A curated list of command line apps.

Inspired by the awesome list thing.

Table of Contents

• Entertainment


• Music


• Social Media


• Video


• Movies


• Games


• Books


• Development


• Text Editors


• Web Development


• Mobile Development


• Database


• Devops


• Docker


• Release


• Npm


• Boilerplate


• 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


• Command Line Learning


• Data Manipulation


• Processors


• JSON


• Columns


• Text


• Files and Directories


• File Managers


• Deleting, Copying, and Renaming


• Files


• File Sync/Sharing


• Directory Listing


• Directory Navigation


• Search


• Version Control


• Git


• Images


• Gif Creation


• Image Conversion


• SVG


• Screensavers


• Graphics


• Just for Fun


• Other


• Emoji


• Other Awesome Lists


• License

Entertainment

• football-cli - Get live scores, fixtures, standings of almost every football competition/league.


• pockyt - Read, Manage, and Automate your Pocket collection.


• newsboat - An extendable RSS feed reader for text terminals.

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.


• nehm - Download tracks from SoundCloud.


• 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.


• playx - Stream songs/playlists from various sources.


• spotify-tui - Spotify client.


• swaglyrics-for-spotify - Spotify lyrics.

Social Media

• facebook-cli - Facebook command line interface.


• TTYtter - Twitter client.


• 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.

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.

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.

Books

• epr - epub reader.


• Bible.Js CLI - Bible.


• SpeedRead - Spritz-alike speedreader.

Development

• bcal - Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations.


• cgasm - Gives x86 assembly documentation.


• 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 in your terminal when you get a compiler error.


• bitwise - Base conversion and bit manipulator in ncurses.


• foy - Lightweight general purpose task runner/build tool.


• just - Modern make-like command runner.


• grex - Generate regular expressions from user-provided test cases.

Text Editors

• emacs - An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more.


• vim - Vim - the ubiquitous text editor.


• neovim - Vim fork focused on extensibility and usability.


• kakoune - Modal editor inspired by vim.


• micro - A simple and intuitive editor.

Web Development

• caniuse-cmd - Search caniuse.com about browser support of feature.


• is-up-cli - Check whether a website is up.


• pageres-cli - Capture website screenshots.


• strip-css-comments-cli - Strip comments from CSS.


• viewport-list-cli - Return a list of devices and their viewports.


• surge - Deploy a directory to the web.


• loadtest - Runs a load test on the selected URL. Easy to extend minimally for your own ends.


• wp-cli - Manage WordPress installations, update plugins, set up multisite installs and much more.


• diff2html-cli - Parse git diffs as JSON and generate pretty HTML.


• HTTPie - A user-friendly HTTP client.


• serve - Easy to use static file server with features like https, CORS and GZIP compression.


• add-gitignore - Interactively generate a .gitignore for your project based on your needs.


• Discharge - Deploy static websites to Amazon S3.


• reachable - Check if a domain is up.


• simplehttp - Easily serve a local directory over http.


• shell2http - Execute shell commands via HTTP server.


• HTTP Prompt - Interactive HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting.


• ipfs-deploy - Deploy static websites to IPFS.

Mobile Development

• mobicon-cli - Mobile app icon generator.


• mobisplash-cli - Mobile app splash screen generator.


• deviceframe - Put device frames around your mobile/web/progressive app screenshots.

Database

• mycli - MySQL client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.


• pgcli - Postgres client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.


• sqlline - Shell for issuing SQL via JDBC.


• iredis - Redis client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.


• usql - Universal SQL client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.

Devops

• htconvert - Convert .htaccess redirects to nginx.conf redirects.


• SAWS - Supercharged AWS CLI.


• s3cmd - Fully-Featured S3 client.


• pm2 - Production Process Manager for Node.js.


• ops - Unikernel compilation and orchestration tool.


• flog - A fake log generator for log formats such as apache-common, apache error and RFC3164 syslog.


• isitfit - Manage AWS EC2 rightsizing.


• k9s - Manage Kubernetes Clusters.


• PingMe - Send messages/alerts to multiple messaging platforms & email.

Docker

• lstags - Synchronize images across registries.


• dockly - Interactively manage containers.


• lazydocker - Simple docker/docker-compose interface.


• docker-shell - Simple interactive docker interface.


• docker-pushrm - Push a readme to container registries.

Release

• release-it - Automate releases for Git repositories and/or npm packages. Changelog generation, GitHub/GitLab releases, etc.


• clog - A conventional changelog for the rest of us.


• np - A better 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.

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.

Productivity

• AutoScreenshotUploader - Capture and upload screenshots to imgur.


• bitly-client - Bitly client.


• 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.


• imgur-uploader-cli - Upload images to imgur.


• meetup-cli - Meetup.com client.


• NeoMutt - Email client.


• terjira - Jira client.


