Alternatives to Flying Carpet
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. Flying Carpet itself: install Flying Carpet.
Universal Android Debloater
Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted android devices. Improve your privacy, the security and battery life of your device
nativefiledialog-extended
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Spacedrive
Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust
modsecurity
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. It has a robust event-based programming
rustnet
Per-process network monitoring for your terminal with deep packet inspection. Cross-platform, sandboxed
Node Version Switcher
Node Version Switcher - A cross-platform tool for switching between versions and forks of Node.js
liquidctl
Cross-platform CLI and Python drivers for AIO liquid coolers and other devices
erdtree
A modern, cross-platform, multi-threaded, and general purpose filesystem and disk-usage utility that is aware of .gitignore and hidden file rules
Retroactive
Run Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes on macOS Golden Gate, macOS Tahoe, macOS Sequoia, macOS Sonoma, macOS Ventura, macOS Monterey, macOS Big Sur, and mac
cyme
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Alacritty
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kitty-nightly
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WindTerm
A professional cross-platform SSH/Sftp/Shell/Telnet/Tmux/Serial terminal
cookiecutter
A cross-platform command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates), e.g. Python package projects, C projects
ncnn
ncnn is a high-performance neural network inference framework optimized for the mobile platform
renovate
Home of the Renovate CLI: Cross-platform Dependency Automation by Mend.io
onnxruntime
ONNX Runtime: cross-platform, high performance ML inferencing and training accelerator
terraformer
CLI tool to generate terraform files from existing infrastructure (reverse Terraform). Infrastructure to Code
Open Video Downloader
Open Video Downloader - A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Rust with Tauri and Vue + Typescript
OpenWhispr
Voice-to-text dictation app with local (Nvidia Parakeet/Whisper) and cloud models (BYOK). Privacy-first and available cross-platform
wgcf
🚤 Cross-platform, unofficial CLI for Cloudflare Warp
LiteIDE
LiteIDE is a simple, open source, cross-platform Go IDE
IPTVnator
:tv: Cross-platform IPTV player application with multiple features, such as support of m3u and m3u8 playlists, favorites, TV guide, TV archive/catchup
bombardier
Fast cross-platform HTTP benchmarking tool written in Go
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 Flying Carpet — 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.
Flying Carpet 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.