Open-source cli software
8331 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged cli, ranked by how closely cli is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
8331 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urigo/graphql-cli A command-line tool for common GraphQL development workflows, built on graphql-config with a plugin-based command system. It helps initiali… | 64 | 2018 | active |
| GuDaStudio/skills A collection of Anthropic Agent Skills for Claude Code that enable Claude to delegate coding tasks to other AI models such as OpenAI Codex … | 39 | 2018 | active |
| Switch LAN Play A client-server tool that lets Nintendo Switch players play together over the internet as if they were on the same local network. A PC clie… | 25 | 2018 | active |
| SuperCuber/dotter Dotter is a dotfile manager and templater written in Rust that deploys configuration files to their target locations via symlinking or temp… | 76 | 2015 | stable |
| GoogleCloudPlatform/scion Scion is a multi-agent orchestration platform that runs 'deep agents' like Claude Code and Gemini CLI in isolated containers, each with its… | 69 | 2015 | active |
| mrjackwills/oxker oxker is a terminal user interface (TUI) written in Rust for viewing and controlling Docker containers. It uses ratatui for the interface a… | 88 | 2014 | active |
| GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker PerfKit Benchmarker is a Python tool that automates running a canonical set of benchmarks across cloud providers like GCP, AWS, and Azure. … | 68 | 2014 | active |
| CS Demo Manager A free and open-source companion application for managing and analyzing Counter-Strike (CS2/CSGO) demo files. It extracts statistics, gener… | 94 | 2012 | active |
| donnemartin/gitsome gitsome is a Python-based command line tool that supercharges Git and GitHub workflows with 29 GitHub-integrated `gh` commands and an optio… | 23 | 7693 | maintenance |
| ggshield ggshield is a CLI application from GitGuardian that detects over 500 types of hardcoded secrets in files, git history, and CI environments … | 98 | 2006 | active |
| Grasscutter Command Tools A Windows GUI tool (Grasscutter Tools) for generating commands for the Grasscutter game server, including a gacha banner editor and remote … | 93 | 2006 | active |
| EgeBalci/sgn SGN is a polymorphic binary encoder that encodes shellcode using an additive feedback loop similar to an LFSR, producing statically undetec… | 85 | 2005 | active |
| Fig Fig (now Amazon Q Developer CLI) adds IDE-style autocomplete to existing terminals and shells, suggesting subcommands, options, and argumen… | 10 | 2004 | active |
| broadinstitute/gatk GATK (Genome Analysis Toolkit) is the Broad Institute's industry-standard toolkit for analyzing high-throughput DNA and RNA sequencing data… | 84 | 2003 | active |
| corpnewt/GenSMBIOS A Python script by corpnewt that wraps acidanthera's macserial tool to generate SMBIOS serial numbers and related identifiers for Hackintos… | 56 | 2003 | active |
| ionic-team/ionic-cli The official command-line interface for the Ionic Framework, used to create, build, serve, and deploy Ionic mobile and web apps. It integra… | 60 | 2001 | active |
| marin-m/SongRec SongRec is an open-source Shazam client written in Rust that recognizes songs from audio files or the microphone. It offers both a GTK GUI … | 99 | 2000 | active |
| guhcostan/mac-cleaner-cli A free, open-source macOS CLI tool that frees up disk space by scanning for and removing caches, logs, Homebrew leftovers, Xcode DerivedDat… | 83 | 1999 | active |
| akermu/emacs-libvterm emacs-libvterm is a fully-fledged terminal emulator inside GNU Emacs, built on the C library libvterm for fast, compatible handling of term… | 75 | 1998 | active |
| Tencent/cloudbase-framework CloudBase Framework is Tencent Cloud's official fullstack deployment tool that deploys frontend and backend applications to a Serverless ar… | 10 | 1998 | active |
| shell-pool/shpool shpool is a lightweight Rust service that provides persistent named shell sessions that survive dropped connections, serving as a minimal a… | 90 | 1994 | active |
| antirez/iris.c Iris is a pure C inference pipeline that generates images from text prompts using open-weights diffusion transformer models like FLUX.2 Kle… | 43 | 1994 | active |
| not-an-aardvark/lucky-commit A Rust CLI tool that amends git commits with whitespace until the commit hash starts with a desired prefix (default '0000000'). It uses GPU… | 37 | 1994 | active |
| openapi-generators/openapi-python-client A Python CLI tool that generates modern, type-annotated Python client libraries from OpenAPI 3.0 and 3.1 documents. It uses Jinja2 template… | 94 | 1992 | active |
