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This repository curates command-line applications across different categories.
About Awesome CLI Apps
Awesome CLI Apps is a curated list of command-line applications hosted on GitHub. It groups entries by task, such as music, video, movies, games, books, chat, development, productivity, utilities, and file handling, with a brief description of each tool.
Examples include newsboat for RSS feeds, cmus and mpd for music playback, youtube-dl and yt-dlp for video downloads, and WeeChat, irssi, signal-cli and tlgr for chat.
Key features
- Groups command-line apps by category with table of contents
- Lists music players and managers including cmus, mpd, and beets
- Lists video download and playback tools including youtube-dl and mpv
- Lists chat clients for IRC, Signal, Telegram, and Discord
- Lists development helpers for licenses, gitignore files, and diffs
- Lists file tools for managers, disk usage, sync, and search
Best for: Best for people who use the terminal and want to find command-line tools for specific tasks.
Good for
- Covers many categories from entertainment to development and utilities
- Gives a short description of what each listed app does
- Organized by task type for browsing
Awesome CLI Apps at a glance
- Category
- Software & Utilities › System Utilities
- Type
- Open-source project
- Pricing
- Not confirmed. Check the site
- Open source
- Not stated
- Language
- English
- Last checked
- Oct 5, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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