Alternatives to rp
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. rp itself: install rp.
maturin
Build and publish crates with pyo3, cffi and uniffi bindings as well as rust binaries as python packages
QuickLook Video
Finder Thumbnails, Quick Look previews, Get Info metadata and previews for most types of audio and video files
cve-bin-tool
The CVE Binary Tool helps you determine if your system includes known vulnerabilities. You can scan binaries for over 350 common, vulnerable component
ios-class-guard
Simple Objective-C obfuscator for Mach-O executables
redress
Redress - A tool for analyzing stripped Go binaries
picotool
Tool for interacting with RP2040/RP2350 devices and binaries
scrcpy
Display and control your Android device
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://
MarkText
📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows
bat
A cat(1) clone with wings
starship
☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
mkcert
A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like
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 rp — 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.
rp 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.