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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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NavamAI
✓ verifiedFree
CLI-based personal AI that runs 15+ LLMs from your terminal and pairs with Markdown tools like Obsidian and VS Code.
991 visits/mo
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HeyCLI
✓ verifiedFree
Preview CLI copilot that translates plain-English requests into Linux shell commands.
222 visits/mo2.5K saves
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BashBuddy
✓ verifiedFree
Open-source, locally-run CLI that turns natural-language requests into shell commands using your shell and git context.
Pricing
Free: $0 (5 AI queries/day)
Hacker: $9/mo (100 AI queries/day)
No public pricing
No public pricing
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
- ✦Terminal/CLI interface for prompting LLMs
- ✦Access to 15 models across 7 providers
- ✦Markdown workflow integration (Obsidian, VS Code, MkDocs)
- ✦Situational web-app generation and local run
- ✦Web scraping/content extraction (gather)
- ✦Vision-model support for images
- ✦Configurable prompt templates and intents
- ✦Natural language to Linux command translation
- ✦Simple 'hey' prefix invocation
- ✦GitHub-based install
- ✦Early preview release
- ✦Natural language to shell commands
- ✦Context-aware of shell, directory and git
- ✦Fully local, offline inference
- ✦Cross-platform (Bash, Zsh, PowerShell)
- ✦GPU-accelerated (Metal, CUDA, Vulkan)
- ✦Open source, no account required
Use cases
- →Recalling forgotten shell syntax
- →Writing quick Bash one-liners
- →Learning terminal commands
- →Generating scripts from a description
- →Prompt and compare multiple LLMs from the terminal
- →Generate and run small web apps without setup
- →Automate Markdown document workflows
- →Extract structured content from text and webpages
- →Recall forgotten Linux commands
- →Speed up terminal work
- →Help beginners learn shell commands
- →Writing complex commands without memorizing syntax
- →Building commands from half-typed input
- →Working offline in secure environments
- →Speeding up terminal workflows
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