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cliamp

Retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp 2.x, with a playlist editor, a graphic equaliser, 29 visualisers and streaming from radio, Spotify, Qobuz, Navidrome, Jellyfin, Emby, Plex, SoundCloud, NetEase and YouTube Music.

Ghostty Terminal

Fast, feature-rich, cross-platform terminal emulator with platform-native UI and GPU acceleration for superior performance.

lazydocker

Simple terminal UI for Docker and docker-compose management, written in Go with an intuitive interface for container operations.

Oh My Posh

A prompt theme engine for any shell (bash, zsh, fish, PowerShell and more) with all 125+ built-in themes included in the package.

uncloud

Lightweight clustering and container orchestration tool for deploying web apps across cloud VMs and bare metal with minimal overhead.

Zed editor

A high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom Tree-Sitter

Atuin

Shell history sync, search and stats. Replaces your shell history with a searchable SQLite database, with optional end-to-end encrypted sync across machines.

Bash Line Editor: replaces Readline in pure Bash with syntax highlighting, fish-like auto-suggestions, vim and emacs modes, menu completion and abbreviations.

bottom System Monitor

Customizable graphical process and system monitor for the terminal (the command is btm). CPU, memory, network, disk, temperature and process widgets in one zoomable, sortable dashboard.

Bun Runtime

Fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime with bundler, test runner, and package manager built from scratch for speed and performance.

Deno Runtime

Secure JavaScript/TypeScript runtime with built-in TypeScript support, web standard APIs, and Node.js compatibility. Includes denort for lightweight production deployments.

difftastic

Structural diff tool that compares files by syntax instead of line by line, using tree-sitter. Reformatting stops showing up as a change; renamed symbols stand out.

docker-pussh

Push Docker images to remote servers over SSH, transferring only missing layers for fast and efficient deployment.

DuckDB

Fast in-process analytical SQL database, SQLite for analytics. Queries CSV, Parquet and JSON directly, installs extensions at runtime, no server to manage.

eza

Modern replacement for 'ls' command with improved features, better colors, and enhanced file listing capabilities.

Fastfetch

A neofetch-like system information tool written in C, blazing fast, 50+ modules, all presets included, same file layout as the archive package.

Spotifast

A fast, native Spotify client written in Rust, plays your library on this machine, controls every other Spotify Connect device, no browser engine.

fish

The friendly interactive shell: autosuggestions, syntax highlighting and completions generated from your man pages.

Forgejo

Self-hosted lightweight software forge. Host your own git repositories, issue tracker, pull requests, and CI/CD platform. A community-driven Gitea fork you fully control.

Forgejo Runner

CI runner for Forgejo Actions. Run self-hosted, GitHub Actions-compatible CI/CD pipelines on your own infrastructure using Docker, LXC or the host directly.

Fresh, a terminal based IDE and text editor: LSP support, syntax highlighting, multiple cursors, TypeScript plugins, reattachable sessions and a browser mode. Install fresh-editor, run fresh.

fzf Fuzzy Finder

Command-line fuzzy finder written in Go, enabling fast and intuitive file and command searching.

Garage

Lightweight, S3-compatible distributed object storage designed to run across multiple geographically distributed nodes. A self-hosted alternative for backups, static sites and app data.

GitUI

Blazing fast keyboard-driven terminal UI for git: stage hunks and lines, browse and search the log, diff, blame, stash, branch and push without leaving the terminal.

GPU Screen Recorder

ShadowPlay-like screen recorder (the command is gpu-screen-recorder): records, streams and keeps an instant-replay buffer on the GPU, on X11 and Wayland with AMD, Intel and NVIDIA.

Free, open source speech-to-text that works completely offline: press a shortcut, speak, and local Whisper or Parakeet models type the text into any app, on X11 and Wayland.

Headscale

Self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server. Run your own coordination server for a private WireGuard mesh network using the standard Tailscale clients.

Helix Editor

Post-modern modal text editor written in Rust, with tree-sitter highlighting and Language Server support built in, no plugins required. The command is hx.

herdr Agent Multiplexer

Terminal workspace manager for AI coding agents, run and orchestrate multiple agents side by side with persistent sessions, git worktrees and remote access over SSH.

Jujutsu

A Git-compatible version control system with a simpler, more powerful model, universal undo and first-class conflicts, while using existing Git remotes. Uses the jj command.

just

Handy command runner for saving and running project-specific commands. Recipes live in a justfile with a make-inspired syntax, without make's build-target quirks.

k9s

Terminal UI for managing Kubernetes clusters in real time. Navigate resources, stream logs, exec into pods and apply changes without long kubectl commands.

Fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator with tabs, splits, ligatures, a graphics protocol and the kitten CLI for ssh, images, diffs and remote control.

lazygit

Simple terminal UI for git commands, making version control operations more visual and user-friendly.

Terminal UI for Jira in the style of lazygit: JQL search with history, inline edits of transitions, assignee and comments, and git branches named after issues.

lowfi

Minimalist Rust application for playing lofi music - no albums, no ads, just pure lofi background music for coding.

Interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy: inspect, modify and replay HTTP/1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 and WebSocket traffic from a console UI (mitmproxy), a web UI (mitmweb) or the command line (mitmdump).

Neovim

Hyperextensible Vim-based text editor with built-in LSP, Treesitter and Lua scripting, the latest upstream release, not the frozen archive version.

Nushell

A new type of shell where pipelines carry structured, typed data instead of raw text. Registered in /etc/shells, official plugins included, ready to be your login shell.

rclone

rsync for cloud storage: sync, copy and move files across more than seventy providers, mount any remote as a filesystem, and serve it over HTTP, WebDAV, SFTP, S3 and more.

restic

Fast, efficient and secure backup program: deduplicates at the chunk level, encrypts and authenticates on the client, and stores snapshots on local disks, SFTP, S3, B2, Azure, Google Cloud or anything rclone reaches.

Rusty Generic Colouriser: a fast Rust rewrite of grc that colorizes ping, df, ps, docker, journalctl and ~97 other commands, configs built in.

Line-oriented search tool that recursively searches directories for a regex pattern, respecting your gitignore.

Ruff

An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter from Astral, replaces Flake8, isort and Black at 10-100x the speed, system-wide without pip.

rumdl

A fast Markdown linter and formatter written in Rust, runs the markdownlint rule set on huge documentation trees in milliseconds and fixes what it finds.

Terminal UI that draws a rich git commit graph as real images through the Kitty or iTerm2 protocol, with a searchable commit list and a per-commit detail view.

Starship

A fast, customizable cross-shell prompt written in Rust that works with Bash, Zsh, Fish, PowerShell and more, showing git and language context through a single config file.

superfile

Modern terminal file manager (the command is spf), with side-by-side panels, a pinned-directory sidebar, a preview pane, background copy and move jobs, archive handling and a trash bin.

Television Fuzzy Finder

Very fast, portable and hackable fuzzy finder (the command is tv), built around channels: files, text, directories, git repositories, processes and anything you describe in TOML.

termusic

Terminal-based music and podcast player that's both free as in freedom and free of charge.

TigerBeetle

Distributed financial transactions database designed for mission-critical safety and 1000x faster OLTP performance with strict serializability.

Official tldr-pages client written in Rust (tlrc): simplified, example-driven man pages, served from an offline cache that updates itself, with platform and language selection, page search and a TOML config.

tree-sitter-cli

Tree-sitter CLI (the command is tree-sitter): scaffold, generate, build and test incremental parsers, then parse, query and highlight files or open a web playground.

unregistry

Lightweight container image registry that stores and serves images directly from your Docker daemon's storage.

uv Python Manager

Extremely fast Python package and project manager written in Rust, offering superior performance for Python development workflows.

Command-line image viewer written in Rust. Displays images directly in the terminal using Kitty, iTerm2, Sixel protocols, or Unicode blocks as fallback.

workmux

git worktrees and tmux windows as isolated dev environments. One command creates a worktree with its own window, panes and agent; another merges the branch and tears it all down.

Yazi File Manager

Terminal file manager written in Rust with non-blocking async I/O, providing efficient and customizable file management.

A portable command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV and TOML processor with jq-like syntax, a single Go binary (mikefarah v4), man page included.

yt-dlp

Feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader with support for thousands of sites. Picks formats, merges with ffmpeg, and embeds subtitles, chapters, thumbnails and metadata.

ZapZap

An unofficial WhatsApp desktop client for Linux, built with Python and PyQt6.

Zellij

A terminal workspace and multiplexer written in Rust, with panes, tabs, reproducible layouts and a WebAssembly plugin system. A friendly, modern alternative to tmux.

Zig Programming Language

General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal and reusable software. Available in both stable and nightly builds.

ZLS Language Server

Language Server Protocol implementation for Zig, providing IDE features like autocomplete, go-to-definition, and error checking. Stable and nightly builds available.

zoxide

Smarter cd command for your terminal, learning your habits to help you navigate directories more efficiently.