If you have any suggestion or want your project included in the list, you can either open a pull request or send me an email with the necessary information.
* [borg](https://www.borgbackup.org/) - Encrypted backups with a clean and simple interface, easy to use and set up, possibility to mount the backup archive with FUSE and inspect it as a regular file system.
* [duplicity](http://duplicity.nongnu.org/) - Creates GPG encrypted, compressed backups; client-side encryption allows to upload the backup onto untrusted servers.
* [Duply](http://duply.net/) - Simplifies the use of [duplicity](http://duplicity.nongnu.org/) by keeping clean configuration files to automate the backup.
* [kalk](https://github.com/PaddiM8/kalker) - Command line calculator that supports math-like syntax with user-defined variables, functions, derivation, integration, and complex numbers.
* [mdlt](https://github.com/metadelta/mdlt) - A lightweight command line tool that lets you perform arithmetic and symbolic math operations right from the terminal.
* [pdd](https://github.com/jarun/pdd) - Tiny date, time diff calculator.
* [Programmer calculator](https://github.com/alt-romes/programmer-calculator) - Terminal calculator made for programmers working with multiple number representations, sizes, and overall close to the bits.
* [finch](http://www.pidgin.im/) - IM program supporting many protocols, including Yahoo!, AIM, IRC, or WLM; comes with the `Pidgin` project.
* [irssi](http://www.irssi.org) - The most popular IRC client for the command-line; a flexible program, with many options and supporting many protocols.
* [kirc](http://kirc.io/) - A tiny IRC client written in POSIX C99.
* [matterhorn](https://github.com/matterhorn-chat/matterhorn) - A terminal client for the Mattermost chat system.
* [PingMe](https://github.com/kha7iq/pingme) - Sends messages or alerts to multiple messaging platforms & email, including Slack, Telegram, Mattermost, WeChat and others.
* [RainbowStream](http://www.rainbowstream.org/) - Twitter client for the terminal allows almost all the operations that can be done from GUI and Web clients.
* [docfd](https://github.com/darrenldl/docfd) - TUI fuzzy document finder that looks for documentation files in markdown and txt format in the directory tree.
* [MUC](https://github.com/nate-sys/muc) - Visualize your most used commands.
* [Nap](https://github.com/maaslalani/nap) - Code snippet manager that allows to create and access new snippets quickly with the command-line interface or browse, manage, and organize them with the text-user interface.
* [navi](https://github.com/denisidoro/navi) - An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line.
* [tealdeer](https://github.com/dbrgn/tealdeer) - Very fast implementation of tldr in Rust.
* [The Fuck](https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck) - Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command (although I would be extra-cautious at making a program to automatically infer what I was intending).
* [catdoc](http://www.wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/) - Command line converter from Microsoft Word to plain text, output is sent to the standard output.
* [Pandoc](http://pandoc.org/) - Universal document file converter; handles input output from/to a number of formats: HTML, PDF, LaTeX, docx, odt, AsciiDoc, Markdown, Textile, just to mention a few; the quality of conversion strongly depends on the combination of input/output formats.
* [simtex](https://github.com/simtex-dev/engine) - simtex (simplified LaTeX) allows you to convert your markdown or text lectures into LaTeX file with one command, configured with simple .json file.
* [Vertopal-CLI](https://github.com/vertopal/vertopal-cli) - Vertopal-CLI is a small, yet powerful utility for converting digital files to a variety of file formats using Vertopal public API.
* [crudini](https://github.com/pixelb/crudini) - A utility for manipulating ini files.
* [csvkit](https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit) - A suite of command-line tools for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats.
* [csvq](https://github.com/mithrandie/csvq) - SQL-like query language for csv.
* [dasel](https://github.com/TomWright/dasel) - Allows you to query and modify data structures using selector strings.
* [datadash](https://github.com/keithknott26/datadash) - Visualize and graph data in the terminal.
* [datasetGPT](https://github.com/radi-cho/datasetGPT) - A command-line interface and a Python library for inferencing Large Language Models to generate textual datasets.
* [Dolt](https://github.com/dolthub/dolt) - Dolt is Git for Data! Dolt is a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge, push and pull just like a git repository.
* [GNU Recutils](https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/manual/) - Set of tools and libraries to access human-editable, text-based databases called recfiles.
* [gnuplot](https://www.explainshell.com/explain/1/gnuplot) - Generate two and three dimensional plots of data.
* [Graphtage](https://github.com/trailofbits/graphtage) - Graphtage is a commandline utility and underlying library for semantically comparing and merging tree-like structures, such as JSON, XML, HTML, YAML, plist, and CSS files.
* [GROQ](https://github.com/sanity-io/groq-cli) - The CLI tool consumes both JSON and NDJSON documents. You can pass in data from a local file, or from piping to standard input.
* [IRedis](https://github.com/laixintao/iredis) - Interactive Redis: A Cli for Redis with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.
* [jp](https://github.com/therealklanni/jp) - A tiny commandline tool for parsing JSON from any source.
* [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) - (JSON Query?) is sed-like processor for JSON data; can be used to process JSON files and data streams and perform operations such as those allowed by `cat`, `sed`, `grep` and `awk` on regular text files.
* [jqp](https://github.com/noahgorstein/jqp) - A TUI playground for exploring jq.
* [jtc](https://github.com/ldn-softdev/jtc) - JSON manipulation and transformation.
* [lowcharts](https://github.com/juan-leon/lowcharts) - lowcharts is meant to be used in those scenarios where we have numerical data in text files that we want to display in the terminal to do a basic analysis.
* [Miller](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller) - Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for data formats such as CSV, TSV, JSON, JSON Lines, and positionally-indexed.
* [mycli](https://github.com/dbcli/mycli) - A command line client for MySQL that can do auto-completion and syntax highlighting.
* [q](http://harelba.github.io/q/) - Executes SQL-like queries on CSVs/TSVs tabular data files; each tabular file is treated as a database table; support to all SQL constructs (`WHERE`, `GROUP BY`, `JOIN`).
* [ramda-cli](https://github.com/raine/ramda-cli) - A tool for processing data with functional pipelines.
* [Redis Viewer](https://github.com/SaltFishPr/redis-viewer) - A tool to view redis data in terminal.
* [ROAPI](https://github.com/roapi/roapi) - ROAPI automatically spins up read-only APIs for static datasets without requiring you to write a single line of code.
* [Soul](https://github.com/thevahidal/soul) - A SQLite REST and realtime server.
* [sq](https://github.com/neilotoole/sq) - Command line tool that provides jq-style access to structured data sources such as SQL databases, or document formats like CSV or Excel.
* [termdbms](https://github.com/mathaou/termdbms) - A TUI for viewing and editing databases, written in pure Go.
* [TSV Utilities](https://github.com/eBay/tsv-utils) - Command line tools for large, tabular data files.
* [underscore-cli](https://github.com/ddopson/underscore-cli) - Command-line utility-belt for hacking JSON and Javascript.
* [usql](https://github.com/xo/usql) - Universal command-line interface for PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle Database, SQLite3, Microsoft SQL Server, and others, including NoSQL and non-relational databases.
* [VisiData](https://www.visidata.org/) - Interactive multitool for tabular data. It combines the clarity of a spreadsheet, the efficiency of the terminal, and the power of Python, into a lightweight utility which can handle millions of rows with ease.
* [zq](https://zed.brimdata.io/docs/commands/zq/) - Processor for JSON data with stateful operators and a syntax that is more consistent w.r.t. jq (as claimed by the authors).
* [Jitter](https://github.com/kevspau/jitter) - A repository-oriented binary manager for Linux, Jitter searches through online repository (currently only on GitHub) for releases with .tar.gz, .tgz, .zip or .AppImage assets.
* [lftp](https://lftp.yar.ru/) - "Sophisticated ftp/http client, and a file transfer program supporting a number of network protocols"; support for bookmarks and mirroring features.
* [Magic Wormhole](https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole) - The program allows transfer arbitrary-sized files and directories (or short pieces of text) from one computer to another The two endpoints are identified by using identical human-readable codes.
* [Nextcloud share URL downloader](https://github.com/aertslab/nextcloud_share_url_downloader) - Download files from and list content of NextCloud (password protected) share directly from the command line without needing a webbrowser.
* [pbgopy](https://github.com/nakabonne/pbgopy) - Copy and paste between devices.
* [pbproxy](https://github.com/nikvdp/pbproxy) - Send your clipboard anywhere you can ssh to.
* [portal](https://github.com/SpatiumPortae/portal) - A quick and easy command-line file transfer utility from any computer to another.
* [qr-filetransfer](https://github.com/sdushantha/qr-filetransfer) - Transfer files over WiFi between your computer and your smartphone from the terminal.
* [qrcp](https://www.linuxuprising.com/2020/07/qrcp-transfer-files-between-desktop-and.html) - Transfer Files Between Desktop And Mobile Devices Over Wi-Fi By Scanning A QR Code.
* [rclone](https://rclone.org/) - Rclone manages file synchronization on cloud storage.
* [rsync](https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/rsync.html) - Mirror directories across networked machines, handles diffs/changed files, works across SSH, plenty of parameters.
* [sharing](https://github.com/parvardegr/sharing) - Sharing is a command-line tool to share directories and files from the CLI to iOS and Android devices without the need of an extra client app.
* [shcopy](https://github.com/aymanbagabas/shcopy) - Copy text to your system clipboard locally and remotely using ANSI OSC52 sequence.
* [sitecopy](http://www.manyfish.co.uk/sitecopy/) - Synchronizes a local copy of a website with a remote copy on a server, does not use SSH/`scp` but FTP for file copy, useful when the remote server does not support secure copy.
* [Unison](https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/) - File synchronizer. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.
* [Woof](http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/woof.html) - (Web Offer One File) sets up an HTTP webserver to serve files from a given local directory all the users connected to the network can see and download the files.
* [xh](https://github.com/ducaale/xh) - xh is a friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests. It reimplements as much as possible of HTTPie's excellent design.
* [youtube-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/) - Downloads videos from [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/) and some other sites useful for automated bulk downloads.
* [yt-splitter](https://github.com/redsolver/yt-splitter) - Downloads and splits audio tracks from a YouTube video according to the chapters/tracks. Useful for compilations or full album uploads.
* [ytfzf](https://github.com/pystardust/ytfzf) - A POSIX script that helps you find Youtube videos (without API) and opens/downloads them using mpv/youtube-dl.
* [ytmdl](https://github.com/deepjyoti30/ytmdl) - Get songs from Youtube in mp3 format.
* [cdwe](https://github.com/synoet/cdwe) - (cd with env vars) Wrapper of the cd command that sets and unsets env vars when you change dir based on a config file.
