A list of awesome developer tools and apps that I use.
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Alacritty - A minimalist, high-performance GPU rendered terminal emulator. Free OSS
Antigravity - An agent-first AI development environment from Google for delegating coding tasks to autonomous agents. Free AI
Antimicrox - Assign game controller input to keys on the computer. Free OSS
Blender - A piece of free and open source software that enables a full pipeline for people wanting to build useful items with 3d in computing, Free OSS
Bottles - Software that is helping manage windows software running on linux with a great GUI. Free OSS
Cursor - An AI-powered code editor for codebase-aware chat, edits, and agentic development workflows. Free AI
Flameshot - Cross-platform screenshots with various annotation features. Free OSS 🌟
Ghostty - A novel terminal emulator built in Zig that combines performance and feature set. Free OSS
Gimp - A free and open source alternative to Photoshop. Free OSS
Godot - A free and open source game engine that allows to create both 2d and 3d games intuitively. Free OSS
Kiro IDE - An agentic AI IDE from AWS built around specs, plans, and structured coding workflows. Free AI
LMMS - A DAW with advanced features for power users, fully open source and free. Free OSS
LocalSend - A simple, effective way to send arbitrary files and data over a network. Free OSS
Logseq - A knowledge base creation application that will help to streamline ideas and parts of daily work to make accessing the knowledge easier. Free OSS
Neovide - A simple, no-nonsense, cross-platform graphical user interface for Neovim. Free OSS
OBS Studio - A popular open source tool to record and stream customizable video recordings. Free OSS
Rawtherapee - A great RAW editor and open source alternative to Lightroom Free OSS
Recordly - An open source screen recording application aimed at the use case of demo/product videos Free OSS
Responsively - A must-have tool for developers that enables simple and easy testing for multiple device types Free OSS
Scrcpy - Application that allows for the control of android devices from desktop operating systems. Free OSS
Shotcut - A video editor that is built for heavy users and is open to the public for easy use. Free OSS
Syncthing - Syncthing is a P2P file synchronization utility, designed to sync files between devices over LAN or the Internet. Free OSS
VeraCrypt - Popular open source tool that facilitates filesystem-level encryption. Free OSS
Visual Studio Code - The most popular code editor of the past decade. Free
Vlc - A media player for multiple platforms, with support for local and remote video and audio. Free OSS
VSCodium - A fully open source licensed and usable build of VSCode, which by default has closed-source binaries Free OSS 🌟
WezTerm - WezTerm is a powerful cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust. Free OSS
Windows Terminal - It is a multi-tabbed terminal emulator developed by Microsoft for Windows 10+ as a replacement for Windows Console. Free OSS
Windsurf - An AI-powered IDE for code generation, context-aware edits, and agentic software development. Free AI
Xournalpp - A pdf editor that allows for custom annotations on top of a pdf canvas. Free OSS
Zed - A fast collaborative code editor with built-in AI integrations and agent support. Free OSS AI
Act - Run GitHub Actions workflows locally, useful for testing CI before pushing. Free OSS
Age - A simple modern file encryption tool with small keys and unix-style usage. Free OSS
Agg - A command line tool to turn asciinema terminal recordings into animated GIF files. Free OSS
Algernon - An open source web server with rendering markown and much more out of the box. Free OSS
Android Debug Bridge - The official command line tool to manipulate and debug android devices/applications. Free OSS
Aria2 - A command line downloader with fast speeds Free OSS 🌟
Asciinema - Record terminal sessions and share them as lightweight text-based recordings. Free OSS
Bat - A cat alternative with syntax highlighting and much more. Free OSS
Broot - A modern tree alternative, with many more features than its predecessor. Free OSS
Cava - A audio visualizer for the terminal, with loads of features Free OSS
