fzf VS skim

Compare fzf vs skim and see what are their differences.

fzf

:cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder (by junegunn)
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fzf skim
405 27
58,902 4,783
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9.5 1.9
about 18 hours ago 16 days ago
Go Rust
MIT License MIT License
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fzf

Posts with mentions or reviews of fzf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-10.

skim

Posts with mentions or reviews of skim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-25.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing fzf and skim you can also consider the following projects:

peco - Simplistic interactive filtering tool

zsh-autocomplete - 🤖 Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion.

z - z - jump around

zsh-autosuggestions - Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh

mcfly - Fly through your shell history. Great Scott!

ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

starship - ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

broot - A new way to see and navigate directory trees : https://dystroy.org/broot

zsh-history-substring-search - 🐠 ZSH port of Fish history search (up arrow)

fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

ohmyzsh - 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,200+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

hstr - bash and zsh shell history suggest box - easily view, navigate, search and manage your command history.