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CLI apps catalog

A curated collection of command-line applications, categorized by functionality and purpose.

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Entertainment

  • newsboat

    An extendable RSS feed reader for text terminals

Entertainment / Music

  • cmus

    Small, fast and powerful console music player

  • Instant-Music-Downloader

    Instant music downloader

  • itunes-remote

    Control iTunes via CLI

  • pianobar

    Pandora client

  • somafm-cli

    Listen to SomaFM in your terminal

  • mpd

    Music Player Daemon

  • ncmpcpp

    mpd client

  • moc

    Console audio player for Linux/UNIX

  • musikcube

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

  • beets

    Music library manager and tagger

  • spotify-tui

    Spotify client

  • dzr

    deezer.com player

  • radio-active

    Internet radio player with 40k+ stations

  • mpvc

    Music player interfacing mpv

Entertainment / Video

  • youtube-dl

    Download videos from YouTube.com and many other video sites

  • streamlink

    Extract streams from various websites to a video player of your choosing

  • mps-youtube

    Youtube player

  • mpv

    Superior video player

  • editly

    Declarative video editing

  • yt-dlp

    A fork with additional features and fixes

Entertainment / Movies

  • moviemon

    Everything about your movies

  • movie

    Get movie info or compare movies

Entertainment / Games

  • Dwarf Fortress

    Roguelike construction and management simulation

  • Cataclysm-DDA

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

  • Pokete

    Pokemon-like

Entertainment / Books

Entertainment / Chat

  • WeeChat

    Fast, light and extensible chat client

  • irssi

    IRC chat client

  • kirc

    Tiny IRC client

  • legit

    Generate Open Source licences as files or file headers

  • mklicense

    Create a custom LICENSE file painlessly with customized info

  • rebound

    Fetch Stack Overflow results on compiler error

  • foy

    Lightweight general purpose task runner/build tool

  • just

    Modern -like command runner

  • bcal

    Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations

  • bitwise

    Base conversion and bit manipulation

  • cgasm

    x86 assembly documentation

  • grex

    Generate regular expressions from user-provided test cases

  • gdb-dashboard

    Modular visual interface for GDB

  • iola

    Socket client with REST API

  • add-gitignore

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

  • is-up-cli

    Check if a domain is up

  • reachable

    Check if a domain is up

  • loadtest

    Run load tests

  • diff2html-cli

    Create pretty HTML from diffs

Text Editors

  • emacs

    An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor β€” and more

  • vim

    Vim - the ubiquitous text editor

  • neovim

    Modern vim

  • kakoune

    Modal editor inspired by vim

  • micro

    A simple and intuitive editor

  • o

    Configuration-free text editor and IDE

  • helix

    Modal editor inspired by kakoune

Frontend Development

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

  • 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

  • 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 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-static

    Scaffolding utility for vanilla JS

HTTP Server

  • serve

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

  • simplehttp

    Easily serve a local directory over HTTP

  • shell2http

    Shell script based HTTP server

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

Productivity

  • 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

Productivity / 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

Productivity / Note Taking and Lists

  • 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

Productivity / 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

Productivity / 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

Productivity / 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

Utilities

  • 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

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

Utilities / Terminal Sharing Utilities

  • 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

Utilities / Network Utilities

  • 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

Utilities / Theming and Customization

  • 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

Utilities / Shell Utilities

  • 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

Utilities / System Interaction Utilities

Utilities / 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

Utilities / 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

Utilities / Math

  • mdlt

    Do quick math right from the command line

  • Qalculate

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

Utilities / Weather

Utilities / Browser Replacement

  • 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

Utilities / Internet Speedtest

  • speedtest-net

    Test internet connection speed and ping using speedtest.net

  • speed-test

    wrapper with different UI

  • speedtest-cli

    Test internet bandwidth using speedtest.net

  • bandwhich

    Track bandwidth utilization by process

Command Line 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 Manipulation

  • visidata

    Spreadsheet multitool for data discovery and arrangement

Data Manipulation / Processors

  • jq

    JSON processor

  • yq

    YAML processor

  • dasel

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

  • yaml-cli

    Query/update YAML

  • ramda-cli

    Process data with functional pipelines

  • xq

    XML and HTML beautifier and content extractor

Data Manipulation / 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

Data Manipulation / YAML

  • dyff

    YAML diff tool

Data Manipulation / Columns

  • parse-columns-cli

    Parse text columns to JSON

  • q

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

Data Manipulation / Text

  • figlet

    Creates large text out of ASCII characters

  • stegcloak

    Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely

Files and Directories / File Managers

  • ranger

    A console file manager with VI key bindings

  • midnight-commander

    A feature rich visual file manager

  • Vifm

    VI influenced file manager

  • nnn

    File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration

  • lf

    Fast, extensively customizable file manager

  • clifm

    The command line file manager

  • far2l

    Orthodox file manager

  • yazi

    Blazing fast file manager

Files and Directories / Deleting, Copying, and Renaming

Files and Directories / 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

Files and Directories / File Sync/Sharing

  • 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

Files and Directories / Directory Listing

  • alder

    Minimal with colors

  • eza

    Improved version of

  • tre

    with git awareness, editor aliasing, and more

  • ll

    with git status

  • lsd

    with many extra features

Files and Directories / Directory 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

    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

  • 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

Version Control

  • SnowFS

    A fast, scalable version control system for binaries

Version Control / Git

  • 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

  • semantic-git-commit-cli

    Ensure semantic commits messages

  • import-github-labels-cli

    Sync labels between Github repos

  • czg

    Interactively generate standardized commit messages

  • shallow-backup

    Git integrated backup tool

  • Lazygit

    Simple TUI for git commands

Version Control / GitHub

  • CLI GitHub

    Fancy GitHub client

  • hub

    Make git easier to use with GitHub

  • git-labelmaker

    Edit GitHub labels

Version Control / Emoji

Images

Images / Gif Creation

  • 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

Images / Image Conversion

  • imagemagick

    Gold standard for anything images

  • imgp

    Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator

  • korkut

    Quick and simple image processing

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

Just for 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

Just for Fun / 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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