Awesome Command Line Apps – Massive Collection of Resources

A curated list of command line apps.

Inspired by the awesome list thing.

Table of Contents

• Entertainment
  • Social Media
  • Video
  • Games
  • Books
• Development
  • Text Editors
  • Web Development
  • Mobile Development
  • Database
  • Devops
  • Release
  • Npm
  • Boilerplate
• Productivity
  • Time Tracking
  • Note Taking and Lists
  • Finance
  • Presentations
  • Calendars
• Utilities
  • macOS
  • Terminal Sharing Utilities
  • Network Utilities
  • Theming and Customization
  • Shell Utilities
  • System Interaction Utilities
• Command Line Learning
• Data Manipulation
  • Processors
  • JSON
  • Columns
  • Text
• Files and Directories
  • File Managers
  • Deleting, Copying, and Renaming
  • Files
  • Directory Listing
  • Directory Navigation
  • Search
• Version Control
  • Git
• Images
  • Gif Creation
  • Image Conversion
  • SVG
• Screensavers
• Graphics
• Just for Fun
• Other
  • Emoji
• Other Awesome Lists

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.

Social Media

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

Video

• youtube-dl – Download videos from YouTube.com and many other video sites.
• streamlink – Extract streams from various websites to a video player of your choosing.
• mps-youtube – Youtube player.
• mpv – Superior video player.
• editly – Declarative video editing.

Games

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

Books

• epr – epub reader.
• Bible.Js CLI – Bible.
• SpeedRead – Spritz-alike speedreader.

Development

• bcal – Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations.
• cgasm – Gives x86 assembly documentation.
• legit – Generate Open Source licences as files or file headers.
• mklicense – Create a custom LICENSE file painlessly with customized info.
• rebound – Fetch Stack Overflow results in your terminal when you get a compiler error.
• grip – Preview markdown files with GitHub styles before committing them.
• bitwise – Base conversion and bit manipulator in ncurses.
• foy – Lightweight general purpose task runner/build tool.

Text Editors

• emacs – An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more.
• vim – Vim – the ubiquitous text editor.
• neovim – Vim fork focused on extensibility and usability.
• kakoune – Modal editor inspired by vim.
• micro – A simple and intuitive editor.

Web Development

• caniuse-cmd – Search caniuse.com about browser support of feature.
• is-up-cli – Check whether a website is up.
• pageres-cli – Capture website screenshots.
• strip-css-comments-cli – Strip comments from CSS.
• viewport-list-cli – Return a list of devices and their viewports.
• surge – Deploy a directory to the web.
• acmetool – An automatic certificate acquisition tool for ACME (Let’s Encrypt).
• loadtest – Runs a load test on the selected URL. Easy to extend minimally for your own ends.
• wp-cli – Manage WordPress installations, update plugins, set up multisite installs and much more.
• diff2html-cli – Parse git diffs as JSON and generate pretty HTML.
• HTTPie – A user-friendly HTTP client.
• serve – Easy to use static file server with features like https, CORS and GZIP compression.
• add-gitignore – Interactively generate a .gitignore for your project based on your needs.
• Discharge – Deploy static websites to Amazon S3.
• reachable – Check if a domain is up.
• simplehttp – Easily serve a local directory over http.
• shell2http – Execute shell commands via HTTP server.
• HTTP Prompt – Interactive HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting.
• ipfs-deploy – Deploy static websites to IPFS.

Mobile Development

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

Database

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

Devops

• htconvert – Convert .htaccess redirects to nginx.conf redirects.
• aws-cli – Universal Interface for Amazon Web Services.
• azure-cli – Command-line tools for Azure.
• SAWS – Supercharged AWS CLI.
• s3cmd – Fully-Featured S3 client.
• lstags – Synchronize Docker images across different registries.
• pm2 – Production Process Manager for Node.js.
• dockly – Interactively manage Docker containers.
• ops – Unikernel compilation and orchestration tool.
• lazydocker – Simple docker/docker-compose interface.
• flog – A fake log generator for log formats such as apache-common, apache error and RFC3164 syslog.
• isitfit – Manage AWS EC2 rightsizing.
• docker-shell – Simple interactive docker interface.

