Chafa AlternativesImage Viewers and other similar apps like Chafa

Apps similar to Chafa include Kitty terminal, which is free and open source. Other options are Browsh, feh, Terminology and Ratty. In total there are five Terminal Emulators like Chafa for Linux, Mac and Windows.

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  1. Kitty terminal icon
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    Kitty ( not to be confused with KiTTY ) is a powerful, cross-platform GPU-based terminal emulator. It offloads rendering to the GPU and uses OpenGL for fast, cross-platform performance with built-in tiling layouts as well as graphic, unicode...

    107 Kitty terminal alternatives

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    • Mac
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  2. Browsh icon
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    A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • OpenBSD
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  3. feh icon
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    feh is an X11 image viewer aimed mostly at console users. Unlike most other viewers, it does not have a fancy GUI, but simply displays images. It is controlled via commandline arguments and configurable key/mouse actions.

    52 feh alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  4. Terminology icon
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    Terminology is a terminal emulator for e17.

    What does it do?

    It emulates a slightly extended vt100 with some extensions and bling thrown in.

    Most escapes supported by xterm, rxvt etc. work Xterm 256 color escapes work Backgrounds (bitmap, scalable/vector, animated.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
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  5. Ratty icon
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    A GPU-rendered terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics. Inspired by TempleOS. Built with Rust & Ratatui.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Rust
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