# jalonsogo/tui-studio

Visual design tool for building Terminal User Interfaces

Repository: https://github.com/jalonsogo/tui-studio
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/tui-studio
Homepage: https://tui.studio
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: tui, tui-application
Last push: 2026-06-10T11:15:16+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 54/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 86, release rhythm 35, longevity 14
- inputs: {"age_days": 200, "days_push": 84, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1526, forks 67 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:58.372373+00:00)

## What it is
TUIStudio is a Figma-like visual editor for designing Terminal User Interface applications with drag-and-drop components, live ANSI preview, and property editing. It saves projects as .tui JSON files and aims to export designs to multiple TUI frameworks like Ink, BubbleTea, Blessed, Textual, OpenTUI, and Tview.

## Use cases
- design terminal user interfaces visually
- drag and drop TUI components on a canvas
- prototype a terminal app layout before coding
- export TUI designs to Ink or BubbleTea code
- preview ANSI terminal UI with color themes
- build terminal app screens without writing layout code

## When to choose
- you want a visual, Figma-like tool to design TUI layouts
- you need to prototype terminal app screens quickly
- you want to generate starter code for multiple TUI frameworks

## When to avoid
- you need working code export today (it is not functional yet in alpha)
- you need a stable, production-ready design tool
- you prefer designing TUIs directly in code

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: experimental
- function: ui-components, developer-tools, gui
- domain: developer-tools, web-development
- platform: cross-platform, windows
- tags: tui, visual-editor, figma-like, design-tool, code-export, terminal-ui, command-line, web, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- jalonsogo/tui-studio (main) score 54

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:58.372373+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:31:37.026401+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jalonsogo/tui-studio (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:58.372373+00:00, sha 58ea1d26e92d)
  - homepage: https://tui.studio (fetched 2026-08-29T11:34:32.041849+00:00, sha f48f08fa7a9c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.