# p-ranav/tabulate

Table Maker for Modern C++

Repository: https://github.com/p-ranav/tabulate
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/tabulate
Language: C++
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: library, mit-license, table, table-maker, view, aligned, formatted-text, terminal, cli, cpp11, cpp14, cpp17, font-styles, alignment, borders, multi-byte-characters, column-alignment, single-header-lib, single-header
Last push: 2025-05-14T23:50:57+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 21, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2449, "days_push": 476, "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 2174, forks 156 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:22.100755+00:00)

## What it is
Tabulate is a header-only C++11+ library for creating formatted, aligned tables in the terminal, with support for font styles, colors, borders, word wrapping, nested tables, and UTF-8/multi-byte characters. It also exports tables to Markdown and AsciiDoc and ships as a single-header version for easy integration.

## Use cases
- print aligned tables in a C++ CLI tool
- format terminal output with borders and colors
- render tables with UTF-8 and multi-byte character support
- export tabular data as Markdown or AsciiDoc
- build nested tables in C++ console applications
- add styled table output to a C++17 project without dependencies

## When to choose
- you need pretty terminal table output in a C++ project with C++11 or later
- you want a dependency-free, header-only or single-header library
- you need Unicode-aware column alignment and rich formatting like colors and borders

## When to avoid
- you need interactive TUI widgets beyond static tables (use FTXUI or ncurses)
- you are not writing C++
- you need GUI or HTML table rendering

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: cli, developer-tools, templating
- domain: developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: cpp, cross-platform, cli
- tags: header-only, single-header, terminal-tables, utf8, text-formatting, markdown-export, asciidoc-export, command-line

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

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:22.100755+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 2026-08-30T02:48:59.635324+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/p-ranav/tabulate (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:22.100755+00:00, sha 4c2e3eed7d8e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.