awesome-tools
A list of awesome developer tools and apps that I use.
https://github.com/aswsub/awesome-tools
Last synced: about 20 hours ago
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Bookmarks
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Learning resources
- Ebookfoundation ebooks - A list of free ebooks to study and learn from.
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Project-based-learning + Ideas
- Project based learning - A list of example projects that can be hacked upon to create an application.
- Projects - A list of example projects that can be made and customized by a user
- App Ideas - A list of ideas to make an app to serve to users.
- Open source ideas - A list of ideas people advertise to check out and take inspiration from.
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CLI Applications
- Algernon - An open source web server with rendering markown and much more out of the box. `Free` `OSS`
- Cmus - A command line music player. Does its 1 job extremely well, following the UNIX philosophy. `Free` `OSS`
- Git - An amazing and highly used version control system. `Free` `OSS` 🌟
- Mpv - This tool is almost like VLC, but for the cli, in the sense that it can play most of everything you throw at it, even [twitch](https://twitch.tv) streams, and even supports ascii output! `Free` `OSS`
- Poetry - A depnedency manager for python that is miles ahead of pip or other apps. `Free` `OSS`
- Radare2 - A tool that is more than a hex editor, a full fledged cli debugger. `Free` `OSS`
- Act - Run GitHub Actions workflows locally, useful for testing CI before pushing. `Free` `OSS`
- Aria2 - A command line downloader with fast speeds `Free` `OSS` 🌟
- Bat - A cat alternative with syntax highlighting and much more. `Free` `OSS`
- Broot - A modern `tree` alternative, with many more features than its predecessor. `Free` `OSS`
- Cava - A audio visualizer for the terminal, with loads of features `Free` `OSS`
- Croc - An open source solution to transfer files quickly and easily between systems, and a relay is very easily self-hostable. `Free` `OSS`
- Delta - A tool to see differences between text files. `Free` `OSS`
- Duf - A df alternative that is fast and informative. `Free` `OSS`
- Dust - An alternative to du to see storage usage. `Free` `OSS`
- Exa - A fast and modern alternative for the `ls` command. `Free` `OSS`
- Fd - A modern alternative to the find command. `Free` `OSS`
- Fzf - A fuzzy finder that can be used in many environments, from vim to cd'ing `Free` `OSS`
- Glow - A markdown renderer for the command line. `Free` `OSS`
- Gping - Ping with a graph. `Free` `OSS`
- Hyperfine - An insane benchmarking tool to compare speeds . `Free` `OSS`
- Json-server - A cool way to set up a local mock json api for use to mock a real API. `Free` `OSS`
- Miniserve - Serve files over HTTP quickly from the command line with a simple temporary file server. `Free` `OSS`
- Onefetch - Neofetch, but for git repositories, showing project stats and metadata right in the terminal. `Free` `OSS`
- Pastel - Manipulate and edit colors on the cli `Free` `OSS`
- Ripgrep - Modern alternative to grep. It is much faster than what it tries to replace. `Free` `OSS`
- Sd - A modern alternative to what sed has to offer. `Free` `OSS`
- Soft-serve - A selfhosted git server accessible from the terminal. `Free` `OSS`
- Taskwarrior - A streamlined task manager on the cli. `Free` `OSS`
- Timg - An ascii image and GIF viewer for the command line, with many options to enhance viewing. `Free` `OSS`
- Tldr - A simpler to read and easier to read community-based alternative to manpages `Free` `OSS`
- Tmux - A very useful terminal multiplexer to multitask as well as improve productivity. `Free` `OSS` 🌟
- Tmuxinator - An addon that allows you to manage projects and open a full environment quickly. `Free` `OSS`
