Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to hiSHtory
Your shell history in context, synced, and queryable
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. hiSHtory launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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hiSHtory is a better shell history. It stores your shell history in context (what directory you ran the command it, whether it succeeded or failed, how long it took, etc). This is all stored locally and end-to-end encrypted for syncing to to all your other computers. All of this is easily queryable via Control-R and via the hishtory CLI. This means from your laptop, you can easily find that complex bash pipeline you wrote on your server, and see the context in which you ran it.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Private cloud shell history. Open source server for bashhub https://github.com/rcaloras/bashhub-client - nicksherron/bashhub-server
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This project is a tool for engineers who live in the terminal and are tired of losing their command history to ephemeral servers or fragmented `.bash_history` files. If you’re jumping between dozens of boxes, many of which might be destroyed an hour later, your "local memory" (the history file) is essentially useless. This tool builds a centralized, permanent brain for your shell activity, ensuring that a complex one-liner you crafted months ago remains accessible even if the server it ran on is long gone. The core mechanism wants to be a "zero-touch" capture that happens at the connection…
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Bash and Zsh shell history TUI suggest box - easily view, navigate, search and manage your command history. - dvorka/hstr
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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✨ Magical shell history. Contribute to ellie/atuin development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Quickly browse the history of a file from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or any git repository
2019 · githistory.xyz · its alternatives →
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FTS, backup, synchronize and organize your shell history
2021 · loshadki.app · its alternatives →
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Smarter shell history for Zsh. Contribute to overflowy/zhist development by creating an account on GitHub.
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 11DH
2012 · sidnicio.us · its alternatives →
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Securely access, track, and manage your clipboard history
2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
- 13HA
In the deep mists of time (circa 2012), I was playing with the Go standard library, and saw how easy it was to stand up a webserver that let you navigate a remote file system, and I thought it was pretty neat. I took a look at my shell history and a frequent pattern of commands was "cd, ls, cd, ls, ...". And I thought "I love my keyboard, but you know, point and click might be nice in this context." And then I thought, "It'd be even cooler if you could run commands there." Skip forward several years, a few earlier implementations, a name change, and now there's Hucksh(ell), a bash-like shell…
2023 · its alternatives →
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Gummybear▲10Shell history service to store, sync, and search commands
2024 · gummybear.r-kyve.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Tracking history of USB events on GNU/Linux. Contribute to snovvcrash/usbrip development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Fly through your shell history. Great Scott! Contribute to cantino/mcfly development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Git History▲102Quickly browse the history of any GitHub file
2019 · githistory.xyz · its alternatives →
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Digest Diff▲105Let your commit history tell its story using the power of AI
2023 · digestdiff.com · its alternatives →
- 22RG
Hey HN! I'm José, and I built Recall to solve a problem that was driving me crazy. The Problem: I use Claude for coding daily, but every conversation starts from scratch. I'd explain my architecture, coding standards, past decisions... then hit the context limit and lose everything. Next session? Start over. The Solution: Recall is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that gives Claude persistent memory using Redis + semantic search. Think of it as long-term memory that survives context limits and session restarts. How it works: - Claude stores important context as "memories" during…
2025 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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I've been working on Shelgon, a framework that lets you build your own custom REPL shells and interactive CLI applications in Rust. You can use Shelgon to: - Create a custom shell with only a few lines of code - Build interactive debugging tools with persistent state between commands - Develop domain-specific language interpreters with shell-like interfaces - Add REPL capabilities to existing applications Getting started is straightforward - implement a single trait that handles your command execution logic, and Shelgon takes care of the terminal UI, input handling, and async runtime…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Automatically create and manage scripts from history - asidiali/repro
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- HiSHtory: Your shell history in context, synced, and queryable alternatives
- Private cloud shell history. Open source server for bashhub alternatives
- Hc: an agentless, multi-tenant shell history sink alternatives
- HSTR – easily view, navigate, search and manage your shell history alternatives
- Atuin, improved shell history with multi-machine sync alternatives
- Quickly browse the history of any GitHub file alternatives
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