cwal Alternatives

cwal is described as 'Fast and lightweight command-line tool for generating dynamic color schemes from images. It extracts dominant colors from your chosen image and applies them to your terminal, applications, and other system components, providing a cohesive and visually appealing desktop' and is an app. There are six alternatives to cwal for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Rust apps. The best cwal alternative is walrs, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like cwal are hellwal, pywal16, Pywal and lule.

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  1. walrs icon

    walrs

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    pywal but if its Fast-Minimal-Simple.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Rust
     

    • walrs is the most popular Linux alternative to cwal.

    • walrs is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to cwal.

    • walrs is Free and Open Sourcecwal is also Free and Open Source

  2. hellwal

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    Pywal-like color palette generator, but faster and in C.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Homebrew
    • Nix Package Manager
    • Linux
    • Mac
     

    • hellwal is the most popular Mac alternative to cwal.

    • hellwal is Free and Open Sourcecwal is also Free and Open Source
  4. pywal16 icon

    pywal16

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    16 colors fork of pywal.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Linux
    pywal16 screenshot 1
     
  5. Pywal icon

    Pywal

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    Pywal is a tool that generates a color palette from the dominant colors in an image. It then applies the colors system-wide and on-the-fly in all of your favourite programs.

    6 Pywal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Pywal screenshot 1
     

    • Pywal is the most popular Windows alternative to cwal.

    • Pywal is Free and Open Sourcecwal is also Free and Open Source
  6. lule icon

    lule

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    A command line tool to generate 8bit ANSI colors from wallpaper (an enhanced version of pywal but in rust) There is the old bash version in: https://github.com/warpwm/lule_bash

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    lule screenshot 1
     
  7. lule_bash icon

    lule_bash

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    A bash(y) alternative to Pywal by mostly using pastel to generate the full 255 colors from an image.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • GNU Bourne Again SHell
    • Linux
     
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