Alternatives to rq
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. rq itself: install rq.
shellcheck
ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts
credo
A static code analysis tool for the Elixir language with a focus on code consistency and teaching
jet
Type safe SQL builder with code generation and automatic query result data mapping
macshot Offline
Feature-packed native macOS screenshot & recording tool: annotate, auto-redact PII, record GIFs, OCR + translate, scroll capture, beautify, and more.
tabiew
A lightweight TUI application to view and query tabular data files, such as CSV, TSV, and parquet
msgvault
Archive a lifetime of email and chat. Offline search, analytics, and AI query over your full message history. Powered by SQLite and DuckDB
UVtools
MSLA/DLP, file analysis, calibration, repair, conversion and manipulation
libpg_query
C library for accessing the PostgreSQL parser outside of the server environment
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
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 rq — 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.
rq 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.