Cheat.sh - A cheatsheet source that can be accessed from the cli, that provides a massive cheatsheet library from multiple sources. Works best from a unix-like os, but can be used with curl/wget/httpie Free OSS
Chezmoi - A dotfile manager with a high number of features and tools to make managing dotfiles easy Free OSS 🌟
Claude Code - Anthropic’s agentic command-line coding tool for delegating software tasks from the terminal. AI
Cline CLI - An AI coding agent interface for planning, editing, and running development tasks with user approval. Free OSS AI
Cmus - A command line music player. Does its 1 job extremely well, following the UNIX philosophy. Free OSS
Continue CLI - A command-line interface for Continue’s open-source AI coding assistant and agent workflows. Free OSS AI
Copilot CLI - A GitHub CLI extension that uses Copilot to explain commands and suggest shell commands. Free AI
Croc - An open source solution to transfer files quickly and easily between systems, and a relay is very easily self-hostable. Free OSS
Curl - A classic command line tool to transfer data with URLs, useful for testing and downloading from the internet. Free OSS
Delta - A tool to see differences between text files. Free OSS
Dive - A tool to inspect docker image layers and see what is taking up space. Free OSS
Duf - A df alternative that is fast and informative. Free OSS
Dust - An alternative to du to see storage usage. Free OSS
Eget - A utility to quickly install prebuilt binaries from GitHub releases. Free OSS
Exa - A fast and modern alternative for the ls command. Free OSS
Fastfetch - A fast neofetch-like tool that prints system information with lots of customization. Free OSS
Fd - A modern alternative to the find command. Free OSS
Ffmpeg - A extremely useful console application to work with videos and audio. Free OSS
Freeze - Make good-looking images of code snippets and terminal output from the command line. Free OSS
Fzf - A fuzzy finder that can be used in many environments, from vim to cd’ing Free OSS
Gemini CLI - Google’s open-source AI agent for bringing Gemini into terminal coding workflows. Free OSS AI
Gh - The official github cli. Now you can use github without even opening a browser! Free OSS 🌟
Git - An amazing and highly used version control system. Free OSS 🌟
Gitui - A terminal git interface for browsing history, staging changes, and managing commits without leaving the shell. Free OSS
Glow - A markdown renderer for the command line. Free OSS
GnuPG - A full encryption and signing tool implementing OpenPGP for files, messages, and keys. Free OSS
Goose - Block’s open-source local AI agent for coding, automation, and tool-using workflows. Free OSS AI
GoReleaser - Automates building and publishing releases for Go projects across multiple platforms. Free OSS
Gource - A source control visualization tool that shows repository history as an animated tree. Free OSS
Gping - Ping with a graph. Free OSS
Gum - A set of terminal UI helpers to make shell scripts interactive and nicer to use. Free OSS
Horcrux - Splits a file into encrypted pieces so recovery can require multiple fragments. Free OSS
Httpie - An http client meant to be used with api’s. Also look at curlie for a more curl-like product, and xh for sending requests. Free OSS 🌟
HTTrack - A website copier that downloads pages and assets for offline browsing and archival. Free OSS
Hyperfine - An insane benchmarking tool to compare speeds . Free OSS
Jq - A parser for all things json Free OSS
Json-server - A cool way to set up a local mock json api for use to mock a real API. Free OSS
Kiro CLI - A command-line companion for Kiro’s spec-driven agentic development workflows. Free AI
Lazydocker - A terminal UI for managing Docker containers, images, volumes, and logs in one place. Free OSS
Lazygit - A terminal UI for Git that makes staging, commits, branches, and history easier to handle. Free OSS
Llama.cpp - A lightweight inference stack for running large language models locally across many platforms. Free OSS AI
Lychee - A link checker for markup formats Free OSS
Miniserve - Serve files over HTTP quickly from the command line with a simple temporary file server. Free OSS
Mise - A dev environment manager for tool versions, tasks, and environment variables. Free OSS
Monolith - Save a web page and its assets into one self-contained HTML file. Free OSS
