If AI is so great, why aren’t we seeing an explosion of new, amazing software products? If anyone can turn their idea into working software with coding agents, where is all that software? People have been asking this question for years. As far as I can tell, the answer is that it’s spread out over a lot of modestly successful projects.

grep for images – local, offline image search for the terminal.

Flyline is a readline replacement that provides an enhanced line editing experience.

Terminal-first calendar, todo, and journal manager with iCalendar (RFC 5545) support and CalDAV sync — CLI + TUI, local SQLite storage.

Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics, page layout, interface design, word processing, audio, presentations, CAD and spreadsheets. Native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.

A curated collection of open-source TUI apps for developers, operators, and power users.

The UEFI Shell command set, rewritten from scratch

Files, disks, UEFI variables, drivers and devices, PCI/SMBIOS/ACPI, memory, network, editors. UEFI Shell options are accepted too. More than 80 commands are documented in the user manual.

Flyline: a Bash plugin to replace readline for a modern line editing experience: syntax highlighting, agent integration, rich prompts, tooltips, fuzzy history search, and more!

PTY-driven test framework for bash/shell scripts and TUI applications.

TUI SSH client Suite: list-based host selection, parallel sessions, multi-hop proxying, and port forwarding. SSH/SCP/SFTP etc. Written in Go.

A CLI tool that display guitar chords and scales in the terminal. It is built to supports any kind of instrument that has strings with frets.

A fast, lightweight, and feature-rich typing test that runs directly in your terminal.

Inspired by the minimalist design of Monkeytype, tttui provides a clean, distraction-free environment to practice your typing, track your progress, and race against your personal bests.

restmail is a sendmail-compatible CLI using gmail & outlook rest APIs. It can be used for email automation, notifications and with git send-mail for sharing patches.

restmail requires only minimal authorization scope to send mail. No access to reading or deleting mail is needed.

A stylish command-line dictionary tool that fetches definitions, pronunciations, and examples.

A Jupyter notebook client for your terminal. It aims to emulate the functionality of the classic Jupyter notebook. Built on the excellent textual framework with image support from textual-image.

Stop switching contexts. Many AI CLI tools are heavy, Node.js-based, and trap you in their interface. They might go back and forth just to run a simple ls, cutting off real access to your command line.

pls is different: lightweight, fast, and built for everyday CLI tasks, keeping you fully in the command line while letting you seamlessly switch between AI and shell commands.

tiki is a simple and lightweight way to keep your tasks, prompts, documents, ideas, scratchpads in your project git repo.

A terminal-based markdown editor built with Textual (Python TUI framework).

PingDog is an application for monitoring HTTP services and website availability that runs in your console! It provides real-time status monitoring with a clean, interactive interface.