# Textualize/frogmouth

A Markdown browser for your terminal

Repository: https://github.com/Textualize/frogmouth
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/frogmouth
Homepage: https://www.textualize.io/
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: markdown, markdown-viewer, python, terminal-based, tui, textual
Last push: 2024-08-01T06:51:47+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 21/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 89
- inputs: {"age_days": 1248, "days_push": 762, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3271, forks 84 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:53.083201+00:00)

## What it is
Frogmouth is a Markdown viewer/browser that runs in the terminal, built with the Textual TUI framework. It supports opening local files or URLs, with browser-like navigation, history, bookmarks, a table of contents, and direct loading of GitHub READMEs.

## Use cases
- read markdown files in the terminal
- view github readme from command line
- browse markdown with history and bookmarks
- open markdown from a url in terminal
- terminal markdown viewer with table of contents

## When to choose
- you want to read Markdown docs without leaving the terminal
- you need browser-like navigation (history, bookmarks, TOC) for Markdown files
- you want to quickly view GitHub repository READMEs

## When to avoid
- you need to edit Markdown, not just view it
- you want a GUI Markdown renderer with full styling
- you need to render non-Markdown document formats

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: markdown, terminal-ui, gui, documentation
- domain: developer-tools, documentation, cross-platform
- platform: windows, cli, python, cross-platform
- tags: markdown-viewer, tui, textual, browser-like-navigation, bookmarks, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- Textualize/frogmouth (main) score 21

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:53.083201+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:43:49.248252+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Textualize/frogmouth (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:53.083201+00:00, sha 7b11dea67015)
  - homepage: https://www.textualize.io/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:36:30.593289+00:00, sha c9fc34304275)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/frogmouth/json (fetched 2026-08-29T09:36:30.595664+00:00, sha fe472d0c6532)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.