Terminal plotting libraries for Python
Charts drawn with text characters, right in the terminal. 4 tools, ranked by GitHub stars and updated .
Libraries that draw charts with Unicode characters directly in the terminal, useful over SSH, in scripts and in CI logs. Plotext mirrors the matplotlib API, while uniplot, termgraph and diagram keep things small.
By GitHub stars, the most popular terminal plotting libraries here are termgraph (3.3K stars), Plotext (2.2K stars), and uniplot (460 stars). 3 of 4 had commits in the last 90 days.
| 1 |
 termgraph
Draws bar charts, histograms and other basic graphs in the terminal, as a CLI or Python library. |
3.3K |
| 2 |
 Plotext
Plots data directly in the terminal with a matplotlib-like syntax. |
2.2K |
| 3 |
 uniplot
Lightweight plotting to the terminal. 4x resolution via Unicode. |
460 |
| 4 |
 diagram
Inactive
Text mode diagrams using UTF-8 characters |
408 |
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