No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
asciimatics has 103K monthly downloads and 4K GitHub stars. Version 1.15.0 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2015.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Oct 2023.
It is built on top of pillow, pyfiglet and pywin32. It is used by 44 tracked packages, including python-fx, mpf and highlighter-sdk.
GitHub topics include curses, console and tui.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 982 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
75
Adoption
90
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
103,477
•
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
103,477
Stars
4,293
Stars per 1k downloads
41.49
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
•
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
5,339
Month daily avg
3,449
Momentum
+54.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>= 3.8
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
•
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
Apache 2.0
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
985 days ago
Total releases
24
Releases/year
2.1
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
•
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
41
Monthly downloads
103,477
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
34
Issue Burden
4.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
15.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
982d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
3.9K
Windows
409
macOS
315
Python Versions
3.8
25.7%
1.1K
3.11
25.4%
1.1K
3.12
24.1%
1.0K
3.10
17.3%
720
3.13
7.5%
314
Top Countries
1.
US
3.5K
US
2.
GB
398
GB
3.
HK
195
HK
4.
NL
140
NL
5.
DE
124
DE
6.
SG
76
SG
7.
CN
40
CN
8.
JP
32
JP
9.
CH
28
CH
10.
IE
26
IE
Used By
44
- python-fx
- mpf
- highlighter-sdk
- asciiquarium-redux
- dragon-player
- asciimatics-overlay-ov
- litebird-sim
- mercury-ocip
- ntnx-ncm-dsl
- asciiryver
- orgm
- mercury-cli
- hesiod
- baz
- elabtui
- retox
- wledcast
- aiko-services
- artmr
- todolist
- arptools
- yulelog
- configutator
- denise
- rbs-tui-dom
- gochan
- groklog
- rae-cli
- deepmage
- mnkgame
- tictactai
- tui-progress
- party-parrot
- typyn
- modulename
- skunkbooth
- spydertop
- ddmonitoring
- parasys
- snake-terminal-pp
- venv-clean
- sportbot
- rreader
- rapid-analytics-engineering
Package Information
License
Apache 2.0
First Release
April 15, 2015
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
3 days ago
Latest Version
1.15.0
Total Releases
24
Contributors
41
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Peter Brittain
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
Wheels
py2
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh