Command-Line Apps
Contents
Entertainment
Music
Small, fast and powerful console music player.
Instant music downloader.
Control iTunes via CLI.
Listen to SomaFM in your terminal.
Music Player Daemon.
mpd client.
Cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server.
Music library manager and tagger.
Spotify client.
Spotify lyrics.
deezer.com player.
Internet radio player with 40k+ stations.
Music player interfacing mpv.
Login-free music streaming.
Video
Download videos from YouTube.com and many other video sites.
Extract streams from various websites to a video player of your choosing.
Youtube player.
Declarative video editing.
A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes.
Movies
Games
Books
Development
Generate Open Source licences as files or file headers.
Create a custom LICENSE file painlessly with customized info.
Fetch Stack Overflow results on compiler error.
Lightweight general purpose task runner/build tool.
Modern make-like command runner.
Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations.
Base conversion and bit manipulation.
x86 assembly documentation.
Generate regular expressions from user-provided test cases.
Socket client with REST API.
Interactively generate a .gitignore for your project based on your needs.
Check if a domain is up.
Check if a domain is up.
Create pretty HTML from diffs.
Exposes most common actions you can run in unfamiliar repos.
Text Editors
An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more.
Vim - the ubiquitous text editor.
Modern vim.
Modal editor inspired by vim.
A simple and intuitive editor.
Configuration-free text editor and IDE.
Modal editor inspired by kakoune.
Frontend Development
Public localhost
Mobile Development
Database
MySQL client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
Postgres client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
Shell for issuing SQL via JDBC.
Redis client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
Universal SQL client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
AI-powered MySQL client.
Devops
Convert .htaccess redirects to nginx.conf redirects.
Supercharged AWS CLI.
Fully-Featured S3 client.
Production Process Manager for Node.js.
Unikernel compilation and orchestration tool.
A fake log generator for log formats such as apache-common, apache error and RFC3164 syslog.
Manage Kubernetes Clusters.
Send messages/alerts to multiple messaging platforms & email.
Deploy static websites to IPFS.
Deploy static websites to Amazon S3.
A declarative dependency management tool.
Multi-channel alerts for long-running commands and process/log/uptime monitoring.
Supercharge terminal logs with web UI.
Blazing fast S3 and local filesystem execution tool.
Website monitoring tool.
Dashboard for managing cron jobs.
Stream of data into S3 buckets.
A continuous benchmarking tool.
Docker
Synchronize images across registries.
Interactively manage containers.
Simple docker/docker-compose interface.
Push a readme to container registries.
Top like interface for container metrics.
Create connections graph for running docker containers.
Web development with containers made easy.
Release
Automate releases for Git repositories and/or npm packages. Changelog generation, GitHub/GitLab releases, etc.
A conventional changelog for the rest of us.
A better npm publish.
Generate changelogs with a single command.
Fully automated version management and package publishing.
Npm
Check whether a package name is available on npm.
Get user info of a npm user.
Open the npm page of the package in the current directory.
Find the root directory of a npm package.
Find newer versions of package dependencies than what your package.json allows.
Flexible npm dependency update tool.
Remove node_modules of inactive projects.
Check for deprecated dependencies.
Boilerplate
Scaffolding tool for running Yeoman generators.
Create projects from boilerplate templates.
Create projects from templates.
Light speed setup for MEVN (Mongo Express Vue Node) Apps.
Scaffolding utility for vanilla JS.
HTTP Server
HTTP Client
A user-friendly HTTP client.
Interactive HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting.
HTTP client with a simple format to organize API endpoints.
A curl frontend with the ease of use of HTTPie.
A feature-full TUI API client made in Rust.
Testing
A full-featured BDD unit-testing framework for all POSIX shells.
Modular visual interface for GDB.
Run load tests.
API testing and QA framework.
Bash Automated Testing System.
Quickly benchmark and compare command performance.
Productivity
Keep track of what you’re doing and track what you’ve done.
A ffmpeg screencast with video overlay and multi monitor support.
Meetup.com client.
Jira client.
Pivotal Tracker client.
Uber client.
Browser-independent bookmark manager.
Fuzzy finder and TUI application for Jira.
Time-overlap tables for remote teams.
Full-featured recipe manager.
Speech-to-text tool to transcribe voice from microphone.
Workspace and session management TUI.
Time Tracking
Simple timetracker.
Utility with simple stopwatch, calendar-based backfill and flexible reporting.
Generate reports for clients and manage your time.
Simple time tracking tool.
Easy to use time tracking tool.
Featureful timer with native desktop notifications and curated ASCII art.
Powerful time tracking tool.
Minimalistic timer.
Note Taking and Lists
A lightweight tool for keeping ideas in a safe place quick and easy.
Evernote client.
Input and store your ideas.
Simplenote client.
A TODO manager to organize and manage your TODO's across multiple projects.
Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat.
A interactive, multi-device notebook.
A note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base application.
Interact with your Obsidian vault.
Journaling tool with git sync.
Manage your markdown notes.
Kanban todo manager with a CSV backend.
Finance
Foreign exchange rates and currency conversion.
Convert Currency Rates.
Track cryptocurrencies.
Stock ticker.
Bogleheads inspired tool for managing your investing portfolio.
Presentations
A simple markup language for creating rich terminal reports, presentations and infographics.
PDF exporter for HTML presentations.
A markdown presentation tool.
A markdown presentation tool.
Export Markdown to HTML/PDF/Powerpoint presentations.
Utilities
HTTP, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink download utility.
Bitly client.
Find dead links in files.
Unix-way web crawler.
Kill all Chrome tabs.
Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing.
Collection of ChatGPT powered utilities.
A customizable typing trainer.
macOS
Watch videos in picture-in-picture player.
Manage wifi connections.
Get the title/id/etc of the active window.
Configure security settings from the terminal.
Toggle dark mode.
Clipboard tool for interacting with GUI applications.
Config management and app installations.
Terminal Sharing Utilities
Network Utilities
Get an available port.
Check if hostnames are reachable or not.
Automatic certificate acquisition for ACME (Let's Encrypt).
Extract server certificates.
User-friendly and detailed socket statistics.
One-click proxy without installing v2ray or anything else.
Network monitoring with process identification and deep packet inspection.
Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN.
Theming and Customization
Beautiful wallpapers from Unsplash.
Get or set the desktop wallpaper.
Generate personalized themes for your editor, terminal, wallpaper, Slack, and more.
Set images from Unsplash as wallpaper.
Directly set wallpapers from Unsplash.
Minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell.
Shell Utilities
Checks for the presence of various commands and their versions on the path.
Write Linux pipes with live previews.
Simple cross-platform process killer.
Strip the '$' preceding copy-pasted terminal commands.
Run executables from stdin, pipes and ttys without creating a temporary file.
Manage command templates/snippets.
Manage environment variables securely.
Runs commands in parallel and waits for their termination.
Convert ANSI output to HTML.
System Interaction Utilities
System information tool.
Get current battery level.
Change screen brightness (windows).
Cut, copy, and paste anything, anywhere.
Yank terminal output to clipboard.
Start the screensaver.
Download and install Google Web Fonts on your local machine.
System monitor.
Get the gzipped size of a file.
Markdown
Generates table of contents for markdown files.
Preview markdown files as GitHub would render them.
Styled terminal markdown viewer.
Styled markdown rendering.
Use markdown to generate directory trees and the directories itself.
Convert various note formats to markdown.
Security
Math
Academia
Weather
Browser Replacement
Open a web search in your terminal.
Render websites in plain text from your terminal.
Terminal Map Viewer.
Download NASA Picture of the Day.
Fetch news headlines from various news outlets.
Translation of words and phrases.
Google Translate interface.
Internet Speedtest
Test internet connection speed and ping using speedtest.net.
speedtest-net wrapper with different UI.
Test internet bandwidth using speedtest.net.
Track bandwidth utilization by process.
Science
Images
Image Conversion
Recolor images, OCR, image upscaling and more.
Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator.
Quick and simple image processing.
Extract PDF pages as images.
Convert images to ASCII art.
Optimize SVG files.
Generate beautiful images of your code.
Upload images to imgur.
Capture website screenshots.
Helps prepare images for the web.
Generate images of code and terminal output.
Gif Creation
Simple high quality GIF encoding.
Create, manipulate, and optimize GIF images and animations.
Convert terminal recordings to animated gifs.
ttyrec to gif.
A terminal-to-gif recorder minus the headaches.
Terminal session recorder and companion app for asciinema.org.
GIFs on the command line.
Command Line Learning
Instant coding answers.
Node.js implementation of howdoi.
Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.
Simplified and community-driven man pages.
Instant, central, community-built docs.
Guide for the earliest lessons of coding.
Interactive cheatsheet tool.
AI powered terminal assistant.
Data Manipulation
Processors
JSON processor.
YAML processor.
JSON/YAML/TOML/XML processor (like jq/yq).
Query/update YAML.