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.

Npm

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

Boilerplate

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

Productivity

• AutoScreenshotUploader – Capture and upload screenshots to imgur.
• bitly-client – Bitly client.
• doing – Keep track of what you’re doing and track what you’ve done.
• ffscreencast – A ffmpeg screencast with video overlay and multi monitor support.
• imgur-uploader-cli – Upload images to imgur.
• meetup-cli – Meetup.com client.
• NeoMutt – Email client.
• terjira – Jira client.
• ipt – Pivotal Tracker client.
• g3l – Easiest git cli in the w0rld!
• uber-cli – Uber client.
• Buku – Browser-independent bookmark manager.
• googler – Google from the terminal.
• papis – Extensible document and bibliography manager.

Time Tracking

• Timetrap – Simple command-line timetracker.
• moro – Simple tool for tracking work hours.
• Timewarrior – Utility with simple stopwatch, calendar-based backfill and flexible reporting.
• Watson – Generate reports for clients and manage your time.
• utt – Simple time tracking tool.

Note Taking and Lists

• idea – A lightweight tool for keeping ideas in a safe place quick and easy.
• geeknote – Evernote client.
• Taskwarrior – Manage your TODO list from your command-line.
• Terminal velocity – A fast note-taking app for the terminal.
• eureka – Store your ideas without leaving the terminal.
• sncli – Simplenote client.
• td-cli – A TODO manager to organize and manage your TODO’s across multiple projects.
• taskell – Interactive kanban board/task manager.
• taskbook – Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat.
• dnote – A interactive, multi-device notebook.

Finance

• ledger – Powerful, double-entry accounting system on the terminal
• moeda – Foreign exchange rates and currency conversion.
• cash-cli – Convert Currency Rates.

Presentations

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

Calendars

• calcurse – Calendar and scheduling.
• gcalcli – Google calendar client.
• khal – CalDAV ready CLI and TUI calendar.
• vdirsyncer – CalDAV sync.

Utilities

• archive-type-cli – Detect archive type for a file or stdin.
• s – Open a web search in your terminal.
• aria2 – HTTP, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink download utility.
• wego – Get the weather.
• weather-cli – Check the weather.
• mapscii – Terminal Map Viewer.
• getnews.tech – Fetch news headlines from various news outlets.
• carbon-now-cli – Generate beautiful images of your code.
• pass – Password manager.
• awesome-finder – Search the awesome lists without a browser.
• mdv – Styled terminal markdown viewer.
• shallow-backup – Git integrated backup tool.

macOS

• open-pip-cli – Watch videos in picture-in-picture player.
• app-path-cli – Get the path to an app.
• bundle-id-cli – Get bundle identifier from a bundle name: Safari → com.apple.Safari.
• bundle-name-cli – Get bundle name from a bundle identifier: com.apple.Safari → Safari.
• lnfs-cli – Safely force create symlinks.
• osx-version-cli – Get the macOS version.
• osx-wifi-cli – Manage wifi connections.
• active-win-cli – Get the title/id/etc of the active window.
• stronghold – Configure security settings from the terminal.
• website-popup-cli – Open a website in a popup.
• dark-mode – Toggle dark mode.

Terminal Sharing Utilities

• gotty – Share your terminal as a web application.
• localtunnel – Expose your localhost to the world for easy testing and sharing.
• mosh – Remote SSH client that allows roaming with intermittent connectivity.
• ngrok – Secure introspectable tunnels to localhost.
• serveo – Expose local servers to the internet using only a SSH client.
• seashells.io – Pipe output to the web.
• teleconsole – Share your UNIX terminal.
• tmate – Instant terminal (tmux) sharing.
• warp – Secure and simple terminal sharing.
• OverTime – Time-overlap tables for remote teams.

