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Best Productivity ResourcesBy Shushant LakhyaniVerified creator

Desktop App

Starship

A fast, minimal shell prompt that shows the info you need at a glance.

Visit Starship4.7

  • 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.

Third-party open-source projects. We are not affiliated with their authors; repositories are provided as-is by their maintainers. Review each project's license, code and security before installing. See our Disclaimer.

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.

Starship alternatives

Not sold on Starship? These do a similar job, and each card says what it has in common.

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lazygit

Focus: git client and terminal ui. Shares developer tool and open source with Starship. Rated 4.8 (Starship: 4.7).

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Windows
4.8Visit

Atuin

Focus: shell history, command line and sync. Shares terminal and open source with Starship. Same 4.7 rating.

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Linux
4.7Visit

zoxide

Focus: navigation, command line and shell. Shares terminal and open source with Starship. Same 4.7 rating.

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Linux
4.7Visit

Zellij

Focus: terminal multiplexer and workspace. Shares developer tool and open source with Starship. Rated 4.6 (Starship: 4.7).

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Linux
4.6Visit

Harness Terminal

Focus: macos, coding agents and session manager. Shares terminal and open source with Starship. A Mac app, not a desktop app. Rated 4.4 (Starship: 4.7).

Mac AppFreemacOS
4.4Visit

Ghostty

Focus: emulator, gpu and zig. Shares terminal and open source with Starship. Rated 4.9 (Starship: 4.7).

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Linux
4.9Visit

Free alternatives to Starship

Want to spend nothing? These free picks cover similar ground.

fzf

Focus: fuzzy finder, command line and shell. Shares open source and github with Starship. Rated 4.8 (Starship: 4.7).

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Windows
4.8Visit

navi

Focus: cli, cheatsheet and fuzzy finder. Shares terminal and open source with Starship. Rated 4.8 (Starship: 4.7).

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Windows
4.8Visit

scrcpy

Focus: android, screen mirroring and phone control. Shares open source and github with Starship. Adds Android. Same 4.7 rating.

Desktop AppFreeWindows, macOS
4.7Visit

Deskflow

Focus: keyboard and mouse sharing, software kvm and multi-computer. Shares open source and github with Starship. Rated 4.6 (Starship: 4.7).

Desktop AppFreeWindows, macOS
4.6Visit

Stretchly

Focus: break reminder, eye strain and healthy habits. Shares open source and github with Starship. Rated 4.6 (Starship: 4.7).

Desktop AppFreeWindows, macOS
4.6Visit

Vimium

Focus: keyboard shortcuts, vim and browser extension. Shares open source with Starship. A browser extension, not a desktop app. Adds Chrome and Firefox. Rated 4.6 (Starship: 4.7).

Browser ExtensionFreeChrome, Firefox
4.6Visit
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