Alternatives to diamond
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. diamond itself: install diamond.
jj
A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful
confd
Manage local application configuration files using templates and data from etcd or consul
sccache
Sccache is a ccache-like tool. It is used as a compiler wrapper and avoids compilation when possible. Sccache has the capability to utilize caching in
Dayflow
The automatic work journal/time tracker. Privately turns your screen into a timeline of what you actually accomplished. Open-source and local-first
shimmy
⚡ Pure-Rust WebGPU inference engine — OpenAI-API compatible, GGUF native, runs on any GPU. No Python. No llama.cpp. Single binary
s3scanner
Scan for misconfigured S3 buckets across S3-compatible APIs!
erg
A statically typed language compatible with Python
Core Data Editor
Core Data Editor lets you easily view, edit and analyze applications‘ data. Core Data Editor is compatible with Mac and iOS applications and supports
sbom-tool
The SBOM tool is a highly scalable and enterprise ready tool to create SPDX 2.2 compatible SBOMs for any variety of artifacts
bwa
Burrow-Wheeler Aligner for short-read alignment (see minimap2 for long-read alignment)
git-recent
See your latest local git branches, formatted real fancy
scrcpy
Display and control your Android device
go
The Go programming language
node
Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨
rust
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software
typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output
openai-whisper
Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
deno
A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript
neovim
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
nvm
Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions
uv
An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust
Syncthing
Open Source Continuous File Synchronization
ripgrep
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
ffmpeg
Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
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 diamond — 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.
diamond 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.