What is Terminal Trove?

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Terminal Trove is a discovery site for terminal-based developer tools, primarily CLI and TUI applications. It organizes tools by category and programming language, and highlights featured picks like a "Tool of the Week" alongside newly added entries. It's useful if you want to find terminal tools for a specific job—monitoring, Git, AI/LLM work, databases—without browsing scattered GitHub lists.

What you'll find on the site

The homepage describes Terminal Trove as "the $HOME of all things in the terminal," showcasing CLI, TUI, and other developer tools. The main sections are:

  • Browse By Categories — TUI, CLI, AI/LLM, Git, Monitoring, Networking, Security, DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, Database, and Text Editors.
  • Tool of the Week — a single featured tool. The current example is eprofiler-tui, described as "a terminal based flamegraph viewer for OTLP and gRPC profiling data."
  • Newly Added Tools — recent entries such as:
    • edamame — a terminal Markdown editor that stays rendered while you edit
    • llamastash — a terminal-native local-LLM manager
    • mitos — a minimal, batteries-included modal text editor
    • yq — a command-line YAML, JSON, INI, and XML processor
    • rulc — a terminal graphing calculator with a REPL
  • Browse By Language — Rust, Python, C, Haskell, Golang, JS, C++, and Shell.

How to use it to pick a tool

  1. Start from your task, not the tool name. If you need to inspect profiling data, the Monitoring or TUI category is the natural entry point; the featured eprofiler-tui is one concrete option for OTLP and gRPC flamegraphs.
  2. Filter by language if you care about the stack. The language index (Rust, Python, Go, etc.) helps when you want tools you can read, extend, or build from source.
  3. Check the "Newly Added" list for freshness. It surfaces recent projects, but newness isn't the same as maturity—verify a tool's activity and docs before adopting it.
  4. Use categories to compare within a job. For example, the Text Editors category groups editors like edamame (Markdown-focused, stays rendered) and mitos (modal, batteries-included), so you can compare by workflow rather than by hype.

What it is not

Terminal Trove is a showcase and directory, not a package registry or a review site. The page provides short descriptions and categories; it doesn't publish pricing, install guarantees, or compatibility details for each tool. Treat listings as leads—confirm installation, licensing, and maintenance status on each project's own page before relying on it.

The site also states it can put a tool, product, or service in front of "92K+ tech professionals" through advertising, so some placements are sponsored (the CodeRabbit CLI promotion is labeled "Sponsored By"). Keep that in mind when a tool appears prominently.