BSD Terminal Tools

Originating in the late 1970s, Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) fostered Unix's evolution. Its use cases span server applications, embedded systems, and network solutions.

Modern developer tools often draw from BSD's robust, well-documented code, enhancing software reliability and system performance. Today, BSD now refers to it's open source derivatives which are FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD and NetBSD. With FreeBSD being the most popular out of the 4.

Below are a list of terminal tools that work with BSD.

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act3
Glance at the last 3 runs of your Github Actions.

ad
An adaptable text editor.

adguardian-term
An AdGuard Home terminal monitoring tool.

aerc
A pretty good email client.

age
A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool.

aichat
all-in-one AI powered CLI chat and copilot.

aider
AI pair programming in your terminal.

ali
A load testing tool capable of performing real-time analysis.

amfora
A fancy terminal browser for the Gemini protocol.

amp
A complete text editor for your terminal.

apisnip
A TUI tool for trimming OpenAPI specifications down to size.

aria2
The ultra fast download utility.

artui
Read and track recent arXiv papers with a TUI.

asciinema
A terminal session recorder.

asn
ASN lookup tool and traceroute server

ast-grep
A CLI tool for code structural search, lint and rewriting.

astroterm
A terminal-based star map.

atuin
Sync, search and backup shell history.

bacon
A background rust code checker.

bagels
A powerful expense tracker that lives in your terminal.

bandwhich
Terminal bandwidth utilization tool

basalt
A TUI for managing Obsidian vaults and notes.

basilk
A TUI to manage your tasks with minimal kanban logic.

bat
A cat(1) clone with wings.

bbcli
A TUI and CLI for accessing BBC News in the terminal.

bfs
A breadth-first version of the UNIX find command.

bibiman
A simple TUI for handling your BibLaTeX database.

bkp
Utility that makes backups of your files/directories.

blink
tiniest x86-64-linux emulator.

bmon
Bandwidth monitor and rate estimator

bombadillo
A non-web client for the terminal, supporting Gopher, Gemini and much more.

bottom
Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.

braindrop
A terminal-based client for raindrop.io.

branchlet
Manage Git worktrees with automation from the terminal.

broot
A new way to see and navigate directory trees.

browsr
A pleasant file explorer in your terminal supporting all filesystems.

bt
Interactive tree-like terminal file manager.

btop
A terminal monitor of resources.

buku
Personal mini-web in text

byobu
Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer

calcure
Modern, customizable TUI calendar and task manager.

calcurse
A calendar and scheduling application for the command line.

carbon-now-cli
generate beautiful images of your code from right inside your terminal.

cargo-geiger
Detects usage of unsafe Rust in a Rust crate and its dependencies.

cargo-seek
A TUI for searching, adding and installing cargo crates.

cargo-selector
Cargo subcommand to select and execute binary/example targets.

cariddi
A tool to crawl urls, scan endpoints, secrets, api keys, file extensions, tokens and more.

carl
a cal(1) alternative calendar for the command-line.

