CLI — independent software & tools

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

• backlog-md

  homebrew · Free

  Markdown‑native Task Manager & Kanban visualizer for any Git repository

• backplane-cli

  homebrew · Free

  CLI for interacting with the OpenShift Backplane API

• backupninja

  homebrew · Free

  Backup automation tool

• bacon

  homebrew · Free

  Background rust code check

• bacon-ls

  homebrew · Free

  Rust diagnostic provider based on Bacon

• bacula-fd

  homebrew · Free

  Network backup solution

• badkeys

  homebrew · Free

  Tool to find common vulnerabilities in cryptographic public keys

• badread

  homebrew · Free

  Long read simulator that can imitate many types of read problems

• bagel

  homebrew · Free

  CLI to audit posture and evaluate compromise blast radius

• bagels

  homebrew · Free

  Powerful expense tracker that lives in your terminal

• bagit

  homebrew · Free

  Library for creation, manipulation, and validation of bags

• baguette

  homebrew · Free

  Headless iOS Simulator manager and host-side input injection for iOS 26

• baidupcs-go

  homebrew · Free

  Terminal utility for Baidu Network Disk

• balena-cli

  homebrew · Free

  Command-line tool for interacting with the balenaCloud and balena API

• ballerburg

  homebrew · Free

  Castle combat game

• ballerina

  homebrew · Free

  Programming Language for Network Distributed Applications

• bam

  homebrew · Free

  Build system that uses Lua to describe the build process

• bamtools

  homebrew · Free

  C++ API and command-line toolkit for BAM data

• bandcamp-dl

  homebrew · Free

  Simple python script to download Bandcamp albums

• bandicoot

  homebrew · Free

  C++ library for GPU accelerated linear algebra

• bandit

  homebrew · Free

  Security-oriented static analyser for Python code

• bandwhich

  homebrew · Free

  Terminal bandwidth utilization tool

• bao

  homebrew · Free

  Implementation of BLAKE3 verified streaming

• baobab

  homebrew · Free

  Gnome disk usage analyzer

• bar

  homebrew · Free

  Provide progress bars for shell scripts

• bareos-client

  homebrew · Free

  Client for Bareos (Backup Archiving REcovery Open Sourced)

• baresip

  homebrew · Free

  Modular SIP useragent

• barman

  homebrew · Free

  Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL

• bartib

  homebrew · Free

  Simple timetracker for the command-line

• bartycrouch

  homebrew · Free

  Incrementally update/translate your Strings files

• bas55

  homebrew · Free

  Minimal BASIC programming language interpreter as defined by ECMA-55

• base16384

  homebrew · Free

  Encode binary files to printable utf16be

• base64

  homebrew · Free

  Encode and decode base64 files

• base91

  homebrew · Free

  Utility to encode and decode base91 files

• basedpyright

  homebrew · Free

  Pyright fork with various improvements and built-in pylance features

• basex

  homebrew · Free

  Light-weight XML database and XPath/XQuery processor

• bash

  homebrew · Free

  Bourne-Again SHell, a UNIX command interpreter

• bash-completion

  homebrew · Free

  Programmable completion for Bash 3.2

• bash-completion@2

  homebrew · Free

  Programmable completion for Bash 4.2+

• bash-git-prompt

  homebrew · Free

  Informative, fancy bash prompt for Git users

• bash-language-server

  homebrew · Free

  Language Server for Bash

• bash-preexec

  homebrew · Free

  Preexec and precmd functions for Bash (like Zsh)

• bash-snippets

  homebrew · Free

  Collection of small bash scripts for heavy terminal users

• bash_unit

  homebrew · Free

  Bash unit testing enterprise edition framework for professionals

• bashate

  homebrew · Free

  Code style enforcement for bash programs

• bashdb

  homebrew · Free

  Bash shell debugger

• bashish

  homebrew · Free

  Theme environment for text terminals

• bashunit

  homebrew · Free

  Simple testing library for bash scripts

• basis_universal

  homebrew · Free

  Basis Universal GPU texture codec command-line compression tool

• bastet

  homebrew · Free

  Bastard Tetris

• basti

  homebrew · Free

  Securely connect to RDS, Elasticache, and other AWS resources in VPCs

• bat

  homebrew · Free

  Clone of cat(1) with syntax highlighting and Git integration

• bat-extras

  homebrew · Free

  Bash scripts that integrate bat with various command-line tools

• batik

  homebrew · Free

  Java-based toolkit for SVG images

• bats-core

  homebrew · Free

  Bash Automated Testing System

• batt

  homebrew · Free

  Control and limit battery charging on Apple Silicon MacBooks

• bazarr

  homebrew · Free

  Companion to Sonarr and Radarr for managing and downloading subtitles

• bazel

  homebrew · Free

  Google's own build tool

• bazel-diff

  homebrew · Free

  Performs Bazel Target Diffing between two revisions in Git

• bazel-remote

  homebrew · Free

  Remote cache for Bazel