Lazydocker

Terminal UI in Developer tools

Free terminal UI for managing Docker containers, images and volumes with a lightweight, easy overview; people often pair it with lazygit.

11 people gave an opinion

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The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.

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Lightweight, beautiful terminal interface
“lazydocker makes sense more sense as a light terminal based program”
Comment from 4 May 2026 in “Why TUIs Are Back”
“a lightweight, beautiful TUI providing the little overview I need”
Comment from 25 Feb 2026 in “Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build”
“Lazydocker works fine as a TUI if you crave a UI”
Comment from 5 May 2026 in “Docker 29 has changed its default image store for new installs”
Easy overview of containers and images
“a lightweight, beautiful TUI providing the little overview I need”
Comment from 25 Feb 2026 in “Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build”
“managing containers, images, volumes easily”
Comment from 1 Apr 2026 in “Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?”
Pairs well with lazygit
“I'm a big fan of LazyDocker (and its much cooler older sibling LazyGit).”
Comment from 16 Sep 2026 in “Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)”
“lazygit + lazydocker is really nice”
Comment from 11 Jan 2026 in “I switched from VSCode to Zed”

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Lazydocker compared with 1 alternative
Product	Recommend	Criticize	Approval	Months	Owned	Badge
LazydockerThis page	11	0	100%	6	—	Approved
Terminal UI for AWS	10	12	45%	1	—	—

8 of the 11 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.

“I'm a big fan of LazyDocker (and its much cooler older sibling LazyGit).”

RecommendsComment from 16 Sep 2026 in “Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)”

“Lazydocker works fine as a TUI if you crave a UI”

RecommendsComment from 5 May 2026 in “Docker 29 has changed its default image store for new installs”

“lazydocker makes sense more sense as a light terminal based program”

RecommendsComment from 4 May 2026 in “Why TUIs Are Back”

“managing containers, images, volumes easily”

RecommendsComment from 1 Apr 2026 in “Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?”

“a lightweight, beautiful TUI providing the little overview I need”

RecommendsComment from 25 Feb 2026 in “Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build”

“Lazydocker is still objectively the better tool for normal people.”

RecommendsComment from 29 Jan 2026 on Hacker News

“lazygit + lazydocker is really nice”

RecommendsComment from 11 Jan 2026 in “I switched from VSCode to Zed”

“after trying lazygit, lazydocker, k9s and a few more TUI programs, I can see the value”

RecommendsComment from 6 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS”

Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.