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simple-term-menu

A Python package which creates simple interactive menus on the command line.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

simple-term-menu has 3.9M monthly downloads and 566 GitHub stars. Version 1.6.6 supports Python ~=3.5, first published in 2019.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Dec 2024.

It is used by 150 tracked packages, including astro-airflow-mcp, lightning-sdk and amesa-api-dev.

Downloads
Day
116.0K
Week
895.8K
Month
3.9M
Stars
566
Forks
45
Issues
35
Version
1.6.6

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
55
Adoption
70
Community
35
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
581 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,942,024
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
3,942,024
Stars
566
Stars per 1k downloads
0.14
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
127,967
Month daily avg
131,401
Momentum
-2.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
~=3.5
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
MIT
• 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
581 days ago
Total releases
49
Releases/year
7.1
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
11
Monthly downloads
3,942,024
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
43
 
Issue Burden
61.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
24.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 65.3K
Windows 10.7K
macOS 5.5K

Python Versions

3.11
70.7% 57.7K
3.12
21.1% 17.2K
3.13
3.6% 2.9K
3.10
3.0% 2.4K
3.14
1.7% 1.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
51.2K
2. SG SG
4.2K
3. CN CN
3.3K
4. DE DE
2.7K
5. HK HK
1.8K
6. AU AU
1.7K
7. JP JP
1.4K
8. IN IN
1.4K
9. FR FR
1.3K
10. BR BR
1.2K

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
August 15, 2019
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
1.6.6
Total Releases
49
Contributors
11
Open PRs
6
Archived
No
Author
Ingo Meyer
Python Versions
3 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8
Wheels
py3
Keywords
terminal menu choice
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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