CLI — independent software & tools

8,413 independent CLI listings the big search engines bury.

• manticoresearch

  homebrew · Free

  Open source text search engine

• mantra

  homebrew · Free

  Tool to hunt down API key leaks in JS files and pages

• mapcrafter

  homebrew · Free

  Minecraft map renderer

• mapnik

  homebrew · Free

  Toolkit for developing mapping applications

• mapproxy

  homebrew · Free

  Accelerating web map proxy

• mapscii

  homebrew · Free

  Whole World In Your Console

• mapserver

  homebrew · Free

  Publish spatial data and interactive mapping apps to the web

• marcli

  homebrew · Free

  Parse MARC (ISO 2709) files

• mariadb

  homebrew · Free

  Drop-in replacement for MySQL

• mariadb-connector-c

  homebrew · Free

  MariaDB database connector for C applications

• marisa

  homebrew · Free

  Matching Algorithm with Recursively Implemented StorAge

• mark

  homebrew · Free

  Sync your markdown files with Confluence pages

• markdown

  homebrew · Free

  Text-to-HTML conversion tool

• markdown-oxide

  homebrew · Free

  Personal Knowledge Management System for the LSP

• markdown-toc

  homebrew · Free

  Generate a markdown TOC (table of contents) with Remarkable

• markdownlint-cli2

  homebrew · Free

  Fast, flexible, config-based cli for linting Markdown/CommonMark files

• marksman

  homebrew · Free

  Language Server Protocol for Markdown

• marmite

  homebrew · Free

  Static Site Generator for Blogs using Markdown

• marmot

  homebrew · Free

  Open-source data catalog exposing metadata to AI agents

• marp-cli

  homebrew · Free

  Easily convert Marp Markdown files into static HTML/CSS, PDF, PPT and images

• martin

  homebrew · Free

  Blazing fast tile server, tile generation, and mbtiles tooling

• mas

  homebrew · Free

  Mac App Store command-line interface

• mask

  homebrew · Free

  CLI task runner defined by a simple markdown file

• masscan

  homebrew · Free

  TCP port scanner, scans entire Internet in under 5 minutes

• massdns

  homebrew · Free

  High-performance DNS stub resolver

• massdriver

  homebrew · Free

  Manage applications and infrastructure on Massdriver Cloud

• massren

  homebrew · Free

  Easily rename multiple files using your text editor

• mat2

  homebrew · Free

  Metadata anonymization toolkit

• matcha

  homebrew · Free

  Daily digest generator for your RSS feeds

• math-comp

  homebrew · Free

  Mathematical Components for the Coq proof assistant

• matlab2tikz

  homebrew · Free

  Convert MATLAB(R) figures into TikZ/Pgfplots figures

• matplotplusplus

  homebrew · Free

  C++ Graphics Library for Data Visualization

• matterbridge

  homebrew · Free

  Protocol bridge for multiple chat platforms

• maturin

  homebrew · Free

  Build and publish Rust crates as Python packages

• maven

  homebrew · Free

  Java-based project management

• maven-completion

  homebrew · Free

  Bash completion for Maven

• maven-shell

  homebrew · Free

  Shell for Maven

• mavsdk

  homebrew · Free

  API and library for MAVLink compatible systems written in C++17

• mawk

  homebrew · Free

  Interpreter for the AWK Programming Language

• maxima

  homebrew · Free

  Computer algebra system

• maxwell

  homebrew · Free

  Reads MySQL binlogs and writes row updates as JSON to Kafka

• mbedtls

  homebrew · Free

  Cryptographic & SSL/TLS library

• mbelib

  homebrew · Free

  P25 Phase 1 and ProVoice vocoder

• mbpoll

  homebrew · Free

  Command-line utility to communicate with ModBus slave (RTU or TCP)

• mbt

  homebrew · Free

  Multi-Target Application (MTA) build tool for Cloud Applications

• mbw

  homebrew · Free

  Memory Bandwidth Benchmark

• mcap

  homebrew · Free

  Serialization-agnostic container file format for pub/sub messages

• mcat

  homebrew · Free

  Terminal image, video, directory, and Markdown viewer

• mcfly

  homebrew · Free

  Fly through your shell history

• mcp-atlassian

  homebrew · Free

  MCP server for Atlassian tools (Confluence, Jira)

• mcp-get

  homebrew · Free

  CLI for discovering, installing, and managing MCP servers

• mcp-google-sheets

  homebrew · Free

  MCP server integrates with your Google Drive and Google Sheets

• mcp-grafana

  homebrew · Free

  MCP server for Grafana

• mcp-inspector

  homebrew · Free

  Visual testing tool for MCP servers

• mcp-proxy

  homebrew · Free

  Bridge between Streamable HTTP and stdio MCP transports

• mcp-publisher

  homebrew · Free

  Publisher CLI tool for the Official Model Context Protocol (MCP) Registry

• mcp-server-chart

  homebrew · Free

  MCP with 25+ @antvis charts for visualization, generation, and analysis

• mcp-toolbox

  homebrew · Free

  MCP server for databases

• mcphost

  homebrew · Free

  CLI host for LLMs to interact with tools via MCP

• mcpm

  homebrew · Free

  Open source, community-driven MCP server and client manager