Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Shello
Wrangle environment variables
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Shello launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A lightweight mac app for managing environment variables locally. No auth, no network requests, no usage tracking... just files on your machine.
2023 · shello.app · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I've built this cli tool to manage env variables of a project, but mostly for fun and to try out Rust and the clap crate. I had this idea when I made a big mistake and broke some production stuff because I had a very messy .env file laying around in my project. I was implementing new features for one of my projects and in my .env file I had the test database url commented out and the production one was not. Long story short, I applied migrations to the production database instead of my local test one and broke a lot of production APIs :') I wanted a tool that could easily help me…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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EnvFlow▲6Manage environment variables across projects easily
Jun 2026 · envflow.dev · its alternatives →
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My weekend project sendenv is a CLI tool that lets you share environment variables securely with someone else. It is built on top of magic-wormhole which allows for safe, account-free data transfer. When you send variables using sendenv, it creates a one-time code. You give this code to the person who needs the variables. They use the code in their shell to load the variables. This is handy for quickly setting up new team members or copying local environment variables to another system. Its currently in alpha obviously, but the core functionality works (I have tested sending vaults from a…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm Ron Efroni, CEO at Flox, and today we are releasing version 1.0 of our open source CLI, helping folks manage development environments everywhere.My own experience with development environments began with air-gapped systems, having to actually burn software to a CD to iterate over a very slow and expensive development cycle, sometimes reaching the server rack and realizing I have the wrong disk.... Fast forward to today and there are countless alternatives available backed by incredible compute resources, yet we somehow still find ourselves paying the price of long development…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · gregosuri.com · its alternatives →
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Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I like the idea of using dotenv files, but I dislike having to use different language-specific libraries to read them. To solve this, I created a small utility that lets you prefix any command with "dotenv" to load the ".env" file. This is how I imagine dotenv would work if it had started as a UNIX utility rather than a Node.js library.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built Envs.AI, a free tool to solve the headache of managing environment variables across different environments and platforms. Envs.AI lets you store all your environment variables in one secure place and easily integrate them with Jenkins, Python, and other platforms in your tech stack. No more scattered .env files or sharing secrets through Slack messages. Some features: - Central repository for all env variables - Secure storage with proper access controls - Simple integration with CI/CD pipelines - Easy access via API for different languages and frameworks - Team…
2025 · envs.ai · its alternatives →
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2023 · envsecrets.com · its alternatives →
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