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Top 23 Tool Open-Source Projects
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But for reading code, scripts, configs, Markdown, YAML, JSON, or anything where your eyes are expected to survive the experience, bat is much nicer.
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AppSignal
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Project mention: I Replaced a 461-Million-Downloads-a-Month Glob Package With One Rust File | dev.to | 2026-09-07
fast-glob was the Package Killer target, but it was not the only comparison worth making. Developers often reach for fd or ripgrep when they need to locate files from a terminal. They are mature native tools with excellent defaults, so this was not an attempt to manufacture an easy win.
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jsoncrack.com
✨ Innovative and open-source visualization application that transforms various data formats, such as JSON, YAML, XML and CSV into interactive graphs.
Copy this JSON and paste it into jsoncrack.com or any JSON tree visualizer. You'll see your AST as an interactive tree diagram. Click around. Explore the structure. See how factorial(n - 1) is represented. See how the if-expression contains three sub-expressions. Every node, every connection - it's all there.
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Project mention: Sniffnet: cuánto tráfico generan mis agentes IA sin que me avisen | dev.to | 2026-09-07
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IT-Tools, maybe? https://github.com/CorentinTh/it-tools
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Project mention: Benchmarking SnaxVim's Startup Performance Against Popular Neovim Distros | dev.to | 2026-09-21
Benchmark Tools: hyperfine v1.20.0, vim-startuptime v1.3.2
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SaaSHub
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Osintgram
Osintgram is a OSINT tool on Instagram. It offers an interactive shell to perform analysis on Instagram account of any users by its nickname
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Representative tools: Trivy and Grype both scan lockfiles and dependency manifests for vulnerabilities, open-source and fast. For fixing — not just finding — Dependabot (GitHub-native) and Renovate (works everywhere, including GitLab) open automated PRs that bump vulnerable packages.
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why-did-you-render
why-did-you-render by Welldone Software monkey patches React to notify you about potentially avoidable re-renders. (Works with React Native as well.)
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TheFatRat
Thefatrat a massive exploiting tool : Easy tool to generate backdoor and easy tool to post exploitation attack like browser attack and etc . This tool compiles a malware with popular payload and then the compiled malware can be execute on windows, android, mac . The malware that created with this tool also have an ability to bypass most AV software protection .
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ipatool
Command-line tool that allows you to search for iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, visionOS, and macOS apps on the App Store, and download .ipa or macOS .pkg app packages.
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To solve this for my platform, CelebrateMe, I migrated to Deployer a powerful, PHP-based deployment tool that makes zero-downtime deployments incredibly easy.
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I really like hexyl [1], which does this by default.
https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl
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syft
CLI tool and library for generating a Software Bill of Materials from container images and filesystems
Release pages checked 2 October 2026: https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/releases and https://github.com/anchore/syft/releases
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npkill
List any node_modules 📦 dir in your system and how heavy they are. You can then select which ones you want to erase to free up space 🧹
If you have dozens of old projects scattered across your drive, hunting each one down manually isn't realistic. npkill is a free command-line tool that scans your drive, lists every node_modules folder with its size, and lets you delete the ones you don't need interactively:
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Project mention: SteamAchievementManager VS steam-game-idler - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/SteamAchievementManager | 2026-07-03
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release-it is great for single packages. Interactive prompts, clean workflow, good plugin system.
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grex
A command-line tool and Rust library with Python bindings for generating regular expressions from user-provided test cases
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Project mention: Можно ли, не имея доступа к маршрутизаторам провайдера, повлиять на выбор его upstream для своего трафика? | dev.to | 2026-09-12
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SaaSHub
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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 Tool projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | bat | 60,668 |
| 2 | fd | 44,632 |
| 3 | jsoncrack.com | 44,471 |
| 4 | sniffnet | 41,313 |
| 5 | it-tools | 40,737 |
| 6 | hyperfine | 28,944 |
| 7 | gobuster | 14,179 |
| 8 | Osintgram | 14,089 |
| 9 | grype | 12,971 |
| 10 | why-did-you-render | 12,524 |
| 11 | onefetch | 12,058 |
| 12 | TheFatRat | 11,478 |
| 13 | ipatool | 11,483 |
| 14 | Deployer | 11,111 |
| 15 | hexyl | 10,287 |
| 16 | syft | 9,632 |
| 17 | npkill | 9,455 |
| 18 | SteamAchievementManager | 9,156 |
| 19 | Release It! 🚀 | 9,065 |
| 20 | windows-kernel-exploits | 8,732 |
| 21 | grex | 8,208 |
| 22 | trippy | 7,974 |
| 23 | auto-cpufreq | 7,782 |
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