Awesome-Linux-Software
🐧 A list of awesome Linux softwares
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Applications / 3D Printing
Ultimaker/Cura
The world's most advanced 3D printer software
prusa3d/PrusaSlicer
A slicer based on Slic3r by Alessandro Ranellucci and the RepRap community
slic3r/Slic3r
Open Source toolpath generator for 3D printers
Applications / Audio
Ardour/ardour
Record, Edit, and Mix on Linux
audacity/audacity
Free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds
- Bitwig
DAW for music production
wwmm/easyeffects
EasyEffects is an advanced audio manipulation tool. It includes an equalizer, limiter, compressor and a reverberation tool, just to mention a few. To complement this there is also a built in spectrum analyzer
mtytel/helm
A software synthesizer, that runs either standalone, or as an LV2, VST, VST3 or AU plugin
hydrogen-music/hydrogen
Advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux
KXStudio/Repository
A collection of applications and plugins for professional audio production
LMMS/lmms
Making music on your PC by creating melodies and beats, synthesizing and mixing sounds, arranging samples and much more
mixxxdj/mixxx
Free DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes; veritable alternative to Traktor
musescore/MuseScore
Create, play and print beautiful sheet music
- Reaper
Audio Production without Limits
VCVRack/Rack
An open-source virtual modular synthesizer
Audio4Linux/Viper4Linux-GUI
An audio effect processor based on Viper4Android
beetbox/beets
Beets is the media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks
CDrummond/cantata
Qt5 Graphical MPD (Music Player Daemon) Client for Linux, Windows, MacOS
ciderapp/cider
A new cross-platform Apple Music experience based on Electron and Vue.js written from scratch with performance in mind
clementine-player/Clementine
Play numerous lossy and lossless audio formats
cmus/cmus
A small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems
DeaDBeeF-Player/deadbeef
DeaDBeeF is a modular audio player for GNU/Linux, BSD, OpenSolaris, macOS, and other UNIX-like systems
linuxdeepin/deepin-music
An application, developed by Deepin Technology Team, which focused on local music playing
gpodder/gpodder
Media aggregator and podcast client
harmonoid/harmonoid
Plays & manages your music library. Looks beautiful & juicy. Playlists, visuals, synced lyrics, pitch shift, volume boost & more
trazyn/ieaseMusic
iEaseMusic is a multiplatform program built in electron for listening to NetEase Music
LibreTime/libretime
The open broadcast software for scheduling and remote station management; forked from Airtime
Moosync/Moosync
Customizable Desktop Music Player with a clean interface for streaming local music as well as music from online sources such as YouTube and Spotify,
mopidy/mopidy
An extensible music server written in Python
staniel359/muffon
muffon is a cross-platform music streaming browser for desktop, which helps you find, listen and organize music in a way you've probably never experienced before
martpie/museeks
A simple, clean and cross-platform music player
metabrainz/picard
Picard is a cross-platform music tagger written in Python
- Netease Music
A music player of Netease - a cloud music service in China
nukeop/nuclear
An Electron-based, multiplatform music player app that streams from multiple sources
- Ocenaudio
A cross-platform, easy to use, fast and functional audio editor. It is the ideal software for people who need to edit and analyze audio files
gkarsay/parlatype
GNOME audio player for transcription
pithos/pithos
A native Pandora client for Linux
quodlibet/quodlibet
GTK+ music player written with huge libraries in mind. Supports search-based dynamic playlists, regular expressions, tagging, Replay Gain, podcasts & Internet radio
GNOME/rhythmbox
Music player from GNOME
multani/sonata
A Music player that is designed to be an elegant and intuitive interface for your music collection via the Music Player Daemon (MPD)
Soundnode/soundnode-app
An open source SoundCloud app for desktop
xou816/spot
Native Spotify client for the GNOME desktop
- Spotify
Spotify is the best way to listen to music and podcasts on pc, mobile or tablet
krtirtho/spotube
Spotube is a Flutter based lightweight spotify client. It utilizes the power of Spotify & Youtube's public API & creates a hazardless, performant & resource friendly User Experience
strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry
Strawberry is a fork of Clementine aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. It's written in C++ using the Qt toolkit
Mastermindzh/tidal-hifi
The web version of Tidal running in electron with hifi support thanks to widevine
th-ch/youtube-music
YouTube Music Desktop App bundled with custom plugins (and built-in ad blocker / downloader)
chronitis/curseradio
Command line radio player
ebruck/radiotray-ng
An Internet radio player for Linux
needle-and-thread/vocal
Podcast client for the modern desktop
karlstav/cava
Cava is a Cross-platform Audio Visualizer
GNOME/easytag
Edit audio file metadata
enzo1982/freac
fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It currently converts between MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV and Bonk formats
KDE/k3b
The CD/DVD Kreator for Linux, optimized for KDE
orhun/linuxwave
Generate music from the entropy of Linux
SeaDve/Mousai
Mousai is a simple application that can identify songs similar to Shazam
- MusixMatch
A Capable lyrics app with synchronized lyrics function
osdlyrics/osdlyrics
Show lyrics with your favorite media player
Soundux/Soundux
A cross-platform soundboard
spicetify/spicetify-cli
Command-line tool to customize the official Spotify client. Supports Windows, MacOS and Linux
Applications / Chat Clients
sindresorhus/caprine
Elegant Facebook Messenger desktop app
chatterino/chatterino2
Chatterino is a chat client for Twitch chat. It aims to be an improved/extended version of the Twitch web chat
chatty/chatty
Chatty is a Twitch chat client for everyone who wants to try something new and different from the webchat, but doesn't want the complexity of an IRC client or miss out on the Twitch specific features
Nheko-Reborn/nheko
Desktop client for Matrix using Qt and C++20
Vencord/Vesktop
Vesktop is a custom Discord App aiming to give you better performance and improve linux support
SpacingBat3/WebCord
A Discord and Fosscord web-based client made with the electron
ferdium/ferdium-app
Fork of Ferdi/Franz. Ferdium is a desktop app that helps you organize how you use your favourite apps by combining them into one application
meetfranz/franz
Franz is a free messaging app that combines many chat & messaging services into one application
- Rambox
Free and Cross Platform messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one
sonnyp/Tangram
Tangram is a new kind of browser. It is designed to organize and run your Web applications
BetterDiscord/BetterDiscord
BetterDiscord extends the functionality of DiscordApp by enhancing it with new features
trigg/Discover
Yet another Discord overlay for Linux written in Python using GTK3
jagrosh/MusicBot
A Discord music bot that's easy to set up and run yourself
Cog-Creators/Red-DiscordBot
Red Discord Bot is a self-hosted music/chat/trivia bot that can run on a Raspberry Pi and a variety of OS's. It's extensible through a system of "Cogs" that allow it to do more
Vendicated/Vencord
The cutest Discord client mod
irssi/irssi
Irssi is a modular chat client that is most commonly known for its text mode user interface
kvirc/KVIrc
KVIrc is a free portable IRC client based on the excellent Qt GUI toolkit
weechat/weechat
WeeChat is a fast, light and extensible chat client
dino/dino
Clean and modern Jabber/XMPP chat client
- Discord
All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers that’s free, secure, and works on both your desktop and phone
vector-im/element-web
A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web
- Guilded
Guilded is the best app for gaming chat. Guilded is perfect for gaming with friends, clans, guilds, communities, esports, LFG and teams. And it's free
- mattermost/
Mattermost is a secure collaboration platform that is open, flexible, and deeply integrated with the tools you love
qTox/qTox
A simple distributed, secure messenger with audio and video chat capabilities
RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
Rocket.Chat is an open-source fully customizable communications platform developed in JavaScript for organizations with high standards of data protection
- Skype
Skype keeps the world talking, for free
- Slack
Real-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams
telegramdesktop/tdesktop
A messaging app with a focus on speed and security, it’s super fast, simple and free
linagora/Twake
Open-source alternative to Microsoft Teams
- Viber
Viber for Linux lets you send free messages and make free calls to other Viber users on any device and network, in any country
zulip/zulip
Zulip is a powerful, open source group chat application that combines the immediacy of real-time chat with the productivity benefits of threaded conversations
