notcurses VS chafa

Compare notcurses vs chafa and see what are their differences.

notcurses

blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses. (by dankamongmen)
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notcurses chafa
102 31
3,246 2,555
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7.2 9.0
4 days ago 16 days ago
C C
Apache License 2.0 GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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notcurses

Posts with mentions or reviews of notcurses. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-02.

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 notcurses and chafa you can also consider the following projects:

rich - Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.

FTXUI - Features: - Functional style. Inspired by [1] and React - Simple and elegant syntax (in my opinion). - Support for UTF8 and fullwidth chars (→ 测试). - No dependencies. - Cross platform. Linux/mac (main target), Windows (experimental thanks to contributors), - WebAssembly. - Keyboard & mouse navigation. Operating systems: - linux emscripten - linux gcc - linux clang - windows msvc - mac clang

xterm.js - A terminal for the web

sixvid - Simple script for animated GIF viewing using sixels

tcell - Tcell is an alternate terminal package, similar in some ways to termbox, but better in others.

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

awesome-tuis - List of projects that provide terminal user interfaces

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

python-prompt-toolkit - Library for building powerful interactive command line applications in Python

sixel-tmux - sixel-tmux is a fork of tmux, with just one goal: having the most reliable support of graphics

magma-nvim - Interact with Jupyter from NeoVim.

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.