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A curated list of command line apps.

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Entertainment

newsboat

An extendable RSS feed reader for text terminals.

mal-cli

MyAnimeList client.

golazo

Soccer matches.

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.

spotatui

Spotify client.

swaglyrics-for-spotify

Spotify lyrics.

dzr

deezer.com player.

radio-active

Internet radio player with 40k+ stations.

mpvc

Music player interfacing mpv.

TUISIC

Login-free music streaming.

termusic

Music player in rust with download capabilities.

ytm-player

YouTube Music player.

tunein-cli

TuneIn and Radio Browser client.

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 `youtube-dl` fork with additional features and fixes.

cinema

Multiviewer for videos and streams.

capcut-cli

Edit CapCut/JianYing projects.

Movies

moviemon

Everything about your movies.

movie

Get movie info or compare movies.

Games

Dwarf Fortress

Roguelike construction and management simulation.

Cataclysm-DDA

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

Pokete

Pokemon-like.

NetHack

Roguelike dungeon crawler.

Books

Bible.Js CLI

Bible.

SpeedRead

Spritz-alike speedreader.

medium-cli

Read [medium.com](https://medium.com/) stories.

hygg

Document reader.

  • epr, epy - EPUB reader.

Chat

WeeChat

Fast, light and extensible chat client.

irssi

IRC chat client.

kirc

Tiny IRC client.

concord

Discord client.

Development

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 `make`-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.

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.

diff2html-cli

Create pretty HTML from diffs.

mk

Exposes most common actions you can run in unfamiliar repos.

dotenv-diff

Validate environment variable usage in a codebase.

ota

Unified diagnosable repo setup across stacks (local, deploy, CI, agents).

Text Editors

emacs

An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — 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.

Prosaic

A writer-first app crafted for long-form writing.

Microsoft Edit

Simple editor.

Frontend Development

caniuse-cmd

Search [caniuse.com](https://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.

Public localhost

localtunnel
tunnelmole
ngrok
ytunnel

Create and manage Cloudflare Tunnels with custom domains.

Expose a service running on localhost to the public web for testing and sharing.

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.

rdsai-cli

AI-powered MySQL client.

squix

SQL client with query management and interactive results.

pgxcli

Feature-complete PostgreSQL client in Go.

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](https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs#overviewhttps://github.com/ipfs/ipfs#overview).

Discharge

Deploy static websites to Amazon S3.

updatecli

A declarative dependency management tool.

telert

Multi-channel alerts for long-running commands and process/log/uptime monitoring.

logdy

Supercharge terminal logs with web UI.

s5cmd

Blazing fast S3 and local filesystem execution tool.

updo

Website monitoring tool.

cronboard

Dashboard for managing cron jobs.

s3m

Stream of data into S3 buckets.

bencher

A continuous benchmarking 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.

ctop

Top like interface for container metrics.

decompose

Create connections graph for running docker containers.

kool

Web development with containers made easy.

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.

npm-deprecated-check

Check for deprecated dependencies.

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.

ATAC

A feature-full TUI API client made in Rust.

httptap

Breakdown and visualize HTTP requests.

Testing

shellspec

A full-featured BDD unit-testing framework for all POSIX shells.

gdb-dashboard

Modular visual interface for GDB.

loadtest

Run load tests.

Step CI

API testing and QA framework.

bats-core

Bash Automated Testing System.

cmdperf

Quickly benchmark and compare command performance.

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.

terjira

Jira client.

ipt

Pivotal Tracker client.

uber-cli

Uber client.

Buku

Browser-independent bookmark manager.

fjira

Fuzzy finder and TUI application for Jira.

OverTime

Time-overlap tables for remote teams.

CookCLI

Full-featured recipe manager.

hns

Speech-to-text tool to transcribe voice from microphone.

mynav

Workspace and session management TUI.

linear-tui

Linear TUI client.

jiratui

TUI app for Jira.

Time Tracking

Timetrap

Simple timetracker.

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.

Tock

Powerful time tracking tool.

Helm

Minimalistic timer.

Focusd

[Windows] A local, privacy-first screen time monitor.

