diff --git a/tools/heapviz/Cargo.toml b/tools/heapviz/Cargo.toml
index e173d17..4ab1466 100644
--- a/tools/heapviz/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tools/heapviz/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,5 +8,6 @@ license = "Apache-2.0"
 edition = "2018"
 
 [dependencies]
+clap = "2.33.1"
 ncurses = "5.99.0"
 regex = "1"
diff --git a/tools/heapviz/src/main.rs b/tools/heapviz/src/main.rs
index 3bc4176..f129692 100644
--- a/tools/heapviz/src/main.rs
+++ b/tools/heapviz/src/main.rs
@@ -12,11 +12,52 @@
 // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 // limitations under the License.
 
+use clap::{App, Arg};
 use regex::Regex;
-use std::io::{BufRead, Write};
+use std::fs::File;
+use std::io::{BufRead, BufReader, Read, Write};
 use std::thread::sleep;
 use std::time::Duration;
 
+/// Configuration, built from CLI parameters.
+struct Config {
+    /// Handle to the log file containing allocation operations.
+    logfile: File,
+    /// Number of allocation operations to show per second.
+    fps: u64,
+}
+
+fn parse_cli() -> Config {
+    let matches = App::new("Heap visualizer")
+                          .version("0.1")
+                          .author("Guillaume Endignoux <guillaumee@google.com>")
+                          .about("Tool to visualize heap usage of libtock-rs applications")
+                          .arg(Arg::with_name("logfile")
+                               .short("f")
+                               .long("logfile")
+                               .value_name("FILE")
+                               .help("Log file containing allocation info (deploy OpenSK with --debug-allocations to obtain it)")
+                               .takes_value(true)
+                               .required(true))
+                          .arg(Arg::with_name("fps")
+                               .long("fps")
+                               .value_name("FPS")
+                               .help("Number of allocation operations to show per second")
+                               .takes_value(true)
+                               .default_value("20"))
+                          .get_matches();
+
+    let logpath = matches.value_of("logfile").unwrap();
+    let fps = matches
+        .value_of("fps")
+        .unwrap()
+        .parse::<u64>()
+        .expect("The --fps parameter must be an integer");
+    let logfile = File::open(logpath).expect("Couldn't open --logfile for reading");
+
+    Config { logfile, fps }
+}
+
 /// An allocation or deallocation event.
 struct Event {
     /// Whether this even is an allocation (true) or a deallocation (false).
@@ -28,30 +69,32 @@ struct Event {
 }
 
 fn main() {
-    /// The following regex matches lines looking like the following from OpenSK's output. Such
-    /// lines are printed to the console when the `--debug-allocations` feature is enabled in the
-    /// deploy script.
-    ///
-    /// ```
-    /// alloc[256, 1] = 0x2002410c (2 ptrs, 384 bytes)
-    /// dealloc[256, 1] = 0x2002410c (1 ptrs, 512 bytes)
-    /// ```
-    ///
-    /// The two integers between square brackets after the (de)alloc keywords represent the length
-    /// and alignement of the allocated block, respectively. The integer serialized in hexadecimal
-    /// after the equal sign represents the starting address of the allocated block. The two
-    /// integers within parentheses represent statistics about the total number of allocated blocks
-    /// and the total number of allocated bytes after the (de)allocation operation, respectively.
-    ///
-    /// This regex captures three elements, in this order.
-    /// - The keyword to know whether this operation is an allocation or a deallocation.
-    /// - The length of the allocated block.
-    /// - The starting address of the allocated block.
+    let config = parse_cli();
+
+    // The following regex matches lines looking like the following from OpenSK's output. Such lines
+    // are printed to the console when the `--debug-allocations` feature is enabled in the deploy
+    // script.
+    //
+    // ```
+    // alloc[256, 1] = 0x2002410c (2 ptrs, 384 bytes)
+    // dealloc[256, 1] = 0x2002410c (1 ptrs, 512 bytes)
+    // ```
+    //
+    // The two integers between square brackets after the (de)alloc keywords represent the length
+    // and alignement of the allocated block, respectively. The integer serialized in hexadecimal
+    // after the equal sign represents the starting address of the allocated block. The two
+    // integers within parentheses represent statistics about the total number of allocated blocks
+    // and the total number of allocated bytes after the (de)allocation operation, respectively.
+    //
+    // This regex captures three elements, in this order.
+    // - The keyword to know whether this operation is an allocation or a deallocation.
+    // - The length of the allocated block.
+    // - The starting address of the allocated block.
     let re = Regex::new(r"^(alloc|dealloc)\[(\d+), \d+\] = 0x([0-9a-f]+) \(\d+ ptrs, \d+ bytes\)$")
         .unwrap();
 
     let mut events = Vec::new();
-    for line in std::io::stdin().lock().lines() {
+    for line in BufReader::new(config.logfile).lines() {
         if let Some(caps) = re.captures(&line.unwrap()) {
             let typ = caps.get(1).unwrap().as_str();
             let len = caps.get(2).unwrap().as_str().parse::<usize>().unwrap();
@@ -92,13 +135,10 @@ fn main() {
     println!("Peak consumption: {0} = {0:08x} bytes", len);
     println!("Fragmentation overhead: {0} = {0:08x} bytes", len - peak);
 
-    print!("\nLoading visualization");
-    for _ in 0..30 {
-        print!(".");
-        std::io::stdout().flush().unwrap();
-        sleep(Duration::from_millis(50));
-    }
-    println!();
+    print!("\nPress ENTER to start the visualization...");
+    std::io::stdout().flush().unwrap();
+    // Wait for ENTER, by reading a single byte and discarding it.
+    let _ = std::io::stdin().lock().read(&mut [0u8]).unwrap();
 
     let window = ncurses::initscr();
     ncurses::cbreak();
@@ -120,7 +160,7 @@ fn main() {
         }
         ncurses::addstr(std::str::from_utf8(s.as_slice()).unwrap());
         ncurses::refresh();
-        sleep(Duration::from_millis(50));
+        sleep(Duration::from_nanos(1_000_000_000 / config.fps));
     }
 
     ncurses::endwin();