π A ranked list of the best resources in the Nix community. Updated weekly.
This curated list contains 400 awesome open-source projects with a total of 260K stars grouped into 17 categories. All projects are ranked by a project-quality score, which is calculated based on various metrics automatically collected from GitHub and different package managers. If you like to add or update projects, feel free to open an issue, submit a pull request, or directly edit the projects.yaml. Contributions are very welcome!
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- Learning 16 projects
- Nix Configurations 10 projects
- Discovery 11 projects
- Installation Media 14 projects
- Github Actions 5 projects
- Deployment Tools 21 projects
- Virtualisation 8 projects
- Command-Line Tools 69 projects
- Development 82 projects
- DevOps 11 projects
- Programming Languages 58 projects
- NixOS Modules 33 projects
- Theming 7 projects
- Overlays 21 projects
- Security 17 projects
- Editors and IDEs 7 projects
- Distributions 11 projects
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- π Dead project (12 months no activity)
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Tutorials, guides, and educational resources for learning Nix and NixOS
nix.dev (π₯21 Β· β 3.5K) - Official documentation for getting things done with Nix. CC-BY-SA-4.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 190 Β· π 300 Β· π 320 - 40% open Β· β±οΈ 25.12.2025)
NixOS & Flakes Book (π₯19 Β· β 2.9K) - An unofficial and opinionated NixOS & Flakes book for beginners. CC-BY-SA-4.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 84 Β· π 140 Β· π₯ 1.7K Β· π 52 - 5% open Β· β±οΈ 26.12.2025)
awesome-nix (π₯18 Β· β 4.7K) - A curated list of the best resources in the Nix community. βοΈCC0-1.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 120 Β· π 190 Β· π¦ 8 Β· π 36 - 19% open Β· β±οΈ 12.11.2025)
dev-templates (π₯16 Β· β 2.1K) - Dev environments for numerous languages based on Nix flakes. MPL-2.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 32 Β· π 170 Β· π 26 - 23% open Β· β±οΈ 27.10.2025)
Zero to Nix (π₯16 Β· β 1.2K) - A beginners guide to Nix, providing step-by-step tutorials and explanations. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 55 Β· π 81 Β· π 110 - 33% open Β· β±οΈ 10.12.2025)
nix-pills (π₯14 Β· β 460) - Guided introduction to Nix fundamentals from basic concepts to advanced use cases. CC-BY-SA-4.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 110 Β· π 120 Β· π 77 - 50% open Β· β±οΈ 25.08.2025)
RFCs (π₯12 Β· β 620 Β· π€) - The Nix community RFCs. CC-BY-SA-4.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 39 Β· π 140 Β· β±οΈ 26.05.2025)
nix-1p (π₯8 Β· β 970) - A (more or less) one page introduction to Nix, the language. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 6 Β· π 26 Β· π 15 - 46% open Β· β±οΈ 01.09.2025)
NixOS Guide (π₯7 Β· β 1K) - NixOS Guide. Learn all about the immutable Nix Operating System and the declarative Nix Expression Language. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 5 Β· π 28 Β· π 2 - 50% open Β· β±οΈ 27.06.2025)
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- Nix Templates (π₯12 Β· β 220 Β· π) - Collection of Nix templates for different types of projects.
βοΈCC0-1.0 - nixos-in-production (π₯11 Β· β 620 Β· π) - Source files for the book NixOS in Production, a practical guide for using NixOS in professional environments.
βUnlicensed - nix-articles (π₯7 Β· β 180 Β· π) - Some articles about getting started with Nix programming & configuration.
βUnlicensed - nix-flake-dev-environments (π₯6 Β· β 97 Β· π) - Nix flake examples for real-world development environments.
βUnlicensed - Nix Shorts (π₯6 Β· β 23 Β· π) - A collection of short notes about how to use Nix, updated for Nix Flakes.
CC-BY-SA-4.0 - Nix Notes (π₯5 Β· β 60 Β· π) - A collection of short notes about Nix, each contributing to the same virtual machine image.
βUnlicensed - nix-lowlevel-experiments (π₯2 Β· β 23 Β· π) - Exploring low-level Nix, NixOS and system concepts.
βUnlicensed
Personal configurations, dotfiles, and NixOS system examples
ryan4yin/nix-config (π₯20 Β· β 1.7K) - Nix config for both desktops(NixOS+macOS) and homelab servers(NixOS). MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 14 Β· π 88 Β· β±οΈ 25.12.2025)
dustinlyons/nixos-config (π₯17 Β· β 3.3K) - General purpose Nix configuration for macOS / NixOS (with starter templates). BSD-3
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 18 Β· π 190 Β· π 110 - 25% open Β· β±οΈ 18.12.2025)
hlissner/dotfiles (π₯17 Β· β 1.9K) - A comprehensive NixOS configuration example with detailed module structure. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 7 Β· π 99 Β· π 29 - 13% open Β· β±οΈ 19.12.2025)
mitchellh/nixos-config (π₯16 Β· β 2.8K) - NixOS system configurations for a development environment, primarily running in a VM on macOS with VMware Fusion. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 8 Β· π 240 Β· π 28 - 28% open Β· β±οΈ 23.12.2025)
kclejeune/system (π₯15 Β· β 510) - Declarative system configurations using nixOS, nix-darwin, and home-manager. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 9 Β· π 42 Β· β±οΈ 25.12.2025)
donovanglover/nix-config (π₯15 Β· β 380) - NixOS configuration with Nix Flakes, Home Manager, Stylix, and Hyprland. MIT
- GitHub (π 13 Β· π 5 - 20% open Β· β±οΈ 17.12.2025)
Misterio77/nix-starter-configs (π₯14 Β· β 3.5K) - A few simple Nix Flake templates for getting started with NixOS + home-manager. βοΈCC0-1.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 14 Β· π 160 Β· π 73 - 31% open Β· β±οΈ 15.11.2025)
NobbZ/nixos-config (π₯14 Β· β 260) - An example of NixOS system configuration with home-manager integration. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 8 Β· π 6 Β· π 15 - 73% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
juspay/nixos-unified-template (π₯13 Β· β 350) - A ready-made Nix configuration to manage either your Home environment or whole NixOS systems. βοΈAGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 16 Β· π 65 Β· π 48 - 18% open Β· β±οΈ 21.12.2025)
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- nixbuntu-samples (π₯4 Β· β 18 Β· π) - Sample configurations for NixOS.
βUnlicensed
Tools and services for searching and exploring Nix packages and options
nixpkgs (π₯37 Β· β 23K) - Nix Packages collection & NixOS. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 14K Β· π 17K Β· π 52K - 16% open Β· β±οΈ 29.12.2025)
NixOS Search (π₯16 Β· β 510 Β· π) - Search NixOS packages and options. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 100 Β· π 150 Β· π 440 - 29% open Β· β±οΈ 15.12.2025)
noogle (π₯14 Β· β 510) - Nix function exploring. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 17 Β· π 15 Β· π 65 - 30% open Β· β±οΈ 21.12.2025)
Home Manager Option Search (π₯12 Β· β 370) - Search through all 2000+ Home Manager options and read how to use them. Apache-2
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 15 Β· π 19 Β· π 34 - 38% open Β· β±οΈ 01.12.2025)
NΓΌschtOS Search (π₯12 Β· β 130) - Simple and fast static-page NixOS option search. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 13 Β· π 10 Β· π 51 - 41% open Β· β±οΈ 29.10.2025)
nix-search-cli (π₯11 Β· β 210) - CLI for searching packages on search.nixos.org. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 2 Β· π 8 Β· π₯ 820 Β· π¦ 6 Β· π 16 - 6% open Β· β±οΈ 03.11.2025)
nix-search-tv (π₯11 Β· β 180) - CLI fuzzy finder for packages and options from Nixpkgs, Home Manager, and more. βοΈGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 2 Β· π 5 Β· π 13 - 7% open Β· β±οΈ 23.11.2025)
rippkgs (π₯11 Β· β 160 Β· π€) - A CLI for indexing and searching packages in Nix expressions. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 4 Β· π 5 Β· π 10 - 60% open Β· β±οΈ 17.05.2025)
Nix Package Versions (π₯10 Β· β 400) - Find all versions of a package that were available in a channel and the revision you can download it from. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 12 Β· π 31 Β· π 39 - 25% open Β· β±οΈ 19.06.2025)
optnix (π₯10 Β· β 81) - A fast, terminal-based options searcher for Nix module systems. βοΈGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 2 Β· π 2 Β· π¦ 1 Β· π 9 - 11% open Β· β±οΈ 11.12.2025)
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- lf-doc (π₯10 Β· β 220 Β· π) - An interactive Nix documentation tool providing CLI for function search.
