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Category: TUI

Chat

Xaric – IRC client

November 7, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Xaric is a UNIX irc client similar to (and forked from) BitchX and ircII.

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Reference Managers

11 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Bibliography Tools

November 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, Roundup, TUI

Bibliographic software (also known as citation software or reference managers) plays a very important role in research.

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YouTube

Ytui-music – TUI YouTube Music Player

November 7, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

Ytui-music is a Youtube client in the terminal for listening to music.

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Swirc – console based ICB and IRC client

November 7, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Swirc is a BSD licensed, console based and lightweight ICB and IRC client written in C/C++, whose goals are to be portable and secure.

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SSD

Bonsai – TUI remake of GNOME Baobab

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Bonsai is a terminal user interface (TUI) remake of the GNOME Baobab disk usage analyzer.

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Task Manager

taskfinder – extracts and displays tasks from plain text files

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

Keep your project-related tasks where they belong. taskfinder, a terminal user interface (TUI), will extract and display them.

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File Managers

jafff – just another f* fast file manager

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

jafff is just another fast file manager. It’s inspired by the now abandoned fff file manager.

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Chat

insomnia – frontend for the hii IRC client

November 3, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

insomnia is a collection of small programs and scripts connected using tmux to create a simple irssi-like text-based user interface for hii.

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13 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based SSH Frontends

November 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup, TUI

This roundup focuses on terminal-based apps that help you manage and create SSH connections.

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Groupware

Circada – IRC client

November 1, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Circada is a console-based IRC client that comes with two modes, normal chat mode and the navigation mode.

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