Note Taking, Lists, Task Management

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.

notesmd-cli

Interact with your Obsidian vault.

journalot

Journaling tool with git sync.

rucola

Manage your markdown notes.

kanban.bash

Kanban todo manager with a CSV backend.

kanban

Keyboard-driven project management tool inspired by lazygit.

gtasks

Manage Google Tasks.

epiq

Local-first distributed issue tracker backed by Git.

feeling

Mood tracker that visualizes your emotional patterns over time.

confluence-cli

Confluence client.

Email

NeoMutt

Email client.

mail-duplicate

Deduplicate mail boxes.

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.

lakshmi

Bogleheads inspired tool for managing your investing portfolio.

See plaintextaccounting.org for a great overview of relevant tools.

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.

marp

Export Markdown to HTML/PDF/Powerpoint presentations.

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.

ical

Manage macOS Calendar.

rem

Manage macOS Reminders.

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.

OctoType

A customizable typing trainer.

gittype

Turn your source code into typing challenges.

amazon-orders

Retrieve Amazon order history.

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.

clippy

Clipboard tool for interacting with GUI applications.

anvil

Config management and app installations.

Terminal Sharing Utilities

gotty

Share your terminal as a web application.

warp

Secure and simple terminal sharing.

upterm

Instant terminal sharing.

SSH

mosh

Remote SSH client that allows roaming with intermittent connectivity.

xxh

Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through SSH.

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.

gg

One-click proxy without installing v2ray or anything else.

rustnet

Network monitoring with process identification and deep packet inspection.

sshuttle

Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN.

tldx

Bulk domain availability checker.

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.

starship

Minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell.

gowall

Extract image color palette, recolor images/icon and more.

cwal

pywal-like color palette generator.

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.

intelli-shell

Manage command templates/snippets.

envio

Manage environment variables securely.

await

Runs commands in parallel and waits for their termination.

aha

Convert ANSI output to HTML.

System Interaction Utilities

fastfetch

System information tool.

battery-level-cli

Get current battery level.

brightness-cli

Change screen brightness ([windows](https://github.com/sondreb/win-brightness)).

Clipboard

Cut, copy, and paste anything, anywhere.

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.

Jimmy

Convert various note formats to markdown.

mq

Jq-like markdown processor.

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.

andcli

Work with 2FA tokens from multiple OTP providers.

Math

mdlt

Do quick math right from the command line.

Qalculate

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

numr

Natural-language calculator with variables, units, currencies, and live exchange rates.

Academia

papis

Extensible document and bibliography manager.

pubs

Scientific bibliography manager.

OneCite

Universal toolkit to generate citations.

Weather

wttr.in
wego
weather-cli
weathr

ASCII animations.

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.

Internet 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.

Science

periodic-table-cli

View and explore the Periodic Table of Elements.

astroterm

An ASCII planetarium.

birda

Identify bird species from audio recordings.

Professional: Resume

resumx

Markdown resume renderer with auto page-fitting.

YAMLResume

Resumes as code.

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.

Linux Command Library

Comprehensive command reference including basic knowledge, tips, and examples.

Data Manipulation

visidata

Spreadsheet multitool for data discovery and arrangement.

sc-im

Vim-like spreadsheet calculator.

nless

Interactive pager for exploring tabular data.

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.

mq

Jq-like markdown processor.

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.

gron

Make JSON greppable.

config-file-validator

Validate configuration files.

  • GROQ – JSON processor with queries and projections.

YAML

dyff

YAML diff tool.

config-file-validator

Validate configuration files.

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.

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.

xplr

A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer.

elio

Snappy, batteries-included file manager.

Deleting, Copying, and Renaming

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.

nomino

Batch rename utility for developers.

Disk Usage

diskonaut

Disk space navigator.

dua-cli

Disk usage analyzer.

duf

A better `df` alternative.

dust

A more intuitive version of `du` in Rust.

dutree

A tool to analyze file system usage written in Rust.

NCDu

A disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface.

darya

A disk usage explorer TUI with live treemap.

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.

unix-permissions

Swiss Army knife for Unix permissions.

transmission-cli

Torrent client for your command line.

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.

f2

A cross-platform tool for fast, safe, and flexible batch renaming.

scc

Count lines of code, blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code.

chkbit

Check your files for data corruption.

  • webtorrent-cli – Streaming torrent client.

