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Command-line Interface Tools and Alternatives

A collection of the best CLI/Ncurses software covering a wide range of categories from messaging, music, text editing and more.



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Communication

Media

Development

Productivity

Utilites

Files

Version Control

Images

Other

IRC

Irssi: Your text mode chatting application since 1999

IRC built-in. Multi-protocol friendly for module authors.

Shipped-by-default Perl scripting with a wide range of available extensions.

Integrates into the UNIX stack: Your window manager, your terminal emulator, your remote connection, your terminal multiplexer, your IRC bouncer, your IRC adapter.

Irssi is free software licensed under the GPLv2, available for Linux, BSD, Solaris, Haiku, Apple, Cygwin, …

WeeChat: The extensible chat client

Full-featured IRC plugin: multi-servers, proxy support, IPv6, SASL authentication, nicklist, DCC, and many other features.

tiny: Yet another terminal IRC client

tiny is an IRC client written in Rust.

sic: simple irc client

sic is an extremely simple IRC client. It consists of less than 250 lines of code. It is the little brother of irc it.

kirc: Tiny IRC client

Tiny IRC client

XMPP

Profanity: A console based XMPP client

Profanity is a console based XMPP client written in C using ncurses and libstrophe, inspired by Irssi.

Poezio: A free console XMPP client

Its goal is to let you connect very easily (no account creation needed) to the network and join various chatrooms, immediately. It tries to look like the most famous IRC clients (weechat, irssi, etc). Many commands are identical and you won't be lost if you already know these clients. Configuration can be made in a configuration file or directly from the client.

Freetalk: A console based chat client

GNU Freetalk is a console based chat client for Jabber and other XMPP servers. It has context sensitive auto-completion for buddy names, commands, and even ordinary English words. Similar to GNU Emacs, You can customize and extend GNU Freetalk with Scheme language.

mcabber: A small XMPP (Jabber) console client

Includes features such as SASL/SSL/TLS support, MUC (Multi-User Chat) support, history logging, command completion, OpenPGP encryption, OTR (Off-the-Record Messaging) support, dynamic modules and external action triggers.

Matrix

iamb: A Matrix client for Vim addicts

iamb is a Matrix client written in Rust with Vim-style keys. It supports threads, spaces, e2ee, and more.

gomuks: A terminal Matrix client

A terminal Matrix client written in Go using mautrix and mauview.

matrix-commander: Simple CLI-based Matrix client

Simple but convenient CLI-based Matrix client app for sending, receiving, creating rooms, inviting, verifying, and so much more.

matrixcli: Command line Matrix client

matrixcli is a simple matrix client based on the matrix-python-sdk.

weechat-matrix: Weechat Matrix protocol script written in python

weechat-matrix is stable and quite usable as a daily driver. It already supports large parts of the Matrix protocol, including end-to-end encryption (though some features like cross-signing and session unwedging are unimplemented).

Email

NeoMutt: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks

NeoMutt is a command line mail reader (or MUA). It’s a fork of Mutt with added features.

Alpine: A free software email client

Alpine is a rewrite of the Pine Message System that adds support for Unicode and other features. Alpine is meant to be suitable for both inexperienced email users and the most demanding of power users.

Sup: A console-based email client for people with a lot of email

It presents an interface of a list of threads, which are each hierarchical collections email messages. Threads can have multiple tags applied to them. It supports a very fast full-text search, automatic contact-list management, custom code insertion via a Ruby hook system, and more. If you’re the type of person who treats email as an extension of your long-term memory, Sup is for you.

aerc: a pretty good email client

aerc is an email client that runs in your terminal. It's highly efficient and extensible, perfect for the discerning hacker.

Telegram

Telegram CLI: Command-line interface for Telegram

Telegram CLI is a fully featured Telegram messenger client that works in the CLI instead of a GUI.

Signal

signal-cli: An unofficial commandline and dbus

signal-cli is a commandline interface for libsignal-service-java. It supports registering, verifying, sending and receiving messages. To be able to link to an existing Signal-Android/signal-cli instance, signal-cli uses a patched libsignal-service-java, because libsignal-service-java does not yet support provisioning as a linked device.

