Windows Terminal Tools

Introduced in 1985, Windows by Microsoft focuses on personal computing with its graphical user interface, pivotal in business, gaming, and everyday computing. It is the most popular OS in the world.

 

Today, its relevance persists with tools and enhanced graphics facilitating various professional tasks, making complex operations accessible, such as the Command Prompt (CMD.exe) and Powershell. 

 

Below is a list of terminal tools that work with Windows.

  1. act3 - Glance at the last 3 runs of your Github Actions.
  1. age - A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool.
  1. aichat - all-in-one AI powered CLI chat and copilot.
  1. aider - AI pair programming in your terminal
  1. amfora - A fancy terminal browser for the Gemini protocol.
  1. amp - A complete text editor for your terminal.
  1. aria2 - The ultra fast download utility.
  1. asn - ASN lookup tool and traceroute server
  1. atac - A simple API client (postman like) in your terminal.
  1. atuin - Sync, search and backup shell history.
  1. bandwhich - Terminal bandwidth utilization tool
  1. basilk - A TUI to manage your tasks with minimal kanban logic.
  1. bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.
  1. bbcli - A TUI for accessing BBC News in the terminal.
  1. bkp - Utility that makes backups of your files/directories.
  1. blink - tiniest x86-64-linux emulator.
  1. bottom - Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
  1. broot - A new way to see and navigate directory trees.
  1. browsr - A pleasant file explorer in your terminal supporting all filesystems.
  1. bt - Interactive tree-like terminal file manager.
  1. btop - A terminal monitor of resources.
  1. buku - Personal mini-web in text
  1. byobu - Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
  1. calcure - Modern, customizable TUI calendar and task manager.
  1. carbon-now-cli - generate beautiful images of your code from right inside your terminal.
  1. carl - a cal(1) alternative calendar for the command-line.
  1. chdig - Dig into ClickHouse with TUI interface.
  1. chmod-cli - effortlessly generate chmod commands.
  1. cidr - A CLI to perform various actions on CIDR ranges.
  1. clipboard - Your new, ridonkulously smart clipboard manager.
  1. cloc - Count lines of code in many programming languages
  1. cotp - trusted, encrypted, TOTP/HOTP authenticator with import functionality.
  1. cpufetch - Simple yet fancy CPU architecture fetching tool.
  1. crates-tui - A TUI for exploring crates.io
  1. croc - Easily and securely send things from one computer to another.
  1. csvlens - a csv viewer like less but made for csv.
  1. ctop - A top-like interface for container metrics.
  1. curl - A command line tool and library for transferring data.
  1. curlie - The power of curl, the ease of use of httpie.
  1. cyme - List system USB buses and devices.
  1. dblab - The database client designed for command line specialists.
  1. ddgr - DuckDuckGo from the terminal.
  1. delta - A viewer for git and diff output.
  1. diffnav - A git diff pager based on delta but with a file tree, à la GitHub.
  1. difftastic - A structural diff that understands syntax
  1. dijo - scriptable, curses-based, digital habit tracker.
  1. diskonaut - terminal disk space navigator.
  1. dive - A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image.
  1. dns53 - Expose your EC2 quickly, easily and privately within a VPC.
  1. docfd - TUI multiline fuzzy document finder.
  1. dog - A command-line DNS client.
  1. doggo - A command-line DNS client for humans.
  1. dolphie - Realtime MySQL health monitoring in the terminal.
  1. dooit - A TUI todo manager for the terminal
  1. dotenvhub - A TUI to manage your .env files in the terminal.
  1. dra - A command line tool to download release assets from GitHub.
  1. dry - A Docker manager for the terminal.
  1. dua - View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast.
  1. ducker - A slightly quackers Docker TUI.
  1. duf - Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative.
  1. dug - A global DNS propagation checker on your CLI
  1. dunk - Prettier git diffs in the terminal 🎨
  1. dusage - A command line disk usage information tool.
  1. dust - A more intuitive version of du in rust
  1. dyff - diff tool for YAML files, and sometimes JSON.
  1. eddy - Simple, fast CLI file encryption tool.
  1. eget - Easily install prebuilt binaries from GitHub.
  1. elia - A TUI ChatGPT client built with Textual
  1. elinks - A full-featured text www browser.
  1. emacs - The extensible, customizable, free/libre display editor.
  1. erdtree - A general purpose filesystem and disk-usage utility.
  1. erldash - A simple, terminal-based Erlang dashboard.
  1. eva - A calculator REPL, similar to bc.
  1. exa - The original modern replacement for ls
