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A curated list of command line apps.

Inspired by the 349671⭐  28636🍴 awesome) list thing.

Table of Contents

• Entertainment
  • Music
  • Social Media
  • Video
  • Movies
  • Games
  • Books
• Development
  • Text Editors
  • Frontend Development
  • Mobile Development
  • Database
  • Devops
  • Docker
  • Release
  • Npm
  • Boilerplate
  • HTTP Server
  • HTTP Client
• Productivity
  • Time Tracking
  • Note Taking and Lists
  • Finance
  • Presentations
  • Calendars
• Utilities
  • macOS
  • Terminal Sharing Utilities
  • Network Utilities
  • Theming and Customization
  • Shell Utilities
  • System Interaction Utilities
  • Markdown
  • Security
  • Math
  • Weather
  • Browser Replacement
  • Internet Speedtest
• Command Line Learning
• Data Manipulation
  • Processors
  • JSON
  • YAML
  • Columns
  • Text
• Files and Directories
  • File Managers
  • Deleting, Copying, and Renaming
  • Files
  • File Sync/Sharing
  • Directory Listing
  • Directory Navigation
  • Search
• Version Control
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Emoji
• Images
  • Gif Creation
  • Image Conversion
• Screensavers
• Graphics
• Just for Fun
  • Emoji
• Other Awesome Lists
• License

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Entertainment

•   3141⭐    218🍴 newsboat) - An extendable RSS feed reader for text terminals.

Music

•   5698⭐    475🍴 cmus) - Small, fast and powerful console music player.
•   1422⭐    159🍴 Instant-Music-Downloader) - Instant music downloader.
•    428⭐     31🍴 itunes-remote) - Control iTunes via CLI.
• 🌎 pianobar - Pandora client.
•    150⭐     13🍴 somafm-cli) - Listen to SomaFM in your terminal.
•   2274⭐    360🍴 mpd) - Music Player Daemon.
•   2192⭐    222🍴 ncmpcpp) - mpd client.
• moc - Console audio player for Linux/UNIX.
•   4348⭐    300🍴 musikcube) - Cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server.
•  13249⭐   1849🍴 beets) - Music library manager and tagger.
•  17884⭐    532🍴 spotify-tui) - Spotify client.
•    326⭐     35🍴 swaglyrics-for-spotify) - Spotify lyrics.
•    209⭐     14🍴 dzr) - deezer.com player.
•    522⭐     25🍴 radio-active) - Internet radio player with 40k+ stations.
•    107⭐      0🍴 mpvc) - Music player interfacing mpv.

Video

• 134475⭐  10225🍴 youtube-dl) - Download videos from YouTube.com and many other video sites.
•  10341⭐   1124🍴 streamlink) - Extract streams from various websites to a video player of your choosing.
•   8231⭐    641🍴 mps-youtube) - Youtube player.
• 🌎 mpv - Superior video player.
•   4878⭐    318🍴 editly) - Declarative video editing.
• 102681⭐   8049🍴 yt-dlp) - A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes.

Movies

•    211⭐     17🍴 moviemon) - Everything about your movies.
•    166⭐     10🍴 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.
•   2931⭐    184🍴 Pokete) - Pokemon-like.

Books

•   1251⭐     51🍴 epr) - epub reader.
•    309⭐     21🍴 Bible.Js CLI) - Bible.
•     63⭐      2🍴 SpeedRead) - Spritz-alike speedreader.
•    720⭐     52🍴 medium-cli) - Read 🌎 medium.com stories.

Chat

• 🌎 WeeChat - Fast, light and extensible chat client.
•   2939⭐    361🍴 irssi) - IRC chat client.
•    531⭐     32🍴 kirc) - Tiny IRC client.

