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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.Visit our sister site: https://pqc.club
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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).
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
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.
Navigation
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.
Search
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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