| anomalyco/ion SST (formerly under anomalyco/ion) is a framework for building full-stack apps on your own cloud infrastructure, with a CLI and infrastruct… | 10 | 1992 | active |
| hBlock hBlock is a POSIX-compliant shell script that aggregates domains serving ads, trackers, and malware from multiple blocklist sources and gen… | 60 | 1991 | active |
| t6x/reaver-wps-fork-t6x Reaver is a C-based command-line tool that performs brute force attacks against Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) registrar PINs to recover WPA/W… | 41 | 1991 | active |
| libimobiledevice/idevicerestore A cross-platform command-line application that restores or upgrades firmware (IPSW files) on iOS devices, reimplementing all granular resto… | 67 | 1990 | active |
| rust-av/Av1an Av1an is a cross-platform command-line video encoding framework written in Rust that parallelizes encoding across multiple encoder processe… | 74 | 1989 | active |
| Nu Html Checker (vnu) The Nu Html Checker (vnu) is the W3C/WHATWG-endorsed tool for validating HTML, CSS, and SVG documents. It runs as a command-line batch chec… | 86 | 1988 | stable |
| kylef/swiftenv swiftenv is a Swift version manager inspired by pyenv that lets you install and switch between multiple Swift toolchains. It supports globa… | 23 | 1988 | stable |
| jeffbski/wait-on wait-on is a cross-platform CLI utility and Node.js API that waits for files, TCP ports, Unix sockets, and HTTP(S) resources to become avai… | 98 | 1987 | stable |
| d99kris/nchat nchat is a terminal-based multi-protocol messaging client for Linux and macOS supporting Telegram, WhatsApp, and Signal. It provides an ncu… | 93 | 1985 | active |
| ys1231/MoveCertificate A Magisk/KernelSU/APatch root module that moves user-installed certificates into Android's system CA store, supporting Android 7 through 16… | 94 | 1984 | active |
| donmccurdy/glTF-Transform glTF Transform is an SDK for reading, editing, and writing glTF 2.0 3D models in JavaScript and TypeScript, running on both Web and Node.js… | 76 | 1984 | active |
| hubblo-org/scaphandre Scaphandre is a metrology agent written in Rust that measures electric power and energy consumption of hosts and QEMU/KVM virtual machines.… | 77 | 1983 | active |
| carapace-sh/carapace-bin Carapace-bin is a multi-shell argument completion binary written in Go that provides tab completion for hundreds of CLI commands. It works … | 98 | 1982 | active |
| haoheliu/versatile_audio_super_resolution AudioSR is a Python library and CLI tool that performs versatile audio super-resolution, upsampling any audio (music, speech, sound effects… | 42 | 1979 | active |
| bpkg/bpkg bpkg is a lightweight package manager for bash/shell scripts, handling fetching, installation, execution permissions, and per-project depen… | 33 | 1978 | active |
| enzo1982/freac fre:ac is a free, open-source audio converter with an integrated CD ripper, player, and tag editor. It converts between formats like MP3, A… | 85 | 1977 | active |
| Lona/Lona Lona is a collection of tools from Airbnb for defining design systems in a JSON-based component format and generating cross-platform UI cod… | 32 | 7539 | maintenance |
| develsoftware/GMinerRelease GMiner is a closed-source GPU cryptocurrency miner for NVIDIA and AMD cards supporting algorithms such as Ethash, ProgPoW, KAWPOW, Equihash… | 64 | 1975 | active |
| postmodern/ruby-install A Bash-based command-line tool that downloads, builds, and installs Ruby implementations including CRuby, JRuby, TruffleRuby, and mruby. It… | 60 | 1975 | active |
| zhangxiangliang/stock-api A zero-runtime-dependency TypeScript library for querying stock quotes, K-line data, and stock search across A-share, Hong Kong, US markets… | 98 | 1974 | active |
| mxpv/podsync Podsync is a self-hosted service and CLI that converts YouTube, Vimeo, or Soundcloud channels, users, and playlists into podcast RSS feeds.… | 68 | 1974 | active |
| jakejs/jake Jake is a JavaScript build tool and task runner for Node.js, similar to Make or Rake, with tasks defined in executable JavaScript Jakefiles… | 76 | 1973 | stable |
| huyng/bashmarks Bashmarks is a small shell script that lets you save, jump to, list, and delete bookmarks for frequently used directories in Bash, with tab… | 76 | 1973 | stable |
| lanbinleo/bili2text bili2text is a Python command-line tool that converts Bilibili videos into text transcripts from a link or BV number, handling download, au… | 53 | 1973 | active |
| WordPress Playground WordPress Playground runs a full WordPress site entirely in the browser (or Node.js) using PHP compiled to WebAssembly, with no server or d… | 97 | 1972 | active |