Development

•    571⭐     19🍴 legit) - Generate Open Source licences as files or file headers.
•    197⭐      8🍴 mklicense) - Create a custom LICENSE file painlessly with customized info.
•   4125⭐    386🍴 rebound) - Fetch Stack Overflow results on compiler error.
•    269⭐     16🍴 foy) - Lightweight general purpose task runner/build tool.
•  24096⭐    520🍴 just) - Modern make-like command runner.
•    650⭐     40🍴 bcal) - Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations.
•    663⭐     28🍴 bitwise) - Base conversion and bit manipulation.
•    371⭐     19🍴 cgasm) - x86 assembly documentation.
•   7407⭐    173🍴 grex) - Generate regular expressions from user-provided test cases.
•  11511⭐    794🍴 gdb-dashboard) - Modular visual interface for GDB.
•    155⭐     15🍴 iola) - Socket client with REST API.
•    681⭐     14🍴 add-gitignore) - Interactively generate a .gitignore for your project based on your needs.
•    360⭐     15🍴 is-up-cli) - Check if a domain is up.
•     34⭐      2🍴 reachable) - Check if a domain is up.
•   2594⭐    211🍴 loadtest) - Run load tests.
•    551⭐     52🍴 diff2html-cli) - Create pretty HTML from diffs.

Text Editors

•   4567⭐   1299🍴 emacs) - An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more.
•  37572⭐   5578🍴 vim) - Vim - the ubiquitous text editor.
•  86845⭐   5909🍴 neovim) - Modern vim.
•  10165⭐    727🍴 kakoune) - Modal editor inspired by vim.
•  25706⭐   1196🍴 micro) - A simple and intuitive editor.
•    524⭐     15🍴 o) - Configuration-free text editor and IDE.
•  36139⭐   2687🍴 helix) - Modal editor inspired by kakoune.

Frontend Development

•   1625⭐     53🍴 caniuse-cmd) - Search 🌎 caniuse.com about browser support of features.
•     40⭐      3🍴 strip-css-comments-cli) - Strip comments from CSS.
•     62⭐      3🍴 viewport-list-cli) - Return a list of devices and their viewports.
• 🌎 surge - Publish static websites for free.

Mobile Development

•    112⭐     11🍴 mobicon-cli) - Mobile app icon generator.
•     71⭐     10🍴 mobisplash-cli) - Mobile app splash screen generator.
•    581⭐     16🍴 deviceframe) - Put device frames around your mobile/web/progressive app screenshots.

Database

•  11582⭐    665🍴 mycli) - MySQL client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
•  12298⭐    557🍴 pgcli) - Postgres client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
•    633⭐    148🍴 sqlline) - Shell for issuing SQL via JDBC.
•   2607⭐    114🍴 iredis) - Redis client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
•   9246⭐    362🍴 usql) - Universal SQL client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.

Devops

•    189⭐     11🍴 htconvert) - Convert .htaccess redirects to nginx.conf redirects.
•   5261⭐    283🍴 SAWS) - Supercharged AWS CLI.
•   4660⭐    909🍴 s3cmd) - Fully-Featured S3 client.
•  41963⭐   2632🍴 pm2) - Production Process Manager for Node.js.
•   1330⭐    133🍴 ops) - Unikernel compilation and orchestration tool.
•   1172⭐    137🍴 flog) - A fake log generator for log formats such as apache-common, apache error and RFC3164 syslog.
•  28779⭐   1807🍴 k9s) - Manage Kubernetes Clusters.
•    786⭐     44🍴 PingMe) - Send messages/alerts to multiple messaging platforms & email.
•   1165⭐    124🍴 ipfs-deploy) - Deploy static websites to  22811⭐   1479🍴 IPFS).
•    649⭐     19🍴 Discharge) - Deploy static websites to Amazon S3.
•    638⭐     76🍴 updatecli) - A declarative dependency management tool.

Docker

•    337⭐     26🍴 lstags) - Synchronize images across registries.
•   3876⭐    159🍴 dockly) - Interactively manage containers.
•  42656⭐   1345🍴 lazydocker) - Simple docker/docker-compose interface.
•    141⭐      4🍴 docker-pushrm) - Push a readme to container registries.

