What kinds of CLI and TUI tools are featured on Terminal Trove?

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Terminal Trove is a directory that showcases terminal-based developer tools—CLI, TUI, and related utilities—organized so you can browse by category or programming language. The featured tools span text editing, AI/LLM management, data processing, monitoring, networking, security, DevOps, containers, and databases. If you want to discover a terminal tool for a specific workflow, the site's category and language filters are the fastest entry points.

Tool categories on the site

Terminal Trove groups listings under these categories (as shown on the homepage):

  • TUI
  • CLI
  • AI / LLM
  • Git
  • Monitoring
  • Networking
  • Security
  • DevOps
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Database
  • Text editors

You can also browse by the language a tool is written in: Rust, Python, C, Haskell, Go, JS, C++, and Shell.

Examples of featured tools

The homepage highlights a rotating set of tools, including a "Terminal Tool of The Week." Representative examples:

Tool What it does
eprofiler-tui Terminal-based flamegraph viewer for OTLP and gRPC profiling data
edamame Terminal Markdown editor that stays rendered while you edit
llamastash Zero-overhead, terminal-native local-LLM manager
mitos Minimal, batteries-included modal text editor
yq Command-line processor for YAML, JSON, INI, and XML
rulc Terminal graphing calculator with a REPL

These illustrate the range: from editing and data wrangling to AI tooling and interactive calculators.

How to find a tool for your task

  1. Decide your workflow—e.g., "I need to inspect profiling data" or "I want a Markdown editor in the terminal."
  2. Open the category that matches it (Monitoring, Text editors, AI/LLM, etc.).
  3. Narrow further by language if you care about the implementation (e.g., Rust or Go).
  4. Check the tool's listing for its description and link to the project.

The homepage also offers an "Explore All Tools" entry and a random-tool option if you're browsing rather than searching.

What to keep in mind

  • Listings are curated highlights, not an exhaustive index of every terminal tool.
  • The site describes tools but does not publish pricing or install instructions for them; check each project's own page for those details.
  • Categories overlap—a tool may appear under both a workflow (e.g., Docker) and a language (e.g., Go).