* [fasd](https://github.com/clvv/fasd) - A Commandline Tool That Offers Quick Access to Files and Directories. It offers quick access to files and directories for POSIX shells. It is inspired by tools like autojump, z and v. Fasd keeps track of files and directories you have accessed, so that you can quickly reference them in the command line.
* [fastdiract](https://github.com/dp12/fastdiract) - Lightning-fast cd and command execution.
* [SmartCd](https://github.com/CodesOfRishi/smartcd) - A cd command with improved usability features, which can remember your recently visited directory paths and, search and directly traverse to sub-directories and as well as parent directories, all with Fuzzy searching.
* [z](https://github.com/rupa/z) - Directory changer based on aging and frecency.
* [z.lua](https://github.com/skywind3000/z.lua) - Directory changer that learns your habits.
* [zoxide](https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide) - A faster way to navigate your filesystem.
* [Chatblade](https://github.com/npiv/chatblade) - Chatblade is a versatile command-line interface (CLI) tool designed to interact with OpenAI's ChatGPT.
* [chatgpt](https://github.com/mglantz/chatgpt) - Simple command line integration to Chat GPT.
* [cligpt](https://github.com/paij0se/cligpt) - ChatGPT but in the terminal.
Using GPT tools to generate commands at the command line.
* [aido-cli](https://github.com/kris7ian/aido-cli) - Looks another interface to online GPT models to execute command through natural language. Very poor documentation and readme, though.
* [CLI Co-Pilot](https://github.com/AntonOsika/CLI-Co-Pilot) - CLI tool that uses GPT4 to turn natural language commands into their Bash/ZShell/PowerShell equivalents.
* [Commandpilot](https://github.com/barthr/commandpilot) - An assistant which uses ChatGPT to aid in constructing commands for bash.
* [gpt-do](https://github.com/yasyf/gpt-do) - This is a handy-dandy CLI for when you don't know wtf to do; instead of furiously grepping through man pages, simply use do (or ddo if on bash/zsh), and have GPT-3 do all the magic for you.
* [Llama Terminal Completion](https://github.com/adammpkins/llama-terminal-completion) - Application that interacts with the llama.cpp library to provide virtual assistant capabilities through the command line. It allows you to ask questions and receive intelligent responses, as well as generate Linux commands based on your prompts.
* [Dirdiff](https://github.com/OCamlPro/dirdiff) - Efficiently compute the differences between two directories.
* [leven-cli](https://github.com/sindresorhus/leven-cli) - Measure the difference between two strings using the Levenshtein distance algorithm.
* [pdf-diff](https://github.com/serhack/pdf-diff) - A tool for visualizing differences between two pdf files. Mainly dedicated to editors that usually spends a lot of hours on several pdf.
* [cdu](http://arsunik.free.fr/prog/cdu.html) - cdu (colored `du`) is a perl script that calls `du` and displays a pretty histogram with optional colors allowing to immediately see the directories which take most disk space.
* [dfc](https://github.com/rolinh/dfc) - Report file system space usage information with style.
* [diskonaut](https://github.com/imsnif/diskonaut) - Terminal disk space navigator that traverse the file-system with a TUI interface.
* [diskus](https://github.com/sharkdp/diskus) - Minimal, fast alternative to du -sh.
* [dua](https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli) - Disk Usage Analyzer. Learn about the usage of disk space of a given directory with parallel access to max out SSD exploration.
* [duf](https://github.com/muesli/duf) - Disk Usage/Free Utility.
* [Dust](https://github.com/bootandy/dust) - du + rust = dust. Like du but more intuitive.
* [dutree](https://github.com/nachoparker/dutree) - A tool to analyze file system usage written in Rust.
* [erdtree](https://github.com/solidiquis/erdtree) - A multi-threaded file-tree visualizer and disk usage analyzer.
* [gdu](https://github.com/dundee/gdu) - Pretty fast disk usage analyzer written in Go. Gdu is intended primarily for SSD disks where it can fully utilize parallel processing. However HDDs work as well, but the performance gain is not so huge.
* [ncdu](https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu) - "A disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface. It is designed to find space hogs on a remote server where you don't have an entire graphical setup available."
* [Emacs](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) - One of the godfathers of text editors, free long-standing software project, tons of extensions and funcionalities, the biggest drawback (my taste): it needs [E-Lisp](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/eintr.html) for being programmed.
* [Helix](https://github.com/helix-editor/helix) - A kakoune / neovim inspired editor, written in Rust. The editing model is very heavily based on kakoune.
* [joe](http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/) - (Joe's Own Editor) is a compact text editor written in C, a detailed list of features and missing ones is explicitly reported in the website, this editor is mentioned in several web sources for its capability in handling large files.
* [micro](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro) - A terminal-based text editor written in Go that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals.
* [nano](https://www.nano-editor.org/) - Easy to use, lightweigth text editor; no complex keybindings to remember.
* [neovim](https://neovim.io/) - A work in progress attempt to improve [vim](http://www.vim.org/), dropping older/unused OS compatibility, improving the codebase readability, modularity and maintainability; it has chances to become the next choice of vim users.
* [o](https://github.com/xyproto/orbiton) - Configuration-free text editor and IDE limited to VT100. Suitable for writing git commit messages, editing Markdown, config files, source code, viewing man pages and for quick edit-compile cycles when programming.
* [slap](https://github.com/slap-editor/slap) - Text editor inspired by [Sublime Text](https://www.sublimetext.com/) written in NodeJS, extedable in Javascript.
* [Tilde](https://os.ghalkes.nl/tilde/) - Tilde is a text editor that provides an intuitive interface for people accustomed to GUI environments, usual shortcuts for common operation, a traditional menu bar, etc.
* [vai](https://github.com/stefanoborini/vai) - A text editor similar to `vim` written in Python; many feature are nicely replicated, some are still missing; however, the advantage of this implementation is its simplicity, maintainability and extensibility, thanks to the Python implementation.
* [vim](http://www.vim.org/) - Historically one of the preferred text editors, behavior based on editing modes, plenty of plugins and tips to address every possible editing problem.
* [vis](https://github.com/martanne/vis) - "a modern, legacy free, simple yet efficient vim-like editor", and more: "The intention is not to be bug for bug compatible with vim, instead a similar editing experience should be provided. The goal could thus be summarized as 80% of vim's features implemented in roughly 1% of the code"; the editor is scriptable in LUA and supports editing large files.
* [vy](https://github.com/vyapp/vy) - A vim-like in python made from scratch.
* [WordGrinder](https://cowlark.com/wordgrinder/) - From the website: "WordGrinder is a word processor for processing words. It is not WYSIWYG. It is not point and click. It is not a desktop publisher. It is not a text editor. It does not do fonts and it barely does styles. What it does do is words. It's designed for writing text. It gets out of your way and lets you type."
* [zee](https://github.com/zee-editor/zee) - Zee is a modern editor for the terminal, in the spirit of Emacs. It is written in Rust and it is somewhat experimental.
* [alpine](http://www.washington.edu/alpine/) - Mail client which aims at being "fast, easy to use email client that is suitable for both the inexperienced email user as well as for the most demanding of power users".
* [nmail](https://github.com/d99kris/nmail) - nmail is a console-based email client for Linux and macOS with a user interface similar to alpine / pine.
* [pymailgen](https://github.com/toolleeo/pymailgen) - Starting from the content of a CSV file and a template text file, pymailgen generates a list of emails to be sent out using a command-line SMTP client.
* [sup](http://sup-heliotrope.github.io/) - MUA written in Ruby; specifically developed for accounts with "a lot of emails"; nice thread-based presentation.
* [tmpmail](https://github.com/sdushantha/tmpmail) - A command line utility written in POSIX sh that allows you to create a temporary email address and receive emails to the temporary email address.
## <a name="file-dir-cleanup"></a>Clean up of files and directories
Find/remove duplicate files, automatically organize files, etc..
* [backdown](https://github.com/Canop/backdown) - Safely and ergonomically remove duplicate files
* [classifier](https://github.com/bhrigu123/classifier) - Organize files in your current directory, by classifying them into folders of music, pdfs, images, etc.
* [czkawka](https://qarmin.github.io/czkawka/) - Remove unnecessary files from your computer
* [detox](http://detox.sourceforge.net/) - A utility designed to easily clean up filenames, it replaces characters like spaces with standard equivalents, it also replace UTF-8 or Latin-1 (or CP 1252) characters with more handy ones.
* [Dext](https://github.com/AfzGit/dext) - (Directories by Extensions) is a script that moves (or copies) files of the same extension into a folder.
* [ff](https://github.com/akymos/ff) - ff is a command-line tool to manage favorite folders, creating an alias, to be used via shell directly with the cd command.
* [inventory](https://github.com/mothdotmonster/inventory) - Move files like an old text adventure.
* [mat2](https://0xacab.org/jvoisin/mat2.git) - Metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of commonly used file formats.
* [organize-cli](https://github.com/ManrajGrover/organize-cli) - Organize your files automatically.
* [rmlint](https://github.com/sahib/rmlint/) - A tool to recursively scan a directory tree looking for duplicate and broken files, it outputs statistics and save the list of files in JSON format, it produce a shell script that can be inspected before running it to delete the desire files.
## <a name="file-explorer"></a>File explorer and tree visualization
Show directory trees and navigate through the file system (but not full featured file managers).
* [alder](https://github.com/aweary/alder) - Directory tree visualizer.
* [browsr](https://github.com/juftin/browsr) - A pleasant file explorer that can browse the contents of local and remote filesystems with your keyboard or mouse; remotes include GitHub, over SSH, in AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, or Azure Blob Storage.
* [Hop!](https://github.com/benrutter/hop) - File explorer designed to be fast, simple and user friendly, running on any operating system.
* [ictree](https://github.com/NikitaIvanovV/ictree) - Like tree but interactive.
* [tre](https://github.com/dduan/tre) - `tree` command improved with git awareness, editor aliasing, and colors.
* [tree](http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/tree/) - "Recursive directory listing command that produces a depth indented listing of files".
* [twf](https://github.com/wvanlint/twf) - Standalone tree view file explorer.
* [xplr](https://github.com/sayanarijit/xplr) - A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer, stealing ideas from nnn and fzf.
## <a name="find"></a>File finding (alternatives to find)
Search the filesystem looking for files with specific characteristics.
* [fd](https://github.com/sharkdp/fd) - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find. Written in Rust.
* [Findpick](https://github.com/thingsiplay/findpick) - General purpose file picker combining "find" command with a fuzzy finder.
* [friendly-find](https://github.com/sjl/friendly-find) - Usable replacement for find.
* [gret](https://github.com/4imothy/gret) - A command-line utility designed to search through directories and files for a regex expression that matches.
* [happyfinder](https://github.com/hugows/hf) - (another) Fuzzy file finder for the command line.
