Alternatives to sourcekitten
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. sourcekitten itself: install sourcekitten.
curl
A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LD
jc
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inotify-tools
inotify-tools is a library and a set of command-line programs providing a simple interface to inotify
python-tabulate
Pretty-print tabular data in Python, a library and a command-line utility. Repository migrated from bitbucket.org/astanin/python-tabulate
Microsoft Bot Framework Emulator
A desktop application that allows users to locally test and debug chat bots built with the Bot Framework SDK
yamlfmt
An extensible command line tool or library to format yaml files
sha1dc
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twarc
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ghidra
Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework
fabric-ai
Fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI. It provides a modular system for solving specific problems using a crowdsourced set
catch2
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katana
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pytest
The pytest framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing
doctest
The fastest feature-rich C++11/14/17/20/23 single-header testing framework
NWPusher
OS X and iOS application and framework to play with the Apple Push Notification service (APNs)
molten-vk
MoltenVK is a Vulkan Portability implementation. It layers a subset of the high-performance, industry-standard Vulkan graphics and compute API over Ap
blis
BLAS-like Library Instantiation Software Framework
keystone
Keystone assembler framework: Core (Arm, Arm64, Hexagon, Mips, PowerPC, Sparc, SystemZ & X86) + bindings
tsung
Tsung is a high-performance benchmark framework for various protocols including HTTP, XMPP, LDAP, etc
needle
Compile-time safe Swift dependency injection framework
shunit2
shUnit2 is a xUnit based unit test framework for Bourne based shell scripts
yap
🗣️ A CLI for on-device speech transcription using Speech.framework on macOS 26
leveldb
LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values
lux
👾 Fast and simple video download library and CLI tool written in Go
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 sourcekitten — 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.
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