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24 alternatives to Fisher – a package manager for the fish shell

A plugin manager for Fish. Contribute to jorgebucaran/fisher development by creating an account on GitHub.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Fisher – a package manager for the fish shell launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Fisher 3.0 – the package manager for the fish-shell▲6

   A plugin manager for Fish. Contribute to jorgebucaran/fisher development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Fisherman – Fish Shell Manager▲13

   A plugin manager for Fish. Contribute to jorgebucaran/fisher development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Fisherman – Plugin manager and CLI toolkit for fish shell▲39

   2016 · fisherman.sh · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Sonar▲133

   A native Mac app for GitHub and GitLab issues

   2024 · taska.now · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers▲515

   Devbox is a command-line tool that lets you easily create isolated shells and containers. You start by defining the list of packages required by your development environment, and devbox uses that definition to create an isolated environment just for your application. In practice, Devbox works similar to a package manager like yarn – except the packages it manages are at the operating-system level (the sort of thing you would normally install with brew or apt-get). See it in action: https://youtu.be/WMBaXQZmDoA

   2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Goldfish▲958

   Press Option. It knows your work and replies like you

   Jun 2026 · goldfish.sh · its alternatives →

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   $ A TAP producer and test harness for your shell▲53

   100% pure-Fish test runner. Contribute to jorgebucaran/fishtape development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Feedback Fish▲494

   Collect feedback & make your customers happy.

   2020 · feedback.fish · its alternatives →

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   Shark – A fast sparkline generator for Fish shell▲5

   ▁▂▄▆▇█▇▆▄▂▁. Contribute to jorgebucaran/spark.fish development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Link.fish – API to extract data from websites as JSON▲201

    2017 · link.fish · its alternatives →

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    Sultan – Pythonic interface to your shell▲155

    2017 · sultan.readthedocs.io · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Sonar by Facebook▲152

    Extensible mobile app debugging for iOS and Android

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    DockDuck▲97

    The native macOS file manager Finder should be

    Aug 2026 · dockduck.app · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Dockhand▲133

    Docker management for everyone

    Aug 2026 · dockhand.pro · its alternatives →

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    Aquarium – AI Controlled Containers▲157

    Agents before they were cool. Contribute to fafrd/aquarium development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Deck (alpha)▲101

    Automatic team management for Github

    2021 · withdeck.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Sysdig, a tool for Linux system exploration▲171

    Linux system exploration and troubleshooting tool with first class support for containers - draios/sysdig

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Pollfish▲86

    Monetize with mobile surveys instead of mobile ads.

    2013 · pollfish.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Community Aquarium▲118

    Promote your project with a fish. Yes, seriously.

    2025 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Pile Commander▲115

    Open-source file manager for creative people

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    DevLab – Docker Containerization for Local Development▲34

    :whale: Containerize your development workflow. Contribute to binci/binci development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Fishbank▲66

    Breed fish on the blockchain 🐠 ⛓️

    2018 · fishbank.io · its alternatives →

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    Flint – A minimal C/C++ package manager and build tool written in C▲13

    Simple light-weight package manager and build system written in C for c/c++ projects - mainak55512/flint

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    My plugin system/package manager for Git▲35

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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