* [dtrx](https://brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/) - (Do The Right eXtraction) aims at taking "all the hassle out of extracting archives"; allows to use one command to extract archives in different formats, recursive extraction (files into file) and extracts files into dedicated directories.
* [gcp](https://github.com/aelafifi/gcp/) - `gcp` (Goffi's cp) is an advanced file copier tool, heavily inspired from the traditional `cp` command utility, but with some additional features: Displays the copy progress indicator, with estimated time, current file speed; logs of all actions; resume of interrupted copy processes.
* [PathPicker](https://facebook.github.io/PathPicker/) - A tool from Facebook that parses the output from a command and presents a UI to select files and directories, can be used to apply a command of a interactively selected files or to move across directories.
* [pcopy](https://github.com/binwiederhier/pcopy) - A temporary file host, nopaste and clipboard across machines. It can be used from the Web UI, via a CLI or without a client by using curl.
* [progress](https://github.com/Xfennec/progress) - A tool to monitor the progress of common Coreutils command-line tools (`cp`, `mv`, `dd`, `tar`, `rsync`, etc.); it uses an ncurses interface to display the percentage of data copied; it works by reading from system files and retrieving the necessary information for the estimation.
* [pycp](https://github.com/dmerejkowsky/pycp) - cp and mv with a progressbar.
* [RecoverPy](https://github.com/PabloLec/RecoverPy) - RecoverPy is a powerful tool that leverages your system capabilities to recover lost files. Unlike others, you can not only recover deleted files but also overwritten data.
* [rmw](https://remove-to-waste.info/) - (ReMove to Waste) is a trashcan/recycle bin utility for the command line. It can move and restore files to and from directories specified in a configuration file.
* [TUI Archiver](https://www.nexus0.net/pub/sw/tuiarchiver/) - A TUI/CLI application to list / manage archives. Can be used stand-alone and has some features for integrating with TUI file managers
* [colorls](https://github.com/athityakumar/colorls) - A Ruby script that colorizes the `ls` output with color and icons.
* [exa](https://the.exa.website/) - Replacement for 'ls' written in Rust, with colors and several additional "views".
* [ll](https://github.com/antonmedv/ll) - ls with git status.
* [lsd](https://github.com/lsd-rs/lsd) - This project is a rewrite of GNU ls with lot of added features like colors, icons, tree-view, more formatting options etc. The project is heavily inspired by the super colorls project.
* [nat](https://github.com/willdoescode/nat) - Complete replacement for the `ls` command.
* [pretty-ls](https://github.com/ix/pretty-ls) - Rust ls clone with pretty colors.
* [clifm](https://github.com/leo-arch/clifm) - A CLI-based, shell-like, and non-curses terminal file manager written in C: simple, fast, extensible, and lightweight as hell.
* [lf](https://github.com/gokcehan/lf) - lf (as in "list files") is a terminal file manager written in Go with a heavy inspiration from ranger file manager.
* [lfm](https://inigo.katxi.org/devel/lfm/) - (Last File Manager) is a file manager written in Python; it comes with lots of features, including 1-pane or 2-pane view, files filters and bookmarks, tree view, virtual file-systems to open compressed archives, search in files, customizable keybindings and themes.
* [Midnight Commander](http://www.midnight-commander.org/) - A visual file manager, full-screen text mode application that allows you to copy, move and delete files and whole directory trees and search for files; includes an internal viewer and editor.
* [ncursesFM](https://github.com/FedeDP/ncursesFM) - File manager written in C, rather complete in terms of features, especially lightweight and responsive.
* [nnn](https://github.com/jarun/nnn) - "The unorthodox terminal file manager" is a tiny, nearly 0-config and fast file manager supporting all the operations on files and directories.
* [ranger](https://ranger.github.io/) - Console file manager with vi key bindings, curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy, comes with a file launcher that automatically determines which program to use for opening a given file type.
* [rnr](https://github.com/bugnano/rnr) - The RNR File Manager (RNR's Not Ranger) is a text based file manager that combines the best features of Midnight Commander and Ranger.
* [TUIFI Manager](https://github.com/GiorgosXou/TUIFIManager) - A cross-platform terminal-based termux-oriented file manager (and component), meant to be used with a Uni-Curses project or as is.
* [vifm](https://vifm.info/) - "ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings/modes/options/commands/configuration, which also borrows some useful ideas from mutt" (cit.).
* [renameutils](http://www.nongnu.org/renameutils/) - A set of programs to change file and directory names by editing them inplace, I find `imv` especially useful to edit a filename at the program prompt.
* [Tempren](https://github.com/idle-code/tempren) - A powerful file renaming utility that uses flexible template expressions to create new file paths and names.
* [sshfs](https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs) - Locally mount a remote file-system through SSH and access files and directory as they would be on the local machine.
* [TMSU](http://tmsu.org/) - A tool for tagging files, it provides a simple command line tool for applying tags and a virtual filesystem so that you can get a tag-based view of your files from within any other program.
* [cointop](https://github.com/cointop-sh/cointop) - A fast and lightweight interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies.
* [hledger](https://hledger.org/) - A is fast, reliable, free, multicurrency double-entry accounting software to track money, investments, cryptocurrencies, time, or any other quantifiable commodity; uses a future-proof plain text file format.
* [Invoice](https://github.com/maaslalani/invoice) - Generate invoices from the command line.
* [ledger](http://ledger-cli.org/) - A powerful, double-entry accounting system from the command-line; it uses a simple yet powerful text syntax to specify the items to account.
* [moeda](https://github.com/thompsonemerson/moeda) - A foreign exchange rates and currency conversion using the command line.
* [paycon](https://github.com/arcorion/paycon) - Converts pay amounts between different time units.
* [FIGlet](http://www.figlet.org/) - Not exactly a font manager, but a nice program for making large letters out of ordinary text; an astonishing number of different fonts is available.
* [toilet](http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet) - A program that tries to improve `FIGlet`; can load FIGlet fonts; supports Unicode input and output, colour fonts and output, and various output formats, including HTML, IRC and ANSI; uses `libcaca` to produce nice textual effects.
* [ascii-movie](https://github.com/gabe565/ascii-movie) - Allows to play the ASCII art Star War movie locally or it can open a connection to play it over SSH or telnet.
* [Binary Clock](https://github.com/tom-on-the-internet/binary-clock) - Displays a clock where numbers are represented with blue and gray dots with binary encoding.
* [cbonsai](https://gitlab.com/jallbrit/cbonsai) - A bonsai tree generator, written in C using ncurses. It intelligently creates, colors, and positions a bonsai tree.
* [cli-fireplace](https://github.com/dolsup/cli-fireplace) - Shows digital fireplace.
* [cmatrix](http://www.asty.org/cmatrix/) - ncurses program that display the scrolling lines found in the movie `The matrix`.
* [cowsay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay) - A program that generates a ASCII art of a cow with a bubble containing the specified message (I provide the Wikipedia link since at the moment the link to the author's homepage results to be unreachable).
* [cowthink](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay) - Same as `cowsay`, but uses a "think" bubble instead of a speech bubble.
* [ctree](https://github.com/gleich/ctree) - A Christmas tree right from your terminal.
* [Draw](https://github.com/maaslalani/draw) - draw is an simple drawing tool in the terminal. Hold your mouse down and move it across the screen to draw anything you want!
* [kyun](https://github.com/file-acomplaint/kyun) - Kyun is a low productivity, low fidelity, low customizablity text editor that has its focus firm on user discomfort.
* [Limoji](https://github.com/GEROGIANNIS/Limoji) - Limoji is an open source tool that makes it easy to choose between hundreds of cool ASCII emoticons and share them with your friends.
* [LundukeHoliday](https://github.com/BryanLunduke/LundukeHoliday) - A simple Bash script that shows some animated, ASCII holiday decorations in your shell.
* [matrix-webcam](https://github.com/joschuck/matrix-webcam) - Take your video conference from within the matrix.
* [Maze Solver](https://github.com/Vlamonster/maze_solver_rust) - Generate, display and solve mazes in an animated way in the terminal.
* [No More Secrets](https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets) - A command line tool that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers.
* [pokeget](https://github.com/talwat/pokeget) - A bash script you can use to display cool sprites of pokemon in your terminal.
* [ponysay](https://github.com/erkin/ponysay) - Pony rewrite of cowsay.
* [pyjokes](https://github.com/pyjokes/pyjokes) - One line jokes for programmers (jokes as a service).
* [Russhian Roulette](https://github.com/cyradotpink/russhian-roulette) - 1/6 chance of posting your SSH private key on pastebin (do you really want to try?).
* [sha256-animation](https://github.com/in3rsha/sha256-animation) - Animation of the SHA-256 hash function in your terminal.
* StarWars vision - See Star Wars in ASCII with ``telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl`` (server seems down recently - I leave the link in the hope that it will be resumed in the future).
* [Steam Locomotive](http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/displays-animations-when-accidentally-you-type-sl-instead-of-ls.html) - A steam locomotive traverses the screen from right to left if `sl` is typed instead of `ls`.
* [choose](https://github.com/jagprog5/choose) - NCurses based token selector with a nice terminal user interface for selecting tokens. Selecting a line from the bash history is only one of its use cases.
* [fzf](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf) - (FuZzy Finder) is a general-purpose command-line finder with fuzzy search/filter capabilities, good integration with `vim`.
* [luneta](https://github.com/fbeline/luneta) - Interactive filter that can be easily composed within any script.
* [percol](https://github.com/mooz/percol) - A Python script that "1) receives input lines from `stdin` or a file, 2) lists the input lines and waits for input that filter/select the line(s), 3) outputs the selected line(s) to `stdout`"; can be used to add interactivity to many regular shell commands.
* [pick](https://github.com/mptre/pick) - Utility that allows users to choose one option from a set of choices using an interface with fuzzy search functionality.
* [skim](https://github.com/lotabout/skim) - Fuzzy Finder in rust.
* [smenu](https://github.com/p-gen/smenu) - Started as a lightweight and flexible terminal menu generator, it evolved into a powerful and versatile CLI selection tool for interactive or scripting use.
* [Angband](https://rephial.org/) - Angband is a free, single-player dungeon exploration game.
* [anonymine](https://oskog97.com/projects/anonymine/) - Curses mode minesweeper without guessing and other original features.
* [bastet](http://fph.altervista.org/prog/bastet.html) - (Bastard Tetris) implements the classical Tetris but with a logic to generate the next block which maximizes the difficulty for the player.
* [cli-chess](https://github.com/trevorbayless/cli-chess) - A highly customizable way to play chess in your terminal. Play online (via Lichess.org) and offline against the Fairy-Stockfish engine. All Lichess variants are supported.
