Chafa

Hans Petter Jansson·hpjansson.Chafa

Terminal graphics for the 21st century.

Chafa is a command-line utility that converts image data, including animated GIFs, into graphics formats or ANSI/Unicode character art suitable for display in a terminal. It has broad feature support, allowing it to be used on devices ranging from historical teleprinters to modern terminal emulators and everything in between.

winget install --id hpjansson.Chafa --exact --source winget

Latest 1.18.2·April 29, 2026

Installer type: zip

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Details

Homepage
https://hpjansson.org/chafa
License
LGPL-3.0-or-later
Publisher
Hans Petter Jansson

Tags

ansicligraphicsimageimagesprocessingsixelterminalunicodeviewer

Older versions (9)

1.18.1
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1.18.0
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1.16.2
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1.16.0
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1.14.5
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1.14.2
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1.14.0
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1.12.5
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