Open source command-line projects
Every project in the registry tagged command-line, ranked by real GitHub adoption.
Mac cleaner, app manager, and system monitor in one
AI pair programmer that works inside your terminal
💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.
Cross-platform terminal with AI built in
n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.
Open source AI coding agent. Designed for large projects and real world tasks.
A file server that supports static serving, uploading, searching, accessing control, webdav...
q - Run SQL directly on delimited files and multi-file sqlite databases
Universal command-line interface for SQL databases
System monitoring dashboard for terminal
List any node_modules 📦 dir in your system and how heavy they are. You can then select which ones you want to erase to free up space 🧹
Python Script to download hundreds of images from 'Google Images'. It is a ready-to-run code!
CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + mo
A CLI tool to convert your codebase into a single LLM prompt with source tree, prompt templating, and token counting.
The modern GraphQL runtime
Terminal-native AI coding agent built on ZSH
Executes commands in response to file modifications
🎨 Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.
A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer
📊 A simple command-line utility for querying and monitoring GPU status
File and Archive Manager
An EXIF-based photo assistant, organizer and workflow automation tool.
Bringing the Helix editor to the evil side
A command-line tool for Z-Library. Search, download, send to Kindle, and integrate with AI agents.
Git powered terminal-based todo/note manager -- markdown note page per task. Single binary!
Universal Reddit Scraper - A comprehensive Reddit scraping/archival command-line tool.
SiteOne Crawler is a cross-platform website crawler and analyzer for SEO, security, accessibility, and performance optimization—ideal for developers, DevOps, QA
:fire: Command-line tool to delete merged Git branches
A CLI tool to get help with CLI tools 🐙
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Frequently asked questions
How many open source command-line projects are there?
This registry tracks 30 projects tagged command-line, with 373,535 GitHub stars between them. The most-adopted is Mole at 73,641 stars.
Are these command-line projects free to use?
Yes — 30 of the 30 carry an explicit open-source licence across 7 distinct licences, so there is no licence fee. Where a project also sells a hosted or enterprise version, the self-hosted path remains free.
Which command-line project should I choose?
The list above is ranked by GitHub stars, but stars measure attention rather than fit. Check three things on each card: the licence (permissive versus copyleft), the language it is written in, and the last-push date — a high-star project that has not been pushed in a year is a liability.
Are these command-line projects still maintained?
21 of the 30 were pushed in the last 90 days, and every card shows its exact last-push date so you can see the rest. Sort your shortlist by that date before committing to a migration.