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A 2048 clone that runs in the terminal

Session management for running programs independently of their terminal

Console-based 3D renderer using ASCII characters to display and rotate shapes

ASCII analog clock for text console displays and terminals

Multi-layered ASCII graphics and animation editor

The Silver Searcher - a fast code search tool inspired by ack

User-friendly terminal email client suitable for beginners and power users

ALSA sound mixer with ncurses interface

Minimal music player that composes well with other tools

A free, single-player dungeon exploration game

Reader and converter for the proprietary MS .doc file format

Render the Matrix effect in the terminal with ASCII art overlays

Screensaver for terminals

A compact and intuitive ASCII table in your terminal

A planetarium for your terminal to explore stars, planets, and constellations

TUI performance monitor for Linux with daily activity logging

Historical general-purpose text processing and data extraction tool

The most widespread Unix/Linux system shell

The portable BB ASCII art demo from AAlib

Byte CALculator for storage expressions, conversions, and address calculations

A breadth-first version of the UNIX find command

Base conversion and bit manipulator in ncurses

TUI debugger for x86_64-linux and i8086 programs across platforms

Network monitoring and debugging tool with human-friendly visual statistics

Draw ASCII art boxes around your input text

Command line file renamer with GNU Guile scripting support

Read and control device brightness from the command line

Display images in the terminal using ASCII art characters

A calendar and scheduling application for the command line

Convert Microsoft Word documents to plain text

Cross-platform audio visualizer for the terminal

A bonsai tree generator written in C using ncurses

Rotating 3D cube animation in the terminal, written in C

ncurses file manager written in C with vim-like keybindings

Console front-end to the GNU debugger

Like cowsay, but pronounced by GigaChad

Conway's Game of Life in C for the terminal

Terminal graphics for the 21st century - render images in the terminal

Chess TUI client built for Linux

The safe echo and quoting utility for reliable text output

Shell-like, non-curses terminal file manager written in C

Compact app for creating shell menus with executable entries

Display The Matrix scrolling text effect in your terminal

Fast and lightweight terminal audio player with configurable keybindings

Minimal TUI menu utility similar to dmenu, reads from stdin and writes to stdout

Find compression type and ratio on btrfs file systems

View and control Linux virtual consoles remotely

CPU monitoring TUI for 64-bit processors

Encrypt and decrypt streams of data with a master password

C source code browser - improved fork of Cscope

ncurses-based internet radio player for Linux

A command-line music player

Transfer data with URLs supporting dozens of protocols

Simple, fast HTTP 1.1 web server for static content

POSIX-compliant /bin/sh implementation that aims to be as small as possible

Command-line tools for date and time manipulation and arithmetic

Save deleted files to a .del/ subdirectory instead of removing them

Clean up filenames by replacing spaces, special chars, and UTF-8

Display filesystem space usage with style and color

System information utility for reading DMI/SMBIOS data

A program that emulates the detach feature of screen

Dynamic console window manager for multiple terminal applications

GNU line-oriented text editor, the standard Unix editor

Advanced text-mode web browser with CSS support and background downloads

Extensible, customizable text editor with a massive ecosystem of packages

Run arbitrary commands when files change

Extensible shell with first-class functions and lexical scope based on Plan9 rc

Like Neofetch, but much faster because written in C

A fast, dead-simple socket-based pastebin

The Swiss knife of video editing from the command line

Create large ASCII art text banners from ordinary text

Terminal-based IM client supporting many protocols via libpurple

Security sandbox for restricting untrusted applications on Linux

Interactive text-based user interface for Fossil VCS

Display random quotes and aphorisms from a quotation database

Simple, high-reliability distributed SCM with built-in web interface

Interpreter for Infocom games and Z-machine games

A better fuzzy finder for the terminal

Convert DNA code sequences to RNA sequences

General purpose calculator and mathematics tool

Create, manipulate, and optimize GIF images and animations

The most widely used distributed version control system

Console-based Jabber/XMPP chat client with autocompletion

Tools and libraries for human-editable text-based databases

Complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard

Generate two and three-dimensional plots of data

Real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer with fast HTTP statistics

