Alternatives to GZDoom
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. GZDoom itself: install GZDoom.
sdlpop
An open-source port of Prince of Persia, based on the disassembly of the DOS version
whisper.cpp
Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++
masscan
TCP port scanner, spews SYN packets asynchronously, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes
fastfetch
A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool
opensearch
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine
cataclysm
Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world
sentencepiece
Unsupervised text tokenizer for Neural Network-based text generation
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!
chakra
ChakraCore is an open source Javascript engine with a C API
mapscii
🗺 MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console - enter => telnet mapscii.me <= on Mac (brew install telnet) and Linux, connect wi
retdec
RetDec is a retargetable machine-code decompiler based on LLVM
fly
Concourse is a container-based automation system written in Go. It's mostly used for CI/CD
boa
Boa is an embeddable Javascript engine written in Rust
shimmy
⚡ Pure-Rust WebGPU inference engine — OpenAI-API compatible, GGUF native, runs on any GPU. No Python. No llama.cpp. Single binary
libvmaf
Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion
vis
A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions
JupyterLab App
JupyterLab desktop application, based on Electron
overmind
Process manager for Procfile-based applications and tmux
pgrok
Poor man's ngrok - a multi-tenant HTTP/TCP reverse tunnel solution through SSH remote port forwarding
macshot Offline
Feature-packed native macOS screenshot & recording tool: annotate, auto-redact PII, record GIFs, OCR + translate, scroll capture, beautify, and more.
tinysearch
🔍 Tiny, full-text search engine for static websites built with Rust and Wasm
Razer macOS
Color effects manager for Razer devices for macOS. Supports High Sierra (10.13) to Monterey (12.0). Made by the community, based on openrazer
Fluor
A handy tool for macOS allowing you to switch Fn keys' mode based on active application
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 GZDoom — 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.
GZDoom 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.