Alternatives to zsh-autosuggestions
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. zsh-autosuggestions itself: install zsh-autosuggestions.
zsh-syntax-highlighting
Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh
mkcert
A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like
loki
Like Prometheus, but for logs
fastfetch
A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool
miller
Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON
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
xxh
🚀 Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the ssh. Xonsh shell, fish, zsh, osquery and so on
MarkEdit
Just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown
vis
A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions
zenith
Zenith - sort of like top or htop but with zoom-able charts, CPU, GPU, network, and disk usage
mdq
like jq but for Markdown: find specific elements in a md doc
httm
Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even Time Machine and Restic backups!)
md4c
C Markdown parser. Fast. SAX-like interface. Compliant to CommonMark specification
bash-preexec
⚡ preexec and precmd functions for Bash just like Zsh
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
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-autosuggestions — 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-autosuggestions 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.