The everyday toolbox: libraries, CLI utilities and frameworks that Bangladeshi developers build with and ship. Most are cross-platform and permissively licensed, so you can drop them straight into commercial work. Every entry has a maintainer we could verify as Bangladeshi (at home or diaspora) or a product explicitly built for Bangladesh. Registry-published packages here (npm, crates.io, PyPI, Packagist, RubyGems) are checked against the live registry, not just the repository.
DownGitDownloads any GitHub directory or file as a zip archive straight from the browser — no clone, no sparse checkout. One of the most-forked Bangladeshi utilities on GitHub and a fixture in developer workflows worldwide.MITDiaspora
@waveinno/ui"The React design system from Bangladesh" — a component library from the Dhaka product studio WaveInno, published on npm for production React apps.MITBD org / for-BD
banglaclawWeb-scraping toolkit built for Bangladeshi use cases, published on npm (the original GitHub repo has since been deleted). Ships with helpers tuned to how local sites are actually built, which generic scrapers handle badly.Apache-2.0BD-based
filex-editorA Bangla-first terminal text editor, published on npm — typing, editing and saving Bangla text without leaving a terminal session or fighting font setup.MITBD-based
Online-CompilerSelf-hosted online compiler platform — spin up a code-execution sandbox for a classroom or team on your own infrastructure instead of renting a judge0 bill.⚠ No licence fileDiaspora
docker-beanstalkdDocker image for the Beanstalkd work queue, maintained by the Dhaka developer behind a string of developer-experience tooling. Pull-and-run instead of hand-configuring a queue server.MITDiaspora
vim-for-devopsDevOps-tuned Vim configuration: sensible defaults, plugin set and keybindings aimed at people living in SSH sessions and log files all day.Custom licenceDiaspora
Zyvo AIFree AI coding CLI for Android Termux and desktop; ships 17 free models and takes prompts in Banglish — free, open-source AI coding CLI for Android Termux ... just ask in plain language (Banglish works): 'ekta todo app banao'.MITBD-based
Kindle PDF ConverterWindows app that re-lays-out PDF books (Bangla, English, scanned) page-by-page for a 6-inch Kindle screen — turns PDF books - Bangla, English, scanned or not - into PDFs made exactly for the Kindle screen: margins, headers and page numbers removed.AGPL-3.0BD-based
Likhi (লিখি)Free Bangla phonetic keyboard for Windows: type 'amar'/'amr' and get আমার with learned suggestions — type a word the way it sounds, amar, amr or aamar, and Likhi writes আমার ... works everywhere you type.MITBD-based
Kiebord (Borno Community Edition)Free Bangla IME for Android with a Rust engine; Borno/Avro phonetic, National (BSTI), Probhat layouts — over 6 years of development on Borno Keyboard ... Bangla: Borno Phonetic, Avro Phonetic, Borno Easy, National (BSTI), Probhat, Khipro.GPL-3.0BD-based
BornoMala (বর্ণমালা)Rust Bangla input platform for Windows (TSF) and Linux (Fcitx5) unifying phonetic, National, Probhat, Bijoy — unifies multiple Bangla typing layouts - Phonetic transliteration, National (Jatiyo), Probhat, and Bijoy - behind a shared, high-performance Rust core.MIT OR Apache-2.0BD org / for-BD
BornoFree (বর্ণফ্রি)Pure-Rust Bengali typing engine and input method for Windows and Arch Linux, no legacy .NET dependencies — high-performance, open-source Bengali input method and typing engine engineered in pure Rust ... eliminates typing latency, removes dependencies on legacy runtime frameworks.MITBD org / for-BD
Humming KeyboardPrivacy-first Android keyboard with offline voice typing and Avro/Ridmik-style Bangla phonetic typing — bangla phonetic typing: add Bengali with a QWERTY layout and type the way Avro and Ridmik users do (ami bangla likhi -> আমি বাংলা লিখি).Apache-2.0BD org / for-BD
BanglaFlow (বাংলাফ্লো)Native Bengali phonetic input method for Linux (IBus/GNOME) with a longest-match phonetic tokenizer — system-wide Bengali phonetic input method ... without background key-sniffing daemons or simulated backspace hacks; debian/snap packaging.GPL-3.0BD-based
ToolGhor (টুলঘর)27 in-browser tools (PDF, image, QR, calculators) in a privacy-first Next.js site with Bangla/English UI — 27 everyday tools across 6 categories with 100% in-browser processing, multi-language support (Bangla & English), admin console.MITBD-based
Savx F4 WiFi LoggerESP32-S3 firmware plus web app that logs Savx F4 solar inverter data (sold in BD) with Bangla Telegram alerts — the model sold in Bangladesh under 'Brands of IPS Bazar' ... alerts on Telegram (in Bangla) and by e-mail; built and running on a real Savx F4.MITBD-based
DropMateWi-Fi-only messenger and file sender for Windows/Android: chats and any-size files device-to-device, no cloud — chat and send files to the people in your home, over your own Wi-Fi. No internet, no cloud, no account ... English and বাংলা.Apache-2.0BD-based
Jesun.CodePlain-English programming language (711 tests) whose 'use bangla' mode turns every keyword into Bangla — start the file with `use bangla` ... and every keyword becomes a Bangla word; comments start with মন্তব্য, identifiers and Bengali digits work.MITBD org / for-BD
voiceover-studioTurns a script, screenshots and a voice clip into narrated Bangla/English demo videos with cloned-voice TTS, captions and synced highlights.MITBD org / for-BD
Bongo PHP PackagesFifty zero-dependency PHP packages for the Bongo PHP framework, including bKash, Nagad, SSLCommerz and AamarPay gateway integrations for BD — README: 'Official, production-grade package suite for the Bongo PHP Framework... php bongo add bkash' — 1.6MB PHP across 50 packages incl. sslcommerz, nagad, aamarpay, bd-locations.MITBD-based
BN ScriptBangla-inspired programming language that compiles to JavaScript, with runtime, CLI, REPL, tests and a VS Code extension — "A Bangla-inspired programming language that compiles to JavaScript, with a runtime, command-line tools, an interactive REPL, and a VS Code extension" — runnable via node src/cli.js run..MITBD org / for-BD
ibus-bornonaNative Rust IBus input engine implementing the Bornona Bengali keyboard layout for Linux, with Alt+Space switching and layout viewer — "a native, lightweight Bengali input method engine for IBus implementing the Bornona (বর্ণনা) fixed layout in pure Rust" with one-command install script..GPL-3.0BD org / for-BD
bangla-i18nZero-dependency TypeScript toolkit for Bangla/English products: numerals, Taka formatting, dates, plurals, phone and NID checks.MITBD-based
A small tool that found a global audience: type a GitHub URL, get a zip of that directory. It solves the "I just want those three files, not the whole 400 MB repo" problem that every GitHub user hits eventually, and it has quietly become one of the most-forked Bangladeshi projects on the platform.
Scraping Bangladeshi websites is its own discipline — local encodings, local frameworks, local quirks — and this toolkit is built specifically for that reality instead of treating the Bangladeshi web as an afterthought. Published on npm with Apache-2.0, so commercial use is clean.
How this section is verified
Every link is fetched live at verification time — dead links are removed, not kept for history.
Bangladesh connections are evidenced (profile location, org page, or the product's own docs) — see the scope rules.
Dormant items (3+ years without activity) move to the legacy file with their last-activity date.
Licence information is quoted as the publisher states it; gaps are flagged with ⚠️ rather than guessed.