CLI — independent software & tools

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

• merman-cli

  homebrew · Free

  Mermaid.js, but headless, in Rust

• merve

  homebrew · Free

  C++ lexer for extracting named exports from CommonJS modules

• mesa

  homebrew · Free

  Graphics Library

• mesa-glu

  homebrew · Free

  Mesa OpenGL Utility library

• mesheryctl

  homebrew · Free

  Command-line utility for Meshery, the cloud native management plane

• meson

  homebrew · Free

  Fast and user friendly build system

• meta-package-manager

  homebrew · Free

  Wrapper around all package managers with a unifying CLI

• metabase

  homebrew · Free

  Business intelligence report server

• metalang99

  homebrew · Free

  C99 preprocessor-based metaprogramming language

• metals

  homebrew · Free

  Scala language server

• metaproxy

  homebrew · Free

  Z39.50 proxy and router utilizing Yaz toolkit

• metashell

  homebrew · Free

  Metaprogramming shell for C++ templates

• metis

  homebrew · Free

  Programs that partition graphs and order matrices

• metricbeat

  homebrew · Free

  Collect metrics from your systems and services

• metview

  homebrew · Free

  Meteorological workstation software

• mfcuk

  homebrew · Free

  MiFare Classic Universal toolKit

• mfem

  homebrew · Free

  Free, lightweight, scalable C++ library for FEM

• mfoc

  homebrew · Free

  Implementation of 'offline nested' attack by Nethemba

• mfterm

  homebrew · Free

  Terminal for working with Mifare Classic 1-4k Tags

• mftrace

  homebrew · Free

  Trace TeX bitmap font to PFA, PFB, or TTF font

• mg

  homebrew · Free

  Small Emacs-like editor

• mgba

  homebrew · Free

  Game Boy Advance emulator

• mgis

  homebrew · Free

  Provide tools to handle MFront generic interface behaviours

• mhash

  homebrew · Free

  Uniform interface to a large number of hash algorithms

• mhonarc

  homebrew · Free

  Mail-to-HTML converter

• miasma

  homebrew · Free

  Trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit

• micasa

  homebrew · Free

  TUI for tracking home projects, maintenance schedules, appliances and quotes

• micro

  homebrew · Free

  Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

• micro_inetd

  homebrew · Free

  Simple network service spawner

• micromamba

  homebrew · Free

  Fast Cross-Platform Package Manager

• micronaut

  homebrew · Free

  Modern JVM-based framework for building modular microservices

• microplane

  homebrew · Free

  CLI tool to make git changes across many repos

• micropython

  homebrew · Free

  Python implementation for microcontrollers and constrained systems

• microsocks

  homebrew · Free

  Tiny, portable SOCKS5 server with very moderate resource usage

• midicsv

  homebrew · Free

  Convert MIDI audio files to human-readable CSV format

• midnight-commander

  homebrew · Free

  Terminal-based visual file manager

• mighttpd2

  homebrew · Free

  HTTP server

• mihomo

  homebrew · Free

  Another rule-based tunnel in Go, formerly known as ClashMeta

• mikutter

  homebrew · Free

  Extensible Twitter client

• mill

  homebrew · Free

  Fast, scalable JVM build tool

• miller

  homebrew · Free

  Like sed, awk, cut, join & sort for name-indexed data such as CSV

• millet

  homebrew · Free

  Language server for Standard ML (SML)

• mimalloc

  homebrew · Free

  Compact general purpose allocator

• mimic

  homebrew · Free

  Lightweight text-to-speech engine based on CMU Flite

• mimirtool

  homebrew · Free

  CLI for interacting with Grafana Mimir

• mimo-code

  homebrew · Free

  AI coding agent with cross-session memory

• min-lang

  homebrew · Free

  Small but practical concatenative programming language and shell

• minder

  homebrew · Free

  CLI for interacting with Stacklok's Minder platform

• mingw-w64

  homebrew · Free

  Minimalist GNU for Windows and GCC cross-compilers

• miniaudio

  homebrew · Free

  Audio playback and capture library

• minibwa

  homebrew · Free

  Successor of BWA-MEM for short-read alignment

• minica

  homebrew · Free

  Small, simple certificate authority

• minicom

  homebrew · Free

  Menu-driven communications program

• minidjvu

  homebrew · Free

  DjVu multipage encoder, single page encoder/decoder

• minidlna

  homebrew · Free

  Media server software, compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients

• miniflux

  homebrew · Free

  Minimalist and opinionated feed reader

• minify

  homebrew · Free

  Minifier for HTML, CSS, JS, JSON, SVG, and XML

• minigraph

  homebrew · Free

  Proof-of-concept seq-to-graph mapper and graph generator

• minijinja-cli

  homebrew · Free

  Render Jinja2 templates directly from the command-line to stdout

• minikube

  homebrew · Free

  Run a Kubernetes cluster locally