Apps that work with BCD › Command-line tools
Command-line tools ChatGPT and Claude can run
3,594 tools people install with Homebrew. Through BCD, ChatGPT, Claude and other AI apps can install and run each one on your own Mac or Linux computer.
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Most installed
- gh
GitHub command-line tool
- node
Open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment
- awscli
Official Amazon AWS command-line interface
- uv
Extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust
- ffmpeg
Play, record, convert, and stream select audio and video codecs
- git
Distributed revision control system
- cmake
Cross-platform make
- go
Open source programming language to build simple/reliable/efficient software
- coreutils
GNU File, Shell, and Text utilities
- pkgconf
Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
- python@3.14
Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
- mise
Polyglot runtime manager (asdf rust clone)
- xcbeautify
Little beautifier tool for xcodebuild
- jq
Lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor
- imagemagick
Tools and libraries to manipulate images in select formats
- docker
Pack, ship and run any application as a lightweight container
- pyenv
Python version management
- pipx
Execute binaries from Python packages in isolated environments
- openssl@3
Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit
- poppler
PDF rendering library (based on the xpdf-3.0 code base)
- ollama
Create, run, and share large language models (LLMs)
- yq
Process YAML, JSON, XML, CSV and properties documents from the CLI
- yt-dlp
Feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
- pnpm
Fast, disk space efficient package manager
- tmux
Terminal multiplexer
- xz
General-purpose data compression with high compression ratio
- fzf
Command-line fuzzy finder written in Go
- python@3.12
Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
- gnupg
GNU Privacy Guard (OpenPGP)
- nvm
Manage multiple Node.js versions
- helm
Kubernetes package manager
- ripgrep
Search tool like grep and The Silver Searcher
- python@3.11
Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
- kubernetes-cli
Kubernetes command-line interface
- python@3.13
Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
- neovim
Ambitious Vim-fork focused on extensibility and agility
- gcc
GNU compiler collection
- just
Handy way to save and run project-specific commands
- protobuf
Protocol buffers (Google's data interchange format)
- opencode
AI coding agent, built for the terminal
- graphviz
Graph visualization software from AT&T and Bell Labs
- hello
Program providing model for GNU coding standards and practices
- pandoc
Swiss-army knife of markup format conversion
- glab
Open-source GitLab command-line tool
- mole
Deep clean and optimize your Mac
- swiftlint
Tool to enforce Swift style and conventions
- ninja
Small build system for use with gyp or CMake
- harfbuzz
OpenType text shaping engine
- mkcert
Simple tool to make locally trusted development certificates
- redis
Persistent key-value database, with built-in net interface
- glib
Core application library for C
- docker-compose
Isolated development environments using Docker
- cocoapods
Dependency manager for Cocoa projects
- openjdk@17
Development kit for the Java programming language
- tree
Display directories as trees (with optional color/HTML output)
- rust
Safe, concurrent, practical language
- wget
Internet file retriever
- curl
Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or FTP server
- cloudflared
Cloudflare Tunnel client (formerly Argo Tunnel)
- lazygit
Simple terminal UI for git commands
- llvm
Next-gen compiler infrastructure
- ccache
Object-file caching compiler wrapper
- gnu-tar
GNU version of the tar archiving utility
- php
General-purpose scripting language
- maven
Java-based project management
- llama.cpp
LLM inference in C/C++
- xcodegen
Generate your Xcode project from a spec file and your folder structure
- openjdk
Development kit for the Java programming language
- bash
Bourne-Again SHell, a UNIX command interpreter
- starship
Cross-shell prompt for astronauts
- tesseract
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine
- openjdk@21
Development kit for the Java programming language
- ruby
Powerful, clean, object-oriented scripting language
- nmap
Port scanning utility for large networks
- fd
Simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find
- libpq
Postgres C API library
- htop
Improved top (interactive process viewer)
- git-lfs
Git extension for versioning large files
- vim
Vi 'workalike' with many additional features
- ansible
Automate deployment, configuration, and upgrading
- mysql
Open source relational database management system
- watchman
Watch files and take action when they change
- mint
Dependency manager that installs and runs Swift command-line tool packages
- qemu
Generic machine emulator and virtualizer
- kubeconform
FAST Kubernetes manifests validator, with support for Custom Resources!
- rclone
Rsync for cloud storage
- fastfetch
Like neofetch, but much faster because written mostly in C
- xclogparser
Tool to parse the SLF serialization format used by Xcode
- colima
Container runtimes on MacOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
- actionlint
Static checker for GitHub Actions workflow files
- zsh
UNIX shell (command interpreter)
- librsvg
Library to render SVG files using Cairo
- podman
Tool for managing OCI containers and pods
- automake
Tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles
- pango
Framework for layout and rendering of i18n text
- gradle
Open-source build automation tool based on the Groovy and Kotlin DSL
- bat
Clone of cat(1) with syntax highlighting and Git integration
- flyctl
Command-line tools for fly.io services
- libomp
LLVM's OpenMP runtime library
- lcov
Graphical front-end for GCC's coverage testing tool (gcov)
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Program data from Homebrew, updated 2026-11-11. Installs are Homebrew's installs on request over the last 365 days.