Alternatives to blake3
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. blake3 itself: install blake3.
search-that-hash
🔎Searches Hash APIs to crack your hash quickly🔎 If hash is not found, automatically pipes into HashCat⚡
cargo-geiger
Detects usage of unsafe Rust in a Rust crate and its dependencies
robin-map
C++ implementation of a fast hash map and hash set using robin hood hashing
rust
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software
uv
An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust
ruff
An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust
vim
The official Vim repository
nginx
The official NGINX Open Source repository
fnm
🚀 Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust
Postgres
Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, pleas
gitoxide
An idiomatic, lean, fast & safe pure Rust implementation of Git
foundry
Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development written in Rust
React Native Debugger
The standalone app based on official debugger of React Native, and includes React Inspector / Redux DevTools
boa
Boa is an embeddable Javascript engine written in Rust
cargo-flamegraph
Easy flamegraphs for Rust projects and everything else, without Perl or pipes <3
shimmy
⚡ Pure-Rust WebGPU inference engine — OpenAI-API compatible, GGUF native, runs on any GPU. No Python. No llama.cpp. Single binary
maturin
Build and publish crates with pyo3, cffi and uniffi bindings as well as rust binaries as python packages
cjdns
An encrypted IPv6 network using public-key cryptography for address allocation and a distributed hash table for routing
rure
An implementation of regular expressions for Rust. This implementation uses finite automata and guarantees linear time matching on all inputs
typeshare
Typeshare is the ultimate tool for synchronizing your type definitions between Rust and other languages for seamless FFI
tinysearch
🔍 Tiny, full-text search engine for static websites built with Rust and Wasm
cbindgen
A project for generating C bindings from Rust code
hcxtools
A small set of tools to convert packets from capture files to hash files for use with Hashcat or John the Ripper
drill
Drill is an HTTP load testing application written in Rust
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 blake3 — 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.
blake3 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.