βUnlicensed
Tools for installing, deploying, and setting up NixOS systems
nix-installer (π₯24 Β· β 3.3K) - Opinionated alternative to the official Nix install scripts. βοΈLGPL-2.1
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 34 Β· π 90 Β· π₯ 970K Β· π¦ 3 Β· π 880 - 43% open Β· β±οΈ 24.12.2025)
nixos-apple-silicon (π₯21 Β· β 1.3K Β· π) - Resources to install NixOS bare metal on Apple Silicon Macs. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 40 Β· π 130 Β· π₯ 4.3K Β· π 230 - 14% open Β· β±οΈ 18.12.2025)
nixos-anywhere (π₯20 Β· β 2.7K) - Install NixOS everywhere via SSH. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 79 Β· π 180 Β· π 210 - 33% open Β· β±οΈ 23.12.2025)
nixos-images (π₯19 Β· β 350 Β· π) - Automatically build (netboot) images for NixOS. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 25 Β· π 56 Β· π₯ 22K Β· π 33 - 18% open Β· β±οΈ 26.12.2025)
nixos-generators (π₯16 Β· β 2.4K) - Take a NixOS config and build multiple different images types including VirtualBox VMs, Azure images, and installation.. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 69 Β· π 150 Β· π 180 - 49% open Β· β±οΈ 27.11.2025)
nix-portable (π₯16 Β· β 1.2K) - Nix - Static, Permissionless, Installation-free, Pre-configured. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 13 Β· π 53 Β· π₯ 26K Β· π 81 - 71% open Β· β±οΈ 01.06.2025)
nix-openwrt-imagebuilder (π₯15 Β· β 220) - Build OpenWRT images in Nix derivations. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 12 Β· π 25 Β· π 25 - 28% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
raspberry-pi-nix (π₯14 Β· β 310 Β· π€) - NixOS modules to aid in configuring NixOS for Raspberry PI products. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 14 Β· π 79 Β· π 66 - 19% open Β· β±οΈ 17.03.2025)
nixsa (π₯11 Β· β 190 Β· π€) - A Nix Standalone Environment. βοΈLGPL-2.1
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 4 Β· π 4 Β· π₯ 460 Β· π 13 - 30% open Β· β±οΈ 01.04.2025)
nix-netboot-serve (π₯9 Β· β 230 Β· π€) - Make any NixOS system netbootable with 10s cycle times. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 5 Β· π 13 Β· π 7 - 71% open Β· β±οΈ 09.04.2025)
nixos-up (π₯8 Β· β 250 Β· π€) - Super easy NixOS installer that can be used from the installation ISO. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 6 Β· π 31 Β· π 18 - 38% open Β· β±οΈ 19.04.2025)
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- nixos-infect (π₯14 Β· β 1.7K Β· π) - Replace a running non-NixOS Linux host with NixOS.
βοΈGPL-3.0 - nixos-docker-sd-image-builder (π₯11 Β· β 230 Β· π) - Build custom SD images of NixOS for your Raspberry Pi (or any other supported AArch64 device) in 5-20 minutes.
MIT - nix-installer-scripts (π₯6 Β· β 93 Β· π) - Runs the official installer but does some tweaking as well such as adding fcontext for selinux and installing nix..
βUnlicensed
GitHub Actions and CI/CD integrations for Nix-based projects
install-nix-action (π₯25 Β· β 640) - Installs Nix on GitHub Actions for the supported platforms: Linux and macOS. Apache-2
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 34 Β· π 87 Β· π¦ 36K Β· π 110 - 14% open Β· β±οΈ 11.12.2025)
update-flake-lock (π₯22 Β· β 360) - This is a GitHub Action that updates the flake.lock file for your Nix flake whenever it is run. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 28 Β· π 42 Β· π¦ 3.3K Β· π 54 - 46% open Β· β±οΈ 10.12.2025)
nix-installer-action (π₯21 Β· β 210) - The fast, friendly, and reliable GitHub Action to install Nix with Flakes. βοΈLGPL-2.1
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 14 Β· π 25 Β· π¦ 7.6K Β· π 41 - 39% open Β· β±οΈ 09.12.2025)
magic-nix-cache-action (π₯20 Β· β 480) - Save 30-50%+ of CI time without any effort or cost. Use Magic Nix Cache, a totally free and zero-configuration binary.. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 13 Β· π 29 Β· π¦ 5.2K Β· π 35 - 62% open Β· β±οΈ 02.12.2025)
flake-checker-action (π₯16 Β· β 76) - A GitHub Action that performs health checks for your Nix flake.lock files. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 4 Β· π 5 Β· π¦ 1.6K Β· β±οΈ 10.12.2025)
Tools for deploying and managing NixOS systems at scale
NixOps (π₯18 Β· β 2.1K) - The official Nix deployment tool, compatible with AWS, Hetzner, and more. βοΈLGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 160 Β· π 360 Β· π 850 - 36% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
comin (π₯18 Β· β 770 Β· π) - A deployment tool to continuously pull from Git repositories. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 19 Β· π 39 Β· π 55 - 54% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
morph (π₯17 Β· β 1K) - A tool for managing existing NixOS hosts. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 33 Β· π 69 Β· π 110 - 46% open Β· β±οΈ 24.11.2025)
Colmena (π₯16 Β· β 1.9K) - A simple, stateless NixOS deployment tool modeled after NixOps and morph. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 37 Β· π 90 Β· π 210 - 55% open Β· β±οΈ 01.11.2025)
KubeNix (π₯16 Β· β 440 Β· π) - A Kubernetes resource builder using Nix. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 24 Β· π 39 Β· π 42 - 47% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
Nixery (π₯15 Β· β 2K) - A Docker-compatible container registry which builds images ad-hoc via Nix. Apache-2
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 11 Β· π 75 Β· π¦ 5 Β· π 83 - 38% open Β· β±οΈ 07.11.2025)
terranix (π₯15 Β· β 400) - Use Nix and the NixOS module system to write your Terraform code. βοΈGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 31 Β· π 50 Β· π 45 - 37% open Β· β±οΈ 06.11.2025)
deploy-rs (π₯14 Β· β 1.9K) - A simple multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 43 Β· π 140 Β· π 210 - 44% open Β· β±οΈ 18.12.2025)
nix2container (π₯14 Β· β 760) - An archive-less dockerTools.buildImage implementation. Apache-2
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 30 Β· π 68 Β· π 100 - 50% open Β· β±οΈ 22.12.2025)
NixOps4 (π₯12 Β· β 760) - Deploy with Nix and manage resources declaratively. βοΈLGPL-2.1
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 8 Β· π 16 Β· π 23 - 56% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
Nixinate (π₯10 Β· β 280 Β· π€) - A Nix flake library to provide app outputs for managing existing NixOS hosts over SSH. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 7 Β· π 35 Β· π 30 - 50% open Β· β±οΈ 23.03.2025)
nixus (π₯10 Β· β 220 Β· π€) - Experimental deployment tool supporting multi-host abstractions. βοΈGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 10 Β· π 15 Β· π 33 - 30% open Β· β±οΈ 19.12.2024)
bento (π₯9 Β· β 310 Β· π€) - A KISS deployment tool to keep your NixOS fleet (servers & workstations) up to date. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 6 Β· π 10 Β· π 5 - 60% open Β· β±οΈ 29.12.2024)
lollypops (π₯8 Β· β 140) - Lollypop Operations - NixOS Deployment Tool. βοΈGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 11 Β· π 17 Β· π 25 - 20% open Β· β±οΈ 11.09.2025)
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- KuberNix (π₯15 Β· β 800 Β· π) - Single-dependency Kubernetes clusters via Nix packages.
MIT - terraform-nixos (π₯11 Β· β 390 Β· π) - A set of Terraform modules designed to deploy NixOS.
Apache-2 - nixcloud-webservices (π₯10 Β· β 190 Β· π) - This nixpkgs extension, called nixcloud-webservices, focuses on ease of deployment of web-related technologies.
βUnlicensed - krops (π₯8 Β· β 150 Β· π) - A tool for deploying NixOS systems from Nix expressions.
βοΈWTFPL - clonix (π₯3 Β· β 31 Β· π) - Declaratively manage rsync deployments in NixOS/Home-manager.
βUnlicensed - pushnix (π₯2 Β· β 34 Β· π) - Simple cli utility that pushes NixOS configuration and triggers a rebuild using ssh.
βUnlicensed - Nixlets (π₯1 Β· β 4 Β· π) - Like Helm but using only Nix, uses Kubenix under the hood.
βUnlicensed
Containers, VMs, and virtualization solutions for NixOS
microvm (π₯19 Β· β 2.1K) - NixOS-based MicroVMs. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 83 Β· π 160 Β· π 210 - 23% open Β· β±οΈ 25.12.2025)
nixos-shell (π₯17 Β· β 810) - Simple headless VM configuration using Nix (similar to Vagrant). MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 23 Β· π 39 Β· π 55 - 20% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
proxmox-nixos (π₯15 Β· β 1.2K) - The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS. βοΈAGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 18 Β· π 60 Β· π 70 - 31% open Β· β±οΈ 26.11.2025)
nix-snapshotter (π₯14 Β· β 760) - Brings native understanding of Nix packages to containerd. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 10 Β· π 26 Β· π 72 - 25% open Β· β±οΈ 26.08.2025)
NixVirt (π₯14 Β· β 310) - LibVirt domain management for Nix. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 23 Β· π 42 Β· π 43 - 16% open Β· β±οΈ 06.12.2025)
extra-container (π₯11 Β· β 270) - Run declarative NixOS containers from the command line. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 3 Β· π 18 Β· π 31 - 6% open Β· β±οΈ 19.12.2025)
appvm (π₯10 Β· β 270 Β· π€) - Nix-based app VMs. βοΈGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 5 Β· π 19 Β· π 19 - 42% open Β· β±οΈ 21.04.2025)
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- buildkit-nix (π₯10 Β· β 180 Β· π) - Nix derivations as Dockerfiles.