* [Dwarf fortress](http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/) - A fantasy game using ASCII art graphical representation of the game environment, it features a rich environment with many options and possibilities.
* [freesweep](http://www.upl.cs.wisc.edu/~hartmann/sweep/) - A Minesweeper clone for the terminal which allows you to configure settings such as table rows and columns up to 1024x1024!), percentage of bombs, colors and also has a highscores table.
* [GameShell](https://github.com/phyver/GameShell) - GameShell was devised as a tool to help university students to engage with a real shell, in a way that encourages learning while also having fun.
* [guess-word-cli](https://github.com/akgondber/guess-word-cli) - Find out a source word which characters was shuffled and moreover an extra character was added to bring some complexity.
* [othello-cli](https://github.com/LelsersLasers/othello-cli) - othello-cli is a cli version of Othello (Reversi) written in Rust. You can play against another player, the AI, or watch two AIs play each other.
* [Pokete](https://github.com/lxgr-linux/pokete) - A terminal based Pokemon like game.
* [Slash'EM](http://slashem.sourceforge.net/) - Rogue-like game derived from `nethack` offering extra features, monsters, and items; includes a GUI version.
* [Solitaire TUI](https://github.com/brianstrauch/solitaire-tui) - Klondike solitaire for the terminal.
* [sssnake](https://github.com/AngelJumbo/sssnake) - (Smart and sexy snake) The classic snake game for the terminal that can plays itself and be use like a screensaver.
* [terdle](https://github.com/neelkarma/terdle) - Wordle implemented in Rust.
* [terminal_board_games](https://github.com/salt-die/terminally_bored_terminal_board_games) - Board games for the terminal.
* [terminordle](https://github.com/HP4k1h5/terminordle) - Inspired by the popular online game wordle made, you can play a pretty close replica of the original locally or multiplayer over the network.
* [usolitaire](https://github.com/eliasdorneles/usolitaire) - Solitaire in your terminal.
* [git](https://git-scm.com/) - The winner across all the existing file versioning tools, distributed versioning, fully controllable from the command-line, plenty of configuration and usage options, behind a number of related project that leverage git as backend.
* [Git Auto Sync](https://github.com/GitJournal/git-auto-sync) - Automatically commits changes to a git repository, and always keep that repo up to date.
* [Git Commit Vanity Hash Solver](https://github.com/trichner/gitc0ffee) - Neat tool to find a 'vanity' hash for a given git commit. Make all your commits hashes start with the prefix c0ffee, cafe, badc0de5 or whatever makes you happy!
* [git-annex](https://git-annex.branchable.com/) - Manages files with `git`, without checking the file contents into git; very useful to manage large/binary files.
* [git-remote-aws](https://github.com/nathants/git-remote-aws) - Management of encrypted git hosting.
* [git-secret](https://github.com/sobolevn/git-secret) - A bash tool which stores private data inside a git repo; it uses users' public keys, allowing trusted users to access encrypted data using pgp and their secret keys.
* [git-stats](https://github.com/IonicaBizau/git-stats) - Local git statistics including GitHub-like contributions calendars.
* [gita](https://github.com/nosarthur/gita) - A command-line tool to manage multiple git repos.
* [gitsummary](https://github.com/glenreesor/gitsummary) - A better git status taht lists stashes, file statuses, branch list, all nicely formatted with color.
* [GitUI](https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui) - The comfort of a git GUI but right in your terminal, with keyboard only control, scalable UI, and features all the necessary operations of git.
* [grv](https://github.com/rgburke/grv) - Git Repository Viewer - A terminal based interface for viewing Git repositories. It allows refs, commits and diffs to be viewed, searched and filtered.
* [Lazygit](https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit) - A simple terminal UI for git commands that simplify the execution of many operations making them interactive.
* [sad](https://github.com/ms-jpq/sad) - CLI search and replace. Show you a nice diff of proposed changes before you commit them.
* [semantic-git-commit-cli](https://github.com/JPeer264/node-semantic-git-commit-cli) - Ensure semantic commits messages. With emoji support.
* [Soft Serve](https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve) - Self-hostable Git server for the command line. One distinguished feature is the possibility to create new repositories with a push.
* [stargazer](https://github.com/gennaro-tedesco/stargazer) - Github stats from the command line.
* [tig](https://github.com/jonas/tig) - An ncurses-based text-mode interface for `git` that can act as a repository browser, but can also assist in staging changes for commit at chunk level.
* [Aewan](http://aewan.sourceforge.net/) - Aewan is a multi-layered ASCII graphics/animation editor. It produces stand-alone cat-able ASCII art files and an easy-to-parse format for integration into terminal applications.
* [ImageMagick](http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php) - Software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images; it handles many file formats (including PDF and SVG) and provides processing tools to "resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bezier curves".
* [imgp](https://github.com/jarun/imgp) - A command line image resizer and rotator for JPEG and PNG images. It can resize (or thumbnail) and rotate thousands of images in a go, at lightning speed, while saving significantly on storage.
* [inklayers](https://github.com/toolleeo/inklayers) - A command line program that exports layers from an SVG file. It can be used to create slide shows by editing a single SVG file.
* [kakikun](https://github.com/file-acomplaint/kakikun) - Kakikun is a tool to paint, draw and create ASCII art in your terminal using unicode characters.
* [Korkut](https://github.com/oguzhaninan/korkut) - Quick and simple image processing with the following functions: optimize, convert, crop, resize, rotate, watermark, flip.
Programs to replace or improve the management of command line history.
* [atuin](https://github.com/ellie/atuin) - Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, and records additional context for your commands. Additionally, it provides optional and fully encrypted synchronisation of your history between machines, via an Atuin server.
* [Bevel](https://github.com/NorfairKing/bevel) - Command line history in an SQLite database for effective re-use.
* [hiSHtory](https://github.com/ddworken/hishtory) - A better shell history that stores context (directory, succeeded or failed, how long it took, etc). The history is stored locally and end-to-end encrypted for syncing to other computers.
* [hstr](https://github.com/dvorka/hstr) - A tool for managing the history, powerful visual search and execution of previous commands, history editing capabilities.
* [Gaze](https://github.com/wtetsu/gaze) - Runs a command, right after you save a file.
* [hypershell](https://github.com/holepunchto/hypershell) - Spawn shells anywhere. Fully peer-to-peer, authenticated, and end to end encrypted.
* [lmt](https://github.com/Rohansjamadagni/lmt) - A program that can be used to run applications with resource limits enforced using cgroupsv2 on Linux; it allows to set limits on CPU usage, memory usage, and the number of cores for a process.
* [mprocs](https://github.com/pvolok/mprocs) - mprocs runs multiple commands in parallel and shows output of each command separately.
* [Mxflow-cli](https://github.com/metaory/mxflow-cli) - A modern, general purpose CLI task runner with human readable yaml config file.
* [parallel](https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/) - A shell tool from GNU for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers, it can split the input and pipe it into commands in parallel.
* [procmux](https://github.com/napisani/procmux) - A TUI utility for running multiple commands in parallel in easily switchable terminals.
* [rofi](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi) - A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement.
* [sake](https://github.com/alajmo/sake) - A command runner for local and remote hosts. You define servers and tasks in sake.yaml file and then run the tasks on the servers.
* [Task](https://taskfile.dev/) - A task runner / simpler Make alternative written in Go.
* [task-spooler](http://vicerveza.homeunix.net/~viric/soft/ts/) - A Unix batch system that can be used to add the Linux commands to the queue and execute them one after the other in numerical order (ascending order, to be precise). This can be very useful when you have to run a lots of commands, but you don't want to waste time waiting for one command to finish and run the next command. You can queue it all up and Task Spooler will execute them one by one. In the mean time, you can do other activities.
* [taverner](https://github.com/vagos/taverner) - CLI launcher menu for games (or anything), the UNIX way.
* [Violet](https://github.com/braheezy/violet) - Colorful TUI frontend to run Vagrant commands.
* [catnip](https://github.com/sweetbbak/catnip) - An Image picker using pure bash (C and Go version in the works) and kittys icat and Chafa's Sixel protocol.
* [CreateVideoMeme](https://github.com/hache0099/CreateMemeVideo) - Bash tool to add captions to the top of videos.
* [FFMPerative](https://github.com/remyxai/FFMPerative) - Powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) through an intuitive chat interface, now you can compose video edits in natural language.
* [ffscreencast](https://github.com/cytopia/ffscreencast) - A ffmpeg screencast with video overlay and multi monitor support.
* [invidtui](https://github.com/darkhz/invidtui) - Invidious TUI client, which fetches data from invidious instances and displays a user interface in the terminal, and allows for selecting and playing Youtube audio and video.
* [lotc](https://github.com/ranelpadon/lord-of-the-clips) - (Lord Of The Clips) Video downloader, trimmer, and merger using the terminal. Supports YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, etc. Downloads/trims at multiple points. Merges multiple clips.
* [bluetuith](https://github.com/darkhz/bluetuith) - A TUI-based Bluetooth connection manager, which can interact with Bluetooth adapters and devices. It aims to be a replacement to most Bluetooth managers, like blueman.
* [bore](https://github.com/ekzhang/bore) - A simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost.
* [geoiplookup](https://github.com/maxmind/geoip-api-c) - A little application to find geographical and network information of an IP address based no the geoip C API.
* [hflow](https://github.com/comradequinn/hflow) - A command-line, debugging http/s proxy server.
* [ipcalc](http://jodies.de/ipcalc) - Takes an IP address and netmask and calculates the resulting broadcast, network, Cisco wildcard mask, and host range.
* [mitmproxy](https://mitmproxy.org/) - An interactive HTTPS proxy.
* [mosh](https://mosh.org/) - Remote SSH client that achieve good responsiveness in presence of intermittent connectivity and roaming.
* [Optic](https://www.useoptic.com/) - Optic's Open Source tools make OpenAPI and API-first practices easy for any team to adopt.
* [PSSH](https://code.google.com/archive/p/parallel-ssh/) - PSSH provides parallel versions of OpenSSH and related tools. Included are pssh, pscp, prsync, pnuke, and pslurp. The project includes psshlib which can be used within custom applications.
* [quickserve](https://github.com/haileys/quickserve) - Quickserve is a very simple HTTP server written in Python that is intended for quickly sharing files on an ad-hoc basis. Aside from opening a port in your firewall if you have one, quickserve requires no set-up and should work with no hassle.
* [rtop](http://www.rtop-monitor.org/) - rtop is a simple, agent-less, remote server monitoring tool that works over plain SSH. Written in golang, it does not need any software to be installed on the server that you want to monitor. It works by establishing an SSH session, and running commands on the remote server to collect system metrics.
* [serve](https://github.com/vercel/serve) - Serves a static site, single page application, or just a static file, and provides a neat interface for listing the directory's contents.
