# jjui

22 Hacker News commenters recommended jjui and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 9 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Recommended as a fast terminal interface for Jujutsu (jj), with few keystrokes handling rebases, commit edits and browsing. Caveat: some find it less polished than lazygit.

## Why people recommend it

- Best TUI for jj (6 comments): "Even better is using it via jjui, a fantastic TUI for jj vcs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557821)) "It's the best TUI around, not just for jj" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47842203)) "the best VCS TUI I've ever used, period" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46852451))
- Few keystrokes for rebases and commits (5 comments): "takes only a few keystrokes to do operations like adding/removing parents from merge commits" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46167850)) "relying on jjui for all of my complex rebase needs so quickly" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46161392)) "Manipulating commits is super easy (especially with jjui)." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47766772))
- Used daily as main interface (5 comments): "jj + jjui is such an exceedingly pleasant experience that I can't imagine trying something else" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735126)) "now I do probably 95% of my interactions with jj through jjui" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46262264)) "I use jjui for the rest of the operations" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47286201))
- Simpler, needs little jj syntax (3 comments): "you don't even really need to learn any of the actual jj syntax because it just handles it all for you" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49530778)) "it makes it all that much more simple" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48729481)) "jjui makes it all vastly simpler" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47483259))

## What people warn about

- Less polished than lazygit (2 comments): "Jjui still isn't as polished as lazygit" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583791)) "I want to use jjui, but its UI isn't as good" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45880941))
- Inconsistent commands across views (1 comments): "I would like more uniformity in the way jjui handles commands when you are viewing changes vs when you are viewing files within a single change." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764878))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [lazygit](https://hackerapproved.com/p/lazygit.md): 93 recommend
- [tig](https://hackerapproved.com/p/tig.md): 16 recommend
- [Ziggity](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ziggity.md): 8 recommend
- [Gitframes](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gitframes.md): 7 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "jjui", https://hackerapproved.com/p/jjui/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).