CLI — independent software & tools

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

• qt

  homebrew · Free

  Cross-platform application and UI framework

• qtads

  homebrew · Free

  TADS multimedia interpreter

• qthreads

  homebrew · Free

  Lightweight locality-aware user-level threading runtime

• qtkeychain

  homebrew · Free

  Platform-independent Qt API for storing passwords securely

• quadcastrgb

  homebrew · Free

  Set RGB lights on HyperX QuadCast S and Duocast microphones

• quantlib

  homebrew · Free

  Library for quantitative finance

• quantum++

  homebrew · Free

  Modern C++ quantum computing library

• quartz-wm

  homebrew · Free

  XQuartz window-manager

• quasi88

  homebrew · Free

  PC-8801 emulator

• quazip

  homebrew · Free

  C++ wrapper over Gilles Vollant's ZIP/UNZIP package

• questdb

  homebrew · Free

  Time Series Database

• quex

  homebrew · Free

  Generate lexical analyzers

• quick-lint-js

  homebrew · Free

  Find bugs in your JavaScript code

• quickjs

  homebrew · Free

  Small and embeddable JavaScript engine

• quickjs-ng

  homebrew · Free

  QuickJS, the Next Generation: a mighty JavaScript engine

• quicktype

  homebrew · Free

  Generate types and converters from JSON, Schema, and GraphQL

• quictls

  homebrew · Free

  TLS/SSL and crypto library with QUIC APIs

• quien

  homebrew · Free

  Better WHOIS and domain intelligence toolkit

• quill

  homebrew · Free

  C++17 Asynchronous Low Latency Logging Library

• quilt

  homebrew · Free

  Work with series of patches

• quilt-installer

  homebrew · Free

  Installer for Quilt for the vanilla launcher

• quint

  homebrew · Free

  Core tool for the Quint specification language

• quint

  homebrew · Free

  Core tool for the Quint specification language

• quotatool

  homebrew · Free

  Edit disk quotas from the command-line

• quran

  homebrew · Free

  Print Qur'an chapters and verses right in the terminal

• qwen-code

  homebrew · Free

  AI-powered command-line workflow tool for developers

• qwt

  homebrew · Free

  Qt Widgets for Technical Applications

• qxmpp

  homebrew · Free

  Cross-platform C++ XMPP client and server library

• r

  homebrew · Free

  Software environment for statistical computing

• r-rig

  homebrew · Free

  R Installation Manager

• r3

  homebrew · Free

  High-performance URL router library

• rabbitmq

  homebrew · Free

  Messaging and streaming broker

• rabbitmq-c

  homebrew · Free

  C AMQP client library for RabbitMQ

• rabbitmqadmin

  homebrew · Free

  Command-line tool for RabbitMQ that uses the HTTP API

• rad

  homebrew · Free

  Modern CLI scripts made easy

• radamsa

  homebrew · Free

  Test case generator for robustness testing (a.k.a. a "fuzzer")

• radare2

  homebrew · Free

  Reverse engineering framework

• radicle

  homebrew · Free

  Sovereign code forge built on Git

• radvd

  homebrew · Free

  IPv6 Router Advertisement Daemon

• rage

  homebrew · Free

  Simple, modern, secure file encryption

• ragel

  homebrew · Free

  State machine compiler

• rails-mcp-server

  homebrew · Free

  MCP server for Rails applications

• railway

  homebrew · Free

  Develop and deploy code with zero configuration

• rainbarf

  homebrew · Free

  CPU/RAM/battery stats chart bar for tmux (and GNU screen)

• rainfrog

  homebrew · Free

  Database management TUI for PostgreSQL/MySQL/SQLite

• rakudo

  homebrew · Free

  Mature, production-ready implementation of the Raku language

• ralph-orchestrator

  homebrew · Free

  Multi-agent orchestration framework for autonomous AI task completion

• ramalama

  homebrew · Free

  Goal of RamaLama is to make working with AI boring

• rancher-cli

  homebrew · Free

  Unified tool to manage your Rancher server

• rancher-machine

  homebrew · Free

  Machine management for a container-centric world

• rancid

  homebrew · Free

  Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ

• randomize-lines

  homebrew · Free

  Reads and randomize lines from a file (or STDIN)

• range-v3

  homebrew · Free

  Experimental range library for C++14/17/20

• ranger

  homebrew · Free

  File browser

• rapidfuzz-cpp

  homebrew · Free

  Rapid fuzzy string matching in C++ using the Levenshtein Distance

• rapidjson

  homebrew · Free

  JSON parser/generator for C++ with SAX and DOM style APIs

• rapidyaml

  homebrew · Free

  Library to parse and emit YAML, and do it fast

• raptor

  homebrew · Free

  RDF parser toolkit

• rargs

  homebrew · Free

  Util like xargs + awk with pattern matching support

• rarian

  homebrew · Free

  Documentation metadata library