• ipt - Pivotal Tracker client.


• g3l - Easiest git cli in the w0rld!


• uber-cli - Uber client.


• Buku - Browser-independent bookmark manager.


• googler - Google from the terminal.


• papis - Extensible document and bibliography manager.

Time Tracking

• Timetrap - Simple timetracker.


• moro - Simple tool for tracking work hours.


• Timewarrior - Utility with simple stopwatch, calendar-based backfill and flexible reporting.


• Watson - Generate reports for clients and manage your time.


• utt - Simple time tracking tool.

Note Taking and Lists

• idea - A lightweight tool for keeping ideas in a safe place quick and easy.


• geeknote - Evernote client.


• Taskwarrior - Manage your TODO list.


• Terminal velocity - A fast note-taking app.


• eureka - Input and store your ideas.


• sncli - Simplenote client.


• td-cli - A TODO manager to organize and manage your TODO's across multiple projects.


• taskell - Interactive kanban board/task manager.


• taskbook - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat.


• dnote - A interactive, multi-device notebook.

Finance

• ledger - Powerful, double-entry accounting system on the terminal


• moeda - Foreign exchange rates and currency conversion.


• cash-cli - Convert Currency Rates.


• cointop - Track cryptocurrencies.


• ticker - Stock ticker.

Presentations

• WOPR - A simple markup language for creating rich terminal reports, presentations and infographics.


• decktape - PDF exporter for HTML presentations.


• mdp - A command-line based markdown presentation tool.


• sent - Simple plaintext presentation tool.

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.

Utilities

• archive-type-cli - Detect archive type for a file or stdin.


• s - Open a web search in your terminal.


• aria2 - HTTP, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink download utility.


• wego - Get the weather.


• weather-cli - Check the weather.


• mapscii - Terminal Map Viewer.


• getnews.tech - Fetch news headlines from various news outlets.


• carbon-now-cli - Generate beautiful images of your code.


• awesome-finder - Search the awesome lists without a browser.


• shallow-backup - Git integrated backup tool.

macOS

• open-pip-cli - Watch videos in picture-in-picture player.


• app-path-cli - Get the path to an app.


• bundle-id-cli - Get bundle identifier from a bundle name: Safari → com.apple.Safari.


• bundle-name-cli - Get bundle name from a bundle identifier: com.apple.Safari → Safari.


• lnfs-cli - Safely force create symlinks.


• osx-version-cli - Get the macOS version.


• 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.


• website-popup-cli - Open a website in a popup.


• dark-mode - Toggle dark mode.

Terminal Sharing Utilities

• gotty - Share your terminal as a web application.


• localtunnel - Expose your localhost to the world for easy testing and sharing.


• mosh - Remote SSH client that allows roaming with intermittent connectivity.


• ngrok - Secure introspectable tunnels to localhost.


• serveo - Expose local servers to the internet using only a SSH client.


• seashells.io - Pipe output to the web.


• teleconsole - Share your UNIX terminal.


• tmate - Instant terminal (tmux) sharing.


• warp - Secure and simple terminal sharing.


• OverTime - Time-overlap tables for remote teams.

Network Utilities

• get-port-cli - Get an available port.


• is-reachable-cli - Check if hostnames are reachable or not.


• 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.

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.


• pywal - Generate and change color-schemes, then apply them system-wide to all of your favourite programs.


• QuickWall - Directly set wallpapers from Unsplash.

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.

System Interaction Utilities

• battery-level-cli - Get current battery level.


• brightness-cli - Change screen brightness (windows).


• yank - Yank terminal output to clipboard.


• screensaver - Start the screensaver.


• google-font-installer - Download and install Google Web Fonts on your local machine.


• neofetch - System information tool.


• Glances - System monitoring tool.

Markdown

• DocToc - Generates table of contents for markdown files.


• grip - Preview markdown files as GitHub would render them.


• mdv - Styled terminal markdown viewer.

Security

• pass - Password manager.


• gopass - Fully-featured password manager.


• xiringuito - SSH-based VPN.


• acmetool - Automatic certificate acquisition for ACME (Let's Encrypt).


• certificate-ripper - Extract server certificates.


• ots - Share secrets with others via a one-time URL.

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.

Data Manipulation

• visidata - Spreadsheet multitool for data discovery and arrangement.

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.

JSON

• jp - JSON parser.


• fx - Command-line JSON viewer.


• vj - Makes JSON human readable.


• underscore-cli - Utility-belt for hacking JSON and Javascript.


• strip-json-comments-cli - Strip comments from JSON.


• GROQ – JSON processor with queries and projections.

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 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.

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.


• diskonaut - Disk space navigator.

Files

• chokidar-cli - CLI to watch file system changes.


• file-type-cli - Detect the file type of a file or stdin.


• bat - A cat clone with syntax highlighting.


• NCDu - A disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface.