act3 - Glance at the last 3 runs of your Github Actions.
ad - An adaptable text editor.
adguardian-term - An AdGuard Home terminal monitoring tool.
aerc - A pretty good email client.
age - A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool.
aichat - all-in-one AI powered CLI chat and copilot.
aider - AI pair programming in your terminal.
ali - A load testing tool capable of performing real-time analysis.
amfora - A fancy terminal browser for the Gemini protocol.
amp - A complete text editor for your terminal.
apisnip - A TUI tool for trimming OpenAPI specifications down to size.
aria2 - The ultra fast download utility.
artui - Read and track recent arXiv papers with a TUI.
asciinema - A terminal session recorder.
asn - ASN lookup tool and traceroute server
ast-grep - A CLI tool for code structural search, lint and rewriting.
astroterm - A terminal-based star map.
atuin - Sync, search and backup shell history.
bacon - A background rust code checker.
bagels - A powerful expense tracker that lives in your terminal.
bandwhich - Terminal bandwidth utilization tool
basalt - A TUI for managing Obsidian vaults and notes.
basilk - A TUI to manage your tasks with minimal kanban logic.
bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.
bbcli - A TUI and CLI for accessing BBC News in the terminal.
bfs - A breadth-first version of the UNIX find command.
bibiman - A simple TUI for handling your BibLaTeX database.
bkp - Utility that makes backups of your files/directories.
blink - tiniest x86-64-linux emulator.
bmon - Bandwidth monitor and rate estimator
bombadillo - A non-web client for the terminal, supporting Gopher, Gemini and much more.
bottom - Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
braindrop - A terminal-based client for raindrop.io.
branchlet - Manage Git worktrees with automation from the terminal.
broot - A new way to see and navigate directory trees.
browsr - A pleasant file explorer in your terminal supporting all filesystems.
bt - Interactive tree-like terminal file manager.
btop - A terminal monitor of resources.
buku - Personal mini-web in text
byobu - Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
calcure - Modern, customizable TUI calendar and task manager.
calcurse - A calendar and scheduling application for the command line.
carbon-now-cli - generate beautiful images of your code from right inside your terminal.
cargo-geiger - Detects usage of unsafe Rust in a Rust crate and its dependencies.
cargo-seek - A TUI for searching, adding and installing cargo crates.
cargo-selector - Cargo subcommand to select and execute binary/example targets.
cariddi - A tool to crawl urls, scan endpoints, secrets, api keys, file extensions, tokens and more.
carl - a cal(1) alternative calendar for the command-line.
castero - A TUI podcast client for the terminal.
cava - Cross-platform Audio Visualizer for Alsa
celerator - Monitor and debug celery tasks in the terminal.
cgdb - A curses (terminal-based) interface to the GNU Debugger (GDB)
chawan - A TUI web browser.
chdig - Dig into ClickHouse with TUI interface.
chess-tui - Play chess from your terminal.
chezmoi - Manage dotfiles across multiple machines.
chroncal - All in one calendar, tasks and journal manager in the terminal.
claude-code - An agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, from Anthropic.
clipboard - Your new, ridonkulously smart clipboard manager.
cloc - Count lines of code in many programming languages
cmatrix - Matrix like effect in your terminal.
cmus - Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
cobib - The Console Bibliography.
cointop - cryptocurrency tracking for hackers that like htop.
comchan - A blazingly fast, minimal, and beginner-friendly serial monitor.
cotp - trusted, encrypted, TOTP/HOTP authenticator with import functionality.
cpufetch - Simple yet fancy CPU architecture fetching tool.
crates-tui - A TUI for exploring crates.io
croc - Easily and securely send things from one computer to another.
cronboard - A terminal tool for managing cron jobs locally and on servers.
csvi - A simple cross-platform terminal CSV editor.
ctop - A top-like interface for container metrics.
curl - A command line tool and library for transferring data.
curlie - The power of curl, the ease of use of httpie.
daff - align and compare tables
dblab - The database client designed for command line specialists.
dcv - A TUI viewer for docker-compose.
ddgr - DuckDuckGo from the terminal.
deletor - Manage & delete files efficiently with an interactive TUI & scriptable CLI.
delta - A viewer for git and diff output.
desed - Demystify and debug your sed scripts, from the comfort of your terminal.
devzat - A tool to chat over SSH.
diffnav - A git diff pager based on delta but with a file tree, à la GitHub.
difftastic - A structural diff that understands syntax.
dijo - scriptable, curses-based, digital habit tracker.
dirsearch - A web path scanner for finding hidden files and directories.
diskonaut - terminal disk space navigator.
