Software for people who never left the terminal.
No Electron. No JVM. No webview wrappers. No telemetry. Just tools.
$ ls -la ~/kryptic # native tools, one ethos, many surfaces drwx sqeel/ SQL client · MySQL/PG/SQLite/DuckDB 0.4.19 drwx buffr/ vim browser · CEF + blink-cdp 0.12.0 drwx hjkl/ modal editor + vim engine · Rust 0.18.2 drwx inbx/ email · IMAP/JMAP/Graph + CalDAV 0.7.0 drwx hodl/ light crypto wallet · TUI + ratatui 0.7.1 drwx pikr/ vim-modal picker · rofi replacement 0.1.0 $ cat principles.txt # native rust · modal editing · mouse + keyboard · zero telemetry
Vim-native SQL client.
MySQL · Postgres · SQLite · DuckDB (CSV / Parquet queries out of the box). Terminal (ratatui) and native GUI (iced) from one core. Per-file TOML connections, OS-keyring credentials, sqls LSP, tree-sitter highlighting, query-history fuzzy picker.
Vim-inspired browser.
Native, GPU-accelerated. Two backends behind one
BrowserEngine trait — CEF for legacy parity,
blink-cdp (headless Chromium over CDP) for sandboxed isolation;
per-domain rules pick the engine per tab. Modal browsing,
hint-mode, ex-style command palette, find-in-page, IME, PiP.
Modal editor + vim engine.
Vim-modal terminal editor — multi-buffer, fuzzy file/buffer/grep
pickers, lazygit-adjacent
<leader>g git surface, runtime tree-sitter
grammar loading via hjkl-bonsai 0.7, backend-agnostic
hjkl-theme stack, marks / macros / dot-repeat /
@: last-ex repeat. Same vim FSM
(hjkl-vim) drives sqeel, buffr, and inbx.
Modal-vim email client.
IMAP/SMTP, Gmail XOAUTH2, Microsoft Graph, JMAP — one client,
every inbox. Maildir + SQLite (WAL) + tantivy. Multi-folder sync
with optional inbx-sync IPC daemon. CalDAV + CardDAV
+ ManageSieve. PGP via gpg or local keys. Composer powered by
hjkl.
Light crypto wallet, TUI.
ratatui UI, BIP-39 seed, BIP-32/44 derivation. Bitcoin · ETH · BSC · Monero · NavCoin · LTC · DOGE · BCH. ERC-20 token reads on Ethereum + BSC. Optional OS-keyring vault auto-unlock. TOFU cert pinning on every Electrum endpoint. Local keys, encrypted at rest. Never phones home.
Vim-modal picker / launcher.
Rofi replacement with hjkl keys. dmenu over stdin, XDG
.desktop drun, $PATH run. Floem-rendered
with Wayland layer-shell incoming via a winit fork. Normal/insert
modal split, vim motions, fuzzy match via nucleo. Single binary,
no daemon, no telemetry.
No JVM, no Node, no webview wrapper. Small binaries, instant startup, predictable RSS.
Modal editing as a first-class citizen. Normal/insert/visual, real motions, leader chords.
Power users get keys. Everyone else gets mice. Neither is a second-class citizen.
No analytics. No phone-home. No "anonymous" usage data. Your terminal, your business.
hjkl drives the modal layer across every project.
Same FSM, TUI or GUI or browser.
Every binary, every crate, every landing page. Fork it, ship it, study it. No catch.