C terminal tools

A curated collection of the best terminal tools written in C.

cava

Real-time audio visualization for your terminal

★ 6.5k · v1.0.0 · c

rizin

Analyze binaries at lightning speed with a Unix-friendly reverse engineering framework

★ 4.0k · v0.9.1 · c

blink

Watch your code execute with real-time memory visualization

★ 7.6k · v1.1.0 · c

ttygif

Turn terminal sessions into shareable animated GIFs instantly

★ 4.0k · v1.4.0 · c

entr

Trigger commands instantly when files change, no polling needed

★ 5.7k · c

gifsicle

Command-line GIF creation, editing, and optimization tool

★ 4.3k · c

sc-im

Terminal spreadsheet with vim-like controls and full formula support

★ 5.7k · v0.8.5 · c

curl

Transfer data across protocols from the command line

★ 43k · vcurl-8_22_0 · c

tmate

Instant terminal sharing without firewall configuration

★ 6.1k · v2.4.0 · c

vlc

Play virtually any media file on any device, anywhere

★ 20k · c

libuv

Handle asynchronous I/O across all platforms with a single C library

★ 27k · v1.53.0 · c

notcurses

Create stunning terminal UIs with vivid colors, multimedia, and Unicode support

★ 4.7k · v3.0.17 · c

vis

Modal editing meets structural regular expressions for powerful text manipulation

★ 5.1k · v0.9 · c

htop

Monitor system processes with real-time interactive control

★ 8.4k · v3.5.3 · c

kew

Search and play your music library from the terminal

★ 3.2k · v4.4.1 · c

fastfetch

Lightning-fast system information display for modern terminals

★ 25k · v2.69.0 · c

CoreFreq

Real-time CPU performance monitoring with kernel-level precision

★ 2.2k · v2.1.4 · c

mtr

Diagnose network issues with combined traceroute and ping capabilities

★ 3.4k · c

goaccess

Real-time web log analysis in your terminal or browser

★ 21k · c

neomutt

Command-line email client with modern features and active development

★ 3.9k · v20260616 · c

jq

Transform JSON data with powerful command-line filters and queries

★ 36k · vjq-1.8.2 · c

bpftop

Monitor eBPF programs with real-time metrics and performance graphs

★ 2.7k · v0.9.0 · c

emacs

Handle API rate limits with intelligent request management

★ 5.2k · c

nvtop

Monitor NVIDIA GPUs with htop-like simplicity

★ 11k · v3.3.2 · c

cfdisk

Partition your disks with an intuitive text-based interface

★ 3.2k · c

cmus

Lightweight console music player with powerful features and format support

★ 6.3k · v2.12.0 · c

tcpdump

Capture and analyze network traffic with powerful command-line tools

★ 3.2k · c

vifm

Navigate files with Vim keybindings in your terminal

★ 3.3k · v0.14.4 · c

weechat

Fast, lightweight IRC client with 8 scripting languages and remote access

★ 3.4k · v4.10.1 · c

vim

Master text editing with modal efficiency and deep customization

★ 41k · c

nnn

Lightning-fast terminal file manager with minimal footprint

★ 22k · v5.3 · c

irssi

Lightweight terminal chat client with IRC, themes, and scripting

★ 3.2k · v1.4.5 · c

pspg

Terminal pager built for exploring tabular data with frozen headers and columns

★ 2.7k · v5.8.16 · c

hashcat

Crack passwords with GPU acceleration across 300+ hashing algorithms

★ 27k · v7.1.2 · c

kyanos

Capture and analyze network requests with kernel-level latency insights

★ 5.1k · v1.6.0 · c

tig

Browse Git repositories and stage changes in your terminal

★ 13k · vtig-2.6.1 · c