Best open-source Rust projects

A command-line toolkit that parses documents into markdown and runs local semantic keyword search and AI-powered Q&A over text files.

A terminal tool that replays Git commits as animated typing sessions with syntax highlighting and file tree transitions.

A lightweight Rust terminal (TUI) music player for local audio libraries, with gapless playback and Vim-style keys.

A configurable three-pane terminal file browser written in Rust, with Lua config, keybindings and external-tool previews.

A small Rust CLI that prints CSV, TSV, JSON and SQLite data as stylish, color-themed tables in your terminal.

A terminal file manager in Rust with a classic two-panel layout inspired by the 1990s Dos Navigator.

A minimal Rust CLI that exposes a local TCP port to a remote server, so localhost services can be reached from the public internet.

Local, open-source PDF and document parser in Rust with text extraction, bounding boxes, Markdown/JSON output, and optional OCR.

Local-first search over your AI coding agent session history, with a Rust core, JSON CLI, and desktop GUI built on Tantivy and Jieba.

A tiling window manager for Windows that arranges application windows, virtual workspaces and monitors, controlled via a CLI.

A terminal network scanner and diagnostic tool in Rust with a TUI for listing interfaces, scanning WiFi, pinging CIDR ranges, and dumping packets.

A native, GPU-accelerated Redis and Valkey GUI built with Rust and GPUI, designed to browse very large keyspaces smoothly.

Rust-based web application security scanner for penetration testers, with 125+ scanner modules, an AI-driven testing mode, and a companion browser extension.

A Linux CLI that embeds a Firecracker microVM (binary, kernel, initrd, rootfs) into a single executable that runs a container inside a VM.

A Rust CLI and library that automatically decodes or decrypts layered encodings and ciphers without a key, cipher name, or hints.

Scriptable local MITM proxy in Rust for inspecting, intercepting, replaying and rewriting HTTP, HTTPS and WebSocket traffic from a TUI, web GUI or API.

Open-source WiFi sensing platform that uses ESP32 CSI signals to detect presence, breathing, heart rate and motion without cameras.

Terminal network diagnostics tool in Rust that shows live connections, throughput, packets and latency, and flags network issues.

A lightweight, user-friendly terminal UI for writing disk images to USB drives and SD cards, a safer alternative to dd.

A self-hostable workspace where humans and AI agents share channels, built on a Nostr relay you run yourself.