Music, images and media from the comfort of the terminal. Every tool below installs with one apt command from
deb.griffo.io, is GPG-signed, and is rebuilt within hours of each
upstream release, no snap, no manual builds, no stale versions.
π There is an always-free mirror. deb-free.griffo.io serves packages free forever, no account, no subscription, at most 2 months behind upstream, security fixes immediately. It currently carries cliamp, Ghostty, lazydocker, Oh My Posh, Uncloud and Zed; any other tool can be enrolled on request.
π Version Comparison
| Tool | deb.griffo.io | Official Debian | Official Ubuntu | Official Linux Mint | Official Pop!_OS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cliamp | 2.3.0 β | π« not packaged | π« not packaged | π« not packaged | π« not packaged |
| GPU Screen Recorder | 6.1.6 β | π« not packaged | π« not packaged | π« not packaged | π« not packaged |
| Handy | 0.9.8 β | π« not packaged | π« not packaged | π« not packaged | π« not packaged |
| lowfi | 2.0.7 β | π« not packaged | π« not packaged | π« not packaged | π« not packaged |
| Spotifast | 0.14.2 β | π« not packaged | π« not packaged | π« not packaged | π« not packaged |
| Termusic | 0.13.2 β | π« not packaged | π« not packaged | π« not packaged | π« not packaged |
| viu | 1.6.1 β | π« not packaged | π« not packaged | π« not packaged | π« not packaged |
| yt-dlp | 2026.10.26 β | 2025.04.30 π | 2026.03.17 π | 2024.04.09 π | 2024.04.09 π |
π΅ The Tools
cliamp
A retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp 2.x
GPU Screen Recorder
A ShadowPlay-like screen recorder for X11 and Wayland that captures and encodes on the GPU
Handy
A free, open source and offline speech-to-text desktop app
lowfi
Extremely simple CLI lofi music player for focused coding
Spotifast
A fast, native Spotify client for the Linux desktop, written in Rust
Termusic
Terminal music and podcast player written in Rust
viu
Command-line image viewer written in Rust
yt-dlp
A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader with support for thousands of sites