Alternatives to antidote
A Zsh plugin manager written in Zsh, continuing the legacy Antibody and Antigen plugin managers. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
antidote
A Zsh plugin manager written in Zsh, continuing the legacy Antibody and Antigen plugin managers.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as antidote.
Zinit
Fast Zsh plugin manager with deferred loading.
Zinit adds turbo mode for deferred loading and can install binaries and completions from releases, but its ice modifier syntax is cryptic and densely documented.
Oh My Zsh
Configuration framework for Zsh with hundreds of plugins and themes.
Oh My Zsh is a full framework with hundreds of bundled plugins and themes, which is simpler to start with but visibly slows shell startup when many load.
Prezto
A configuration framework for Zsh that adds defaults, aliases, functions, completion and prompt themes.
Prezto is a modular Zsh configuration framework with defaults, completion and prompt themes, installed by a manual Git clone and symlink setup rather than a plugin list.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Zsh
Interactive shell with powerful completion, globbing and prompt theming.
zsh-autosuggestions
A Zsh plugin that suggests commands as you type, based on your shell history.
zsh-syntax-highlighting
A Zsh plugin that highlights commands as you type them, in the style of Fish.
Pure
A minimal, fast Zsh prompt that shows only the information you need.
Spaceship
A minimal, configurable Zsh prompt that shows Git status, runtime versions and other context.
Fisher
Minimal plugin manager for the Fish shell.