  1. eza - A modern replacement for ls
  1. fastfetch - Like neofetch, but much faster.
  1. fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
  1. fend - An arbitrary-precision unit-aware calculator.
  1. ffmpeg - record, convert and stream audio and video in the terminal.
  1. flawz - A TUI for browsing CVE security vulnerabilities.
  1. fnug - Run all your lints, tests and commands at once, in the terminal.
  1. fork-cleaner - A tool to clean up old and inactive forks on your GitHub account.
  1. fq - jq for binary formats.
  1. frogmouth - A Markdown browser for your terminal
  1. fx - command-line tool and terminal JSON viewer.
  1. fzf - A command-line fuzzy finder
  1. fztea - A flipperzero remote control locally in the terminal and ssh.
  1. gallery-dl - Download image galleries and collections from image hosting sites.
  1. gama - Manage your GitHub Actions from the terminal.
  1. gdb - The GNU Project Debugger
  1. gdu - Pretty fast disk usage analyzer
  1. gfold - A CLI tool that helps you keep track of multiple Git repositories.
  1. gh-dash - An interactive GitHub Dashboard for your terminal.
  1. ghq - Remote repository management made easy.
  1. git-cc - a git extension to help write conventional commits
  1. git-split-diffs - Syntax highlighted side-by-side diffs in your terminal
  1. gitnr - A CLI / TUI to generate .gitignore files using templates.
  1. gitu - A TUI Git client inspired by Magit.
  1. gitui - A blazing fast TUI for git written in rust
  1. glances - A cross platform top/htop alternative in python.
  1. glow - Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz!
  1. goaccess - a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer.
  1. gocovsh - A shell for interacting with Go coverage profiles.
  1. goji - Commitizen-like tool for formatting commit messages using emojis.
  1. gomuks - A terminal based Matrix client written in Go.
  1. goose - A database migration tool written in Go.
  1. gopass - The enhanced unix password manager for teams.
  1. goto - SSH manager for easy server access.
  1. gotop - A terminal-based graphical activity monitor written in Go.
  1. gotp - A CLI to manage and generate Time-based One Time Password. (TOTP)
  1. gping - Ping, but with a graph.
  1. grex - generate regular expressions from user-provided test cases.
  1. gri - manage git/gerrit change requests in the terminal.
  1. gtt - A TUI for Google Translate, ChatGPT, DeepL and other AI services.
  1. hackernews-tui - A Terminal UI (TUI) to browse Hacker News.
  1. haiti - A CLI to that identifies various hash types.
  1. halp - A CLI tool to get help with CLI tools.
  1. harlequin - The SQL IDE for Your Terminal.
  1. has - Checks presence of various CLI tools and their versions on the path.
  1. hashcat - World's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility.
  1. havn - A fast configurable port scanner with reasonable defaults.
  1. hdf5_ui - A TUI for inspection of HDF5 files.
  1. helix - A post-modern text editor.
  1. hexabyte - A modern, modular, and robust TUI hex editor.
  1. hexpatch - A binary patcher and editor with a terminal user interface.
  1. hexyl - A rust based command-line hex viewer
  1. hf - Cross-platform hidden file library and utility.
  1. hishtory - Your shell history: synced, queryable, and in context.
  1. hl - A fast and powerful log viewer and processor.
  1. hledger - Fast, friendly, robust plain text accounting software
  1. hostctl - A CLI tool to manage /etc/hosts like a pro!
  1. hours - no-frills time tracking toolkit for the command line.
  1. hstr - A bash and zsh shell history suggestion box for your command history.
  1. httplab - Inspect HTTP requests and mock their responses in the terminal.
  1. humble-explorer - cross-platform, command-line Bluetooth Low Energy scanner.
  1. hurl - Run and test HTTP requests with plain text.
  1. hwatch - An alternative watch command.
  1. hyperfine - A command-line benchmarking tool.
  1. jc - A tool convert CLI output, files & strings to JSON/YAML.
  1. jellex - A TUI to filter JSON and JSON Lines data with Python syntax.
  1. jira-cli - Interact with Jira in the Terminal with Jira CLI.
  1. jless - A command-line JSON viewer.
  1. joshuto - ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust.
  1. jqp - A TUI playground to experiment with jq.
  1. jwt-ui - A CLI and TUI for decoding/encoding JSON Web Tokens.
  1. k9s - Kubernetes CLI and TUI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!
  1. kalker - A scientific terminal calculator with math syntax.
  1. kaskade - A text user interface (TUI) for Apache Kafka.
  1. kb - A minimalist knowledge base manager.
  1. kibi - A text editor in less than 1024 lines of code, written in Rust.
  1. koji - An interactive CLI for creating conventional commits.
  1. kondo - Cleans node_modules, target, build, and friends from your projects.