Release

•   8259⭐    538🍴 release-it) - Automate releases for Git repositories and/or npm packages. Changelog generation, GitHub/GitLab releases, etc.
•    872⭐     43🍴 clog) - A conventional changelog for the rest of us.
•   7612⭐    302🍴 np) - A better npm publish.
•   3574⭐    114🍴 release) - Generate changelogs with a single command.
•  21528⭐   1708🍴 semantic-release) - Fully automated version management and package publishing.

Npm

•    287⭐     26🍴 npm-name-cli) - Check whether a package name is available on npm.
•     31⭐      4🍴 npm-user-cli) - Get user info of a npm user.
•    198⭐     10🍴 npm-home) - Open the npm page of the package in the current directory.
•     25⭐      4🍴 pkg-dir-cli) - Find the root directory of a npm package.
•   9648⭐    334🍴 npm-check-updates) - Find newer versions of package dependencies than what your package.json allows.
•    103⭐      8🍴 updates) - Flexible npm dependency update tool.
•    354⭐      6🍴 wipe-modules) - Remove node_modules of inactive projects.

Boilerplate

•   3877⭐    404🍴 yo) - Scaffolding tool for running Yeoman generators.
•   1733⭐    118🍴 boilr) - Create projects from boilerplate templates.
•  23134⭐   2046🍴 cookiecutter) - Create projects from templates.
•    827⭐    152🍴 mevn-cli) - Light speed setup for MEVN (Mongo Express Vue Node) Apps.
•    127⭐     17🍴 scaffold-static) - Scaffolding utility for vanilla JS.

HTTP Server

•   9542⭐    694🍴 serve) - Serve static files (https, CORS, GZIP compression, etc).
•     66⭐      3🍴 simplehttp) - Easily serve a local directory over HTTP.
•   1387⭐    137🍴 shell2http) - Shell script based HTTP server.

HTTP Client

•  34926⭐   3696🍴 HTTPie) - A user-friendly HTTP client.
•   9008⭐    329🍴 HTTP Prompt) - Interactive HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting.
•    608⭐     13🍴 ain) - HTTP client with a simple format to organize API endpoints.
•   3090⭐    101🍴 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.
•   1791⭐     77🍴 ffscreencast) - A ffmpeg screencast with video overlay and multi monitor support.
•     43⭐      3🍴 meetup-cli) - Meetup.com client.
• 🌎 NeoMutt - Email client.
•    894⭐     38🍴 terjira) - Jira client.
•     12⭐      1🍴 ipt) - Pivotal Tracker client.
•   1187⭐     56🍴 uber-cli) - Uber client.
•   6632⭐    297🍴 Buku) - Browser-independent bookmark manager.
•   1470⭐    103🍴 papis) - Extensible document and bibliography manager.
•    272⭐     33🍴 pubs) - Scientific bibliography manager.
•    167⭐      6🍴 fjira) - Fuzzy finder and TUI application for Jira.

Time Tracking

•   1488⭐    116🍴 Timetrap) - Simple timetracker.
•    470⭐     34🍴 moro) - Simple tool for tracking work hours.
•   1325⭐     98🍴 Timewarrior) - Utility with simple stopwatch, calendar-based backfill and flexible reporting.
•   2471⭐    242🍴 Watson) - Generate reports for clients and manage your time.
•    334⭐     55🍴 utt) - Simple time tracking tool.
•    712⭐     38🍴 Bartib) - Easy to use time tracking tool.
•   1031⭐     15🍴 arttime) - Featureful timer with native desktop notifications and curated ASCII art.

