Alternatives to croc
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. croc itself: install croc.
npm-check-updates
Find newer versions of package dependencies than what your package.json allows
uv
An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust
maigret
🕵️♂️ Collect a dossier on a person by username from 6K websites
BitBar
Put the output from any script or program into your macOS Menu Bar (the BitBar reboot)
Xournal++
Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUS
archi-steam-farm
C# application with primary purpose of farming Steam cards from multiple accounts simultaneously
git-secrets
Prevents you from committing secrets and credentials into git repositories
AWS Vault
A vault for securely storing and accessing AWS credentials in development environments
confd
Manage local application configuration files using templates and data from etcd or consul
rtl_433
Program to decode radio transmissions from devices on the ISM bands (and other frequencies)
pywhat
🐸 Identify anything. pyWhat easily lets you identify emails, IP addresses, and more. Feed it a .pcap file or some text and it'll tell you what it is!
arxiv_latex_cleaner
arXiv LaTeX Cleaner: Easily clean the LaTeX code of your paper to submit to arXiv
magic_enum
Static reflection for enums (to string, from string, iteration) for modern C++, work with any enum type without any macro or boilerplate code
noTunes
A simple macOS application that will prevent iTunes or Apple Music from launching
recon-ng
Open Source Intelligence gathering tool aimed at reducing the time spent harvesting information from open sources
gotests
Automatically generate Go test boilerplate from your source code
gau
Fetch known URLs from AlienVault's Open Threat Exchange, the Wayback Machine, and Common Crawl
bumblebee
Read-only developer endpoint scanner for on-disk package, extension, and developer-tool metadata, built to check exposure to known software supply-cha
pidcat
Colored logcat script which only shows log entries for a specific application package
Git-it
:computer: :mortar_board: Git-it is a (Mac, Win, Linux) Desktop App for Learning Git and GitHub
pipet
Swiss-army tool for scraping and extracting data from online assets, made for hackers
fernflower
Decompiler from Java bytecode to Java, used in IntelliJ IDEA
RipMe
Downloads albums from the web in bulk for archive purposes
reveal-md
reveal.js on steroids! Get beautiful reveal.js presentations from any Markdown file
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 croc — 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.
croc 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.