A curated list of awesome alternatives to apps tradtionally used in the web browser.
- Table of contents
- Searching
- Viewing images
- Weather forecast
- View cryptocurrency exchange rates
- YouTube
- Email clients
- Calendar and scheduling
- Translations
- Social media
- Twitch
- Git interfaces
- Reading E-books
- News
- Cheat sheets
- Stackoverflow
- Wikipedia
- Radio and podcasts
- Office work
- Password Managers
- Anime
- Flash cards
- Dictionary
- PDF viewers
- BONUS
- Tuxi - Tuxi is a cli assistant. Get answers to your questions instantly.
- Surfraw - Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web
- googler - 🔎Google from the terminal
- ddgr - 🦆DuckDuckGo from the terminal
- e.xec.sh - Search and display gifs in your terminal 🦄
- gallery-dl - Command-line program to download image galleries and collections from several image hosting sites
- styli.sh - A CLI tool for easy wallpaper management and image fetching Resources
- waldl - Browse and download wallhaven.cc wallpapers using sxiv
- Quickwall - Set latest wallpapers from Unsplash from the commandline
- wttr.in - ⛅ The right way to check the weather
- rate.sx - 💰 curl cryptocurrencies exchange rates
- Coinmon - 💰 The cryptocurrency price tool on CLI. 🖥️
- Cointop - A fast and lightweight interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies 🚀
- youtube-dl - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
- youtube-viewer - Lightweight YouTube client for Linux
- pipe-viewer - A lightweight YouTube client for Linux (fork of straw-viewer)
- FreeTube - An Open Source YouTube app for privacy
- NewPipe - A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.
- SkyTube - Copylefted libre / open source YouTube player for Android
- Ytfzf - A posix script to find and watch youtube videos from the terminal. (Without API)
- Streamlink - Streamlink is a CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player
- NeoMutt - ✉️ a command line mail reader
- Thunderbird - a free email application that's easy to set up and customise
- Mailspring - 💌 A beautiful, fast and fully open source mail client for Mac, Windows and Linux.
- Calcurse - A text-based calendar and scheduling application
- GNOME Calendar - Calendar application for GNOME
- Tibivi - Terminal based, vim-like time managment tool
- Remind - a sophisticated calendar and alarm program
- Translate Shell - 💬 Command-line translator using Google Translate, Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, etc.
- Argos Translate - Open-source offline translation library written in Python
- Dialect - A translation app for GNOME.
- redyt - search reddit from the commandline
- Reddsaver - CLI tool to download saved and upvoted media from Reddit
- TUIR - Browse Reddit from your terminal
- Slide - open-source, ad-free Reddit browser for Android
- reddio - a command-line interface for Reddit written in POSIX shell
- Rainbow Stream - A smart and nice Twitter client on terminal written in Python.
- Oysttyer - An interactive console text-based command-line Twitter client written in Perl
- Facebook CLI - 💻 Facebook command line client
- InstaLooter - Another API-less Instagram pictures and videos downloader.
- Tut - TUI for Mastodon with vim inspired keys
- Sherlock - 🔎 Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks
- Twire - open source, ad free Twitch browser and stream player for Android
- Streamlink - Streamlink is a CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player
- GitHub Cli - GitHub’s official command line tool
- Tig - Text-mode interface for git
- GitHub-Tui - TUI client for GitHub
- Lazygit - simple terminal UI for git commands
- Hub - A command-line tool that makes git easier to use with GitHub.
- Lab - Lab wraps Git or Hub, making it simple to clone, fork, and interact with repositories on GitLab
- Magit - A Git Porcelain inside Emacs
- Neogit - magit for neovim
- calibre - the one stop solution to all your e-book needs
- MuPDF - a lightweight PDF, XPS, and E-book viewer.
- Newsboat - An RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals
- Sfeed - an RSS and Atom parser
- Neix - an RSS/Atom feed reader for your terminal
- Akregator - automatically collects stories from RSS/Atom-enabled websites
- Newsflash - a program designed to complement an already existing web-based RSS reader account
- getnews.tech - A web server that fetches data from the News API and formats it for display in the terminal.
- Man pages - a form of software documentation usually found on a Unix or Unix-like operating system
- cheat.sh - the only cheat sheet you need
- tldr - 📚 Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands
- cheat - allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line.
- so - A terminal interface for Stack Overflow
- rebound - Command-line tool that instantly fetches Stack Overflow results when an exception is thrown
- wikicurses - A simple curses interface for MediaWiki sites such as Wikipedia.
- Castero - TUI podcast client
- ncspot - Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client written in Rust, inspired by ncmpc and the likes.
- curseradio - Command line radio player
- Shortwave - Listen to internet radio
- LibreOffice - a free and powerful office suite
- sc-im - An ncurses spreadsheet program
- LaTeX - a high-quality typesetting system
- Groff - a typesetting system that reads plain text mixed with formatting commands and produces formatted output
- sent - Simple plaintext presentation tool.
- Markdown - a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor
- Slides - Terminal based presentation tool
- lookatme - An interactive, terminal-based markdown presenter
- KeePassXC - a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “Keepass Password Safe”.
- pass - the standard unix password manager
- Bitwarden-CLI - The command line vault (Windows, macOS, & Linux).
- ani-cli - A cli tool to browse and play anime
- crunchyroll-cli - A CLI tool for browsing and playing anime from Crunchyroll.
- Trackma - Open multi-site list manager for Unix-like systems.
- Anki - Powerful, intelligent flash cards. Remembering things just became much easier.
- fla.sh - 💥 flashcards in your terminal
- Vocage - A minimalistic spaced-repetion vocabulary trainer (flashcards) for the terminal
- Translate Shell - 💬 Command-line translator using Google Translate, Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, etc. [use the
-dflag for dictionary definitions] - dictd - Dictionary with arbitrary keys and values for R
- Zathura - a highly customizable and functional document viewer based on the girara user interface library and several document libraries
- MuPDF - a lightweight PDF, XPS, and E-book viewer.
- parrot.live - 🐦 Bringing animated parrots to terminals everywhere
- Ricksay - Rick & Morty quotes of the day with ponies included!
- Ferdi - a free and open-source all-in-one desktop app that helps you organize how you use your favourite apps
- Rambox - Workspace simplifier
- QRenco.de - QRenco.de a string using curl
- TermBin - Netcat-based command line pastebin.
- Null Pointer - No-bullshit file hosting and URL shortening service
- Flashpoint - a webgame preservation project.