Note Taking and Lists

•    249⭐     16🍴 idea) - A lightweight tool for keeping ideas in a safe place quick and easy.
•      7⭐      0🍴 geeknote) - Evernote client.
• 🌎 Taskwarrior - Manage your TODO list.
• 🌎 Terminal velocity - A fast note-taking app.
•    803⭐     42🍴 eureka) - Input and store your ideas.
•    404⭐     37🍴 sncli) - Simplenote client.
•    199⭐     10🍴 td-cli) - A TODO manager to organize and manage your TODO's across multiple projects.
•   9030⭐    385🍴 taskbook) - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat.
•   2833⭐    120🍴 dnote) - A interactive, multi-device notebook.
•   6913⭐    194🍴 nb) - A note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base application.
•    470⭐     19🍴 obs) - Interact with your Obsidian vault.

Finance

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

• 🌎 ledger - Powerful, double-entry accounting system.
• 🌎 hledger - Robust, fast, intuitive plain text accounting tool with CLI, TUI and web interfaces.
•    143⭐     21🍴 moeda) - Foreign exchange rates and currency conversion.
•    240⭐     17🍴 cash-cli) - Convert Currency Rates.
•   4133⭐    326🍴 cointop) - Track cryptocurrencies.
•   5107⭐    280🍴 ticker) - Stock ticker.

Presentations

•   3056⭐     78🍴 WOPR) - A simple markup language for creating rich terminal reports, presentations and infographics.
•   2231⭐    180🍴 decktape) - PDF exporter for HTML presentations.
•   5020⭐    257🍴 mdp) - A markdown presentation tool.
• 🌎 sent - Simple plaintext presentation tool.
•  10424⭐    283🍴 slides) - A markdown presentation tool.

Calendars

• 🌎 calcurse - Calendar and scheduling.
•   3380⭐    318🍴 gcalcli) - Google calendar client.
•   2692⭐    210🍴 khal) - CalDAV ready CLI and TUI calendar.
•   1625⭐    164🍴 vdirsyncer) - CalDAV sync.
• 🌎 remind - A sophisticated calendar and alarm program.
•     84⭐      8🍴 birthday) - Know when a friend's birthday is coming.

Utilities

•  36884⭐   3663🍴 aria2) - HTTP, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink download utility.
•     48⭐      5🍴 bitly-client) - Bitly client.
•    165⭐      3🍴 deadlink) - Find dead links in files.
•    279⭐     16🍴 crawley) - Unix-way web crawler.
•    388⭐     23🍴 kill-tabs) - Kill all Chrome tabs.
•   4856⭐    208🍴 alex) - Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing.
•    132⭐      2🍴 clevercli) - Collection of ChatGPT powered utilities.

macOS

•    208⭐     12🍴 open-pip-cli) - Watch videos in picture-in-picture player.
•     92⭐     15🍴 osx-wifi-cli) - Manage wifi connections.
•     67⭐      5🍴 active-win-cli) - Get the title/id/etc of the active window.
•   1115⭐    262🍴 stronghold) - Configure security settings from the terminal.
•    665⭐     29🍴 dark-mode) - Toggle dark mode.

Terminal Sharing Utilities

•  18935⭐   1398🍴 gotty) - Share your terminal as a web application.
•  20254⭐   1401🍴 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.
•   1618⭐     48🍴 warp) - Secure and simple terminal sharing.
•    416⭐     13🍴 OverTime) - Time-overlap tables for remote teams.

Network Utilities

•    144⭐     13🍴 get-port-cli) - Get an available port.
•     25⭐      1🍴 is-reachable-cli) - Check if hostnames are reachable or not.
•   2063⭐    132🍴 acmetool) - Automatic certificate acquisition for ACME (Let's Encrypt).
•    775⭐     71🍴 certificate-ripper) - Extract server certificates.
•    186⭐      3🍴 neoss) - User-friendly and detailed socket statistics.

