# agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps

🖥 📊 🕹 🛠 A curated list of command line apps

Repository: https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/awesome-cli-apps
Language: Shell
License Family: other
Topics: awesome-list, awesome, list, cli, cli-app
Last push: 2026-08-22T08:06:18+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4073, "days_push": 11, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 20248, forks 1491 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:29.836558+00:00)

## What it is
A curated awesome-list cataloging command line applications across categories like entertainment, development, productivity, utilities, and data manipulation. It serves as a discovery resource rather than software itself.

## Use cases
- find a cli app for time tracking
- discover terminal-based note taking tools
- find command line utilities for  processing
- look up cli apps for git and github workflows
- find terminal apps for music and video
- discover cli tools for file management

## When to choose
- you want to browse a broad, community-curated catalog of cli apps
- you are looking for recommendations across many categories of terminal software
- you want a starting point for discovering command line tools

## When to avoid
- you need a specific tool rather than a list of options
- you need programmatic access to tool metadata
- you want detailed reviews or benchmarks of the listed apps

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: developer-tools, cli
- domain: developer-tools, awesome-lists
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: awesome-list, curated-list, cli-apps, catalog, command-line

## Member repositories
- agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:29.836558+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:59:18.910930+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:29.836558+00:00, sha be824e48578b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.