I tested kitty and alacrity when I first found out about advanced term emulators. I liked kitty more, but I don’t remember why. I use the kittens all the time. It’s super convenient to play a video or display an image in the terminal. Kitty works on most distros. I wish it worked on windows, too, so I could use it at work.

kitty. it’s the first thing I install on a new machine.

Have you looked at Textual? It probably has more functionality than blessed.

The closest thing I know of is an API-only solution with no front-end: https://github.com/h2non/imaginary#supported-image-operations

Someone may have written something like a Flask or FastAPI WebUI for it, but I don’t know.

lovely jubbly

No. I usually have to wrap mine around my forearm a dozen or so times to keep it out of the water.