  1. ktop - A top-like tool for your Kubernetes clusters.
  1. kubecolor - Colorize your kubectl output.
  1. lazygit - Simple terminal UI for git commands.
  1. lemmeknow - The fastest way to identify anything!
  1. lf - A terminal file manager which "lists files".
  1. links - A fast and lightweight web browser running in both graphics and text mode.
  1. logmerger - A utility to view multiple log files with merged timeline.
  1. logria - A powerful CLI tool that puts log aggregation at your fingertips.
  1. logshark - A CLI / TUI debugger for JSON logs.
  1. logss - A simple cli for logs splitting.
  1. lsd - lsdeluxe, the next gen ls command in Rust.
  1. lychee - A fast, async link checker written in Rust.
  1. lynx - A TUI based web browser.
  1. mc - Midnight Commander, a feature-rich visual file manager for the terminal.
  1. mdtt - Markdown Table Editor TUI.
  1. menyoki - Screenshot/cast and perform ImageOps on the command line.
  1. micro - A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
  1. miller - an all in one swiss army knife for data processing.
  1. mitmproxy - A TLS/SSL-capable interception HTTP proxy.
  1. moe - A command line Nim based editor inspired by Vim.
  1. moneyterm - TUI expense and budget tracker.
  1. monolith - A CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file.
  1. mop - stock market tracker for hackers.
  1. mprocs - Run multiple commands in parallel.
  1. mqttui - A TUI tool to publish/subscribe MQTT messages from the terminal.
  1. musikcube - A cross-platform terminal-based music player
  1. nap - Code snippets in your terminal.
  1. navi - An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command line.
  1. neofetch - A command-line system information tool.
  1. neovim - Hyperextensible Vim-based text editor
  1. netop - A network topology visualizer.
  1. nnn - The missing terminal file manager for X
  1. notox - No toxic names anymore.
  1. ntop - htop-like system-monitor for windows.
  1. numbat - high precision scientific calculator with full support for physical units.
  1. nvitop - An interactive NVIDIA-GPU process viewer and beyond.
  1. octocov - A toolkit for collecting code metrics.
  1. oha - A tiny TUI program that sends some load to a web application.
  1. ollama - get up and running with large language models locally.
  1. omm - A keyboard-driven task manager for the terminal.
  1. onefetch - A command-line Git information tool.
  1. openapi-tui - Browse and run APIs defined with OpenAPI v3.0 in the TUI
  1. orbiton - A terminal-based text editor and a minimalistic IDE.
  1. oterm - A text-based terminal client for ollama.
  1. otti - one-time TUI password manager for the terminal.
  1. ouch - Painless compression and decompression in the terminal
  1. ov - A feature rich terminal-based pager.
  1. oxker - A simple TUI to view & control docker containers.
  1. pandoc - a universal markup converter.
  1. pass - the standard unix password manager.
  1. pastel - Generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors.
  1. pdu - Highly parallelized, blazing fast directory tree analyzer.
  1. peco - A simplistic interactive filtering tool.
  1. pgtree - Unix process hierarchy tree for specific processes.
  1. pillager - Pillage filesystems for sensitive information.
  1. planor - A TUI client for cloud services for aws, vultr, heroku, etc.
  1. pocker - A TUI tool for Docker.
  1. portal - A quick and easy command-line file transfer utility.
  1. posting - A powerful HTTP client that lives in your terminal.
  1. presenterm - A TUI markdown terminal slideshow tool.
  1. process-compose - A scheduler and orchestrator to manage non-containerized applications.
  1. procmux - A terminal multiplexer for processes.
  1. procs - A modern replacement for ps written in Rust.
  1. prs - Stay updated on PRs without leaving the terminal.
  1. pueue - Manage your shell commands.
  1. pug - Drive terraform at terminal velocity.
  1. pvw - A terminal-based (TUI) port viewer in Go
  1. pwdsafety - A CLI tool for checking password safety.
  1. pysentation - TUI for displaying Python presentations
  1. qq - A jq inspired interoperable config format transcoder with interactive querying.
  1. qrc - A QR code generator for text terminals.
  1. qsv - Blazing-fast CSV data-wrangling toolkit
  1. radare2 - unix-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset.
  1. rainfrog - A database management TUI for postgres.
  1. ranger - A vim-inspired file manager for the console.
  1. rclone - rsync for cloud storage
  1. reader - Readability for the command line.
  1. redu - ncdu for your restic repository.
  1. restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program.
  1. rexi - A terminal UI for regex testing.
  1. rga - Ripgrep, but can also search in docs, PDFs, E-Books, zip, tar.gz, etc.
