picopt is a multi format lossless image optimizer that uses external tools.
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Category: CLI
habitctl – track and examine your habits
habitctl is a minimal terminal habit tracker supporting daily and weekly goals, streak visualisation, skipped activities and plaintext logs.
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Productivity Timer – pomodoro timer
Productivity Timer is a Pomodoro timer application for keyboard addicts and terminal fans that makes you more productive.
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Y.A.c.H.T. – Yet Another CLI Habit Tracker
Y.A.c.H.T. lets you track the activities that make up your perfect day and monitor your daily progress effortlessly.
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pom – pomodoro timer
pom is a pomodoro timer on the command-line, built using huh?.
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hours – no-frills time tracking
hours is a no-frills time tracking toolkit for the command line. It’s written in Go.
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MyTimer – geeky timer for terminal lovers
MyTimer is a terminal timer with countdown and count-up modes, audible alarms, repeat options, colourful displays and Pomodoro presets.
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Zeit – command line tool for tracking time
Zeit tracks tasks and projects from the command line with natural-language dates, time blocks, statistics and data import and export.
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Bartib – simple timetracker for the command line
Bartib tracks projects and activities in plaintext, with start and stop commands, editable logs and flexible time reports on Linux.
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pho – lightweight image viewer
pho is a lightweight keyboard-driven image viewer for quickly reviewing photographs, adding notes, rotating images and running slideshows.
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catimg – renders images in the terminal
catimg renders images directly in the terminal using ANSI colour and Unicode block characters, with scaling and broad image format support.
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pxv – instant feature rich terminal image viewer
pxv is a terminal image viewer with truecolour, ANSI, ASCII and animated GIF modes; its upstream repository was archived in April 2026.
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iv – command-line image viewer
iv is a command-line image viewer using Sixel, iTerm and Kitty graphics protocols, with packages available for Linux, macOS and Windows.
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imv – X11/Wayland image viewer
imv is a lightweight X11 and Wayland image viewer with configurable controls, slideshows, recursive navigation and scriptable commands.
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inotail – inotify-based implementation of tail
inotail is a replacement for the ‘tail’ program found in the base installation of every Linux system.
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colortail – like the tail command line utility but with colors
colortail works like tail but can optionally read one or more config files where it’s specified which patterns results in which colors.
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ptail – tail but dynamic
ptail is a small, and likely useless, utility that truncates the output from processes.
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retail – tail with regular expressions
retail can output that part of a file (or pipe) following the last match of a regular expression,
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: watch
This article spotlights alternatives tools to watch. The software featured here is free and open source goodness.
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rename-CLI – rename files quickly
rename-CLI is a cross-platform tool for renaming files quickly, especially multiple files at once.
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