Apache-2
CLI utilities and tools for working with Nix and NixOS
patchelf (π₯25 Β· β 4.1K) - A small utility to modify the dynamic linker and RPATH of ELF executables. βοΈGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 99 Β· π 500 Β· π₯ 8.8M Β· π 290 - 39% open Β· β±οΈ 11.11.2025)
treefmt (π₯23 Β· β 890) - One CLI to format the code tree, using formatters such as alejandra, prettier, etc. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 21 Β· π 48 Β· π₯ 80K Β· π¦ 8 Β· π 210 - 26% open Β· β±οΈ 23.12.2025)
nixfmt (π₯22 Β· β 1.4K) - A formatter for Nix code, intended to easily apply a uniform style. MPL-2.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 36 Β· π 63 Β· π₯ 9.1K Β· π 190 - 13% open Β· β±οΈ 25.11.2025)
nix-index-database (π₯21 Β· β 470) - Weekly updated nix-index database. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 37 Β· π 46 Β· π₯ 520K Β· π 42 - 7% open Β· β±οΈ 09.12.2025)
alejandra (π₯20 Β· β 1.3K) - An opinionated Nix code formatter optimized for speed and consistency. Unlicense
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 25 Β· π 50 Β· π₯ 31K Β· π¦ 10 Β· π 160 - 38% open Β· β±οΈ 03.07.2025)
comma (π₯19 Β· β 1.5K) - Quickly run any binary; wraps together `nix run` and `nix-index`. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 28 Β· π 57 Β· π 44 - 13% open Β· β±οΈ 08.12.2025)
lix (π₯18 Β· β 490) - A modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager, focused on correctness, usability, and growth. βοΈLGPL-2.1
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 700 Β· π 14 Β· π¦ 4 Β· β±οΈ 27.12.2025)
nh (π₯17 Β· β 2.2K) - Better output for `nix`, `nixos-rebuild`, `home-manager` and nix-darwin CLI leveraging `dix` and `nix-output-monitor`. βοΈEUPL-1.2
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 44 Β· π 78 Β· π¦ 1 Β· π 280 - 22% open Β· β±οΈ 27.12.2025)
nix-output-monitor (π₯17 Β· β 1.3K) - A tool to produce useful graphs and statistics when building derivations. βοΈAGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 22 Β· π 44 Β· π 180 - 48% open Β· β±οΈ 17.12.2025)
nix-index (π₯17 Β· β 1.2K) - Quickly locate Nix packages with specific files. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 34 Β· π 67 Β· π¦ 28 Β· π 120 - 57% open Β· β±οΈ 25.08.2025)
nix-eval-jobs (π₯17 Β· β 210) - Parallel nix evaluator with a streamable json output. βοΈGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 26 Β· π 38 Β· π 44 - 34% open Β· β±οΈ 14.10.2025)
nixpkgs-vet (π₯17 Β· β 55) - Tool to vet (check) Nixpkgs, including its pkgs/by-name directory. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 14 Β· π 13 Β· π₯ 1.2M Β· π 38 - 76% open Β· β±οΈ 16.12.2025)
nix-init (π₯16 Β· β 1.2K Β· π€) - Generate Nix packages from URLs with hash prefetching, dependency inference, license detection, and more. MPL-2.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 12 Β· π 37 Β· π¦ 1 Β· π 63 - 53% open Β· β±οΈ 04.05.2025)
statix (π₯16 Β· β 780) - A linter/fixer to check for and fix antipatterns in Nix code. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 20 Β· π 29 Β· π 82 - 47% open Β· β±οΈ 16.10.2025)
nixos-cli (π₯16 Β· β 340) - A unified NixOS tooling replacement for nixos-* utilities. βοΈGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 8 Β· π 8 Β· π 43 - 11% open Β· β±οΈ 21.12.2025)
flake-checker (π₯16 Β· β 300) - Health checks for your Nix flakes. Apache-2
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 12 Β· π 8 Β· π₯ 2K Β· π¦ 1 Β· π 12 - 16% open Β· β±οΈ 01.12.2025)
nix-bundle (π₯14 Β· β 800) - Bundle Nix derivations to run anywhere. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 21 Β· π 57 Β· π₯ 120 Β· π 79 - 58% open Β· β±οΈ 01.09.2025)
angrr (π₯13 Β· β 99) - Auto Nix GC Roots Retention. This tool simply deletes auto GC roots based on the modified time of their symbolic link.. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 4 Β· π 2 Β· π 10 - 70% open Β· β±οΈ 26.12.2025)
nix-tree (π₯12 Β· β 950) - Interactively browse the dependency graph of Nix derivations. BSD-3
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 13 Β· π 18 Β· π 54 - 27% open Β· β±οΈ 06.12.2025)
nix-alien (π₯12 Β· β 740) - Run unpatched binaries on Nix/NixOS easily. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 10 Β· π 12 Β· π 38 - 2% open Β· β±οΈ 16.12.2025)
nixpkgs-hammering (π₯12 Β· β 320) - An opinionated linter for Nixpkgs package expressions. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 14 Β· π 19 Β· π 87 - 56% open Β· β±οΈ 10.09.2025)
nix-your-shell (π₯12 Β· β 220) - A nix and nix-shell wrapper for shells other than bash. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 11 Β· π 21 Β· π₯ 250 Β· π¦ 1 Β· π 19 - 26% open Β· β±οΈ 28.10.2025)
dix (π₯12 Β· β 200) - A blazingly fast tool to diff Nix related things. βοΈGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 7 Β· π 5 Β· π¦ 2 Β· π 10 - 20% open Β· β±οΈ 29.11.2025)
nixpkgs-lint (π₯12 Β· β 160) - A fast semantic linter for Nix using tree-sitter. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 6 Β· π 8 Β· π 9 - 33% open Β· β±οΈ 27.11.2025)
lon (π₯12 Β· β 63) - Lock & update Nix dependencies. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 5 Β· π 4 Β· π 9 - 44% open Β· β±οΈ 01.12.2025)
deadnix (π₯11 Β· β 690) - Scan Nix files for dead code. βοΈGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 18 Β· π 20 Β· π¦ 7 Β· π 27 - 11% open Β· β±οΈ 25.11.2025)
hydra-check (π₯11 Β· β 120) - Check hydra for the build status of a package. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 10 Β· π 11 Β· β±οΈ 20.12.2025)
nix-appimage (π₯10 Β· β 230) - Convert a nixos derivation into a self-contained binary. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 4 Β· π 23 Β· π 21 - 28% open Β· β±οΈ 15.09.2025)
styx (dnr) (π₯10 Β· β 180) - Alternate nix substitution. βοΈGPL-2.0
- GitHub (π 2 Β· π 2 - 50% open Β· β±οΈ 27.12.2025)
nix-du (π₯9 Β· β 450 Β· π€) - Visualise which gc-roots to delete to free some space in your Nix store. βοΈLGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 3 Β· π 6 Β· π 18 - 16% open Β· β±οΈ 12.05.2025)
nix-diff (π₯9 Β· β 450) - A tool to explain why two Nix derivations differ. BSD-3
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 17 Β· π 20 Β· π 32 - 37% open Β· β±οΈ 06.09.2025)
dwarffs (π₯9 Β· β 210) - A FUSE filesystem that allows tools like gdb to look up debug info files via HTTP. βοΈGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 9 Β· π 25 Β· π 15 - 33% open Β· β±οΈ 19.09.2025)
nix-system-graphics (π₯9 Β· β 150) - Run graphics accelerated programs built with Nix on any Linux distribution. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 4 Β· π 4 Β· π 13 - 61% open Β· β±οΈ 16.11.2025)
nix-forecast (π₯9 Β· β 62 Β· π€) - Check the forecast for todays Nix builds. MPL-2.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 4 Β· π 1 Β· π 6 - 50% open Β· β±οΈ 11.05.2025)
nix-inspect (π₯8 Β· β 370 Β· π€) - Interactive tui for inspecting nix configs. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 2 Β· π 5 Β· π 23 - 47% open Β· β±οΈ 05.12.2024)
nixpkgs-tracker (π₯8 Β· β 140) - Nixpkgs pr tracker, use Github API. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 7 Β· π 11 Β· π 10 - 30% open Β· β±οΈ 27.11.2025)
pog (π₯8 Β· β 130) - A new, powerful way to do bash scripts. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 3 Β· π 1 Β· β±οΈ 19.12.2025)
nix-weather (π₯8 Β· β 95 Β· π€) - Check Cache Availablility of NixOS Configurations. βοΈEUPL-1.2
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 4 Β· π 1 Β· β±οΈ 30.05.2025)
nix-auto-follow (π₯8 Β· β 93) - A script to achieve automatically following all flake inputs for Nix. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 6 Β· π 10 Β· π 11 - 9% open Β· β±οΈ 01.08.2025)
nix-uri (π₯8 Β· β 3) - Parse the nix-uri scheme. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 3 Β· π 1 Β· π 34 - 55% open Β· β±οΈ 18.12.2025)
madness (π₯7 Β· β 270) - Madness enables you to easily run the same binary on NixOS and non-NixOS systems. BSD-3
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 4 Β· π 3 Β· π 5 - 80% open Β· β±οΈ 04.09.2025)
nixtract (π₯7 Β· β 100) - A CLI tool to extract the graph of derivations from a Nix flake. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 8 Β· π 7 Β· π₯ 76 Β· π 18 - 44% open Β· β±οΈ 27.10.2025)
nixpkgs-track (π₯7 Β· β 43) - Track where Nixpkgs pull requests have reached. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 5 Β· π 2 Β· π¦ 1 Β· β±οΈ 27.07.2025)
nm2nix (π₯6 Β· β 65) - Converts .nmconnection files into nix code. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 7 Β· π 9 Β· β±οΈ 30.08.2025)
fast-flake-update (π₯6 Β· β 39) - Update flake.lock with the latest commit of a local checkout. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 8 Β· π 3 Β· β±οΈ 03.11.2025)
pinix (π₯5 Β· β 40) - Progress In Nix - Pacman inspired frontend for Nix. βοΈLGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 4 Β· π 5 Β· π 3 - 66% open Β· β±οΈ 14.08.2025)
get-flake (π₯5 Β· β 28 Β· π€) - builtins.getFlake without the restrictions. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 17 Β· π 5 Β· π 2 - 50% open Β· β±οΈ 29.04.2025)
nix-forall (π₯4 Β· β 42) - Nix bindings for all languages. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 2 Β· β±οΈ 09.06.2025)
nixpkgs-using (π₯4 Β· β 15) - Find packages that you use that are currently being updated in Nixpkgs. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 3 Β· π 1 Β· π 4 - 50% open Β· β±οΈ 15.12.2025)
nix-patcher (π₯2 Β· β 29 Β· π€) - a tool for patching Nix flake inputs, declaratively. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 2 Β· π 2 Β· β±οΈ 05.12.2024)
nix-dissector (π₯2 Β· β 13) - Wireshark dissector for the Nix daemon protocol. βοΈGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π 1 Β· β±οΈ 11.09.2025)
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- nixpkgs-fmt (π₯16 Β· β 560 Β· π) - Nix code formatter for nixpkgs.