Applications / Data Backup and Recovery
bit-team/backintime
A simple backup tool for Linux, inspired by "flyback project"
bup/bup
Very efficient backup system based on the git packfile format, providing fast incremental saves and global deduplication (among and within files, including virtual machine images)
gilbertchen/duplicacy
Duplicacy is a new generation cross-platform cloud backup tool based on the idea of Lock-Free Deduplication. CLI version is free for personal use and is open-source, GUI and commercial use require licensing
kopia/kopia
Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication
cgsecurity/testdisk
PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory
ncw/rclone
Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from various cloud storage solutions. It also allows encrypted backups
restic/restic
restic is a backup program that is fast, efficient and secure. It supports the three major operating systems (Linux, macOS, Windows) and a few smaller ones (FreeBSD, OpenBSD)
rsnapshot/rsnapshot
rsnapshot is a command line utility based on rsync to make periodic snapshots of local/remote machines. The code makes extensive use of hard links whenever possible to greatly reduce the disk space required
cgsecurity/testdisk
TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software
linuxmint/timeshift
System restore tool for Linux. Creates filesystem snapshots using rsync+hardlinks, or BTRFS snapshots. Supports scheduled snapshots, multiple backup levels, and exclude filters. Snapshots can be restored while system is running or from Live CD/USB
borgbase/vorta
Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. It integrates the mighty BorgBackup with your desktop environment to protect your data from disk failure, ransomware and theft
Applications / Desktop Customization
EliverLara/candy-icons
An icon theme colored with sweet gradients
daniruiz/Flat-Remix
Flat Remix is an icon theme inspired by material design. It is mostly flat using a colorful palette with some shadows, highlights, and gradients for some depth
vinceliuice/Fluent-icon-theme
Fluent icon theme for linux desktops
keeferrourke/la-capitaine-icon-theme
A macOS and Material design inspired icon theme designed to fit into most desktop environments
snwh/moka-icon-theme
Moka was created with simplicity in mind. With the use simple geometry & bright colours
numixproject/numix-icon-theme
A flat icon theme that comes in two varieties, Numix Main, and Numix circle
PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme
SVG icon theme for Linux systems, based on Paper with a few extras like (hardcode-tray support, kde-color-scheme support, libreoffice icon theme, filezilla theme, smplayer themes, ...) and other modifications. The theme is available for GTK and KDE
vinceliuice/Qogir-icon-theme
A flat colorful design icon theme for linux desktops
yeyushengfan258/Reversal-icon-theme
A colorful design icon theme for linux desktops
vinceliuice/Tela-icon-theme
A flat colorful Design icon theme
vinceliuice/WhiteSur-icon-theme
MacOS Big Sur style icon theme for linux desktops
zayronxio/Zafiro-icons
Minimalist icons created with the flat-desing technique, utilizing washed out colors and always accompanied by white
EliverLara/Ant
Ant is a flat GTK theme for Ubuntu and other GNOME-based Linux desktops it comes in three varieties: vanilla, Bloody, or Dracula
jnsh/arc-theme
A flat theme with transparent elements
dracula/gtk
A dark theme using the awesome Dracula color pallete
daniruiz/Flat-Remix-GTK
Flat Remix is a GTK application theme inspired by material design
vinceliuice/Graphite-gtk-theme
Graphite GTK theme
Fausto-Korpsvart/Gruvbox-GTK-Theme
A GTK theme based on the Gruvbox colour palette
EliverLara/Kimi
Kimi is a light Gtk3.20+ theme
vinceliuice/Layan-gtk-theme
Layan is a flat Material Design theme for GTK 3, GTK 2 and Gnome-Shell which supports GTK 3 and GTK 2 based desktop environments like Gnome, Budgie, etc
material-ocean/material-ocean
A material design theme with oceanic colors(GTK, QT)
vinceliuice/Mojave-gtk-theme
Mojave is a Mac OSX like theme for GTK 3, GTK 2 and GNOME-Shell which supports GTK 3 and GTK 2 based desktop environments like GNOME, Pantheon, XFCE, Mate, etc
EliverLara/Nordic
Dark Gtk3.20+ theme created using the awesome Nord color pallete
vinceliuice/Orchis-theme
Orchis is a Material Design theme for GNOME/GTK based desktop environments
vinceliuice/Qogir-theme
Qogir is a flat Design theme for GTK
EliverLara/Sweet
Light and dark colorful Gtk3.20+ theme
vinceliuice/WhiteSur-gtk-theme
MacOS Big Sur like theme for GNOME desktops
brndnmtthws/conky
Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any kind of information on your desktop
mjakeman/extension-manager
A utility for browsing and installing GNOME Shell Extensions
- GNOME Extensions
Extensions for the GNOME Desktop Environment
- GNOME Look
A website that hosts a Large amounts of community created icons, shell themes, fonts, and many more assets that can be used to customize your GNOME desktop environment
GradienceTeam/Gradience
Gradience is a tool for customizing Libadwaita applications and the adw-gtk3 theme
bilelmoussaoui/Hardcode-Tray
This script fixes hardcoded tray icons in Linux by automatically detecting your default theme, the right icon size, the hard-coded applications, the right icons for each indicator and fix them
LemonBoy/bar
Super fast, lightweight, and mnml status bar for Linux
realmazharhussain/gdm-settings
A settings app for GNOME's Login Manager, GDM
themix-project/themix-gui
A Graphical application for generating different color variations of Oomox (Numix-based) and Materia (ex-Flat-Plat) themes (GTK2, GTK3, Cinnamon, GNOME, Openbox, Xfwm), Archdroid, Gnome-Color, Numix, Papirus and Suru++ icon themes
jaagr/polybar
Fast and easy-to-use status bar
deviantfero/wpgtk
A universal theming software for all themes defined in text files, compatible with all terminals, with default themes for GTK2, GTK+, openbox and Tint2 that uses pywal as it's core for colorscheme generation
Applications / Development
anbox/anbox
Run Android applications on any GNU/Linux operating system
waydroid/waydroid
Waydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu
- CLion
A cross-platform and powerful IDE for C/C++
qt-creator/qt-creator
Fully-stocked cross-platform integrated development environment for easy creation of connected devices, UIs and applications
apache/cassandra
Apache Cassandra database is the right choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising performance. Linear scalability and proven fault-tolerance on commodity hardware or cloud infrastructure make it the perfect platform for mission-critical data
apache/couchdb
Seamless multi-master sync, that scales from Big Data to Mobile, with an Intuitive HTTP/JSON API and designed for Reliability
- DataGrip
DataGrip is a cross-platform IDE that is aimed at DBAs and developers working with SQL databases. It has built-in drivers that support DB2, Derby, H2, HSQLDB, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Sqlite and Sybase
dbeaver/dbeaver
A universal database client supporting multiple platforms and databases
mongodb/mongo
MongoDB is a free and open-source cross-platform document-oriented database program, uses JSON-like documents with schemas
dbcli/mycli
MyCLI is a command line interface for MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona with auto-completion and syntax highlighting
mysql/mysql-server
MySQL is the world's leading open source database thanks to its proven performance, reliability and ease-of-use. It is used by high profile web properties including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo! and many more
mysql/mysql-workbench
MySQL Workbench is a unified visual tool for database architects, developers, and DBAs. MySQL Workbench provides data modeling, SQL development, and comprehensive administration tools for server configuration, user administration, backup, and much more
oceanbase/oceanbase
Distributed relational database. Based on the Paxos protocol and its distributed structure, it provides high availability and linear scalability
OmniDB/OmniDB
Browser-based tool that visually create, manage, and view databases
- OracleDB
Object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation, one of the most trusted and widely-used relational database engines
percona/percona-server-mongodb
Percona Server for MongoDB provides all features and benefits of MongoDB Community Server
percona/pmm-server
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB performance. You can run PMM in your own environment for maximum security and reliability. It provides thorough time-based analysis for MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB servers to ensure that your data works as efficiently as possible
percona/percona-server
Percona Server for MySQL is a free, fully compatible, enhanced, open source drop-in replacement for MySQL that provides superior performance, scalability and instrumentation
percona/percona-xtradb-cluster
