Alternatives to heatshrink
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. heatshrink itself: install heatshrink.
zopfli
Zopfli Compression Algorithm is a compression library programmed in C to perform very good, but slow, deflate or zlib compression
Core Data Editor
Core Data Editor lets you easily view, edit and analyze applications‘ data. Core Data Editor is compatible with Mac and iOS applications and supports
Redis
For developers, who are building real-time data-driven applications, Redis is the preferred, fastest, and most feature-rich cache, data structure serv
curl
A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LD
hack-browser-data
Extract and decrypt browser data, supporting multiple data types, runnable on various operating systems (macOS, Windows, Linux)
libpostal
A C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world. Powered by statistical NLP and open geo data
howard-hinnant-date
A date and time library based on the C++11/14/17 <chrono> header
python-tabulate
Pretty-print tabular data in Python, a library and a command-line utility. Repository migrated from bitbucket.org/astanin/python-tabulate
needle
Compile-time safe Swift dependency injection framework
libdeflate
Heavily optimized library for DEFLATE/zlib/gzip compression and decompression
sparkey
Simple constant key/value storage library, for read-heavy systems with infrequent large bulk inserts
ghidra
Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework
fabric-ai
Fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI. It provides a modular system for solving specific problems using a crowdsourced set
leveldb
LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values
lux
👾 Fast and simple video download library and CLI tool written in Go
folly
An open-source C++ library developed and used at Facebook
vegeta
HTTP load testing tool and library. It's over 9000!
age
A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability
catch2
A modern, C++-native, test framework for unit-tests, TDD and BDD - using C++14, C++17 and later (C++11 support is in v2.x branch, and C++03 on the Cat
libphonenumber
Google's common Java, C++ and JavaScript library for parsing, formatting, and validating international phone numbers
katana
A next-generation crawling and spidering framework
monolith
⬛️ CLI tool and library for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file
ggml
Tensor library for machine learning
pytest
The pytest framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing
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 heatshrink — 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.
heatshrink 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.