Awesome Lists with GitHub stars

A curated list of command line apps.

Inspired by the awesome GitHub Repo Stars GitHub last commit list thing.

Entertainment
- Music
- Social Media
- Video
- Movies
- Games
- Books
Development
- Text Editors
- Frontend Development
- Mobile Development
- Database
- Devops
- Docker
- Release
- Npm
- Boilerplate
- HTTP Server
- HTTP Client
Productivity
Utilities
Command Line Learning
Data Manipulation
- Processors
- JSON
- YAML
- Columns
- Text
Files and Directories
Version Control
- Git
- GitHub
- Emoji
Images
- Gif Creation
- Image Conversion
Screensavers
Graphics
Just for Fun
- Emoji
Other Awesome Lists
License

Entertainment

football-cli - Get live scores, fixtures, standings of almost every football competition/league.
pockyt - Read, Manage, and Automate your Pocket collection.
newsboat - An extendable RSS feed reader for text terminals.

Music

cmus - Small, fast and powerful console music player.
Instant-Music-Downloader - Instant music downloader.
itunes-remote - Control iTunes via CLI.
pianobar - Pandora client.
somafm-cli - Listen to SomaFM in your terminal.
mpd - Music Player Daemon.
ncmpcpp - mpd client.
moc - Console audio player for Linux/UNIX.
musikcube - Cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server.
beets - Music library manager and tagger.
spotify-tui - Spotify client.
swaglyrics-for-spotify - Spotify lyrics.
dzr - deezer.com player.
radio-active - Internet radio player with 40k+ stations.

facebook-cli - Facebook command line interface.
Rainbowstream - A smart and nice Twitter client on the terminal.
tuir - Reddit TUI.
WeeChat - Fast, light and extensible chat client.
irssi - IRC chat client.
kirc - Tiny IRC client.

Video

youtube-dl - Download videos from YouTube.com and many other video sites.
streamlink - Extract streams from various websites to a video player of your choosing.
mps-youtube - Youtube player.
mpv - Superior video player.
editly - Declarative video editing.
yt-dlp - A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes.

Movies

moviemon - Everything about your movies.
movie - Get movie info or compare movies.

Games

Dwarf Fortress - Roguelike construction and management simulation.
Cataclysm-DDA - Turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
pokete - Pokemon-like.

Books

epr - epub reader.
Bible.Js CLI - Bible.
SpeedRead - Spritz-alike speedreader.
medium-cli - Read medium.com stories.

Development

legit - Generate Open Source licences as files or file headers.
mklicense - Create a custom LICENSE file painlessly with customized info.
rebound - Fetch Stack Overflow results on compiler error.
foy - Lightweight general purpose task runner/build tool.
just - Modern make-like command runner.
bcal - Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations.
bitwise - Base conversion and bit manipulation.
cgasm - x86 assembly documentation.
grex - Generate regular expressions from user-provided test cases.
gdb-dashboard - Modular visual interface for GDB.
iola - Socket client with REST API.
add-gitignore - Interactively generate a .gitignore for your project based on your needs.
is-up-cli - Check if a domain is up.
reachable - Check if a domain is up.
loadtest - Run load tests.
diff2html-cli - Create pretty HTML from diffs.

Text Editors

emacs - An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more.
vim - Vim - the ubiquitous text editor.
neovim - Modern vim.
kakoune - Modal editor inspired by vim.
micro - A simple and intuitive editor.
o - Configuration-free text editor and IDE.
helix - Modal editor inspired by kakoune.

Frontend Development

caniuse-cmd - Search caniuse.com about browser support of features.
strip-css-comments-cli - Strip comments from CSS.
viewport-list-cli - Return a list of devices and their viewports.
surge - Publish static websites for free.

Mobile Development

mobicon-cli - Mobile app icon generator.
mobisplash-cli - Mobile app splash screen generator.
deviceframe - Put device frames around your mobile/web/progressive app screenshots.

Database

mycli - MySQL client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
pgcli - Postgres client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
sqlline - Shell for issuing SQL via JDBC.
iredis - Redis client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
usql - Universal SQL client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.

Devops

htconvert - Convert .htaccess redirects to nginx.conf redirects.
SAWS - Supercharged AWS CLI.
s3cmd - Fully-Featured S3 client.
pm2 - Production Process Manager for Node.js.
ops - Unikernel compilation and orchestration tool.
flog - A fake log generator for log formats such as apache-common, apache error and RFC3164 syslog.
k9s - Manage Kubernetes Clusters.
PingMe - Send messages/alerts to multiple messaging platforms & email.
ipfs-deploy - Deploy static websites to IPFS .
Discharge - Deploy static websites to Amazon S3.
updatecli - A declarative dependency management tool.

