Alternatives to cheat

A command-line tool for creating and viewing interactive cheatsheets for commands you use occasionally. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as cheat.

  • navi

    An interactive command-line cheatsheet tool for browsing and running commands with suggested argument values.

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    navi adds running commands directly from cheatsheets with dynamic argument suggestions, under the Apache-2.0 license instead of MIT.

  • tldr pages

    Community-written example pages that replace verbose manual pages.

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    tldr pages provides community-written example pages with terminal, browser and editor clients, rather than cheatsheets you mainly write yourself.

  • tealdeer

    Read concise, example-based command help in the terminal.

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    tealdeer reads concise example-based command help from a cached page set that works offline and runs on Windows as well.

  • pet

    Save and find reusable command snippets.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinuxCommand line

    pet stores your own reusable command snippets with tags, search and parameters, and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.