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Top 7 C terminal-app Projects
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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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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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I haven't seen anyone else mention Terminology yet. It uses an unconventional GUI framework (Enlightenment / EFL), but that aside, it's fast and has more or less all of the features you'd expect of a terminal:
https://github.com/borisfaure/terminology
Its "moment" as a new novel terminal was over a decade ago, but it still chugs on working just fine. Notably(?), gregkh uses it (or used to use it):
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/greg-kroah-hartman...
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dte
A small, configurable terminal text editor (mirrored from https://gitlab.com/craigbarnes/dte) (by craigbarnes)
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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).
C terminal-app discussion
C terminal-app related posts
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sc-im Spreadsheets in Your Terminal
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Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux
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Lightweight Spreadsheet App.
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Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised – An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal
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Lotus 1-2-3 for Linux
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Any Suckless Excel like tool?
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Convert ttf to, psf, psfu or another format that tty recognizes?
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Index
What are some of the best open-source terminal-app projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | sc-im | 5,648 |
| 2 | pspg | 2,718 |
| 3 | st | 742 |
| 4 | terminology | 732 |
| 5 | bitwise | 717 |
| 6 | dte | 236 |
| 7 | ictree | 170 |
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