Alternatives to Matterhorn
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. Matterhorn itself: install Matterhorn.
yt-dlp
A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
posting
The modern API client that lives in your terminal
spotify_player
A Spotify player in the terminal with full feature parity
screenfetch
Fetches system/theme information in terminal for Linux desktop screenshots
Termora
Termora is a terminal emulator and SSH client for Windows, macOS and Linux
atac
A simple API client (postman like) in your terminal
pspg
Unix pager (with very rich functionality) designed for work with tables. Designed for PostgreSQL, but MySQL is supported too. Works well with pgcli to
lazygit
simple terminal UI for git commands
yazi
💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O
httpie
🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more
zellij
A terminal workspace with batteries included
Another Redis Desktop Manager
🚀🚀🚀A faster, better and more stable Redis desktop manager [GUI client], compatible with Linux, Windows, Mac
micro
A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
Cool Retro Term
A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display..
gitui
Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀
nnn
n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
Neovide
No Nonsense Neovim Client in Rust
cheat
cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. It was designed to help remind *nix system administrators of options
bash-snippets
A collection of small bash scripts for heavy terminal users
yewtube
yewtube, forked from mps-youtube , is a Terminal based YouTube player and downloader. No Youtube API key required
websocat
Command-line client for WebSockets, like netcat (or curl) for ws:// with advanced socat-like functions
Rio
A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator focusing to run in desktops and browsers
terminal-notifier
Send User Notifications on macOS from the command-line
OpenInTerminal-Lite
✨ Finder Toolbar app for macOS to open the current directory in Terminal, iTerm, Hyper or Alacritty
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 Matterhorn — 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.
Matterhorn 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.