* [sshto](https://github.com/vaniacer/sshto) - Small bash script to manage your ssh connections. It builds menu (via dialog) from your ~/.ssh/config. It can not only connect but also to run commands, copy files, tunnel ports.
* [termishare](https://github.com/qnkhuat/termishare) - Peer to peer terminal sharing.
* [TStream](https://github.com/qnkhuat/tstream) - Live streaming from the terminal. Requires the connection to a central server, from which the streaming is dispatched.
* [ttyd](https://github.com/tsl0922/ttyd) - Share your terminal over the web.
* [Tunnelmole](https://github.com/robbie-cahill/tunnelmole-client) - Connect to local servers from anywhere.
* [Wishlist](https://github.com/charmbracelet/wishlist) - With Wishlist you can have a single entrypoint for multiple SSH endpoints.
* [xiringuito](https://github.com/ivanilves/xiringuito) - VPN made easy! No configuration. No VPN servers. No hassle. Using SSH capabilities.
* [xxh](https://github.com/xxh/xxh) - Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the ssh.
* [cadmus](https://github.com/RyanGreenup/cadmus) - Shell Scripts to Facilitate Effective Note Taking.
* [dn](https://github.com/tomlockwood/dn) - Daily notes command line tool.
* [dnote](https://github.com/dnote/dnote) - A simple command line notebook for the terminal. It also offers a seamless multi-device sync and a web interface.
* [eureka](https://github.com/simeg/eureka) - Store your ideas without leaving the terminal.
* [Geeknote](https://github.com/jeffkowalski/geeknote) - A command line client for Evernote that can be use on Linux, FreeBSD and OS X.
* [idea](https://github.com/IonicaBizau/idea) - A lightweight tool for keeping ideas in a safe place quick and easy.
* [jnrl](https://github.com/maebert/jrnl) - Collect your thoughts and notes without leaving the command line.
* [jot](https://github.com/araekiel/jot) - Jot is a feature-stripped version of Obsidian focused on rapid note management through the terminal. It uses the same format of storage as Obsidian.
* [TUI-Journal](https://github.com/AmmarAbouZor/tui-journal) - Terminal-based application written in Rust that allows you to write and manage your journal/notes with a nice user interface.
* [mdp](https://github.com/visit1985/mdp) - A command-line based markdown presentation tool.
* [sc-im](https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im) - Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised -- An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal. It is rich in functionalities, but the syntax of functions and other details are different from the common spreadsheets such as Excel and Calc, making difficult to "re-cycle" existing knowledge on these programs to work proficiently with sc-im. Neverthless, a nice piece of software."
* [Teapot](https://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/teapot/) - Compact ncurses-based spreadsheet with original syntax, 3D-style and built-in functions.
* [tpp](http://www.ngolde.de/tpp.html) - (text presentation program) a ncurses Ruby program that allows to produce nice text-based presentation with simple markup language.
* [calcurse](https://calcurse.org/) - A calendar and scheduling application for the command line. It helps keep track of events, appointments and everyday tasks.
* [goobook](https://gitlab.com/goobook/goobook) - The purpose of GooBook is to make it possible to use your Google Contacts from the command-line and from MUAs such as Mutt. It can be used from Mutt the same way as abook.
* [khal](https://github.com/pimutils/khal) - CLI and terminal calendar program, able to synchronize with CalDAV servers through [vdirsyncer](https://github.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer).
* [khard](https://github.com/lucc/khard) - Console carddav client written in Pyhton.
* [pal](http://palcal.sourceforge.net/) - Calendar program for Unix/Linux systems that can keep track of events; custom, plain text storage format; interesting and fully functional.
* [peroutine](https://github.com/UlyssesZh/peroutine) - Remind you of periodical events. The period can be any positive integer of days, so work around the fact that the number of days in a week is prime.
* [ppl addressbook](http://ppladdressbook.org/) - `ppl` is free software made out of other free software. It's built on top of Ruby and Git, and the completely free vcard address book format.
* [Remind](https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/) - Calendar program with possibility to set complex rules to define events; custom, powerful text-based storage format.
* [remint](https://sr.ht/~mlaparie/remint/) - A simple terminal UI wrapper for D. Skoll's Remind calendar program
* [Wyrd](http://freecode.com/projects/wyrd/) - Curses front-end for [Remind](https://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind) written in OCaml with vertically scrollable time table.
* [arch-wiki](https://github.com/deadhead420/arch-wiki) - Search the Arch Wiki anywhere from the command line.
* [Awesome CLI](https://github.com/umutphp/awesome-cli) - Awesome CLI is a simple command line tool to give you a fancy command line interface to dive into Awesome lists.
* [Awesome Finder](https://github.com/mingrammer/awesome-finder) - Search the awesome lists from the command line.
* [ddgr](https://github.com/jarun/ddgr) - A command line utility to search DuckDuckGo (html version) from the terminal.
* [googler](https://github.com/jarun/googler) - Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal.
* [pockyt](https://github.com/achembarpu/pockyt) - Read, manage, and automate the collection of articles in [Pocket](https://getpocket.com), an application for managing a reading list of articles from the Internet.
* [so](https://github.com/samtay/so) - Terminal interface for Stack Overflow.
* [socialscan](https://github.com/iojw/socialscan) - Python library and CLI for accurately querying username and email usage on online platforms.
* [socli](https://github.com/gautamkrishnar/socli) - Stack overflow command line client written in Python. Search and browse stack overflow without leaving the terminal
* [Bitwarden CLI](https://bitwarden.com/help/cli/) - Command-line interface for Bitwarden, a multi-platform password manager targeted to companies and enterprises.
* [cpass](https://github.com/xlucn/cpass) - Another console UI for pass.
* dpg - The Deterministic Password Generator - Generates passwords based on a master password and the indication of the website/service/username, without the need of storing anything.
* [gopass](https://www.gopass.pw/) - gopass is a rewrite of the pass password manager in Go with the aim of making it cross-platform and adding additional features. The target audience are professional developers and sysadmins (and especially teams of those) who are well versed with a command line interface.
* [pass](https://www.passwordstore.org/) - With pass, each password lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whose filename is the title of the website or resource that requires the password. These encrypted files may be organized into meaningful folder hierarchies, copied from computer to computer, and, in general, manipulated using standard command line file management utilities.
* [passfzf](https://git.sr.ht/~mlaparie/passfzf) - A simple fzf wrapper for pass (the UNIX password-store). It allows fuzzy finding your pass passwords to copy, show, edit, delete, rename and duplicate them.
* [Pswd](https://github.com/Mandrew0822/pswd) - A secure password generator written in C.
* [safe.sh](https://github.com/windowsrefund/safe) - Pure Bash script to manage secure archives; simple and clean; uses [gnugpg](https://gnupg.org/) for encryption/decryption, thus can leverage tools like [GPG Agent](https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Invoking-GPG_002dAGENT.html).
* [SpicyPass](https://github.com/JFreegman/SpicyPass) - A light-weight password manager with a focus on simplicity and security.
* [titan](https://www.byteptr.com/titan/) - Password management belongs to the command line, deep into the Unix heartland, the shell. Titan is written in C and is available under the MIT license.
* [Framed](https://github.com/mactat/framed) - A CLI tool that simplifies the organization and management of files and directories in a reusable and architectural manner.
* [gdir](https://github.com/pafoster/gdir) - A command line tool which queries Google Directions. The tool displays results as human-readable text.
* [h-m-m](https://github.com/nadrad/h-m-m) - h-m-m (pronounced like the interjection "hmm") is a simple, fast, keyboard-centric terminal-based tool for working with mind maps.
* [hardv](https://github.com/dongyx/hardv) - A CLI flashcard app for UNIX-compatible systems, conforming to the UNIX philosophy.
* [kabmat](https://github.com/PlankCipher/kabmat) - TUI program for managing kanban boards with vim-like keybindings.
* [py_flashcards](https://github.com/M4THYOU/py_flashcards) - Text-only CLI flashcards parsed from Markdown file.
* [speedread](https://github.com/pasky/speedread) - A simple terminal-based open source Spritz-alike filter that shows input text as a per-word RSVP (rapid serial visual presentation) aligned on optimal reading points.
* [tuxi](https://github.com/Bugswriter/tuxi) - A CLI tool that scrapes Google search results and SERPs that provides instant and concise answers.
* [tz](https://github.com/oz/tz) - tz helps you schedule things across time zones. It's an interactive TUI program that displays time across the time zones of your choosing.
* [zeitkatze](https://github.com/leonmavr/zeitkatze) - Simplest stopwatch in a linux console.
* [cgasm](https://github.com/bnagy/cgasm) - Pronounced “SeekAzzem”, it is a standalone, offline terminal-based tool with no dependencies that gives me x86 assembly documentation.
* [chars](https://github.com/antifuchs/chars) - Display names and codes for various ASCII (and unicode) characters / code points.
* [cloc](https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc) - Tool for counting blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages.
* [clog](https://github.com/clog-tool/clog-cli) - Creates a changelog automatically from local git metadata.
* [CodeMark CLI](https://github.com/rootCircle/codemark-cli) - Helps you manage coding assignments and tests; easily initialize the configuration, list assignments, fetch and check your code, submit your code for grading, and get AI-powered error recommendations.
* [Cookiecutter](https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter) - A cross-platform command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates), e.g. Python package projects, C projects.
* [dtool](https://github.com/guoxbin/dtool) - Collection of development tools.
* [fastmod](https://github.com/facebookincubator/fastmod) - A tool to assist you with large-scale codebase refactors, and it supports most of codemod's options. It is focused on improving the use case "I want to use interactive mode to make sure my regex is correct, and then I want to apply the regex everywhere".
* [fmake](https://github.com/bharatvaj/fmake) - Brings `make`s interface to almost any build system.
* [Frama-C](https://frama-c.com/) - Open-source extensible and collaborative platform dedicated to source-code analysis of C software. Frama-C can assist from the navigation through unfamiliar projects up to the certification of critical software.
* [gdb-dashboard](https://github.com/cyrus-and/gdb-dashboard) - Modular visual interface for GDB in Python.
* [grex](https://github.com/pemistahl/grex) - A command-line tool for generating regular expressions from user-provided test cases.
* [hors](https://github.com/WindSoilder/hors) - Instant coding answers via the command line.
* [howdoi](https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi) - Instant coding answers via the command line.
* [kickstart](https://github.com/Keats/kickstart) - Scaffolding tool to get new projects up and running quickly.
* [Kool](https://github.com/kool-dev/kool) - CLI tool that brings the complexities of modern software development making these environments lightweight, fast and reproducible.
* [Leetcode-go](https://github.com/Manan-Prakash-Singh/leetcode-go) - A simple CLI tool for searching, downloading and submitting problems to leetcode.
