Alternatives to React Native Debugger
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. React Native Debugger itself: install React Native Debugger.
Reactotron
A desktop app for inspecting your React JS and React Native projects. macOS, Linux, and Windows
elm-format
elm-format formats Elm source code according to a standard set of rules based on the official Elm Style Guide
vim
The official Vim repository
nginx
The official NGINX Open Source repository
delve
Delve is a debugger for the Go programming language
Postgres
Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, pleas
cataclysm
Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world
sentencepiece
Unsupervised text tokenizer for Neural Network-based text generation
swiftgen
The Swift code generator for your assets, storyboards, Localizable.strings, … — Get rid of all String-based APIs!
shfmt
A shell parser, formatter, and interpreter with bash and zsh support; includes shfmt
retdec
RetDec is a retargetable machine-code decompiler based on LLVM
fly
Concourse is a container-based automation system written in Go. It's mostly used for CI/CD
PureMac
Free, open-source macOS cleaner. CleanMyMac alternative with zero telemetry. Native SwiftUI, scheduled auto-cleaning, Xcode/Homebrew/system cache clea
blake3
the official Rust and C implementations of the BLAKE3 cryptographic hash function
shimmy
⚡ Pure-Rust WebGPU inference engine — OpenAI-API compatible, GGUF native, runs on any GPU. No Python. No llama.cpp. Single binary
libvmaf
Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion
vis
A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions
JupyterLab App
JupyterLab desktop application, based on Electron
overmind
Process manager for Procfile-based applications and tmux
macshot Offline
Feature-packed native macOS screenshot & recording tool: annotate, auto-redact PII, record GIFs, OCR + translate, scroll capture, beautify, and more.
GZDoom
GZDoom is a feature centric port for all Doom engine games, based on ZDoom, adding an OpenGL renderer and powerful scripting capabilities
WailBrew
Minimalistic Homebrew GUI made with Go, Wails and React
AriaNg Native
A better aria2 desktop frontend than AriaNg, with all features of AriaNg and providing more features for desktop usage
Razer macOS
Color effects manager for Razer devices for macOS. Supports High Sierra (10.13) to Monterey (12.0). Made by the community, based on openrazer
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 React Native Debugger — 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.
React Native Debugger 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.