CLI11 VS clipp

Compare CLI11 vs clipp and see what are their differences.

CLI11

CLI11 is a command line parser for C++11 and beyond that provides a rich feature set with a simple and intuitive interface. (by CLIUtils)

clipp

easy to use, powerful & expressive command line argument parsing for modern C++ / single header / usage & doc generation (by muellan)
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CLI11 clipp
12 -
3,087 1,167
2.9% -
8.5 0.0
6 days ago about 2 months ago
C++ C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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CLI11

Posts with mentions or reviews of CLI11. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-13.

clipp

Posts with mentions or reviews of clipp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning clipp yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing CLI11 and clipp you can also consider the following projects:

jarro2783/cxxopts - Lightweight C++ command line option parser

gflags - The gflags package contains a C++ library that implements commandline flags processing. It includes built-in support for standard types such as string and the ability to define flags in the source file in which they are used. Online documentation available at:

Boost.Program_options - Boost.org program_options module

args - A simple header-only C++ argument parser library. Supposed to be flexible and powerful, and attempts to be compatible with the functionality of the Python standard argparse library (though not necessarily the API).

Ncurses - ncurses Git mirror

indicators - Activity Indicators for Modern C++

Vcpkg - C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS

docopt.cpp - C++11 port of docopt