rich VS textual

Compare rich vs textual and see what are their differences.

textual

The lean application framework for Python. Build sophisticated user interfaces with a simple Python API. Run your apps in the terminal and a web browser. (by Textualize)
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rich textual
148 149
46,897 23,395
0.7% 1.6%
8.3 9.9
10 days ago 7 days ago
Python Python
MIT License MIT License
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rich

Posts with mentions or reviews of rich. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-25.

textual

Posts with mentions or reviews of textual. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-05.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rich and textual you can also consider the following projects:

tqdm - :zap: A Fast, Extensible Progress Bar for Python and CLI

colorama - Simple cross-platform colored terminal text in Python

pytermgui - Python TUI framework with mouse support, modular widget system, customizable and rapid terminal markup language and more!

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

blessed - Blessed is an easy, practical library for making python terminal apps

alive-progress - A new kind of Progress Bar, with real-time throughput, ETA, and very cool animations!

urwid - Console user interface library for Python (official repo)

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

DearPyGui - Dear PyGui: A fast and powerful Graphical User Interface Toolkit for Python with minimal dependencies

asciimatics - A cross platform package to do curses-like operations, plus higher level APIs and widgets to create text UIs and ASCII art animations