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How2
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI command-line helper that turns plain English into Bash, Zsh or PowerShell commands; free for light daily use.
1.3K visits/mo3.0K saves
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MarsCode
✓ verifiedFree
AI-powered IDE with code completion, generation, explanation and debugging, plus a cloud dev environment, for developers.
69K visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0 (5 AI queries/day)
Hacker: $9/mo (100 AI queries/day)
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Natural-language to shell command suggestions
- ✦Models trained on Bash/Zsh commands
- ✦Optional StackOverflow search via -s flag
- ✦PowerShell support
- ✦Quick Bash script generation
- ✦Suggests but never auto-runs commands
- ✦AI code completion and snippet generation
- ✦Natural-language code generation
- ✦Code explanation and AI Q&A
- ✦Automated bug detection and fixes
- ✦Zero-config cloud development environment
- ✦Project creation from templates or Git
Use cases
- →Recalling forgotten shell syntax
- →Writing quick Bash one-liners
- →Learning terminal commands
- →Generating scripts from a description
- →Writing and completing code faster with AI
- →Onboarding to unfamiliar codebases
- →Debugging and optimizing code
- →Spinning up dev environments in the browser
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