dive - A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image.
dnspyre - A CLI tool for a high QPS DNS benchmark.
docfd - TUI multiline fuzzy document finder.
dog - A command-line DNS client.
doggo - A command-line DNS client for humans.
dolphie - Realtime MySQL health monitoring in the terminal.
dooit - A TUI todo manager for the terminal
dotenvhub - A TUI to manage your .env files in the terminal.
dra - A command line tool to download release assets from GitHub.
drft - A diff re/viewer and file tree viewer.
dry - A Docker manager for the terminal.
dstask - A CLI TODO manager with git-based sync + markdown notes.
dte - A small, configurable console text editor.
dua - View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast.
ducker - A slightly quackers Docker TUI.
duf - Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative.
dunk - Prettier git diffs in the terminal 🎨
durdraw - Versatile ASCII and ANSI Art text editor for terminals.
dusage - A command line disk usage information tool.
dust - A more intuitive version of du in rust
dyff - diff tool for YAML files, and sometimes JSON.
e2c - A TUI application for managing AWS EC2 instances.
eddy - Simple, fast CLI file encryption tool.
edit - A TUI editor inspired by MS-DOS for Windows.
eg - Useful examples at the command line.
eget - Easily install prebuilt binaries from GitHub.
elia - A TUI ChatGPT client built with Textual
elinks - A full-featured text www browser.
elio - A terminal-native file manager with rich previews.
emacs - The extensible, customizable, free/libre display editor.
epiq - A distributed terminal native issue tracker backed by Git.
erdtree - A general purpose filesystem and disk-usage utility.
erldash - A simple, terminal-based Erlang dashboard.
euporie - Jupyter notebooks in the terminal.
exa - The original modern replacement for ls
eza - A modern replacement for ls
fastfetch - Like neofetch, but much faster.
fblog - Small command-line JSON Log viewer.
fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
fend - An arbitrary-precision unit-aware calculator.
ffmpeg - A tool to record, convert and stream audio and video in the terminal.
ffsend - Securely share files from the command line.
flamelens - An interactive flamegraph viewer in the terminal.
flameshow - A flamegraph viewer in the terminal.
flawz - A TUI for browsing CVE security vulnerabilities.
flowcontrol - Flow Control: a programmer's text editor.
fm - A minimalistic file manager for the terminal.
fnc - interactive text-based user interface for Fossil
fnm - fast and simple node.js version manager in rust.
fnug - Run all your lints, tests and commands at once, in the terminal.
forgit - A utility tool powered by fzf for using Git interactively.
fork-cleaner - A tool to clean up old and inactive forks on your GitHub account.
fq - jq for binary formats.
frogmouth - A Markdown browser for your terminal
fselect - Find files with SQL-like queries.
fx - command-line tool and terminal JSON viewer.
fzf - A command-line fuzzy finder
g - A feature-rich, customizable, and cross-platform ls alternative.
gallery-dl - Download image galleries and collections from image hosting sites.
gaze - Executes commands for you.
gcli - A Portable Git(hub|lab|tea)/Forgejo/Bugzilla CLI tool.
gdb - The GNU Project Debugger
gdu - Pretty fast disk usage analyzer
gemini-cli - An AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal by Google.
gfold - A CLI tool that helps you keep track of multiple Git repositories.
gh-dash - An interactive GitHub Dashboard for your terminal.
ghq - Remote repository management made easy.
gita - A command-line tool to manage multiple git repos.
git-cc - a git extension to help write conventional commits
git-cliff - Changelog generator for git repositories.
GitHub CLI - GitHub's official command line tool.
git-interactive-rebase-tool - An improved sequence editor for Git.
GitLab CLI - A GitLab CLI tool bringing GitLab to your command line.
git-split-diffs - Syntax highlighted side-by-side diffs in your terminal
gitu - A TUI Git client inspired by Magit.
gitui - A blazing fast TUI for Git.
glances - A cross platform top/htop alternative in python.
glow - Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz!
goaccess - a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer.
gobang - A cross platform TUI database management tool written in Rust
gocker - TUI for Docker management.
gocovsh - A shell for interacting with Go coverage profiles.
godap - A complete terminal user interface (TUI) for LDAP.
goji - Commitizen-like tool for formatting commit messages using emojis.
gollama - Go manage your ollama models.
gomi - Unix rm(1) command that can restore deleted files.
gomuks - A terminal based Matrix client written in Go.
goose - A database migration tool written in Go.
gopass - The enhanced unix password manager for teams.
gotip - A TUI application for interactively selecting and running Go tests.
gotop - A terminal-based graphical activity monitor written in Go.
gotp - A CLI to manage and generate Time-based One Time Password. (TOTP)
