Radar check
What we found when we opened it. Every bar is one fact, with its date.
Last code pushed 18 Oct 2026, 7 days before this check.
Latest release 0.15.9 on 14 Jun 2026.
Public since September 2024, about 2 years.
6,381 stars and 194 forks.
38 commits and 12 new issues in the last 90 days.
101 contributors. 25 pull requests merged in 90 days.
No security policy file says how to report a problem. No published security advisories.
How the bars are scored
- Alive. Days since the last code push: a week or less 100, a month 90, three months 70, six months 50, a year 30, eighteen months 15, older 0.
- Releases. Age of the latest GitHub release, on a similar scale; no bar when the project publishes no releases.
- Maturity. Age of the project: eight years 100, five 90, three 70, two 55, one 40, six months 25, younger 10.
- Adoption. Stars on a log scale: 100,000 stars is 100, 10,000 is 80, 1,000 is 60, 100 is 40.
- Activity. Commits in the last 90 days: 300 or more 100, 100 85, 30 65, 10 45, any 25.
- Community. People who have contributed: 100 or more 100, 30 80, 10 60, 5 40, 2 25, one 10.
- Security. A published security policy 80, none 40; published advisories are listed, not scored.
Checked by Repo Radar on 26 Oct 2026 from the repository on GitHub.
In simple English
This tool lets you search through files, text and system data instantly as you type. It runs inside your text window on your computer. You can use it to find things you lost on your hard drive without touching your mouse. It costs nothing to download and runs locally on your machine. You need to know how to use a terminal window to get any benefit from it.
What it is
Television is a command-line tool (a program you run by typing text commands in a terminal window) written in the Rust programming language. It acts as a fuzzy finder, which means it guesses what you mean even if you make typos or miss letters in your search.
What it is good for
Solo builders who spend their day in the terminal and want a fast way to jump between files, check git repositories, or search through text without opening a heavy editor window.
- Searches through files and text instantly as you type.
- Supports custom data sources via simple configuration files.
- Integrates smoothly into popular text editors and shells.
- Requires comfort with command-line interfaces.
- Needs to be installed and configured manually for your specific shell.
- Small community compared to older tools like fzf.
The standard command-line find command or slower search tools.
Neovim or a standard terminal emulator.
- junegunn/fzf84k stars
A very popular command-line fuzzy finder that does the same job with a longer history.
- skim-rs/skim7.0k stars
Another command-line fuzzy finder written in Rust with similar search capabilities.
- antonmedv/walk3.6k stars
Walk through folders with arrow keys, and leave the terminal in the folder you stopped at.
- jj-vcs/jj32k stars
A version control system that stores its history in Git repositories but handles changes and conflicts differently.
curl -fsSL https://alexpasmantier.github.io/television/install.sh | bash