Alternatives to fly
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. fly itself: install fly.
cve-bin-tool
The CVE Binary Tool helps you determine if your system includes known vulnerabilities. You can scan binaries for over 350 common, vulnerable component
uv
An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust
ruff
An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust
docker-compose
Define and run multi-container applications with Docker
fastfetch
A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool
ffuf
Fast web fuzzer written in Go
Xournal++
Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUS
gobuster
Directory/File, DNS and VHost busting tool written in Go
cataclysm
Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world
entt
Gaming meets modern C++ - a fast and reliable entity component system (ECS) and much more
grype
A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems
hadolint
Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell
sentencepiece
Unsupervised text tokenizer for Neural Network-based text generation
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
swiftgen
The Swift code generator for your assets, storyboards, Localizable.strings, … — Get rid of all String-based APIs!
bubblewrap
Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak and similar projects
scc
Sloc, Cloc and Code: scc is a very fast accurate code counter with complexity calculations and COCOMO estimates written in pure Go
retdec
RetDec is a retargetable machine-code decompiler based on LLVM
autocannon
fast HTTP/1.1 benchmarking tool written in Node.js
macintosh.js
🖥 A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron. I'm sorry
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
boa
Boa is an embeddable Javascript engine written in Rust
gops
A tool to list and diagnose Go processes currently running on your system
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 fly — 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.
fly 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.