CLI — independent software & tools

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

• mtm

  homebrew · Free

  Micro terminal multiplexer

• mtools

  homebrew · Free

  Tools for manipulating MSDOS files

• mtr

  homebrew · Free

  'traceroute' and 'ping' in a single tool

• mu

  homebrew · Free

  Tool for searching e-mail messages stored in the maildir-format

• mu-repo

  homebrew · Free

  Tool to work with multiple git repositories

• mubeng

  homebrew · Free

  Incredibly fast proxy checker & IP rotator with ease

• mufetch

  homebrew · Free

  Neofetch-style music cli

• muffet

  homebrew · Free

  Fast website link checker in Go

• mujs

  homebrew · Free

  Embeddable Javascript interpreter

• multi-git-status

  homebrew · Free

  Show uncommitted, untracked and unpushed changes for multiple Git repos

• multi-gitter

  homebrew · Free

  Update multiple repositories in with one command

• multimarkdown

  homebrew · Free

  Turn marked-up plain text into well-formatted documents

• multitail

  homebrew · Free

  Tail multiple files in one terminal simultaneously

• multitime

  homebrew · Free

  Time command execution over multiple executions

• mummer

  homebrew · Free

  Genome alignment tool

• muon

  homebrew · Free

  Meson-compatible build system

• muparser

  homebrew · Free

  C++ math expression parser library

• mupen64plus

  homebrew · Free

  Cross-platform plugin-based N64 emulator

• murex

  homebrew · Free

  Bash-like shell designed for greater command-line productivity and safer scripts

• musikcube

  homebrew · Free

  Terminal-based audio engine, library, player and server

• mussh

  homebrew · Free

  Multi-host SSH wrapper

• mutt

  homebrew · Free

  Mongrel of mail user agents (part elm, pine, mush, mh, etc.)

• mvfst

  homebrew · Free

  QUIC transport protocol implementation

• mvnvm

  homebrew · Free

  Maven version manager

• mx

  homebrew · Free

  Command-line tool used for the development of Graal projects

• mycli

  homebrew · Free

  CLI for MySQL with auto-completion and syntax highlighting

• mycorrhiza

  homebrew · Free

  Lightweight wiki engine with hierarchy support

• mydumper

  homebrew · Free

  MySQL logical backup tool

• myman

  homebrew · Free

  Text-mode videogame inspired by Namco's Pac-Man

• mypaint-brushes

  homebrew · Free

  Brushes used by MyPaint and other software using libmypaint

• mypy

  homebrew · Free

  Experimental optional static type checker for Python

• mysql

  homebrew · Free

  Open source relational database management system

• mysql++

  homebrew · Free

  C++ wrapper for MySQL's C API

• mysql-connector-c++

  homebrew · Free

  MySQL database connector for C++ applications

• mysql-search-replace

  homebrew · Free

  Database search and replace script in PHP

• mysql-to-sqlite3

  homebrew · Free

  Transfer data from MySQL to SQLite

• mysqltuner

  homebrew · Free

  Increase performance and stability of a MySQL installation

• n

  homebrew · Free

  Node version management

• n8n-mcp

  homebrew · Free

  MCP for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cursor to build n8n workflows

• naabu

  homebrew · Free

  Fast port scanner

• nacl

  homebrew · Free

  Network communication, encryption, decryption, signatures library

• naga

  homebrew · Free

  Terminal implementation of the Snake game

• naga-cli

  homebrew · Free

  Shader translation command-line tool

• nagios

  homebrew · Free

  Network monitoring and management system

• nagios-plugins

  homebrew · Free

  Plugins for the nagios network monitoring system

• nak

  homebrew · Free

  CLI for doing all things nostr

• nali

  homebrew · Free

  Tool for querying IP geographic information and CDN provider

• name-that-hash

  homebrew · Free

  Modern hash identification system

• naml

  homebrew · Free

  Convert Kubernetes YAML to Golang

• nano

  homebrew · Free

  Free (GNU) replacement for the Pico text editor

• nanoarrow

  homebrew · Free

  Helpers for Arrow C Data & Arrow C Stream interfaces

• nanobind

  homebrew · Free

  Tiny and efficient C++/Python bindings

• nanobot

  homebrew · Free

  Build MCP Agents

• nanoflann

  homebrew · Free

  Header-only library for Nearest Neighbor search with KD-trees

• nanomsg

  homebrew · Free

  Socket library in C

• nanomsgxx

  homebrew · Free

  Nanomsg binding for C++11

• nanopb

  homebrew · Free

  C library for encoding and decoding Protocol Buffer messages

• nanorc

  homebrew · Free

  Improved Nano Syntax Highlighting Files

• nap

  homebrew · Free

  Code snippets in your terminal

• nasm

  homebrew · Free

  Netwide Assembler (NASM) is an 80x86 assembler