ansi — independent software & tools

51 independent ansi listings the big search engines bury.

• jsvision

  github · Free · by blendsdk

  A TypeScript SDK for building terminal apps with real UI — menus, modal dialogs, forms, and many ready-made controls on a zero-dependency rendering engine.

• phel-doom

  github · Free · by Chemaclass

  Terminal DOOM-lite raycaster built in Phel (Lisp on PHP). 256-color ANSI, 5 procedural levels — a real-world Phel showcase app.

• clawde

  github · Free · by joey114132

  clawde 🧡 — a tiny pixel Claude that wanders your terminals, shows feelings, dances, and portals between windows. GNOME extension · terminal · VS Code.

• vitrine

  github · Free · by johnny4young

  Turn code and terminal output into beautiful images. Captures full-screen terminal apps like htop and lazygit as the final frame, not an escape-code transcript. Native macOS, fully local.

• familiar

  github · Free · by LIAlia111

  Pixel-art pet companion for Claude Code CLI · npm install: claude-familiar · 7 pets × 5 skins, multi-pet leveling

• Arlecchino

  github · Free · by The1fEst

  A terminal UI framework for .NET: cell-grid renderer, view navigation, modals, forms and a command palette.

• cc-statusline

  github · Free · by vtmocanu

  Two-line ANSI statusline for Claude Code: git + k8s context, rate-limit bars, service health, AI session topics

• ansis

  npm · Free · by webdiscus

  ANSI color lib

• cli-truncate

  npm · Free · by sindresorhus

  Truncate a string to a specific width in the terminal

• @inquirer/ansi

  npm · Free · by sboudrias

  A lightweight package providing ANSI escape sequences for terminal cursor manipulation and screen clearing.

• sisteransi

  npm · Free · by GitHub Actions

  ANSI escape codes for some terminal swag

• supports-hyperlinks

  npm · Free · by sindresorhus

  Detect whether a terminal supports hyperlinks

• howl

  github · Free · by ai-screams

  ⚡ Blazing-fast Go statusline HUD for Claude Code — 13 metrics, adaptive layouts, zero dependencies

• silvery

  github · Free · by beorn

  React for modern terminal apps — powerful apps, polished UIs, proudly terminal

• termless

  github · Free · by beorn

  Like Playwright, but for terminal apps — headless testing across xterm.js, Ghostty, Alacritty, WezTerm, and more

• termdom

  github · Free · by bikeshaving

  Build terminal apps with HTML, CSS and the DOM.

• femtocolors

  github · Free · by delucis

  A microscopic, zero-dependency library for styling terminal text in Node.js

• prismtty

  github · Free · by inxbit

  Fast terminal output highlighter focused on network devices and Unix systems

• cosmostrix

  github · Free · by oxyzenQ

  Production-grade cinematic Matrix rain renderer for serious terminal environments.

• colorhash

  github · Free · by taigrr

  Deterministically map strings and byte streams to colors from a palette, with FNV-64 hashing, OKLCH palette generation, and ANSI/true-color terminal output.

• wijjit

  github · Free · by thomas-villani

  Wijjit is just Jinja in the Terminal

• ansi-align

  npm · Free · by nexdrew

  align-text with ANSI support for CLIs

• ansi-colors

  npm · Free · by jonschlinkert

  Easily add ANSI colors to your text and symbols in the terminal. A faster drop-in replacement for chalk, kleur and turbocolor (without the dependencies and rendering bugs).

• ansi-cyan

  npm · Free · by jonschlinkert

  The color cyan, in ansi.

• ansi-escapes

  npm · Free · by sindresorhus

  ANSI escape codes for manipulating the terminal

• ansi-gray

  npm · Free · by jonschlinkert

  The color gray, in ansi.

• ansi-red

  npm · Free · by jonschlinkert

  The color red, in ansi.

• ansi-regex

  npm · Free · by sindresorhus

  Regular expression for matching ANSI escape codes

• ansi-styles

  npm · Free · by sindresorhus

  ANSI escape codes for styling strings in the terminal

• chalk

  npm · Free · by sindresorhus

  Terminal string styling done right

• chalk-template

  npm · Free · by sindresorhus

  Terminal string styling with tagged template literals

• charm

  npm · Free · by noffle

  ansi control sequences for terminal cursor hopping and colors

• cli-color

  npm · Free · by medikoo

  Colors, formatting and other tools for the console

• cli-cursor

  npm · Free · by sindresorhus

  Toggle the CLI cursor

• cli-highlight

  npm · Free · by felixfbecker

  Syntax highlighting in your terminal

• colorette

  npm · Free · by jorgebucaran

  🌈Easily set your terminal text color & styles.

• colors

  npm · Free · by dabh

  get colors in your node.js console

• @colors/colors

  npm · Free · by dabh

  get colors in your node.js console

• columnify

  npm · Free · by timoxley

  Render data in text columns. Supports in-column text-wrap.

• elegant-spinner

  npm · Free · by sindresorhus

  Elegant spinner for interactive CLI apps

• has-ansi

  npm · Free · by sindresorhus

  Check if a string has ANSI escape codes

• kleur

  npm · Free · by lukeed

  The fastest Node.js library for formatting terminal text with ANSI colors~!

• pm2-multimeter

  npm · Free · by tknew

  render multiple progress bars at once on the terminal with eventlimit maxed

• readline2

  npm · Free · by sboudrias

  Readline Façade fixing bugs and issues found in releases 0.8 and 0.10

• slice-ansi

  npm · Free · by sindresorhus

  Slice a string with ANSI escape codes

• strip-ansi

  npm · Free · by sindresorhus

  Strip ANSI escape codes from a string

• supports-color

  npm · Free · by sindresorhus

  Detect whether a terminal supports color

• terminal-link

  npm · Free · by sindresorhus

  Create clickable links in the terminal

• widest-line

  npm · Free · by sindresorhus

  Get the visual width of the widest line in a string - the number of columns required to display it

• wrap-ansi

  npm · Free · by sindresorhus

  Wordwrap a string with ANSI escape codes

• yoctocolors-cjs

  npm · Free · by sindresorhus

  CommonJS version - The smallest and fastest command-line coloring package on the internet