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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.
Project mention: Ditch Oh-My-Zsh Bloat: How I Built zload for Sub-Millisecond Terminal Startup | dev.to | 2026-09-29If you use Zsh, chances are you started with Oh-My-Zsh. It is a fantastic gateway into the Zsh ecosystem, but over time, terminal startup slows to a crawl.
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iTerm2-Color-Schemes
Our next-generation, interactive app is currently in beta! Come try it out at terminalthemes.com! Over 600 terminal color schemes/themes for iTerm/iTerm2. Includes ports to Terminal, Konsole, PuTTY, Xresources, XRDB, Remmina, Termite, XFCE, Tilda, FreeBSD VT, Terminator, Kitty, Windows, Visual Studio,, Ghostty, and dozens 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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Now my spaceship shell prompt sparks even more joy.
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The terminal is iTerm, running zsh by default, with the Presto extension, which allows me to configure plugins that enhance command searches in history, improve interaction with Git, and much more. Anyone interested can check its features by following the link.
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SaaSHub
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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. (https://gogh-co.github.io/Gogh/)
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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!
> It's a lot more than any shell script I've written, certainly. If you've written a more complex one I'd love to see it.
I've been maintaining https://github.com/nickjj/dotfriedrice for around 8 years, it's my dotfiles that have an installer and other things. I'd still absolutely classify this is a shell script / dotfiles project. I've added just enough customization to make it easy to modify things without needing to fork the repo if you like most of the opinions.
I only added a GUI last year after my hardware was finally compatible with Linux, otherwise I would have switched almost 10 years ago. Before that, it focused on command line tools and your terminal, that's because I ran it under Windows with WSL 2 but it also worked fine on native Linux even back then, macOS too because I use it on a company issued laptop.
All that to say, I don't see it as anything special. It's a batteries included dotfiles, nothing more nothing less.
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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
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Terminal projects in Shell? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ohmyzsh | 190,052 |
| 2 | iTerm2-Color-Schemes | 27,244 |
| 3 | .tmux | 25,419 |
| 4 | spaceship-prompt | 20,583 |
| 5 | bash-it | 15,276 |
| 6 | prezto | 14,570 |
| 7 | pure | 14,438 |
| 8 | ani-cli | 13,937 |
| 9 | terminals-are-sexy | 13,056 |
| 10 | oh-my-fish | 11,397 |
| 11 | Gogh | 10,322 |
| 12 | oh-my-bash | 7,736 |
| 13 | awesome-console-services | 6,540 |
| 14 | Autoenv | 6,057 |
| 15 | peon-ping | 5,061 |
| 16 | zsh-vi-mode | 4,459 |
| 17 | lsix | 4,176 |
| 18 | ytfzf | 4,154 |
| 19 | LS_COLORS | 2,277 |
| 20 | ansiweather | 1,951 |
| 21 | uac | 1,481 |
| 22 | arttime | 1,389 |
| 23 | dotfriedrice | 1,341 |
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