Apache-2 - nurl (π₯14 Β· β 640 Β· π) - Generate Nix fetcher calls from repository URLs.
MPL-2.0 - hydra-cli (π₯11 Β· β 48 Β· π) - A client for the Hydra Nix CI.
MIT - manix (π₯10 Β· β 420 Β· π) - Find configuration options and function documentation for Nixpkgs, NixOS, and Home Manager.
MPL-2.0 - nix-melt (π₯10 Β· β 290 Β· π) - A ranger-like flake.
MPL-2.0 - patsh (π₯10 Β· β 51 Β· π) - A command-line tool for patching shell scripts inspired by resholve.
MPL-2.0 - nix-visualize (π₯9 Β· β 200 Β· π) - Uses the Nix package manager to visualize the dependencies of a given package.
Apache-2 - drv-parts (π₯8 Β· β 160 Β· π) - Composable derivations for Nix with a focus on simplicity.
MIT - nix-prefetch (π₯8 Β· β 140 Β· π) - A universal tool for updating source checksums.
MIT - r13y.com (π₯8 Β· β 99 Β· π) - NixOS Reproducibility Checker.
MIT - eris (π₯6 Β· β 92 Β· π) - Serve your /nix/store directory over the internet.
βοΈGPL-3.0 - utf8 (π₯6 Β· β 58 Β· π) - UTF-8 support for Nix.
MPL-2.0 - nix-remarkable (π₯5 Β· β 70 Β· π) - Nix expressions for tools for the reMarkable tablet.
βοΈGPL-2.0 - tarnix (π₯5 Β· β 33 Β· π) - Who needs NAR files anyways?.
βοΈEUPL-1.2 - grep-nixos-cache (π₯5 Β· β 26 Β· π) - Finds strings in a large list of cached NixOS store paths.
MIT - netproxrc (π₯4 Β· β 9 Β· π) - netrc-enabled https proxy for nix.
MIT - nix-difflog (π₯2 Β· β 14 Β· π) - Diff nix build logs with less clutter.
βUnlicensed - nix-wtf-depends (π₯2 Β· β 6 Β· π) - nix why-depends for dummies or lazy people.
βUnlicensed
Development environments, tools, and frameworks for Nix
Devbox (π₯29 Β· β 11K) - Instant, portable, and predictable development environments. Apache-2
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 94 Β· π 280 Β· π₯ 1.7M Β· π 810 - 48% open Β· β±οΈ 17.12.2025)
devenv (π₯26 Β· β 6.1K) - A Nix-based tool for creating developer shell environments quickly and reproducibly. Apache-2
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 250 Β· π 440 Β· π¦ 1 Β· π 1.2K - 25% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
flox (π₯22 Β· β 3.7K) - Manage and share development environments, package projects, and publish artifacts anywhere. βοΈGPL-2.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 51 Β· π 100 Β· π₯ 20 Β· π 1.6K - 23% open Β· β±οΈ 26.12.2025)
nix-direnv (π₯20 Β· β 2.5K) - A fast loader and flake-compliant configuration for the direnv environment auto-loader. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 80 Β· π 130 Β· π 220 - 2% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
nixd (π₯20 Β· β 1.2K) - Nix language server, based on Nix libraries. βοΈLGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 46 Β· π 54 Β· π 270 - 21% open Β· β±οΈ 26.12.2025)
git-hooks.nix (π₯19 Β· β 750) - Seamless integration of git hooks with Nix. Apache-2
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 150 Β· π 210 Β· π 190 - 29% open Β· β±οΈ 16.12.2025)
nix-update (π₯19 Β· β 690) - Update versions/source hashes of nix packages. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 71 Β· π 86 Β· π 130 - 32% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
nixpkgs-review (π₯19 Β· β 550 Β· π) - The best tool to verify that a pull-request in Nixpkgs is building properly. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 72 Β· π 88 Β· π 210 - 28% open Β· β±οΈ 22.12.2025)
nix-fast-build (π₯18 Β· β 430) - Combine the power of nix-eval-jobs with nix-output-monitor to speed-up your evaluation and building process. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 15 Β· π 24 Β· π 37 - 27% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
nix-ld (π₯17 Β· β 1.5K) - Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 17 Β· π 20 Β· π 39 - 23% open Β· β±οΈ 22.12.2025)
jupyenv (π₯17 Β· β 730 Β· π€) - Declarative and reproducible Jupyter environments - powered by Nix. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 39 Β· π 140 Β· π 210 - 18% open Β· β±οΈ 03.12.2024)
services-flake (π₯17 Β· β 680) - A NixOS-like service configuration framework for Nix flakes. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 34 Β· π 58 Β· π 130 - 29% open Β· β±οΈ 08.12.2025)
npins (π₯17 Β· β 450) - A simple tool for handling different types of dependencies in a Nix project. βοΈEUPL-1.2
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 27 Β· π 35 Β· π 69 - 34% open Β· β±οΈ 27.12.2025)
devshell (π₯16 Β· β 1.5K) - `mkShell` with extra bits and a toml config option to be able to onboard non-nix users. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 42 Β· π 91 Β· π 140 - 49% open Β· β±οΈ 24.11.2025)
dream2nix (π₯16 Β· β 1.2K) - A framework for automatically converting packages from other build systems to Nix. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 80 Β· π 140 Β· π 300 - 57% open Β· β±οΈ 17.12.2025)
flake.parts (π₯16 Β· β 1.1K) - Minimal Nix modules framework for Flakes: split your flakes into modules and get things done with community modules. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 23 Β· π 63 Β· π 120 - 50% open Β· β±οΈ 15.12.2025)
cachix (π₯16 Β· β 990) - Command line client for Nix binary cache hosting. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 21 Β· π 53 Β· π 370 - 32% open Β· β±οΈ 26.12.2025)
lorri (π₯16 Β· β 840 Β· π€) - A much better `nix-shell` for development that augments direnv. Apache-2
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 59 Β· π 25 Β· π 74 - 32% open Β· β±οΈ 26.03.2025)
Arion (π₯16 Β· β 830) - Run `docker-compose` with help from Nix/NixOS. Apache-2
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 31 Β· π 54 Β· π 150 - 63% open Β· β±οΈ 15.12.2025)
compose2nix (π₯16 Β· β 730) - Generate a NixOS config from a Docker Compose project. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 5 Β· π 13 Β· π 48 - 16% open Β· β±οΈ 06.11.2025)
nixpkgs-update (π₯16 Β· β 550) - Semi-automatic updating of nixpkgs packages. βοΈCC0-1.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 55 Β· π 86 Β· π 290 - 36% open Β· β±οΈ 05.12.2025)
nil (π₯15 Β· β 1.8K) - NIx Language server, an incremental analysis assistent for writing in Nix. Apache-2
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 31 Β· π 56 Β· π 120 - 22% open Β· β±οΈ 10.12.2025)
robotnix (π₯15 Β· β 740) - A declarative and reproducible build system for Android (AOSP) images. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 30 Β· π 81 Β· π 130 - 45% open Β· β±οΈ 27.12.2025)
flake-utils-plus (π₯15 Β· β 540 Β· π€) - A lightweight Nix library flake for painless NixOS flake configuration. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 23 Β· π 43 Β· π 61 - 8% open Β· β±οΈ 03.02.2025)
treefmt-nix (π₯15 Β· β 520) - A formatter that allows formatting all your project files with a single command, all via a single `.nix` file. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 120 Β· π 140 Β· π 120 - 37% open Β· β±οΈ 17.12.2025)
MCP-NixOS (π₯15 Β· β 380) - An MCP server that provides AI assistants with accurate information about NixOS packages, options, Home Manager, and.. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 6 Β· π 18 Β· π¦ 1 Β· π 23 - 43% open Β· β±οΈ 18.10.2025)
harmonia (π₯15 Β· β 360) - Nix binary cache implemented in Rust. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 28 Β· π 28 Β· π 28 - 39% open Β· β±οΈ 26.12.2025)
omnix (π₯15 Β· β 250) - A Nix companion to improve developer experience. βοΈAGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 16 Β· π 25 Β· π 170 - 20% open Β· β±οΈ 19.12.2025)
tree-sitter-nix (π₯15 Β· β 210) - Nix grammar for tree-sitter. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 21 Β· π 46 Β· π¦ 17 Β· π 48 - 39% open Β· β±οΈ 03.12.2025)
nixdoc (π₯15 Β· β 160) - Tool to generate documentation for Nix library functions. βοΈGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 14 Β· π 17 Β· π¦ 12 Β· π 26 - 19% open Β· β±οΈ 18.11.2025)
niv (π₯14 Β· β 1.8K Β· π€) - Easy dependency management for Nix projects with package pinning. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 38 Β· π 76 Β· π 190 - 41% open Β· β±οΈ 02.03.2025)
nvfetcher (π₯14 Β· β 260) - Generate nix sources expr for the latest version of packages. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 17 Β· π 19 Β· π 66 - 21% open Β· β±οΈ 14.12.2025)
nix-super (π₯14 Β· β 88) - A fork of the Nix package manager. βοΈLGPL-2.1
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 870 Β· π 2 Β· π 4 - 50% open Β· β±οΈ 10.12.2025)
attic (π₯13 Β· β 1.6K) - Multi-tenant Nix Binary Cache. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 35 Β· π 130 Β· π 180 - 65% open Β· β±οΈ 24.09.2025)