Percona XtraDB Cluster is an active/active high availability and high scalability open source solution for MySQL clustering. It integrates Percona Server and Percona XtraBackup with the Codership Galera library of MySQL high availability solutions in a single package that enables you to create a cost-effective MySQL high availability cluster
dbcli/pgcli
Pgcli is a command line interface for Postgres with auto-completion and syntax highlighting
postgres/postgres
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system with more than 15 year development. PostgreSQL is not controlled by any corporation or other private entity and the source code is available free of charge
sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser
Visually create, manage, and view sqlite database files
WebDB-App/app
Open Source and Efficient Database IDE. Easy server connection, Modern ERD, Intelligent data generator, IA assistant, NoSQL structure manager, Time machine and Powerful query editor
bevyengine/bevy
A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
defold/defold
Defold is a completely free to use game engine for development of desktop, mobile and web games
AchetaGames/Epic-Asset-Manager
An unofficial client to install Unreal Engine, download and manage purchased assets, projects, plugins and games from the Epic Games Store
FlaxEngine/FlaxEngine
Flax Engine – multi-platform 3D game engine
- GameMaker
The Ultimate 2D Game Development Environment
4ian/GDevelop
Open-source, cross-platform game engine designed to be used by everyone
haxeflixel/flixel
2D game engine written in
HeapsIO/heaps
Heaps is a cross platform graphics engine designed for high performance games. It's designed to leverage modern GPUs that are commonly available on desktop, mobile and consoles
o3de/o3de
Open 3D Engine (O3DE) is a modular, open source, cross-platform 3D engine built to power anything from AAA games to cinema-quality 3D worlds to high-fidelity simulations
stride3d/stride
Stride is an open-source C# game engine for realistic rendering and VR
- Unity
The world’s leading platform for real-time content creation
- Unreal Engine
The world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool
turanszkij/WickedEngine
3D engine with modern graphics
Gisto/Gisto
Gisto is a code snippet manager that runs on GitHub Gists and adds additional features such as searching, tagging and sharing gists while including a rich code editor
git/git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency
git-cola/git-cola
Git Cola is a sleek and powerful graphical Git client. Written in Python and GPL-licensed
- go-gitea/
Gitea is a community managed lightweight code hosting solution written in Go. It is published under the MIT license
- GitKraken
The downright luxurious Git GUI client for Windows, Mac & Linux
gitlabhq/gitlabhq
GitLab is a web-based Git repository manager with wiki and issue tracking features
sitaramc/gitolite
Gitolite allows you to setup git hosting on a central server, with fine-grained access control and many more powerful features
Murmele/Gittyup
Gittyup is a graphical Git client designed to help you understand and manage your source code history
gogs/gogs
A painless self-hosted Git service
jesseduffield/lazygit
A simple terminal UI for git commands, written in Go with the gocui library
- SmartGit
SmartGit is a Git client with support for GitHub Pull Requests+Comments and SVN
- GoLand
Commercial IDE by JetBrains aimed at providing an ergonomic environment for Go development
visualfc/liteide
LiteIDE is a simple, open source, cross-platform Go IDE
JetBrains/intellij-community
Open source IDE by Jetbrains for JVM and Android development
- IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate
Commercial IDE by Jetbrains for web and enterprise JAVA development
- Webstorm
Powerful IDE for modern JavaScript development, made by JetBrains
arduino/arduino-ide
The open-source Arduino Software (IDE) makes it easy to write code and upload it to the board
fritzing/fritzing-app
Fritzing is an open-source hardware initiative that makes electronics accessible as a creative material for anyone
Sloeber/arduino-eclipse-plugin
Sloeber IDE. The Arduino IDE for Eclipse
aptana/studio3
Aptana Studio harnesses the flexibility of Eclipse and focuses it into a powerful web development engine
- PHPStorm
Lightning-smart and powerful PHP IDE from Jetbrains
JetBrains/intellij-community
Open source IDE by Jetbrains for pure Python development
- PyCharm Professional
Commercial IDE by Jetbrains for scientific and web Python development
- RubyMine
Professional Ruby and Rails IDE
fish-shell/fish-shell
A smart and user-friendly command-line shell
jorgebucaran/fisher
A plugin manager for fish shell
ipython/ipython
Powerful Python shell
nushell/nushell
A new type of shell
oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish
Provides various packages and themes to extend the functionality of your fish shell
robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh
A delightful community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration
oilshell/oil
Oil is a new Unix shell for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!
koalaman/shellcheck
ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts
zimfw/zimfw
Modular, customizable, and blazing fast Zsh framework
kspalaiologos/bzip3
A versatile statistical compressor with better compression ratio than standard Linux tools (gzip, bzip2, etc...)
GeopJr/Collision
Collision comes with a simple & clean UI, allowing anyone, from any age and experience group, to generate, compare and verify MD5, SHA-256, SHA-512 and SHA-1 hashes
Huluti/Curtail
Curtail is an useful image compressor, supporting PNG, JPEG and WEBP file types
qarmin/czkawka
Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc
cytopia/devilbox
The devilbox is a modern and highly customisable dockerized PHP stack supporting full LAMP and MEAN and running on all major platforms. The main goal is to easily switch and combine any version required for local development
dialect-app/dialect
A translation app for GNOME
docker/desktop-linux
Docker is a set of platform as a service products that use OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers
flox/flox
Flox is a virtual environment and package manager all-in-one
gaphor/gaphor
A simple and fast software and systems modeling tool
- Genymotion
Genymotion is a fast third-party emulator that can be used instead of the default Android emulator
- GNOME/glade
GTK+ User Interface Builder
WindSoilder/hors
Instant coding answers via the command line
Kong/insomnia
A simple, beautiful, and free REST API client
- Intel® VTune™ Profiler
GUI and Commandline tool from Intel for finding and fixing performance bottlenecks in software written in C/C++, C#, Java, and more
jesseduffield/lazydocker
A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose, written in Go with the gocui library
- Mockitt
Mockitt is an easy-to-use prototyping tool
evolus/pencil
An open-source GUI prototyping tool that's available for ALL platforms
stuartlangridge/ColourPicker
Simple color picker
- Postman
Postman, allows a user to develop and test APIs quickly
rabbitvcs/rabbitvcs
RabbitVCS is a set of graphical tools written to provide simple and straightforward access to the version control systems you use
CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail
Sourcetrail is a free and open-source cross-platform source explorer that helps you get productive on unfamiliar source code
- StarUML
A sophisticated software modeler
uncrustify/uncrustify
Source Code Beautifier for C/C++, C#, ObjectiveC, D, Java, Pawn and VALA. See UniversalIndentGUI below
- GitBreeze
GitBreeze is the free for personal use effortless Git GUI for Windows, Mac, & Linux
sonnyp/Workbench
Workbench goal is to let you experiment with GNOME technologies, no matter if tinkering for the first time or building and testing a custom GTK widget
zealdocs/zeal
Zeal is an offline documentation browser for software developers
Applications / E-Book Utilities
babluboy/bookworm
A simple, focused eBook reader
oguzhaninan/Buka
A program for EBook Management
kovidgoyal/calibre
Incredibly ugly but powerful software for ebook management and conversion
janeczku/calibre-web
Calibre Web is a web app providing a clean interface for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks using an existing Calibre database
michaldaniel/Ebook-Viewer
Modern GTK Python Ebook Reader app to easily read epub files
geometer/FBReader
One of the most popular eReader apps
johnfactotum/foliate
Foliate is a simple and modern GTK eBook viewer
- Foxit
Foxit Reader 8.0—Award-winning PDF Reader
martahilmar/gnome-books
GNOME Books is application for listing, searching and reading eBooks
- Lucidor
Lucidor is a computer program for reading and handling e-books. Lucidor supports e-books in the EPUB file format, and catalogs in the OPDS format
- MasterPDF editor
Master PDF Editor a convenient and smart PDF editor for Linux
KDE/okular
Okular is a universal document viewer based developed by KDE. Okular works on multiple platforms, including but not limited to Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, BSD, etc
pdfarranger/pdfarranger
