Alternatives to gum
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. gum itself: install gum.
shellcheck
ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts
xxh
🚀 Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the ssh. Xonsh shell, fish, zsh, osquery and so on
starship
☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
zsh-syntax-highlighting
Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh
shfmt
A shell parser, formatter, and interpreter with bash and zsh support; includes shfmt
xdg-ninja
A shell script which checks your $HOME for unwanted files and directories
powerline-go
A beautiful and useful low-latency prompt for your shell, written in go
pyp
Easily run Python at the shell! Magical, but never mysterious
scriptisto
A language-agnostic "shebang interpreter" that enables you to write scripts in compiled languages
scrcpy
Display and control your Android device
go
The Go programming language
node
Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨
rust
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software
typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output
openai-whisper
Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
deno
A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript
neovim
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
nvm
Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions
uv
An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust
Syncthing
Open Source Continuous File Synchronization
ripgrep
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
ffmpeg
Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
git
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://
MarkText
📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows
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 gum — 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.
gum 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.