- Tokei - Show code statistics quickly, including language breakdowns, files, comments, and lines. `Free` `OSS`
- Topgrade - A full command line update system `Free` `OSS`
- VHS - Terminal recorder with configuration rather than recording. `Free` `OSS`
- Yt-dlp - An awesome alternative to yt-dlp with a lot of improvements, and even sponsorblock support `Free` `OSS` 🌟
- Zoxide - A modern alternative to `cd` that allows for quick movement and remembering directories. `Free` `OSS`
- Httpie - An http client meant to be used with api's. Also look at [curlie](https://github.com/rs/curlie) for a more curl-like product, and [xh](https://github.com/ducaale/xh) for sending requests. `Free` `OSS` 🌟
- Cheat.sh - A cheatsheet source that can be accessed from the cli, that provides a massive cheatsheet library from multiple sources. Works best from a unix-like os, but can be used with curl/wget/httpie `Free` `OSS`
- Ffmpeg - A extremely useful console application to work with videos and audio. `Free` `OSS`
- Gitui - A terminal git interface for browsing history, staging changes, and managing commits without leaving the shell. `Free` `OSS`
- Jq - A parser for all things json `Free` `OSS`
- Age - A simple modern file encryption tool with small keys and unix-style usage. `Free` `OSS`
- Agg - A command line tool to turn asciinema terminal recordings into animated GIF files. `Free` `OSS`
- Android Debug Bridge - The official command line tool to manipulate and debug android devices/applications. `Free` `OSS`
- Asciinema - Record terminal sessions and share them as lightweight text-based recordings. `Free` `OSS`
- Chezmoi - A dotfile manager with a high number of features and tools to make managing dotfiles easy `Free` `OSS` 🌟
- Claude Code - Anthropic's agentic command-line coding tool for delegating software tasks from the terminal. `AI`
- Cline CLI - An AI coding agent interface for planning, editing, and running development tasks with user approval. `Free` `OSS` `AI`
- Continue CLI - A command-line interface for Continue's open-source AI coding assistant and agent workflows. `Free` `OSS` `AI`
- Copilot CLI - A GitHub CLI extension that uses Copilot to explain commands and suggest shell commands. `Free` `AI`
- Curl - A classic command line tool to transfer data with URLs, useful for testing and downloading from the internet. `Free` `OSS`
- Dive - A tool to inspect docker image layers and see what is taking up space. `Free` `OSS`
- Eget - A utility to quickly install prebuilt binaries from GitHub releases. `Free` `OSS`
- Fastfetch - A fast neofetch-like tool that prints system information with lots of customization. `Free` `OSS`
- Freeze - Make good-looking images of code snippets and terminal output from the command line. `Free` `OSS`
- Gemini CLI - Google's open-source AI agent for bringing Gemini into terminal coding workflows. `Free` `OSS` `AI`
- Gh - The official github cli. Now you can use github without even opening a browser! `Free` `OSS` 🌟
- GnuPG - A full encryption and signing tool implementing OpenPGP for files, messages, and keys. `Free` `OSS`
- Goose - Block's open-source local AI agent for coding, automation, and tool-using workflows. `Free` `OSS` `AI`
- GoReleaser - Automates building and publishing releases for Go projects across multiple platforms. `Free` `OSS`
- Gource - A source control visualization tool that shows repository history as an animated tree. `Free` `OSS`
- Gum - A set of terminal UI helpers to make shell scripts interactive and nicer to use. `Free` `OSS`
- Horcrux - Splits a file into encrypted pieces so recovery can require multiple fragments. `Free` `OSS`
- HTTrack - A website copier that downloads pages and assets for offline browsing and archival. `Free` `OSS`
- Lazydocker - A terminal UI for managing Docker containers, images, volumes, and logs in one place. `Free` `OSS`
- Lazygit - A terminal UI for Git that makes staging, commits, branches, and history easier to handle. `Free` `OSS`
