Alternatives to zsh-autocomplete
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. zsh-autocomplete itself: install zsh-autocomplete.
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!)
ttl
Fast, modern traceroute with real-time TUI, per-hop stats, ASN/geo lookup, ECMP detection, and MPLS label parsing. A better mtr
fd
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
trivy
Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
eslint
Find and fix problems in your JavaScript code
pyright
Static Type Checker for Python
cataclysm
Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world
npm-check-updates
Find newer versions of package dependencies than what your package.json allows
lefthook
Fast and powerful Git hooks manager for any type of projects
bandit
Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code
Dayflow
The automatic work journal/time tracker. Privately turns your screen into a timeline of what you actually accomplished. Open-source and local-first
magic_enum
Static reflection for enums (to string, from string, iteration) for modern C++, work with any enum type without any macro or boilerplate code
recon-ng
Open Source Intelligence gathering tool aimed at reducing the time spent harvesting information from open sources
fzf-tab
Replace zsh's default completion selection menu with fzf!
rure
An implementation of regular expressions for Rust. This implementation uses finite automata and guarantees linear time matching on all inputs
jet
Type safe SQL builder with code generation and automatic query result data mapping
json2ts
Compile JSON Schema to TypeScript type declarations
libfaketime
libfaketime modifies the system time for a single application
typeshare
Typeshare is the ultimate tool for synchronizing your type definitions between Rust and other languages for seamless FFI
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 zsh-autocomplete — 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.
zsh-autocomplete 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.