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awesome-cli-apps

🖥 📊 🕹 🛠 A curated list of command line apps
https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps

  • football-cli - Get live scores, fixtures, standings of almost every football competition/league.
  • pockyt - Read, Manage, and Automate your [Pocket](https://getpocket.com) collection.
  • newsboat - An extendable RSS feed reader for text terminals.
  • 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.
  • swaglyrics-for-spotify - Spotify lyrics.
  • dzr - deezer.com player.
  • radio-active - Internet radio player with 40k+ stations.
  • facebook-cli - Facebook command line interface.
  • Rainbowstream - A smart and nice Twitter client on the terminal.
  • tuir - Reddit TUI.
  • WeeChat - Fast, light and extensible chat client.
  • irssi - IRC chat client.
  • kirc - Tiny IRC client.
  • 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.
  • moviemon - Everything about your movies.
  • movie - Get movie info or compare movies.
  • Dwarf Fortress - Roguelike construction and management simulation.
  • Cataclysm-DDA - Turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
  • pokete - Pokemon-like.
  • epr - epub reader.
  • Bible.Js CLI - Bible.
  • SpeedRead - Spritz-alike speedreader.
  • medium-cli - Read [medium.com](https://medium.com/) stories.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • mobicon-cli - Mobile app icon generator.
  • mobisplash-cli - Mobile app splash screen generator.
  • deviceframe - Put device frames around your mobile/web/progressive app screenshots.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • lstags - Synchronize images across registries.
  • dockly - Interactively manage containers.
  • lazydocker - Simple docker/docker-compose interface.
  • docker-pushrm - Push a readme to container registries.
  • 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-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.
  • 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.
  • serve - Serve static files (https, CORS, GZIP compression, etc).
  • simplehttp - Easily serve a local directory over HTTP.
  • shell2http - Shell script based HTTP server.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • taskell - Interactive kanban board/task manager.
  • 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.
  • plaintextaccounting.org
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • pywal - Generate and change color-schemes, then apply them system-wide to all of your favourite programs.
  • QuickWall - Directly set wallpapers from Unsplash.
  • oh-my-posh - Prompt theme engine.
  • 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.
  • neofetch - System information tool.
  • battery-level-cli - Get current battery level.
  • brightness-cli - Change screen brightness ([windows](https://github.com/sondreb/win-brightness)).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • mdlt - Do quick math right from the command line.
  • Qalculate - Calculate non-trival math expressions. Unit conversions, symbolic calculations and more.
  • wttr.in
  • wego
  • weather-cli
  • 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-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.
  • 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.
  • visidata - Spreadsheet multitool for data discovery and arrangement.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • gron - Make JSON greppable.
  • dyff - YAML diff tool.
  • parse-columns-cli - Parse text columns to JSON.
  • q - Execution of SQL-like queries on CSV/TSV/tabular text file.
  • figlet - Creates large text out of ASCII characters.
  • stegcloak - Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely.
  • ranger - A console file manager with VI key bindings.
  • midnight-commander - A feature rich visual file manager.
  • Vifm - VI influnced file manager.
  • nnn - File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration.
  • lf - Fast, extensively customizable file manager.
  • fff - Fast, simple file manager.
  • clifm - The command line file manager.
  • far2l - Orthodox file manager.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • alder - Minimal `tree` with colors.
  • eza - Improved version of `ls`.
  • tre - `tree` with git awareness, editor aliasing, and more.
  • ll - `ls` with git status.
  • lsd - `ls` with many extra features.
  • autojump - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line.
  • pm - The easy way to switch to your projects on the shell.
  • z - z is the new j, yo.
  • PathPicker - After parsing the output from a command, PathPicker presents you with a nice UI to select which files you're interested in.
  • fz - Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z.
  • goto - Directory aliases for the shell with autocomplete.
  • z.lua - `cd` command that learns your habits.
  • zoxide - Fast directory jumper in Rust.
  • tere - A faster alternative to using cd and ls.
  • happyfinder - (another) Fuzzy file finder for the command line.
  • find-up-cli - Find a file by walking up parent directories.
  • ripgrep - A line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern.
  • fzf - A general purpose command-line fuzzy finder, can be used with any list: files/directories, command history, processes, hostnames, bookmarks, git commits, etc.
  • fselect - Find files with SQL-like queries.
  • fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to `find`.
  • broot - Fuzzy finder similar to fzf, but with space usage visualization.
  • rare - Real-time regex aggregation and analysis.
  • skim - A general fuzzy finder written in rust, similar to fzf.
  • ast-grep - A tool for code structrual search, linting and rewriting.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • CLI GitHub - Fancy GitHub client.
  • hub - Make git easier to use with GitHub.
  • git-labelmaker - Edit GitHub labels.
  • gitmoji-cli - Use emoji in commit messages.
  • gitmoji-changelog - Generate gitmoji changelogs.
  • 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.
  • gifgen - Simple high quality GIF encoding.
  • gifsicle - Create, manipulate, and optimize GIF images and animations.
  • ttygif - Convert terminal recordings to animated gifs.
  • ttygif - Convert terminal recordings to animated gifs.
  • 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.
  • imagemagick - Gold standard for anything images.
  • imgp - Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator.
  • korkut - Quick and simple image processing.
  • cmatrix - Scrolling 'Matrix'-like screen.
  • pipes.sh - Random pipes that grow across the screen.
  • YuleLog - Christmas Yule Log fireplace.
  • cli-fireplace - Digital fireplace.
  • cli-mandelbrot - Traverse the Mandelbrot fractal.
  • sparkly-cli - Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇..
  • pastel - Generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors.
  • lowcharts - Draw low-resolution graphs.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • awesome-git-addons - Addons that extend git cli.
  • awesome-shell - line utilities and frameworks.
  • terminals-are-sexy
  • awesome-zsh-plugins
  • awesome-nodejs clis
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