PDF Arranger is a small application, which helps the user to merge or split pdf documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface
torakiki/pdfsam
A desktop application to split, extract pages, rotate, mix and merge PDF files
junrrein/pdfslicer
PDF Slicer is a simple application to extract, merge, rotate and reorder pages of PDF documents
- PDF Studio
An easy to use, full-featured PDF editing software that is a reliable alternative to Adobe Acrobat and provides all PDF functions needed at a fraction of the cost. PDF Studio maintains full compatibility with the PDF Standard
Sigil-Ebook/Sigil
Sigil is a multi-platform EPUB ebook editor
pwmt/zathura
Zathura is a highly customizable and functional document viewer
Applications / Electronic
logisim-evolution/logisim-evolution
Graphical tool for designing and simulating digital logic curcuits. Successor of LogiSim
Applications / Education
bibletime/bibletime
BibleTime is a Bible study application based on the Sword library and Qt toolkit
CelestiaProject/Celestia
The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions
opp11/chemtool
Chemtool is a small program for drawing chemical structures on Linux
gap-system/gap
A computer algebra system for computational discrete algebra with particular emphasis on computational group theory
geogebra/geogebra
The graphing calculator for functions, geometry, algebra, calculus, statistics and 3D mathematics
- Google Earth
Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program
- KDE Edu Suite
Free Educational Software based on the KDE technologies
- MAPLE
Maple is math software that combines the world's most powerful math engine with an interface that makes it extremely easy to analyze, explore, visualize, and solve mathematical problems
- MapTiler
MapTiler generates zoomable raster maps from images in user-defined coordinate system
KDE/marble
Marble is a virtual globe and world atlas — your swiss army knife for maps
- MATLAB
The MATLAB platform is optimized for solving engineering and scientific problems. MATLAB helps you take your ideas beyond the desktop. You can run your analyses on larger data sets and scale up to clusters and clouds
- Mathematica
The world's definitive system for modern technical computing
- Mendeley
Mendeley is a program for managing and sharing research papers, finding research data and collaborating online
moodle/moodle
Course management system for online learning
sagemath/sage
A mathematical software with features covering many aspects of mathematics, including algebra, combinatorics, numerical mathematics, number theory, and calculus
scipy/scipy
SciPy is a Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering
LLK/scratch-flash
With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community
sugarlabs/sugar
Sugar is a learning platform that reinvents how computers are used for education. Collaboration, reflection, and discovery are integrated directly into the user interface
ugeneunipro/ugene
UGENE is free open-source cross-platform integrated GUI-based bioinformatics software
veyon/veyon
Veyon is a computer management software for classrooms, it allows a teacher to control student computers and guide students over a computer network
Applications / Email
vladimiry/ElectronMail
ElectronMail is an Electron-based unofficial desktop client for ProtonMail and Tutanota end-to-end encrypted email providers
- Hiri
Hiri is a business focused desktop e-mail client for sending and receiving e-mails, managing calendars, contacts, and tasks
pulb/mailnag
Mailnag is a daemon program that checks POP3 and IMAP servers for new mail
- Mailspring
A beautiful, fast and maintained fork of Nylas Mail ( ) by one of the original authors
KDE/trojita
A super fast desktop email client for Linux
danchoi/vmail
Vim-like Gmail client
Applications / File Manager
mate-desktop/caja
Is the default file manager for the MATE desktop environment, it is very fast and simple to use
leo-arch/clifm
The shell-like, command line terminal file manager: simple, fast, extensible, and lightweight as hell
MidnightCommander/mc
A feature rich full-screen file manager that allows you to copy, move and delete files and whole directory trees
GNOME/nautilus
Nautilus (Files) is a file manager designed to fit the GNOME desktop design and behaviour, giving the user a simple way to navigate and manage its files
linuxmint/nemo
Nemo is the file manager for the Cinnamon desktop environment
jarun/nnn
A very lightweight and fast terminal file browser with excellent desktop integration
shundhammer/qdirstat
Qt-based directory statistics - KDirStat without any KDE, from the original KDirStat author
ranger/ranger
Ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings
IgnorantGuru/spacefm
Multi-panel tabbed file and desktop manager with built-in VFS, udev- or HAL-based device manager, customisable menu system and bash-GTK integration
vifm/vifm
Vifm is an ncurses based file manager with VI like keybindings, which also borrows some useful ideas from mutt
Applications / Games
- Dwarf Fortress
A famously complex simulation of a High Fantasy Dwarf Fortress, fight goblins, and slay massive legendary beasts. Strike the earth!
OpenTTD/OpenTTD
An open-source clone of Transport Tycoon Plus with major improvements
aburch/simutrans
Simutrans is a freeware and open-source transportation simulator
unknown-horizons/unknown-horizons
A 2D realtime strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building. Multiplayer currently broken
mydzor/bash2048
Play the famous 2048 in commandline
fph/bastet
Play Tetris in commandline
maaslalani/gambit
Play chess in your terminal
alexdantas/nsnake
Play the classic Nokia snake game on the command line
alexdantas/pacman4console.debian
Play Pacman game in console
lxgr-linux/pokete
A terminal based Pokemon like game
mpereira/tty-solitaire
Play solitaire in your terminal!
wheybags/freeablo
A free recreation of the original Diablo game engine that runs natively on Linux. Requires the original game assets
nxengine/nxengine-evo
A somewhat upgraded/refactored version of NXEngine by Caitlin Shaw
SFTtech/openage
Free (as in freedom) open source clone of the Age of Empires II engine, source needs to be built
OpenMW/openmw
A recreation of the Morrowind engine, expanding upon the original. It can be used to play legitimate copies of original game
OpenRA/OpenRA
Classic strategy games, rebuilt for the modern era. Open source
OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2
A recreation of the Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 engine. Requires the original games assests
freedoom/freedoom
Free version of the original Doom games, with newly created free-licensed assets
red-eclipse/base
Red Eclipse is a fun-filled new take on the first person arena shooter, which lends itself toward a balanced gameplay, with a general theme of agility in a variety of environments
- Urban Terror
A "Hollywood" tactical shooter - realism based, but the motto is "fun over realism"
coelckers/gzdoom
ZDoom is a source port for the modern era, supporting current hardware and operating systems and sporting a vast array of user options
Mudlet/Mudlet
A cross-platform, open source, and super fast MUD (text-only MMORPGs) client with scripting in Lua
Neverball/neverball
Addictive ball-rolling game with many levels, avatars and an ability to record replays
- OhMyGiraffe
A delightful game of survival. A game about a giraffe eating fruit while being chased by lions
alemart/opensurge
A 2D platformer and game creation engine inspired by the 16-bit Sonic the Hedgehog games
alpcoskun/snake
Cross-platform Classic Snake Game based on Node.js
SuperTux/supertux
Clone of the popular sidescrolling Super Mario games
Cockatrice/Cockatrice
Cockatrice is an open-source multiplatform supported program for playing tabletop card games over a network
Pingus/pingus
2D puzzle game that clones the popular Lemmings. Your goal is to guide a group of penguins safely across the game map
drwhut/tabletop-club
An open-source platform for playing tabletop games in a physics-based 3D environment for Windows, macOS, and Linux! Made with the Godot Engine
KartKrewDev/RingRacers
A technical kart racer, drawing inspiration from “antigrav” racers, fighting games, and traditional-style kart racing
supertuxkart/stk-code
SuperTuxKart is a 3D open-source arcade racer with a variety characters, tracks, and modes to play
flareteam/flare-engine
Singleplayer Diablo clone with beautiful original graphics
- Ryzom
Free and open-source 3D MMORPG with unique features and deep lore. The official servers allow free accounts as well as paid subscriptions with extra features
ZeldaClassic/ZeldaClassic
A tribute to Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda with additional quests, items and challenges
Anuken/Mindustry
The automation tower defense RTS, written in Java
triplea-game/triplea
Open source grand strategy game with "Axis and Allies" game rules
Warzone2100/warzone2100
Open-source real-time strategy game that takes place after a nuclear war
- Factorio
A factory building sandbox game
minecraft-linux/mcpelauncher-manifest
Unoffical Open-source launcher for Minecraft: Bedrock edition
