Alternatives to pywhat
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. pywhat itself: install pywhat.
sentencepiece
Unsupervised text tokenizer for Neural Network-based text generation
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
gitwatch
Watch a file or folder and automatically commit changes to a git repo easily
sitefetch
Fetch an entire site and save it as a text file (to be used with AI models)
massren
massren - easily rename multiple files using your text editor
Syncthing
Open Source Continuous File Synchronization
croc
Easily and securely send things from one computer to another :crocodile: :package:
trivy
Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
git-extras
GIT utilities -- repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit percentages and more
Easydict
A concise and elegant Dictionary and Translator macOS App for looking up words and translating text
gobuster
Directory/File, DNS and VHost busting tool written in Go
entt
Gaming meets modern C++ - a fast and reliable entity component system (ECS) and much more
npm-check-updates
Find newer versions of package dependencies than what your package.json allows
ncc
Compile a Node.js project into a single file. Supports TypeScript, binary addons, dynamic requires
WhatCable
macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do
miniserve
🌟 For when you really just want to serve some files over HTTP right now!
git-standup
Recall what you or your team did on the last working day
matterbridge
bridge between mattermost, IRC, gitter, xmpp, slack, discord, telegram, rocketchat, twitch, ssh-chat, zulip, whatsapp, keybase, matrix, microsoft team
gopass
The slightly more awesome standard unix password manager for teams
Dayflow
The automatic work journal/time tracker. Privately turns your screen into a timeline of what you actually accomplished. Open-source and local-first
arxiv_latex_cleaner
arXiv LaTeX Cleaner: Easily clean the LaTeX code of your paper to submit to arXiv
espeak-ng
eSpeak NG is an open source speech synthesizer that supports more than hundred languages and accents
gdown
Google Drive public file downloader when curl/wget fails
reveal-md
reveal.js on steroids! Get beautiful reveal.js presentations from any Markdown file
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 pywhat — 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.
pywhat 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.