Lip Gloss
Shares rank 9 of 14 terminal UI libraries by recommenders
A Go library for styling terminal user interfaces, recommended as a mature, robust part of the Go plus Bubble Tea stack for building rich TUIs.
A Go library for styling terminal user interfaces, recommended as a mature, robust part of the Go plus Bubble Tea stack for building rich TUIs.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 75%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
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
Part of robust Go TUI stack
“Go + lipgloss + bubble tea and a single prompt will give you whatever you need in a minute or two”
Comment from 3 May 2026 in “Why TUIs Are Back” “Go + Lipgloss + Bubbletea is by far the most robust and performant stack”
Comment from 3 May 2026 in “Why TUIs Are Back” Good for building rich TUIs
“TUI libraries like Lipgloss and Bubbletea really allow users to build a rich experience nowadays”
Comment from 2 Jun 2026 in “strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance” “are really excellent tools for building "boring" TUIs too”
Comment from 6 Mar 2026 in “The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Confusing naming across packages
“I can't keep any of the naming straight”
Comment from 6 Mar 2026 in “The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now”
Other terminal UI libraries people recommend
The four most recommended other terminal UI libraries, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ratatui | 57 | 6 | 90% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Bubble Tea | 37 | 16 | 70% | 9 | — | Approved |
| Textual | 34 | 2 | 94% | 11 | — | Approved |
| Turbo Vision | 26 | 5 | 84% | 9 | — | Approved |
| Lip GlossThis page | 6 | 2 | 75% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
8 of the 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“TUI libraries like Lipgloss and Bubbletea really allow users to build a rich experience nowadays”
“Go + Lipgloss + Bubbletea is by far the most robust and performant stack”
“Go + lipgloss + bubble tea and a single prompt will give you whatever you need in a minute or two”
“Mature tui packages like bubbletea, lipgloss”
“they finally fixed the isssue where row could not be "lipglossed"/colored as before”
“I can't keep any of the naming straight”
“are really excellent tools for building "boring" TUIs too”
“it’s genAI and the author uses twitter”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.