- Minecraft
Minecraft is a game about placing blocks and going on adventures. Explore randomly generated worlds and build amazing things from the simplest of homes to the grandest of castles
minetest/minetest
Open-source Minecraft written in C++ (uses less resources) and includes modding API
MultiMC/Launcher
MultiMC is an alternative launcher for Minecraft. It allows you to have multiple, cleanly separated instances of Minecraft (each with their own mods, resource packs, saves, etc) and helps you manage them and their associated options with a simple and powerful interface
PrismLauncher/PrismLauncher
A custom launcher for Minecraft that allows you to easily manage multiple installations of Minecraft at once (Fork of MultiMC and PolyMC)
viewizard/astromenace
Hardcore 3D space scroll-shooter with spaceship upgrade possibilities
cxong/cdogs-sdl
Classic overhead run-and-gun game in beautiful pixel-art
wesnoth/wesnoth
The Battle for Wesnoth is an open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme. It features both singleplayer and online/hotseat multiplayer combat
freeciv/freeciv
Freeciv is a Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization
- HedgeWars
2D game where teams compete in the style of the popular Worms games
- Tanks of Freedom
Pixel-art military strategy implemented in Godot game engine
- bottlesdevs/
Easily manage wine prefixes in a new way. Run Windows software and games on Linux
kra-mo/cartridges
A GTK4 + Libadwaita game launcher
tkashkin/GameHub
GameHub is a unified library for all your games. It allows you to store your games from different platforms into one program to make it easier for you to manage your games
itchio/itch
The itch.io app. All of your downloads are kept in a single place and are automatically updated. Plenty of free games
lutris/lutris
Lutris is an open gaming platform for Linux. It helps you install and manage your games in a unified interface
- Steam
Gaming store, which opens the gates to many games
PhilipK/BoilR
Synchronize games from other platforms into your Steam library
dreamer/boxtron
Steam Play compatibility tool to run DOS games using native Linux DOSBox. It is a sister project of Luxtorpeda and DOSBox Staging
CryoByte33/steam-deck-utilities
A utility to improve performance and help manage storage on Steam Deck
SteamDeckHomebrew/decky-loader
A plugin loader for the Steam Deck
dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging
DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and current development practices
FeralInteractive/gamemode
Optimise Linux system performance on demand
benjamimgois/goverlay
GOverlay is an open source project that aims to create a Graphical UI to help manage Linux overlays
luxtorpeda-dev/luxtorpeda
Suite of Steam Play compatibility tools to run games using native Linux engines
flightlessmango/MangoHud
A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more
Merrit/nyrna
Suspend games and applications
dreamer/roberta
Steam Play compatibility tool to run adventure games using native Linux ScummVM. It is a sister project of Luxtorpeda
kozec/sc-controller
User-mode driver, mapper and GTK3 based GUI for Steam Controller, DualShock 4, and similar controllers
scummvm/scummvm
ScummVM allows you to play classic graphic point-and-click adventure games, text adventure games, and RPGs, as long as you already have the game data files. ScummVM replaces the executable files shipped with the games, which means you can now play your favorite games on all your favorite devices
CapitaineJSparrow/steam-repo-manager
Install boot videos to your Steam Deck using Steam Deck Repo website API
SteamGridDB/steam-rom-manager
An app for managing ROMs in Steam
sonic2kk/steamtinkerlaunch
Linux wrapper tool for use with the Steam client for custom launch options and 3rd party programs
fastrizwaan/WineZGUI
GUI Frontend using Zenity for running Windows games with Wine that allows you to create, manage, and share game prefixes
GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom
Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
Kron4ek/Wine-Builds
Custom Wine builds and build scripts for Vanilla, Wine Staging, Wine-tkg and Proton
ValveSoftware/Proton
Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components, primarily developed by Valve and CodeWeavers
Vysp3r/ProtonPlus
A simple Wine and Proton manager for GNOME
Matoking/protontricks
This is a wrapper script that allows you to easily run Winetricks commands for Steam Play/Proton games among other common Wine features, such as launching external Windows executables
AUNaseef/protonup
CLI program and API to automate the installation and update of GE-Proton
DavidoTek/ProtonUp-Qt
Install and manage GE-Proton and Luxtorpeda for Steam and Wine-GE for Lutris with this graphical user interface
GloriousEggroll/wine-ge-custom
Custom build of wine, made to use with lutris. Built with lutris's buildbot
Frogging-Family/wine-tkg-git
The wine-tkg build systems, to create custom Wine and Proton builds
Winetricks/winetricks
Winetricks is an easy way to work around problems in Wine
varmd/wine-wayland
Wine-wayland allows playing DX9/DX11 and Vulkan games using pure wayland and Wine/DXVK
ares-emulator/ares
A multi-system console emulation suite
dragoonDorise/EmuDeck
Emulator configurator for Steam Deck
byuu/higan
Higan is a multi-system emulator that supports emulating a huge number of different systems including: NES, SNES, GameBoy, GameBoy Color, Gameboy Advance, NEC PC Engine, Sega Master System, and more. Here is a guide to install it on Linux
mamedev/mame
MAME is an Arcade Cabinet emulator that strives for accuracy, and can play a huge number of different arcade games
qmc2/qmc2-mame-fe
QMC2 is the successor to QMamecat, it is a gui for MAME and a ROM manager
libretro/RetroArch
A front-end for a lot of game emulators
XargonWan/RetroDECK
Everything you need for emulation on Steam Deck
stella-emu/stella
Is an Atari 2600 Emulator that is multiplatform
mborgerson/xemu
Original Xbox Emulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Active Development)
cemu-project/Cemu
Software to emulate Wii U games and applications on PC
TASEmulators/desmume
DeSmuME is a Nintendo DS emulator
dolphin-emu/dolphin
Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements
Arisotura/melonDS
melonDS aims at providing fast and accurate Nintendo DS emulation
0ldsk00l/nestopia
nestopia is a Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicon emulator
snes9xgit/snes9x
Is a multiplatform Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator that has gone through many incarnations, but is still being actively developed
visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m
A Gameboy and Gameboy Advance Emulator that is still undergoing active development and can even emulate a system link between two gameboys
jpd002/Play-
Play! is a PlayStation2 emulator for Windows, macOS, UNIX, Android, iOS and web browser platforms
hrydgard/ppsspp
PPSSPP is a PSP emulator that can run games full HD resolution. It can even upscale textures that would otherwise be too blurry as they were made for the small screen of the original PSP
Vita3K/Vita3K
Vita3K is an experimental PlayStation Vita emulator for Windows and Linux
Applications / Graphics
- Aftershot
A powerful alternative to Adobe Photoshop
darktable-org/darktable
Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer
ImageMagick/ImageMagick
ImageMagick is a suite of command-line utilities for modifying and working with images
jarun/imgp
Blazing fast terminal image resizer and rotator
LuminanceHDR/LuminanceHDR
Luminance HDR is an open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging
google-code-export/photivo
Photivo is a free and open source (GPL3) photo processor, handles your RAW and bitmap files (TIFF, JPEG, BMP, PNG and many more) in a non-destructive 16 bit processing pipe with gimp workflow integration and batch mode. It is intended to be used in a workflow together with digiKam/F-Spot/Shotwell and Gimp
piskelapp/piskel
Browser-based editor for animated sprites and pixel art. Available as offline application
lbalazscs/Pixelitor
Pixelitor is a free and open source image editing software that supports layers, layer masks, text layers, filters, multiple undo etc
Beep6581/RawTherapee
A good looking but lesser known photo editing app
szTheory/exifcleaner
Remove image metadata with drag and drop. Supports multi-core batch processing
BestImageViewer/geeqie
Image viewer / photo collection browser. Successor of GQview
meowtec/Imagine
An open source image optimizer that can shrink the size of images with a minimal loss of quality
nomacs/nomacs
nomacs is an image viewer that is able to view nearly any image format, and has powerful renaming and sorting tools
peterlevi/ojo
A fast and pretty image viewer
ivandokov/phockup
Command line sorting tool to organize photos and videos from your camera in folders by year, month and day
oferkv/phototonic
Phototonic is image viewer and organizer
kanryu/quickviewer
Very fast image/comic viewer by using OpenGL
yurijmikhalevich/rclip
AI-Powered Command-Line Photo Search Tool
FreeCAD/FreeCAD
