Quickshell is described as 'Toolkit for building status bars, widgets, lockscreens, and other desktop components using QtQuick. It can be used alongside your wayland compositor or window manager to build a complete desktop environment' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Quickshell for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, GTK and FreeBSD apps. The best Quickshell alternative is Wigify, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Quickshell are wayle, Eww, Ewwii and Riftbar.
i3status-rs is a feature-rich and resource-friendly replacement for i3status, written in pure Rust. It provides a way to display "blocks" of system information (time, battery status, volume, etc) on bars that support the i3bar protocol.
