# console-rs/indicatif

A command line progress reporting library for Rust

Repository: https://github.com/console-rs/indicatif
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/indicatif
Language: Rust
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-26T10:48:24+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 92/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 79, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3419, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 63, "gap_med": 48.0, "n_releases_24m": 11}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5203, forks 286 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:12.142253+00:00)

## What it is
Indicatif is a Rust library for displaying progress bars, spinners, and other progress reporting in command line applications. It supports multi-progress bars, templates, and integrates with the log and tracing crates.

## Use cases
- show a progress bar while downloading files in a CLI
- add spinners to long-running terminal tasks
- display multiple concurrent progress bars in a Rust CLI
- report task progress to users in command line tools
- prevent log output from clobbering active progress bars

## When to choose
- you are building a Rust CLI and need polished progress reporting
- you want battle-tested progress bars with huge adoption (200M+ downloads)
- you need multi-bar rendering or log/tracing integration

## When to avoid
- you are not writing in Rust
- you need full TUI layouts rather than progress indicators
- you need a GUI progress display

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: cli, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: rust, cli, cross-platform
- tags: progress-bar, spinner, terminal-ui, rust-library, command-line

## Member repositories
- console-rs/indicatif (main) score 92

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:12.142253+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 2026-08-29T18:00:14.628140+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/console-rs/indicatif (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:12.142253+00:00, sha 8cb15d644b9f)
  - registry_crates: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/indicatif (fetched 2026-08-29T08:55:20.600942+00:00, sha f65cbb002390)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.