Process data with functional pipelines.
XML and HTML beautifier and content extractor.
JSON
JSON parser.
Command-line JSON viewer.
Makes JSON human readable.
Utility-belt for hacking JSON and Javascript.
Strip comments from JSON.
JSON processor with queries and projections.
Make JSON greppable.
YAML
Files and Directories
File Managers
A console file manager with VI key bindings.
A feature rich visual file manager.
File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration.
Fast, extensively customizable file manager.
The command line file manager.
Orthodox file manager.
Blazing fast file manager.
A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer.
Deleting, Copying, and Renaming
Move files and directories to the trash.
Empty the trash.
Delete files and folders.
Copies files.
Rename files quickly.
Batch rename utility for developers.
Disk Usage
Files
CLI to watch file system changes.
Detect the file type of a file or stdin.
A cat clone with syntax highlighting.
Swiss Army knife for Unix permissions.
Streaming torrent client.
Run an arbitrary command when files change.
Organize your files automatically.
Recover overwritten or deleted files.
A cross-platform tool for fast, safe, and flexible batch renaming.
Count lines of code, blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code.
File Sync/Sharing
Sync files with various cloud providers.
Quick file share.
Share files with your local network.
Upload/sync with Google Drive.
Download files/folders from Google Drive.
Send files between computers.
Turn a Github repo into a pastebin.
Send and receive files on your mobile device.
Transfer files and folders, to and from NFS servers.
Share and receive files effortlessly over HTTP.
Easily send things from one computer to another.
Directory Listing
Minimal tree with colors.
Improved version of ls.
tree with git awareness, editor aliasing, and more.
ls with git status.
ls with many extra features.
Improved ls with plugins.
ls for the pros.
Directory Navigation
A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line.
The easy way to switch to your projects on the shell.
z is the new j, yo.
After parsing the output from a command, PathPicker presents you with a nice UI to select which files you're interested in.
Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z.
Directory aliases for the shell with autocomplete.
cd command that learns your habits.
Fast directory jumper in Rust.
A faster alternative to using cd and ls.
Search
(another) Fuzzy file finder for the command line.
Find a file by walking up parent directories.
A line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern.
A general purpose command-line fuzzy finder, can be used with any list: files/directories, command history, processes, hostnames, bookmarks, git commits, etc.
Find files with SQL-like queries.
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
Fuzzy finder similar to fzf, but with space usage visualization.
Real-time regex aggregation and analysis.
A general fuzzy finder written in Rust, similar to fzf.
A tool for code structural search, linting and rewriting.
A very fast general purpose fuzzy finder.
A grep-like tool which understands code syntax and also allows for manipulation.
Find files using pretty C expressions.
A tool for semantic search using word embeddings (e.g. search for "death" and find "dead", "killing", "murder".)
Version Control
Git
Interactive git tool.
A local GitHub-like contributions calendar.
Get the current local time of a GitHub user.
Text-mode interface for git.
Text-mode interface for git with customisable vi bindings.
Recall what you did on the last working day.
Store your private data inside a git repository.
Create GitLab merge requests.
Git utilities.
Manage multiple git repos side by side.
Interactively generate README.md files.
Ensure semantic commits messages.
Sync labels between Github repos.
Improved git branch -a.
Interactively generate standardized commit messages.
Git integrated backup tool.
Simple TUI for git commands.
Informative and fancy bash prompt for Git users.
Blazing fast terminal-ui for git written in Rust.
A modern Git tool with both CLI and interactive incremental-search UI.
[macOS]: Generate commit messages with AI.
Easily create consistent git branch names.
GitHub
Screensavers
Graphics
Just for Fun
Get a random quote or the quote of the day in your CLI.
Shows a random fortune.
Pony rewrite of cowsay.
Like cowsay, but for yeoman.
Outputs text in rainbow colors.
Plays elaborate animations of text input.
Generate text memes.
Add text to meme image templates.
Quotes from Rick and Morty.
AI
Agents
Deny-by-default sandbox with filesystem and network isolation.
Coding agent session manager via tmux and git worktrees.
Dashboard for managing multiple AI coding agent sessions.
Autonomous agent that queues and executes tasks in the background.
Multi-session SDLC control center for AI coding agents.
Other Resources
Extensive list of CLI apps.
Command-line utilities and frameworks.
Terminal frameworks, plugins & resources.
ZSH frameworks, plugins, tutorials & themes.
Node.js modules and resources.
Addons that extend git cli.
Ecosystem of cli tools, featuring a wide array of improve core utils, AI access and more.