ShellHistory Alternatives

ShellHistory is described as 'With the ShellHistory, you can easily keep years of shell history, search history using Full-Text Search, back it up to your private iCloud, and create Notebooks' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are three alternatives to ShellHistory for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and fish apps. The best ShellHistory alternative is Atuin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like ShellHistory are McFly and Suvadu.

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  1. Atuin icon

    Atuin

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    Sync, search, and backup shell history with Atuin. Now with additional support for storing and sharing shell aliases, and global env vars.

    5 Atuin alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • fish
    • zsh
    • GNU Bourne Again SHell
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    McFly

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    McFly replaces your default ctrl-r shell history search with an intelligent search engine that takes into account your working directory and the context of recently executed commands. McFly's suggestions are prioritized in real time with a small neural network.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  4. Suvadu icon

    Suvadu

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    Suvadu (Tamil: "Trace") replaces your shell's built-in history with a SQLite-backed store, giving you structured storage, millisecond-precision timestamps, and a modern interactive search UI — across every terminal, IDE, and AI agent you use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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