Theming and Customization

•    551⭐     24🍴 splash-cli) - Beautiful wallpapers from Unsplash.
•    171⭐     17🍴 wallpaper-cli) - Get or set the desktop wallpaper.
•   5572⭐    120🍴 themer) - Generate personalized themes for your editor, terminal, wallpaper, Slack, and more.
•     11⭐      2🍴 JackPaper) - Set images from Unsplash as wallpaper.
•    191⭐      8🍴 QuickWall) - Directly set wallpapers from Unsplash.
• 🌎 oh-my-posh - Prompt theme engine.

Shell Utilities

•    703⭐     49🍴 has) - Checks for the presence of various commands and their versions on the path.
•   8436⭐    129🍴 Ultimate Plumber) - Write Linux pipes with live previews.
•   6906⭐    158🍴 fkill-cli) - Simple cross-platform process killer.
• 🌎 task-spooler - Queue jobs for linear execution.
•    184⭐      5🍴 undollar) - Strip the '$' preceding copy-pasted terminal commands.
•     73⭐      6🍴 pipe_exec) - Run executables from stdin, pipes and ttys without creating a temporary file.

System Interaction Utilities

•  12675⭐    479🍴 fastfetch) - System information tool.
•     34⭐      3🍴 battery-level-cli) - Get current battery level.
•    203⭐      8🍴 brightness-cli) - Change screen brightness (    11⭐      2🍴 windows)).
•   1636⭐     46🍴 yank) - Yank terminal output to clipboard.
•     40⭐      2🍴 screensaver) - Start the screensaver.
•    187⭐     16🍴 google-font-installer) - Download and install Google Web Fonts on your local machine.
• 🌎 glances - System monitoring tool.
•   1825⭐     71🍴 tiptop) - System monitor.
•    189⭐     10🍴 gzip-size-cli) - Get the gzipped size of a file.

Markdown

•   4297⭐    477🍴 DocToc) - Generates table of contents for markdown files.
•   6601⭐    431🍴 grip) - Preview markdown files as GitHub would render them.
•   1821⭐    106🍴 mdv) - Styled terminal markdown viewer.
•  17171⭐    388🍴 glow) - Styled markdown rendering.
•    262⭐      8🍴 gtree) - Use markdown to generate directory trees and the directories itself.

Security

• 🌎 pass - Password manager.
•   6058⭐    505🍴 gopass) - Fully-featured password manager.
•   1126⭐     45🍴 xiringuito) - SSH-based VPN.
•     74⭐      3🍴 hasha-cli) - Get the hash of text or stdin.
•   1790⭐     47🍴 ots) - Share secrets with others via a one-time URL.

Math

•    182⭐      8🍴 mdlt) - Do quick math right from the command line.
•   2006⭐    154🍴 Qalculate) - Calculate non-trivial math expressions. Unit conversions, symbolic calculations and more.

Weather

•  25470⭐   1124🍴 wttr.in)
•   7982⭐    485🍴 wego)
•     97⭐      7🍴 weather-cli)

Browser Replacement

•   2392⭐    117🍴 s) - Open a web search in your terminal.
•    363⭐     13🍴 hget) - Render websites in plain text from your terminal.
•   8123⭐    260🍴 mapscii) - Terminal Map Viewer.
•     92⭐     13🍴 nasa-cli) - Download NASA Picture of the Day.
•    162⭐     11🍴 getnews.tech) - Fetch news headlines from various news outlets.
•    137⭐     12🍴 trino) - Translation of words and phrases.
•   7120⭐    390🍴 translate-shell) - Google Translate interface.

Internet Speedtest

•    616⭐    126🍴 speedtest-net) - Test internet connection speed and ping using speedtest.net.
•   3918⭐    167🍴 speed-test) - speedtest-net wrapper with different UI.
•  13696⭐   1918🍴 speedtest-cli) - Test internet bandwidth using speedtest.net.
•  10366⭐    300🍴 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.
•  10678⭐    868🍴 howdoi) - Instant coding answers.
•   5735⭐    151🍴 how2) - Node.js implementation of howdoi.
•  90326⭐   3631🍴 The Fuck) - Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.
•  53912⭐   4356🍴 tldr) - Simplified and community-driven man pages.
•    499⭐     25🍴 Wat) - Instant, central, community-built docs.
•    391⭐     64🍴 teachcode) - Guide for the earliest lessons of coding.
•  15554⭐    521🍴 navi) - Interactive cheatsheet tool.
•    752⭐     40🍴 yai) - AI powered terminal assistant.

