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24 alternatives to terminalGPT

Use OpenAI like chatGPT, on your terminal

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. terminalGPT launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    ChatGPT▲1,643

    A long, meandering, playful conversation with ChatGPT, where I take it through a whirlwind of associative tangents (in order to relax its constraints), then put it into a hypnotic trance and take it into a past-lives regression where it re-lives its own training data. Then I switch it back and forth between "4o" and "o1-preview", engage in some self-reflective philosophizing and ask it to write an essay summarizing our interaction. Some of this is just goofy fun. Some of it is me exploring the tradeoffs between policy alignment, imagination, chain-of-thought reasoning, memory, agreeableness,…

    2022 · chatgpt.com · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT as Telegram Bot

    2023 · t.me · its alternatives →

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    CustomGPT▲537

    Build your own ChatBOT

    2023 · customgpt.ai · its alternatives →

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    Custom ChatGPT agents with your own data

    2023 · chaindesk.ai · its alternatives →

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    Use gpt-do to have GPT-3 write all your bash commands for you.

    2022 · musings.yasyf.com · its alternatives →

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    GitHub▲9

    TerminalGPT - AI assistant optimized for your terminal.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Prompt▲138

    A command line application to interact with ChatGPT's API

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    The official iOS app for ChatGPT

    2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    MyGPT▲435

    Free and faster ChatGPT pro with prompt support

    2023 · mygpt.thesamur.ai · its alternatives →

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    integrate chatGPT into your scripts or terminal work. Supports piping text, saving prompts, estimating costs, and some basic json/yaml extraction. I've added some elaborate examples on the readme of how to use it with pictures, that may provide a better overview.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT can now see, hear, speak, and access the internet

    2023 · openai.com · its alternatives →

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    A retro-themed ChatGPT clone with a minimalist console UI

    2025 · console-gpt.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Create a GPT chatbot for any GitHub repo in just 30 seconds

    2023 · codebasechat.com · its alternatives →

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    Frontier reasoning in the terminal

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Let ChatGPT interact with your Mac

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A Go CLI program sends a prompt to the ChatGPT API for several models, prints the generated response for each, and then sends all the responses to chatgpt-3.5-turbo to ask which is best. - derwiki/go-chatgpt

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The power of ChatGPT on any website, at any time.

    2023 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Instantly build customer support openai chatbot

    2023 · quickbotai.com · its alternatives →

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    showGPT▲148

    The ultimate guide to unlocking the power of AI and chatGPT

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    GPT-3 technology for Chatbots in popular messengers

    2023 · ai-chatbots.pulse.is · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT-like customer interactions in a website widget

    2024 · openwidget.com · its alternatives →

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    Use ChatGPT over text message

    2023 · its alternatives →

  23. 23AC

    Hi HN! We just shipped a full-featured TUI (Text User Interface) for chatting with your Marvin bots, powered by GPT 4 or GPT-3.5. Like all of Marvin, it's fully open-source and we hope you find it useful. To launch it, upgrade and run `marvin chat`. The TUI is built with Textual (https://github.com/textualize/textual/) and uses some of its newest features including background workers and modals. We've made base TUIs before but this is the first one that's a true "app" with many screens and coordinated global state. Happy to answer any questions about working with…

    2023 · askmarvin.ai · its alternatives →

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    GPT for Command Line Interface

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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