Alternatives to weggli
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. weggli itself: install weggli.
dnsgen
DNSGen is a powerful and flexible DNS name permutation tool designed for security researchers and penetration testers. It generates intelligent domain
openai-whisper
Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
bandit
Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code
pywhat
🐸 Identify anything. pyWhat easily lets you identify emails, IP addresses, and more. Feed it a .pcap file or some text and it'll tell you what it is!
Monokle
Monokle is a set of OSS tools designed to help create and maintain high-quality Kubernetes configurations throughout the application lifecycle
pgvector
Open-source vector similarity search for Postgres
sonic
🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM
nebula
A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security
opensearch
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine
ripgrep-all
rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc
kube-bench
Checks whether Kubernetes is deployed according to security best practices as defined in the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark
redshift
Redshift adjusts the color temperature of your screen according to your surroundings. This may help your eyes hurt less if you are working in front of
chainsaw
Rapidly Search and Hunt through Windows Forensic Artefacts
mago
Mago is a toolchain for PHP that aims to provide a set of tools to help developers write better code
Cleartext
A text editor that will help you write clearer and simpler
uncover
Quickly discover exposed hosts on the internet using multiple search engines
tinysearch
🔍 Tiny, full-text search engine for static websites built with Rust and Wasm
concurrencykit
Concurrency primitives, safe memory reclamation mechanisms and non-blocking (including lock-free) data structures designed to aid in the research, des
fst
Represent large sets and maps compactly with finite state transducers
msgvault
Archive a lifetime of email and chat. Offline search, analytics, and AI query over your full message history. Powered by SQLite and DuckDB
julius
Open-Source Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Engine
kubeaudit
kubeaudit helps you audit your Kubernetes clusters against common security controls
fastmod
A fast partial replacement for the codemod tool. Assists with large-scale codebase refactors via regex-based find and replace with human oversight and
libsepol
This is the upstream repository for the Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) userland libraries and tools. The software provided by this project compleme
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 weggli — 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.
weggli 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.