Alternatives to inih
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. inih itself: install inih.
Syncthing
Open Source Continuous File Synchronization
hack-browser-data
Extract and decrypt browser data, supporting multiple data types, runnable on various operating systems (macOS, Windows, Linux)
gobuster
Directory/File, DNS and VHost busting tool written in Go
ncc
Compile a Node.js project into a single file. Supports TypeScript, binary addons, dynamic requires
shfmt
A shell parser, formatter, and interpreter with bash and zsh support; includes shfmt
pywhat
🐸 Identify anything. pyWhat easily lets you identify emails, IP addresses, and more. Feed it a .pcap file or some text and it'll tell you what it is!
gdown
Google Drive public file downloader when curl/wget fails
reveal-md
reveal.js on steroids! Get beautiful reveal.js presentations from any Markdown file
sbjson
This framework implements a strict JSON parser and generator in Objective-C
concurrencykit
Concurrency primitives, safe memory reclamation mechanisms and non-blocking (including lock-free) data structures designed to aid in the research, des
dwarfs
A fast high-compression read-only file system for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Windows
gcsfuse
A user-space file system for interacting with Google Cloud Storage
zlib-ng-compat
zlib replacement with optimizations for "next generation" systems
lol-html
Low output latency streaming HTML parser/rewriter with CSS selector-based API
folderify
:file_folder: Generate pixel-perfect macOS folder icons in the native style. (Now with support for macOS 26 Tahoe!)
rtaudio
A set of C++ classes that provide a common API for realtime audio input/output across Linux (native ALSA, JACK, PulseAudio and OSS), Macintosh OS X (C
gitwatch
Watch a file or folder and automatically commit changes to a git repo easily
sitefetch
Fetch an entire site and save it as a text file (to be used with AI models)
httm
Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even Time Machine and Restic backups!)
UVtools
MSLA/DLP, file analysis, calibration, repair, conversion and manipulation
gdtoolkit
Independent set of GDScript tools - parser, linter, formatter, and more
diffnav
A git diff pager based on delta but with a file tree, à la GitHub
libpg_query
C library for accessing the PostgreSQL parser outside of the server environment
md4c
C Markdown parser. Fast. SAX-like interface. Compliant to CommonMark specification
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 inih — 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.
inih 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.