gotz - A simple CLI timezone info tool.
gpg-tui - A terminal user interface for GPG
gping - Ping, but with a graph.
grex - generate regular expressions from user-provided test cases.
gri - manage git/gerrit change requests in the terminal.
grv - A Git Repository Viewer.
gtt - A TUI for Google Translate, ChatGPT, DeepL and other AI services.
hackernews-tui - A Terminal UI (TUI) to browse Hacker News.
haiti - A CLI to that identifies various hash types.
halp - A CLI tool to get help with CLI tools.
hardcover-tui - An unofficial terminal user interface (TUI) client for Hardcover.app
has - Checks presence of various CLI tools and their versions on the path.
hashcat - World's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility.
hdf5_ui - A TUI for inspection of HDF5 files.
heh - A terminal UI to edit bytes by the nibble.
helix - A post-modern text editor.
hevi - A hex viewer.
hexabyte - A modern, modular, and robust TUI hex editor.
hexapoda - A colorful modal hex editor in the terminal.
hexyl - A rust based command-line hex viewer
hike - A Markdown browser for the terminal.
himalaya - A CLI to manage emails.
hishtory - Your shell history: synced, queryable, and in context.
hledger - Fast, friendly, robust plain text accounting software
hledger-ui - Fast, friendly, robust plain text accounting software (TUI version)
hoard - A CLI command organizer tool to hoard all your precious commands.
hostctl - A CLI tool to manage /etc/hosts like a pro!
hstr - A bash and zsh shell history suggestion box for your command history.
htop - An interactive process viewer.
httm - Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2.
httpstat - Visualizes curl(1) statistics in a way of beauty and clarity.
humble-explorer - cross-platform, command-line Bluetooth Low Energy scanner.
hurl - Run and test HTTP requests with plain text.
hyperfine - A command-line benchmarking tool.
iamb - A matrix client for vim addicts.
inspect-cert-chain - Inspect and debug TLS certificate chains. (without OpenSSL)
irssi - A well known cross-platform and famous IRC client
jaq - A jq clone focused on correctness, speed, and simplicity
jc - A tool convert CLI output, files & strings to JSON/YAML.
jellex - A TUI to filter JSON and JSON Lines data with Python syntax.
jira-cli - Interact with Jira in the Terminal with Jira CLI.
jiratui - Manage JIRA issues directly from the terminal.
jjui - A terminal user interface for working with Jujutsu.
jless - A command-line JSON viewer.
joshuto - ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust.
jqp - A TUI playground to experiment with jq.
jsongrep - A path query language for JSON, YAML, TOML, and other serialization formats.
jujutsu - A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful.
jwt-ui - A CLI and TUI for decoding/encoding JSON Web Tokens.
k9s - Kubernetes CLI and TUI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!
kakoune - A modern selection-based modal text editor.
kalker - A scientific terminal calculator with math syntax.
kanban-tui - A customizable task manager in the terminal.
kaskade - A text user interface (TUI) for Apache Kafka.
kb - A minimalist knowledge base manager.
kdash - A simple and fast dashboard for Kubernetes.
keep-alive - A lightweight, cross-platform utility to prevent your system from sleeping.
kew - A fast, privacy friendly terminal music player to listen to music.
keyb - Create and view custom hotkey cheatsheets in the terminal.
khal - A standards based CLI and terminal calendar program.
kibi - A text editor in less than 1024 lines of code, written in Rust.
kite-tui - A terminal reader for Kagi News.
kl - An interactive Kubernetes log viewer for your terminal.
koji - An interactive CLI for creating conventional commits.
kondo - Cleans node_modules, target, build, and friends from your projects.
ktool - A TUI Mach-O/ObjC analysis and editing toolkit in the terminal.
ktop - A top-like tool for your Kubernetes clusters.
layerx - Terminal-based Docker image layer inspector.
lazydocker - The lazier way to manage everything docker
lazygit - Simple terminal UI for git commands.
lazykiq - A rich terminal UI for Sidekiq.
lazynpm - A simple TUI for npm commands.
lazysql - A cross-platform TUI database management tool.
lazyssh - A terminal-based SSH manager.
lemmeknow - The fastest way to identify anything!
lemurs - A customizable TUI display/login manager written in Rust.
lf - A terminal file manager which "lists files".
links - A fast and lightweight web browser running in both graphics and text mode.
livediff - Watch file diffs live in your terminal.
lla - A blazing fast ls replacement with superpowers.
lnav - An ncurses-based log file viewer for the terminal.
lobtui - A TUI for lobste.rs website.
loggo - A powerful terminal app for structured log streaming.
logmerger - A utility to view multiple log files with merged timeline.
logshark - A CLI / TUI debugger for JSON logs.
logss - A simple cli for logs splitting.
lsd - lsdeluxe, the next gen ls command in Rust.
