Alternatives to licensed
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. licensed itself: install licensed.
ruby
The Ruby Programming Language
PureMac
Free, open-source macOS cleaner. CleanMyMac alternative with zero telemetry. Native SwiftUI, scheduled auto-cleaning, Xcode/Homebrew/system cache clea
npm-check-updates
Find newer versions of package dependencies than what your package.json allows
buildkitd
concurrent, cache-efficient, and Dockerfile-agnostic builder toolkit
kondo
Cleans dependencies and build artifacts from your projects
enkits
A permissively licensed C and C++ Task Scheduler for creating parallel programs. Requires C++11 support
asimov
Automatically exclude development dependencies from Apple Time Machine backups
swift-sh
Easily script with third-party Swift dependencies
dep-tree
Tool for helping developers keep their code bases clean and decoupled. It allows visualising a code base complexity using a 3d force-directed graph of
cargo-geiger
Detects usage of unsafe Rust in a Rust crate and its dependencies
scrcpy
Display and control your Android device
go
The Go programming language
node
Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨
rust
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software
typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output
openai-whisper
Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
deno
A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript
neovim
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
nvm
Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions
uv
An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust
Syncthing
Open Source Continuous File Synchronization
ripgrep
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
ffmpeg
Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
git
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://
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 licensed — 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.
licensed 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.