A curated list of command line apps.

Inspired by the awesome list thing.

Table of Contents

• Entertainment
• Music
• Video
• Movies
• Games
• Books
• Chat
• Development
• Text Editors
• Frontend Development
• Public localhost
• Mobile Development
• Database
• Devops
• Docker
• Release
• Npm
• Boilerplate
• HTTP Server
• HTTP Client
• Testing
• Productivity
• Time Tracking
• Note Taking, Lists, Task Management
• Email
• Finance
• Presentations
• Calendars
• Utilities
• macOS
• Terminal Sharing Utilities
• SSH
• Network Utilities
• Theming and Customization
• Shell Utilities
• System Interaction Utilities
• Markdown
• Security
• Math
• Academia
• Weather
• Browser Replacement
• Internet Speedtest
• Science
• Professional: Resume
• Backup
• Command Line Learning
• Data Manipulation
• Processors
• JSON
• YAML
• Columns
• Text
• Files and Directories
• File Managers
• Deleting, Copying, and Renaming
• Disk Usage
• 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
• AI
• Agents
• LLM Interaction
• Other Resources
• License

Entertainment

• newsboat - An extendable RSS feed reader for text terminals.
• mal-cli - MyAnimeList client.
• golazo - Soccer matches.

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.
• spotatui - Spotify client.
• swaglyrics-for-spotify - Spotify lyrics.
• dzr - deezer.com player.
• radio-active - Internet radio player with 40k+ stations.
• mpvc - Music player interfacing mpv.
• TUISIC - Login-free music streaming.
• termusic - Music player in rust with download capabilities.
• ytm-player - YouTube Music player.
• tunein-cli - TuneIn and Radio Browser client.
• cliamp - Winamp-inspired local, streaming and radio player.
• mpv-music - Daemonless music player.

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.
• cinema - Multiviewer for videos and streams.
• capcut-cli - Edit CapCut/JianYing projects.

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.
• NetHack - Roguelike dungeon crawler.

Books

• epr, epy - EPUB reader.
• Bible.Js CLI - Bible.
• SpeedRead - Spritz-alike speedreader.
• medium-cli - Read medium.com stories.
• hygg - Document reader.

Chat

• WeeChat - Fast, light and extensible chat client.
• irssi - IRC chat client.
• kirc - Tiny IRC client.
• concord - Discord client.
• signal-cli - Signal client.
• tlgr - Telegram client.

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.
• 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.
• diff2html-cli - Create pretty HTML from diffs.
• mk - Exposes most common actions you can run in unfamiliar repos.
• dotenv-diff - Validate environment variable usage in a codebase.
• ota - Unified diagnosable repo setup across stacks (local, deploy, CI, agents).
• herdr-reviewr - Review a coding agent's diff and send line comments back to it.

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.
• Prosaic - A writer-first app crafted for long-form writing.
• Microsoft Edit - Simple editor.

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.

Public localhost

Expose a service running on localhost to the public web for testing and sharing.

• localtunnel
• tunnelmole
• ngrok
• ytunnel - Create and manage Cloudflare Tunnels with custom domains.

Mobile Development

• mobicon-cli - Mobile app icon generator.
• [mobisplash-cli](https://github.com/SamVerschueren/mobisplash-cl