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Category: CLI

Stopwatch

Dayplan – plan and track your time

January 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, TUI

Dayplan is a utility to plan and track your time. This is free and open source software that’s written in Go.

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powerstat – measures the power consumption of a laptop

January 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Powerstat measures the power consumption of a laptop using the ACPI battery information.

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Bayesian SSH – SSH session manager

January 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Bayesian SSH is billed as an ultra-fast and intelligent SSH session manager with Bayesian-ranked search, fuzzy matching, Kerberos support

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Stopwatch

Tock – simple timetracker

January 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Tock is a powerful time tracking tool for the command line.

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sqruff – SQL linter and formatter

January 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

sqruff is a fast SQL formatter/linter.

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Documents

xls – ls utility

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xls is a utility program for listing files.

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Alaska

VHS – write terminal GIFs as code

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

vhs lets you write terminal GIFs as code for integration testing and demoing your CLI tools.

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Data Science

PsychoPy – create experiments in behavioural science

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Scientific

PsychoPy is an open-source package for creating experiments in behavioural science.

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Files

iris – config-driven file organizer

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

iris helps you sort and organize your messy folders automatically using defined rules. It’s written in Rust.

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Find Duplicates

trxsh – trash manager

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

trxsh is a simple and efficient command-line trash manager written in Go.

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Musical instruments

idntag – identify and tag audio files

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Idntag is a command-line tool that identifies artist and title of specified audio files and updates their ID3-tag meta-data

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DNA

PLINK – whole genome association analysis toolset

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

PLINK is a whole genome association analysis toolset. Perform a range of basic, large-scale analyses in a computationally efficient manner.

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Task Manager

RazTodo – CLI task manager

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

RazTodo is a lightweight, cross-platform CLI task manager powered by SQLite, offering fast, privacy-first todo management.

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Diff Tools

oyo – step-through diff viewer

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

oyo extends traditional diffs with an optional step-through mode.

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Folder navigation

Jump – quick and fuzzy directory jumper

January 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Jump tracks the directories you visit and lets you jump to the right one with just a few fuzzy-typed characters.

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Alaska

simagef – find similar images

January 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

simagef finds similar images. It takes a list of image paths and returns either groups or pairs of images that are similar.

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Audio Editors

unflac – audio image and cue sheet splitting

January 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

unflac is a command line tool for fast frame accurate audio image and cue sheet splitting. You need Go and ffmpeg installed.

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Application Launchers

MRunner – keyboard-first application runner

January 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

MRunner is a fast, keyboard-driven application runner designed for Linux users who prefer speed, simplicity, and minimalism.

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Task Manager

chop – CLI todo manager

January 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

chop is a stream filter for todo lists. Like sed or sort, but for todos.

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SQL

sqlit – lazygit of SQL databases

January 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents, TUI

sqlit supports all major databases: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MariaDB, FirebirdSQL, Oracle, DuckDB, CockroachDB, and more.

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