jjui
Hacker ApprovedRanked 2 of 5 terminal Git clients by recommenders
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.
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.
23 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 22
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 96%
Recommended in 9 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 22 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 22 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 9 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Best TUI for jj
“Even better is using it via jjui, a fantastic TUI for jj vcs”
Comment from 28 Mar 2026 in “Improved Git Diffs with Delta, Fzf and a Little Shell Scripting” “It's the best TUI around, not just for jj”
Comment from 20 Apr 2026 in “Jujutsu Megamerges for Fun and Profit” “the best VCS TUI I've ever used, period”
Comment from 2 Feb 2026 in “VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code” - Comment from 24 May 2026 in “Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu”
- Comment from 14 Apr 2026 in “What is jj and why should I care?”
- Comment from 14 Apr 2026 in “What is jj and why should I care?”
Few keystrokes for rebases and commits
“takes only a few keystrokes to do operations like adding/removing parents from merge commits”
Comment from 5 Dec 2025 in “Stacked Diffs with git rebase —onto” “relying on jjui for all of my complex rebase needs so quickly”
Comment from 5 Dec 2025 in “Stacked Diffs with git rebase —onto” “Manipulating commits is super easy (especially with jjui).”
Comment from 14 Apr 2026 in “What is jj and why should I care?” - Comment from 5 Dec 2025 in “Stacked Diffs with git rebase —onto”
- Comment from 5 Dec 2025 in “Stacked Diffs with git rebase —onto”
Used daily as main interface
“jj + jjui is such an exceedingly pleasant experience that I can't imagine trying something else”
Comment from 12 Apr 2026 in “Pijul a FOSS distributed version control system” “now I do probably 95% of my interactions with jj through jjui”
Comment from 14 Dec 2025 in “Awesome-Jj: Jujutsu Things” “I use jjui for the rest of the operations”
Comment from 7 Mar 2026 in “Editing changes in patch format with Jujutsu” - Comment from 3 Apr 2026 in “Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?”
- Comment from 2 Sep 2026 in “The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC”
Simpler, needs little jj syntax
“you don't even really need to learn any of the actual jj syntax because it just handles it all for you”
Comment from 2 Sep 2026 in “The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC” “it makes it all that much more simple”
Comment from 30 Jun 2026 in “Evan's Jujutsu Tutorial” “jjui makes it all vastly simpler”
Comment from 22 Mar 2026 in “A Coherent Vision for the Future of Version Control”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Less polished than lazygit
“Jjui still isn't as polished as lazygit”
Comment from 6 Sep 2026 in “Lazygit” “I want to use jjui, but its UI isn't as good”
Comment from 10 Nov 2025 in “The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need” Inconsistent commands across views
“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.”
Comment from 14 Apr 2026 in “What is jj and why should I care?”
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See all 5 terminal Git clients, rankedWhat people said
40 of the 49 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Jjui still isn't as polished as lazygit”
“It really changed the way I work with repos.”
“adding jjui changed the story entirely”
“jjui is the killer feature for me”
“you don't even really need to learn any of the actual jj syntax because it just handles it all for you”
“it makes it all that much more simple”
“Jjui is the best tui for jj”
“jjui is filling this gap for me right now”
“It's the best TUI around, not just for jj”
“I can just browse around with arrow keys and mouse and then use like 9 hotkeys to do everything that I could possibly need”
“the best TUI ive ever used”
“I can easily browse through them with jjui TUI and instantly see which ones are what.”
“Manipulating commits is super easy (especially with jjui).”
“I use a crude jjui approach where I have an octopus merge working tree commit”
“jjui TUI is incredible also”
“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.”
“jj + jjui is such an exceedingly pleasant experience that I can't imagine trying something else”
“I switched to jj and jjui for 2026”
“Even better is using it via jjui, a fantastic TUI for jj vcs”
“jjui makes it all vastly simpler”
“I’ve been using it too, definitely recommend!”
“helps a lot with tedious noting down of change id prefixes”
“I really love the jjui TUI.”
“jj/jjui should have you covered”
“jjui is comparable, you should give it a good chance”
“I use jjui for the rest of the operations”
“it's always getting better”
“Check out jjui in particular. Makes it even easier”
“the best VCS TUI I've ever used, period”
“it is really nice to have the same tool available everywhere, also in the terminal”
“There is no reason to use a VS Code extension, jjui is amazing!”
“Jjui is incredible. I keep shouting it from every rooftop that I find.”
“now I do probably 95% of my interactions with jj through jjui”
“takes only a few keystrokes to do operations like adding/removing parents from merge commits”
“With `jjui` this strategy takes only a few keystrokes”
“relying on jjui for all of my complex rebase needs”
“relying on jjui for all of my complex rebase needs so quickly”
“jjui was better (at least, back when I tried it).”
“I want to use jjui, but its UI isn't as good”
“jjui is much better otherwise”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.