rnix-parser (π₯13 Β· β 430 Β· π€) - A Nix parser written in Rust. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 26 Β· π 49 Β· π¦ 2 Β· π 57 - 19% open Β· β±οΈ 09.01.2025)
flakelight (π₯13 Β· β 350) - A modular flake framework aiming to minimize boilerplate. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 7 Β· π 9 Β· π 29 - 6% open Β· β±οΈ 27.12.2025)
Typix (π₯13 Β· β 280) - Deterministic Typst compilation with Nix. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 7 Β· π 12 Β· π 14 - 28% open Β· β±οΈ 22.12.2025)
nix-unit (π₯13 Β· β 110) - Unit testing for Nix code. βοΈGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 22 Β· π 14 Β· π 19 - 36% open Β· β±οΈ 10.11.2025)
flake-edit (π₯12 Β· β 47) - Edit your flake inputs with ease. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 4 Β· π 1 Β· π 38 - 60% open Β· β±οΈ 24.12.2025)
nixos-vscode-server (π₯11 Β· β 520) - Visual Studio Code Server support in NixOS. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 19 Β· π 80 Β· π 58 - 20% open Β· β±οΈ 26.07.2025)
gitignore.nix (π₯11 Β· β 280) - The most feature-complete and easy-to-use `.gitignore` integration. Unlicense
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 13 Β· π 22 Β· π 35 - 65% open Β· β±οΈ 10.11.2025)
zmk-nix (π₯11 Β· β 120) - Build system and configuration files for generating and building ZMK firmware with Nix. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 9 Β· π 25 Β· π 10 - 50% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
jordanisaacs/kernel-module-flake (π₯10 Β· β 160) - Nix flake for linux kernel module development with rust support. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 2 Β· π 13 Β· π 6 - 33% open Β· β±οΈ 28.11.2025)
zellij-nix (π₯10 Β· β 52) - Zellij Nix Environment. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 5 Β· π 3 Β· π 4 - 75% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
Snowfall Lib (π₯9 Β· β 590) - A library that makes it easy to manage your Nix flake by imposing an opinionated file structure. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 13 Β· π 64 Β· π 150 - 25% open Β· β±οΈ 10.12.2025)
nix-systems (π₯9 Β· β 260) - Externally extensible flake systems. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 5 Β· π 5 Β· π 10 - 40% open Β· β±οΈ 11.08.2025)
nix-filter (π₯9 Β· β 230) - A small self-contained source filtering lib. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 12 Β· π 15 Β· π 15 - 46% open Β· β±οΈ 14.09.2025)
nix-plugins (π₯9 Β· β 94) - Collection of miscellaneous plugins for the nix expression language. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 8 Β· π 13 Β· π 12 - 8% open Β· β±οΈ 25.10.2025)
nix-serve-ng (π₯8 Β· β 210) - A drop-in replacement for nix-serve that is faster and more reliable. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 13 Β· π 20 Β· π 20 - 10% open Β· β±οΈ 17.12.2025)
templates (π₯8 Β· β 120) - Project templates for many languages using Nix flakes. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 8 Β· π 11 Β· β±οΈ 15.12.2025)
make-shell (π₯8 Β· β 29 Β· π€) - `mkShell` meets modules, a modular almost-drop-in replacement for `pkgs.mkShell` function. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 3 Β· π 4 Β· β±οΈ 11.12.2024)
nixcrpkgs (π₯7 Β· β 230 Β· π€) - Tools for cross-compiling standalone applications using Nix. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 7 Β· π 16 Β· π 5 - 60% open Β· β±οΈ 23.12.2024)
nixseparatedebuginfod (π₯7 Β· β 110) - Downloads and provides debug symbols and source code for nix derivations to debuggers as needed. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 7 Β· π 5 Β· π 7 - 14% open Β· β±οΈ 27.12.2025)
korora (π₯7 Β· β 95) - A tiny & fast type system for Nix in Nix. MIT
- GitHub (π 2 Β· π 8 - 12% open Β· β±οΈ 15.11.2025)
zephyr-nix (π₯7 Β· β 70) - Develop Zephyr projects using Nix. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 8 Β· π 24 Β· π 5 - 40% open Β· β±οΈ 21.11.2025)
globset (π₯6 Β· β 72) - Simplify Nix source management using familiar glob patterns. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 2 Β· π 3 Β· π 8 - 37% open Β· β±οΈ 25.08.2025)
chisel-nix (π₯6 Β· β 51 Β· π€) - Nix template for the chisel-based industrial designing flows. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 6 Β· π 7 Β· π 3 - 33% open Β· β±οΈ 23.04.2025)
POP (π₯4 Β· β 27) - Pure Object Prototypes. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 2 Β· π 1 Β· π 4 - 75% open Β· β±οΈ 10.12.2025)
Nixtest (π₯3 Β· β 3 Β· π€) - Testing framework for Nix, with snapshot and unit test support, JUnit generation etc. βUnlicensed
- GitLab (π 0 Β· π 10 - 10% open Β· β±οΈ 03.05.2025)
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- digga (π₯18 Β· β 1K Β· π) - A Nix flake utility library to structure your home, system, and development configurations.
MIT - rnix-lsp (π₯15 Β· β 710 Β· π) - A syntax-checking language server for Nix.
MIT - flake-utils (π₯14 Β· β 1.5K Β· π) - Pure Nix flake utility functions to help with writing flakes.
MIT - cached-nix-shell (π₯14 Β· β 230 Β· π) - A
nix-shellreplacement that uses caching to open subsequent shells quickly.Unlicense - styx (π₯12 Β· β 230 Β· π) - Static site generator in Nix expression language.
MIT - haumea (π₯11 Β· β 380 Β· π) - Filesystem-based module system for the Nix language similar to traditional programming languages, with support for..
MPL-2.0 - any-nix-shell (π₯11 Β· β 320 Β· π) - fish and zsh support for the nix run and nix-shell environments of the Nix package manager.
MIT - namaka (π₯9 Β· β 130 Β· π) - Snapshot testing for Nix based on haumea.
MPL-2.0 - nixt (π₯9 Β· β 120 Β· π) - Simple unit-testing for Nix.
MIT - peerix (π₯8 Β· β 160 Β· π) - Peer2Peer Nix-Binary-Cache.
βοΈGPL-3.0 - nix-health (π₯7 Β· β 42 Β· π) - A program to check the health of your Nix install.
βUnlicensed - remote-execution-nix (π₯7 Β· β 25 Β· π) - Nix to bazel-re proxy.
MIT - evil-nix (π₯6 Β· β 130 Β· π) - A Nix library to download files from the internet without requiring a hash.
MIT - buildproxy (π₯6 Β· β 120 Β· π) - Providing reproducible HTTP/HTTPS responders to builds that just can not live without.
MIT - ssh-participation (π₯6 Β· β 17 Β· π) - An ssh server that creates new users on-the-fly, great for letting users participate in a demo.
MIT - buildxyz (π₯5 Β· β 63 Β· π) - Build your Nix package automatically.
βοΈGPL-3.0 - rand-nix (π₯4 Β· β 61 Β· π) - Eval-time random number generator for Nix without IFD.
Unlicense - buildNodeModules (π₯4 Β· β 43 Β· π) - An experiment in improving node packaging for nix. Dead simple.
βUnlicensed - pkgs-modules (π₯4 Β· β 32 Β· π) - The Ideal interface for configuring packages.
βUnlicensed - kakapo (π₯3 Β· β 56 Β· π) - A Nix web bundler because why not.
βUnlicensed - laurn (π₯3 Β· β 38 Β· π) - Dev environment isolation.
βUnlicensed - attr-cmd (π₯3 Β· β 18 Β· π) - Build shell commands from Nix attribute sets.
βUnlicensed - Nix Durability Tests (π₯3 Β· β 12 Β· π) - Tests to reproduce Nix durablity problems.
βοΈGPL-3.0
CI/CD, automation, and infrastructure management tools
Makes (π₯16 Β· β 500) - A Nix-based CI/CD pipeline framework for building, testing, and releasing projects in any language, from anywhere. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 27 Β· π 43 Β· π₯ 170 Β· π 440 - 6% open Β· β±οΈ 30.07.2025)
nixidy (π₯16 Β· β 270) - Kubernetes GitOps with Nix and Argo CD. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 10 Β· π 13 Β· π¦ 2 Β· π 37 - 13% open Β· β±οΈ 23.12.2025)
process-compose-flake (π₯15 Β· β 170) - A flake-parts module to spin up processes for development by leveraging process-compose. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 17 Β· π 26 Β· π 37 - 32% open Β· β±οΈ 05.12.2025)
amis (π₯12 Β· β 73) - Home for NixOS AMI automation. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 13 Β· π 16 Β· π 42 - 33% open Β· β±οΈ 08.12.2025)
Standard (π₯11 Β· β 480) - An opinionated Nix Flakes framework to keep Nix code in large projects organized, accompanied by a friendly CLI/TUI.. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 43 Β· π 48 Β· π 170 - 23% open Β· β±οΈ 17.08.2025)
krewfile (π₯10 Β· β 42 Β· π€) - Declarative krew plugin management. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 5 Β· π 5 Β· π₯ 1.1K Β· π 7 - 28% open Β· β±οΈ 18.02.2025)
lila (π₯10 Β· β 37) - Nix hash collection software, to aggregate build reports from several builders. βοΈEUPL-1.2
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 2 Β· π 2 Β· π 47 - 51% open Β· β±οΈ 01.12.2025)
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- typhon (π₯9 Β· β 220 Β· π) - Nix-based continuous integration.
βοΈAGPL-3.0 - equinix-metal-builders (π₯9 Β· β 50 Β· π) - iPXE image for Nix builders on Equinix Metals Spot market.
MIT - nix-otel (π₯8 Β· β 72 Β· π) - Nix OpenTelemetry sender plugin.
MIT - flux (π₯5 Β· β 81 Β· π) - Create and deploy game servers with nix.
MIT
Language-specific tools and integrations for various programming languages
nickel (π₯27 Β· β 2.8K) - Better configuration for less. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 92 Β· π 110 Β· π₯ 160K Β· π 680 - 19% open Β· β±οΈ 25.12.2025)
haskell.nix (π₯23 Β· β 620) - Alternative Haskell Infrastructure for Nixpkgs. Apache-2
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 160 Β· π 250 Β· π₯ 18K Β· π 970 - 17% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
crane (π₯20 Β· β 1.2K) - A Nix library for building Cargo projects with incremental artifact caching. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 65 Β· π 120 Β· π 300 - 8% open Β· β±οΈ 26.12.2025)
poetry2nix (π₯20 Β· β 940 Β· π€) - Build Python packages directly from Poetrys `poetry.lock` files. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 330 Β· π 450 Β· π 490 - 34% open Β· β±οΈ 03.04.2025)
crate2nix (π₯20 Β· β 450 Β· π€) - rebuild only changed crates in CI with crate2nix and nix. Apache-2
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 51 Β· π 99 Β· π¦ 51 Β· π 220 - 46% open Β· β±οΈ 13.02.2025)
rust-overlay (π₯19 Β· β 1.4K) - Pure and reproducible nix overlay of binary distributed Rust toolchains. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 25 Β· π 83 Β· π 170 - 8% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
hnix (π₯19 Β· β 820) - A Haskell re-implementation of the Nix expression language. BSD-3
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 64 Β· π 120 Β· π 500 - 26% open Β· β±οΈ 21.11.2025)
fenix (π₯17 Β· β 960) - Rust toolchains and Rust analyzer nightly for nix. MPL-2.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 31 Β· π 61 Β· π 100 - 31% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
gomod2nix (π₯17 Β· β 290) - Convert applications using Go modules to Nix expressions. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 27 Β· π 69 Β· π¦ 5 Β· π 77 - 44% open Β· β±οΈ 24.11.2025)
android-nixpkgs (π₯16 Β· β 400) - Nix-packaged Android SDK. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 18 Β· π 45 Β· π 63 - 46% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
cabal2nix (π₯16 Β· β 390) - Converts a Cabal file into a Nix build expression. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 130 Β· π 160 Β· π 330 - 23% open Β· β±οΈ 03.12.2025)
haskell-flake (π₯16 Β· β 220) - A `flake-parts` Nix module for Haskell development. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 17 Β· π 26 Β· π 130 - 29% open Β· β±οΈ 21.12.2025)
nix-cargo-integration (π₯16 Β· β 210) - Library to easily and effortlessly integrate Cargo projects with Nix. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 15 Β· π 23 Β· π 88 - 4% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
cargo2nix (π₯15 Β· β 440) - Granular builds of Rust projects for Nix. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 42 Β· π 84 Β· π 190 - 37% open Β· β±οΈ 19.06.2025)
uv2nix (π₯14 Β· β 630) - Ingest uv workspaces using Nix. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 16 Β· π 33 Β· π 57 - 3% open Β· β±οΈ 18.12.2025)
pyproject.nix (π₯14 Β· β 280) - A collection of Nix utilities to work with Python projects. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 16 Β· π 31 Β· π 48 - 4% open Β· β±οΈ 26.11.2025)
Easy PureScript Nix (π₯14 Β· β 210) - A project to easily use PureScript and other tools with Nix. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 32 Β· π 55 Β· π 37 - 16% open Β· β±οΈ 22.11.2025)
lean4-nix (π₯14 Β· β 77) - Nix flake build for Lean 4, and `lake2nix`. Apache-2
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 5 Β· π 12 Β· π 37 - 16% open Β· β±οΈ 17.12.2025)
naersk (π₯13 Β· β 930) - Build Rust packages directly from `Cargo.lock`. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 55 Β· π 92 Β· π 170 - 34% open Β· β±οΈ 17.11.2025)
clj-nix (π₯13 Β· β 170) - Nix helper functions for Clojure projects. EPL-2.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 17 Β· π 25 Β· π 74 - 36% open Β· β±οΈ 19.11.2025)
nix-phps (π₯13 Β· β 79) - Flake containing old and unmaintained PHP versions (intended for CI use). MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 17 Β· π 23 Β· π 32 - 18% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
tvix (π₯12 Β· β 950) - Tvix - A Rust implementation of Nix. βοΈGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 51 Β· π 16 Β· β±οΈ 08.12.2025)
nixpkgs-python (π₯12 Β· β 220) - All Python versions, kept up-to-date on hourly basis using Nix. Apache-2
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 15 Β· π 19 Β· π 23 - 39% open Β· β±οΈ 06.12.2025)
nix-shell (π₯12 Β· β 180) - Nix shells for PHP development. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 9 Β· π 14 Β· π 15 - 20% open Β· β±οΈ 27.12.2025)
purs-nix (π₯12 Β· β 78) - CLI and library combo designed for managing PureScript projects using Nix. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 7 Β· π 28 Β· π 37 - 18% open Β· β±οΈ 14.12.2025)
zon2nix (π₯11 Β· β 100 Β· π€) - Convert the dependencies in `build.zig.zon` to a Nix expression. MPL-2.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 7 Β· π 18 Β· π 16 - 56% open Β· β±οΈ 20.03.2025)
opam2nix (π₯11 Β· β 92 Β· π€) - Generate Nix expressions from opam packages. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 11 Β· π 26 Β· π 62 - 27% open Β· β±οΈ 29.01.2025)
ruby-nix (π₯10 Β· β 150) - Generates reproducible ruby/bundler app environment with Nix. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 6 Β· π 17 Β· π 21 - 19% open Β· β±οΈ 13.08.2025)
npmlock2nix (π₯10 Β· β 150) - Generate Nix expressions from a `package-lock.json` (in-memory), primarily for web projects. Apache-2
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 16 Β· π 39 Β· π 57 - 64% open Β· β±οΈ 17.09.2025)
nocargo (π₯9 Β· β 170 Β· π€) - Build Rust crates with Nix Build System. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 4 Β· π 7 Β· π¦ 2 Β· π 15 - 40% open Β· β±οΈ 30.04.2025)
crystal2nix (π₯9 Β· β 19) - Convert `shard.lock` into Nix expressions. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 4 Β· π 5 Β· π 7 - 42% open Β· β±οΈ 09.07.2025)
elm2nix (π₯8 Β· β 120) - Convert `elm.json` into Nix expressions. BSD-3
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 14 Β· π 17 Β· π 21 - 19% open Β· β±οΈ 09.09.2025)
nixkell (π₯8 Β· β 120) - A Haskell project template using Nix and direnv. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 3 Β· π 10 Β· β±οΈ 18.06.2025)
tex2nix (π₯8 Β· β 98) - Generate texlive nix expressions for documents. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 9 Β· π 8 Β· π 4 - 50% open Β· β±οΈ 24.11.2025)
nix-gleam (π₯8 Β· β 51) - Generic Nix builder for Gleam applications. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 5 Β· π 8 Β· β±οΈ 25.12.2025)
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- mach-nix (π₯17 Β· β 890 Β· π) - Create highly reproducible python environments.
MIT - node2nix (π₯16 Β· β 570 Β· π) - Generate Nix expression from a
package.json(orpackage-lock.json) (to be stored as files).MIT - ghc.nix (π₯13 Β· β 150 Β· π) - Nix (shell) expression for working on GHC.
BSD-3 - haskell-nix (π₯12 Β· β 1.2K Β· π) - Nix and Haskell in production.
βUnlicensed - Bundix (π₯12 Β· β 180 Β· π) - Generates a Nix expression for your Bundler-managed application.
βUnlicensed - static-haskell-nix (π₯10 Β· β 400 Β· π) - Easily build most Haskell programs into fully static Linux executables.
βUnlicensed - composer2nix (π₯10 Β· β 93 Β· π) - Generate Nix expressions to build composer packages.
MIT - nijs (π₯10 Β· β 59 Β· π) - NiJS: An internal DSL for Nix in JavaScript.
MIT - gradle2nix (π₯9 Β· β 140 Β· π) - Generate Nix expressions which build Gradle-based projects.
MIT - Napalm (π₯8 Β· β 120 Β· π) - Support for building npm packages in Nix with a lightweight npm registry.
MIT - sbt-derivation (π₯8 Β· β 74 Β· π) - mkDerivation for sbt, similar to buildGoModule.
MIT - rust-nix-templater (π₯8 Β· β 49 Β· π) - Generates Nix build and development files for Rust projects.
MIT - easy-hls-nix (π₯7 Β· β 55 Β· π) - Easy Haskell Language Server tooling with Nix.
MPL-2.0 - nixlisp (π₯6 Β· β 65 Β· π) - A Lisp implementation in Nix.
