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sharkdp/hyperfine

A command-line benchmarking tool

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#benchmark #cli #command-line #rust #terminal #tool

Updated: 2026-04-30
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2018-01-13
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 101 open

28,918

stars

Forks: 511
Commits: 1,018 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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hcengineering/platform

Huly — All-in-One Project Management Platform (alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack, Notion, Motion)

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Actix Web Electron gRPC Go React Cargo Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#applicant-tracking-system #chat-application #crm #crm-platform #hrms #human-resources

Updated: 2026-08-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2021-08-02
History: 8 history points
License: EPL-2.0
Issues: 847 open

27,596

stars

Forks: 2,141
Commits: 8,951 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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charmbracelet/glow

Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻

Stack

Go Cobra Go modules

GitHub topics

#cli #excitement #hacktoberfest #markdown

Updated: 2026-09-27
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2019-11-04
History: 10 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 235 open

27,527

stars

Forks: 778
Commits: 875 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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GraphiteEditor/Graphite

Community-built comprehensive 2D content creation appplication for graphic design, digital art, and interactive real-time motion graphics powered by a node-based procedural graphics engine

Stack

Rust Svelte Vite Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#2d-graphics #animation #art #creative-coding #design #graphic-design

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-04-26
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 557 open

27,134

stars

Forks: 1,245
Commits: 3,032 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

gpakosz/.tmux

Oh my tmux! My self-contained, pretty & versatile tmux configuration made with 💛🩷💙🖤❤️🤍

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#cli #conf #configuration #console #customization #dotfiles

Updated: 2026-08-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-07-23
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 23 open

25,370

stars

Forks: 3,593
Commits: 540 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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dubinc/dub

The modern link attribution platform. Loved by world-class marketing teams like Framer, Perplexity, Superhuman, Twilio, Buffer and more.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Next.js React Tailwind CSS Vite npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#clickhouse #mysql #nextjs #open-source #planetscale #prisma

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2022-08-26
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 138 open

24,867

stars

Forks: 3,324
Commits: 27,329 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

spicetify/cli

Command-line tool to customize Spotify client. Supports Windows, macOS, and Linux.

AI dev

Stack

JavaScript Svelte Go modules pnpm

GitHub topics

#command-line #command-line-tool #customization #golang #hacktoberfest #linux

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-12-01
History: 11 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 12 open

24,809

stars

Forks: 956
Commits: 1,604 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

fastfetch-cli/fastfetch

A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool.

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#bsdfetch #command-line #fastfetch #fetch #flashfetch #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2021-02-18
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 83 open

24,533

stars

Forks: 876
Commits: 7,791 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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HandBrake/HandBrake

HandBrake's development repository

Stack

C .NET SDK Meson Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#gplv2 #multi-platform #video-transcoding

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2006-01-14
History: 14 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 298 open

24,475

stars

Forks: 1,707
Commits: 13,567 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

uutils/coreutils

Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#busybox #command-line-tool #coreutils #cross-platform #gnu-coreutils #rust

Updated: 2026-09-24
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-08-02
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1,163 open

24,176

stars

Forks: 2,053
Commits: 21,030 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

brave/brave-browser

Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.

Stack

npm

GitHub topics

#brave #browser #chromium #linux #macos #windows

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-11-09
History: 14 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 10,843 open

23,685

stars

Forks: 3,216
Commits: 11,544 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh

The most customisable and low-latency cross platform/shell prompt renderer

AI dev

Stack

Go Express React .NET SDK Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#bash #cmd #fish #fish-shell #git #golang

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-03-13
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

23,422

stars

Forks: 2,775
Commits: 5,464 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

CapSoftware/Cap

Open source Loom alternative. Beautiful, shareable screen recordings.

AI dev

Stack

Rust Actix Web Axum Expo Next.js Bun Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#app #cap #coss #loom #mac #nextjs

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-11-17
History: 132 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 508 open

23,377

stars

Forks: 2,095
Commits: 9,667 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +174 +0.7%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +518 +5.7%

Website GitHub

gitui-org/gitui

Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#async #bash #command-line-interface #command-line-tool #git #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2020-03-15
History: 32 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 347 open

22,553

stars

Forks: 782
Commits: 2,633 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

jarun/nnn

n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

Stack

GitHub topics

#android #batch-rename #c #cli #command-line #developer-tools

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-10-07
History: 9 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 1 open

22,058

stars

Forks: 825
Commits: 4,688 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

FreeTubeApp/FreeTube

An Open Source YouTube app for privacy

Stack

Vue Electron Express Vite Vue npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#freetube #privacy #subscriptions #video #videos #youtube

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2020-02-11
History: 10 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 304 open

21,991

stars

Forks: 1,528
Commits: 10,837 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

pavlobu/deskreen

Deskreen turns any device with a web browser into a secondary screen for your computer. ⭐️ Star to support our work!