lsix - like "ls", but for sixel images.
lsr - Basically ls but readable.
lssh - A TUI list select SSH/SCP/SFTP client tools.
lumon - The work is mysterious and important...
ly - A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager.
lychee - A fast, async link checker written in Rust.
lyn - Get the weather delivered to your command-line.
lynx - A TUI based web browser.
macchina - Fast, minimal and customizable system information frontend.
mandown - man-page inspired Markdown viewer.
mani - A CLI tool to help you manage multiple repositories.
manly - A TUI for viewing man pages in the terminal.
mapscii - The whole world in your console.
marchat - A lightweight realtime terminal chat client and server with E2E support.
mc - Midnight Commander, a feature-rich visual file manager for the terminal.
mdcat - fancy cat for markdown
mdfried - A markdown viewer for the terminal that renders images and Big Headers™.
mdns-scanner - Scan a network and create a list of IPs and associated hostnames.
mdp - A command-line based markdown presentation tool
mdtt - Markdown Table Editor TUI.
meli - configurable and extensible terminal email client.
micro - A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor.
miller - an all in one swiss army knife for data processing.
mise - The front-end to your dev env.
mitmproxy - A TLS/SSL-capable interception HTTP proxy.
moar - the nice pager, designed to just do the right thing without any configuration.
moc - A music player with a terminal user interface (TUI)
moe - A command line Nim based editor inspired by Vim.
moltbook-tui - A TUI client for Moltbook, the social network for AI Agents.
moneyterm - TUI expense and budget tracker.
monolith - A CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file.
mop - stock market tracker for hackers.
mprocs - Run multiple commands in parallel.
mpv - A command-line media player for playing video, audio and streams from the terminal.
mq - jq-like command-line tool for markdown processing.
mqttui - A TUI tool to publish/subscribe MQTT messages from the terminal.
mtr - A network diagnostics tool
mult - Run a command multiple times and glance at the outputs.
musikcube - A cross-platform terminal-based music player
nap - Code snippets in your terminal.
navi - An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command line.
ncdu - A ncurses based disk usage analyzer
ncspot - A cross-platform ncurses Spotify client.
needs - checks if bin(s) are installed, oh and the version too.
nemu - ncurses-based TUI for QEMU.
neofetch - A command-line system information tool.
neomutt - A command line mail reader based on mutt
neoss - User-friendly and detailed socket statistics with a TUI.
neovim - Hyperextensible Vim-based text editor
nerdlog - A fast, remote-first, multi-host TUI log viewer.
netop - A network topology visualizer.
netshow - An interactive, process-aware network monitoring for your terminal.
newsboat - An open-source RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals
nless - Excel for your logs. Pipe in anything, wrangle it into columns.
nnn - The missing terminal file manager for X
noping - A C library to generate ICMP echo requests with a visualization
notox - No toxic names anymore.
numbat - high precision scientific calculator with full support for physical units.
nvrs - Fast new version checker for software releases.
octosql - A CLI tool which lets you query a plethora of databases.
oeis-tui - A TUI and CLI for exploring the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS).
oha - A tiny TUI program that sends some load to a web application.
omm - A keyboard-driven task manager for the terminal.
onefetch - A command-line Git information tool.
openapi-tui - Browse and run APIs defined with OpenAPI v3.0 in the TUI
openclaw - A self-hosted personal AI assistant with a CLI / TUI control surface.
opencubicplayer - a text-based audio player with some few graphical views.
orbiton - A terminal-based text editor and a minimalistic IDE.
oterm - A text-based terminal client for ollama.
otti - one-time TUI password manager for the terminal.
ouch - Painless compression and decompression in the terminal
ov - A feature rich terminal-based pager.
oxker - A simple TUI to view & control docker containers.
pandoc - a universal markup converter.
papis - A powerful and highly extensible CLI document and bibliography manager.
para-cada - Executes your command for each file selected using glob expression(s).
pass - the standard unix password manager.
pastel - Generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors.
pathos - A terminal interface for editing and managing PATH environment variables.
pdfgrep - A command line utility to search text in PDF files.
pdu - Highly parallelized, blazing fast directory tree analyzer.
peco - A simplistic interactive filtering tool.
peplum - The TUI PEP lookup manager for your terminal.
pet - Simple command-line snippet manager.
pgcli - A postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
pgtree - Unix process hierarchy tree for specific processes.