* [legit](https://github.com/captainsafia/legit) - Automagically generates a LICENSE file for the current working directory that you are in or a license header for a file where applicable.
* [license-up](https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/license-up) - Create a license quickly for a given name.
* [mklicense](https://github.com/cezaraugusto/mklicense) - CLI tool for easily generating the text of the most common licenses.
* [nbterm](https://github.com/davidbrochart/nbterm) - Jupyter Notebooks in the terminal.
* [pvcheck](https://github.com/claudio-unipv/pvcheck) - A tool to apply automated testing to programs that produce textual output. The format of the output is very specific, making pvcheck suitable to test programming quizzes.
* [readme-md-generator](https://github.com/kefranabg/readme-md-generator) - CLI that generates beautiful README.md files.
* [rebound](https://github.com/shobrook/rebound) - Fetch Stack Overflow results in your terminal when you get an error. Supported languages: Python, Node.js, Ruby, Golang, and Java.
* [scc](https://github.com/boyter/scc) - Sloc Cloc and Code (scc) is a codebase statistics counter. Goal is to be the fastest code counter possible, but also perform COCOMO calculation like sloccount and to estimate code complexity similar to cyclomatic complexity calculators. In short one tool to rule them all.
* [scons](https://github.com/SCons/scons) - Software construction tool.
* [temci](https://github.com/parttimenerd/temci) - Advanced benchmarking tool written in Python 3 that supports setting up an environment for benchmarking and the generation of visually appealing reports.
* [Tokei](https://github.com/XAMPPRocky/tokei) - Tokei is a program that displays statistics about your code. Tokei will show the number of files, total lines within those files and code, comments, and blanks grouped by language.
* [element](https://github.com/gennaro-tedesco/element) - Periodic table on the command line.
* [FAWOC](https://github.com/robolab-pavia/fawoc) - FAWOC is a TUI program for manually labelling a list of words. It has been developed to support the efficient clustering of documents based on topic modeling algorithms such as Dirichlet Latent Allocation.
* [GCTU](https://github.com/Mandrew0822/GCTU---Genetic-code-translation-utility) - A simple command line tool which allows one to convert DNA code sequences to the different RNA sequences.
* [Go-L](https://github.com/Jeadie/Go-L) - Game of Life with different update rules and on a bunch of different topologies (sphere, torus, klein bottle, etc.).
* [papis](https://github.com/alejandrogallo/papis) - Extensible document and bibliography manager.
* [Pubs](https://github.com/pubs/pubs) - Pubs organizes your scientific papers together with their bibliographic data and provides command line access to basic and advanced manipulation of your library.
* [slr-kit](https://github.com/robolab-pavia/slr-kit) - Set of CLI tools to assist the writing of Systematic Literature Reviews powered by Natural Language Processing.
* [starfetch](https://github.com/Haruno19/starfetch) - Command line tool that displays constellations.
* [acmetool](https://github.com/hlandau/acmetool) - Easy-to-use command line tool for automatically acquiring certificates from ACME servers (such as Let's Encrypt).
* [cream](https://z3bra.org/cream/) - Encrypt and decrypt streams of data with only a master password. The key is derivated from the password + salt combo, and used to encrypt data byte per byte.
* [enc](https://github.com/life4/enc) - A modern and friendly CLI alternative to GnuPG: generate and download keys, encrypt, decrypt, and sign text and files, and more.
* [encfs](http://www.arg0.net/#!encfs/c1awt) - Encrypted filesystem in user-space based on [FUSE](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUSE), mounts an encrypted directory into a clear one.
* [Firejail](https://firejail.wordpress.com/) - A SUID program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf.
* [GnuPG](https://gnupg.org/) - GnuPG is a complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC4880 (also known as PGP).
* [hashcat](https://hashcat.net/hashcat/) - A robust and efficient password cracking tool that can help you recover lost passwords, audit password security, benchmark, or just figure out what data is stored in a hash.
* [Image Steganography Tool](https://github.com/7thSamurai/steganography) - Simple C++ Encryption and Steganography tool that uses Password-Protected-Encryption to secure a file's contents.
* [LUKS](https://guardianproject.info/code/luks/) - Hard disk encryption tool; it stores all setup information in the partition header, enabling easy data transport or migration.
* [Minisign](https://github.com/jedisct1/minisign) - A dead simple tool to sign files and verify digital signatures.
* [OAuth2c](https://github.com/cloudentity/oauth2c) - A command-line tool for interacting with OAuth 2.0 authorization servers.
* [ots](https://github.com/sniptt-official/ots) - Share end-to-end encrypted secrets with others via a one-time URL.
* [PaperAge](https://github.com/matiaskorhonen/paper-age) - Easy and secure paper backups of secrets, which takes a text and generates an encrypted QRcode to print on paper.
* [pgen](https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen) - Generate passphrases using the wordlists for random passphrases made by the EFF.
* [Cat9](https://github.com/letoram/cat9) - Cat9 is a user shell script for LASH - a command-line shell that discriminates against terminal emulators, written in Lua.
* [Fish](https://fishshell.com/) - "A command line shell for the 90s"; focused on user-friendliness, with powerful autosuggestions, colors, "sane scripting" (w.r.t. to Bash).
* [N-Commodore](https://github.com/psprint/n-commodore) - A novel file manager/shell/command-line, where everything is panelized, greppable and remembered.
* [beets](https://github.com/beetbox/beets) - Beets is the media library management system for obsessive music geeks: catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes.
* [castero](https://github.com/xgi/castero) - A TUI podcast client for the terminal.
* [Instant Music Downloader](https://github.com/yask123/Instant-Music-Downloader) - Instantly download any song!
* [kord](https://github.com/synestematic/kord) - A python framework that provides programmers with a simple api for the creation of music-based applications.
* [MOC](https://moc.daper.net/) - (music on console) is a powerful and easy to use console audio player, user interface a la Midnight Commander, plenty of features, fully controllable from the keyboard.
* [mps-youtube](https://github.com/mps-youtube/yewtube) - A curses player for music tracks from Youtube; it allows to search for songs and playlists; it downloads the video, extracts the audio track and plays it; handles local playlists and many configuration parameters.
* [mpvc](https://github.com/gmt4/mpvc/) - A minimal mpc-like CLI and TUI for controlling mpv from the shell.
* [muCLIar](https://github.com/aayush1205/muCLIar) - YouTube automator bringing you your music right on your CLI.
* [MusicPlayerPlus](https://github.com/doctorfree/MusicPlayerPlus) - Featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc with integration for Beets, spectrum visualization,Bandcamp/Soundcloud, asciimatics, cantata, and more.
* [musicScraper](https://github.com/mBaratta96/musicScraper) - CLI tool for scraping information from musical websites (Rateyourmusic, Metal Archives), with nice album ASCII art.
* [ncmpcpp](https://rybczak.net/ncmpcpp/) - NCurses Music Player Client (Plus Plus) - featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc. Relevant features: tag editor, playlist editor, easy to use search engine, media library, music visualizer, ability to fetch artist info from [last.fm](https://www.last.fm/), new display mode, alternative user interface, ability to browse and add files from outside of MPD music directory.
* [ogg123](https://www.xiph.org/downloads/) - Quick `ogg` sound file player; no visual interface, just a command-line audio file player for the free and open `ogg` file format.
* [Spotify TUI](https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui) - A Spotify client for the terminal written in Rust.
* [spotify-player](https://github.com/aome510/spotify-player) - spotify-player is a fast, easy to use, and configurable terminal music player having feature parity with the official Spotify application.
* [Tera](https://github.com/shinokada/tera) - Terminal Radio: an easy-to-use CLI music player to play favorite music, radio stations and explore various radio stations from the terminal only.
* [termusic](https://github.com/tramhao/termusic) - Terminal Music Player written in Rust.
* [Tizonia](https://github.com/tizonia/tizonia-openmax-il) - Command-line cloud music player for Linux with support for Spotify, Google Play Music, YouTube, SoundCloud, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Plex servers and Chromecast devices.
* [Batfetch](https://github.com/ashish-kus/batfetch) - A command-line tool that displays detailed information about the battery of your device in a clean and organized way.
* [glances](https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/) - A comprehensive and detailed system monitoring tool; monitored parameters include: CPU, memory, load, process list, network interfaces, disk I/O, sensors, filesystems, docker, system info, uptime.
* [htop](http://hisham.hm/htop/) - An interactive process viewer for Unix; improves the UI of `top`, by adding real-time meters and colors.
* [inxi](http://smxi.org/docs/inxi.htm) - A comprehensive system information script; provides information about CPU, graphics, audio and network devices, drives and partitions, sensors; implemented as a Bash script.
* [iotop](http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/) - "A Python program with a top like UI used to show of behalf of which process is the I/O going on".
* [neofetch](https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch) - Neofetch is a CLI system information tool written in BASH. Neofetch displays information about your system next to an image, your OS logo, or any ASCII file of your choice.
* [ngrep](http://ngrep.sourceforge.net/) - (Network grep) applies the `grep` logic to the network layer, allowing to match regular expressions against data payloads of packets; it recognizes IPv4/6, TCP, UDP, ICMPv4/6, IGMP and Raw across Ethernet, PPP, SLIP, FDDI, Token Ring and null interfaces.
* [noti](https://github.com/variadico/noti) - Monitor a process and trigger a notification.
* [nvitop](https://github.com/XuehaiPan/nvitop) - An interactive NVIDIA-GPU process viewer and beyond, the one-stop solution for GPU process management.
* [powertop](https://01.org/powertop) - A `top`-like utility to monitor the sources of power consumption, allows to turn on/off many components, quite useful to track possible power-related issues.
* [rwatch](https://github.com/davidhfrankelcodes/rwatch) - A Rust re-implementation of the classic Unix watch command that allows you to run a command repeatedly and watch its output.
* [screenFetch](https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch) - It can be used to generate one of those nifty terminal theme information + ASCII distribution logos. It auto-detects the distribution and display an ASCII version of that distribution's logo and some valuable information to the right.
* [smem](https://www.selenic.com/smem/) - Python program that reports memory usage; it can report the "proportional set size" (PSS), a meaningful representation of the amount of memory used by libraries and applications in a virtual memory system; it has built-in chart generation.
* [sysdig](https://www.sysdig.org/) - Sysdig captures system calls and events from the Linux kernel. You can save, filter, and analyze the data with our CLI or our desktop app. Think of sysdig as strace + tcpdump + htop + iftop + lsof + wireshark for your entire system.
* [The Logfile Navigator](https://lnav.org/) - An advanced and colorful log file viewer with TUI interface.
