Free software that uses ncurses

media player, streaming client, streaming media server, and audio and video converter (transcoder), free/libre and open-source cross-platform software

small, user-friendly console text editor

a free cross-platform orthodox file manager and a clone of Norton Commander

Irssi ( ) is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client program for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Microsoft Windows. It was originally written by Timo Sirainen, and released under the terms of the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later in January 1999.

BitTorrent client

YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) is a Linux operating system setup and configuration tool.

command line tool to view text files

text-based email client for Unix-like systems

1980 video game

package for creating and manipulating disk partition tables; includes a library and command-line utility

text front end for APT

rTorrent is a text-based BitTorrent client written in C++, based on the ncurses and libTorrent (not to be confused with libtorrent) libraries for Unix.

htop is an interactive system monitor process viewer and process manager. It is designed as an alternative to the Unix program top.

WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a free and open-source Internet Relay Chat client that is designed to be light and fast. It is released under the terms of the GNU GPL-3.0-or-later and has been developed since 2003.

server-side application for playing music

email client

roguelike video game, open source, first release version in 1990, community driven development up to now

PhotoRec is a free and open-source utility software for data recovery with text-based user interface using data carving techniques, designed to recover lost files from various digital camera memory, hard disk and CD-ROM. It can recover the files with more than 480 file extensions (about 300 file families). It is also possible to add custom file signature to detect less known files.

console screen editor

console audio player

thumb|A screenshot of cfdisk's user interface.|300px cfdisk is a Linux partition editor, similar to fdisk, but with a different, curses-based user interface. It is part of the util-linux package of Linux utility programs.

2013 video game

TiMidity++, originally and still frequently informally called TiMidity, is a software synthesizer that can play MIDI files without a hardware synthesizer. It can either render to the sound card in real time, or it can save the result to a file, such as a PCM .wav file.

Wicd, which stands for Wireless Interface Connection Daemon, is an open-source software utility to manage both wireless and wired networks for Linux. The project started in late 2006 with the creation of Connection Manager, which eventually became Wicd. Wicd aims to provide a simple interface to connect to networks with a wide variety of settings.

ncdu (NCurses Disk Usage) is a disk utility for Unix systems. Its name refers to its similar purpose to the du utility, but ncdu uses a text-based user interface under the [n]curses programming library. Users can navigate the list using the arrow keys and delete files that are taking up too much space by pressing the 'd' key. It provides a swift and efficient way to view directories that are taking up disk space, and was primarily meant for remote shells. It runs on UNIX-based systems, such as Linux, BSD, and POSIX. Users can install ncdu by running a package manager command in their terminal

alsamixer is a terminal user interface mixer program for the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) that is used to configure sound settings and adjust the volume. It uses ncurses to draw its user interface. It supports multiple sound cards with multiple devices.

musikcube is a free and open-source cross-platform, terminal-based audio player software and streaming server.

text-based file manager for Unix-like systems

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free software used in shell scripts for text-based dialog boxes

turn-based computer game