posva/catimg
🦦 Insanely fast image printing in your terminal observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
63/100
- Activity 76
- Release rhythm 26
- 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: 4847
- days_rel: 280
- days_push: 148
- n_releases_24m: 1
Adoption not part of the score
1577 stars · 64 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
catimg is a small C program that prints images (JPEG, PNG, GIF) directly in the terminal using 256-color and unicode escape codes, with no dependencies. It originated as a shell script using ImageMagick and is now a fast standalone binary.
Use cases
- print an image in the terminal
- preview images without leaving the shell
- display a picture in a terminal prompt
- render png or gif files in a 256-color terminal
- fast terminal image viewer
When to choose
- you want dependency-free, very fast image rendering in a terminal
- you use a 256-color capable shell on Linux or macOS
- you want to show images inline in scripts or prompts
When to avoid
- you need true-color or pixel-perfect image fidelity
- you are on a terminal without 256-color support
- you need a full graphical image viewer
Facets
cli-tool · maturity stable
image-processing cli image-processing developer-tools cli cross-platform terminal-graphics ansi-colors jpeg png gif no-dependencies command-line linux macos
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/posva/catimg · fetched 2026-08-28 · 7191e847b154
- homepage: http://posva.net/shell/retro/bash/2013/05/27/catimg · fetched 2026-08-29 · 53ae76121e5b
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| posva/catimg | main | 63 |
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