Awesome Rust Tools

Harness the power of Rust. Those fast productivity tools based on Rust.

Table of contents

• Awesome Rust Tools
  • Table of contents
  • Search
  • FileSystem
  • File
  • System Monitor
  • Shell/Terminal
  • Performance
  • Dev-Utilities
  • Editor
  • Others
  • Security

Search

• fd — A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'.
• igrep — Interactive Grep. Runs grep (ripgrep's library) in the background, allows interactively pick its results and open selected match in text editor of choice (vim by default).
• MeiliSearch — Lightning Fast, Ultra Relevant, and Typo-Tolerant Search Engine.
• qdrant-es-gateway — Elasticsearch-compatible application search gateway backed by the Qdrant engine.
• repgrep — An interactive replacer for ripgrep that makes it easy to find and replace across files on the command line.
• ripgrep — A line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern.
• television — General purpose fuzzy finder TUI.
• skim — Fuzzy Finder in rust!
• scout — Your friendly fuzzy finder.
• Reflex — Local-first, trigram-indexed full-text code search engine for large codebases. Sub-100ms queries, JSON output, and MCP server for AI agent workflows.
• sweep-rs — Sweep is a tool for interactive search through a list of entries. It is inspired by fzf.

FileSystem

• diskus — A minimal, fast alternative to 'du -sh'.
• broot — A new way to see and navigate directory trees.
• dua-cli — A tool to conveniently learn about the disk usage of directories, fast!
• dust — A more intuitive version of du in rust.
• dutree — A tool to analyze file system usage written in Rust.
• eza — A modern alternative to ls.
• felix – tui file manager with vim-like key mapping.
• fselect — Find files with SQL-like queries.
• httm – Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even Time Machine and Restic backups!).
• lscolors – A Rust library and tool to colorize paths using LS_COLORS.
• lsd — The next gen ls command.
• rip — A safe and ergonomic alternative to rm.
• spacedrive — Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust.
• trashy — a cli system trash manager, alternative to rm and trash-cli.
• yazi — 💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.
• zoxide — A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.

File

• bat— A cat(1) clone with wings.
• csvlens — Command line csv viewer.
• hck — A sharp cut(1) clone.
• hex — 🔮 Futuristic take on hexdump, made in Rust.
• hexyl — A command-line hex viewer.
• intermodal — Intermodal is a user-friendly and featureful command-line BitTorrent metainfo utility. The binary is called imdl and runs on Linux, Windows, and macOS.
• lemmeknow — The fastest way to identify anything!
• Oculante — A fast and simple image viewer / editor for many operating systems.
• ouch — Painless compression and decompression in the terminal.
• runiq — An efficient way to filter duplicate lines from input, à la uniq.
• ruplacer — Find and replace text in source files.
• termscp – 🖥 A feature rich terminal UI file transfer and explorer with support for SCP/SFTP/FTP/S3/SMB.
• xcp — An extended cp.
• xplr — A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer.

System Monitor

• bandwhich — Terminal bandwidth utilization tool.
• below — A time traveling resource monitor for modern Linux systems.
• bottom — A customizable cross-platform graphical process/system monitor for the terminal.
• bpftop – bpftop provides a dynamic real-time view of running eBPF programs.
• diskonaut — Terminal disk space navigator 🔭 .
• featherbar — A featherweight macOS menu-bar system monitor showing CPU, RAM, power, and temperature.
• lazyslurm - A lazygit-style terminal UI for Slurm. Monitor jobs, tail logs, and inspect nodes and partitions.
• netscanner - All-in-one Network scanner.
• macchina — A system information frontend with an emphasis on performance.
• macmon - Sudoless performance / power monitoring for Apple Silicon processors.
• pik – Process Interactive Kill.
• procs — procs is a replacement for ps written in Rust.
• rsftch — Lightning fast hardware fetch written in rust.
• rustnet - A cross-platform Terminal UI for real-time network monitoring with process identification and deep packet inspection.
• RustScan — 🤖 The Modern Port Scanner 🤖 .
• sniffnet — Cross-platform application to monitor your network traffic with ease.
• trippy — A network diagnostic tool.
• ytop(Archived) - A TUI system monitor written in Rust.
• Zenith — Sort of like top or htop but with zoom-able charts, network, and disk usage.
• macdisp – macOS command-line tool for changing the display.