Tox

Toxic: A Tox-based instant messaging and video chat client

Toxic is a client with an ncurses interface, written entirely in C. It has support for all basic features, as well as 1-on-1 audio/video chats, and is capable of working on bare-bones systems that lack graphical interfaces. Development is lead by Jfreegman.

Music

ncmpcpp: NCurses Music Player Client (Plus Plus)

Ncmpcpp is an mpd client (compatible with mopidy) with a UI very similar to ncmpc, but it provides new useful features such as support for regular expressions for library searches, extended song format, items filtering, the ability to sort playlists, and a local filesystem browser.

mpc: A minimalist command line interface to MPD

Command line user interface for MPD server written in C.

spotify-player: A Spotify player in the terminal

A Spotify player in the terminal with full feature parity written in Rust. Considered a replacement for spotify-tui as it is no longer maintained.

Spotify TUI: Terminal Spotify client

** No Longer Maintained **

A Spotify client for the terminal written in Rust.

ncspot: Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client

ncspot is a ncurses Spotify client written in Rust using librespot. It is heavily inspired by ncurses MPD clients, such as ncmpc.

asak: A cross-platform audio recording/playback CLI tool with TUI, written in Rust

A cross-platform audio recording/playback CLI tool with TUI, written in Rust. The goal is to be an audio Swiss Army Knife (asak), like SoX but more interactive and fun.

glicol-cli: cross-platform music live coding in terminal

It's a command line interface that you can use for music live coding with Glicol.

It watches a file changes and then update the music in real-time.

cmus: Small, fast and powerful console music player

Small, fast and powerful console music player

Instant-Music-Downloader: Instant music downloader

Instant music downloader

itunes-remote: Control iTunes via CLI

Control iTunes via CLI

pianobar: Pandora client

Pandora client

somafm-cli: Listen to SomaFM in your terminal

Listen to SomaFM in your terminal

mpd: Music Player Daemon

Music Player Daemon

moc: Console audio player for Linux/UNIX

Console audio player for Linux/UNIX

musikcube: Cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server

Cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server

beets: Music library manager and tagger

Music library manager and tagger

swaglyrics-for-spotify: Spotify Lyrics

Spotify Lyrics

dzr: deezer.com player

deezer.com player

radio-active: Internet radio player with 40k+ stations

Internet radio player with 40k+ stations

mpvc: Music player interfacing mpv

Music player interfacing mpv

Images

FFmpeg: A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.

FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge. No matter if they were designed by some standards committee, the community or a corporation.

Feh: A fast and light image viewer

Feh is a light-weight, configurable and versatile image viewer. It is aimed at command line users, but can also be started from graphical file managers. Apart from viewing images, it can compile text and thumbnail listings, show (un)loadable files, set X11 backgrounds, and more.

Nitrogen: Background browser and setter for X windows.

Nitrogen is a fast and lightweight (GTK2) desktop background browser and setter for X Window.

sxiv: Simple X Image Viewer

Simple X Image Viewer is a lightweight and scriptable image viewer written in C.

Video

mpv: A free, open source, and cross-platform media player

mpv is a free (as in freedom) media player for the command line. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.

yt-dlp: A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

Download videos from youtube.com or other video platforms.

yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork based on the now inactive youtube-dlc. The main focus of this project is adding new features and patches while also keeping up to date with the original project.

Streamlink: Pipe videostreams into a video player

Streamlink is a CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player, such as VLC.

The main purpose of streamlink is to avoid resource-heavy and unoptimized websites, while still allowing the user to enjoy various streamed content.

ytfzf: Find and watch youtube videos from the terminal

A POSIX script that helps you find Youtube videos (without API) and opens/downloads them using mpv/youtube-dl.

mps-youtube: Youtube player

Youtube player

editly: Declarative video editing

Declarative video editing

Movies

moviemon: Everything about your movies

Everything about your movies

movie: Get movie info or compare movies

Get movie info or compare movies

Games

Dwarf Fortress: Roguelike construction and management simulation

Roguelike construction and management simulation

Cataclysm-DDA: Turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world

Turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world

Pokete: Pokemon-like

Pokemon-like

Books

epr: epub reader

epub reader

Bible.Js CLI: Bible

Bible

SpeedRead: Spritz-alike speedreader

Spritz-alike speedreader

medium-cli: Read medium.com stories

Read medium.com stories

Browsers

Surf: A simple WebKit browser

Surf is a simple web browser based on WebKit2/GTK+. It is able to display websites and follow links. It supports the XEmbed protocol which makes it possible to embed it in another application. Furthermore, one can point surf to another URI by setting its XProperties.