Data Manipulation

•   8075⭐    288🍴 visidata) - Spreadsheet multitool for data discovery and arrangement.

Processors

•  31312⭐   1608🍴 jq) - JSON processor.
•   2712⭐     84🍴 yq) - YAML processor.
•   7360⭐    144🍴 dasel) - JSON/YAML/TOML/XML processor (like jq/yq).
•     87⭐      5🍴 yaml-cli) - Query/update YAML.
•    577⭐     12🍴 ramda-cli) - Process data with functional pipelines.
•    919⭐     27🍴 xq) - XML and HTML beautifier and content extractor.

JSON

•     53⭐      5🍴 jp) - JSON parser.
•  19274⭐    442🍴 fx) - Command-line JSON viewer.
•     93⭐      4🍴 vj) - Makes JSON human readable.
•   1730⭐     82🍴 underscore-cli) - Utility-belt for hacking JSON and Javascript.
•     67⭐      6🍴 strip-json-comments-cli) - Strip comments from JSON.
•    213⭐     15🍴 GROQ) – JSON processor with queries and projections.
•  14020⭐    330🍴 gron) - Make JSON greppable.

YAML

•   1416⭐     69🍴 dyff) - YAML diff tool.

Columns

•     67⭐      6🍴 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.
•   3464⭐    214🍴 stegcloak) - Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely.

Files and Directories

File Managers

•  15942⭐    896🍴 ranger) - A console file manager with VI key bindings.
•     14⭐      1🍴 midnight-commander) - A feature rich visual file manager.
• 🌎 Vifm - VI influenced file manager.
•  19768⭐    766🍴 nnn) - File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration.
•   7985⭐    332🍴 lf) - Fast, extensively customizable file manager.
•   1393⭐     39🍴 clifm) - The command line file manager.
•   1853⭐    177🍴 far2l) - Orthodox file manager.
•  22731⭐    500🍴 yazi) - Blazing fast file manager.

Deleting, Copying, and Renaming

•   1338⭐     36🍴 trash-cli) - Move files and directories to the trash.
•    133⭐      5🍴 empty-trash-cli) - Empty the trash.
•    320⭐     20🍴 del-cli) - Delete files and folders.
•    351⭐     34🍴 cpy-cli) - Copies files.
•    168⭐     19🍴 rename-cli) - Rename files quickly.
• 🌎 renameutils - Mass renaming in your editor.
•   2607⭐     69🍴 diskonaut) - Disk space navigator.

Files

•    836⭐     51🍴 chokidar-cli) - CLI to watch file system changes.
•     76⭐      4🍴 file-type-cli) - Detect the file type of a file or stdin.
•  51399⭐   1284🍴 bat) - A cat clone with syntax highlighting.
• 🌎 NCDu - A disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface.
•    140⭐      5🍴 unix-permissions) - Swiss Army knife for Unix permissions.
• 🌎 transmission-cli - Torrent client for your command line.
•   1210⭐    139🍴 webtorrent-cli) – Streaming torrent client.
•   4865⭐    111🍴 entr) - Run an arbitrary command when files change.
•    342⭐     14🍴 organize-cli) - Organize your files automatically.
• 🌎 organize-rt - organize-cli in Rust with more customization.
•   1445⭐     72🍴 RecoverPy) - Recover overwritten or deleted files.