Shell/Terminal

• alacritty — A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.
• atuin – ✨ Magical shell history.
• createnv - 🧞‍♀️Automagically creates .env files.
• handlr-regex — A fork of handlr an xdg-utils alternative.
• just — 🤖 Just a command runner.
• mprocs — Run multiple commands in parallel.
• navi — An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line and application launchers.
• nushell — A modern shell written in Rust.
• rargs – Rargs is kind of xargs + awk with pattern-matching support.
• rio — A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator focusing to run in desktops and browsers.
• rust-parallel — Fast command line app in rust/tokio to execute commands in parallel. Similar interface to GNU parallel or xargs.
• sd — Intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative).
• shrs – The rusty shell toolkit for hackers.
• sparklebios - Draws a retro 1995 PC BIOS boot screen with real system facts and cached health checks on every new terminal tab.
• splashboard - A customizable terminal splash rendered on shell startup and on directory change, with per-directory dashboards.
• starship — ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell! https://starship.rs
• tty7 — A GPU-rendered, daemon-backed terminal in pure Rust; sessions survive quitting the app without tmux.
• wezterm — A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust.
• zellij — A terminal workspace with batteries included.

Performance

• cargo-flamegraph — Easy flamegraphs for Rust projects and everything else, without Perl or pipes <3.
• hyperfine — A command-line benchmarking tool.
• inferno — A Rust port of FlameGraph. 18x~20x faster than flamegraph.pl.
• py-spy — Sampling profiler for Python programs.

Dev-Utilities

• bytehound — A memory profiler for Linux.
• delta — A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output.
• difftastic — A structural diff that understands syntax 🟥🟩.
• dnspeep – spy on the DNS queries your computer is making.
• dotter — A dotfile manager and templater written in rust 🦀.
• dtool — A command-line tool collection to assist development.
• edky - A command-line utility to convert Ed25519 public keys between various encoding formats (Base58, Base64, IPFS, iroh, libp2p, OpenSSH, etc).
• eva – A calculator REPL, similar to bc(1).
• fnm — 🚀 Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust.
• forge — A terminal-based AI pair programmer for software development, providing intelligent code assistance and collaboration features.
• Forge — Go from idea to verified code without leaving the terminal: an open-source AI coding agent unifying a code editor, shell, and durable session journal in one keyboard-driven TUI.
• octomind — Session-based AI development assistant with MCP support, 7 LLM providers, and extensible architecture.
• fw — Workspace productivity booster.
• git-absorb — git commit --fixup, but automatic.
• gitlogue - A cinematic Git commit history replay for the terminal.
• gitoxide — An idiomatic, lean, fast & safe pure Rust implementation of Git.
• gitui — Blazing fast terminal-ui for git written in rust.
• Gitside — Responsive, mouse-friendly Git source-control TUI for full terminals and narrow tmux panes.
• gity — A cross-platform Rust daemon that accelerates Git on large repos via the fsmonitor protocol.
• gpg-tui – Manage your GnuPG keys with ease! 🔐.
• grex - A command-line tool and library for generating regular expressions from user-provided test cases.
• hurl — Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text.
• Hyperconsciousness - Developer-alpha CLI for encrypted, append-only knowledge with search and scoped, expiring MCP grants.
• intentdiff — Structure-aware Git diff for code review; collapses formatting noise and highlights moved code, probable renames, import reorders, and meaningful edits.
• jaq — A jq clone focussed on correctness, speed, and simplicity.
• jj — A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful.
• jless — jless is a command-line JSON viewer designed for reading, exploring, and searching through JSON data.
• lurk — A pretty (simple) alternative to strace.
• mask — 🎭 A CLI task runner defined by a simple markdown file.
• mise – dev tools, env vars, task runner.
• nika — Workflow engine for AI: .nika.yaml DAGs statically checked before execution (schema, permits, cost), tamper-evident traces after; local-first, MCP client and server.
• onefetch – Command-line Git information tool.
• omnigraph — "Typed graph database where agents branch and merge like Git. S3-native, traversal + vector + BM25 in one runtime."
• pastel — A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors.
• qsv — Blazing-fast Data-Wrangling toolkit.
• riff – A diff filter highlighting which line parts have changed.
• rust_sqlite — Simple embedded database modeled off SQLite in Rust
• rust_kanban — A kanban board for the terminal built with ❤️ in Rust.
• sccache — sccache is a ccache-like compiler caching tool.
• sem - Semantic version control on top of Git: entity-level diffs, blame, and cross-file impact analysis (28 languages via tree-sitter), built for coding agents.
• silicon — Silicon is an alternative to Carbon implemented in Rust. It can render your source code into a beautiful image.
• slumber — Terminal-based HTTP/REST client.
• sqleibniz – LSP and analysis cli for sql. Check for valid syntax, semantics and perform dynamic analysis.
• steel — An embedded scheme interpreter in Rust.
• StyLua — An opinionated Lua code formatter.
• supercov — Line, branch and MC/DC coverage per test on stable Rust, by wrapping cargo test or cargo nextest run.
• tealdeer — A very fast implementation of tldr in Rust.
• tlrc — A tldr client written in Rust.
• tinty — A base16 and base24 color scheme manager.
• tokei — Count your code, quickly.
• Tura — Tura is a local, open-source coding agent for developers who are tired of vague skill claims, token-saving extensions with no evidence, and agents that change a repository before understanding it.
• ugdb — An alternative TUI for gdb wrote in Rust.
• xsv — A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.