Lynx: The text web browser

Lynx is a customizable text-based web browser for use on cursor-addressable character cell terminals. As of 2021, it is the oldest web browser still being maintained, having started in 1992.

News Readers

Newsboat: An RSS/Atom feed reader

Newsboat is an RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console. It’s an actively maintained fork of Newsbeuter.

Snownews: A text-mode RSS feed reader

Snownews is a console RSS/Atom feed reader for Linux and other unix platforms, originally written by Oliver Feiler.

Sfeed: Simple RSS and Atom parser

Sfeed is a RSS and Atom parser (and some format programs).

It converts RSS or Atom feeds from XML to a TAB-separated file. There are formatting programs included to convert this TAB-separated format to various other formats. There are also some programs and scripts included to import and export OPML and to fetch, filter, merge and order feed items.

CalDav

Khal: A CLI calendar program

Khal is a standards based CLI and terminal calendar program, able to synchronize with CalDAV servers through vdirsyncer.

Todoman: A simple CLI task manager

Todoman is a simple, standards-based, cli todo (aka: task) manager. Todos are stored into icalendar files, which means you can sync them via CalDAV using, for example, vdirsyncer.

CardDav

Khard: An address book for the Unix console

Khard is an address book for the Unix console. It creates, reads, modifies and removes vCard address book entries at your local machine. Khard is also compatible to the email clients mutt and alot and the SIP client twinkle.

Screensavers

cmatrix

Scrolling 'Matrix'-like screen.

pipes.sh

Random pipes that grow across the screen.

yulelog

Christmas Yule Log fireplace.

cli-fireplace

Digital fireplace.

Graphics

cli-mandelbrot

Traverse the Mandelbrot fractal.

sparkly-cli

Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇..

pastel

Generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors.

lowcharts

Draw low-resolution graphs.

Text Editors

Vim: The ubiquitous text editor

Vim is a greatly improved version of the good old UNIX editor Vi. Many new features have been added: multi-level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, on-line help, spell checking, filename completion, block operations, script language, etc. There is also a Graphical User Interface (GUI) available. Still, Vi compatibility is maintained, those who have Vi "in the fingers" will feel at home.

Also see Neovim

Emacs: An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor

At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.

Nano: A simple editor, inspired by Pico

GNU nano is a text editor for Unix-like computing systems or operating environments using a command line interface. It emulates the Pico text editor, part of the Pine email client, and also provides additional functionality. Unlike Pico, nano is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

kakoune: Modal editor inspired by vim

Modal editor inspired by vim

micro: A simple and intuitive editor

A simple and intuitive editor

o: Configuration-free text editor and IDE

Configuration-free text editor and IDE

helix: Modal editor inspired by kakoune

Modal editor inspired by kakoune

Servers

serve

Serve static files (https, CORS, GZIP compression, etc).

simplehttp

Easily serve a local directory over HTTP.

shell2http

Shell script based HTTP server.

darkhttpd: When you need a web server in a hurry


Darkhttpd is a simple, fast HTTP 1.1 web server for static content. It does not support PHP or CGI etc but is designed to serve static content, which it does very well.

Quark: Suckless simple static web server

quark is an extremely small and simple HTTP GET/HEAD-only web server for static content.

The goal of this project is to do one thing and do it well, namely serving static web directories and doing that right. Most other solutions either are too complex (CGI support, dependencies on external libraries, ...) or lack features you expect (TLS, virtual hosts, partial content, not modified since, ...). quark tries to find a midway and just restrict itself to being static while still offering functions you only find in more bloated solutions and being as secure as possible (chroot, privilege dropping, strict parsers, no malloc at runtime, pledge, unveil, ...).

Prosody: A modern XMPP server

Prosody is a modern XMPP communication server. It aims to be easy to set up and configure, and efficient with system resources. Additionally, for developers it aims to be easy to extend and give a flexible system on which to rapidly develop added functionality, or prototype new protocols.