Simple but powerful terminal Gemini client

Swiss army knife of image processing

Open source graph visualization software with CLI tools

A terminal game where you move and consume numbers in a table

CLI flashcard app for UNIX systems following the UNIX philosophy

World's fastest and most advanced password recovery tool

Manage shell history with visual search and editing capabilities

An interactive process viewer for Unix

Like tree but interactive

Powerful command-line image manipulation and conversion suite

The most popular IRC client for the command line

User-friendly text editor with drop-down menu facility

Create JSON objects from the command line

Compact text editor written in C, great for handling large files

Simple encrypted terminal journaling book

Convert images to ASCII art in the terminal

Command-line JSON processor

JSON parser designed for maximum convenience within the shell

Command-line music player with gapless playback and simple playlist management

A tiny IRC client written in POSIX C99

Fast, feature-rich, GPU-based terminal emulator

Blazingly fast text search with multiple algorithms and SIMD acceleration

KornShell - powerful shell compatible with Bourne Shell with csh features

Protocol-independent ANSI-C ping library and command line utility

Interactive line selection from stdin for pipeline integration

Display the Linux distribution logo in ASCII format

Text-based web browser with tables and frames support

Rotate, compress, and mail system logs

Markdown translator for HTML5, roff, LaTeX, gemini, and terminal output

A native port of Lotus 1-2-3 Release 3 to Linux

Simple no-fuss TUI selection menu for use in scripts

Read the ancient Hebrew Torah from the command line

Userspace interface for Linux kernel containment features

Highly configurable text-based web browser, one of the oldest CLI browsers

Synchronize IMAP mailboxes to local MailDir format

Small XMPP console client with encryption and MUC support

A command-line based Markdown presentation tool

Unix-style note-taking software for POSIX systems

Directory browser and changer for the command line

Classic dual-pane visual file manager for the terminal

A dead simple tool to sign files and verify digital signatures

MirBSD Korn Shell - actively developed free Korn Shell implementation

Fast low-latency terminal with variable-width fonts and bidirectional support

Interactively rename files with your favorite editor

Powerful console audio player with Midnight Commander-style interface

Versatile media player supporting most audio and video formats

Fast command-line MP3 player with no visual interface

Cross-platform media player with minimal UI and excellent format support

Network diagnostic tool combining traceroute and ping

Micro Terminal Multiplexer - simple, stable, and minimalistic

Monitor multiple log files simultaneously in a single terminal

Powerful terminal email client with extensive customization and protocol support

Easy to use, lightweight text editor with on-screen key bindings

ncurses 2048 game for the terminal

Lightweight and responsive file manager written in C

Ncurses UI for QEMU virtual machine management

Feature-rich, patched and up-to-date fork of the Mutt email client

Modernized fork of Vim with better extensibility and Lua scripting

Simple network packet analyzer with real-time and offline ASCII visualization

Classic single-player roguelike dungeon exploration game

Lightweight ncurses feed reader inspired by Newsboat

Network packet grep - match regex against network traffic payloads

Nigel's performance Monitor for Linux systems

The unorthodox terminal file manager that's blazing fast

Recreates the data decryption effect from the 1992 movie Sneakers

Fast, tag-based email indexing and search system

htop-like task monitor for AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA GPUs

