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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)

Web UIs

  • 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)

Editor Extensions

Native Apps

  • Beadster - macOS app for browsing and managing issues from .beads/ directories in git repositories. Built by @podviaznikov. (Swift)

Historical / Stale

  • beady - Early prototype effort, now stale. Built by @maphew. (Go)

Discussion

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

Contributing

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