libtickit ☆

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Description:
Library for building interactive full-screen terminal programs

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: terminal tui library c interactive

Install: brew install libtickit

About:
Libtickit is a C library designed for the development of interactive, full-screen terminal applications. It provides a robust framework for managing terminal state, rendering text widgets, and handling input events. Its core value proposition is enabling developers to build complex terminal UIs with features like windowing, styling, and event-driven programming without low-level complexity.

Key Features:

Terminal state and event abstraction
Widget-based rendering system
Multi-terminal window management
Input event handling (keyboard and mouse)

Use Cases:

Building interactive command-line tools
Developing terminal-based text editors
Creating rich TUI dashboards

Alternatives:

ncurses – Libtickit provides a higher-level, event-driven abstraction compared to the lower-level API of ncurses.
termbox – Similar in abstraction level, but Libtickit offers more advanced features like windowing and styling.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 16, 2025 10:24am		0	VERSION_BUMP	4288aec4
Sep 13, 2024 4:01pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	ca356f8f