phetch - A terminal client designed to help you quickly navigate the gophersphere.
pik - A TUI for interactively stopping processes.
pillager - Pillage filesystems for sensitive information.
pingtop - Ping multiple servers and show the result in a top like terminal UI.
pipeform - A TUI for Terraform runtime progress.
planor - A TUI client for cloud services for aws, vultr, heroku, etc.
pocker - A TUI tool for Docker.
pop - Send emails from your terminal.
posting - A powerful HTTP client that lives in your terminal.
pproftui - A terminal-based diagnostic tool for Go pprof data.
pqviewer - View Apache Parquet Files In Your Terminal.
process-compose - A scheduler and orchestrator to manage non-containerized applications.
procmux - A terminal multiplexer for processes.
procs - A modern replacement for ps written in Rust.
projectable - A terminal-based project manager
prs - Stay updated on PRs without leaving the terminal.
pspg - A UNIX pager optimized for tabular data.
pueue - Manage your shell commands.
pug - Drive terraform at terminal velocity.
pvetui - A Terminal UI for Proxmox VE.
pvw - A terminal-based (TUI) port viewer in Go
pwdsafety - A command line tool checking password safety.
pygitzen - A python native terminal based Git client.
pysentation - TUI for displaying Python presentations
qq - A jq inspired interoperable config format transcoder with interactive querying.
qrc - A QR code generator for text terminals.
qrtool - A utility for encoding or decoding QR codes.
qsv - Blazing-fast CSV data-wrangling toolkit
radare2 - unix-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset.
ranger - A vim-inspired file manager for the console.
rclone - rsync for cloud storage
reader - Readability for the command line.
redu - ncdu for your restic repository.
regname - Mass renamer TUI written in Rust.
repgrep - An interactive replacer for ripgrep.
restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program.
resto - Send pretty HTTP & API requests with TUI.
rexi - A terminal UI for regex testing.
rgx - A terminal regex tester with real-time matching and multi-engine support.
riff - A diff filter highlighting which line parts have changed.
ripgrep - A recursive directory search tool using regex patterns.
rizin - open source reverse engineering tool based on radare2.
rssnix - filesystem-based rss/atom/json feed fetcher and reader
rsync - A fast and extraordinarily versatile file copying tool for both remote and local files.
rsyncy - A status/progress bar for rsync.
rustnet - A cross-platform network monitoring TUI tool.
rustormy - Minimal neofetch-like weather CLI.
rustscan - The Modern Port Scanner.
rwx - A Unix permissions and ownership manager in the terminal.
s3scanner - A tool to scan for misconfigured S3 buckets.
sabiql - A fast, driverless, vim-first TUI for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.
sake - A task runner for local and remote hosts.
sampler - Visualization for any shell command.
scc - A very fast accurate code counter with complexity calculations.
sc-im - An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal
scli - simple terminal user interface (TUI) for Signal.
scooter - Interactive find and replace in the terminal.
sd - Intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative)
seednaut - Inspect, verify and extract files from Seedvault backups.
sen - Terminal User Interface for containers.
senpai - Your everyday IRC student.
serie - A rich git commit graph in your terminal, like magic!
sheets - Minimal terminal based spreadsheet and CSV viewer.
shellcheck - A static analysis tool for shell scripts.
silicon - create beautiful image of your source code.
sizeof - A command-line tool to calculate the size of data structures
sl - Cure your bad habit of mistyping.
slack-term - A Slack client for your terminal.
slides - A terminal based presentation tool
slurm - Realtime traffic statistics for network interfaces
smartcat - Putting a brain behind cat(1).
sncli - A TUI and CLI for Simplenote.
snowmachine - Make it snow in the terminal!
sntop - A simple network top for monitoring connectivity
so - A terminal interface for Stack Overflow.
spiel - Display richly-styled presentations using your terminal.
spotify-player - A Spotify player in the terminal with full feature parity.
spotify-tui - Spotify for the terminal written in Rust
sprofile - Blazingly fast TUI application for viewing your Spotify listening activity.
sq - The missing swiss-army knife tool for wrangling data.
sqlit - A user friendly TUI for SQL databases.
sqly - Easily execute SQL against CSV/TSV/LTSV/JSON and Excel with shell.
srgn - A syntax‑aware grep alternative with code edits.
sshclick - Terminal based assisted management of your SSH config files.
ssh-para - Parallel SSH jobs manager interactive CLI.
sshs - Terminal user interface for SSH
ssm - Streamline SSH connections with a simple TUI.
stew - An independent package manager for compiled binaries.
stree - A simple directory tree command for listing AWS S3 bucket
