Nowadays many tools and applications come in the form of a self-contained static binary. Those are easy to install and try out, but I often find myself having to hunt them back when I want to use them on another machine. Not to mention trying to keep them up-to-date once installed. To solve this I built Clyde, a package manager for prebuilt applications. Clyde can download apps and install them on your account (no need to be root). It works on Linux, macOS and Windows.

When possible, Clyde gives you more than just the app binaries: man pages are directly accessible and I plan to add support for automatically setup command-line auto-completion in the next version. Application documentation is also grouped in a doc directory, and I want to give direct access to it in the future.