# p-ranav/indicators

Activity Indicators for Modern C++

Repository: https://github.com/p-ranav/indicators
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/indicators
Language: C++
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: header-only, mit-license, activity-indicator, terminal-colors, lightweight, library, progress-bar, spinners, loading-indicator, loading-animations, cpp, cpp11, termcolor, format, formatted-text, multiprogress, elapsed-time, progress-spinner, single-header-lib, single-header
Last push: 2025-05-09T19:37:45+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 20, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2465, "days_push": 481, "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 3410, forks 270 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:03.291229+00:00)

## What it is
A header-only Modern C++ library for rendering terminal progress bars and spinners, including multi-progress and dynamic progress displays. It is thread-safe, supports Unicode and terminal colors, and ships as a single-header version for easy integration.

## Use cases
- show a progress bar while processing files in a C++ CLI tool
- display a loading spinner during long-running operations
- render multiple concurrent progress bars for parallel tasks
- add colored terminal progress indicators to a console application
- track elapsed and remaining time for batch jobs

## When to choose
- you need lightweight, header-only progress indicators in a C++11+ project
- you want thread-safe multi-progress bars in terminal applications
- you prefer a single-header drop-in dependency with an MIT license

## When to avoid
- you need GUI progress dialogs rather than terminal output
- your project is not C++ or requires bindings for other languages
- you need full TUI layouts beyond simple progress bars and spinners

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: terminal-ui, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: cpp, cross-platform, cli
- tags: progress-bar, spinner, header-only, single-header, terminal-colors, multiprogress, thread-safe, cpp11, command-line

## Member repositories
- p-ranav/indicators (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:03.291229+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 2026-08-29T18:38:32.041774+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/p-ranav/indicators (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:03.291229+00:00, sha e54a47bfacd1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.