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    A Rust crate for cooking up terminal user interfaces (TUIs) πŸ‘¨β€πŸ³πŸ€ https://ratatui.rs

    cli
    ratatui
    rust
    terminal
    terminal-user-interface
    tui
    Rust
    MIT
    22.8K stars
    786 forks
    22.8K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 13, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    Ranks #268 of 2,502 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 11%).

    No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 101 days ago, with 289 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #12 in the weekly ranking the week of Jan 25, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a Rust crate for building flexible and interactive terminal user interfaces (TUIs).
    • Offers simple APIs and templates for quick setup, enabling efficient development of text-based terminal apps.
    • Use for creating command-line dashboards that display real-time data in a terminal environment.
    • Use for developing interactive CLI tools that require custom widgets and user input handling.
    • Use for building terminal-based applications with modular UI components in Rust leveraging modern async event handling.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

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    From the README

    Ratatui (ˌrΓ¦.tΙ™Λˆtu.i) is a Rust crate for cooking up terminal user interfaces (TUIs). It provides a simple and flexible way to create text-based user interfaces in the terminal, which can be used for command-line applications, dashboards, and other interactive console programs.

    You can also watch the EuroRust 2024 talk to learn about common concepts in Ratatui and what's possible to build with it.

    Excerpt from the ratatui/ratatui README on GitHub (MIT license). Β© its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Jul 5: +39Jul 6: +18Sep 14: +10

    +1,301 stars over 86 days across 11 snapshot days; best day +39 on Jul 5.

    Forks

    786+80

    Open issues

    218+16

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