Alternatives to fd
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. fd itself: install fd.
IPFS Desktop
An unobtrusive and user-friendly desktop application for IPFS on Windows, Mac and Linux
landrun
Run any Linux process in a secure, unprivileged sandbox using Landlock. Think firejail, but lightweight, user-friendly, and baked into the kernel
choose-rust
A human-friendly and fast alternative to cut (and sometimes awk)
nelm
Nelm is a Helm 4 alternative. It is a Kubernetes deployment tool that manages Helm Charts and deploys them to Kubernetes. The Nelm goal is to provide
trivy
Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
eslint
Find and fix problems in your JavaScript code
eza
A modern alternative to ls
sonic
🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM
duf
Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative
npm-check-updates
Find newer versions of package dependencies than what your package.json allows
FineTune
FineTune, a macOS menu bar app for per-app volume control, multi-device output, audio routing, and 10-band EQ. Free and open-source alternative to Sou
bandit
Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code
PureMac
Free, open-source macOS cleaner. CleanMyMac alternative with zero telemetry. Native SwiftUI, scheduled auto-cleaning, Xcode/Homebrew/system cache clea
zsh-autocomplete
🤖 Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion
stern
⎈ Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes -- Friendly fork of https://github.com/wercker/stern
detect-secrets
An enterprise friendly way of detecting and preventing secrets in code
zsh-vi-mode
💻 A better and friendly vi(vim) mode plugin for ZSH
LBRY Desktop
A browser and wallet for LBRY, the decentralized, user-controlled content marketplace
dnsx
dnsx is a fast and multi-purpose DNS toolkit allow to run multiple DNS queries of your choice with a list of user-supplied resolvers
cargo-bloat
Find out what takes most of the space in your executable
reattach-to-user-namespace
Notes and workarounds for accessing the Mac OS X pasteboard in tmux sessions. Note: The pu branch (“Proposed Updates”) may be rewound without notice
gcsfuse
A user-space file system for interacting with Google Cloud Storage
fastmod
A fast partial replacement for the codemod tool. Assists with large-scale codebase refactors via regex-based find and replace with human oversight and
mdq
like jq but for Markdown: find specific elements in a md doc
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 fd — 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.
fd 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.