Best CLI Tools & Terminal Tools for Rust

41 curated cli tools & terminal tools for Rust developers, ranked by quality score.

61Good

Alacritty

The fastest terminal emulator, GPU-accelerated and minimal

Active62.7kopen-source

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58Fair

bat

A cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration

Active57.4kopen-source

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58Fair

Helix

A post-modern modal text editor with built-in LSP support

Active43.2kopen-source

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56Fair

Nushell

A new type of shell that works with structured data

Active38.6kopen-source

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53Fair

fish

A smart and user-friendly command line shell

Active32.8kopen-source

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53Fair

yazi

💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.

Active33.3kopen-source

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51Fair

delta

Beautiful syntax-highlighted diffs for Git and the terminal

Active29.3kopen-source

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51Fair

Zellij

A modern terminal multiplexer with batteries included

Active29.6kopen-source

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42Fair

hyperfine

A command-line benchmarking tool with statistical analysis

Active27.6kopen-source

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37Emerging

Chess Tui

Play chess from your terminal 🦀

Active973open-source

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36Emerging

Filessh

A fast and convenient TUI file browser for remote servers

Active207open-source

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36Emerging

tylax

A bi-directional converter between Typst and LaTeX. Available as both a CLI tool and a Web interface.

Active238open-source

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36Emerging

Repeat

Spaced repetition, in your terminal

Active363open-source

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35Emerging

Gitlogue

A cinematic Git commit replay tool for the terminal, turning your Git history into a living, animated story.

Active4.3kopen-source

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34Emerging

Taws

Terminal UI for AWS (taws) - A terminal-based AWS resource viewer and manager

Active2.1kopen-source

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33Emerging

mermaid-rs-renderer

A fast native Rust Mermaid diagram renderer. No browser required. 500-1000x faster than mermaid-cli.

Active1.0kopen-source

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33Emerging

ttl

Fast, modern traceroute with real-time TUI, per-hop stats, ASN/geo lookup, ECMP detection, and MPLS label parsing. A ...

Active799open-source

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33Emerging

Treemd

A (TUI/CLI) markdown navigator with tree-based structural navigation.

Active551open-source

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33Emerging

Ekphos

A lightweight, fast, terminal-based markdown research tool inspired by Obsidian

Active843open-source

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33Emerging

Work Tuimer

Simple, keyboard-driven TUI for time-tracking that allows you to quickly add time blocks and automatically group time...

Active254open-source

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33Emerging

Dz6

A vim-inspired, TUI-based hexadecimal editor

Active105open-source

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33Emerging

Cloudflare Speed Cli

CLI for internet speed test via cloudflare

Active737open-source

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33Emerging

Superseedr

A Rust BitTorrent Client in your Terminal

Active520open-source

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33Emerging

Tsql

🐘 tsql — A modern PostgreSQL manager TUI

Active371open-source

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32Emerging

Tokuin

CLI tool – estimates LLM tokens/costs and runs provider-aware load tests for OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, or custom...

Active118open-source

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32Emerging

Blogr

Write, edit, and publish your blog without ever leaving your terminal!

Active326open-source

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30Emerging

bluetui

🛜 TUI for managing bluetooth on Linux

Active2.6kopen-source

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30Emerging

impala

🛜 TUI for managing wifi on Linux

Active2.4kopen-source

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29Emerging

rip

Fuzzy find and kill processes from your terminal

Active427open-source

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29Emerging

talos-pilot

Talos TUI for real-time node monitoring, log streaming, etcd health, and diagnostics

Active200open-source

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29Emerging

flow

A keyboard-first Kanban board for your terminal workflows

Active155open-source

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29Emerging

Chroma

🌈 Shader-based audio visualizer for the terminal

Active165open-source

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28Emerging

Toktop

llm usage monitor in terminal

Slowing156open-source

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28Emerging

Needle

TUI that highlights the GitHub PRs that need you

Slowing139open-source

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28Emerging

Hindsight

GitHub-style git activity visualizer for your terminal.

Slowing91open-source

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25Emerging

miditui

An interactive terminal app/UI for MIDI composing, mixing, and playback—written in Rust

Slowing182open-source

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25Emerging

Tui Piechart

A customizable pie chart widget for Rust TUI applications.

Slowing60open-source

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25Emerging

Install Nothing

A terminal application that simulates installing things but doesn't actually install anything

Slowing1.3kopen-source

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25Emerging

Reddix

Reddix – Reddit, refined for the terminal.

Slowing918open-source

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19Emerging

Dockrtui

A fast, modern and keyboard-driven terminal dashboard for Docker — built with Rust and Ratatui

Slowing111open-source

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19Emerging

Devstrip

devstrip is a lightweight CLI that frees developer disk space by pruning stale build artifacts and caches on macOS.

Slowing56open-source

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