Index

Guides

Using Zulip

Account basics

Sending messages

Reading messages

People

Streams & topics

Notifications

Tools & customization

Apps

Zulip administration

Organization basics

Organization settings

Server settings

Users & bots

Stream management

Back to Home

Zulip in a Terminal

At present, there are a few alpha-quality implementations of a terminal client for Zulip:

  • Zulip Terminal provides a terminal interface for Zulip using Urwid. It is written in python and is being very actively developed; feedback and bug reports are very welcome!

  • Barnowl is a multi-protocol terminal client for various chat systems, written in Perl. Barnowl itself is very mature software, and the Zulip integration has been used for a few years, but it isn't integrated into the mainline branch and needs work on documentation.

  • Snipe is relatively new multi-protocol client for various chat systems, built on Python 3 and asyncio.

Zulip's web and mobile apps use the same REST API that we publish in our API documentation, as do all three of these terminal clients, so it should require only client-side work to build a high quality terminal-based app for Zulip.