Editor

• amp — A text editor for your terminal.
• gnvim — GNvim, Neovim GUI aiming for rich code editing experience without any unnecessary web bloat.
• helix — A post-modern modal text editor.
• iota — A terminal-based text editor written in Rust.
• lapce — Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust.
• neovide — No Nonsense Neovim Client in Rust.
• PinkDown — Fast native split-pane Markdown editor and reader for Windows and macOS, built with Rust and egui.
• qnote — Minimal frameless notepad for Linux with Markdown preview, PDF export via Typst, OCR via Tesseract, and version history. Built with Tauri 2.
• rnote — Sketch and take handwritten notes.
• TUI-Journal — Your journal app if you live in a terminal.
• xi-editor — A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.
• zed — Code at the speed of thought.

Others

• bartib - A simple timetracker for the command line.
• coreutils – Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils.
• fend — Arbitrary-precision unit-aware calculator.
• gittype - A code-typing game that turns your source code into typing challenges.
• himalaya – 📫 CLI email client written in Rust.
• inlyne — A GPU powered yet browserless tool to help you quickly view markdown files in the blink of an eye.
• kanata - Improve keyboard comfort and usability with advanced customization.
• md-tui - A TUI application for viewing markdown files.
• OpenTypeless — Cross-platform AI voice typing desktop app built with Tauri.
• see - A file visualization tool for terminal, offering advanced code viewing capabilities, Markdown rendering, and more. It provides syntax highlighting, emoji support, and image rendering capabilities, offering a visually appealing way to view various file types directly in your console.
• poketex – Simple Pokedex based on TUI(Terminal User Interface).
• ratatui — A Rust crate for cooking up terminal user interfaces (TUIs).
• rustdesk — The best open source remote desktop client software.
• SubnetDesk — LAN/VPN-only remote desktop that connects directly by IP or hostname without public rendezvous or relay services.
• screenpipe — Local 24/7 screen & mic recorder that indexes OCR, accessibility, and audio transcripts for AI search and agents (works with Ollama).
• shadowsocks-rust — A Rust port of shadowsocks
• sudo.rs — A safety oriented and memory safe implementation of sudo and su written in Rust.
• vaultwarden — Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs.
• youtube-tui – An aesthetically pleasing YouTube TUI written in Rust.
• ytermusic — An in terminal youtube music client with focus on privacy, simplicity and performance.
• zola — A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. https://www.getzola.org
• zerobrew – A drop-in, 5-20x faster, experimental Homebrew alternative.

Security

• fnprint - Behavioral function fingerprinting; names functions in stripped ELF binaries and patch-diffs vuln vs patched builds by microexecution.

• n01d-forge — Native GUI image burner with LUKS/VeraCrypt encryption support for creating secure bootable drives.

• n01d-machine — Secure VM manager with Tor/VPN integration, sandbox isolation, and network compartmentalization.

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