt in minutes. Contribute to mherrmann/fbs development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Terminal multiplexer inspired by i3. Contribute to aaronjanse/3mux development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey all, I am Paul, an indie-dev, I am working on this web based Drag and drop GUI builder tool for python. It's still in beta and currently supports tkinter and customtk. It can generate clean code python for the UI you build. You can check out the source code here: https://github.com/PaulleDemon/PyUIBuilder Feel free to check it out. Thanks!

    2025 · pyuibuilder.com · its alternatives →

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    Full project management inside VS Code, Cursor & Windsurf

    Feb 2026 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →

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    A desktop terminal built for day-to-day remote access

    Apr 2026 · uterminal.app · its alternatives →

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    GitFinder▲106

    A fast and light git client for Mac with Finder integration

    2018 · gitfinder.com · its alternatives →

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    Falconer▲134

    The source of truth for knowledge, context, and docs.

    Feb 2026 · falconer.com · its alternatives →

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    Creating code samples in simple terminal interface

    2022 · terminalgif.com · its alternatives →

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    OpenTerm, a sandboxed command line interface for iOS - louisdh/openterm

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Godot-based Rust multi-PTY emulator desktop application - godot-pty/gpty

    Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A declarative user interface framework based on GTK 4 - can-lehmann/owlkettle

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Build and share delightful machine learning apps, all in Python. 🌟 Star to support our work! - gradio-app/gradio

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Personally, I think the JJ VCS (https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj) hit a point some time in this past year where I find it hard to find a great reason to continue using git. Over the years I've cobbled together aliases and bash functions to try to improve my git workflow, but after using jj, which works with ~any git repo and integrates great with Github repos, all of the workflow issues I ran into with git are not only solved, but improved in ways I couldn't manage with simple scripts. One example is the op log, which lets you go to any point in your repo's time and provides…

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Hi, founders! We’ve actually launched quite some time ago, but (semi)pivoted a few times along the way. Jet Admin is an app builder for creating internal tools, admin panels, dashboards, external portals, and so on without coding. You can connect to any backend, assemble a UI through the visual builder, and set up data binding, transformations, conditionals, etc. through the point-and-click interface. If you need to, you can create custom HTTP, SQL queries, make data transformations with JS, and embed custom UI components. We believe that product, data, operations teams should be able to…

    2022 · jetadmin.io · its alternatives →

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    Manter▲65

    Terminal with autocomplete suggestions

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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