Alternatives to pixivbiu
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. pixivbiu itself: install pixivbiu.
ipatool
Command-line tool that allows you to search for iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, visionOS, and macOS apps on the App Store, and download .ipa or macOS .pkg app pack
httpie
🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more
Another Redis Desktop Manager
🚀🚀🚀A faster, better and more stable Redis desktop manager [GUI client], compatible with Linux, Windows, Mac
Neovide
No Nonsense Neovim Client in Rust
posting
The modern API client that lives in your terminal
icloudpd
A command-line tool to download photos from iCloud
websocat
Command-line client for WebSockets, like netcat (or curl) for ws:// with advanced socat-like functions
AyuGram
Desktop Telegram client with good customization and Ghost mode
Tribler
Privacy enhanced BitTorrent client with P2P content discovery
hstr
Bash and Zsh shell history TUI suggest box - easily view, navigate, search and manage your command history
Finch
The Finch CLI is an open source client for container development
Termora
Termora is a terminal emulator and SSH client for Windows, macOS and Linux
atac
A simple API client (postman like) in your terminal
graphqurl
curl for GraphQL with autocomplete, subscriptions and GraphiQL. Also a dead-simple universal javascript GraphQL client
resty
Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines (bash or zsh)
godns
A dynamic DNS client tool that supports AliDNS, Cloudflare, Google Domains, DNSPod, HE.net & DuckDNS & DreamHost, etc, written in Go
portal
Portal is a quick and easy command-line file transfer utility from any computer to another 🌌 ✨
Postbird
Open source PostgreSQL GUI client for macOS, Linux and Windows
xleak
A fast terminal Excel viewer with an interactive TUI. Features full-text search, formula display, lazy loading for large files, clipboard support, and
openapi-tui
Terminal UI to list, browse and run APIs defined with openapi spec
Electorrent
A remote control client for µTorrent, qBittorrent, rTorrent, Transmission, Synology & Deluge
Matterhorn
A feature-rich Unix terminal client for the Mattermost chat system
yt-dlp
A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
cc-switch
Installed with brew. Open source, with a documented one-command setup.
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 pixivbiu — 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.
pixivbiu 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.