peterbrittain/asciimatics
A cross platform package to do curses-like operations, plus higher level APIs and widgets to create text UIs and ASCII art animations observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
63/100
- Activity 90
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4158
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 60
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
4303 stars · 265 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Asciimatics is a cross-platform Python library providing curses-like low-level console operations plus higher-level APIs and widgets for building full-screen text UIs and ASCII art animations. It handles coloured text, cursor positioning, keyboard/mouse input, screen resizing, and offers effects like sprites, particle systems, and image-to-ASCII conversion.
Use cases
- build interactive full-screen text UI forms in Python
- create ASCII art animations and effects in the terminal
- replace curses with a cross-platform console API
- convert images to ASCII art
- handle keyboard and mouse input in a terminal app
- make retro-style console games or demos
When to choose
- you need a portable TUI library that works on Windows, macOS, and Linux without platform-specific code
- you want to build text UIs with widgets or ASCII animations in pure Python
- you want a friendlier, higher-level alternative to raw curses
When to avoid
- you need a rich graphical GUI rather than a text-based interface
- you need a modern GPU-accelerated or web-based UI framework
- you require very complex widget toolkits beyond basic forms and controls
Facets
library · maturity stable
gui animation cli templating developer-tools cross-platform graphics python windows cross-platform cli tui curses ascii-art text-ui terminal widgets console command-line linux macos
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics · fetched 2026-08-28 · 3c0944d6733e
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/asciimatics/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · fd02037156a4
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| peterbrittain/asciimatics | main | 63 |
For agents
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