Simple tables in terminal with Go

   

Build readable terminal tables in Go with seven built-in styles, multiline cells, alignment, and column spanning.

Comparison

✅ documented · ⚠️ partial · ❌ not found in sources checked. The last status means the sources checked did not document the feature; it does not establish that the library lacks it. Each symbol links to the public source checked for that comparison.

Feature	simpletable	termtables	uitable	tablewriter	go-pretty
Multiline cell content	✅	❌	⚠️	⚠️	❌
Explicit column spans	✅	✅	❌	⚠️	⚠️
Markdown output	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅
Alignment controls	✅	✅	⚠️	✅	✅
Custom table styles	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅

Sources checked on 2026-11-09. Add a library as a column or a feature as a row, and link each status to the public source checked.

Quick start

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"

	"github.com/alexeyco/simpletable"
)

func main() {
	table := simpletable.New()
	table.Header = &simpletable.Header{
		Cells: []*simpletable.Cell{
			{Align: simpletable.AlignCenter, Text: "#"},
			{Align: simpletable.AlignCenter, Text: "NAME"},
			{Align: simpletable.AlignCenter, Text: "TAX"},
		},
	}
	rows := []struct {
		name string
		tax  float64
	}{
		{"Newton G. Goetz", 532.70},
		{"Rebecca R. Edney", 1423.25},
		{"John R. Jackson", 7526.12},
		{"Ron J. Gomes", 123.84},
		{"Penny R. Lewis", 3221.11},
	}

	total := 0.0
	for i, row := range rows {
		table.Body.Cells = append(table.Body.Cells, []*simpletable.Cell{
			{Align: simpletable.AlignRight, Text: fmt.Sprintf("%d", i+1)},
			{Text: row.name},
			{Align: simpletable.AlignRight, Text: fmt.Sprintf("$ %.2f", row.tax)},
		})

		total += row.tax
	}
	table.Footer = &simpletable.Footer{
		Cells: []*simpletable.Cell{
			{Align: simpletable.AlignRight, Span: 2, Text: "Subtotal"},
			{Align: simpletable.AlignRight, Text: fmt.Sprintf("$ %.2f", total)},
		},
	}
	table.SetStyle(simpletable.StyleCompactLite)

	for _, line := range strings.Split(table.String(), "\n") {
		fmt.Println(strings.TrimPrefix(strings.TrimRight(line, " "), " "))
	}
}

#         NAME            TAX
--- ------------------ ------------
1   Newton G. Goetz      $ 532.70
2   Rebecca R. Edney    $ 1423.25
3   John R. Jackson     $ 7526.12
4   Ron J. Gomes         $ 123.84
5   Penny R. Lewis      $ 3221.11
--- ------------------ ------------
            Subtotal   $ 12827.02

Install with go get github.com/alexeyco/simpletable.

See the styles demo, multiline example, and column-span example for more.

Benchmarks

(MacBook)

Run these benchmarks using the benchmark instructions.

BenchmarkSimpletable-12             31845             37586 ns/op           34903 B/op        760 allocs/op
BenchmarkTermtables-12              34851             34191 ns/op           24192 B/op        755 allocs/op
BenchmarkUITable-12                  6452            176884 ns/op           55480 B/op       3070 allocs/op
PASS
ok      github.com/alexeyco/simpletable/_example/03-benchmarks-with-others/bench        5.172s

License

MIT