Prosody is open-source software under the permissive MIT/X11 license.

ejabberd: An XMPP application server

ejabberd is an XMPP application server and an MQTT broker, written mainly in the Erlang programming language. It can run under several Unix-like operating systems such as macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and OpenSolaris. Additionally, ejabberd can run under Microsoft Windows.

Shells

Dash: Debian Almquist Shell

Dash (Debian Almquist shell) is a modern POSIX-compliant implementation of /bin/sh (sh, Bourne shell).

Dash is not Bash compatible, but Bash tries to be mostly compatible with POSIX, and thus Dash.

Zsh: Designed for interactive use

The Z shell is a Unix shell that can be used as an interactive login shell and as a command interpreter for shell scripting. Zsh is an extended Bourne shell with many improvements, including some features of Bash, ksh, and tcsh.

Tools

legit: Generate Open Source licences as files or file headers

Generate Open Source licences as files or file headers

mklicense: Create a custom LICENSE file painlessly with customized info

Create a custom LICENSE file painlessly with customized info

rebound: Fetch Stack Overflow results on compiler error

Fetch Stack Overflow results on compiler error

foy: Lightweight general purpose task runner/build tool

Lightweight general purpose task runner/build tool

just: Modern make-like command runner

Modern make-like command runner

bcal: Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations

Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations

bitwise: Base conversion and bit manipulation

Base conversion and bit manipulation

cgasm: x86 assembly documentation

x86 assembly documentation

grex: Generate regular expressions from user-provided test cases

Generate regular expressions from user-provided test cases

gdb-dashboard: Modular visual interface for GDB

Modular visual interface for GDB

iola: Socket client with REST API

Socket client with REST API

add-gitignore: Interactively generate a .gitignore for your project based on your needs

Interactively generate a .gitignore for your project based on your needs

is-up-cli: Check if a domain is up

Check if a domain is up

reachable: Check if a domain is up

Check if a domain is up

loadtest: Run load tests

Run load tests

diff2html-cli: Create pretty HTML from diffs

Create pretty HTML from diffs

pls: a prettier and powerful ls(1) for the pros

pls is a prettier and powerful ls(1) for the pros. The "p" stands for

    pretty: pls output is cleaner, friendlier and more colorful.
    powerful: pls provides more features than the competition.
    performant: pls is speedy and performant (written in Rust).
    practical: pls has sensible defaults and an effortless interface.
    petite: pls is a small, single-file, binary executable.
    pliable: pls can be extensively tweaked by power users and pros.
    personable: pls prioritises consumption by humans over scripts.

Documentation: https://pls.cli.rs/
Credit: https://github.com/dhruvkb

lazygit: simple terminal UI for git commands

Lazygit is a simple terminal UI for git commands, written in Go with the gocui library. Lazygit enables you to have a feeling of Sourcetree but in a terminal-centric environment. Lazygit is fast and easy to use, you just need to call lazygit in your terminal inside a git repository.

k9s: Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style

K9s provides a terminal UI to interact with your Kubernetes clusters. The aim of this project is to make it easier to navigate, observe and manage your applications in the wild. K9s continually watches Kubernetes for changes and offers subsequent commands to interact with your observed resources.

nb: A command line and local web note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base application

nb is a command line and local web note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base application with:

    plain text data storage,
    encryption,
    filtering, pinning, #tagging, and search,
    Git-backed versioning and syncing,
    Pandoc-backed conversion,
    [[wiki-style linking]],
    terminal and GUI web browsing,
    inline images,
    todos with tasks,
    global and local notebooks,
    organization with folders,
    customizable color themes,
    extensibility through plugins,

and more, in a single portable script.

ntfy.sh: Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using PUT/POST

ntfy (pronounced "notify") is a simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service. With ntfy, you can send notifications to your phone or desktop via scripts from any computer, without having to sign up or pay any fees. If you'd like to run your own instance of the service, you can easily do so since ntfy is open source.

ntfy.sh

QEMU: A generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer

QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7 board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).

xclip: Command line interface to the X11 clipboard

xclip is a command line utility that is designed to run on any system with an
X11 implementation. It provides an interface to X selections ("the clipboard")
from the command line. It can read data from standard in or a file and place it
in an X selection for pasting into other X applications. xclip can also print
an X selection to standard out, which can then be redirected to a file or
another program.

tmux: A terminal multiplexer

tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. tmux may be detached from a screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached.

dmenu: A dynamic menu for X

dmenu is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for dwm. It manages large numbers of user-defined menu items efficiently.

qrcp: Transfer files over Wi-Fi

Transfer files over wifi from your computer to your mobile device by scanning a QR code without leaving the terminal.

