Alternatives to Yggdrasil
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. Yggdrasil itself: install Yggdrasil.
cjdns
An encrypted IPv6 network using public-key cryptography for address allocation and a distributed hash table for routing
nebula
A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security
Netron
Visualizer for neural network, deep learning and machine learning models
sentencepiece
Unsupervised text tokenizer for Neural Network-based text generation
FineTune
FineTune, a macOS menu bar app for per-app volume control, multi-device output, audio routing, and 10-band EQ. Free and open-source alternative to Sou
kubeseal
A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets
iperf3
iperf3: A TCP, UDP, and SCTP network bandwidth measurement tool
Textream
Textream is a free macOS teleprompter app for streamers, interviewers, and presenters. It highlights your script in real-time as you speak, displayed
pumba
Chaos testing, network emulation, and stress testing tool for containers
core-lightning
Core Lightning — Lightning Network implementation focusing on spec compliance and performance
zenith
Zenith - sort of like top or htop but with zoom-able charts, CPU, GPU, network, and disk usage
sbom-tool
The SBOM tool is a highly scalable and enterprise ready tool to create SPDX 2.2 compatible SBOMs for any variety of artifacts
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 Yggdrasil — 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.
Yggdrasil 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.