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Top 6 Shell ascii-art Projects
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arttime
arttime is a CLI application that blends beauty of ASCII / text art with functionality of clock / timer / pattern-based time manager in terminal ⏰
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MusicPlayerPlus
Featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc with integration for Beets, spectrum visualization,Bandcamp/Soundcloud, asciimatics, cantata, and more
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Project mention: Show HN: Mootivator – Let your Terminal cowsay you a Geek Joke on starup | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-10-06
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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Display customized dynamic feeds like stocks, weather, news, sysmetrics
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[OC] nincat: a tool to show ASCII arts that fits on your terminal
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Index
What are some of the best open-source ascii-art projects in Shell? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | arttime | 1,351 |
| 2 | Asciiville | 190 |
| 3 | fish_logo | 138 |
| 4 | MusicPlayerPlus | 98 |
| 5 | zsh-ansimotd | 81 |
| 6 | mootivator | 4 |
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