Ratatui Alternatives

Ratatui is described as 'Rust library for cooking up delicious text user interfaces (TUIs). It is a lightweight library that provides a set of widgets and utilities to build simple or complex rust TUIs' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Ratatui for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Oracle Solaris and FreeBSD apps. The best Ratatui alternative is ncurses, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Ratatui are rot.js, libmabuff, FINAL CUT and FTXUI.

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    ncurses (new curses) is a programming library that provides an API which allows the programmer to write text-based user interfaces in a terminal-independent manner. It is a toolkit for developing "GUI-like" application software that runs under a terminal emulator.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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    rot.js was designed to provide help with traditional chores of roguelike programming. It does not use or depend on any other JS framework or library. It is an Open Source Software released under the BSD License.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  3. libmabuff icon
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    This is libmabuff, library for simple TUI creation in C++. It uses termbox, github.com/nsf/termbox (customized) as its backend. libmabuff's license is MIT.

    It comes with a documentation (plain text, but usable).

    The base idea of MABuffer are Zones. You can edit their conten.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
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  4. FINAL CUT icon
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    FINAL CUT is a C++ class library and widget toolkit with full mouse support for creating a text-based user interface. The library supports the programmer to develop an application for the text console. It allows the simultaneous handling of multiple text windows on the screen.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
    • Oracle Solaris
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
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  5. FTXUI icon
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    FTXUI is a simple C++ library for terminal based user interfaces featuring a functional style inspired by React, UTF8 and fullwidth char support and keyboard and mouse navigation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. newt icon
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    Newt is a programming library for color text mode, widget based user interfaces. Newt can be used to add stacked windows, entry widgets, checkboxes, radio buttons, labels, plain text fields, scrollbars, etc., to text mode user interfaces. Newt is based on the slang library.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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    S-Lang is a programming library that provides routines for embedding an interpreter for the S-Lang scripting language, and components to facilitate the creation of text-based applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. Gova icon
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    The declarative GUI framework for Go. Build native desktop apps for macOS, Windows, and Linux from a single Go codebase — typed components, reactive state, real platform dialogs, and one static binary. No JavaScript runtime, no embedded browser, no C++ toolchain to learn.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Go (Programming Language)
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  9. BearLibTerminal is a library that creates a terminal-like window facilitating flexible textual output and uncomplicated input processing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
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  10. tui-rs icon
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    tui-rs is a Rust library to build rich terminal user interfaces and dashboards. The library is based on the principle of immediate rendering with intermediate buffers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  11. A complete C++ Text User Interface (TUI) featuring windows, dialogs (buttons, check and radio boxes, input boxes, etc.), mouse support, menus, etc. It's available for various platforms and compilers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Cygwin
    • FreeDOS
    • Solaris
    • FreeBSD
    • MS-DOS
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  12. Terminal.Gui enables building sophisticated console applications with modern UIs

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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