Alternatives to gau
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. gau itself: install gau.
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
asimov
Automatically exclude development dependencies from Apple Time Machine backups
httm
Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even Time Machine and Restic backups!)
croc
Easily and securely send things from one computer to another :crocodile: :package:
maigret
🕵️♂️ Collect a dossier on a person by username from 6K websites
Netron
Visualizer for neural network, deep learning and machine learning models
BitBar
Put the output from any script or program into your macOS Menu Bar (the BitBar reboot)
Xournal++
Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUS
archi-steam-farm
C# application with primary purpose of farming Steam cards from multiple accounts simultaneously
git-secrets
Prevents you from committing secrets and credentials into git repositories
retdec
RetDec is a retargetable machine-code decompiler based on LLVM
confd
Manage local application configuration files using templates and data from etcd or consul
bandit
Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code
rtl_433
Program to decode radio transmissions from devices on the ISM bands (and other frequencies)
magic_enum
Static reflection for enums (to string, from string, iteration) for modern C++, work with any enum type without any macro or boilerplate code
noTunes
A simple macOS application that will prevent iTunes or Apple Music from launching
recon-ng
Open Source Intelligence gathering tool aimed at reducing the time spent harvesting information from open sources
gotests
Automatically generate Go test boilerplate from your source code
bumblebee
Read-only developer endpoint scanner for on-disk package, extension, and developer-tool metadata, built to check exposure to known software supply-cha
pipet
Swiss-army tool for scraping and extracting data from online assets, made for hackers
fernflower
Decompiler from Java bytecode to Java, used in IntelliJ IDEA
RipMe
Downloads albums from the web in bulk for archive purposes
reveal-md
reveal.js on steroids! Get beautiful reveal.js presentations from any Markdown file
ansible-lint
ansible-lint checks playbooks for practices and behavior that could potentially be improved and can fix some of the most common ones for you
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 gau — 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.
gau 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.