Command Line Apps

Entertainment - Music, Social Media, Video, Movies, 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 - JSON, 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

References

• 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.

• 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.
• nehm - Download tracks from SoundCloud.
• 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.
• playx - Stream songs/playlists from various sources.
• spotify-tui - Spotify client.

• 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.

  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.

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

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

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

  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.

  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.

  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.

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

  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.

  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-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-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.

  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.

  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.

  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.

  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.

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

  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.

  calcurse - Calendar and scheduling.
  gcalcli - Google calendar client.
  khal - CalDAV ready CLI and TUI calendar.
  vidirsyncer - CalDAV sync.

  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.

  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.

  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.

  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.

  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.

  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.

  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.

  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.

  underscore-cli - Command-line utility-belt for hacking JSON and Javascript.
  ramda-cli - A CLI tool for processing data with functional pipelines.
  yaml-cli - A simple CLI for querying and updating YAML files.
  q - A command line tool that allows execution of SQL-like queries on CSVs/TSVs (and any other tabular text files).
  yq - Command-line YAML processor (Uses the same syntax as jq).

  jq - JSON processor.
  jp - Simply parse and drill into JSON on the commandline, with jsonpath and stdin stream support (jq compatible, not a replacement).
  fx - Command-line JSON viewer.
  vj - Makes JSON human readable.
  strip-json-comments-cli - Strip comments from JSON.
  GROQ – JSON processor with queries and projections.

  parse-columns-cli - Parse text columns, like the output of unix commands. Returns JSON that you can manipulate with tools like jq or underscore-cli.
  figlet - Creates large text out of ASCII characters.

  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.

  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.

  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.

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

  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.

  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.

  CLI GitHub - :tv: 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 - :four_leaf_clover: 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.

  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.

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

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

  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.

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

  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.

  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.

  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.

https://project-awesome.org/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps

https://github.com/herrbischoff/awesome-command-line-apps#readme

https://github.com/stevemao/awesome-git-addons#readme

https://github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell#readme

https://github.com/k4m4/terminals-are-sexy#readme

https://github.com/unixorn/awesome-zsh-plugins#readme

https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome-nodejs#command-line-apps

MacOS - https://github.com/herrbischoff/awesome-macos-command-line#readme