Alternatives to npm-check-updates
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. npm-check-updates itself: install npm-check-updates.
redshift
Redshift adjusts the color temperature of your screen according to your surroundings. This may help your eyes hurt less if you are working in front of
cargo-bloat
Find out what takes most of the space in your executable
generate-json-schema
🧞 Convert JSON Objects to MySQL, JSON Schema, Mongoose, Google BigQuery, Swagger, and more
eslint
Find and fix problems in your JavaScript code
Secretive
Protect your SSH keys with your Mac's Secure Enclave
WhatCable
macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do
git-standup
Recall what you or your team did on the last working day
Dayflow
The automatic work journal/time tracker. Privately turns your screen into a timeline of what you actually accomplished. Open-source and local-first
MeetingBar
🇺🇦 Your meetings at your fingertips in the macOS menu bar
bumblebee
Read-only developer endpoint scanner for on-disk package, extension, and developer-tool metadata, built to check exposure to known software supply-cha
BLEUnlock
Lock/unlock your Mac with your iPhone, Apple Watch, or any other Bluetooth LE devices
LidAngleSensor
tfw when you when your lid when uhh angle your lid sensor
pyupgrade
A tool (and pre-commit hook) to automatically upgrade syntax for newer versions of the language
kubent
Easily check your clusters for use of deprecated APIs
kondo
Cleans dependencies and build artifacts from your projects
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
cloudformation-guard
Guard offers a policy-as-code domain-specific language (DSL) to write rules and validate JSON- and YAML-formatted data such as CloudFormation Template
flint-checker
Check your project for common sources of contributor friction
scrcpy
Display and control your Android device
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
ripgrep
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
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://
fd
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
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 npm-check-updates — 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.
npm-check-updates 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.