Stack

TypeScript Electron React Vite npm

GitHub topics

#blueprintjs #darkwire-io #deskreen #easy-to-use #electon-app #electron

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-08-08
History: 5 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 21 open

21,491

stars

Forks: 1,201
Commits: 384 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

blender/blender

Official mirror of Blender

Stack

C++ CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#3d #animation #b3d #computer-graphics #modeling #rendering

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2002-10-12
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

20,025

stars

Forks: 3,193
Commits: 164,915 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ExistentialAudio/BlackHole

BlackHole is a modern macOS audio loopback driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency.

Stack

GitHub topics

#audio #driver #loopback #macos #virtual-audio-cable

Updated: 2026-08-11
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2019-09-27
History: 14 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 10 open

19,787

stars

Forks: 840
Commits: 648 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ImranR98/Obtainium

Get Android app updates straight from the source.

Stack

Dart Android Flutter Dart Pub Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#android #apk #apk-update #apk-updater #app-updater #automation

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-08-11
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 402 open

19,488

stars

Forks: 591
Commits: 3,489 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic

Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio.

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#audio #audio-utility #cpp #macos #objective-c

Updated: 2026-06-10
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-02-19
History: 13 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 542 open

19,304

stars

Forks: 784
Commits: 461 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ActivityWatch/activitywatch

The best free and open-source automated time tracker. Cross-platform, extensible, privacy-focused.

Stack

Python pytest Poetry

GitHub topics

#activitywatch #afk #analytics #app #cross-platform #dashboard

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2016-04-27
History: 139 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 139 open

19,253

stars

Forks: 1,045
Commits: 1,210 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +71 +0.4%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +6 +0.5%

Website GitHub

docusealco/docuseal

Open source DocuSign alternative. Create, fill, and sign digital documents ✍️

Stack

Ruby Express Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Vue Bundler Yarn

GitHub topics

#document-signing #documents #e-signature #hotwired-turbo #open-source #pdf

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2023-05-21
History: 10 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 123 open

18,653

stars

Forks: 1,882
Commits: 3,119 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ether/etherpad

Etherpad: A modern really-real-time collaborative document editor.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Express React React Native Vite npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#collaboration #collaborative #collaborative-ai #collaborative-editing #collaborative-framework #collaborative-research

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2011-03-26
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 31 open

18,551

stars

Forks: 3,050
Commits: 10,147 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

nukeop/nuclear

Streaming music player that finds free music for you

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Astro Axum React Tailwind CSS Cargo npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#agent #ai #desktop-app #linux #mac #mcp

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2025-08-03
History: 9 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 8 open

18,506

stars

Forks: 1,327
Commits: 1,984 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

eythaann/Seelen-UI

The Fully Customizable Desktop Environment for Windows 10/11.

AI dev

Stack

Rust Express React Svelte Tauri Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#app-launcher #desktop-application #dock #finder #multilanguage #seelen

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-02-16
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 72 open

17,708

stars

Forks: 588
Commits: 2,766 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate

Free and Open Source Machine Translation API. Self-hosted, offline capable and easy to setup.

AI dev

Stack

Python Flask pytest PEP 517

GitHub topics

#api #machine #translate #translation #translator

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2020-12-19
History: 8 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 128 open

17,098

stars

Forks: 1,782
Commits: 1,732 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

rupa/z

z - jump around

Stack

Shell

Updated: 2024-06-19
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2009-06-19
History: 11 history points
License: WTFPL
Issues: 108 open

17,059

stars

Forks: 1,174
Commits: 217 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

davatorium/rofi

Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#application-launcher #c #dmenu #dmenu-replacement #i3 #linux

Updated: 2026-09-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-06-29
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 114 open

16,372

stars

Forks: 694
Commits: 4,350 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

lwouis/alt-tab-macos

Windows alt-tab on macOS

AI dev

Stack

Swift npm Pipenv

GitHub topics

#alt-tab #alttab #expose #macos #mission-control #task-switcher

Updated: 2026-09-20
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2019-08-27
History: 13 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 79 open

16,309

stars

Forks: 873
Commits: 2,014 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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