Docker

lstags - Synchronize images across registries.
dockly - Interactively manage containers.
lazydocker - Simple docker/docker-compose interface.
docker-pushrm - Push a readme to container registries.

Release

release-it - Automate releases for Git repositories and/or npm packages. Changelog generation, GitHub/GitLab releases, etc.
clog - A conventional changelog for the rest of us.
np - A better npm publish.
release - Generate changelogs with a single command.
semantic-release - Fully automated version management and package publishing.

Npm

npm-name-cli - Check whether a package name is available on npm.
npm-user-cli - Get user info of a npm user.
npm-home - Open the npm page of the package in the current directory.
pkg-dir-cli - Find the root directory of a npm package.
npm-check-updates - Find newer versions of package dependencies than what your package.json allows.
updates - Flexible npm dependency update tool.
wipe-modules - Remove node_modules of inactive projects.

Boilerplate

yo - Scaffolding tool for running Yeoman generators.
boilr - Create projects from boilerplate templates.
cookiecutter - Create projects from templates.
mevn-cli - Light speed setup for MEVN (Mongo Express Vue Node) Apps.
scaffold-static - Scaffolding utility for vanilla JS.

HTTP Server

serve - Serve static files (https, CORS, GZIP compression, etc).
simplehttp - Easily serve a local directory over HTTP.
shell2http - Shell script based HTTP server.

HTTP Client

HTTPie - A user-friendly HTTP client.
HTTP Prompt - Interactive HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting.
ain - HTTP client with a simple format to organize API endpoints.
curlie - A curl frontend with the ease of use of HTTPie.

Productivity

doing - Keep track of what you’re doing and track what you’ve done.
ffscreencast - A ffmpeg screencast with video overlay and multi monitor support.
meetup-cli - Meetup.com client.
NeoMutt - Email client.
terjira - Jira client.
ipt - Pivotal Tracker client.
uber-cli - Uber client.
Buku - Browser-independent bookmark manager.
papis - Extensible document and bibliography manager.
pubs - Scientific bibliography manager.
fjira - Fuzzy finder and TUI application for Jira.

Time Tracking

Timetrap - Simple timetracker.
moro - Simple tool for tracking work hours.
Timewarrior - Utility with simple stopwatch, calendar-based backfill and flexible reporting.
Watson - Generate reports for clients and manage your time.
utt - Simple time tracking tool.
Bartib - Easy to use time tracking tool.

Note Taking and Lists

idea - A lightweight tool for keeping ideas in a safe place quick and easy.
geeknote - Evernote client.
Taskwarrior - Manage your TODO list.
Terminal velocity - A fast note-taking app.
eureka - Input and store your ideas.
sncli - Simplenote client.
td-cli - A TODO manager to organize and manage your TODO’s across multiple projects.
taskell - Interactive kanban board/task manager.
taskbook - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat.
dnote - A interactive, multi-device notebook.
nb - A note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base application.
obs - Interact with your Obsidian vault.

Finance

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

ledger - Powerful, double-entry accounting system.
hledger - Robust, fast, intuitive plain text accounting tool with CLI, TUI and web interfaces.
moeda - Foreign exchange rates and currency conversion.
cash-cli - Convert Currency Rates.
cointop - Track cryptocurrencies.
ticker - Stock ticker.

Presentations

WOPR - A simple markup language for creating rich terminal reports, presentations and infographics.
decktape - PDF exporter for HTML presentations.
mdp - A markdown presentation tool.
sent - Simple plaintext presentation tool.
slides - A markdown presentation tool.

Calendars

calcurse - Calendar and scheduling.
gcalcli - Google calendar client.
khal - CalDAV ready CLI and TUI calendar.
vdirsyncer - CalDAV sync.
remind - A sophisticated calendar and alarm program.
birthday - Know when a friend’s birthday is coming.

Utilities

aria2 - HTTP, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink download utility.
bitly-client - Bitly client.
deadlink - Find dead links in files.
crawley - Unix-way web crawler.
kill-tabs - Kill all Chrome tabs.
alex - Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing.
clevercli - Collection of ChatGPT powered utilities.

macOS

open-pip-cli - Watch videos in picture-in-picture player.
osx-wifi-cli - Manage wifi connections.
active-win-cli - Get the title/id/etc of the active window.
stronghold - Configure security settings from the terminal.
dark-mode - Toggle dark mode.

gotty - Share your terminal as a web application.
localtunnel - Expose your localhost to the world for easy testing and sharing.
mosh - Remote SSH client that allows roaming with intermittent connectivity.
ngrok - Secure introspectable tunnels to localhost.
tmate - Instant terminal (tmux) sharing.
warp - Secure and simple terminal sharing.
OverTime - Time-overlap tables for remote teams.

