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Top 23 Tool Open-Source Projects
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Wow, it's actually real.
https://old.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1at9br4/i_am_new_to...
https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/issues/2011
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Project mention: The $847/year Developer Tool Stack That Replaced My $4,200 SaaS Subscriptions | dev.to | 2026-03-24
Hoppscotch is open-source, runs in the browser, and does everything I used Postman for. Collections, environments, WebSocket testing — all there.
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Project mention: strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-02
My take is that GUI frameworks/APIs have abandoned power users.
Yes, there are thing like https://github.com/ocornut/imgui, and some (especially open source) applications try and muddle a long with Qt or GTK, but many (most?) serious professional or power user applications have built their own GUI frameworks or at least custom controls to deal with this.
Whatever route you take, as a dev it's painful, especially for someone who remembers adding a couple of libraries to a Delphi project back in the Office 2000s era and getting full docking, configurable toolbars, etc. with little to no work.
So the easy fallback (especially with the recent proliferation of libraries) is TUI and CLI applications with the layout/docking and tabs provided by the terminal emulator itself or one of tmux/zellij/etc.
I've been thinking on and off for a few years now about the idea of a "graphical terminal", sitting somewhere between a GUI toolkit and a terminal emulator and a full blown OS for building inter-composable apps and tools and components that could replace TUI based workflows/apps/layouts. I have a vision of every "pro" app just being a different curation and configuration of underlying components rather than actually separate software.
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ShareX
ShareX is a free and open-source application that enables users to capture or record any area of their screen with a single keystroke. It also supports uploading images, text, and various file types to a wide range of destinations.
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Another Redis Desktop Manager
🚀🚀🚀A faster, better and more stable Redis desktop manager [GUI client], compatible with Linux, Windows, Mac.
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CL4R1T4S
LEAKED SYSTEM PROMPTS FOR CHATGPT, CLAUDE, GEMINI, GROK, PERPLEXITY, CURSOR, LOVABLE, REPLIT, AND MORE! - AI SYSTEMS TRANSPARENCY FOR ALL! 👐
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At the moment we have an entry point for our application, but we will need to stop and rerun manually each time we make changes in the application. There is a tool we can use and that one is Air, so let's setup it
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eza is a modern replacement for ls. It is the community-maintained successor to exa, and it gives you colorized output, icons if you want them, Git status, better long listings, and tree views.
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HivisionIDPhotos
⚡️HivisionIDPhotos: a lightweight and efficient AI ID photos tools. 一个轻量级的AI证件照制作算法。
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Project mention: A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-20
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DearPyGui
Dear PyGui: A fast and powerful Graphical User Interface Toolkit for Python with minimal dependencies
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distrobox
Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox
Docker, Distrobox, Flatpak, and a bit of Homebrew where it makes sense
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jsonhero-web
JSON Hero is an open-source, beautiful JSON explorer for the web that lets you browse, search and navigate your JSON files at speed. 🚀. Built with 💜 by the Trigger.dev team.
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They have taken action as of very recently. The latest version [1] of npm warns when there are install scripts and tells you they will be disabled by default in a future version, with a per-dependency opt in mechanism [2].
[1] https://github.com/npm/cli/releases/tag/v11.16.0
[2] https://github.com/npm/rfcs/pull/868
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 | sherlock | 84,589 |
| 2 | Hoppscotch | 79,438 |
| 3 | imgui | 73,701 |
| 4 | Awesome-Design-Tools | 39,721 |
| 5 | it-tools | 39,125 |
| 6 | ShareX | 37,965 |
| 7 | linux-command | 36,252 |
| 8 | awesome-docker | 36,157 |
| 9 | Another Redis Desktop Manager | 34,379 |
| 10 | modern-unix | 32,930 |
| 11 | CL4R1T4S | 26,394 |
| 12 | air | 23,631 |
| 13 | eza | 22,205 |
| 14 | HivisionIDPhotos | 21,157 |
| 15 | DoraemonKit | 20,417 |
| 16 | Seelen-UI | 16,967 |
| 17 | infer | 15,632 |
| 18 | DearPyGui | 15,464 |
| 19 | distrobox | 12,557 |
| 20 | awesome-chatgpt-zh | 11,525 |
| 21 | jsonhero-web | 10,751 |
| 22 | mac-mouse-fix | 10,171 |
| 23 | cli | 9,805 |
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