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Products that do what GrandTourer – a CLI tool for easily launching applications on macOS does

If 'open -a' is 5 too many keys for a command-with-option, and you don't want to write "Visual Studio Code" as an argument.

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   TermHere▲147

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3. 3IP
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   Mac CLi▲226

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5. 5P2
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   2018 · github.com

6. 6PA
   Phoenix – a macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript▲153

   2020 · github.com

7. 7DA
   Dumbar, a not so smart menubar app▲60

   I created this to fill a need, accessing those silly LLMs from the menu bar instead of a web browser or command line. It relies 100% on Ollama, but gives you an easy way to make queries against multiple models, and provides a few sample modelfiles for you. open source, of course. https://github.com/JerrySievert/Dumbar to skip the blog post and go straight to the code and release.

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8. 8CU
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   2012 · journeyformac.com

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   Karabiner▲80

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10. 10CA
    Commandcar – a CLI tool that can easily communicate with any API▲82

    2015 · github.com

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    CodeOpen▲88

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12. 12LT
    Linuxify – Transform the MacOS CLI into a GNU/Linux CLI Experience▲30

    2018 · github.com

13. 13TA
    Terminal, a sandboxed command-line interface for iOS▲62

    2018 · github.com

14. 14TA
    Term.app, a terminal + shell replacement for Mac▲15

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15. 15GL
    GPT–LLM native macOS app with time travel, versioning, search▲12

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    2023 · thellm.app

16. 16OC
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17. 17AM
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    2018 · github.com

18. 18MH
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    Geeonx a Multiplatform C GUI-Library (Linux, Windows, macOS)▲23

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21. 21TT
    Typer, the FastAPI of CLI Apps▲10

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22. 22CF
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23. 23HA
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24. 24GA
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