Terminal Emulators

st: A simple terminal for X

st is a simple terminal emulator for X which sucks less.

Rxvt-unicode: A customizable terminal emulator

rxvt-unicode is a customizable terminal emulator forked from rxvt. Features of rxvt-unicode include international language support through Unicode, transparency, the ability to display multiple font types and support for Perl extensions.

Alacritty: A modern terminal emulator

Alacritty is a modern terminal emulator that comes with sensible defaults, but allows for extensive configuration. By integrating with other applications, rather than reimplementing their functionality, it manages to provide a flexible set of features with high performance. The supported platforms currently consist of BSD, Linux, macOS and Windows.

The software is considered to be at a beta level of readiness; there are a few missing features and bugs to be fixed, but it is already used by many as a daily driver.

Frontend Development

caniuse-cmd

Search caniuse.com about browser support of features.

strip-css-comments-cli

Strip comments from CSS.

viewport-list-cli

Return a list of devices and their viewports.

surge

Publish static websites for free.

Mobile Development

mobicon-cli

Mobile app icon generator.

mobisplash-cli

Mobile app splash screen generator.

deviceframe

Put device frames around your mobile/web/progressive app screenshots.

Database

mycli

MySQL client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.

pgcli

Postgres client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.

sqlline

Shell for issuing SQL via JDBC.

iredis

Redis client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.

usql

Universal SQL client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.

Devops

htconvert

Convert .htaccess redirects to nginx.conf redirects.

SAWS

Supercharged AWS CLI.

s3cmd

Fully-Featured S3 client.

pm2

Production Process Manager for Node.js.

ops

Unikernel compilation and orchestration tool.

flog

A fake log generator for log formats such as apache-common, apache error and RFC3164 syslog.

k9s

Manage Kubernetes Clusters.

PingMe

Send messages/alerts to multiple messaging platforms & email.

ipfs-deploy

Deploy static websites to IPFS.

Discharge

Deploy static websites to Amazon S3.

updatecli

A declarative dependency management tool.

Docker

lstags

Synchronize images across registries.

dockly

Interactively manage containers.

lazydocker

Simple docker/docker-compose interface.

docker-pushrm

Push a readme to container registries.

Release

release-it

Automate releases for Git repositories and/or npm packages. Changelog generation, GitHub/GitLab releases, etc.

clog

A conventional changelog for the rest of us.

np

A better npm publish.

release

Generate changelogs with a single command.

semantic-release

Fully automated version management and package publishing.

NPM

npm-name-cli

Check whether a package name is available on npm.

npm-user-cli

Get user info of a npm user.

npm-home

Open the npm page of the package in the current directory.

pkg-dir-cli

Find the root directory of a npm package.

npm-check-updates

Find newer versions of package dependencies than what your package.json allows.

updates

Flexible npm dependency update tool.

wipe-modules

Remove node_modules of inactive projects.

Boilerplate

yo

Scaffolding tool for running Yeoman generators.

boilr

Create projects from boilerplate templates.

cookiecutter

Create projects from templates.

mevn-cli

Light speed setup for MEVN (Mongo Express Vue Node) Apps.

scaffold-sttic

Scaffolding utility for vanilla JS.

HTTP Client

HTTPIE

A user-friendly HTTP client.

HTTP Prompt

Interactive HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting.

ain

HTTP client with a simple format to organize API endpoints.

curlie

A curl frontend with the ease of use of HTTPie.

Learning

cmdchallenge

Presents small shell challenge with user submitted solutions.

explainshell

Type a snippet to see the help text for each argument.

howdoi

Instant coding answers.

how2

Node.js implementation of howdoi.

the fuck

Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.

tldr

Simplified and community-driven man pages.

wat

Instant, central, community-built docs.

teachcode

Guide for the earliest lessons of coding.

navi

Interactive cheatsheet tool.

yai

AI powered terminal assistant.

