Alternatives to starship
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. starship itself: install starship.
bash-git-prompt
An informative and fancy bash prompt for Git users
xxh
🚀 Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the ssh. Xonsh shell, fish, zsh, osquery and so on
powerline-go
A beautiful and useful low-latency prompt for your shell, written in go
shellcheck
ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts
gum
A tool for glamorous shell scripts 🎀
zsh-syntax-highlighting
Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh
foundry
Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development written in Rust
shfmt
A shell parser, formatter, and interpreter with bash and zsh support; includes shfmt
xdg-ninja
A shell script which checks your $HOME for unwanted files and directories
Zedis
Zedis: A blazing-fast, native Redis GUI built with Rust and GPUI
pyp
Easily run Python at the shell! Magical, but never mysterious
poselib
Minimal solvers for calibrated camera pose estimation
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
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 starship — 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.
starship 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.