Alternatives to Look
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. Look itself: install Look.
sonic
🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM
pipet
Swiss-army tool for scraping and extracting data from online assets, made for hackers
Razer macOS
Color effects manager for Razer devices for macOS. Supports High Sierra (10.13) to Monterey (12.0). Made by the community, based on openrazer
Multi
Create custom, lightweight macOS apps from websites
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
fd
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
croc
Easily and securely send things from one computer to another :crocodile: :package:
maigret
🕵️♂️ Collect a dossier on a person by username from 6K websites
poetry
Python packaging and dependency management made easy
eza
A modern alternative to ls
BitBar
Put the output from any script or program into your macOS Menu Bar (the BitBar reboot)
Xournal++
Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUS
duf
Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative
archi-steam-farm
C# application with primary purpose of farming Steam cards from multiple accounts simultaneously
git-secrets
Prevents you from committing secrets and credentials into git repositories
FineTune
FineTune, a macOS menu bar app for per-app volume control, multi-device output, audio routing, and 10-band EQ. Free and open-source alternative to Sou
confd
Manage local application configuration files using templates and data from etcd or consul
rtl_433
Program to decode radio transmissions from devices on the ISM bands (and other frequencies)
PureMac
Free, open-source macOS cleaner. CleanMyMac alternative with zero telemetry. Native SwiftUI, scheduled auto-cleaning, Xcode/Homebrew/system cache clea
magic_enum
Static reflection for enums (to string, from string, iteration) for modern C++, work with any enum type without any macro or boilerplate code
noTunes
A simple macOS application that will prevent iTunes or Apple Music from launching
recon-ng
Open Source Intelligence gathering tool aimed at reducing the time spent harvesting information from open sources
gotests
Automatically generate Go test boilerplate from your source code
Mjolnir
Lightweight automation and productivity app for OS X
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 Look — 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.
Look 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.