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.

share

Share and receive files effortlessly over HTTP.

shuk

Quicky share files using Amazon S3 buckets.

croc

Easily send things from one computer to another.

filecast

Fast file transfer to multiple machines on your LAN.

Directory 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.

lla

Improved `ls` with plugins.

pls

`ls` for the pros.

treepp

Windows tree++.

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

`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.

television

A very fast general purpose fuzzy finder.

srgn

A grep-like tool which understands code syntax and also allows for manipulation.

rawhide

Find files using pretty C expressions.

semantic-grep

A tool for semantic search using word embeddings (e.g. search for "death" and find "dead", "killing", "murder".)

reflex

Instant, offline, code-aware search for text, symbols, and import graphs.

Vexor

A semantic search engine for files and code.

ygrep

Indexed code search backed by a local Tantivy full-text index.

Version Control

SnowFS

A fast, scalable version control system for binaries.

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.

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.

bash-git-prompt

Informative and fancy bash prompt for Git users.

gitui

Blazing fast terminal-ui for git written in Rust.

ggc

A modern Git tool with both CLI and interactive incremental-search UI.

AI Git Narrator

[macOS]: Generate commit messages with AI.

gibr

Easily create consistent git branch names.

GitHub

gh

Official client (see [extensions](https://github.com/kodepandai/awesome-gh-cli-extensions).)

cli-github

Fancy GitHub client.

hub

Make git easier to use with GitHub.

git-labelmaker

Edit GitHub labels.

gitfetch

Neofetch-style stats of your git forge.

Emoji

gitmoji-cli

Use emoji in commit messages.

gitmoji-changelog

Generate gitmoji changelogs.

Images

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.

optimizt

Helps prepare images for the web.

freeze

Generate images of code and terminal output.

rclip

Semantic photo search.

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.

Image Conversion

imagemagick

Gold standard for anything images.

imgp

Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator.

korkut

Quick and simple image processing.

pdfjuicer

Extract PDF pages as images.

gowall

Recolor images, OCR, image upscaling and more.

img2ascii

Convert images to ASCII art.

Screensavers

cmatrix

Scrolling 'Matrix'-like screen.

pipes.sh

Random pipes that grow across the screen.

YuleLog

Christmas Yule Log fireplace.

cli-fireplace

Digital fireplace.

gitlogue

Cinematic git commit replay.

drift

Multiple animated scenes.

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.

terminaltexteffects

Plays elaborate animations of text input.

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.

AI

Inclusion criteria are less strict for this fast-moving field.

Agents

greywall

Deny-by-default sandbox with filesystem and network isolation.

agent-of-empires

Coding agent session manager via tmux and git worktrees.

agent-deck

Dashboard for managing multiple AI coding agent sessions.

Sugar

Autonomous agent that queues and executes tasks in the background.

Shep

Multi-session SDLC control center for AI coding agents.

InkOS

Novel-writing agent.

coi

Incus container runtime for agents.

agentify

Transform OpenAPI specs into formats for agents.

actionbook

Parallel browser interaction for agents.

lean-ctx

Token-saving context runtime for agents.

hcom

Orchestration and communication layer for managing multiple agents in their respective TUI apps.

toktrack

Track token usage and cost across all agents.

OpenCode

Open-source agent TUI.

Nanocoder

Local-first agent TUI.

faf-cli

Authors AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md and .cursorrules AI-Context files from your repo's real stack.

agentty

C++ agent TUI.

bosun

Agent session manager built on tmux.

LLM Interaction

aye-chat

Workspace for editing, running commands, and chatting with your codebase.

cmd-ai

Turns natural language into executable shell commands.

lilbee

Use local models to talk to your files, code, and more.

Other Resources

awesome-cli-apps-in-a-csv

Extensive list of CLI apps.

Terminal Trove

List of CLI apps.

awesome-git-addons

Addons that extend git cli.

x-cmd

Ecosystem of cli tools, featuring a wide array of improve core utils, AI access and more.

  • awesome-shell – Command-line utilities and frameworks.
  • terminals-are-sexy – Terminal frameworks, plugins & resources.
  • awesome-zsh-plugins – ZSH frameworks, plugins, tutorials & themes.
  • awesome-nodejs clis – Node.js modules and resources.