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24 alternatives to Halo

60+ Beautiful Terminal Spinners for your CLI Apps

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Halo launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   60+ Beautiful Terminal Spinners for Your Command Line Applications▲32

   💫 Beautiful spinners for terminal, IPython and Jupyter - manrajgrover/halo

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Warp, a Rust-based terminal▲946

   Hi HN community, I’m Zach, founder and CEO of Warp, and am excited to show you Warp, a fast Rust-based terminal that’s easy to use and built for teams. As of today, Warp is in public beta and any Mac user can download it. It works with bash, zsh, and fish. The terminal’s teletype-like interface has made it hard for the CLI to thrive. After 20 years of programming, I still find it hard to copy a command’s output; I always forget how to use `tar`; and I always have to relearn how to move my cursor. To fix fundamental accessibility issues, I believe we need to start innovating on the terminal,…

   2022 · warp.dev · its alternatives →

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   SpinWin – A macOS menu bar app to visually rotate or spin any window▲37

   SpinWin is an open source menu bar app to visually rotate any individual window. You can rotate / spin as many as you want one by one. I was scrolling reels when one came on where the content creator suggested "turning the phone upside down" for a portion. I was sitting at my mac, and decided to see if I could find something that did this. To my surprise, nothing exists, so I decided to build it. Turns out macOS doesn't provide any public API to do anything like this, so I wound up using the Accessibility API to move the target window offscreen, where it keeps rendering. Then we capture…

   Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Python package and CLI to generate stylistic word clouds▲112

   Python package + CLI to generate stylistic wordclouds, including gradients and icon shapes! - minimaxir/stylecloud

   2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   PyUI Builder▲250

   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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   Pichon for Mac▲270

   Best design graphics at your fingertips, just drag and drop

   2021 · icons8.com · its alternatives →

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   Clide ▲93

   Grid-layout terminal with an AI that drives your shells.

   Apr 2026 · clide.app · its alternatives →

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   Shuffle▲260

   Hi! We noticed that our users extensively use Shuffle (a visual editor for developers) in conjunction with Cursor. That's why we built the Shuffle CLI, a lightweight tool that creates a seamless bridge between Shuffle and Cursor. With this CLI, you can: * Sync your visual components from Shuffle directly into Cursor projects * Automatically generate clean, editable code from your designs * Keep your design and dev workflows tightly integrated without copy-pasting or re-exporting We built this to reduce the friction between prototyping and production. If you're using Cursor as your IDE and…

   2021 · shuffle.dev · its alternatives →

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   Fig Scripts▲245

   Build internal CLI tools, really fast

   2023 · fig.io · its alternatives →

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    Multitui▲126

    I 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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    Epic Spinners▲232

    Easy to use css loading animations with vue.js integration

    2018 · epic-spinners.vuestic.dev · its alternatives →

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    Charmstone▲126

    The quicker switcher launcher for macOS

    2021 · charmstone.app · its alternatives →

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    cli-typer▲100

    Practice touch typing in the command line

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Teena - Unix in Python, powered by Tornado▲58

    Python ports of useful syscalls, using asynchronous I/O. - zacharyvoase/teena

    2012 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    flock▲79

    Run a flock of Claude Code (or other agents) in one window.

    Apr 2026 · baahaus.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Colorful CLI Spinners with Python▲5

    Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. - Textualize/rich

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Pymterm – A multiple tab terminal emulator implemented in Python▲40

    A multiple tab terminal emulator implemented in python - stonewell/pymterm

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Coloured progress-bar for your Golang CLI▲21

    Coloured progress-bar for your Golang CLI. Contribute to alexellis/cli-progress-animation development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Avoid smooth spinners, use low-FPS spinners▲27

    28d ago · nh2.me · its alternatives →

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    Backlit Keyboard API for Python▲27

    It currently supports Linux as of now. You can use this package to tinker with many things. Let's say, if you want to make a custom notification system, like if your website is down, you can make a blink notification with it. MacOS support is underway. I haven't tested Windows yet, I don't use it anymore btw. In future, if this package reaches nice growth, I'll be happy to make a similar Rust crate for it.

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Maestro▲20

    Bloomberg Terminal for CLI agents

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Chilli – A lightweight microframework for CLIs in Zig▲7

    I've made an open-source microframework for creating command-line (CLI) applications in the Zig programming language. It's called Chilli, and it currently provides the following features: - A declarative API for defining nested commands, flags, and positional arguments. - Type-safe parsing of arguments from the command line and environment variables. - Automatic generation of formatted `--help` and `--version` output. - Support for command aliases, persistent flags, and other common CLI patterns. You can find the project on GitHub: https://github.com/habedi/chilli

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Single Dashboard▲10

    Build your ultimate infinite canvas visual command center.

    2025 · singledashboard.com · its alternatives →

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    RACE▲2

    Terminal Multiplexer with an Infinite, Zoomable Canvas

    Aug 2026 · race-term.com · its alternatives →

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