Alternatives to nbping
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. nbping itself: install nbping.
Core Data Editor
Core Data Editor lets you easily view, edit and analyze applications‘ data. Core Data Editor is compatible with Mac and iOS applications and supports
hack-browser-data
Extract and decrypt browser data, supporting multiple data types, runnable on various operating systems (macOS, Windows, Linux)
zsh-autocomplete
🤖 Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion
rure
An implementation of regular expressions for Rust. This implementation uses finite automata and guarantees linear time matching on all inputs
ali
Generate HTTP load and plot the results in real-time
Textream
Textream is a free macOS teleprompter app for streamers, interviewers, and presenters. It highlights your script in real-time as you speak, displayed
kubespy
Tools for observing Kubernetes resources in real time, powered by Pulumi
bpftop
bpftop provides a dynamic real-time view of running eBPF programs. It displays the average runtime, events per second, and estimated total CPU % for e
httm
Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even Time Machine and Restic backups!)
cargo-geiger
Detects usage of unsafe Rust in a Rust crate and its dependencies
ttl
Fast, modern traceroute with real-time TUI, per-hop stats, ASN/geo lookup, ECMP detection, and MPLS label parsing. A better mtr
postgresql-hll
PostgreSQL extension adding HyperLogLog data structures as a native data type
rust
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software
uv
An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust
Redis
For developers, who are building real-time data-driven applications, Redis is the preferred, fastest, and most feature-rich cache, data structure serv
ruff
An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust
fnm
🚀 Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust
gitoxide
An idiomatic, lean, fast & safe pure Rust implementation of Git
foundry
Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development written in Rust
miller
Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON
confd
Manage local application configuration files using templates and data from etcd or consul
boa
Boa is an embeddable Javascript engine written in Rust
Dayflow
The automatic work journal/time tracker. Privately turns your screen into a timeline of what you actually accomplished. Open-source and local-first
blake3
the official Rust and C implementations of the BLAKE3 cryptographic hash function
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 nbping — 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.
nbping 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.