charmbracelet/bubbletea
A powerful little TUI framework 🏗
Recommended between 2025-12-16 and 2026-08-21. Last pushed 2026-11-01.
▲ 8 recommend · ▼ 1 criticism
What hackers say
“Bubble Tea [1] is my favorite for one-off throwaway stuff in terminal.”
— 8cvor6j844qw_d6, 2026-08-21 · strong recommendation · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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Bubble Tea [1] is my favorite for one-off throwaway stuff in terminal. Wish [2] to make it available over SSH. [1] https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea [2] https://github.com/charmbracelet/wish
“Bubbletea would be my tool of choice, I think:”
— christophilus, 2026-02-13 · strong recommendation · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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There are plenty of great tools available these days. Bubbletea would be my tool of choice, I think: https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea
“Or for Go coders there's BubbleTea: https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea”
— blooalien, 2026-08-21 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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Or for those coding in Python there's Textual: https://textual.textualize.io/ Or for Go coders there's BubbleTea: https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea Why? Because TUI!
“https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea has a couple screencast worth checking out.”
— yegle, 2026-03-06 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea has a couple screencast worth checking out. Not sure if it's a good comparison (never used both in depth) but think of this a Go version of all the goodies from https://textual.textualize.io/
“It looks like a great improvement all round over 1.x.”
— pekim, 2026-02-24 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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I noticed that Bubble Tea v2 [0] has been released. It looks like a great improvement all round over 1.x. The companion libraries lipgloss[1] and bubbles[2] have also had v2 releases. [0] https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/releases/tag/v2.0.0 [1] https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss/releases/tag/v2.0.0 [2] https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles/releases/tag/v2.0.0
“Bubble Tea https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea is behind many of the better Go TUIs.”
— jen20, 2026-01-23 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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The standard library doesn't have much for this, but Bubble Tea https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea is behind many of the better Go TUIs. This one is using https://github.com/rivo/tview .
“some good libraries/frameworks (e.g. [1][2]) exist to make a modern-looking UX.”
— thomascountz, 2025-12-30 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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It's easier to ship a TUI app cross-platform, the constraints around UI and state are often simpler, and some good libraries/frameworks (e.g. [1][2]) exist to make a modern-looking UX. [1]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea [2]: https://github.com/Textualize/textual
“Have you tried Charmbracelet's bubble tea - https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea”
— Abishek_Muthian, 2025-12-16 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
Criticism
“BubbleTea is great, but it doesn't have support for Kitty Graphics.”
— nairadithya, 2025-12-16 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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BubbleTea is great, but it doesn't have support for Kitty Graphics. https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/issues/163
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