Alternatives to bear
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. bear itself: install bear.
lazygit
simple terminal UI for git commands
httpie
🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more
jq
Command-line JSON processor
sqlx-cli
🧰 The Rust SQL Toolkit. An async, pure Rust SQL crate featuring compile-time checked queries without a DSL. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite
yq
yq is a portable command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV, TOML, HCL and properties processor
cheat
cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. It was designed to help remind *nix system administrators of options
chisel
Chisel is a collection of LLDB commands to assist debugging iOS apps
pastel
A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors
zplug
A next-generation plugin manager for zsh — manage plugins, commands, and themes from GitHub, Bitbucket, oh-my-zsh, prezto, and more with parallel inst
signal-cli
signal-cli provides an unofficial commandline, JSON-RPC and dbus interface for the Signal messenger
dsq
Commandline tool for running SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Excel, Parquet, and more
web-ext
A command line tool to help build, run, and test web extensions
zsh-you-should-use
📎 ZSH plugin that reminds you to use existing aliases for commands you just typed
rawdog
Generate and auto-execute Python scripts in the cli
podlet
Generate Podman Quadlet files from a Podman command, compose file, or existing object
xleak
A fast terminal Excel viewer with an interactive TUI. Features full-text search, formula display, lazy loading for large files, clipboard support, and
jp
dead simple terminal plots from JSON data. single binary, no dependencies. linux, osx, windows
generate-json-schema
🧞 Convert JSON Objects to MySQL, JSON Schema, Mongoose, Google BigQuery, Swagger, and more
yj
CLI - Convert between YAML, TOML, JSON, and HCL. Preserves map order
yt-dlp
A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
cc-switch
Installed with brew. Open source, with a documented one-command setup.
gemini-cli
Installed with brew. Open source, with a documented one-command setup.
thefuck
Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command
fzf
:cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than bear — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
bear is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.