Alternatives to helib
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. helib itself: install helib.
tern
Tern is a software composition analysis tool and Python library that generates a Software Bill of Materials for container images and Dockerfiles. The
seal
Microsoft SEAL is an easy-to-use and powerful homomorphic encryption library
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
age
A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability
httpx
httpx is a fast and multi-purpose HTTP toolkit that allows running multiple probes using the retryablehttp library
syft
CLI tool and library for generating a Software Bill of Materials from container images and filesystems
jc
CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON, YAML, or Dictionaries. Thi
Keyguard
A password manager that supports Bitwarden platform and KeePass (KDBX) files. It autofills your logins, supports passkeys, works offline, and runs a W
blis
BLAS-like Library Instantiation Software Framework
uvw
Header-only, event based, tiny and easy to use libuv wrapper in modern C++ - now available as also shared/static library!
Microsoft Bot Framework Emulator
A desktop application that allows users to locally test and debug chat bots built with the Bot Framework SDK
nsync
nsync is a C library that exports various synchronization primitives, such as mutexes
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
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!
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 helib — 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.
helib 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.