i3blocks VS spicetify-cli

Compare i3blocks vs spicetify-cli and see what are their differences.

i3blocks

The hacker-friendly status_command for Sway and i3 (by vivien)

spicetify-cli

Command-line tool to customize Spotify client. Supports Windows, MacOS, and Linux. (by spicetify)
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i3blocks spicetify-cli
14 206
2,231 16,383
- 2.4%
0.0 9.4
4 months ago 3 days ago
C JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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i3blocks

Posts with mentions or reviews of i3blocks. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-18.

spicetify-cli

Posts with mentions or reviews of spicetify-cli. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-21.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing i3blocks and spicetify-cli you can also consider the following projects:

BlockTheSpot - Video, audio & banner adblock/skip for Spotify

i3status - Generates status bar to use with i3bar, dzen2 or xmobar

Apple-Music-Electron - Apple Music Electron is now deprecated. See our new project Cider https://github.com/ciderapp/Cider

Monstercat-Visualizer - A real time audio visualizer for Rainmeter similar to the ones used in the Monstercat videos.

spicetify-themes - A community-driven collection of themes for customizing Spotify through Spicetify - https://github.com/spicetify/spicetify-cli

i3status-rust - Very resourcefriendly and feature-rich replacement for i3status, written in pure Rust

WebNowPlaying - A NowPlaying like plugin for rainmeter built for getting music info from websites

BlockTheSpot - Video, audio & banner adblock/skip for Spotify

monkeytype - The most customizable typing website with a minimalistic design and a ton of features. Test yourself in various modes, track your progress and improve your speed.

Cider - A new cross-platform Apple Music experience based on Electron and Vue.js written from scratch with performance in mind. 🚀

dash-to-panel - An icon taskbar for the Gnome Shell. This extension moves the dash into the gnome main panel so that the application launchers and system tray are combined into a single panel, similar to that found in KDE Plasma and Windows 7+. A separate dock is no longer needed for easy access to running and favorited applications.

neofetch - 🖼️ A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+