Mpv - This tool is almost like VLC, but for the cli, in the sense that it can play most of everything you throw at it, even twitch streams, and even supports ascii output! Free OSS
Neovim - A modernized Vim fork with better defaults for plugins, terminals, remote UIs, and scripting. Free OSS
Onefetch - Neofetch, but for git repositories, showing project stats and metadata right in the terminal. Free OSS
OpenAI Codex - OpenAI’s open-source terminal coding agent for editing, running, and reasoning over codebases. Free OSS AI
Opencode - An open-source terminal AI coding agent with a TUI for planning and editing code. Free OSS AI
OpenSSH - Secure shell tools for remote login, file transfer, and encrypted network connections. Free OSS
Pandoc - A universal document converter that can move text between markdown, HTML, LaTeX, docx, PDF workflows, and much more. Free OSS
Pastel - Manipulate and edit colors on the cli Free OSS
Pdm - A python dependency manger with support for pyproject.toml, a modern alternative for setup.py Free OSS
Poetry - A depnedency manager for python that is miles ahead of pip or other apps. Free OSS
Radare2 - A tool that is more than a hex editor, a full fledged cli debugger. Free OSS
Rclone - Manage and sync files across cloud storage providers and local filesystems from the command line. Free OSS
Restic - A cross platform backup system with many features regarding security and general use. Free OSS 🌟
Ripgrep - Modern alternative to grep. It is much faster than what it tries to replace. Free OSS
Ruff - A very fast Python linter and formatter written in Rust. Free OSS
Rye - A Python project and package management tool for handling interpreters, dependencies, and virtual environments. Free OSS
Sd - A modern alternative to what sed has to offer. Free OSS
Sha256sum - Verify file integrity by calculating and checking SHA-256 hashes. Free OSS
SingleFile - Save a complete webpage into a single HTML file for offline viewing or archival. Free OSS
Soft-serve - A selfhosted git server accessible from the terminal. Free OSS
Taskwarrior - A streamlined task manager on the cli. Free OSS
Tealdeer - A client for the tldr pages that uses a cache approach, and allows for offline use and custom pages, making it my personal favorite tldr client. Free OSS 🌟
Tectonic - A modern TeX engine that downloads needed packages and builds LaTeX documents. Free OSS
Termux - A terminal emulator and Linux environment for Android, with packages and shell tools. Free OSS
TeX Live - A large TeX distribution with LaTeX, related programs, fonts, and documentation. Free OSS
Timg - An ascii image and GIF viewer for the command line, with many options to enhance viewing. Free OSS
Tldr - A simpler to read and easier to read community-based alternative to manpages Free OSS
Tmux - A very useful terminal multiplexer to multitask as well as improve productivity. Free OSS 🌟
Free OSSTokei - Show code statistics quickly, including language breakdowns, files, comments, and lines. Free OSS
Topgrade - A full command line update system Free OSS
Typst - A modern markup-based typesetting system for creating documents without as much LaTeX ceremony. Free OSS
Ubi - A universal binary installer for downloading and installing prebuilt releases from GitHub. Free OSS
UPX - Compress executable files while keeping them runnable. Free OSS
Uv - A very fast Python package and project manager written in Rust. Free OSS
VHS - Terminal recorder with configuration rather than recording. Free OSS
Viddy - A modern watch command with scrollback, diffs, and time-machine style history. Free OSS
Watchexec - Run commands automatically when files change, useful for rebuilds and local dev loops. Free OSS
Wget - A reliable command line downloader for web pages and files, including recursive downloads. Free OSS
Xh - A friendly and fast HTTP request tool, similar to HTTPie but written in Rust. Free OSS
Yt-dlp - An awesome alternative to yt-dlp with a lot of improvements, and even sponsorblock support Free OSS 🌟
Zellij - A terminal workspace and multiplexer for panes, tabs, and shareable layouts. Free OSS
Zoxide - A modern alternative to cd that allows for quick movement and remembering directories. Free OSS
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Free OSSDistrobox - A tool used to spin up multiple operating systems with access to your home sirectory and leverages container technologies like podman and docker to do so. Free OSS