- Llama.cpp - A lightweight inference stack for running large language models locally across many platforms. `Free` `OSS` `AI`
- Lychee - A link checker for markup formats `Free` `OSS`
- Mise - A dev environment manager for tool versions, tasks, and environment variables. `Free` `OSS`
- Monolith - Save a web page and its assets into one self-contained HTML file. `Free` `OSS`
- Neovim - A modernized Vim fork with better defaults for plugins, terminals, remote UIs, and scripting. `Free` `OSS`
- OpenAI Codex - OpenAI's open-source terminal coding agent for editing, running, and reasoning over codebases. `Free` `OSS` `AI`
- Opencode - An open-source terminal AI coding agent with a TUI for planning and editing code. `Free` `OSS` `AI`
- OpenSSH - Secure shell tools for remote login, file transfer, and encrypted network connections. `Free` `OSS`
- Pandoc - A universal document converter that can move text between markdown, HTML, LaTeX, docx, PDF workflows, and much more. `Free` `OSS`
- Pdm - A python dependency manger with support for pyproject.toml, a modern alternative for setup.py `Free` `OSS`
- Rclone - Manage and sync files across cloud storage providers and local filesystems from the command line. `Free` `OSS`
- Ruff - A very fast Python linter and formatter written in Rust. `Free` `OSS`
- Rye - A Python project and package management tool for handling interpreters, dependencies, and virtual environments. `Free` `OSS`
- Sha256sum - Verify file integrity by calculating and checking SHA-256 hashes. `Free` `OSS`
- SingleFile - Save a complete webpage into a single HTML file for offline viewing or archival. `Free` `OSS`
- Tealdeer - A client for the tldr pages that uses a cache approach, and allows for offline use and custom pages, making it my personal favorite tldr client. `Free` `OSS` 🌟
- Tectonic - A modern TeX engine that downloads needed packages and builds LaTeX documents. `Free` `OSS`
- Termux - A terminal emulator and Linux environment for Android, with packages and shell tools. `Free` `OSS`
- TeX Live - A large TeX distribution with LaTeX, related programs, fonts, and documentation. `Free` `OSS`
- Typst - A modern markup-based typesetting system for creating documents without as much LaTeX ceremony. `Free` `OSS`
- Ubi - A universal binary installer for downloading and installing prebuilt releases from GitHub. `Free` `OSS`
- UPX - Compress executable files while keeping them runnable. `Free` `OSS`
- Uv - A very fast Python package and project manager written in Rust. `Free` `OSS`
- Viddy - A modern watch command with scrollback, diffs, and time-machine style history. `Free` `OSS`
- Watchexec - Run commands automatically when files change, useful for rebuilds and local dev loops. `Free` `OSS`
- Wget - A reliable command line downloader for web pages and files, including recursive downloads. `Free` `OSS`
- Xh - A friendly and fast HTTP request tool, similar to HTTPie but written in Rust. `Free` `OSS`
- Zellij - A terminal workspace and multiplexer for panes, tabs, and shareable layouts. `Free` `OSS`
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Command line - Linux
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Learning resources
- Tealdeer - A client for the tldr pages that uses a cache approach, and allows for offline use and custom pages, making it my personal favorite tldr client. 🌟
- Tealdeer - A client for the tldr pages that uses a cache approach, and allows for offline use and custom pages, making it my personal favorite tldr client. 🌟
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Contributing
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Contributors
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Desktop apps
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Learning resources
- OBS Studio - A popular open source tool to record and stream customizable video recordings.