FreeCAD is a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler
HandBrake/HandBrake
HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs
Diolinux/PhotoGIMP
A patch for optimizing GIMP 2.10+ for Adobe Photoshop users
Gictorbit/photoshopCClinux
Photoshop CC v19 installer for Gnu/Linux
MiMillieuh/Photoshop-CC2022-Linux
Installer for Photoshop CC 2022 on linux with a GUI
- Avocode
Avocode - Share and inspect Photoshop and Sketch designs in a heart beat
asciinema/asciinema
Terminal session recorder
dvershinin/green-recorder
A simple desktop recorder for Linux systems, supports recording audio and video on almost all Linux interfaces and Wayland display server on GNOME session
SeaDve/Kooha
A simple screen recorder written with GTK. It allows you to record your screen and also audio from your microphone or desktop
orhun/menyoki
Screen{shot,cast} and perform ImageOps on the command line
obsproject/obs-studio
Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Download and start streaming quickly and easily on Windows, Mac or Linux. Share your gaming, art and entertainment with the world
phw/peek
Simple animated GIF screen recorder with an easy to use interface
colinkeenan/silentcast
Silentcast can create MKV screencasts and also output to an animated GIF
MaartenBaert/ssr
SimpleScreenRecorder is a feature-rich screen recorder that supports X11 and OpenGL. It has a Qt-based graphical user interface
vkohaupt/vokoscreen
A free, multilingual and easy to use screencast recorder with audio for Linux. It has many features
lupoDharkael/flameshot
Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software
ksnip/ksnip
Ksnip is a Qt-based cross-platform screenshot tool that provides many annotation features for your screenshots
olav-st/screencloud
ScreenCloud is an easy to use screenshot sharing tool consisting of a cross-platform client and a sharing website
shutter-project/shutter
Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program for Linux based operating systems such as Ubuntu
virtual-puppet-project/vpuppr
VTuber application made with Godot 3.4
cinelerra-cv-team/cinelerra-cv
Professional video editing and compositing environment
- Davinci Resolve
Revolutionary tools for editing, color correction, audio post and now visual effects, all in a single application
jliljebl/flowblade
A multitrack non-linear video editor for Linux
- Lightworks
Professional non-linear video editing program with a free version available
olive-editor/olive
Olive is a free non-linear video editor aiming to provide a fully-featured alternative to high-end professional video editing software
OpenShot/openshot-qt
OpenShot is a free, simple-to-use, feature-rich video editor for Linux
mltframework/shotcut
Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor with support for hundreds of audio and video formats and codecs and a sleek, intuitive interface
ozmartian/vidcutter
Cross-platform Qt5 based app for quick and easy video trimming/splitting and merging/joining for simple quick edits
Applications / Internet
brave/brave-browser
Brave is a fast, good desktop browser for macOS, Windows, and Linux
- Chrome
A popular Web Browser with a lot of plugins/apps
- Microsoft Edge
Microsoft Edge is a cross-platform web browser created and developed by Microsoft
minbrowser/min
A smarter, faster web browser
- Opera
Opera browser is everything you need to do more on the web
qutebrowser/qutebrowser
A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5
Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
ungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium, sans dependency on Google web services
- Vivaldi
A new and rising browser with a lot of customizations
WaterfoxCo/Waterfox
Fork of Firefox. Waterfox gives you a sane way to browse the web. Built with you, the user, in mind
- Wavebox
A feature-rich Chromium browser that's built for productive working across Google Workspaces, Microsoft Teams, ClickUp, Monday, Atlassian, Asana, AirTable, Slack, and every other web app you use to get work done
- Yandex
Fast and convenient browser
- Clipgrab
A friendly downloader for YouTube and other sites
NickvisionApps/Parabolic
Download web video and audio
spotDL/spotify-downloader
Download your Spotify playlists and songs along with album art and metadata (from YouTube if a match is found)
Unrud/video-downloader
Download videos from websites like YouTube and many others (based on yt-dlp)
aandrew-me/ytdownloader
A cross-platform GUI for yt-dlp with advanced options and a modern UI
zerotier/ZeroTierOne
Zerotier is a program that creates a Virtual Network for only your devices with end to end encryption over the internet. By default Zerotier will manage your virtual network but you can switch to a self-managed network if you prefer
jeena/FeedTheMonkey
FeedTheMonkey is a desktop client for TinyTinyRSS
yang991178/fluent-reader
Modern desktop RSS reader built with Electron, React, and Fluent UI
FreeTubeApp/FreeTube
FreeTube is a YouTube client for Windows, Mac, and Linux built around using YouTube more privately
EragonJ/Kaku
An open source youtube music player for Ubuntu
popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop
Watch torrent movies instantly
martinrotter/rssguard
Feed reader which supports RSS/ATOM/JSON and many web-based feed services
streamlink/streamlink-twitch-gui
A multi platform Twitch.tv browser for
pystardust/ytfzf
Terminal Youtube/Odysee client with thumbnails
Applications / Office
- Gnucash/
GnuCash is a free software accounting program that implements a double-entry bookkeeping system. It was initially aimed at developing capabilities similar to Intuit, Inc.'s Quicken application, but also has features for small business accounting
simonmichael/hledger
Easy-to-use command-line/curses/web plaintext accounting tool
- WPS office
A popular office suite in China, but is fully translated and functions well in English
alexandervdm/gummi
Simple latex editor with templates, spell check, and wizards
texstudio-org/texstudio
TeXstudio's goal is to make writing LaTeX documents as easy and comfortable as possible
TeXworks/texworks
TeXworks is an environment for authoring TeX (LaTeX, ConTeXt, etc) documents, with a Unicode-based, TeX-aware editor, integrated PDF viewer, and a clean, simple interface accessible to casual and non-technical users
wereturtle/ghostwriter
A distraction-free Markdown editor for Windows and Linux
fabiocolacio/Marker
Marker is a markdown editor for linux made with GTK+-3.0
marktext/marktext
MarkText is a free and open-source realtime preview markdown editor which support both CommonMark Spec and GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec. It is a concise text editor, dedicated to improving your writing efficiency
jamiemcg/remarkable
A capable markdown editor that uses a variant of GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM)
retext-project/retext
A Simple but powerful editor for Markdown and reStructuredText
- Typora
A Minimal markdown editor
andreafeccomandi/bibisco
A novel writing software with focus on ideas and characters
olivierkes/manuskript
Manuskript is a perfect tool for those writer who like to organize and plan everything before writing
jacquetc/skribisto
Software for writers
scribusproject/scribus
Scribus is a desktop publishing application designed for layout, typesetting, and preparation of files for professional-quality image-setting equipment. It can also create animated and interactive PDF presentations and forms
trelby/trelby
Trelby is simple, fast and elegantly laid out to make screenwriting simple
Applications / Productivity
Jmgr/actiona
An utility for task automation Ubuntu/Linux. (Previously Actionaz)
autokey/autokey
A desktop automation utility for Linux allows you to manage collection of scripts and phrases, and assign abbreviations and hotkeys to these
rafaelmardojai/blanket
Improve focus and increase your productivity by listening to different sounds
federico-terzi/espanso
Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust
mautosoft/maxautoclicker
Automate your mouse clicks easily with this awesome cross-platform application (for Windows and Linux Desktops)
robiot/xclicker
A blazing fast gui autoclicker for linux
albertlauncher/albert
An awesome keyboard launcher for the Linux desktop
DoTheEvo/ANGRYsearch
Linux file search, instant results as you type
KELiON/cerebro
Open-source productivity booster with a brain / MacOS-Spotlight alternative
cboxdoerfer/fsearch
A fast file search utility for Unix-like systems based on GTK+3. Wildcard support, RegEx support, Filter support
p-e-w/plotinus
A searchable command palette in every modern GTK+ application
Ulauncher/Ulauncher
Ulauncher is a fast application launcher for Linux. It's is written in Python, using GTK+
costales/anoise
An ambient noise generator for Linux
jarun/bcal
Perform storage conversions and calculations
hluk/CopyQ
-CopyQ is advanced clipboard manager with editing and scripting features
- f.lux
A program that reddens your display to help you sleep better
thezbyg/gpick
Gpick allows you to sample any color from anywhere on your desktop, and it also provides some other advanced features!