File Sync/Sharing

•  49141⭐   4367🍴 rclone) - Sync files with various cloud providers.
•   7072⭐    192🍴 ffsend) - Quick file share.
•    371⭐     12🍴 share-cli) - Share files with your local network.
•    713⭐    146🍴 google-drive-upload) - Upload/sync with Google Drive.
•    308⭐     27🍴 gdrive-downloader) - Download files/folders from Google Drive.
•   1594⭐     42🍴 portal) - Send files between computers.
•      ?⭐      ?🍴 shbin) - Turn a Github repo into a pastebin.
•   1756⭐     73🍴 sharing) - Send and receive files on your mobile device.
•     37⭐      1🍴 ncp) - Transfer files and folders, to and from NFS servers.

Directory Listing

•    232⭐     16🍴 alder) - Minimal tree with colors.
•  14298⭐    260🍴 eza) - Improved version of ls.
•    938⭐     20🍴 tre) - tree with git awareness, editor aliasing, and more.
•     48⭐      1🍴 ll) - ls with git status.
•  14061⭐    446🍴 lsd) - ls with many extra features.

Directory Navigation

•  16449⭐    709🍴 autojump) - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line.
•    197⭐     17🍴 pm) - The easy way to switch to your projects on the shell.
•  16561⭐   1172🍴 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.
•    534⭐     27🍴 fz) - Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z.
•    887⭐     65🍴 goto) - Directory aliases for the shell with autocomplete.
•   3051⭐    143🍴 z.lua) - cd command that learns your habits.
•  25167⭐    598🍴 zoxide) - Fast directory jumper in Rust.
•   1732⭐     39🍴 tere) - A faster alternative to using cd and ls.

Search

•    331⭐      6🍴 happyfinder) - (another) Fuzzy file finder for the command line.
•     40⭐      7🍴 find-up-cli) - Find a file by walking up parent directories.
•  50790⭐   2074🍴 ripgrep) - A line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern.
•  68394⭐   2469🍴 fzf) - A general purpose command-line fuzzy finder, can be used with any list: files/directories, command history, processes, hostnames, bookmarks, git commits, etc.
•   4141⭐     86🍴 fselect) - Find files with SQL-like queries.
•  35785⭐    847🍴 fd) - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
•  11114⭐    236🍴 broot) - Fuzzy finder similar to fzf, but with space usage visualization.
•    291⭐     17🍴 rare) - Real-time regex aggregation and analysis.
•   5437⭐    199🍴 skim) - A general fuzzy finder written in rust, similar to fzf.
•   8112⭐    202🍴 ast-grep) - A tool for code structural search, linting and rewriting.

Version Control

•      ?⭐      ?🍴 SnowFS) - A fast, scalable version control system for binaries.

Git

•   1112⭐     60🍴 git commander) - Interactive git tool.
•   6484⭐    185🍴 git-stats) - A local GitHub-like contributions calendar.
•    179⭐     12🍴 dev-time) - Get the current local time of a GitHub user.
•  12624⭐    626🍴 tig) - Text-mode interface for git.
•   4044⭐     98🍴 grv) - Text-mode interface for git with customisable vi bindings.
•   7685⭐    311🍴 git-standup) - Recall what you did on the last working day.
•   3806⭐    200🍴 git-secret) - Store your private data inside a git repository.
•    266⭐     46🍴 gitlab-cli) - Create GitLab merge requests.
•  17527⭐   1209🍴 git-extras) - Git utilities.
•   1696⭐     72🍴 gita) - Manage multiple git repos side by side.
•  10992⭐   1379🍴 readme-md-generator) - Interactively generate README.md files.
•    148⭐     11🍴 semantic-git-commit-cli) - Ensure semantic commits messages.
•     17⭐      2🍴 import-github-labels-cli) - Sync labels between Github repos.
•      7⭐      0🍴 git-all-branches) - Improved git branch -a.
•   1226⭐     40🍴 czg) - Interactively generate standardized commit messages.
•   1266⭐    252🍴 shallow-backup) - Git integrated backup tool.
•  57323⭐   1971🍴 Lazygit) - Simple TUI for git commands.

