Alternatives

Products that do what Fwd is a network port forwarder cross platform/arch dead simple to use does

1. 1FA
   FSSB – A filesystem sandbox for Linux▲43

   2016 · github.com

2. 2AA
   An Aesthetically Pleasing Arch Linux Distro▲76

   2020 · archcraft-os.github.io

3. 3FG
   `fzf` * `Git` done right▲251

   2020 · github.com

4. 4BS
   Blink Shell for iOS, an Open-Source, Mosh and SSH Terminal for Pros▲219

   2016 · blink.sh

5. 5OS
   Open Source alternative to services like Intercom.io and Smooch▲163

   2017 · github.com

6. 6VA
   Valhalla, an open source routing engine▲147

   2015 · mapzen.com

7. 7MA
   Monolinux – A tiny embedded Linux distro▲69

   2019 · github.com

8. 8SE
   Simple express-like routing for front-end▲58

   2016 · github.com

9. 9XF
   XFiles – FOSS File Manager and Archiver with Root Support for Android▲57

   2019 · github.com

10. 10BG
    bofied – Go network boot server with a WASM PWA▲8

    2021 · github.com

11. 11AI
    An immutable ostree-based Arch Linux image▲12

    i've been a big fan of fedora's atomic distros and i decided to make my own but arch based to get the best of both worlds, which is kind of funny now because it looks exactly like silverblue. is it worth it? not sure, but it's been a interesting experience – and it's usable as a daily driver if your specs match. worth noting that because of the constraints of the setup you can develop something similar on your main machine without any realistic possibility of data loss since you never really touch the bootloader or the filesystem (partitioning and so on).

    Dec 2025 · github.com

12. 12MA
    Minimalist App for Backups to Any Storage (Now FOSS)▲5

    2021 · github.com

13. 13AS
    A simple but powerful UI for SSH port forwarding▲10

    2020 · github.com

14. 14UR
    Using RAMBOOT to build a diskless home router OS▲8

    2013 · ramboot.org

15. 15PE
    Portal – Effortlessly transfer files over wifi▲20

    2015 · blog.pushbullet.com

16. 16OS
    Open-Source Alternative to Hubspot and Intercom▲6

    2020 · github.com

17. 17JE
    JS-emulated Linux with network support, everyone on one subnet▲26

    2013 · jor1k.widgetry.org

18. 18ND
    Netboot diskless Windows machines from a Linux server for LAN parties▲6

    2020 · github.com

19. 19QB
    Quick-Back, a POSIX compliant, rsync based system backup tool▲22

    2016 · github.com

20. 20IW
    I wrote a load balancer with XDP and Go▲15

    Facebook's Katran looked too scary (and I don't do C++), so I thought I would investigate using XDP/eBPF to redirect packets at high speed and Go to do the control plane work of health-checking backed servers and managing configuration. With luck the resulting binary should be easy to deploy by non-developers. It's still not mature, but seems to work. Code was written in a very exploratory manner, and I'm not a developer so it is quite shocking at the moment, but I aim to improve it. It is intended to be horizontally scalable with ECMP and has been tested on service providing…

    2022 · github.com

21. 21AN
    A new container platform with builds, provisioning, networking and apps▲20

    2018 · flockport.com

22. 22DT
    Distro.tools - Scripts for lazy Linux users▲14

    2019 · distro.tools

23. 23IG
    Introducing Go Serverless Functions with OpenFaaS▲16

    2017 · blog.alexellis.io

24. 24AO
    Alternative Open-Source Openrouter▲5

    2025 · llmgateway.io

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