Network Utilities

• get-port-cli – Get an available port.
• is-reachable-cli – Check if hostnames are reachable or not.
• speedtest-net – Test internet connection speed and ping using speedtest.net.
• speed-test – speedtest-net wrapper with different UI.
• speedtest-cli – Test internet bandwidth using speedtest.net.
• bandwhich – Track bandwidth utilization by process.

Theming and Customization

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

Shell Utilities

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

System Interaction Utilities

• battery-level-cli – Get current battery level.
• brightness-cli – Change screen brightness (windows).
• yank – Yank terminal output to clipboard.
• screensaver – Start the screensaver.
• google-font-installer – Download and install Google Web Fonts on your local machine.
• neofetch – System information tool.
• Glances – System monitoring tool.

Command Line Learning

• cmdchallenge – presents small shell challenge with user submitted solutions.
• explainshell – type a command line snippet to see the help text for each argument.
• howdoi – Instant coding answers via the command line.
• how2 – Finds the simplest way to do something on a unix bash command line (Nodejs 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 – A tool to develop and improve a student’s programming skills by introducing the earliest lessons of coding.
• navi – Interactive cheatsheet tool.

Data Manipulation

Processors

• jq – JSON processor.
• yq – YAML processor.
• dasel – JSON/YAML/TOML/XML processor (like jq/yq).
• yaml-cli – Query/update YAML.
• ramda-cli – Process data with functional pipelines.

JSON

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

Columns

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

Text

• figlet – Creates large text out of ASCII characters.
• stegcloak – Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely using passwords.

Files and Directories

File Managers

• ranger – A console file manager with VI key bindings.
• midnight-commander – A feature rich visual file manager.
• organize-cli – Organize your files, imagine cleaning up your downloads in an instant.
• Vifm – Vifm is an ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings/modes/options/commands/configuration, which also borrows some useful ideas from mutt.
• nnn – File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration.
• lf – Fast, extensively customizable file manager.
• fff – Fast, simple file manager.

Deleting, Copying, and Renaming

• trash-cli – Move files and directories to the trash.
• empty-trash-cli – Empty the trash.
• del-cli – Delete files and folders.
• cpy-cli – Copies files.
• rename-cli – A cross-platform tool for renaming files quickly, especially multiple files at once.
• renameutils – Mass renaming in your editor.

Files

• chokidar-cli – CLI to watch file system changes.
• file-type-cli – Detect the file type of a file or stdin.
• DocToc – Generates table of contents for markdown files inside local git repository. Links are compatible with anchors generated by github or other sites.
• bat – A cat clone with syntax highlighting.
• NCDu – A disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface.
• unix-permissions – Swiss Army knife for Unix permissions
• rclone – Sync files to and from various cloud providers (Dropbox, Google Drive, Onedrive, etc.).
• transmission-cli – Torrent client for your command line.
• ffsend – Fully featured CLI for Firefox Send – simple and private file sharing.
• webtorrent-cli – Streaming torrent client.
• share-cli – Share files with your local network.
• google-drive-upload – Upload/sync with Google Drive.
• gdrive-downloader – Download files/folders from Google Drive.
• entr – Run an arbitrary command when files change.

Directory Listing

• alder – Minimal tree with colors.
• exa – Improved version of ls.
• tre – tree with git awareness, editor aliasing, and more.
• ll – ls with git status.

Directory Navigation

• autojump – A cd command that learns – easily navigate directories from the command line.
• fasd – Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories, inspired by autojump, z and v.
• pm – The easy way to switch to your projects on the shell.
• z – z is the new j, yo.
• PathPicker – After parsing the output from a command, PathPicker presents you with a nice UI to select which files you’re interested in.
• fz – Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z.
• goto – Directory aliases for the shell with autocomplete.
• z.lua – cd command that learns your habits.
• zoxide – Fast directory jumper in Rust.

