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Top 23 Shell Terminal Projects
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ohmyzsh
🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,500+ 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 that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
We've all been there. You install Zsh, and the very next recommendation you see online is to install Oh-My-Zsh. For a long time, I did exactly that. But over time, the "magic" of heavy frameworks started to wear thin.
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iTerm2-Color-Schemes
Over 450 terminal color schemes/themes for iTerm/iTerm2. Includes ports to Terminal, Konsole, PuTTY, Xresources, XRDB, Remmina, Termite, XFCE, Tilda, FreeBSD VT, Terminator, Kitty, MobaXterm, LXTerminal, Microsoft's Windows Terminal, Visual Studio, Alacritty, Ghostty, and many more
I made the "Aardvark Blue" a while back[1] to solve some of the problems that most color schemes have. The goal of this theme is that:
- colors are fairly natural
- background and black are distinct
- grays are naturally ordered avoiding full black
- light and dark colors are distinct from each other
- all colors look good on background, black, dark gray, gray, white
We use this for all the screenshots on https://ratatui.rs and https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui
It's available from the usual places https://iterm2colorschemes.com/, https://windowsterminalthemes.dev/?theme=Aardvark%20Blue, built in to ghostty, extension for vscode etc.
[1]: https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes/pull/417
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Project mention: Starship: The minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-24
Happy user of spaceship prompt for zsh: https://spaceship-prompt.sh, and, among other things, it runs repo status asynchronously.
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git clone --recursive https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto.git "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zprezto"
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There's so many plugin systems for zsh. From comments it seems like Pretzo is the main one suggested.
But there's a huge list of different offerings. Looking at https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure?tab=readme-ov-file#inte... , there's also for example zim, zplug, zinit, zi. It's be so great to have see some deeper investigations or comparisons: is Pretzo really the best choice? Aside from seeming popularity, why?
At least found this neat gist with a cheat sheet for different zsh plugin systems (and how very many there are!)
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Gogh
Gogh is a collection of color schemes for various terminal emulators, including Gnome Terminal, Pantheon Terminal, Tilix, and XFCE4 Terminal also compatible with iTerm on macOS.
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oh-my-bash
A delightful community-driven framework for managing your bash configuration, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
Oh My Bash GitHub Repository
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awesome-console-services
A curated list of awesome console services (reachable via HTTP, HTTPS and other network protocols)
Others: https://github.com/chubin/awesome-console-services?tab=readm...
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peon-ping
Warcraft III Peon voice notifications (+ more!) for Claude Code, Codex, IDEs, and any AI agent. Stop babysitting your terminal. Employ a Peon today.
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uac
UAC is a powerful and extensible incident response tool designed for forensic investigators, security analysts, and IT professionals. It automates the collection of artifacts from a wide range of Unix-like systems, including AIX, ESXi, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, NetScaler, OpenBSD and Solaris.
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arttime
arttime is a CLI application that blends beauty of ASCII / text art with functionality of clock / timer / pattern-based time manager in terminal ⏰
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dotfriedrice
Set up a developer friendly niri / Arch Linux system in minutes. Also supports WSL 2, Debian, Ubuntu and macOS for CLI tools!
Project mention: DotFriedRice: Niri / Arch Linux Desktop Environment with Modern CLI Tools | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-13
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 Terminal projects in Shell? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | ohmyzsh | 187,794 |
| 2 | iTerm2-Color-Schemes | 26,933 |
| 3 | .tmux | 25,028 |
| 4 | spaceship-prompt | 20,509 |
| 5 | bash-it | 15,081 |
| 6 | prezto | 14,543 |
| 7 | pure | 14,272 |
| 8 | terminals-are-sexy | 12,954 |
| 9 | ani-cli | 12,584 |
| 10 | oh-my-fish | 11,336 |
| 11 | Gogh | 10,236 |
| 12 | oh-my-bash | 7,540 |
| 13 | awesome-console-services | 6,433 |
| 14 | Autoenv | 6,035 |
| 15 | peon-ping | 4,802 |
| 16 | zsh-vi-mode | 4,361 |
| 17 | lsix | 4,152 |
| 18 | ytfzf | 4,073 |
| 19 | LS_COLORS | 2,272 |
| 20 | ansiweather | 1,941 |
| 21 | uac | 1,372 |
| 22 | arttime | 1,351 |
| 23 | dotfriedrice | 1,255 |
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