Alternatives to lazyjournal
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. lazyjournal itself: install lazyjournal.
podman
Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods
docker-compose
Define and run multi-container applications with Docker
docker-credential-helper-ecr
Automatically gets credentials for Amazon ECR on docker push/docker pull
docker-clean
A script that cleans docker containers, images, volumes, and networks
trivy
Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
zsh-syntax-highlighting
Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh
Xournal++
Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUS
kube-bench
Checks whether Kubernetes is deployed according to security best practices as defined in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark
dockerize
Utility to simplify running applications in docker containers
gcviewer
Fork of tagtraum industries' GCViewer. Tagtraum stopped development in 2008, I aim to improve support for Sun's / Oracle's java 1.6+ garbage collector
reveal-md
reveal.js on steroids! Get beautiful reveal.js presentations from any Markdown file
hl
A fast and powerful log viewer and processor that converts JSON logs or logfmt logs into a clear human-readable format
kubeconform
A FAST Kubernetes manifests validator, with support for Custom Resources!
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
folderify
:file_folder: Generate pixel-perfect macOS folder icons in the native style. (Now with support for macOS 26 Tahoe!)
chaoskube
chaoskube periodically kills random pods in your Kubernetes cluster
podlet
Generate Podman Quadlet files from a Podman command, compose file, or existing object
Orchard
The native UI for Apple Containers and (o)MLX sandboxes, written in swift as a replacement for docker desktop
sofka
A Kubernetes TUI, reimagined in Rust - built on kube-rs and ratatui, async-first from the ground up
keyring
Easy way to access the system keyring service from python
s3ql
a full featured file system for online data storage
AutoDMG
Create deployable system images from OS X installer
nelm
Nelm is a Helm 4 alternative. It is a Kubernetes deployment tool that manages Helm Charts and deploys them to Kubernetes. The Nelm goal is to provide
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 lazyjournal — 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.
lazyjournal 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.