| chengzuopeng/stock-sdk A zero-dependency JavaScript/TypeScript SDK for fetching real-time quotes, K-line history, technical indicators, and extended market data f… | 82 | 1972 | active |
| Wrangler Action An official GitHub Action that wraps Cloudflare's Wrangler CLI to deploy Cloudflare Workers and Pages applications directly from GitHub Act… | 97 | 1970 | active |
| rsc/2fa A command-line two-factor authentication agent written in Go that stores TOTP and HOTP keys and generates one-time authentication codes. Ke… | 32 | 1970 | stable |
| Crow Translate Crow Translate is a lightweight C++/Qt desktop translator that translates and speaks text using Google, Yandex, Bing, LibreTranslate, and L… | 10 | 1968 | active |
| ROCm/FastFlowLM FastFlowLM (FLM) is an NPU-first LLM inference runtime purpose-built and deeply optimized for AMD Ryzen AI NPUs (XDNA2), offering an Ollama… | 87 | 1967 | active |
| samtools/samtools SAMtools is a suite of C command-line programs, built on HTSlib, for reading, writing, editing, indexing, sorting, and viewing SAM/BAM/CRAM… | 93 | 1963 | stable |
| basecamp/once ONCE is a Go-based platform for installing and managing Docker-based web applications with a focus on easy self-hosting. It provides a TUI … | 82 | 1963 | active |
| MFDGaming/ubuntu-in-termux A shell script that installs an Ubuntu 22.04 rootfs inside the Termux terminal app on Android using proot, requiring no root access. It pro… | 23 | 1963 | active |
| vladkens/macmon macmon is a sudoless real-time performance monitor for Apple Silicon Macs (M1–M5) that reads CPU/GPU/ANE power, temperatures, frequencies, … | 91 | 1960 | active |
| starred A Python CLI tool that generates a Markdown Awesome-style list from a user's GitHub starred repositories, grouped by language or topic. It … | 62 | 1960 | active |
| google/argh Argh is a Rust derive-based command-line argument parsing library optimized for code size, built around the FromArgs derive macro and from_… | 57 | 1960 | active |
| simonhaenisch/md-to-pdf A hackable Node.js CLI tool that converts Markdown files to PDF using Marked for HTML conversion and Puppeteer (headless Chromium) for rend… | 48 | 1960 | active |
| DanielXMoore/Civet Civet is a programming language that is a superset of TypeScript, compiling to TypeScript or JavaScript with concise syntax like indentatio… | 77 | 1959 | active |
| darold/pgFormatter pgFormatter is a PostgreSQL SQL syntax beautifier that reformats SQL and PL/pgSQL code according to SQL standards and PostgreSQL-specific k… | 87 | 1958 | active |
| airsquared/blobsaver blobsaver is a cross-platform GUI and CLI application for automatically saving SHSH blobs for iOS devices, useful for future downgrades and… | 39 | 1958 | active |
| flexn-io/renative ReNative is a unified development platform and CLI (rnv) for building, bootstrapping, and deploying React/React Native/NextJS/Electron apps… | 78 | 1957 | active |
| regclient/regclient regclient is a Go client library and set of CLI tools (regctl, regsync, regbot) for interacting with Docker and OCI conformant container re… | 96 | 1956 | active |
| nazdridoy/kokoro-tts A Python CLI text-to-speech tool built on the Kokoro-82M model that converts text, EPUB, PDF, and TXT inputs into natural-sounding speech w… | 82 | 1956 | active |
| nullpo-head/wsl-distrod Distrod is a meta-distribution installer for WSL 2 that lets users install Linux distros like Ubuntu, Arch, Debian, and Gentoo with systemd… | 39 | 1956 | active |
| senzhk/ADBKeyBoard ADBKeyBoard is an Android virtual keyboard (IME) that receives text input commands via ADB broadcast intents. It enables sending arbitrary … | 77 | 1955 | active |
| deadc0de6/dotdrop Dotdrop is a Python CLI tool for managing dotfiles across multiple machines. It stores dotfiles in Git and deploys different versions of th… | 93 | 1954 | active |
| alvinunreal/tmuxai TmuxAI is an open-source, AI-powered terminal assistant that runs inside tmux sessions, observing pane content and helping execute commands… | 85 | 1952 | active |
| ipwndfu ipwndfu is an open-source Python tool that exploits iOS device bootroms, most notably via the checkm8 exploit, to put devices into pwned DF… | 32 | 7430 | maintenance |
| crazywhalecc/static-php-cli StaticPHP (formerly static-php-cli) is a tool for compiling standalone, dependency-free PHP binaries with popular extensions included on Li… | 90 | 1951 | active |
| fcambus/ansiweather AnsiWeather is a Shell script that displays current weather conditions and forecasts in the terminal using ANSI colors and Unicode symbols,… | 78 | 1951 | stable |