• unix-permissions - Swiss Army knife for Unix permissions.


• transmission-cli - Torrent client for your command line.


• webtorrent-cli – Streaming torrent client.


• entr - Run an arbitrary command when files change.


• organize-cli - Organize your files automatically.


• organize-rt - organize-cli in Rust with more customization.


• RecoverPy - Recover overwritten or deleted files.

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.

Directory Listing

• alder - Minimal tree with colors.


• exa - Improved version of ls.


• tre - tree with git awareness, editor aliasing, and more.


• ll - ls with git status.

Directory Navigation

• autojump - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line.


• fasd - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories, inspired by autojump, z and v.


• 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.

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.

Version Control

• SnowFS - A fast, scalable version control system for binaries.

Git

• CLI GitHub - :tv: A fancy GitHub client for command line.


• Gistup - Create a gist from terminal, then use git to update it.


• git commander - A git tool with a easy terminal interface.


• git-stats - :four_leaf_clover: A GitHub-like contributions calendar, but locally, with all your git commits.


• hub - A command-line wrapper for git that makes you better at GitHub.


• dev-time - Get the current local time of a GitHub user.


• git-labelmaker - Edit GitHub labels from the command line.


• 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 - gitlab cli for creating merge request from the command line.


• git-extras - Little git extras like git-ignore, git-setup, git-changelog, git-release, git-effort and more.


• gita - Manage multiple git repos side by side for sanity.


• readme-md-generator - Generate README.md files interactively.


• semantic-git-commit-cli - Ensure semantic commits messages.


• import-github-labels-cli - Sync labels between Github repos.


• git-all-branches - Improved git branch -a.

Images
Gif Creation

• gifgen - Simple high quality GIF encoding.


• gifsicle - Create, manipulate, and optimize GIF images and animations.


• ttygif - Convert terminal recordings to animated gifs.


• ttygif - ttyrec to gif.


• ttystudio - A terminal-to-gif recorder minus the headaches.


• asciinema - Terminal session recorder and the best companion of asciinema.org.


• givegif - GIFs on the command line.

Image Conversion

• imgp - Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator.


• korkut - Quick and simple image processing.


• imagemagick - Gold standard for anything images.

SVG

• SVGO - SVG Optimizer is a Nodejs-based tool for optimizing SVG vector graphics files.

Screensavers

• cmatrix - Show a scrolling 'Matrix' like screen.


• pipes.sh - Shows random pipes that grow across the screen.


• YuleLog - Terminal based Christmas YuleLog fireplace.


• cli-fireplace - Shows digital fireplace.

Graphics

• cli-mandelbrot - A cli for traversing the Mandelbrot fractal.


• sparkly-cli - Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇..


• pastel - Generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors.

Just for Fun

• cowsay - A configurable talking cow (and other animals).


• 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.

Other

• birthday - Know when a friend's birthday is coming.


• detect-indent-cli - Detect the indentation of code.


• fullname-cli - Get the fullname of the current user.


• gzip-size-cli - Get the gzipped size of a file or stdin.


• HASHA -cli - Hashing made simple. Get the hash of text or stdin.


• kill-tabs - Kill all Chrome tabs to improve performance, decrease battery usage, and save memory.


• leven-cli - Measure the difference between two strings using the Levenshtein distance algorithm.


• mdlt - Do quick math right from the command line.


• medium-cli - Read medium.com stories within your terminal, also gives top stories.


• open-shortcut-cli - Open the URL from a web shortcut file in the browser.


• shortcut-url-cli - Get the URL from a web shortcut file.


• to-double-quotes - Convert matching single-quotes to double-quotes: I 'love' unicorns => I "love" unicorns.


• to-single-quotes - Convert matching double-quotes to single-quotes: I "love" unicorns → I 'love' unicorns.


• gdb-dashboard - Modular visual interface for GDB in Python.


• hget - Render websites in plain text from your terminal.


• google-wifi-status - A Node.js CLI app that displays status of your Google Wifi / OnHub router.


• calories - Calories and weight tracker.


• trino - Trino CLI allows a quick and easy translation of words and phrases entered in the command line.


• alex - This enhances texts with checking for insensitive, inconsiderate writing by catching many possible offences.


• nasa-cli - Download NASA Picture of the Day from your terminal.


• googlr - Search Google from the command line.


• Qalculate - Calculate non-trival math expressions. Unit conversions, symbolic calculations and more.


• translate-shell - Google Translate interface.

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.


• gitmoji-cli - Use emoji in commit messages.


• gitmoji-changelog - Generate gitmoji changelogs.

Other Awesome Lists

• awesome-command-line-apps – An alternative awesome list of cli apps.


• awesome-macos-command-line - Shell commands and tools specific to macOS.


• awesome-git-addons - Addons that extend git cli.


• 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.

License

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