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- Bottles - Software that is helping manage windows software running on linux with a great GUI. `Free` `OSS`
- Rawtherapee - A great RAW editor and open source alternative to Lightroom `Free` `OSS`
- Responsively - A must-have tool for developers that enables simple and easy testing for multiple device types `Free` `OSS`
- Shotcut - A video editor that is built for heavy users and is open to the public for easy use. `Free` `OSS`
- VSCodium - A fully open source licensed and usable build of VSCode, which by default has closed-source binaries `Free` `OSS` 🌟
- Antimicrox - Assign game controller input to keys on the computer. `Free` `OSS`
- Vlc - A media player for multiple platforms, with support for local and remote video and audio. `Free` `OSS`
- Blender - A piece of free and open source software that enables a full pipeline for people wanting to build useful items with 3d in computing, `Free` `OSS`
- Godot - A free and open source game engine that allows to create both 2d and 3d games intuitively. `Free` `OSS`
- LMMS - A DAW with advanced features for power users, fully open source and free. `Free` `OSS`
- Alacritty - A minimalist, high-performance GPU rendered terminal emulator. `Free` `OSS`
- Antigravity - An agent-first AI development environment from Google for delegating coding tasks to autonomous agents. `Free` `AI`
- Flameshot - Cross-platform screenshots with various annotation features. `Free` `OSS` 🌟
- Ghostty - A novel terminal emulator built in Zig that combines performance and feature set. `Free` `OSS`
- Kiro IDE - An agentic AI IDE from AWS built around specs, plans, and structured coding workflows. `Free` `AI`
- LocalSend - A simple, effective way to send arbitrary files and data over a network. `Free` `OSS`
- Neovide - A simple, no-nonsense, cross-platform graphical user interface for Neovim. `Free` `OSS`
- OBS Studio - A popular open source tool to record and stream customizable video recordings. `Free` `OSS`
- Recordly - An open source screen recording application aimed at the use case of demo/product videos `Free` `OSS`
- Scrcpy - Application that allows for the control of android devices from desktop operating systems. `Free` `OSS`
- Syncthing - Syncthing is a P2P file synchronization utility, designed to sync files between devices over LAN or the Internet. `Free` `OSS`
- VeraCrypt - Popular open source tool that facilitates filesystem-level encryption. `Free` `OSS`
- Visual Studio Code - The most popular code editor of the past decade. `Free`
- WezTerm - WezTerm is a powerful cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust. `Free` `OSS`
- Windows Terminal - It is a multi-tabbed terminal emulator developed by Microsoft for Windows 10+ as a replacement for Windows Console. `Free` `OSS`
- Windsurf - An AI-powered IDE for code generation, context-aware edits, and agentic software development. `Free` `AI`
- Xournalpp - A pdf editor that allows for custom annotations on top of a pdf canvas. `Free` `OSS`
- Zed - A fast collaborative code editor with built-in AI integrations and agent support. `Free` `OSS` `AI`
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Follow
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Learning resources
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Frameworks
- Pocketbase - A small backend in a single executable with database, auth, file storage, and an admin UI. `Free` `OSS`
- Bash-it - A full featured bash frameworks that comes with batteries and a plugin system out of the box. `Free` `OSS`
- Oh-my-bash - Another bash framework which tries to replicate oh-my-zsh for bash. `Free` `OSS`
- Hugo - A fast static site generator for building websites from content and templates. `Free` `OSS`
- MdBook - A tool to build online books and documentation from Markdown files. `Free` `OSS`
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Miscellaneous
- Conventional Commits - A commit message convention that makes changelogs and semantic versioning easier to automate. `Free` `OSS`
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Operating systems
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Learning resources
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- Linux - Technically a kernel, but in this context I use it(gnu/linux) to describe the underlying system under many free and open source distributions of linux. `Free` `OSS` 🌟
- Arch Linux - A open source distribution built on linux, staying on the bleeding edge, but providing users the latest software `Free` `OSS`
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Resources
- Introduction to programming and CS basics - A good video about the basics of CS, a great reference video. `Free`
- Draw.io - An open source whiteboard and diagramming tool that I use to plan projects and sketch outlines. `Free` `OSS`
- Hacker News - A news source for tech and other related topics. `Free`
- Carbon - A tool to make beautiful pictures of code. `Free` `OSS` 🌟
- Tldraw - Another open source whiteboard app with a simpler overall model. `Free` `OSS`
- Build Your Own X - A collection of tutorials for learning by rebuilding tools like shells, databases, and emulators. `Free` `OSS`
- Awesome Lists - A huge index of curated awesome lists across many software and learning topics. `Free` `OSS`
- Modern-unix-commands - A set of modern linux alternatives for older commands. `Free` `OSS`