* [tiptop](https://github.com/nschloe/tiptop) - A command-line system monitoring tool in the spirit of top, written in Python. It displays various interesting system stats and graphs them. Works on all operating systems.
* [ttyload](http://www.daveltd.com/src/util/ttyload/) - ttyload is a lightweight utility which is intended to offer a color-coded graph of load averages over time on Linux and other Unix-like systems. It enables a graphical tracking of system load average in a terminal ("tty").
* [watch](http://www.linfo.org/watch.html) - Periodically runs a command in the console while temporarily clearing the screen content; it makes it easy to check differences between the output of two subsequent commands; it provides "diff" functionality to highlight the changing characters between outputs.
* [watcher](https://github.com/sethigeet/watcher) - Watches all the files present in a directory and whenever a file is changed or a file is created/deleted from the directory, it runs a specified command.
* [sclocka](https://github.com/mezantrop/sclocka) - The real screensaver/lock for terminals.
* [termsaver](http://termsaver.brunobraga.net/) - termsaver to enjoy fancy ASCII screensavers like matrix, clock, starwars, and a couple of not-safe-for-work screens.
* [active-win-cli](https://github.com/sindresorhus/active-win-cli) - Get the title/id/etc of the active window.
* [brightnessctl](https://github.com/Hummer12007/brightnessctl) - Read and control device brightness. Devices, by default, include backlight and LEDs - searched for in corresponding classes.
* [checksum.sh](https://checksum.sh/) - Checksum.sh is a simple way to download, review, and verify install scripts. If the checksum is OK the script will be printed to stdout, which can be piped to sh or elsewhere.
* [conspy](http://conspy.sourceforge.net/) - "Conspy allows a (possibly remote) user to see what is displayed on a Linux virtual console, and send keystrokes to it."
* [Devbox](https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox) - Devbox is a command-line tool that lets you easily create isolated shells and containers by defining the list of packages required by the environment.
* [lshw](http://www.ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter) - A small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc.
* [mackup](https://github.com/lra/mackup) - Keep your application settings in sync (OS X/Linux).
* [Ntfy](https://github.com/dschep/ntfy) - Cross-platform Python utility that enables you to automatically get desktop notifications on demand or when long running commands complete. It can as well send push notifications to your phone once a particular command completes.
* [pulsemixer](https://github.com/GeorgeFilipkin/pulsemixer) - CLI and curses mixer for PulseAudio.
* [sysm](https://github.com/jafarlihi/sysm) - Makes your system play custom sounds when any configured system or external event happens.
* [systeroid](https://github.com/orhun/systeroid) - A more powerful alternative to sysctl(8) with a terminal user interface.
* [byobu](http://byobu.co/) - A text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer; it features enhanced profiles, convenient keybindings, configuration utilities, and toggle-able system status notifications; compatible with `screen` and `tmux`.
* [screen](https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/) - Terminal multiplexer that split a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.
* [Tmate](https://tmate.io/) - A fork of tmux that allows to share the terminal with other users. AFAIK, it connects to a centralized server to establish the connection. Someone may see this inconvenient for privacy issues.
* [tmux](https://tmux.github.io/) - Terminal multiplexer; born to improve `screen`; client-server architecture, `vi` and `emacs` key-bindings, search in window feature and many more.
* [warp](https://github.com/spolu/warp) - Secure and simple terminal sharing.
* [Zellij](https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij) - A workspace aimed at developers, ops-oriented people and anyone who loves the terminal. At its core, it is a terminal multiplexer.
* [anew](https://github.com/tomnomnom/anew) - Tool for adding new lines to files, skipping duplicates.
* [as-tree](https://github.com/jez/as-tree) - Print a list of paths as a tree of paths.
* [brok](https://github.com/smallhadroncollider/brok) - Find broken links in text documents.
* [deadlink](https://github.com/nschloe/deadlink) - Parses text files for HTTP URLs and checks if they are still valid. Good to use on markdown documentation files.
* [detect-indent-cli](https://github.com/sindresorhus/detect-indent-cli) - Detect the indentation of code.
* [DocToc](https://github.com/thlorenz/doctoc) - Generates table of contents for markdown files inside local git repository. Links are compatible with anchors generated by github or other sites.
* [grc](https://github.com/pengwynn/grc) - (Generic Colouriser) can be configured to parse a given text stream and to colorize it according to regexp written in configuration files, different patterns can be associated to file types.
* [gzip-size-cli](https://github.com/sindresorhus/gzip-size-cli) - Get the gzipped size of a file.
* [HASHA CLI](https://github.com/sindresorhus/hasha-cli) - Hashing made simple. Get the hash of text or stdin.
* [hck](https://github.com/sstadick/hck) - A sharp cut clone.
* [hget](https://github.com/bevacqua/hget) - A CLI to convert HTML into plain text. Can be used to fetch a site's HTML version and convert it into plain text, or to deliver plain text versions of your site dynamically.
* [huniq](https://github.com/koraa/huniq) - Command line utility to remove duplicates from the given input. Note that huniq does not sort the input, it just removes duplicates.
* [kill-tabs](https://github.com/sindresorhus/kill-tabs) - Kill all Chrome tabs to improve performance, decrease battery usage, and save memory.
* [lolcat](https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat) - Ruby Gem to colorize the output of the cat command.
* [rare](https://github.com/zix99/rare) - Realtime regex-extraction and aggregation into common formats such as histograms, bar graphs, numerical summaries, tables, and more!
* [swordfish-rs](https://github.com/vim-zz/swordfish-rs) - Mimics real person behavior with realtime typing into terminal uses a screenplay where text and timings are specified.
* [tuc](https://github.com/riquito/tuc) - You want to cut on more than just a character, perhaps using negative indexes or format the selected fields as you want... Maybe you want to cut on lines (ever needed to drop first and last line?)... That's where tuc can help.
* [Ultimate Plumber](https://github.com/akavel/up) - Helps to interactively and incrementally explore textual data in Linux, by making it easier to quickly build complex pipelines, thanks to a fast feedback loop.
* [ack](http://beyondgrep.com/) - A tool like `grep` optimized for programmers; written in Perl, it speeds up searches thanks to skipping non interesting directories, such as `.git`.
* [ag](https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher) - (The silver searcher) is a text search utility targeted to source code; it skips versioning systems data directories; it is inspired by `ack`, but faster.
* [paragrep](http://software.clapper.org/paragrep/) - Greps regular expressions in a text file(s) and prints out the paragraphs containing those expressions, a paragraph is defined as a block of text delimited by an empty or blank line, fully customizable via command line parameters.
* [sift](https://sift-tool.org/) - Fast and powerful open source alternative to grep; it targets flexibility and performance: can be as fast as "regular" grep and allows to specify complex expressions to find text.
* [arbtt](http://arbtt.nomeata.de/) - (automatic, rule-based time tracker) runs in background, collecting information regarding open windows, focussed ones, etc.; it can be configured to display statistics on the collected data, e.g., figuring out the time spent on one specific window.
* [Bartib](https://github.com/nikolassv/bartib) - Easy to use time tracking tool for the command line. It saves a log of all tracked activities as a plaintext file and allows you to create flexible reports.
* [dijo](https://github.com/NerdyPepper/dijo) - Scriptable, curses-based, digital habit tracker.
* [doing](https://github.com/ttscoff/doing) - A command line tool for remembering what you were doing and tracking what you've done.
* [habitctl](https://github.com/blinry/habitctl) - Minimalist command line tool you can use to track and examine your habits.
* [habitmap](https://github.com/shuu-wasseo/habitmap) - A command-line app to track your habits and visualise how committed you are to making or maintaining them with colorful heatmaps.
* [Moro](https://github.com/getmoro/moro) - A command line tool for tracking work hours, as simple as it can get.
* [Productivity Timer](https://github.com/h-sifat/productivity-timer) - A CLI/TUI Pomodoro timer and todo (coming soon) application for keyboard addicts and terminal fans that makes you more productive.
* [Timetrap](https://github.com/samg/timetrap) - A simple command line time tracker written in Ruby. It provides an easy to use command line interface for tracking what you spend your time on.
* [Timewarrior](https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/timewarrior) - A time tracking utility that offers simple stopwatch features as well as sophisticated calendar-based backfill, along with flexible reporting.
* [tmux-pomodoro-plus](https://github.com/olimorris/tmux-pomodoro-plus) - Pomodoro technique into your tmux workflow
* [utt](https://github.com/larose/utt) - Ultimate Time Tracker - A simple command-line time tracker written in Python.
* [Watson](https://github.com/TailorDev/Watson) - Time tracking CLI to know how much time you are spending on your projects. It can generate nice reports for clients.
Games and utilities to measure and/or improve the typing ability.
* [fasttyper](https://github.com/ickyicky/fasttyper) - Fasttyper is minimalistic typing test based on user provided exercising text.
* [kboard](https://github.com/CamiloGarciaLaRotta/kboard) - Terminal game to practice keyboard typing.
* [termtyper](https://github.com/kraanzu/termtyper) - A typing application to level up your fingers!
* [thokr](https://github.com/jrnxf/thokr) - Sleek typing tui with visualized results and historical logging.
* [toipe](https://github.com/Samyak2/toipe) - Yet another typing test, but crab flavoured.
* [Typespeed](http://typespeed.sourceforge.net/) - Type words that are flying by from left to right as fast as you can; features different word sets, e.g., UNIX commands, English words, Non-English words.
* [typetype](https://github.com/ahmet8zer/typetype) - Minimalistic command line typing game.
* [iKog](https://sites.google.com/site/henspace/ikog/) - A fully-featured task manager incapsulated within a Python script (just carry around the script to retain all the TODOs). When the script is run, a Python shell is opened, where task-related commands can be entered (ADD, LIST, etc.); a pity that commands are uppercase, which requires the annoying use of the Shift key.
* [TaskWarrior](https://taskwarrior.org/) - Todo manager with advanced features, dedicated synchronization server available, many plugins and related tools, healthy software project.
* [todo.txt](http://todotxt.org/) - Minimalistic todo manager that uses a simple plain text file to keep track of items, implemented as a shell script.
* [TuDu](https://code.meskio.net/tudu/) - A comand line interface to manage hierarchical todos. Each task has a title, a long text description, a deadline (tudu warns you when the date is close), and a scheduled date. There are categories and priorities.
* [Ultralist](https://ultralist.io/) - A simple, powerful, open source task management system for the command line.
* [xit](https://github.com/jotaen/xit) - A plain-text file format for todos and check lists. So, not really a program, but I believe it is worth to list :-)
* [Yokadi](https://yokadi.github.io/) - Project-based todo manager: every task must be specified with a mandatory project indication. Tasks are stored within a SQLlite DB. Written in Python.
