Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Gum
A tool for building glamorous shell scripts
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Gum launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A tool for glamorous shell scripts 🎀. Contribute to charmbracelet/gum development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · grep.app · its alternatives →
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BashBuddy▲159Write bash commands with natural language, fully local.
2025 · bashbuddy.run · its alternatives →
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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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An attempt at saner Bash defaults. Contribute to mrzool/bash-sensible development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · bash.rocks · its alternatives →
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A github project to collect a bunch of bash-based screensavers/visualizations.
Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling) - lmorg/murex
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Funky takes shell functions to the next level by making them easier to define, more flexible, and more interactive. - bbugyi200/funky
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This is still WIP, but if anyone is interested, we could develop it much faster and perhaps even with cooler features like TUI graphics etc ... Right now it is all in plain ol bash
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I originally was just messing with pi-autoresearch. Gave it a sample task to build the most portable coding agent. First cut was 6 KB of shell. Great for one-shots, unusable interactively. I was shocked it actually worked. Started building up -- adding features — but with a self-imposed rule: no new dependencies, and sub 500 LOC. This thing had to be truly portable. Just sh, curl, awk. System primitives only. Which means I did some genuinely disgusting things in awk, including JSON parsing and the OpenAI Responses tool loop with reasoning items carried across turns. It's now ~400 lines. In…
Apr 2026 · pu.dev · its alternatives →
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Shell scripts made simple 🐚. Contribute to tusharsadhwani/zxpy development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Shell GPT▲62CLI tool for developers, helps you accomplish tasks faster
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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X11 window management toolkit. Contribute to FascinatedBox/bonk development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Tiny Shell▲57A bash-like shell that performs basic functions of a shell. Made as a project for my course of System Software. - skywalker212/tiny-shell
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Woop▲64A scriptable scratchpad, compatible with Boop for macOS
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · papyruseditor.com · its alternatives →
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