Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Tattoy – a text-based terminal compositor
Whereas this is mostly a terminal eye-candy project to get you street cred, it does have some serious aspects. Firstly it solves the age-old problem of low-contrast text, like when you `ls` a broken symlink and the red background colour is too near your current theme's foreground colour. Tattoy solves this by using none other than the web's WCAG 2.1 contrast algorithm for accessible text. Secondly, an explicit design goal is that Tattoy should be able to polyfill new terminal protocols, the `xwayland` of the TTY if you will. Say if we want to experiment with completely deprecating ANSI…
Tattoy is a text-based terminal compositor that improves terminal display quality and accessibility. It addresses low-contrast text issues by applying the WCAG 2.1 contrast algorithm to ensure readable text regardless… 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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A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers - browsh-org/browsh
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A point to point color terminal video chat. Contribute to mofarrell/p2pvc development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A fully interactive, realtime and modern browser rendered to TTY
2018 · brow.sh · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, This is a TUI app which displays interactive Markdown documents. Interactive in the sense that you can scroll code fences / tables / and click links. There's a Table of Contents extracted from the MD, and a very rudimentary browser like forward + back. I'm thinking it could be the starting point for a variety of hypertext like applications in the terminal. Very much a work in progress.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Build terminal dashboards using ascii/ansi art and javascript - yaronn/blessed-contrib
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Inspired by the design and UI/UX of apps like Notion, and utility of open-source apps like StackEdit, I decided to create a minimalistic, local-only WYSIWYG Markdown editor. Some features worth highlighting: - Monaco editor and Prettier integration for code snippets - Tables (apparently the holy grail of WYSIWYG editing) - Embeds (for CodePen, CodeSandbox and YouTube, most useful for HTML or JSON exports) - Accepts Markdown paste-in, and "exports"/generates HTML, Markdown and JSON outputs - Collaboration (with real-time awareness and initial commenting system, available only when…
2023 · editor.vrite.io · its alternatives →
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Otty▲142Otty is a native, beautiful terminal app. Designed for anyone who cares about the feel of every keystroke.
Jun 2026 · otty.sh · its alternatives →
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Hyper 1.0.0▲413Terminal built and extensible with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
2016 · hyper.is · its alternatives →
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Print your name in style. Contribute to arsham/figurine development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Buy geeky-feminist tees (+more) from the terminal.
2017 · codercat.club · its alternatives →
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The lean application framework for Python. Build sophisticated user interfaces with a simple Python API. Run your apps in the terminal and a web browser. - textual/README.md at main · Textualize/textual
2021 · 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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Yes, that Fortran.
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A cross platform package to do curses-like operations, plus higher level APIs and widgets to create text UIs and ASCII art animations - peterbrittain/asciimatics
2016 · 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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An online text conversion tool for changing text into ASCII art pictures. The output can be used to decorate emails, online profiles, IMs, and more!
2022 · patorjk.com · its alternatives →
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PyTermGUI is a highly modular framework offering most of the features one would expect from a GUI library, such as a mature and open Widget API, animations, mouse support and other goodies, right inside the terminal! The markup language is another great feature of the library, and is used by practically all elements of it. It is based on Rich's implementation, but uses a more concise and easier to humanly parse syntax, while being over 10 times faster at parsing due to a long list of optimizations. There is a full Window Manager API included as well, allowing the user to move, resize and…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A simple markup language for creating rich terminal reports, presentations and infographics - yaronn/wopr
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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tterm▲109A terminal, a real browser, and Claude Code under one roof
Jul 2026 · tterm.sh · its alternatives →
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Hello internet folks! I'm happy to share the first TestFlight release of Glyph3D, a 3D text visualizer for macOS and iOS. It's free, supports pretty much any utf8 data, and is a pretty interesting way to navigate your repositories or data directories without the limitations of standard text windows! Download and bookmark for macOS and iOS: https://github.com/tikimcfee/LookAtThat/ - You should be able to download public repos from GitHub and render them. - Play with opening and closing windows. I've disabled many of the in-flight features to keep user confusion down,…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Terminal Candy▲117A native macOS terminal you can skin and theme
Aug 2026 · terminalcandy.com · its alternatives →
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Hello Hacker News. The four of us have been getting the best results with Claude Code when we iterate with it to build full context and then use and update that context as we work. So, we built Nimbalyst to maximize our (and your) ability to iterate and build context with and for AI. Nimbalyst is the local WYSIWYG editor and session manager where you iterate with Claude Code on docs, diagrams, mockups, and code. Nimbalyst lets you: - Use all the power of Claude Code in a UI - Work with Claude Code to write and edit WYSIWYG markdown, see AI changes as red/green, approve them - Integrate…
Dec 2025 · nimbalyst.com · its alternatives →
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- Texttop – Interactive desktop rendered in TTY with ASCII alternatives
- A Simple terminal-based video chat – renders in ASCII and has audio alternatives
- Browsh – A modern, text-based browser alternatives
- Textual Markdown – a Markdown “browser” in the terminal alternatives
- Building terminal dashboards using ASCII/ANSI art and JavaScript alternatives
- An open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG Markdown editor alternatives
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