spectre.console VS Colorful.Console

Compare spectre.console vs Colorful.Console and see what are their differences.

spectre.console

A .NET library that makes it easier to create beautiful console applications. (by spectresystems)

Colorful.Console

Style your .NET console output! (by tomakita)
CLI
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spectre.console Colorful.Console
24 1
8,524 1,266
3.4% -
8.5 0.0
5 days ago almost 3 years ago
C# C#
MIT License MIT License
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spectre.console

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

Colorful.Console

Posts with mentions or reviews of Colorful.Console. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-19.
  • Cool console apps
    3 projects | /r/csharp | 19 Jan 2022
    No offense but this is two extension methods for string with an argument for a built-in color. Yes it's useful but not really worth developing an entire library around. You might be interested in Colorful.Console.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing spectre.console and Colorful.Console you can also consider the following projects:

Gui.cs - Cross Platform Terminal UI toolkit for .NET

Fluent Command Line Parser - A simple, strongly typed .NET C# command line parser library using a fluent easy to use interface

Command Line Parser - The best C# command line parser that brings standardized *nix getopt style, for .NET. Includes F# support

Console Framework - Cross-platform toolkit for easy development of TUI applications.

Cocona - Micro-framework for .NET console application. Cocona makes it easy and fast to build console applications on .NET.

CommandLineUtils - Command line parsing and utilities for .NET

command-line-api - Command line parsing, invocation, and rendering of terminal output.

NFlags - Simple yet powerfull library to made parsing CLI arguments easy. Library also allow to print usage help "out of box".

CliFx - Class-first framework for building command-line interfaces

EntryPoint - Composable CLI Argument Parser for all modern .Net platforms.