# zoxide

18 Hacker News commenters recommended zoxide and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a smarter cd that learns frequent folders and jumps to them quickly. Caveat: parent folders are only added if you cd into each one manually.

## Why people recommend it

- Faster, smarter cd replacement (5 comments): "Going from cd to zoxide is like going from walking to driving an F1 car around the directory tree." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46794629)) "a more powerful version of cd that remembers folders you've been to" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49730231)) "I use Zoxide to replace the alt+d cd shortcut as it's much faster" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46563369))
- Jumps to frequently used folders (3 comments): "I have been a very big fan of zoxide. It can jump around your common directories." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47529931)) "a more powerful version of cd that remembers folders you've been to" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49730231)) "I just type "z p" in that case and that's enough to get me there." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548875))
- Daily top tool for many (3 comments): "they're the only 'modern' additions to my workflow that actually felt worth the setup time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740364)) "zoxide is also probably my most used tool" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49730745)) "zoxide is now one of my top commands" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46794570))

## What people warn about

- Parent folders not added automatically (1 comments): "unless you manually CD each hop, the different parent directories aren't added to your Zoxide DB" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49731938))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [fzf](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fzf.md): 78 recommend
- [jq](https://hackerapproved.com/p/jq.md): 75 recommend
- [grep](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grep.md): 65 recommend
- [Atuin](https://hackerapproved.com/p/atuin.md): 63 recommend
- [GitHub CLI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/github-cli.md): 49 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "zoxide", https://hackerapproved.com/p/zoxide/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).