| hoytech/vmtouch vmtouch is a portable command-line utility for learning about and controlling the file system cache of Unix and Unix-like systems. It repor… | 32 | 1951 | stable |
| gsamokovarov/jump Jump is a command-line tool written in Go that integrates with your shell (bash, zsh, fish, PowerShell, Nushell, and more) to speed up dire… | 87 | 1950 | active |
| ravendevteam/talon Talon is a free, open-source Windows debloating and optimization tool that removes bloatware, telemetry, ads, and unwanted features from Wi… | 80 | 1950 | active |
| legba Legba is a fast, multiprotocol credentials bruteforcer, password sprayer, and enumerator written in Rust on top of the Tokio async runtime.… | 78 | 1950 | active |
| yuk7/wsldl wsldl is an advanced launcher and installer for Windows Subsystem for Linux distributions, written in Go. It lets users install any rootfs … | 86 | 1948 | active |
| linkedin/shiv shiv is a command line utility from LinkedIn for building fully self-contained Python zipapps (PEP 441) with all dependencies bundled into … | 57 | 1948 | active |
| mcostalba/Stockfish Stockfish is a free, powerful UCI chess engine written in C++, derived from Glaurung 2.1. It is not a complete chess program and requires a… | 32 | 1948 | active |
| abapGit abapGit is a Git client for ABAP systems, written entirely in ABAP, that lets developers version and sync ABAP code with Git hosting servic… | 76 | 1947 | active |
| igrek51/wat WAT is a Python library for deep inspection of objects at runtime, revealing their type, value, attributes, methods, parent types, signatur… | 50 | 1946 | active |
| lgarron/folderify A Rust CLI tool that generates pixel-perfect macOS folder icons in the native style from a PNG mask file, producing .icns and .iconset file… | 90 | 1945 | active |
| will8211/unimatrix UniMatrix is a Python CLI script that simulates the iconic 'Matrix' digital rain display in a terminal, using half-width katakana Unicode c… | 66 | 1944 | stable |
| onevcat/Rainbow Rainbow is a Swift library that adds text color, background color, and style to console and command line output via convenient String exten… | 85 | 1942 | stable |
| SnapAI SnapAI is a Node.js CLI that generates 1024x1024 mobile app icons and 1024x500 Google Play feature graphics using OpenAI or Google Gemini i… | 71 | 1942 | active |
| php-school/cli-menu A PHP library for building interactive terminal menus with an expressive DSL. It supports selectable items, checkboxes, radio buttons, subm… | 35 | 1942 | active |
| cloudfoundry/cli The official command line client for the Cloud Foundry platform as a service, written in Go. It lets developers log in, push and manage app… | 93 | 1940 | active |
| timbrel/GitSavvy GitSavvy is a mature Sublime Text plugin providing full Git and GitHub integration inside the editor. It adds command palette commands and … | 91 | 1940 | active |
| nosarthur/gita Gita is a Python command-line tool for managing multiple git repositories from any working directory. It displays the status of many repos … | 74 | 1940 | active |
| jupyter/nbconvert nbconvert is the Jupyter project's tool for converting .ipynb notebooks into static formats such as HTML, LaTeX, PDF, Reveal.js slides, Mar… | 91 | 1939 | stable |
| linki/chaoskube chaoskube is a Go CLI tool that periodically terminates random pods in a Kubernetes cluster to test resilience. It supports filtering targe… | 90 | 1938 | active |
| Aorimn/dislocker Dislocker is a FUSE-based driver and library that reads and writes Windows BitLocker-encrypted partitions (including BitLocker-To-Go) from … | 74 | 1938 | stable |
| ikatson/rqbit rqbit is a BitTorrent client written in Rust, available as a CLI tool, a server with an HTTP API and Web UI, a desktop app built with Tauri… | 88 | 1937 | active |
| MichaelAquilina/zsh-you-should-use A ZSH plugin that reminds you to use existing aliases when you type a command that has one defined. It detects regular, global, and git ali… | 66 | 1937 | stable |
| sourcegraph/zoekt Zoekt is a fast trigram-based text search engine designed for source code, supporting substring and regexp matching with a rich boolean que… | 75 | 1936 | active |
| daeuniverse/gg gg (go-graft) is a Linux command-line proxy tool that redirects the network traffic of any command through a proxy with a single prefix, su… | 60 | 1936 | active |
| stevearc/overseer.nvim overseer.nvim is a task runner and job management plugin for Neovim written in Lua. It lets users define, run, and monitor tasks (make, npm… | 66 | 1934 | active |
| fusionlanguage/fut Fusion is a programming language designed for writing reusable library components in a single codebase that transpiles to C, C++, C#, D, Ja… | 94 | 1932 | active |