Search

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

Version Control

Git

• CLI GitHub – 📺 A fancy GitHub client for command line.
• Gistup – Create a gist from terminal, then use git to update it.
• git commander – A git tool with a easy terminal interface.
• git-stats – 🍀 A GitHub-like contributions calendar, but locally, with all your git commits.
• hub – A command-line wrapper for git that makes you better at GitHub.
• dev-time – Get the current local time of a GitHub user.
• git-labelmaker – Edit GitHub labels from the command line.
• tig – Text-mode interface for Git.
• grv – Text-mode interface for Git with customisable vi bindings.
• git-standup – Recall what you did on the last working day.
• git-secret – Store your private data inside a git repository.
• gitlab-cli – gitlab cli for creating merge request from the command line.
• git-extras – Little git extras like git-ignore, git-setup, git-changelog, git-release, git-effort and more.
• gita – Manage multiple git repos side by side for sanity.
• readme-md-generator – Generate README.md files interactively.
• semantic-git-commit-cli – Ensure semantic commits messages.
• import-github-labels-cli – Sync labels between Github repos.
• git-all-branches – Improved git branch -a.

Images

Gif Creation

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

Image Conversion

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

SVG

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

Screensavers

• cmatrix – Show a scrolling ‘Matrix’ like screen.
• pipes.sh – Shows random pipes that grow across the screen.
• YuleLog – Terminal based Christmas YuleLog fireplace.
• cli-fireplace – Shows digital fireplace.

Graphics

• cli-mandelbrot – A cli for traversing the Mandelbrot fractal.
• sparkly-cli – Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇..
• pastel – Generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors.

Just for Fun

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

Other

• birthday – Know when a friend’s birthday is coming.
• detect-indent-cli – Detect the indentation of code.
• fullname-cli – Get the fullname of the current user.
• gzip-size-cli – Get the gzipped size of a file or stdin.
• HASHA -cli – Hashing made simple. Get the hash of text or stdin.
• kill-tabs – Kill all Chrome tabs to improve performance, decrease battery usage, and save memory.
• leven-cli – Measure the difference between two strings using the Levenshtein distance algorithm.
• mdlt – Do quick math right from the command line.
• medium-cli – Read medium.com stories within your terminal, also gives top stories.
• open-shortcut-cli – Open the URL from a web shortcut file in the browser.
• shortcut-url-cli – Get the URL from a web shortcut file.
• to-double-quotes – Convert matching single-quotes to double-quotes: I ‘love’ unicorns => I “love” unicorns.
• to-single-quotes – Convert matching double-quotes to single-quotes: I “love” unicorns → I ‘love’ unicorns.
• gdb-dashboard – Modular visual interface for GDB in Python.
• hget – Render websites in plain text from your terminal.
• google-wifi-status – A Node.js CLI app that displays status of your Google Wifi / OnHub router.
• calories – Calories and weight tracker.
• trino – Trino CLI allows a quick and easy translation of words and phrases entered in the command line.
• alex – This enhances texts with checking for insensitive, inconsiderate writing by catching many possible offences.
• xiringuito – A “poor man’s VPN”. An SSH-based “VPN” that’s easy to install, but with slower performance than a real VPN.
• nasa-cli – Download NASA Picture of the Day from your terminal.
• googlr – Search Google from the command line.
• Qalculate – Calculate non-trival math expressions. Unit conversions, symbolic calculations and more.
• translate-shell – Google Translate interface.

Emoji

• emoj – Find relevant emoji from text on the command-line.
• emoji-finder – Quickly find and copy emoji to the clipboard via the command-line.
• oji – Interactive text emoji maker.
• gitmoji-cli – Use emoji in commit messages.
• gitmoji-changelog – Generate gitmoji changelogs.

Other Awesome Lists

• awesome-shell – Command-line utilities and frameworks.