- Farside - A redirection service that allows to load balance and choose between multiple privacy friendly alternative frontends `Free` `OSS`
- Awesome Cheatsheets - A collection of cheat sheets for programming languages, frameworks, and dev tools. `Free` `OSS`
- Cloud Shell - A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage. `Free` 🌟
- Free-prog-books - A resource to find free books relating to tech. `Free` `OSS` 🌟
- Github1s - A tool to show the structure of github repositories, as if viewing them in VSCode. `Free` `OSS`
- Laws of Software Engineering - A collection of short software engineering principles and tradeoffs worth remembering. `Free`
- Project Based Learning - A curated list of programming tutorials that teach by building real projects. `Free` `OSS`
- Project Ideas and Resources - A list of app ideas with project goals, user stories, and resources for practice. `Free` `OSS`
- Roadmap.sh - Developer roadmaps and guides for learning skills across different tech roles. `Free` `OSS`
- The Algorithms - A reference collection of algorithms and data structures implemented in many languages. `Free` `OSS`
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Selfhosted Apps
- Phpmyadmin - Web UI for managing MySQL and MariaDB databases without living in the database shell. `Free` `OSS`
- Uptime-kuma - A selfhosted uptime monitor with status pages and notification integrations. `Free` `OSS` 🌟
- Caddy - A web server and reverse proxy with automatic HTTPS as a major built-in feature. `Free` `OSS`
- Code-server - Run VS Code on a server and use it from a browser. `Free` `OSS`
- Dufs - A simple file server with uploads, search, access control, and WebDAV support. `Free` `OSS`
- File Browser - A selfhosted web file manager for browsing, uploading, and managing server files. `Free` `OSS`
- Ttyd - Share a terminal over the web through a small selfhosted server. `Free` `OSS`
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Tools
- Podman - Another container manager, known as podman, that uses a non-root system with no daemon and a focus on the lifetime of containers. `Free` `OSS`
- Distrobox - A tool used to spin up multiple operating systems with access to your home sirectory and leverages container technologies like podman and docker to do so. `Free` `OSS`
- Vagrant - A source-available tool to provision reproducible isolated development environments using a variety of backend providers. `Free`
- Portainer - Simply, a web ui for docker, but is extremely feature rich, to the level that docker cli is no more necessary when this tool is used. `Free` `OSS`
- GitHub Copilot - GitHub's AI coding assistant for completions, chat, and agentic software development workflows. `Free` `AI`
- KVM - Linux kernel virtualization support for running virtual machines with hardware acceleration. `Free` `OSS`
- OpenClaw - An open-source autonomous AI assistant framework for running persistent agents through messaging and tool integrations. `Free` `OSS` `AI`
- QEMU - A machine emulator and virtualizer for running operating systems and different architectures. `Free` `OSS`
- X11docker - Run GUI applications or desktops in Docker and Podman containers with a security focus. `Free` `OSS`
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Websites
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Learning resources
- Cloud Shell - A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage. ![frees][free] 🌟
- Cloud Shell - A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage. ![frees][free] 🌟
- Cloud Shell - A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage. ![frees][free] 🌟
- Cloud Shell - A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage. ![frees][free] 🌟
- Cloud Shell - A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage. ![frees][free] 🌟
- Cloud Shell - A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage. ![frees][free] 🌟
- Cloud Shell - A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage. ![frees][free] 🌟
- Cloud Shell - A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage. ![frees][free] 🌟
- Cloud Shell - A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage. ![frees][free] 🌟
- Cloud Shell - A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage. ![frees][free] 🌟
- Cloud Shell - A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage. ![frees][free] 🌟
- Cloud Shell - A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage. ![frees][free] 🌟
- Cloud Shell - A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage. ![frees][free] 🌟
- Cloud Shell - A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage. ![frees][free] 🌟
- Cloud Shell - A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage. ![frees][free] 🌟
- Cloud Shell - A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage. ![frees][free] 🌟
- Cloud Shell - A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage. ![frees][free] 🌟
- Cloud Shell - A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage. ![frees][free] 🌟
- Cloud Shell - A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage. ![frees][free] 🌟
- Cloud Shell - A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage. ![frees][free] 🌟
- Cloud Shell - A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage. ![frees][free] 🌟
- Cloud Shell - A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage. ![frees][free] 🌟
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