Data

visidata

Spreadsheet multitool for data discovery and arrangement.

Processors

jq

JSON processor.

yq

YAML processor.

dasel

JSON/YAML/TOML/XML processor (like jq/yq).

yaml-cli

Query/update YAML.

ramada-cli

Process data with functional pipelines.

xq

XML and HTML beautifier and content extractor.

JSON

jp

JSON parser.

fx

Command-line JSON viewer.

vj

Makes JSON human readable.

underscore-cli

Utility-belt for hacking JSON and Javascript.

strip-json-comments-cli

Strip comments from JSON.

GROQ

JSON processor with queries and projections.

gron

Make JSON greppable.

YAML

dyff

YAML diff tool.

Columns

parse-columns-cli

Parse text columns to JSON.

q

Execution of SQL-like queries on CSV/TSV/tabular text file.

Text

figlet

Creates large text out of ASCII characters.

stegcloak

Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely.

Clients

doing

Keep track of what you’re doing and track what you’ve done.

ffscreencast

A ffmpeg screencast with video overlay and multi monitor support.

meetup-cli

Meetup.com client.

neomutt

Email client.

terjira

Jira client.

ipt

Pivotal Tracker client.

uber-cli

Uber client.

buku

Browser-independent bookmark manager.

papis

Extensible document and bibliography manager.

pubs

Scientific bibliography manager.

fjira

Fuzzy finder and TUI application for Jira.

Time Tracking

timetrap

Simple timetracker.

moro

Simple tool for tracking work hours.

timewarrior

Utility with simple stopwatch, calendar-based backfill and flexible reporting.

watson

Generate reports for clients and manage your time.

utt

Simple time tracking tool.

bartib

Easy to use time tracking tool.

arttime

Featureful timer with native desktop notifications and curated ASCII art.

Notes

idea

A lightweight tool for keeping ideas in a safe place quick and easy.

geeknote

Evernote client.

taskwarrior

Manage your TODO list.

terminal velocity

A fast note-taking app.

eureka

Input and store your ideas.

sncli

Simplenote client.

td-cli

A TODO manager to organize and manage your TODO's across multiple projects.

taskbook

Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat.

dnote

A interactive, multi-device notebook.

nb

A note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base application.

obs

Interact with your Obsidian vault.

Finance

ledger

Powerful, double-entry accounting system.

hledger

Robust, fast, intuitive plain text accounting tool with CLI, TUI and web interfaces.

moeda

Foreign exchange rates and currency conversion.

cash-cli

Convert Currency Rates.

cointop

Track cryptocurrencies.

ticker

Stock ticker.

Presentations

WOPR

A simple markup language for creating rich terminal reports, presentations and infographics.

decktape

PDF exporter for HTML presentations.

mdp

A markdown presentation tool.

sent

Simple plaintext presentation tool.

slides

A markdown presentation tool.

Calendars

calcurse

Calendar and scheduling.

gcalcli

Google calendar client.

khal

CalDAV ready CLI and TUI calendar.

vdirsyncer

CalDAV sync.

remind

A sophisticated calendar and alarm program.

birthday

Know when a friend's birthday is coming.

General

aria2

HTTP, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink download utility.

bitly-client

Bitly client.

deadlink

Find dead links in files.

crawley

Unix-way web crawler.

kill-tabs

Kill all Chrome tabs.

alex

Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing.

clevercli

Collection of ChatGPT powered utilities.

macOS

open-pip-cli

Watch videos in picture-in-picture player.

osx-wifi-cli

Manage wifi connections.

active-win-cli

Get the title/id/etc of the active window.

stronghold

Configure security settings from the terminal.

dark-mode

Toggle dark mode.

Terminal

gotty

Share your terminal as a web application.

localtunnel

Expose your localhost to the world for easy testing and sharing.

mosh

Remote SSH client that allows roaming with intermittent connectivity.

ngrok

Secure introspectable tunnels to localhost.

tmate

Instant terminal (tmux) sharing.

warp

Secure and simple terminal sharing.

overtime

Time-overlap tables for remote teams.

