CLI — independent software & tools

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

• alp

  homebrew · Free

  Access Log Profiler

• alpine

  homebrew · Free

  News and email agent

• alpscore

  homebrew · Free

  Applications and libraries for physics simulations

• alsa-lib

  homebrew · Free

  Provides audio and MIDI functionality to the Linux operating system

• amass

  homebrew · Free

  In-depth attack surface mapping and asset discovery

• amazon-ecs-cli

  homebrew · Free

  CLI for Amazon ECS to manage clusters and tasks for development

• amber

  homebrew · Free

  Crystal web framework. Bare metal performance, productivity and happiness

• amdatu-bootstrap

  homebrew · Free

  Bootstrapping OSGi development

• amfora

  homebrew · Free

  Fancy terminal browser for the Gemini protocol

• ammonite-repl

  homebrew · Free

  Ammonite is a cleanroom re-implementation of the Scala REPL

• amp

  homebrew · Free

  Text editor for your terminal

• ampl-asl

  homebrew · Free

  AMPL Solver Library

• amqp-cpp

  homebrew · Free

  C++ library for communicating with a RabbitMQ message broker

• amtterm

  homebrew · Free

  Serial-over-LAN (sol) client for Intel AMT

• analog

  homebrew · Free

  Logfile analyzer

• anchor

  homebrew · Free

  Solana Program Framework

• ancient

  homebrew · Free

  Decompression routines for ancient formats

• angband

  homebrew · Free

  Dungeon exploration game

• angle-grinder

  homebrew · Free

  Slice and dice log files on the command-line

• angular-cli

  homebrew · Free

  CLI tool for Angular

• animdl

  homebrew · Free

  Anime downloader and streamer

• ansible

  homebrew · Free

  Automate deployment, configuration, and upgrading

• ansible-builder

  homebrew · Free

  CLI tool for building Ansible Execution Environments (Containers)

• ansible-cmdb

  homebrew · Free

  Generates static HTML overview page from Ansible facts

• ansible-creator

  homebrew · Free

  CLI tool for scaffolding Ansible Content

• ansible-language-server

  homebrew · Free

  Language Server for Ansible Files

• ansible-lint

  homebrew · Free

  Checks ansible playbooks for practices and behaviour

• ansifilter

  homebrew · Free

  Strip or convert ANSI codes into HTML, (La)Tex, RTF, or BBCode

• ansilove

  homebrew · Free

  ANSI/ASCII art to PNG converter

• ansiweather

  homebrew · Free

  Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols

• ant

  homebrew · Free

  Java build tool

• ant-contrib

  homebrew · Free

  Collection of tasks for Apache Ant

• antidote

  homebrew · Free

  Plugin manager for zsh, inspired by antigen and antibody

• antigen

  homebrew · Free

  Plugin manager for zsh, inspired by oh-my-zsh and vundle

• antlr

  homebrew · Free

  ANother Tool for Language Recognition

• anubis

  homebrew · Free

  Protect resources from scraper bots

• any2fasta

  homebrew · Free

  Convert various sequence formats to FASTA

• anycable-go

  homebrew · Free

  WebSocket server with action cable protocol

• anyenv

  homebrew · Free

  All in one for **env

• anyquery

  homebrew · Free

  Query anything with SQL

• anyzig

  homebrew · Free

  Universal zig executable that runs any version of zig

• aoe

  homebrew · Free

  Terminal session manager for AI coding agents

• aoeui

  homebrew · Free

  Lightweight text editor optimized for Dvorak and QWERTY keyboards

• aom

  homebrew · Free

  Codec library for encoding and decoding AV1 video streams

• apache-arrow

  homebrew · Free

  Columnar in-memory analytics layer designed to accelerate big data

• apache-arrow-adbc

  homebrew · Free

  Cross-language, Arrow-native database access

• apache-brooklyn-cli

  homebrew · Free

  Apache Brooklyn command-line interface

• apache-drill

  homebrew · Free

  Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

• apache-flink

  homebrew · Free

  Scalable batch and stream data processing

• apache-flink-cdc

  homebrew · Free

  Flink CDC is a streaming data integration tool

• apache-geode

  homebrew · Free

  In-memory Data Grid for fast transactional data processing

• apache-opennlp

  homebrew · Free

  Machine learning toolkit for processing natural language text

• apache-polaris

  homebrew · Free

  Interoperable, open source catalog for Apache Iceberg

• apache-pulsar

  homebrew · Free

  Cloud-native distributed messaging and streaming platform

• apache-serf

  homebrew · Free

  High-performance asynchronous HTTP client library

• apache-spark

  homebrew · Free

  Engine for large-scale data processing

• apachetop

  homebrew · Free

  Top-like display of Apache log

• apcupsd

  homebrew · Free

  Daemon for controlling APC UPSes

• apfel

  homebrew · Free

  Apple Intelligence from the command-line, with OpenAi-compatible API server

• apgdiff

  homebrew · Free

  Another PostgreSQL diff tool