βUnlicensed - python-nix (π₯6 Β· β 57 Β· π) - Python-Nix FFI library using the new C API.
MIT - nixduino (π₯6 Β· β 52 Β· π) - Nix-based tool to help build Arduino sketches.
MIT - nix-dart (π₯6 Β· β 14 Β· π) - Nix builder for Dart packages.
Apache-2 - nix-haskell-mode (π₯5 Β· β 29 Β· π) - Automatic Haskell setup in Emacs.
βοΈGPL-3.0 - composer-plugin-nixify (π₯5 Β· β 17 Β· π) - Composer plugin to help with Nix packaging.
BSD-2 - haxix (π₯5 Β· β 5 Β· π) - Nix flake to build haxe/Heaps.
MIT - composition-c4 (π₯4 Β· β 11 Β· π) - Support for building composer packages from a
composer.lock(using IFD).MIT - CppNix (π₯3 Β· β 16 Β· π) - a Nix-based C preprocessor.
MIT
Reusable NixOS modules for extending system functionality
Home Manager (π₯27 Β· β 9.1K) - Manage your user configuration just like NixOS. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 1.5K Β· π 2.2K Β· π 3K - 22% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
NixOS-WSL (π₯26 Β· β 2.6K) - Modules for running NixOS on the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Apache-2
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 46 Β· π 150 Β· π₯ 66K Β· π 250 - 14% open Β· β±οΈ 15.12.2025)
nixos-hardware (π₯23 Β· β 2.9K) - A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks. βοΈCC0-1.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 500 Β· π 830 Β· π₯ 1.6K Β· π 400 - 42% open Β· β±οΈ 24.12.2025)
nix-darwin (π₯21 Β· β 4.8K) - Manage macOS configuration just like on NixOS. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 270 Β· π 570 Β· π 790 - 36% open Β· β±οΈ 26.12.2025)
nix-bitcoin (π₯21 Β· β 590) - Modules and packages for Bitcoin nodes with higher-layer protocols with an emphasis on security. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 31 Β· π 120 Β· π₯ 8.2K Β· π 210 - 16% open Β· β±οΈ 24.11.2025)
lanzaboote (π₯19 Β· β 1.5K) - Secure Boot for NixOS. βοΈGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 45 Β· π 86 Β· π 170 - 20% open Β· β±οΈ 24.12.2025)
Jovian-NixOS (π₯18 Β· β 860) - NixOS modules for gaming with Steam Deck compatibility. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 22 Β· π 79 Β· π 160 - 26% open Β· β±οΈ 24.12.2025)
srvos (π₯17 Β· β 860) - NixOS profiles for servers. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 42 Β· π 53 Β· π 42 - 35% open Β· β±οΈ 25.12.2025)
nix-minecraft (π₯16 Β· β 480) - An attempt to better support Minecraft-related content for the Nix ecosystem. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 22 Β· π 61 Β· π 83 - 32% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
Self Host Blocks (π₯16 Β· β 400) - Modular server management based on NixOS modules and focused on best practices. βοΈAGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 13 Β· π 14 Β· π 130 - 66% open Β· β±οΈ 26.12.2025)
nixos-facter (π₯15 Β· β 520) - Declarative hardware configuration for NixOS. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 13 Β· π 13 Β· π 94 - 44% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
impermanence (π₯14 Β· β 1.6K Β· π€) - Lets you choose what files and directories you want to keep between reboots. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 35 Β· π 110 Β· π 170 - 47% open Β· β±οΈ 25.01.2025)
nixos-unified (π₯14 Β· β 340) - Unify NixOS + nix-darwin + home-manager configuration in a single flake, while providing a consistent interface at DX.. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 10 Β· π 35 Β· π 60 - 33% open Β· β±οΈ 25.11.2025)
nixGL (π₯13 Β· β 910) - A wrapper tool for nix OpenGL application. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 30 Β· π 120 Β· π 130 - 55% open Β· β±οΈ 02.11.2025)
nix-topology (π₯13 Β· β 830) - Generate infrastructure and network diagrams directly from your NixOS configuration. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 24 Β· π 38 Β· π 23 - 43% open Β· β±οΈ 17.12.2025)
musnix (π₯13 Β· β 820) - Do real-time audio work in NixOS. BSD-3
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 38 Β· π 62 Β· π 67 - 16% open Β· β±οΈ 01.12.2025)
nixos-cosmic (π₯13 Β· β 650) - Flake for using COSMIC on NixOS. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 20 Β· π 47 Β· π 160 - 28% open Β· β±οΈ 04.07.2025)
nixarr (π₯13 Β· β 320) - The Media Server Nixos Module. βοΈGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 20 Β· π 40 Β· π 62 - 12% open Β· β±οΈ 14.12.2025)
dns.nix (π₯13 Β· β 170) - A Nix DSL for DNS zone files. MPL-2.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 14 Β· π 29 Β· π 19 - 52% open Β· β±οΈ 03.10.2025)
nix-mineral (π₯12 Β· β 410) - Conveniently and reasonably harden NixOS. βοΈGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 7 Β· π 19 Β· π 60 - 53% open Β· β±οΈ 26.10.2025)
nixos-facter-modules (π₯12 Β· β 180) - A series of NixOS modules to be used in conjunction with nixos-facter. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 16 Β· π 20 Β· π 29 - 51% open Β· β±οΈ 24.12.2025)
userborn (π₯11 Β· β 110) - Declaratively bear (manage) Linux users and groups. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 7 Β· π 4 Β· π 11 - 36% open Β· β±οΈ 01.12.2025)
hyprland-protocols (π₯10 Β· β 79) - Wayland protocol extensions for Hyprland. BSD-3
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 8 Β· π 12 Β· β±οΈ 08.12.2025)
nixos-router (π₯8 Β· β 360) - A NixOS router framework. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 2 Β· π 6 Β· β±οΈ 19.11.2025)
NixOS-DNS (π₯7 Β· β 140 Β· π€) - Manage your DNS zones with NixOS. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 4 Β· π 5 Β· π 10 - 60% open Β· β±οΈ 21.03.2025)
notnft (π₯6 Β· β 66 Β· π€) - Nix DSL for nftables. βοΈGPL-2.0
- GitHub (π 4 Β· β±οΈ 23.03.2025)
ollama-flake (π₯6 Β· β 56 Β· π€) - A nix flake for Ollama. βοΈCC0-1.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 3 Β· π 18 Β· π 5 - 40% open Β· β±οΈ 08.12.2024)
nether (π₯4 Β· β 13) - zerotier network configuration as a NixOS flake. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 11 Β· π 10 Β· β±οΈ 01.10.2025)
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- nixiosk (π₯10 Β· β 170 Β· π) - Declarative Kiosk systems built with NixOS.
MIT - mineflake (π₯9 Β· β 78 Β· π) - Declarative Minecraft server in NixOS.
MIT - systemd-nix (π₯5 Β· β 48 Β· π) - Generate systemd units from NixOS-style descriptions.
MPL-2.0 - nix-steam-servers (π₯4 Β· β 17 Β· π) - Nix packages and NixOS modules for managing Steam game servers.
MIT - native-access-nix (π₯2 Β· β 9 Β· π) - A nixy way to install Native Instruments plugins using wine.
βUnlicensed
Tools and modules for theming, styling, and visual customization
Stylix (π₯21 Β· β 2.1K) - System-wide colorscheming and typography for NixOS. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 180 Β· π 290 Β· π 610 - 30% open Β· β±οΈ 24.12.2025)
catppuccin/nix (π₯18 Β· β 650) - Catppuccin for Nix brings the soothing pastel aesthetics of the Catppuccin theme to your NixOS and home-manager.. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 75 Β· π 84 Β· π 220 - 17% open Β· β±οΈ 17.12.2025)
spicetify-nix (π₯14 Β· β 370) - A nix library for modifying spotify with spicetify. βοΈGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 27 Β· π 28 Β· π 68 - 16% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
high-quality-nix-content (π₯10 Β· β 350) - GitHub repository containing highest quality Nix/NixOS content. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 18 Β· π 24 Β· π 5 - 40% open Β· β±οΈ 25.06.2025)
base16.nix (π₯10 Β· β 260) - Flake way to theme programs in base16 colorschemes, mustache template support included. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 8 Β· π 12 Β· π 16 - 12% open Β· β±οΈ 21.08.2025)
nix-wallpaper (π₯5 Β· β 87) - A configurable wallpaper for nix systems. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 4 Β· π 8 Β· π 4 - 25% open Β· β±οΈ 21.06.2025)
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- nix-colors (π₯11 Β· β 580 Β· π) - Modules and schemes to make theming with Nix awesome.