Network

get-port-cli

Get an available port.

is-reachable-cli

Check if hostnames are reachable or not.

acmetool

Automatic certificate acquisition for ACME (Let's Encrypt).

certificate-ripper

Extract server certificates.

neoss

User-friendly and detailed socket statistics.

Theming

splash-cli

Beautiful wallpapers from Unsplash.

wallpaper-cli

Get or set the desktop wallpaper.

themer

Generate personalized themes for your editor, terminal, wallpaper, Slack, and more.

jackpaper

Set images from Unsplash as wallpaper.

quickwall

Directly set wallpapers from Unsplash.

oh-my-posh

Prompt theme engine.

Shell

has

Checks for the presence of various commands and their versions on the path.

ultimate-plumber

Write Linux pipes with live previews.

fkill-cli

Simple cross-platform process killer.

task-spooler

Queue jobs for linear execution.

undollar

Strip the '$' preceding copy-pasted terminal commands.

pipe_exec

Run executables from stdin, pipes and ttys without creating a temporary file.

System

fastfetch

System information tool.

battery-level-cli

Get current battery level.

brightness-cli

Change screen brightness (windows).

yank

Yank terminal output to clipboard.

screensaver

Start the screensaver.

google-font-installer

Download and install Google Web Fonts on your local machine.

glances

System monitoring tool.

tiptop

System monitor.

gzip-size-cli

Get the gzipped size of a file.

Markdown

doctoc

Generates table of contents for markdown files.

grip

Preview markdown files as GitHub would render them.

mdv

Styled terminal markdown viewer.

glow

Styled markdown rendering.

gtree

Use markdown to generate directory trees and the directories itself.

Security

pass

Password manager.

gopass

Fully-featured password manager.

xiringuito

SSH-based VPN.

hasha-cli

Get the hash of text or stdin.

ots

Share secrets with others via a one-time URL.

Math

mdlt

Do quick math right from the command line.

qalculate

Calculate non-trivial math expressions. Unit conversions, symbolic calculations and more.

Weather

wttr.in


wego


weather-cli


Browser

s

Open a web search in your terminal.

hget

Render websites in plain text from your terminal.

mapscii

Terminal Map Viewer.

nasa-cli

Download NASA Picture of the Day.

getnews.tech

Fetch news headlines from various news outlets.

trino

Translation of words and phrases.

translate-shell

Google Translate interface.

Speedtest

speedtest-net

Test internet connection speed and ping using speedtest.net.

speed-test

speedtest-net wrapper with different UI.

speedtest-cli

Test internet bandwidth using speedtest.net.

bandwhich

Track bandwidth utilization by process.

File Managers

ranger: A console file manager with VI key bindings

It provides a minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy. It ships with rifle, a file launcher that is good at automatically finding out which program to use for what file type.

nnn: The unorthodox terminal file manager

nnn (n³) is a full-featured terminal file manager. It's tiny, nearly 0-config and incredibly fast.

It is designed to be unobtrusive with smart workflows to match the trains of thought.

nnn can analyze disk usage, batch rename, launch apps and pick files. The plugin repository has tons of plugins to extend the capabilities further e.g. live previews, (un)mount disks, find & list, file/dir diff, upload files. A patch framework hosts sizable user-submitted patches which are subjective in nature.

lf: Terminal file manager

lf (as in "list files") is a terminal file manager written in Go with a heavy inspiration from ranger file manager.

fff: Fucking Fast File-Manager

A simple file manager written in bash.

midnight-commander

A feature rich visual file manager.

vifm

VI influenced file manager.

clifm

The command line file manager.

far2l

Orthodox file manager.

yazi

Blazing fast file manager.

CRUD

trash-cli

Move files and directories to the trash.

empty-trash-cli

Empty the trash.

del-cli

Delete files and folders.

cpy-cli

Copies files.

rename-cli

Rename files quickly.

renameutils

Mass renaming in your editor.

diskonaut

Disk space navigator.

Files

chokidar-cli

CLI to watch file system changes.

file-type-cli

Detect the file type of a file or stdin.

bat

A cat clone with syntax highlighting.

