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Top 23 C Terminal Projects
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fastfetch
A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool.
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GoAccess
GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.
GoAccess is a fast terminal and HTML log analyzer for nginx access logs (requests/sec, status codes, top URLs, referrers, user agents). This guide covers installation, optional S3 download, and typical run modes.
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no-more-secrets
A command line tool that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers.
Project mention: No More Secrets – A command line tool that recreates the effect seen in Sneakers | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-17 -
Project mention: L123: A Lotus 1-2-3–style terminal spreadsheet with modern Excel compatibility | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-27
There are quite a few other terminal based spreadsheet people have been doing over the last few years.
Most notably:
https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im
Has been in HN often, most recently:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662658
New takes:
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Project mention: yazi: Rust Terminal File Manager with Image Preview — Alacritty Fix Included | dev.to | 2026-04-21
On macOS, Überzug++'s X11/Wayland backend is disabled at compile time, so it can't overlay images. yazi automatically falls back to Chafa, which renders images using Unicode block characters inside the terminal.
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Project mention: Terminals should generate the 256-color palette | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-17
https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses
For my plan9 brothers: one day we will have a new acme, written in common lisp and displaying all the correct colors, and lo it will be glorious.
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Hi, I'm the developer of kew which works for linux, macOs, Android and FreeBSD.
The two best places to buy music in my opinion are qobuz and bandcamp.
https://github.com/ravachol/kew
I encourage you to go check out my app because it really whips the llama's ass.
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pspg
Unix pager (with very rich functionality) designed for work with tables. Designed for PostgreSQL, but MySQL is supported too. Works well with pgcli too. Can be used as CSV or TSV viewer too. It supports searching, selecting rows, columns, or block and export selected area to clipboard.
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smenu
smenu started as a lightweight and flexible terminal menu generator, but quickly evolved into a powerful and versatile CLI selection tool for interactive or scripting use.
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astroterm
A planetarium for your terminal! Explore stars, planets, constellations, and more, all rendered right in the command line—no telescope required. ✨🪐
Project mention: I Made Zig Compute 33M Satellite Positions in 3 Seconds. No GPU Required | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-21 -
tizonia-openmax-il
Command-line cloud music player for Linux with support for Spotify, Google Play Music, YouTube, SoundCloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Plex servers and Chromecast devices.
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Project mention: CliFM: The shell-like, command line terminal file manager | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-22
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nyancat
Nyancat in your terminal, rendered through ANSI escape sequences. This is the source for the Debian package `nyancat`.
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yori
Yori is a CMD replacement shell that supports backquotes, job control, and improves tab completion, file matching, aliases, command history, and more.
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>> I never used Lotus
If anyone is curious, there is a Linux port of Lotus123:
https://github.com/taviso/123elf
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Terminal projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | WindTerm | 31,224 |
| 2 | fastfetch | 23,054 |
| 3 | nnn | 21,607 |
| 4 | GoAccess | 20,624 |
| 5 | ttyd | 11,785 |
| 6 | htop | 8,109 |
| 7 | no-more-secrets | 7,796 |
| 8 | sc-im | 5,630 |
| 9 | chafa | 4,904 |
| 10 | notcurses | 4,558 |
| 11 | ttygif | 4,012 |
| 12 | tio | 2,980 |
| 13 | kew | 2,754 |
| 14 | pspg | 2,712 |
| 15 | smenu | 2,485 |
| 16 | astroterm | 1,937 |
| 17 | tizonia-openmax-il | 1,734 |
| 18 | clifm | 1,685 |
| 19 | nyancat | 1,569 |
| 20 | catimg | 1,556 |
| 21 | yori | 1,312 |
| 22 | 123elf | 1,271 |
| 23 | mtm | 1,195 |
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