βοΈGPL-3.0
Package collections and overlays for extending Nixpkgs
NUR (π₯23 Β· β 1.7K) - Nix User Repositories. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 560 Β· π 450 Β· π 130 - 23% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
emacs-overlay (π₯19 Β· β 590) - Bleeding edge Emacs overlay. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 85 Β· π 170 Β· π 300 - 2% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
nixpkgs-wayland (π₯18 Β· β 590) - Bleeding-edge Wayland packages. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 34 Β· π 45 Β· π 240 - 19% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
ngipkgs (π₯18 Β· β 72) - Nix packages and services for projects supported through the NGI program. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 62 Β· π 50 Β· π 1K - 31% open Β· β±οΈ 18.12.2025)
chaotic-nyx (π₯17 Β· β 650) - Daily bumped bleeding edge packages like `mesa_git` & others that arent yet in Nixpkgs. Created by the makers of.. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 52 Β· π 78 Β· β±οΈ 08.12.2025)
System Manager (π₯16 Β· β 1.3K) - A non-NixOS Linux system configuration tool built on Nix. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 26 Β· π 37 Β· π 66 - 56% open Β· β±οΈ 17.12.2025)
neovim-nightly-overlay (π₯15 Β· β 400) - Bleeding edge Neovim overlay. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 26 Β· π 68 Β· π 89 - 1% open Β· β±οΈ 29.12.2025)
NixNeovimPlugins (π₯14 Β· β 150) - Makes all neovim plugins available in nix (Auto updated). MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 35 Β· π 26 Β· π¦ 1 Β· π 45 - 2% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
nixpkgs-mozilla (π₯13 Β· β 570) - Mozilla overlay for Nixpkgs. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 66 Β· π 130 Β· π 140 - 35% open Β· β±οΈ 04.11.2025)
nixpkgs-esp-dev (π₯12 Β· β 270) - Nix flake and overlay for ESP8266 and ESP32 development. βοΈCC0-1.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 29 Β· π 88 Β· π 52 - 40% open Β· β±οΈ 16.10.2025)
nixcasks (π₯12 Β· β 91) - Homebrew casks, nixified. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 5 Β· π 4 Β· π 10 - 40% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
nixpkgs-xr (π₯11 Β· β 85) - Automated packages for XR/AR/VR tools and apps for NixOS. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 11 Β· π 10 Β· π 26 - 26% open Β· β±οΈ 24.12.2025)
nixpkgs-firefox-darwin (π₯11 Β· β 73) - Automatically updated Firefox binary packages for macOS. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 10 Β· π 8 Β· π 9 - 33% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
dreampkgs (π₯8 Β· β 31 Β· π€) - A collection of software packages managed with dream2nix. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 7 Β· π 10 Β· π 4 - 25% open Β· β±οΈ 12.03.2025)
awesome-nix-hpc (π₯6 Β· β 93 Β· π€) - High Performance Computing package sets. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 4 Β· π 6 Β· β±οΈ 22.04.2025)
talon-nix (π₯5 Β· β 36 Β· π€) - Auto packaging for Talon Voice. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 6 Β· π 10 Β· π 3 - 66% open Β· β±οΈ 05.05.2025)
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- geospatial-nix (π₯9 Β· β 47 Β· π) - Geospatial packages repository and environment.
MIT - nixpkgs-cuda-ci (π₯6 Β· β 23 Β· π) - Building and caching nixpkgs with cudaSupport=true.
MIT - redoxpkgs (π₯5 Β· β 63 Β· π) - Cross-compile to Redox using Nix.
βUnlicensed - hamnix (π₯4 Β· β 27 Β· π) - A collection of Amateur Radio software packaged for Nix.
βUnlicensed - hackpkgs (π₯1 Β· β 12 Β· π) - nixpkgs aiming for exploiting tools, which may include non-official package or difficult to push to mainstream.
βUnlicensed
Security tools, secret management, and hardening solutions
vulnix (π₯17 Β· β 680) - Vulnerability (CVE) scanner for Nix/NixOS. BSD-3
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 26 Β· π 39 Β· π¦ 3 Β· π 73 - 24% open Β· β±οΈ 13.10.2025)
agenix (π₯16 Β· β 2.1K) - age-encrypted secrets for NixOS and Home manager. βοΈCC0-1.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 56 Β· π 140 Β· π 180 - 47% open Β· β±οΈ 08.11.2025)
agenix-rekey (π₯14 Β· β 360) - An agenix extension adding secret generation and automatic rekeying using a YubiKey or master-identity. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 27 Β· π 39 Β· π 76 - 25% open Β· β±οΈ 05.10.2025)
bombon (π₯14 Β· β 120) - Nix CycloneDX Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs). MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 9 Β· π 12 Β· π 28 - 42% open Β· β±οΈ 03.12.2025)
sbomnix (π₯13 Β· β 230 Β· π) - A suite of utilities to help with software supply chain challenges on nix targets. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 18 Β· π 29 Β· π₯ 410 Β· π 29 - 34% open Β· β±οΈ 12.11.2025)
nix-security-box (π₯12 Β· β 360) - Tool set for Information security professionals and all others. MIT
- GitHub (π 25 Β· π 4 - 50% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
ragenix (π₯11 Β· β 420) - age-encrypted secrets for NixOS; drop-in replacement for agenix. Apache-2
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 14 Β· π 21 Β· π 18 - 66% open Β· β±οΈ 30.10.2025)
nix-security-tracker (π₯11 Β· β 68) - Web service for managing information on vulnerabilities in software distributed through Nixpkgs. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 17 Β· π 13 Β· π 240 - 44% open Β· β±οΈ 22.12.2025)
genealogos (π₯10 Β· β 52) - A Nix sbom generator. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 9 Β· π 1 Β· π₯ 77 Β· π 23 - 17% open Β· β±οΈ 26.12.2025)
schizofox (π₯9 Β· β 260) - Hardened Firefox flake for the delusional and the schizophrenics. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 16 Β· π 18 Β· π 40 - 35% open Β· β±οΈ 16.11.2025)
kanidm-provision (π₯9 Β· β 76) - A small utility to help with kanidm provisioning. Apache-2
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 6 Β· π 12 Β· π 22 - 27% open Β· β±οΈ 22.11.2025)
shoji-nix (π₯7 Β· β 110) - Bundle and save your SSH keys with Nix. βοΈGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 3 Β· π 3 Β· β±οΈ 20.09.2025)
opnix (π₯7 Β· β 100 Β· π€) - Native secret management for NixOS using 1Password. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 5 Β· π 7 Β· π 5 - 60% open Β· β±οΈ 10.02.2025)
regula-nix (π₯7 Β· β 37 Β· π€) - This project aims to help implement and enforce various security standards in NixOS. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 3 Β· π 1 Β· π 13 - 23% open Β· β±οΈ 10.03.2025)
sopswarden (π₯6 Β· β 86 Β· π£) - SOPS secrets management integrated with Bitwarden for NixOS. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 3 Β· β±οΈ 17.07.2025)
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Editor plugins and IDE integrations for Nix development
NixVim (π₯22 Β· β 2.5K) - A NeoVim distribution built with Nix modules and Nixpkgs. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 270 Β· π 360 Β· π 890 - 15% open Β· β±οΈ 28.12.2025)
nvf (π₯22 Β· β 1.3K) - Highly modular, configurable, extensible and easy to use Neovim configuration in Nix. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 120 Β· π 180 Β· π 390 - 21% open Β· β±οΈ 24.12.2025)
vscode-nix-ide (π₯18 Β· β 450) - Nix language support for Visual Studio Code. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 34 Β· π 38 Β· π₯ 440 Β· π 81 - 18% open Β· β±οΈ 27.12.2025)
nix-idea (π₯14 Β· β 200) - Nix plugin for the IntelliJ IDEA IDE. Apache-2
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 17 Β· π 27 Β· π₯ 320 Β· π 36 - 33% open Β· β±οΈ 20.08.2025)
sublime-nix (π₯8 Β· β 33 Β· π€) - Nix syntax highlighting for Sublime Text. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 6 Β· π 9 Β· π 7 - 42% open Β· β±οΈ 18.02.2025)
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- nix-mode (π₯12 Β· β 330 Β· π) - An Emacs major mode for editing Nix expressions.
βοΈLGPL-2.1 - NixNeovim (π₯9 Β· β 130 Β· π) - Configure Neovim with Nix.
MIT
Alternative distributions and variants based on Nix or NixOS
Athena (π₯21 Β· β 1.2K) - Arch/Nix-based distro focused on Cybersecurity. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 8 Β· π 96 Β· π₯ 16K Β· π 150 - 6% open Β· β±οΈ 07.12.2025)
mobile-nixos (π₯19 Β· β 1.2K Β· π) - NixOS for mobile devices like phones. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 51 Β· π 200 Β· π 310 - 45% open Β· β±οΈ 13.11.2025)
nix-on-droid (π₯16 Β· β 1.9K) - Nix-enabled environment for your Android device. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 23 Β· π 120 Β· π 310 - 33% open Β· β±οΈ 06.12.2025)
nixbsd (π₯13 Β· β 820) - An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 7 Β· π 29 Β· π 35 - 45% open Β· β±οΈ 20.12.2025)
nixos-rk3588 (π₯12 Β· β 170) - Minimal NixOS running on RK3588/RK3588s based SBC(Orange Pi 5 Plus, Orange Pi 5, Rock 5A, etc). MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 10 Β· π 30 Β· π₯ 490 Β· π 36 - 33% open Β· β±οΈ 02.06.2025)
not-os (π₯11 Β· β 950 Β· π€) - An operating system generator, based on NixOS, that outputs a small read-only squashfs for a runit-based operating.. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 5 Β· π 39 Β· π 10 - 60% open Β· β±οΈ 12.01.2025)
nixos-avf (π₯11 Β· β 220) - NixOS for Android Terminal (Android Virtualization Framework). βοΈGPL-3.0
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 3 Β· π 14 Β· π₯ 52 Β· π 14 - 42% open Β· β±οΈ 16.11.2025)
NixNG (π₯10 Β· β 420 Β· π) - A GNU/Linux distribution similar to NixOS, defining difference is a focus on containers and lightweightness. βUnlicensed
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 11 Β· π 20 Β· π 25 - 76% open Β· β±οΈ 27.12.2025)
nixos-riscv (π₯9 Β· β 84) - NixOS for RISC-V architecture. MIT
- GitHub (π¨βπ» 6 Β· π 12 Β· π 13 - 23% open Β· β±οΈ 30.08.2025)
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- Awesome Nix: A curated list of the best resources in the Nix community.
- Nix stuff: Projects related to Nix and NixOS.
- Nixcademy Blog: High quality guides and tutorials.
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