jarun/pdd
Tiny date, time diff calculator
jonls/redshift
Redshift adjusts the color temperature of your screen according to your surroundings. This may help your eyes hurt less if you are working in front of the screen at night
jml/undistract-me
Notifies you when long-running terminal commands complete
- Xmind
A mind mapping tool
anyproto/anytype-ts
A multi-platform, open-source, local-first, personal knowledge base tool
Daniele-rolli/Beaver-Notes
A multi-platform, open-source, privacy-first, community-driven, note-taking app and personal knowledge manager
BoostIO/BoostNote-App
Boostnote is an open source note-taking app made for programmers just like you
giuspen/cherrytree
A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file
- Inkdrop
The Note-Taking App for Markdown Lovers with simple interface, seemless security and powerful APIs
laurent22/joplin
A note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS
logseq/logseq
Logseq is a privacy-first, open-source knowledge base that works on top of local plain-text Markdown and Org-mode files. Use it to write, organize and share your thoughts, keep your to-do list, and build your own digital garden
dvorka/mindforger
Thinking notebook and Markdown editor
nuttyartist/notes
A clean simple note taking app for Linux
streetwriters/notesnook
A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote
- Obsidian
Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files
patrikx3/onenote
Linux Electron OneNote
alainm23/planify
Task manager with Todoist and Nextcloud support designed for GNU/Linux
pbek/QOwnNotes
QOwnNotes is a plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with markdown support and ownCloud / Nextcloud integration
- Simplenote
A Cross platform notetaking app and Evernote competitor
spsdco/notes
Simple and beautiful note taking app for daily user
- standardnotes/
Standard Notes is an end-to-end encrypted note-taking app for digitalists and professionals. Capture your notes, files, and life’s work all in one secure place
Standard-Unix-Notes/unix-notes
GPG Encrypted Notes/Notebook manager for BSD/Linux
tomboy-notes/tomboy
Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application which is simple and easy to use
TriliumNext/Notes
TriliumNext Notes is a hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases
klaussinani/tusk
Refined Evernote desktop app
wizteam/wizqtclient
A cross-platform cloud based note-taking client
alarm-clock-applet/alarm-clock
Alarm Clock is a fully-featured alarm clock for your GNOME panel or equivalent
tom-james-watson/breaktimer-app
BreakTimer is a cross platform desktop application with nice UI for managing and enforcing periodic breaks
- Everdo
TODO list and Getting Things Done® app for all platforms. Beautiful, powerful, not SaaS, free version available
codito/gnome-pomodoro
A full-featured pomodoro timer for GNOME
JMoerman/Go-For-It
Go For It! is a simple and stylish productivity app, featuring a to-do list, merged with a timer that keeps your focus on the current task
- RoundPie App
RoundPie App is the easiest way to track your workflow using Tomato technique, on top of your current task management service
ransome1/sleek
Cross platform todo manager based on the todo.txt syntax
johannesjo/super-productivity
The simple free flexible ToDo List / Time Tracker / personal Jira and Github Task Manager
- Taskade
Real-time organization and collaboration tool for getting things done. Taskade is a unified workspace for team tasks, notes, with integrated video chat available cross-platform and free to use
klaussinani/taskbook
Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat
GothenburgBitFactory/taskwarrior
Taskwarrior is Free and Open Source Software that manages your TODO list from the command line
todotxt/todo.txt-android
Todo.txt is a set of focused editors which help you manage your tasks with as few keystrokes and taps possible
kamhix/todoist-linux
Unofficial client of Todoist, the cross-platform to-do manager with mobile apps, great UI and has some optional premium features
ActivityWatch/activitywatch
ActivityWatch is an app that automatically tracks how you spend time on your devices
hamaluik/timecop
A time tracking app that respects your privacy and gets the job done without getting too fancy
yktoo/indicator-sound-switcher
Sound input/output selector indicator for Ubuntu/Unity
Applications / Proxy
mitmproxy/mitmproxy
mitmproxy is a free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy
haad/proxychains
A tool that forces any TCP connection made by any given application to follow through proxy like TOR or any other SOCKS4, SOCKS5 or HTTP(S) proxy
shadowsocks/shadowsocks-qt5
A secure socks5 proxy, designed to protect your Internet traffic
Applications / Security
noahbliss/mortar
Mortar allows for convenient automatic unlocking of LUKS-encrypted disks without sacrificing security through the use of Secureboot and TPM validation. Mortar aims to be distribution-agnostic
AtomsDevs/Atoms
Easily manage Linux Chroot(s) and Containers with Atoms
89luca89/distrobox
Use any linux distribution inside your terminal
netblue30/firejail
Firejail is a SUID program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using and
nanovms/ops
OPS is a tool that builds, runs and deploys ordinary linux applications as unikernels
marhkb/pods
Interact with Podman using an intuitive desktop application
quickemu-project/quickemu
Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines
containers/toolbox
Tool for containerized command line environments on Linux
virt-manager/virt-manager
Desktop tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt
- VMware Workstation Player
Easily run multiple operating systems as virtual machines on your Windows or Linux PC with VMware Workstation Player
firehol/firehol
Linux firewall ( ) manager for humans
firewalld/firewalld
Firewalld provides a dynamically managed firewall with support for network or firewall zones to define the trust level of network connections or interfaces
costales/gufw
One of the easiest firewalls in the world of Linux
evilsocket/opensnitch
OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall inspired by Little Snitch
safing/portmaster
Portmaster is a free and open-source application firewall that does the heavy lifting for you. Restore privacy and take back control over all your computer's network activity
gcla/termshark
A terminal UI for tshark, inspired by Wireshark
- 1Password
1Password is the easiest way to store and use strong passwords. Log in to sites and fill forms securely with a single click
authpass/authpass
Password Manager based on Flutter for all platforms
buttercup/buttercup-desktop
Buttercup is a free, open-source and cross-platform password manager, built on NodeJS with Typescript
- Enpass
Enpass makes your life easy by securely managing your passwords and important information
gopasspw/gopass
The slightly more awesome standard unix password manager for teams
keepassxreboot/keepassxc
Cross platform password manager. A Community-maintained fork of KeePassX
- Keeper
The leading cybersecurity platform that protects passwords, secrets and access to infrastructure
keeweb/keeweb
Free cross-platform password manager compatible with KeePass
- LastPass
LastPass is a crossplatform freemium password management service that stores encrypted passwords in private accounts
- NordPass
A secure and simple password manager for a stress-free online experience. Optimized for Linux devices
padloc/padloc
A modern, open source password manager for individuals and teams
dani-garcia/vaultwarden
Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs
rizinorg/cutter
Cutter's goal is to be an advanced FREE and open-source reverse-engineering platform while keeping the user experience at mind
eteran/edb-debugger
edb is a cross platform AArch32/x86/x86-64 debugger. It was inspired by Ollydbg
NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
A software reverse engineering (SRE) suite of tools developed by NSA's Research Directorate in support of the Cybersecurity mission
radareorg/radare2
A free/libre toolchain for easing several low level tasks like forensics, software reverse engineering, exploiting, debugging
Cisco-Talos/clamav-devel
ClamAV is an open source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats
cryptomator/cryptomator
Multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud
fail2ban/fail2ban
Fail2ban scans log files (e.g. /var/log/apache/error_log) and bans IPs that show the malicious signs -- too many password failures, seeking for exploits, etc
firehol/iprange
A very fast command line utility for processing IP lists (merge, compare, exclude, etc)
jarun/spy
Linux kernel mode debugfs keylogger
CISOfy/lynis
Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/ISO27001/PCI DSS) and system hardening. Agentless, and installation optional
zaproxy/zaproxy
OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) web security testing tool
mhogomchungu/sirikali
A Qt/C++ GUI front end to cryfs,gocryptfs,securefs,ecryptfs and encfs
usbkey9/uktools
Keep your system up-to-date with last kernel available. Possibility to clean old kernel too
firehol/blocklist-ipsets
A manager for all cybercrime IP feeds that can download, convert and install netfilter
veracrypt/VeraCrypt
VeraCrypt is a free open source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux
Applications / Sharing Files
- Dropbox
Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily
meganz/MEGAsync
Easy automated syncing between your computers and your MEGA cloud drive
haiwen/seafile
Seafile is an enterprise file hosting platform with high reliability and performance. Put files on your own server. Sync and share files across different devices, or access all the files as a virtual disk
aria2/aria2
aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility
setvisible/ArrowDL
ArrowDL is a mass download manager for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It helps you to select, organize, prioritize and run your downloads in parallel
- Flareget
Full featured, multi-threaded download manager and accelerator
- Free Download Manager
Free Download Manager is a powerful modern cross-platform download accelerator and organizer for Windows, Mac and Linux
- JDownloader
JDownloader is a free download management tool with a huge community of developers that makes downloading as easy and fast as it should be
agalwood/Motrix
Motrix is a full-featured clean and easy to use interface download manager that supports downloading HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Magnet, etc
