libcaca VS chafa

Compare libcaca vs chafa and see what are their differences.

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libcaca chafa
8 31
500 2,612
1.8% -
0.0 9.0
11 months ago 9 days ago
C C
Do What The F*ck You Want To Public License GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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libcaca

Posts with mentions or reviews of libcaca. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-26.

chafa

Posts with mentions or reviews of chafa. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-11.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing libcaca and chafa you can also consider the following projects:

libass - libass is a portable subtitle renderer for the ASS/SSA (Advanced Substation Alpha/Substation Alpha) subtitle format.

imgcat - It's like cat, but for images.

ascii_art - This is the repository that contains all the ascii_art and ascii_animation made with the help of any programming language

mpv-image-viewer - Configuration, scripts and tips for using mpv as an image viewer

vifm - Vifm is a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt.

ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

libsixel - A SIXEL encoder/decoder implementation derived from kmiya's sixel (https://github.com/saitoha/sixel).

zellij - A terminal workspace with batteries included

vulkano - Safe and rich Rust wrapper around the Vulkan API

notcurses - blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses.

lf - Terminal file manager

opencv-python - Automated CI toolchain to produce precompiled opencv-python, opencv-python-headless, opencv-contrib-python and opencv-contrib-python-headless packages.