CLI Tools

Browser

• w3m Browser: http://w3m.sourceforge.net/
• Googler: https://github.com/jarun/googler
• DuckDuckGo: https://github.com/jarun/ddgr (Browser: https://duckduckgo.com/tty/)
• Twitter: rainbowstream sudo apt -y install python3-pip && sudo pip3 install rainbowstream

Collaborate

• Chat: https://weechat.org/ sudo apt-get install weechat (Documentation)
• Chat: https://github.com/irssi/irssi e.g. apt install irssi
• Stream Terminal Session: https://github.com/miguelmota/streamhut
• Share Files using QR code: https://github.com/claudiodangelis/qrcp
• GPG: https://github.com/orhun/gpg-tui
• Video-Chat: https://github.com/dialup-inc/ascii

Dev

• git interactive rebase tool
• System resource monitor: https://github.com/aristocratos/btop
• Kanban boards: kanban.bash, taskell
• JSON Tools: jless, ijq, fx
• SQL IDE for the terminal: https://github.com/tconbeer/harlequin
• GitHub Dashboard: https://github.com/dlvhdr/gh-dash

Android

• adb: https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools

Network

• termshark

File Transfer

• Sync https://www.etebase.com/ → https://www.etesync.com/
• Sync/Backup https://syncthing.net/
• Send Files: https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole
• BitTorrect Client: rtorrent and mabel
• IPFS: https://ipfs.io
• transfer.sh: https://github.com/dutchcoders/transfer.sh
• croc: https://github.com/schollz/croc

Games

• nudoku is a ncurses based sudoku game. https://bronevichok.ru/ttygames/#nudoku
• Chess: littlewing and chess-tui
• Solitaire: https://github.com/mpereira/tty-solitaire

Work with files

• File Explorer: https://github.com/sayanarijit/xplr or https://github.com/MHNightCat/superfile
• Photo Search Tool: https://github.com/yurijmikhalevich/rclip
• Terminal UI for SQLite: https://github.com/mathaou/termdbms
• Search in PDFs: https://pdfgrep.org/
• Plot Stats in Terminal: https://github.com/red-data-tools/YouPlot

Money

• Stocks https://github.com/achannarasappa/ticker
• CoinMon https://github.com/bichenkk/coinmon

Music

• Beets: https://github.com/beetbox/beets pip install beets
• Musikcube (Spotify): https://github.com/clangen/musikcube
• Background Noise: https://github.com/JaDogg/noisebox
• Spotify: spotify-tui or ncspot
• Visualize audio in the terminal with paura (Example video)
• Coltrane is a music theory library with a command-line interface

Read News

• Wikipedia: fetch or wik
• Hacker News: haxor-news or circumflex
• RSS Reader: Newsboat

Office Tools

• Mail: aerc or mblaze or mutt
• Calendar: Calcurse, (Calcure)
• Charts: https://github.com/irevenko/tsukae
• Time Tracker: https://github.com/jotaen/klog
• Text Editor: https://micro-editor.github.io/
• plaintext accounting tool: https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger
• CSV pretty printer: https://github.com/alexhallam/tv
• CSV processing: https://github.com/medialab/xan
• Bits, bytes and address calculator: https://github.com/jarun/bcal
• Code Editor: https://micro-editor.github.io/
• DOOIT is a TUI todo manager

Learn

• Flashcards: https://github.com/TBS1996/speki
• TermTyper is a typing application to level up your fingers!

Pictures

• Catimg

3D

• Consol3 is a software renderer that executes entirely on the CPU and uses the console as the display for output.

Video

• Record the terminal with asciinema or vhs
• Watch a movie with mplayer e.g. mplayer -vo caca big_buck_bunny_480p_stereo.ogg
• Watch youtube video with mpv + libcaca (alt: -vo=tct): mpv --quiet -vo=caca 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ'
• Cast DLNA over CLI with dlna-cast

Effects

• terminal text effects: https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects

Database

• Postgres TUI: https://github.com/achristmascarl/rainfrog

Other

• Weather: "curl wttr.in" (https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in)
• jmespath: https://github.com/jmespath/jmespath.terminal
• Text-based desktop environment: https://github.com/netxs-group/vtm

Fun Stuff