Alternatives to ttl
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. ttl itself: install ttl.
zsh-autocomplete
🤖 Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion
ali
Generate HTTP load and plot the results in real-time
Textream
Textream is a free macOS teleprompter app for streamers, interviewers, and presenters. It highlights your script in real-time as you speak, displayed
kubespy
Tools for observing Kubernetes resources in real time, powered by Pulumi
bpftop
bpftop provides a dynamic real-time view of running eBPF programs. It displays the average runtime, events per second, and estimated total CPU % for e
nbping
🏎 Nping mean NB Ping, A Ping Tool in Rust with Real-Time Data and Visualizations
httm
Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even Time Machine and Restic backups!)
diff-so-fancy
Make your diffs human readable for improved code quality and faster defect detection. :tada:
duf
Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative
Dayflow
The automatic work journal/time tracker. Privately turns your screen into a timeline of what you actually accomplished. Open-source and local-first
recon-ng
Open Source Intelligence gathering tool aimed at reducing the time spent harvesting information from open sources
zsh-vi-mode
💻 A better and friendly vi(vim) mode plugin for ZSH
rure
An implementation of regular expressions for Rust. This implementation uses finite automata and guarantees linear time matching on all inputs
mago
Mago is a toolchain for PHP that aims to provide a set of tools to help developers write better code
libfaketime
libfaketime modifies the system time for a single application
AriaNg Native
A better aria2 desktop frontend than AriaNg, with all features of AriaNg and providing more features for desktop usage
asimov
Automatically exclude development dependencies from Apple Time Machine backups
wtfis
Passive hostname, domain and IP lookup tool for non-robots
bzip3
A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2
pass-otp
A pass extension for managing one-time-password (OTP) tokens
aws-sso-util
Smooth out the rough edges of AWS SSO (temporarily, until AWS makes it better)
git-recent
See your latest local git branches, formatted real fancy
scrcpy
Display and control your Android device
go
The Go programming language
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 ttl — 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.
ttl 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.