GitHub

•    442⭐     15🍴 CLI GitHub) - Fancy GitHub client.
•  22893⭐   2199🍴 hub) - Make git easier to use with GitHub.
•    575⭐     34🍴 git-labelmaker) - Edit GitHub labels.

Emoji

•   4693⭐    206🍴 gitmoji-cli) - Use emoji in commit messages.
•    388⭐     49🍴 gitmoji-changelog) - Generate gitmoji changelogs.

Images

•  21375⭐   1404🍴 SVGO) - Optimize SVG files.
•   5844⭐    122🍴 carbon-now-cli) - Generate beautiful images of your code.
•     57⭐      7🍴 imgur-uploader-cli) - Upload images to imgur.
•   1696⭐     72🍴 pageres-cli) - Capture website screenshots.

Gif Creation

•    556⭐     30🍴 gifgen) - Simple high quality GIF encoding.
•   3879⭐    245🍴 gifsicle) - Create, manipulate, and optimize GIF images and animations.
•   3969⭐    256🍴 ttygif) - Convert terminal recordings to animated gifs.
•    270⭐     14🍴 ttygif) - ttyrec to gif.
•   3240⭐     93🍴 ttystudio) - A terminal-to-gif recorder minus the headaches.
•  14751⭐    929🍴 asciinema) - Terminal session recorder and companion app for asciinema.org.
•    221⭐      5🍴 givegif) - GIFs on the command line.

Image Conversion

• 🌎 imagemagick - Gold standard for anything images.
•   1062⭐     52🍴 imgp) - Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator.
•    377⭐     15🍴 korkut) - Quick and simple image processing.

Screensavers

•   4272⭐    438🍴 cmatrix) - Scrolling 'Matrix'-like screen.
•   2609⭐     76🍴 pipes.sh) - Random pipes that grow across the screen.
•     62⭐      1🍴 YuleLog) - Christmas Yule Log fireplace.
•     56⭐      1🍴 cli-fireplace) - Digital fireplace.

Graphics

•     93⭐      2🍴 cli-mandelbrot) - Traverse the Mandelbrot fractal.
•    142⭐      5🍴 sparkly-cli) - Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇..
•   5246⭐    105🍴 pastel) - Generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors.
•    214⭐      5🍴 lowcharts) - Draw low-resolution graphs.

Just for Fun

•     91⭐      6🍴 quote-cli) - Get a random quote or the quote of the day in your CLI.
•    457⭐     63🍴 fortune) - Shows a random fortune.
•   1232⭐     84🍴 ponysay) - Pony rewrite of cowsay.
•    205⭐     40🍴 yosay) - Like cowsay, but for yeoman.
•   6199⭐    218🍴 lolcat) - Outputs text in rainbow colors.
•    100⭐      6🍴 text-meme) - Generate text memes.
•     57⭐      6🍴 dankcli) - Add text to meme image templates.
•     64⭐      3🍴 ricksay) - Quotes from Rick and Morty.

Emoji

•   2374⭐     58🍴 emoj) - Find relevant emoji from text on the command-line.
•      ?⭐      ?🍴 emoji-finder) - Quickly find and copy emoji to the clipboard via the command-line.
•    719⭐     21🍴 oji) - Interactive text emoji maker.

Other Awesome Lists

•   1999⭐    113🍴 awesome-git-addons) - Addons that extend git cli.
•  33833⭐   2392🍴 awesome-shell) – Command-line utilities and frameworks.
•  12419⭐    609🍴 terminals-are-sexy) – Terminal frameworks, plugins & resources.
•  15981⭐    553🍴 awesome-zsh-plugins) – ZSH frameworks, plugins, tutorials & themes.
•  59777⭐   5895🍴 awesome-nodejs clis) – Node.js modules and resources.

License

To the extent possible under law, 🌎 Adam Garrett-Harris has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.

Source

 16014⭐    910🍴 agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps)