Alacritty
Focus: command line, gpu and minimal. Shares terminal and open source with Starship. Rated 4.6 (Starship: 4.7).
Desktop AppFreemacOS, Windows
4.6Visit
Desktop App
Starship
A fast, minimal shell prompt that shows the info you need at a glance.
Rating
4.7 / 5
Pricing
Free
Difficulty
Intermediate
Works on
macOS, Windows, Linux
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What is Starship?
Starship is a free, open-source prompt for any shell, including Bash, Zsh, Fish and PowerShell. It shows your Git branch, project language versions, command time and more right where you type, so you always know where you are and what changed without running extra commands.
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Pros: what Starship does well
- Works with every major shell
- Very fast, even in large projects
- Free and open source
Cons: where it falls short
- Terminal only
- Icons need a Nerd Font installed
Who Starship is for
Developers who spend a lot of time in the terminal.
Who can skip it
Anyone who rarely opens a terminal.
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tmux
Focus: sessions, multiplexer and ssh. Shares terminal and open source with Starship. Same 4.7 rating.
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