atuin

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “I've been using the `?` shortcut in atuin [0] which accomplishes the same sort of thing, but these days also has access to an Agent-like experience which allows me to prompt something like "Conventional Commit message for unstaged changes" and it will call `git diff` (after asking permission, of course) and then generate the commit message.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-27

• “I self-host an Atuin server so that I can share that history across my various machines.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-21

• “I now swear by atuin.sh, which just remembers every command I've typed”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-28

• “Atuin also has syncing and backups though I've never really felt the need to use it”

  LUKEWARM · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-10

• “Atuin Desktop is wonderful. At first I didn't know what I wanted to do with it…then I realized basically anything I would want to do more than once should go in here.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-11-28

• “I love atuin -- the shared shell command memory function solves a problem that I had (recalling obscure CLI commands)”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2025-11-28

• “Been using Atuin for some while now. Hopefully their work is sustainable.”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2025-10-01

• “I have been a big fan of Atuin CLI and an active promoter for a while now! It has truly become one of the first pieces of software I install in any brand new machine.”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2025-10-01

• “I also have Atuin installed to share history across machines, and as a benefit the history search is a lot more powerful.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-07-20