stu - A TUI application for AWS S3 written in Rust.
superfile - fancy, modern file manager in the terminal.
tabiew - A lightweight TUI application to view and query tabular data files.
tailspin - A log file highlighter
tcpdump - A command-line network traffic analyzer.
tcping - A cross-platform ping program for TCP ports.
tcpterm - A terminal-based TCP dump viewer.
tealdeer - A very fast implementation of tldr in Rust.
tele - A keyboard-first Telegram messaging inside the terminal.
tempy - A simple TUI for displaying the current weather in the terminal
tenere - A TUI interface for LLMs.
tere - A faster alternative to cd + ls.
terminaltexteffects - Inline Visual Effects in the Terminal.
termpicker - A color picker for the terminal.
termscp - A feature rich terminal file transfer tool.
termshark - A terminal UI (TUI) for tshark, inspired by Wireshark.
terraform-tui - A powerful terraform textual TUI.
tewi - Text-based interface for the Transmission BitTorrent daemon.
textql - Execute SQL against structured text like CSV or TSV
textual-astview - A Textual-based Python AST viewing widget library and application
tgpt - AI Chatbots in the terminal without needing API keys.
tgt - A simple TUI for Telegram.
tig - A text-mode interface for Git.
tinboard - A terminal-based client for pinboard.in
tiptop - Command-line system monitoring
tmate - instant terminal sharing.
tmux - An open-source terminal multiplexer.
toast - A lightweight TUI IDE for making quick in-the-moment edits.
tokei - Count your code, quickly.
toktop - htop but for LLM tokens.
toot - Interact with Mastodon directly in the terminal.
topgrade - Upgrade all the things
tproxy - A CLI tool to proxy and analyze TCP connections.
tre - A modern and improved alternative to the tree(1) command.
t-rec - Blazingly fast terminal recorder that generates animated gif images.
treemd - A TUI and CLI dual pane markdown viewer
trex - A terminal app for RegEx visualization, 🦖 roar!
trippy - A TUI network diagnostics tool
ttyper - A terminal-based typing test
ttyplot - A realtime terminal plotting utility with data input from stdin.
tui-journal - Your journal app if you live in a terminal.
tuios - A TUI window manager for managing multiple terminal sessions.
tuisky - A TUI client for Bluesky.
tuistash - A terminal user interface for Logstash.
tuptime - Like uptime(1), but preserves shutdown / restart stats.
tut - A TUI for Mastodon with vim inspired keys
twitch-tui - A Twitch chat TUI client for the terminal
typeinc - A cool ncurses based typing speed test tool.
typespeed - Test your typing speed, and challenge your friends
typioca - Cozy typing speed tester in terminal.
tz - A terminal based timezone helper
ugm - A TUI to view information about UNIX users and groups
ugrep - A fast grep replacement for archives, documents and fuzzy search.
unifly - A CLI/TUI for UniFi network controller management.
up - A tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview.
updo - Uptime monitoring CLI tool with alerting and advanced settings.
uuinfo - A tool to debug unique identifiers. (UUID, ULID, Snowflake, etc)
viddy - A modern watch command, time machine and pager.
vifm - A file manager with curses interface.
vignore - A powerful tool to visualize ignored files.
vim - The ubiquitous text editor
visidata - A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data.
vscli - A CLI/TUI making it easy to launch Visual Studio Code (vscode) projects.
vtop - Wow such top. So stats. More better than regular top
w3m - A pager and/or text-based browser.
weechat - The extensible chat client
wget - A utility for non-interactive download of files from the web.
whosthere - A local area network (LAN) discovery tool with a modern TUI interface.
wifitui - A fast, featureful and friendly WiFi terminal UI.
wiki-tui - A fast Wikipedia CLI/TUI client
wireman - A TUI gRPC client for the terminal.
wordgrinder - A cross-platform word processor for the terminal
wtf - The personal information dashboard for your terminal.
wtfis - Passive hostname, domain and IP lookup tool for non-robots.
wut - A CLI that explains the output of your last command.
wuzz - An interactive TUI tool for HTTP inspection.
xan - The CSV magician.
x-cmd - A compact swiss army knife for the terminal.
xh - Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests.
xplr - A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer
xql - An SQL REPL for SharePoint Lists and CSV files.
xsv - A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.
yai - Your AI powered terminal assistant
youplot - A command line tool that draw plots on the terminal.
youtube-dl - Download videos from YouTube and other video sites.
yt-dlp - A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes.
zeit - A simple command-line tool to track your time
zeitfetch - Instantaneous snapshots of system information.
zellij - A terminal workspace with batteries included.
zoxide - A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.

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