Alternatives to fastfetch
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. fastfetch itself: install fastfetch.
macchina
A system information frontend with an emphasis on performance
mkcert
A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like
zsh-autosuggestions
Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh
loki
Like Prometheus, but for logs
zsh-syntax-highlighting
Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh
nebula
A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security
mimalloc
mimalloc is a compact general purpose allocator with excellent performance
entt
Gaming meets modern C++ - a fast and reliable entity component system (ECS) and much more
skopeo
Work with remote images registries - retrieving information, images, signing content
miller
Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON
macintosh.js
🖥 A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron. I'm sorry
fly
Concourse is a container-based automation system written in Go. It's mostly used for CI/CD
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
gops
A tool to list and diagnose Go processes currently running on your system
PureMac
Free, open-source macOS cleaner. CleanMyMac alternative with zero telemetry. Native SwiftUI, scheduled auto-cleaning, Xcode/Homebrew/system cache clea
recon-ng
Open Source Intelligence gathering tool aimed at reducing the time spent harvesting information from open sources
highway
Performance-portable, length-agnostic SIMD with runtime dispatch
MarkEdit
Just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown
vis
A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions
Yattee
Privacy oriented video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS
massdns
A high-performance DNS stub resolver for bulk lookups and reconnaissance (subdomain enumeration)
macshot Offline
Feature-packed native macOS screenshot & recording tool: annotate, auto-redact PII, record GIFs, OCR + translate, scroll capture, beautify, and more.
libfaketime
libfaketime modifies the system time for a single application
GZDoom
GZDoom is a feature centric port for all Doom engine games, based on ZDoom, adding an OpenGL renderer and powerful scripting capabilities
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 fastfetch — 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.
fastfetch 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.