tuicr
Ranked 10 of 17 code review tools by recommenders
A terminal tool for reviewing code changes, adding comments, and exporting them to an AI agent to fix, which people say suits agent-based review workflows.
A terminal tool for reviewing code changes, adding comments, and exporting them to an AI agent to fix, which people say suits agent-based review workflows.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 90%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 9 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not 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
Terminal code review, comments exported to agents
“it's built exactly for this purpose (reviewing code in your terminal and then adding comments and exporting it to an agent to fix)”
Comment from 26 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Deff – side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal” “The best code review improvement I have done in my workflow with Claude is using tuicr”
Comment from 11 May 2026 on Hacker News “I've been using tuicr for agent code reviews and have been enjoying that.”
Comment from 29 May 2026 in “We should be more tired than the model” Listed among good terminal review tools
“that's a good addition to fresh editor (also tui) and both rust”
Comment from 11 May 2026 on Hacker News “I urge you to have a look at tools like tuicr and hunk.”
Comment from 26 Sep 2026 in “Plan mode is dead” “See tuicr for a cool tui tool in this space”
Comment from 25 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design”
Other code review tools people recommend
The four most recommended other code review tools, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub Stacked PRs | 64 | 63 | 50% | 3 | — | — |
| Gerrit | 60 | 12 | 83% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Graphite code review | 52 | 16 | 76% | 9 | — | Approved |
| CodeRabbit | 34 | 32 | 52% | 11 | — | — |
| tuicrThis page | 9 | 1 | 90% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
10 of the 11 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I urge you to have a look at tools like tuicr and hunk.”
“See tuicr for a cool tui tool in this space”
“I've been using tuicr for agent code reviews and have been enjoying that.”
“Thank you for linking this.”
“that's a good addition to fresh editor (also tui) and both rust”
“The video actually convinced me that this might be an interesting tool.”
“The best code review improvement I have done in my workflow with Claude is using tuicr”
“If you do want a native CLI in-terminal for this”
“it's built exactly for this purpose (reviewing code in your terminal and then adding comments and exporting it to an agent to fix)”
“I like that the first screen it shows is the choice of commit range you want to review”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.