Alternatives to RDM
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. RDM itself: install RDM.
scrcpy
Display and control your Android device
croc
Easily and securely send things from one computer to another :crocodile: :package:
pywhat
🐸 Identify anything. pyWhat easily lets you identify emails, IP addresses, and more. Feed it a .pcap file or some text and it'll tell you what it is!
arxiv_latex_cleaner
arXiv LaTeX Cleaner: Easily clean the LaTeX code of your paper to submit to arXiv
kubent
Easily check your clusters for use of deprecated APIs
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
swift-sh
Easily script with third-party Swift dependencies
gitwatch
Watch a file or folder and automatically commit changes to a git repo easily
pyp
Easily run Python at the shell! Magical, but never mysterious
massren
massren - easily rename multiple files using your text editor
ccm
Apache Cassandra® Cluster Manager (CCM) – easily create and destroy clusters on localhost
go
The Go programming language
node
Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨
rust
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software
typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output
openai-whisper
Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
deno
A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript
neovim
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
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
Syncthing
Open Source Continuous File Synchronization
ripgrep
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
ffmpeg
Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
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://
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 RDM — 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.
RDM 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.