What is ltui?

ltui is a suite of three terminal applications for managing tickets in issue trackers, one each for Linear, Jira, and Shortcut. They share one codebase and one set of keyboard shortcuts, so learning one means you already know the other two. The project was built because the author found existing tracker apps for the terminal too slow and too plain looking. Speed comes from caching. When you launch one of the apps, it instantly shows the board you last looked at from a local cache while it fetches fresh data in the background, then quietly swaps in any changes once they arrive. Visually, the apps use rounded borders, the tracker's own status colors, icon fonts, and small animations rather than plain text lists. Everything can be controlled with either the keyboard or the mouse, including resizing panels by dragging. Each app groups tickets by how close they are to shipping, from in review down to backlog, and always puts your own tickets first. From the keyboard you can reassign tickets, edit labels, move tickets between projects, create a git branch straight from a ticket, and open a detail panel with the full description, comments, and any blocking or blocked tickets clearly named. There are five color themes, including one that uses your terminal's own transparency and one that matches your terminal's existing color palette, and every keyboard shortcut can be reconfigured through a config file. Installing any of the three apps is a single pipx or uv command, works on Linux, macOS, and Windows, and needs Python 3.11 or newer. Nothing needs to be configured by hand ahead of time. Each app walks you through logging into your tracker the first time you run it and gives a short guided tour. The project is dual licensed. It is free to use under GPL-3.0, which requires forks and redistributions to also stay open source under the same terms, and a separate commercial license is available for those who cannot meet that condition.