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tinydesk

A mouse-operated, windowed desktop for microcontrollers, drawn in your terminal: Files, Editor, Shell, MQTT, Modbus. Tested on ESP32 boards; also runs on Windows and Linux.

  • Completely free
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

tinydesk is a microcontroller program.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “TinyDesk: a windowed text desktop for microcontrollers, drawn in a compatible UTF-8 terminal, with ports for ESP32 boards, Linux and Windows” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

tinydesk is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub tinydesk-project/tinydesk (MIT)

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