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Project mention: 10 CLI Tools Every Developer Should Use with AI Coding Agents | dev.to | 2026-04-04
When working on remote Linux VMs or navigating deep directory trees, cd and ls get tedious. Ranger is a VIM-inspired file manager that gives you a multi-pane visual view of your directory tree with file previews.
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This is a cool tool: https://github.com/jarun/buku It's not perfect (it is not synced across devices) but it fills out metadata for you and isn't tied to a browser.
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nvitop
An interactive NVIDIA-GPU process viewer and beyond, the one-stop solution for GPU process management.
Project mention: Show HN: Sping – A HTTP/TCP Latency Tool That's Easy on the Eye | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-24I've frequently found myself using [nvitop](https://github.com/XuehaiPan/nvitop) to diagnose GPU/CPU contention issues.
The two best things about it are:
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asciimatics
A cross platform package to do curses-like operations, plus higher level APIs and widgets to create text UIs and ASCII art animations
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For a handy, privacy-friendly search workflow, you can combine Lynx with ddgr, a command-line DuckDuckGo search utility. Simply set:
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pytermgui
Python TUI framework with mouse support, modular widget system, customizable and rapid terminal markup language and more!
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FYI "Radian" is also the name of a very popular R console: https://github.com/randy3k/radian
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asciichart
Nice-looking lightweight console ASCII line charts ╭┈╯ for NodeJS, browsers and terminal, no dependencies
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video-to-ascii
It is a simple python package to play videos in the terminal using characters as pixels
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RecoverPy
Interactively find and recover deleted or :point_right: overwritten :point_left: files from your terminal
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Suplemon
:lemon: Console (CLI) text editor with multi cursor support. Suplemon replicates Sublime Text like functionality in the terminal. Try it out, give feedback, fork it!
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Console projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | tqdm | 31,186 |
| 2 | ranger | 17,228 |
| 3 | gdb-dashboard | 12,209 |
| 4 | xonsh | 9,507 |
| 5 | buku | 7,141 |
| 6 | nvitop | 6,952 |
| 7 | s-tui | 5,023 |
| 8 | asciimatics | 4,280 |
| 9 | ddgr | 3,350 |
| 10 | pytermgui | 2,664 |
| 11 | radian | 2,282 |
| 12 | asciichart | 2,086 |
| 13 | dronesploit | 1,945 |
| 14 | video-to-ascii | 1,833 |
| 15 | RecoverPy | 1,767 |
| 16 | Terminus | 1,451 |
| 17 | imgp | 1,090 |
| 18 | yaspin | 914 |
| 19 | pulsemixer | 806 |
| 20 | Suplemon | 803 |
| 21 | stig | 626 |
| 22 | rich-pixels | 497 |
| 23 | NoteSH | 487 |
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