CLI — independent software & tools

8,287 independent CLI listings the big search engines bury.

• brigade-cli

  homebrew · Free

  Brigade command-line interface

• brightness

  homebrew · Free

  Change macOS display brightness from the command-line

• briss

  homebrew · Free

  Crop PDF files

• brogue

  homebrew · Free

  Roguelike game

• brook

  homebrew · Free

  Cross-platform strong encryption and not detectable proxy. Zero-Configuration

• broot

  homebrew · Free

  New way to see and navigate directory trees

• brotli

  homebrew · Free

  Generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm by Google

• brpc

  homebrew · Free

  Better RPC framework

• bruno-cli

  homebrew · Free

  CLI of the open-source IDE For exploring and testing APIs

• brush

  homebrew · Free

  Bourne RUsty SHell (command interpreter)

• bsc

  homebrew · Free

  Bluespec Compiler (BSC)

• bsdconv

  homebrew · Free

  Charset/encoding converter library

• bsdiff

  homebrew · Free

  Generate and apply patches to binary files

• bsdmake

  homebrew · Free

  BSD version of the Make build tool

• bsdsfv

  homebrew · Free

  SFV utility tools

• bstring

  homebrew · Free

  Fork of Paul Hsieh's Better String Library

• btcli

  homebrew · Free

  Bittensor command-line tool

• btdu

  homebrew · Free

  Sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs

• btfs

  homebrew · Free

  BitTorrent filesystem based on FUSE

• btllib

  homebrew · Free

  Bioinformatics Technology Lab common code library

• btop

  homebrew · Free

  Resource monitor. C++ version and continuation of bashtop and bpytop

• btparse

  homebrew · Free

  BibTeX utility libraries

• btpd

  homebrew · Free

  BitTorrent Protocol Daemon

• btrfs-progs

  homebrew · Free

  Userspace utilities to manage btrfs filesystems

• bttf

  homebrew · Free

  CLI tool for datetime arithmetic, parsing, formatting and more

• bubblewrap

  homebrew · Free

  Unprivileged sandboxing tool for Linux

• buf

  homebrew · Free

  New way of working with Protocol Buffers

• buffa

  homebrew · Free

  Pure-Rust Protocol Buffers implementation with editions support

• buffrs

  homebrew · Free

  Modern protobuf package management

• build2

  homebrew · Free

  C/C++ Build Toolchain

• buildapp

  homebrew · Free

  Creates executables with SBCL

• buildifier

  homebrew · Free

  Format bazel BUILD files with a standard convention

• buildkit

  homebrew · Free

  Concurrent, cache-efficient, and Dockerfile-agnostic builder toolkit

• buildpulse-test-reporter

  homebrew · Free

  Connect your CI to BuildPulse to detect, track, and rank flaky tests

• buku

  homebrew · Free

  Powerful command-line bookmark manager

• bulk_extractor

  homebrew · Free

  Stream-based forensics tool

• bullet

  homebrew · Free

  Physics SDK

• bulletty

  homebrew · Free

  Pretty feed reader (ATOM/RSS) that stores articles in Markdown files

• bumblebee

  homebrew · Free

  Read-only developer endpoint scanner for supply-chain exposure

• bump-my-version

  homebrew · Free

  Version bump your Python project

• bumpp

  homebrew · Free

  Interactive CLI that bumps your version numbers and more

• bumpversion

  homebrew · Free

  Increase version numbers with SemVer terms

• bun

  homebrew · Free

  Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager

• bundler-completion

  homebrew · Free

  Bash completion for Bundler

• bundletool

  homebrew · Free

  Command-line tool to manipulate Android App Bundles

• bunster

  homebrew · Free

  Compile shell scripts to static binaries

• bup

  homebrew · Free

  Backup tool

• bupstash

  homebrew · Free

  Easy and efficient encrypted backups

• burp

  homebrew · Free

  Network backup and restore

• burrow

  homebrew · Free

  Kafka Consumer Lag Checking

• burst

  homebrew · Free

  Radix sort, lazy ranges and iterators, and more. Boost-like header-only library

• busted

  homebrew · Free

  Elegant Lua unit testing

• butane

  homebrew · Free

  Translates human-readable Butane Configs into machine-readable Ignition Configs

• bvi

  homebrew · Free

  Vi-like binary file (hex) editor

• bwa

  homebrew · Free

  Burrow-Wheeler Aligner for pairwise alignment of DNA

• bwfmetaedit

  homebrew · Free

  Tool for embedding, validating, and exporting BWF file metadata

• bwidget

  homebrew · Free

  Tcl/Tk script-only set of megawidgets to provide the developer additional tools

• bwm-ng

  homebrew · Free

  Console-based live network and disk I/O bandwidth monitor

• byacc

  homebrew · Free

  (Arguably) the best yacc variant

• byobu

  homebrew · Free

  Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer