awesome-cli-apps

A curated list of command line apps.

Inspired by the awesome list thing.

Table of Contents

• 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
  • Time Tracking
  • Note Taking and Lists
  • Finance
  • Presentations
  • Calendars
• Utilities
  • macOS
  • Terminal Sharing Utilities
  • Network Utilities
  • Theming and Customization
  • Shell Utilities
  • System Interaction Utilities
  • Markdown
  • Security
  • Math
  • Weather
  • Browser Replacement
  • Internet Speedtest
• Command Line Learning
• Data Manipulation
  • Processors
  • JSON
  • YAML
  • Columns
  • Text
• Files and Directories
  • File Managers
  • Deleting, Copying, and Renaming
  • Files
  • File Sync/Sharing
  • Directory Listing
  • Directory Navigation
  • Search
• 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.

Social Media

• 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.