Network Utilities

get-port-cli - Get an available port.
is-reachable-cli - Check if hostnames are reachable or not.
acmetool - Automatic certificate acquisition for ACME (Let’s Encrypt).
certificate-ripper - Extract server certificates.
neoss - User-friendly and detailed socket statistics.

Theming and Customization

splash-cli - Beautiful wallpapers from Unsplash.
wallpaper-cli - Get or set the desktop wallpaper.
themer - Generate personalized themes for your editor, terminal, wallpaper, Slack, and more.
JackPaper - Set images from Unsplash as wallpaper.
pywal - Generate and change color-schemes, then apply them system-wide to all of your favourite programs.
QuickWall - Directly set wallpapers from Unsplash.
oh-my-posh - Prompt theme engine.

Shell Utilities

has - Checks for the presence of various commands and their versions on the path.
Ultimate Plumber - Write Linux pipes with live previews.
fkill-cli - Simple cross-platform process killer.
task-spooler - Queue jobs for linear execution.
undollar - Strip the ‘$’ preceding copy-pasted terminal commands.
pipe_exec - Run executables from stdin, pipes and ttys without creating a temporary file.

System Interaction Utilities

neofetch - System information tool.
battery-level-cli - Get current battery level.
brightness-cli - Change screen brightness (windows ).
yank - Yank terminal output to clipboard.
screensaver - Start the screensaver.
google-font-installer - Download and install Google Web Fonts on your local machine.
glances - System monitoring tool.
tiptop - System monitor.
gzip-size-cli - Get the gzipped size of a file.

Markdown

DocToc - Generates table of contents for markdown files.
grip - Preview markdown files as GitHub would render them.
mdv - Styled terminal markdown viewer.
glow - Styled markdown rendering.
gtree - Use markdown to generate directory trees and the directories itself.

Security

pass - Password manager.
gopass - Fully-featured password manager.
xiringuito - SSH-based VPN.
hasha-cli - Get the hash of text or stdin.
ots - Share secrets with others via a one-time URL.

Math

mdlt - Do quick math right from the command line.
Qalculate - Calculate non-trival math expressions. Unit conversions, symbolic calculations and more.

Weather

Browser Replacement

s - Open a web search in your terminal.
hget - Render websites in plain text from your terminal.
mapscii - Terminal Map Viewer.
nasa-cli - Download NASA Picture of the Day.
getnews.tech - Fetch news headlines from various news outlets.
trino - Translation of words and phrases.
translate-shell - Google Translate interface.

Internet Speedtest

speedtest-net - Test internet connection speed and ping using speedtest.net.
speed-test - speedtest-net wrapper with different UI.
speedtest-cli - Test internet bandwidth using speedtest.net.
bandwhich - Track bandwidth utilization by process.

Command Line Learning

cmdchallenge - Presents small shell challenge with user submitted solutions.
explainshell - Type a snippet to see the help text for each argument.
howdoi - Instant coding answers.
how2 - Node.js implementation of howdoi.
The Fuck - Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.
tldr - Simplified and community-driven man pages.
Wat - Instant, central, community-built docs.
teachcode - Guide for the earliest lessons of coding.
navi - Interactive cheatsheet tool.
yai - AI powered terminal assistant.

Data Manipulation

visidata - Spreadsheet multitool for data discovery and arrangement.

Processors

jq - JSON processor.
yq - YAML processor.
dasel - JSON/YAML/TOML/XML processor (like jq/yq).
yaml-cli - Query/update YAML.
ramda-cli - Process data with functional pipelines.
xq - XML and HTML beautifier and content extractor.

JSON

jp - JSON parser.
fx - Command-line JSON viewer.
vj - Makes JSON human readable.
underscore-cli - Utility-belt for hacking JSON and Javascript.
strip-json-comments-cli - Strip comments from JSON.
GROQ – JSON processor with queries and projections.
gron - Make JSON greppable.

YAML

dyff - YAML diff tool.

Columns

parse-columns-cli - Parse text columns to JSON.
q - Execution of SQL-like queries on CSV/TSV/tabular text file.

Text

figlet - Creates large text out of ASCII characters.
stegcloak - Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely.

Files and Directories

File Managers

ranger - A console file manager with VI key bindings.
midnight-commander - A feature rich visual file manager.
Vifm - VI influnced file manager.
nnn - File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration.
lf - Fast, extensively customizable file manager.
fff - Fast, simple file manager.
clifm - The command line file manager.
far2l - Orthodox file manager.

Deleting, Copying, and Renaming

trash-cli - Move files and directories to the trash.
empty-trash-cli - Empty the trash.
del-cli - Delete files and folders.
cpy-cli - Copies files.
rename-cli - Rename files quickly.
renameutils - Mass renaming in your editor.
diskonaut - Disk space navigator.

