tui-cs/Terminal.Gui

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11183 stars · 785 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Terminal.Gui is a cross-platform terminal UI (TUI) toolkit for .NET that lets developers build sophisticated console applications with rich interfaces. It provides 50+ built-in views including text editors, tables, tree views, menus, charts, and file dialogs, with keyboard-first and mouse-driven interaction, TrueColor, Unicode support, and double-buffered rendering.

Use cases

• build a full-screen terminal dashboard with tables and charts in C#
• create a console app with menus, forms, and wizards
• make an in-line CLI tool with a rich UI like Claude Code or Codex CLI
• add a text editor with undo/redo and clipboard to a terminal app
• build a cross-platform file browser for the terminal
• write an interactive TUI installer or configuration wizard

When to choose

• you are building .NET/C# console applications that need rich interactive UIs
• you need consistent TUI behavior across Windows, macOS, and Linux
• you want keyboard-first UX with full mouse support, TrueColor, and Unicode
• you need scalable tables or tree views for large datasets in the terminal

When to avoid

• you are building a web, desktop GUI, or mobile application
• your project is not on the .NET platform
• you only need simple line-based console output or basic CLI argument parsing
• you need a TUI toolkit in another language like Rust or Go

Facets

library · maturity stable

gui terminal-ui ui-components developer-tools cross-platform developer-tools desktop-applications cross-platform windows dotnet cli tui csharp console-applications widgets text-editors double-buffering truecolor command-line macos linux

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