  1. ripgrep - A recursive directory search tool using regex patterns.
  1. rizin - open source reverse engineering tool based on radare2.
  1. rssnix - filesystem-based rss/atom/json feed fetcher and reader
  1. rsync - A fast and extraordinarily versatile file copying tool for both remote and local files.
  1. rsyncy - A status/progress bar for rsync.
  1. rucola - A terminal based markdown note manager.
  1. rustscan - The Modern Port Scanner.
  1. s3scanner - A tool to scan for misconfigured S3 buckets.
  1. sampler - Visualization for any shell command.
  1. sc-im - An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal
  1. scc - A very fast accurate code counter with complexity calculations.
  1. sd - Intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative)
  1. sen - Terminal User Interface for containers.
  1. shellcheck - A static analysis tool for shell scripts.
  1. sherlock - Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks.
  1. silicon - create beautiful image of your source code.
  1. slack-term - A Slack client for your terminal.
  1. spiel - Display richly-styled presentations using your terminal.
  1. spotify-player - A Spotify player in the terminal with full feature parity.
  1. spotify-tui - Spotify for the terminal written in Rust
  1. sq - The missing swiss-army knife tool for wrangling data.
  1. sshs - Terminal user interface for SSH
  1. stew - An independent package manager for compiled binaries.
  1. stree - A simple directory tree command for listing AWS S3 bucket
  1. sttr - A CLI/TUI tool to perform 30+ string transformations on text.
  1. stu - A TUI application for AWS S3 written in Rust.
  1. tabiew - A lightweight TUI application to view and query tabular data files.
  1. tailspin - A log file highlighter
  1. tcping - A cross-platform ping program for TCP ports.
  1. tealdeer - A very fast implementation of tldr in Rust.
  1. tempy - A simple TUI for displaying the current weather in the terminal
  1. tenere - A TUI interface for LLMs.
  1. terminaltexteffects - Inline Visual Effects in the Terminal.
  1. termscp - A feature rich terminal file transfer tool.
  1. terraform-tui - A powerful terraform textual TUI.
  1. tewi - Text-based interface for the Transmission BitTorrent daemon.
  1. textql - Execute SQL against structured text like CSV or TSV
  1. textual-astview - A Textual-based Python AST viewing widget library and application
  1. tgpt - AI Chatbots in the terminal without needing API keys.
  1. tgt - A simple TUI for Telegram.
  1. tig - Text-mode interface for git
  1. tinboard - A terminal-based client for pinboard.in
  1. tiptop - Command-line system monitoring
  1. tokei - Count your code, quickly.
  1. toolong - A terminal application to view, tail, merge, and search log files (plus JSONL).
  1. topgrade - Upgrade all the things
  1. tproxy - A cli tool to proxy and analyze TCP connections.
  1. tre - A modern and improved alternative to the tree(1) command.
  1. trippy - A TUI network diagnostics tool
  1. ttyper - A terminal-based typing test
  1. tui-journal - Your journal app if you live in a terminal.
  1. tuime - A colorful and customizable TUI clock written in Rust.
  1. tuisky - A TUI client for Bluesky.
  1. twitch-tui - A Twitch chat TUI client for the terminal
  1. typeinc - A cool ncurses based typing speed test tool.
  1. typespeed - Test your typing speed, and challenge your friends
  1. typioca - Cozy typing speed tester in terminal.
  1. tz - A terminal based timezone helper
  1. updo - Uptime monitoring CLI tool with alerting and advanced settings.
  1. viddy - A modern watch command, time machine and pager.
  1. vignore - A powerful tool to visualize ignored files.
  1. vim - The ubiquitous text editor
  1. visidata - A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data.
  1. vscli - A CLI/TUI making it easy to launch Visual Studio Code (vscode) projects.
  1. vtop - Wow such top. So stats. More better than regular top
  1. w3m - A pager and/or text-based browser.
  1. wget - A utility for non-interactive download of files from the web.
  1. wireman - A TUI gRPC client.
  1. xh - Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests.
  1. yai - Your AI powered terminal assistant
  1. yazi - Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.
  1. youplot - A command line tool that draw plots on the terminal.
  1. youtube-dl - Download videos from YouTube and other video sites.
  1. yr - Get the weather delivered to your command-line.
  1. yt-dlp - A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes.
  1. zeit - A simple command-line tool to track your time
  1. zeitfetch - Instantaneous snapshots of system information.
  1. zoxide - A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.
  1. zrok - a next-generation peer-to-peer sharing platform

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