Docker - A open tool for containerization, to run applications on multiple places the same. Free OSS 🌟
Free OSSGitHub Copilot - GitHub’s AI coding assistant for completions, chat, and agentic software development workflows. Free AI
KVM - Linux kernel virtualization support for running virtual machines with hardware acceleration. Free OSS
OpenClaw - An open-source autonomous AI assistant framework for running persistent agents through messaging and tool integrations. Free OSS AI
Podman - Another container manager, known as podman, that uses a non-root system with no daemon and a focus on the lifetime of containers. Free OSS
QEMU - A machine emulator and virtualizer for running operating systems and different architectures. Free OSS
Vagrant - A source-available tool to provision reproducible isolated development environments using a variety of backend providers. Free
X11docker - Run GUI applications or desktops in Docker and Podman containers with a security focus. Free OSS
Bash-it - A full featured bash frameworks that comes with batteries and a plugin system out of the box. Free OSS
Hugo - A fast static site generator for building websites from content and templates. Free OSS
MdBook - A tool to build online books and documentation from Markdown files. Free OSS
Oh-my-bash - Another bash framework which tries to replicate oh-my-zsh for bash. Free OSS
Pocketbase - A small backend in a single executable with database, auth, file storage, and an admin UI. Free OSS
Caddy - A web server and reverse proxy with automatic HTTPS as a major built-in feature. Free OSS
Code-server - Run VS Code on a server and use it from a browser. Free OSS
Dufs - A simple file server with uploads, search, access control, and WebDAV support. Free OSS
File Browser - A selfhosted web file manager for browsing, uploading, and managing server files. Free OSS
Phpmyadmin - Web UI for managing MySQL and MariaDB databases without living in the database shell. Free OSS
Ttyd - Share a terminal over the web through a small selfhosted server. Free OSS
Uptime-kuma - A selfhosted uptime monitor with status pages and notification integrations. Free OSS 🌟
Awesome Cheatsheets - A collection of cheat sheets for programming languages, frameworks, and dev tools. Free OSS
Awesome Lists - A huge index of curated awesome lists across many software and learning topics. Free OSS
Build Your Own X - A collection of tutorials for learning by rebuilding tools like shells, databases, and emulators. Free OSS
Carbon - A tool to make beautiful pictures of code. Free OSS 🌟
Cloud Shell - A theia-like IDE to run code in a full-featured web ide, with 5gb of storage. Free 🌟
Draw.io - An open source whiteboard and diagramming tool that I use to plan projects and sketch outlines. Free OSS
Excalidraw - An open source web whiteboard. I personally use it for notes. Free OSS
Farside - A redirection service that allows to load balance and choose between multiple privacy friendly alternative frontends Free OSS
Free-prog-books - A resource to find free books relating to tech. Free OSS 🌟
Github1s - A tool to show the structure of github repositories, as if viewing them in VSCode. Free OSS
Gitpod - A cloud dev environment to build a place to code in in no time! Free OSS 🌟
Hacker News - A news source for tech and other related topics. Free
Introduction to programming and CS basics - A good video about the basics of CS, a great reference video. Free
Laws of Software Engineering - A collection of short software engineering principles and tradeoffs worth remembering. Free
Modern-unix-commands - A set of modern linux alternatives for older commands. Free OSS
Project Based Learning - A curated list of programming tutorials that teach by building real projects. Free OSS
Project Ideas and Resources - A list of app ideas with project goals, user stories, and resources for practice. Free OSS
Roadmap.sh - Developer roadmaps and guides for learning skills across different tech roles. Free OSS
The Algorithms - A reference collection of algorithms and data structures implemented in many languages. Free OSS
Tldraw - Another open source whiteboard app with a simpler overall model. Free OSS
Free OSSHopefully, you found some use out of this list, whether it be a tool, resource, or application that you needed in your workflow.