Ratatui

A Rust crate for cooking up terminal user interfaces (TUIs) 👨‍🍳🐀 https://ratatui.rs observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/ratatui/ratatui · homepage · Rust · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

90/100

Activity 99
Release rhythm 77
Longevity 92

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: 0
age_days: 1298
days_rel: 75
days_push: 9
n_releases_24m: 64

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

22405 stars · 752 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Ratatui is a Rust library for building terminal user interfaces (TUIs) with a widget-based, immediate-mode rendering model. It supports multiple backends (Crossterm, Termion, Termwiz) and is widely used for dashboards, CLI tools, and interactive terminal applications.

Use cases

build a terminal dashboard in Rust
create an interactive CLI tool with a TUI
make a terminal file viewer or CSV viewer
build a terminal-based game
render charts and widgets in the terminal
build a TUI for browsing APIs or docker containers

When to choose

you are writing a Rust application that needs a rich text-based UI
you want a lightweight, fast alternative to GUI frameworks
you need cross-platform terminal rendering with pluggable backends
you want a mature, actively maintained TUI library with a large ecosystem

When to avoid

you need a graphical (non-terminal) interface
you are not using Rust
you need a full application framework with built-in state management rather than a rendering library

Facets

library · maturity stable

ui-components developer-tools cli developer-tools cross-platform rust cross-platform cli tui terminal-ui widgets rust-crate dashboards command-line

4 sources

readme: https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui · fetched 2026-08-28 · 3f5d6e352126
homepage: https://ratatui.rs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 78ac37d8311d
site_page: https://ratatui.rs/installation · fetched 2026-08-29 · b143662f90df
registry_crates: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/ratatui · fetched 2026-08-29 · 83c68ab1e189

Member repositories

Repository	Role	Health v2
ratatui/ratatui	main	90
ratatui/awesome-ratatui	docs	71

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