* [Deluge](http://deluge-torrent.org/) - A lightweight, Free Software, cross-platform BitTorrent client; a terminal curses interface, web interface and command line client can connect to a running daemon to manage torrent downloads.
* [Mabel](https://github.com/smmr-software/mabel) - Deriving its name from the Hebrew word ""????,"" meaning flood, deluge, or (loosely) torrent, Mabel is a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal.
* [dasht](http://sunaku.github.io/dasht/man/man0/README.html) - Search API docs offline, in your terminal or browser.
* [dateutils](http://www.fresse.org/dateutils/) - Dateutils are a bunch of tools that revolve around fiddling with dates and times in the command line with a strong focus on use cases that arise when dealing with large amounts of financial data.
* [GoTTY](https://github.com/yudai/gotty) - A program to turn CLI tools into web applications; basically, it runs a command and starts a server so that the output can be displayed in a web page.
* [guesswidth](https://github.com/noborus/guesswidth) - Guess the width output without delimiters in commands that output to the terminal.
* [Keep](https://github.com/keephq/keep) - Simple alerting tool, with declarative syntax and builtin providers.
* [pangran](https://github.com/BimoT/pangran) - A simple TUI program that checks if you've typed a pangram.
* [Polykill](https://github.com/Bdeering1/polykill) - Lightweight command line utility for removing dependencies and build artifacts from unused local projects.
* [powerline](https://github.com/powerline/powerline) - Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile.
* [Python re(gex)? exercises](https://github.com/learnbyexample/TUI-apps/tree/main/PyRegexExercises) - TUI application intended to help you practice Python regular expressions there are more than 100 exercises covering both the builtin re and third-party regex module.
* [ttyscheme](https://github.com/kolunmi/ttyscheme) - Collection of Color Schemes for the TTY.
* [unix-permissions](https://github.com/ehmicky/unix-permissions) - Swiss Army knife for Unix permissions.
* [upnup](https://github.com/tomit4/upnup) - A command line utility that generates a LICENSE file in the current working directory.
* [Viddy](https://github.com/sachaos/viddy) - Modern watch command. Time machine and pager etc.
* [weather-cli](https://github.com/riyadhalnur/weather-cli) - Check the weather for your city from the terminal.
* [welcome.sh](https://github.com/G2-Games/welcome.sh) - A nice little script that greets you on every launch, with some helpful (and customizable!) information.
* [yank](https://github.com/mptre/yank) - Reads input from stdin and display a selection interface that allows a field to be selected and copied to the clipboard.
* [Bazaar](http://bazaar.canonical.com/en/) - Multiplatform version control system supporting diffferent workflows; it is part of the GNU Project, and it is free software sponsored by Canonical.
* [fossil](https://fossil-scm.org/) - A simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management system with these advanced features: project management, built-in web interface, friendly self-hosting, simple networking, all-in-one standalone executable, and much more.
* [SnowFS](https://github.com/snowtrack/snowfs) - A high-performance application and node library for binary file versioning, initially made for the graphics industry.
* [cacaview](http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca) - A library and a program to display JPG, PNG, GIF or BMP images in the terminal using ASCII characters.
* [mdt](https://github.com/robolab-pavia/mdt) - MarkDown in the Terminal. A markdown viewer with themes defined by JSON files and interactive mode to open links and word-wrapping adaptable to the terminal width.
* [medium-cli](https://github.com/djadmin/medium-cli) - Medium for Hackers - Read [medium.com](https://medium.com/) stories in the terminal.
* [mplayer](http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html) - One of the most popular video/audio players around, plays most audio and video formats (using ASCII characters) in the shell, provides a GUI for graphical visualization.
* [mpv](https://mpv.io/) - A cross-platform media player with many features such as frame timing, MKV chapters and subtitles. It is a responsive video player with minimal layout customizable with themes. A good alternative media player to VLC since it can handle almost all the media formats as VLC, but using much less resources.
* [Newsbeuter](http://newsbeuter.org/) - "The Mutt of RSS Feed Readers": Newsbeuter is an open-source RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals. Has great configurability and vast number of features, making it a slick and fast feed reader that can be completely controlled via keyboard.
* [Newsboat](https://newsboat.org/) - An RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console. It's an actively maintained fork of Newsbeuter.
* [reader](https://github.com/mrusme/reader) - Reader parses a web page for its actual content and displays it in nicely highlighted text on the command line
* [rReader](https://github.com/rainygirl/rreader) - RSS reader client with TUI interface.
* [tabview](https://github.com/TabViewer/tabview) - Python curses command line CSV and tabular data viewer.
* [Terminal Markdown Viewer](https://github.com/axiros/terminal_markdown_viewer) - Python based Markdown viewer for the terminal.
* [TerminalImageViewer](https://github.com/stefanhaustein/TerminalImageViewer) - Small C++ program to display images in a (modern) terminal using RGB ANSI codes and unicode block graphics characters.
* [termv](https://github.com/Roshan-R/termv) - A terminal iptv player written in bash.
* [texel](https://github.com/Lauriat/texel) - Command line interface for reading spreadsheets inside terminal.
* [Textual Markdown Browser](https://github.com/willmcgugan/textual-markdown) - Experimental "Markdown browser" for the terminal, built with Textual.
* [Amfora](https://github.com/makew0rld/amfora) - Amfora aims to be the best looking Gemini client with the most features. It does not support Gopher or other non-Web protocols.
* [Bombadillo](https://bombadillo.colorfield.space/) - A non-web browser, designed for a growing list of protocols operating outside of the web. Currently supports Gemini, Finger and Gopher.
* [browsh](https://www.brow.sh/) - It renders anything that a modern browser can; HTML5, CSS3, JS, video and even WebGL. Its main purpose is to be run on a remote server and accessed via SSH/Mosh or the in-browser HTML service in order to significantly reduce bandwidth and thus both increase browsing speeds and decrease bandwidth costs.
* [Elinks](http://elinks.cz/) - "Advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web browser"; started as a fork of `Links`; it supports background download with queueing, some support from CSS, text box editing in external text editor.
* [min](https://github.com/a-h/min) - A Gemini browser with Vim style keyboard navigation, client certificate support and history and bookmarks saved in TSV files.
* [Romulus](https://github.com/LukeEmmet/Romulus) - A cross platform Gemini console client in C# with a simple user interface, interactive menus and mouse support.
* [s](https://github.com/zquestz/s) - Web search from the terminal. Just opens in your browser.
* [w3m](http://w3m.sourceforge.net/) - A text-based web browser as well as a pager like `less`, it can be used as a text formatting tool which typesets HTML into plain text.
* [ain](https://github.com/jonaslu/ain) - An HTTP API client for the terminal.
* [crawley](https://github.com/s0rg/crawley) - Unix-way web crawler: crawls web pages and prints any link it can find.
* [Discharge](https://github.com/brandonweiss/discharge) - Deploy static websites to Amazon S3.
* [http-tanker](https://github.com/PierreKieffer/http-tanker) - Terminal application used for API testing; easily create, manage and execute http requests from the terminal.
* [iola](https://github.com/pvarentsov/iola) - A command-line socket client with REST API. It helps to work with socket servers using your favorite REST client.
* [is-up-cli](https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-up-cli) - Check whether a website is up or down using the [isitup.org](https://isitup.org/) API.
* [linkchecker](https://github.com/linkchecker/linkchecker) - Check links in web documents or full websites.
* [lychee](https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee) - Fast, async, resource-friendly link checker written in Rust.
* [Metalsmith](http://www.metalsmith.io/) - An extremely simple static site generator, all functionalities are provided by plugins that can be combined and chained, written and extendable in Javascript.
* [nanoc](http://nanoc.ws/) - Static site generator written in Ruby, extremely powerful and customizable, support many formats to generate HTML content.
* [pageres-cli](https://github.com/sindresorhus/pageres-cli) - Capture screenshots of websites in various resolutions. A good way to make sure your websites are responsive.
* [Reachable](https://github.com/italolelis/reachable) - Check if a domain is up.
* [s3cmd](https://github.com/s3tools/s3cmd) - Command line tool for managing Amazon S3 and CloudFront services.
* [Shopify Development Tools](https://github.com/ScreenStaring/shopify-dev-tools/) - Tools to assist with the development and/or maintenance of Shopify apps and stores.
* [surge](https://surge.sh) - Static web publishing on surge.sh CDN.
* [Tsung](http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/) - A multi-protocol distributed load testing tool that can be used to stress HTTP, WebDAV, SOAP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, LDAP and Jabber/XMPP servers.
Tools to assist the writing of text (translation, spell checking, etc.).
* [alex](https://github.com/get-alex/alex) - Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing, by finding gender favoring, polarizing, race related, or other unequal phrasing in text.
* [cambd-cli](https://github.com/rocktimsaikia/cambd) - A CLI tool to automate the process to access the Cambridge dictionary.
* [CLI-Dictionary](https://github.com/Lodobo/dict.py) - Scripts for downloading and viewing wiktionary entries from Kaikki.org.
* [Grammatical](https://github.com/pncnmnp/grammatical) - Corrects the spelling and grammar of your text using ChatGPT.
* [GTT - Google Translate TUI](https://github.com/eeeXun/GTT) - A TUI interface to bring Google Translation in the terminal.
* [Translate Shell](https://www.soimort.org/translate-shell/) - Command-line translator using Google Translate, Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, etc.
* [VocabCLI](https://github.com/HighnessAtharva/VocabCLI) - Lightweight CLI that allows users to look up word definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms directly via the command line; it also offers advanced Text Classification and Processing via the use of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning algorithms.
[The Art of Command Line](https://github.com/jlevy/the-art-of-command-line) - A wonderful summary from Joshua Levy regarding command line (Bash in particular) tools, programs, tips and tricks; contains many pointers to resources and repositories, in the form of "to do this you must know that", which gives great pointers but requires further investigation from different sources; translated in many languages.
[Inconsolation blog](https://inconsolation.wordpress.com/) - "Adventures with lightweight and minimalist software for Linux": reviews of many command-line programs; many programs reviewed (400+, at least), with screenshots and animated GIFs; the style of presentation is ironic and funny, but requires some effort to figure out the real contribution of a program.
[A little collection of cool unix terminal/console/curses tools](https://kkovacs.eu/cool-but-obscure-unix-tools) - "Some are little-known, some are just too useful to miss, some are pure obscure..." from Kristof Kovacs; nice list with screenshot; mostly oriented to system administration; unfortunately there are no clickable links.
[Adam Harris awesome CLI apps](https://github.com/aharris88/awesome-cli-apps) - Nice list of tools; somehow too much Javascript/Node.js-centered for my tastes.
[awesome-ttygames](https://ligurio.github.io/awesome-ttygames/) - Large awesome list of terminal games. The collection is maintained in a YAML format. Each item contains a description and an optional screencast.
