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20 Best Free and Open Source Media Players

September 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Desktop, Multimedia, Roundup

A media player is software that lets you watch video and listen to music on your computer. We cover the best free and open source options.

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JSON Tools

jsonrepair – repair invalid JSON documents

September 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

jsonrepair repairs invalid JSON documents. It can correct many common syntax problems automatically

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News

23 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based News Aggregators

August 31, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup

A news aggregator is software which collect news, weblog posts, and other information. We recommend the best terminal-based news aggregators.

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monobit – collection of tools for working with bitmap fonts

August 31, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

monobit is a free and open source toolkit for converting, modifying and working with bitmap fonts from the command line or Python.

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JSON Tools

Dasel – query, modify and transform structured data

August 31, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Dasel is a command-line tool for querying, modifying and transforming structured data. It provides a unified syntax.

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Art

oh-my-logo – create colourful ASCII art logos

August 30, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

oh-my-logo is a command-line tool and software library for creating colourful ASCII art logos.

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Backup software

9 Best Free and Open Source Restic Wrappers

August 30, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, System Software

restic is a backup program that is fast, efficient and secure. We recommend the best free and open source wrapper tools for restic.

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bmm – command-line bookmark manager

August 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

bmm is a command-line bookmark manager designed to provide fast access to a locally stored collection of bookmarks.

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Backup software

rustic – fast, encrypted and deduplicated backups

August 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software

rustic is a secure backup tool with deduplication, encryption, compression, and local and cloud storage support.

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Economics

Dynare – software platform for handling economic models

August 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Financial

Dynare handles DSGE, OLG and heterogeneous-agent economic models with simulation, estimation, forecasting and optimal-policy tools.

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IRC Servers

Edbrowse – command-line text editor, web browser, email client, IRC client and database interface

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Edbrowse is modelled on the ed text editor and presents web content through a command-response interface

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Image of Files

Duplito – command-line file lister and duplicate-file finder

August 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Duplito is a command-line file lister and duplicate-file finder. It builds a persistent database of file hashes and then uses that index

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Generate memes

meme-generator-rs – flexible meme creation toolkit

August 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Other

meme-generator-rs is a meme creation toolkit written in Rust. It combines a graphics engine with a large collection of built-in templates.

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Folder

TwinHunter – find and clean up duplicate files

August 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

TwinHunter is a command-line utility for finding and cleaning up duplicate files.

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lsoff – lists listening TCP/UDP ports

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

lsoff is a cross-platform CLI and TUI for finding processes listening on TCP and UDP ports, with search, JSON output and process termination.

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Bioinformatics

Foldseek – compare large protein structure datasets

August 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Foldseek is a fast and sensitive command-line tool for comparing large protein structure datasets.

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Bioinformatics

SeqKit – manipulate FASTA and FASTQ files

August 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

SeqKit is a fast, cross-platform command-line toolkit for manipulating FASTA and FASTQ files.

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Bioinformatics

MultiQC – aggregate results from bioinformatics analyses

August 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

MultiQC is a reporting tool that aggregates results from multiple bioinformatics analyses and samples into a single report

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Coding

14 Best Free and Open Source Command-Line Python Application Development Tools

August 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, Roundup

Python comes with several different libraries that allow you to write a command line interface for your scripts.

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13 Best Free and Open Source Snippet Tools

August 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, Roundup, Utilities

A snippet tool is utility software that can boost your productivity. They are especially useful to save complex commands

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