Alternatives to zenith
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. zenith itself: install zenith.
duf
Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative
miller
Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON
gdu
Fast disk usage analyzer with console interface written in Go
mkcert
A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like
zsh-autosuggestions
Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh
Netron
Visualizer for neural network, deep learning and machine learning models
loki
Like Prometheus, but for logs
fastfetch
A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool
zsh-syntax-highlighting
Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh
sentencepiece
Unsupervised text tokenizer for Neural Network-based text generation
iperf3
iperf3: A TCP, UDP, and SCTP network bandwidth measurement tool
sccache
Sccache is a ccache-like tool. It is used as a compiler wrapper and avoids compilation when possible. Sccache has the capability to utilize caching in
MarkEdit
Just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown
Yggdrasil
An experiment in scalable routing as an encrypted IPv6 overlay network
cjdns
An encrypted IPv6 network using public-key cryptography for address allocation and a distributed hash table for routing
helmfile
Declaratively deploy your Kubernetes manifests, Kustomize configs, and Charts as Helm releases. Generate all-in-one manifests for use with ArgoCD
bumblebee
Read-only developer endpoint scanner for on-disk package, extension, and developer-tool metadata, built to check exposure to known software supply-cha
vis
A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions
pumba
Chaos testing, network emulation, and stress testing tool for containers
core-lightning
Core Lightning — Lightning Network implementation focusing on spec compliance and performance
AriaNg Native
A better aria2 desktop frontend than AriaNg, with all features of AriaNg and providing more features for desktop usage
Core Data Editor
Core Data Editor lets you easily view, edit and analyze applications‘ data. Core Data Editor is compatible with Mac and iOS applications and supports
helm-docs
A tool for automatically generating markdown documentation for helm charts
mdq
like jq but for Markdown: find specific elements in a md doc
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 zenith — 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.
zenith 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.