Files

chokidar-cli - CLI to watch file system changes.
file-type-cli - Detect the file type of a file or stdin.
bat - A cat clone with syntax highlighting.
NCDu - A disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface.
unix-permissions - Swiss Army knife for Unix permissions.
transmission-cli - Torrent client for your command line.
webtorrent-cli – Streaming torrent client.
entr - Run an arbitrary command when files change.
organize-cli - Organize your files automatically.
organize-rt - organize-cli in Rust with more customization.
RecoverPy - Recover overwritten or deleted files.

File Sync/Sharing

rclone - Sync files with various cloud providers.
ffsend - Quick file share.
share-cli - Share files with your local network.
google-drive-upload - Upload/sync with Google Drive.
gdrive-downloader - Download files/folders from Google Drive.
portal - Send files between computers.
shbin - Turn a Github repo into a pastebin.
sharing - Send and receive files on your mobile device.
ncp - Transfer files and folders, to and from NFS servers.

Directory Listing

alder - Minimal tree with colors.
eza - Improved version of ls.
tre - tree with git awareness, editor aliasing, and more.
ll - ls with git status.
lsd - ls with many extra features.

autojump - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line.
pm - The easy way to switch to your projects on the shell.
z - z is the new j, yo.
PathPicker - After parsing the output from a command, PathPicker presents you with a nice UI to select which files you’re interested in.
fz - Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z.
goto - Directory aliases for the shell with autocomplete.
z.lua - cd command that learns your habits.
zoxide - Fast directory jumper in Rust.
tere - A faster alternative to using cd and ls.

Search

happyfinder - (another) Fuzzy file finder for the command line.
find-up-cli - Find a file by walking up parent directories.
ripgrep - A line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern.
fzf - A general purpose command-line fuzzy finder, can be used with any list: files/directories, command history, processes, hostnames, bookmarks, git commits, etc.
fselect - Find files with SQL-like queries.
fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
broot - Fuzzy finder similar to fzf, but with space usage visualization.
rare - Real-time regex aggregation and analysis.
skim - A general fuzzy finder written in rust, similar to fzf.
ast-grep - A tool for code structrual search, linting and rewriting.

Version Control

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

Git

git commander - Interactive git tool.
git-stats - A local GitHub-like contributions calendar.
dev-time - Get the current local time of a GitHub user.
tig - Text-mode interface for git.
grv - Text-mode interface for git with customisable vi bindings.
git-standup - Recall what you did on the last working day.
git-secret - Store your private data inside a git repository.
gitlab-cli - Create GitLab merge requests.
git-extras - Git utilities.
gita - Manage multiple git repos side by side.
readme-md-generator - Interactively generate README.md files.
semantic-git-commit-cli - Ensure semantic commits messages.
import-github-labels-cli - Sync labels between Github repos.
git-all-branches - Improved git branch -a.
czg - Interactively generate standardized commit messages.
shallow-backup - Git integrated backup tool.
Lazygit - Simple TUI for git commands.

GitHub

CLI GitHub - Fancy GitHub client.
hub - Make git easier to use with GitHub.
git-labelmaker - Edit GitHub labels.

Emoji

gitmoji-cli - Use emoji in commit messages.
gitmoji-changelog - Generate gitmoji changelogs.

Images

SVGO - Optimize SVG files.
carbon-now-cli - Generate beautiful images of your code.
imgur-uploader-cli - Upload images to imgur.
pageres-cli - Capture website screenshots.

Gif Creation

gifgen - Simple high quality GIF encoding.
gifsicle - Create, manipulate, and optimize GIF images and animations.
ttygif - Convert terminal recordings to animated gifs.
ttygif - ttyrec to gif.
ttystudio - A terminal-to-gif recorder minus the headaches.
asciinema - Terminal session recorder and companion app for asciinema.org.
givegif - GIFs on the command line.

Image Conversion

imagemagick - Gold standard for anything images.
imgp - Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator.
korkut - Quick and simple image processing.

Screensavers

cmatrix - Scrolling ‘Matrix’-like screen.
pipes.sh - Random pipes that grow across the screen.
YuleLog - Christmas Yule Log fireplace.
cli-fireplace - Digital fireplace.

Graphics

cli-mandelbrot - Traverse the Mandelbrot fractal.
sparkly-cli - Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇..
pastel - Generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors.
lowcharts - Draw low-resolution graphs.

Just for Fun

quote-cli - Get a random quote or the quote of the day in your CLI.
fortune - Shows a random fortune.
ponysay - Pony rewrite of cowsay.
yosay - Like cowsay, but for yeoman.
lolcat - Outputs text in rainbow colors.
text-meme - Generate text memes.
dankcli - Add text to meme image templates.
ricksay - Quotes from Rick and Morty.

Emoji

emoj - Find relevant emoji from text on the command-line.
emoji-finder - Quickly find and copy emoji to the clipboard via the command-line.
oji - Interactive text emoji maker.