Beads Community Tools

A curated list of community-built UIs, extensions, and integrations for Beads. Ranked by activity and maturity.

Terminal UIs

beads_viewer - Elegant, keyboard-driven terminal interface with tree navigation and vim-style commands. Built by @Dicklesworthstone. (Go)
bdui - Real-time terminal UI with tree view, dependency graph, and vim-style navigation. Built by @assimelha. (Node.js)
perles - Terminal UI search, dependency and kanban viewer powered by a custom BQL (Beads Query Language). Built by @zjrosen. (Go)
beads.el - Emacs UI to browse, edit, and manage beads. Built by @ctietze. (Elisp)
lazybeads - Lightweight terminal UI built with Bubble Tea for browsing and managing beads issues. Built by @codegangsta. (Go)
bsv - Simple two-panel terminal (TUI) viewer with tree navigation organized by epic/task/sub-task, markdown rendering, and mouse support. Built by @bglenden. (Rust)
abacus - A powerful terminal UI for visualizing and navigating Beads issue tracking databases.

beads-ui - Local web interface with live updates and kanban board. Run with npx beads-ui start. Built by @mantoni. (Node.js)
Monitor WebUI - Real-time Issue Tracking Dashboard. Standalone web-based monitoring interface with clean, responsive design. Built by Beads core team. (Go)
beads-viz-prototype - Web-based visualization generating interactive HTML from bd export. Built by @mattbeane. (Python)
beads-dashboard - A local, lean metrics dashboard for your beads data. Provides insights insights into lead time, throughput and other continuous improvement metrics. Includes a filterable table view of "all issues". Built by @rhydlewis. (Node.js/React)

vscode-beads - VS Code extension with issues panel and daemon management. Built by @jdillon. (TypeScript)
Agent Native Abstraction Layer for Beads (ANAL Beads) - VS Code Kanban board. Maintained by @sebcook-ctrl. (Node.js)
Beads-Kanban - VS Code Kanban board for Beads issue tracking. Maintained by @davidcforbes. (TypeScript)
opencode-beads - OpenCode plugin with automatic context injection, /bd-* slash commands, and autonomous task agent. Built by @joshuadavidthomas. (Node.js)
nvim-beads - Neovim plugin for managing beads. Built by @joeblubaugh. (Lua)

Beadster - macOS app for browsing and managing issues from .beads/ directories in git repositories. Built by @podviaznikov. (Swift)
Parade - Electron app for workflow orchestration with visual Kanban board, discovery wizard, and task visualization. Run with npx parade-init. Built by @JeremyKalmus. (Electron/React)

jira-beads-sync - CLI tool & Claude Code plugin to sync tasks from Jira into beads and publish beads task states back to Jira. Built by @conallob. (Go)

See GitHub Discussions #276 for ongoing UI development conversations, design decisions, and community contributions.

Found or built a tool? Open a PR to add it to this list or comment on discussion #276.