# pterm/pterm

✨ PTerm is a modern Go module to easily beautify console output. Featuring charts, progressbars, tables, trees, text input, select menus and much more 🚀 It's completely configurable and 100% cross-platform compatible.

Repository: https://github.com/pterm/pterm
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pterm
Homepage: https://pterm.sh
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: go, golang, golang-library, pretty-print, pretty, progressbar, pterm, beautify, tui, ansi-colors, animation, console, console-framework, hacktoberfest, library, terminal
Last push: 2026-07-11T21:14:49+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 78/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 92, release rhythm 48, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2176, "days_push": 53, "days_rel": 189, "gap_med": 135, "n_releases_24m": 4}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5524, forks 222 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:21.932705+00:00)

## What it is
PTerm is a Go library for beautifying terminal output with components like progress bars, spinners, tables, trees, charts, and interactive prompts. It is fully configurable, cross-platform, and designed to make Go CLI applications more user-friendly.

## Use cases
- add progress bars and spinners to a go cli
- print pretty tables and trees in the terminal
- build interactive select menus and text input prompts in go
- colorize and style console output in a go application
- create beautiful command-line tools in golang

## When to choose
- you are writing a Go CLI and want polished, colorful terminal output
- you need interactive prompts, menus, or progress indicators in a terminal app
- you want a cross-platform terminal UI library with extensive examples

## When to avoid
- you need a full-screen TUI framework with layout and event loops rather than print components
- your project is not written in Go

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: terminal-ui, developer-tools, gui
- domain: developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: go, windows, cli, cross-platform
- tags: pretty-print, progress-bar, spinner, interactive-prompts, ansi-colors, tables, tui-components, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- pterm/pterm (main) score 78

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:21.932705+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 2026-08-29T17:55:46.572640+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/pterm/pterm (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:21.932705+00:00, sha c08692a22b89)
  - homepage: https://pterm.sh (fetched 2026-08-29T08:51:09.382291+00:00, sha 93ec622ef936)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.