NCDu

A disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface.

unix-permissions

Swiss Army knife for Unix permissions.

transmission-cli

Torrent client for your command line.

webtorrent-cli

Streaming torrent client.

entr

Run an arbitrary command when files change.

organize-cli

Organize your files automatically.

organize-rt

organize-cli in Rust with more customization.

RecoverPy

Recover overwritten or deleted files.

Sync

rclone

Sync files with various cloud providers.

ffsend

Quick file share.

share-cli

Share files with your local network.

google-drive-upload

Upload/sync with Google Drive.

gdrive-downloader

Download files/folders from Google Drive.

portal

Send files between computers.

shbin

Turn a Github repo into a pastebin.

sharing

Send and receive files on your mobile device.

ncp

Transfer files and folders, to and from NFS servers.

Listing

alder

Minimal tree with colors.

eza

Improved version of ls.

tre

tree with git awareness, editor aliasing, and more.

ll

ls with git status.

lsd

ls with many extra features.

autojump

A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line.

pm

The easy way to switch to your projects on the shell.

z

z is the new j, yo.

pathpicker

After parsing the output from a command, PathPicker presents you with a nice UI to select which files you're interested in.

fz

Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z.

goto

Directory aliases for the shell with autocomplete.

z.lua

cd command that learns your habits.

zoxide

Fast directory jumper in Rust.

tere

A faster alternative to using cd and ls.

happyfinder

(another) Fuzzy file finder for the command line.

find-up-cli

Find a file by walking up parent directories.

ripgrep

A line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern.

fzf

A general purpose command-line fuzzy finder, can be used with any list: files/directories, command history, processes, hostnames, bookmarks, git commits, etc.

fselect

Find files with SQL-like queries.

fd

A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.

broot

Fuzzy finder similar to fzf, but with space usage visualization.

rare

Real-time regex aggregation and analysis.

skim

A general fuzzy finder written in rust, similar to fzf.

ast-grep

A tool for code structural search, linting and rewriting.

Git

SnowFS

A fast, scalable version control system for binaries.

git commander

Interactive git tool.

git-stats

A local GitHub-like contributions calendar.

dev-time

Get the current local time of a GitHub user.

tig

Text-mode interface for git.

grv

Text-mode interface for git with customisable vi bindings.

git-standup

Recall what you did on the last working day.

git-secret

Store your private data inside a git repository.

gitlab-cli

Create GitLab merge requests.

git-extras

Git utilities.

gita

Manage multiple git repos side by side.

readme-md-generator

Interactively generate README.md files.

node-semantic-git-commit-cli

Ensure semantic commits messages.

import-github-labels-cli

Sync labels between Github repos.

git-all-branches

Improved git branch -a.

czg

Interactively generate standardized commit messages.

shallow-backup

Git integrated backup tool.

lazygit

Simple TUI for git commands.

GitHub

CLI GitHub

Fancy GitHub client.

hub

Make git easier to use with GitHub.

git-labelmaker

Edit GitHub labels.

Emoji

gitmoji-cli

Use emoji in commit messages.

gitmoji-changelog

Generate gitmoji changelogs.

General

SVGO

Optimize SVG files.

carbon-now-cli

Generate beautiful images of your code.

imgur-uploader-cli

Upload images to imgur.

pageres-cli

Capture website screenshots.

GIFs

gifgen

Simple high quality GIF encoding.

gifsicle

Create, manipulate, and optimize GIF images and animations.

ttygif

Convert terminal recordings to animated gifs.

ttygif

ttyrec to gif.

ttystudio

A terminal-to-gif recorder minus the headaches.

asciinema

Terminal session recorder and companion app for asciinema.org.

givegif

GIFs on the command line.

Conversion

imagemagick

Gold standard for anything images.

imgp

Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator.

korkut

Quick and simple image processing.

Fun

quote-cli

Get a random quote or the quote of the day in your CLI.

fortune

Shows a random fortune.

ponysay

Pony rewrite of cowsay.

yosay

Like cowsay, but for yeoman.

lolcat

Outputs text in rainbow colors.

text-meme

Generate text memes.

dankcli

Add text to meme image templates.

ricksay

Quotes from Rick and Morty.

Emoji

emoj

Find relevant emoji from text on the command-line.

emoji-finder

Quickly find and copy emoji to the clipboard via the command-line.

oji

Interactive text emoji maker.

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