Nyancat in your terminal, rendered through ANSI escape sequences

Command-line player for Ogg Vorbis audio files

Portable OpenBSD ksh

ASCII character-based remake of Lode Runner with 150 levels

Music visualizer for tracked music formats, chiptunes, and demoscene formats

Calendar for Unix/Linux with plain text event storage

Choose one option from a set of choices with fuzzy search

Minimal, performant replacement for newsboat's podboat podcast tool

Console-based XMPP client written in C using ncurses

Terminal calculator for programmers working with multiple number representations

Show progress of coreutils commands like cp, mv, dd, tar, rsync

Beautiful TUI periodic table for GNU/Linux terminals

Monitor the progress of data through a pipe

Generic machine and userspace emulator and virtualizer

A more modern man page viewer for the terminal

Extremely small and simple HTTP web server for static content

View AMD GPU utilization for total activity and individual blocks

File finder using C expressions to specify filenames

Powerful calendar with complex event rules and text-based storage

Bulk rename files using regex from util-linux

Rename files and directories interactively by editing in-place

Find and remove duplicate and broken files with reports

Trashcan/recycle bin utility for the command line

A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

Fast, versatile file synchronization and transfer over SSH

Password-protected secret keeper with encryption

The x86 processor fuzzer

Feature-rich ncurses spreadsheet calculator for the terminal

The real screensaver/lock for terminals

Terminal multiplexer that splits a terminal between several processes

Simple command-line screenshot tool for Linux

Simple plain-text presentation tool from suckless

RSS and Atom parser that converts feeds to TAB-separated format

Extremely simple IRC client in less than 250 lines of code

A text-based audio player for UNIX-like operating systems

Synchronize local website copy with a remote FTP server

Make text scroll from right to left in the terminal

Extended Nethack variant with extra features, monsters, and items

Yet another network load monitor

Powerful and versatile CLI selection tool for interactive use

Ncurses SIP message flow viewer

Provide information about files in a directory on Linux

Simple network top for monitoring connectivity

Mount remote filesystems over SSH using FUSE

SSL/SSH multiplexer to share ports between protocols

The classic snake game for the terminal that can play itself as a screensaver

Simple terminal implementation for X from suckless

ASCII steam locomotive animation when you type sl instead of ls

Simple, easy-to-use terminal FTP client

Quickly adjust colors in SVG files by manipulating RGB and HSL values

Find and remedy problematic symbolic links on a system

Simple console Google T-Rex game

Unix batch system for queuing and executing commands sequentially

Enhanced C shell with command completion and editing

Compact ncurses-based spreadsheet with 3D-style and built-in functions

Like tee, but only the tail goes in the file

Gemini client inspired by Emacs and W3M

Command-line interface for Telegram using readline

A multi-language debugger frontend with custom terminal layouts

Undelete files from FAT, exFAT, NTFS, ext2 and recover deleted partitions

Command line King James Bible viewer for Linux

ncurses-based text-mode interface and repository browser for git

Command-line password manager written in C for the Unix shell

Instant terminal sharing via a fork of tmux

Terminal multiplexer for managing multiple sessions

Enhanced FIGlet with Unicode, color fonts, and multiple output formats

Classic Unix utility showing top CPU-using processes in real-time

A Tox-based instant messaging and video chat client

Trashing CLI application for Linux distros, written in C

Display directory structure as a depth-indented tree

Transductive regular expressions for text editing and grep-like searching

Command-line tool for URL parsing and manipulation

Convert ttyrec files into GIF files

Share your terminal over the web

Color-coded graph of system load averages in the terminal

Collection of color schemes for the TTY

Configurable terminal interface sudoku game with many features

Text mode window environment for embedded or remote systems

ncurses-based terminal typing speed test with difficulty levels and cool UI

Typing speed game with words flying across the terminal

Lightweight ACMEv2 client written in plain C with minimal dependencies

ncurses file manager with vim-like keybindings and configuration

Highly configurable modal text editor with a massive plugin ecosystem

Interactive shell for managing libvirt domains, networks, and storage

Modern, legacy-free, vim-like editor with Lua scripting and structural regex

Text-based web browser and pager that can render HTML as plain text

Periodically run a command and display its output, highlighting changes

ncurses-based wireless network monitoring application for Linux

Fast, light, extensible chat client with text-based interface

Monitor logged-in Linux users and their processes in real time

Terminal word processor designed for writing text, not desktop publishing

Native Wayland terminal emulator based on an st fork

Utility for performing operations on .doc files (deprecated)

Read stdin and select a field to copy to the clipboard

POSIX-compliant command line shell written in C99

Read bar codes and QR codes from video streams and image files

Simplest stopwatch in a Linux console

Powerful interactive shell with extensive customization and plugin support

The world's fastest SIMD CSV parser with an extensible CLI