subhra74/xdm
A good download manager with fresh UI for Linux
mafintosh/airpaste
A 1-1 network pipe that auto discovers other peers using mdns
schollz/croc
Easily and securely send things from one computer to another
- CrossFTP
CrossFTP makes it extremely simple to manage the FTP related tasks
- D-lan
A free LAN file sharing software
localsend/localsend
An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
sidneys/pb-for-desktop
The missing Desktop application for Pushbullet
- Quazaa
A cross platform multi-network peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing client
- SpiderOak
Real-time collaboration for teams and businesses that care about privacy
syncthing/syncthing
Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized
linuxmint/warpinator
Share files across LAN
warner/magic-wormhole
Get arbitrary-sized files and directories (or short pieces of text) from one computer to another safely
- AnyDesk
AnyDesk ensures secure and reliable remote desktop connections for IT professionals and on-the-go individuals alike
debauchee/barrier
Share mouse and keyboard over the local network
- PushBullet
Pushbullet connects your devices, making them feel like one
rustdesk/rustdesk
Open source virtual / remote desktop infrastructure for everyone! The open source TeamViewer alternative
- Teamviewer
PC remote control/remote access software, free for personal use
qbittorrent/qBittorrent
The qBittorrent project aims to provide a Free Software alternative to µTorrent
c0re100/qBittorrent-Enhanced-Edition
qBittorrent Enhanced is fork of qBittorrent that features peer whitelist/blacklist, auto update public tracker list and more
- Tixati
Freeware, advanced featured torrent client, a web user interface is included
transmission-remote-gui/transgui
Transmission Remote GUI is a feature rich cross platform front-end to remotely control a Transmission Bit-Torrent client daemon via its RPC protocol
- Vuze
Vuze is a BitTorrent client used to transfer files via the BitTorrent protocol
webtorrent/webtorrent-desktop
Web Torrent Desktop is for streaming torrents which connects to both BitTorrent and WebTorrent peers
Applications / Terminal
jwilm/alacritty
A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator
contour-terminal/contour
Contour is a modern and actually fast, modal, virtual terminal emulator, for everyday use. It is aiming for power users with a modern feature mindset
Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
A good looking terminal that mimicks the old cathode display
GitSquared/edex-ui
eDEX-UI is a fullscreen, cross-platform terminal emulator and system monitor that looks and feels like a sci-fi computer interface
Guake/guake
Guake is a top-down terminal for GNOME
zeit/hyper
A terminal built on web technologies
orhun/kermit
A VTE-based, simple and froggy terminal emulator
kovidgoyal/kitty
Cross-platform, fast, feature full, OpenGL based terminal emulator
gnome-terminator/terminator
Feature filled terminal emulator that supports tabs and grids
Eugeny/tabby
Modern, highly configurable terminal app based on web technologies
billiob/terminology
The pretty and lightweight terminal from the Enlightenment Desktop, it's highly configurable, it works in X11, under a Wayland compositor and even directly in the framebuffer on Linux. Replace your boring text-mode VT with a graphical one that requires no display system
nonstop/termit
Simple terminal emulator based on vte library, extensible via Lua
- Termius
Cross-platform terminal with built-in SSH and Telnet
lanoxx/tilda
A Gtk based drop down terminal for Linux and Unix
gnunn1/tilix
A tiling terminal emulator for Linux using GTK+ 3
cosmos72/twin
Fast, lightweight text-mode window environment with mouse support. Enables multiple terminals in a single Linux console, terminal or X11 window. It can be detached (keeps running in background) and reattached to a different console, terminal or X11 server. Works on Linux, Mac OS X and BSD
saulpw/visidata
A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data
warpdotdev/Warp
Warp is the intelligent terminal with AI and your dev team's knowledge built-in
wavetermdev/waveterm
Wave is an open-source, AI-native terminal built for seamless developer workflows with inline rendering, a modern UI, and persistent sessions
wez/wezterm
A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust
zellij-org/zellij
A terminal workspace and multiplexer. Letting you open several panes and tabs to run different programs, share a terminal session with others and more. Very user friendly and intuitive
Applications / Text Editors
adobe/brackets
A modern text editor that understands web design
Alexey-T/CudaText
CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Object Pascal
- Fleet
The Code Editor and IDE for Any Language
GNOME/gnome-builder
Powerful IDE for modern C / C++ / Bash / JavaScript development, made by Gnome Team. One of the best IDE for C/C++ development (Cmake integrated)
helix-editor/helix
A post-modern modal text editor
Komodo/KomodoEdit
Free and open source multilanguage development environment
lapce/lapce
Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
LightTable/LightTable
The next generation code editor! Support live coding
pulsar-edit/pulsar
A Community-led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor, Forked from Atom, built on Electron
- Sublime
A very capable text editor with advanced search capabilities, and many powerful plugins to improve its functionality
orbitalquark/textadept
Minimalist text editor for programmers. Textadept is extensible with Lua programming language
Microsoft/vscode
Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, OS X and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (C++, C#, Python, PHP, Golang) and runtimes
VSCodium/vscodium
Binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing
pkulchenko/ZeroBraneStudio
A mature, lightweight, cross-platform Lua IDE with modern development features
emacs-mirror/emacs
An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more
mawww/kakoune
Kakoune code editor - Vim inspired. Faster as in less keystrokes. Multiple selections. Orthogonal design. Has a strong focus on interactivity
LunarVim/LunarVim
LunarVim is an opinionated, extensible, and fast IDE layer for Neovim
neovide/neovide
Neovide is a cross-platform GUI for Neovim written in Rust with graphical improvements and more visual flair
neovim/neovim
Neovim is a fork of Vim aiming to improve user experience, plugins, and GUIs
NvChad/NvChad
An attempt to make neovim cli functional like an IDE while being very beautiful and blazing fast
syl20bnr/spacemacs
A community-driven Emacs distribution
SpaceVim/SpaceVim
A community-driven modular vim distribution
vim/vim
Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. It's useful whether you're already using vi or using a different editor
zyedidia/micro
Micro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals
notepadqq/notepadqq
Notepadqq is a Notepad++-like editor for the Linux desktop
dail8859/NotepadNext
A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++
Applications / Utilities
GNOME/brasero
A capable CD/DVD burner
imsnif/diskonaut
A disk space visualizer and navigator for the terminal
zevv/duc
Duc, a library and suite of tools for indexing, and visualizing inspecting disk usage
balena-io/etcher
Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily
GNOME/gparted
Disk Partition utility for Linux
JonMagon/KDiskMark
A simple open-source disk benchmark tool for Linux distros, similar to CrystalDiskmark on Windows
mbusb/multibootusb
MultiBootUSB allows you to install multiple live linux on a USB disk
pop-os/popsicle
Popsicle is a Linux utility for flashing multiple USB devices in parallel, written in Rust
unetbootin/unetbootin
UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. You can either let UNetbootin download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .iso file
ventoy/Ventoy
A new bootable USB solution
TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher
Helper application for Linux distributions serving as a kind of "entry point" for running and integrating AppImages
prateekmedia/appimagepool
A simple, modern AppImageHub Client
vinifmor/bauh
Graphical user interface for managing your Linux applications. Supports AppImage, Arch packages (including AUR), Debian packages, Flatpak, Snap and native Web applications
bleachbit/bleachbit
BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and more
GNOME/dconf-editor
Simple configuration storage system - graphical editor
NixOS/nix
Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible
morganamilo/paru
Paru is your standard pacman wrapping AUR helper with lots of features and minimal interaction
sahib/rmlint
rmlint finds space waste and other broken things on your filesystem and offers to remove it
oguzhaninan/Stacer
The most well known Ubuntu System Optimizer
gerardpuig/ubuntu-cleaner
Ubuntu Cleaner is a tool that makes it easy to clean your Ubuntu system
Jguer/yay
Yet another Yogurt - An AUR Helper written in Go
imsnif/bandwhich
Terminal bandwidth utilization tool
vagnum08/cpupower-gui
Graphical program to easily change the frequency limits and governors of the CPU, similar to cpupower
TheTumultuousUnicornOfDarkness/CPU-X
CPU-X is a Free software that gathers information on CPU, motherboard and more
- GD map
A tool to visualize disk usage
fossfreedom/indicator-sysmonitor
An Application Indicator showing cpu temperature, memory, network speed, cpu usage, public IP address and internet connection status
KrispyCamel4u/SysMonTask
Linux system monitor with the compactness and usefulness of windows task manager to allow higher control and monitoring
netdata/netdata
Next-gen web based real-time performance and health monitoring for physical and virtual servers, containers and IoT devices. It is also a distributed server with automatic visualization for APM (applications performance monitoring)
vergoh/vnstat
vnStat is a console-based network traffic monitor that uses the network interface statistics provided by the kernel as information source. This means that vnStat won't actually be sniffing any traffic and also ensures light use of system resources regardless of network traffic rate
angryip/ipscan
Fast and friendly network scanner
AntiMicroX/antimicrox
Graphical program used to map keyboard buttons and mouse controls to a gamepad. Useful for playing games with no gamepad support
cheat/cheat
Cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line
chamfay/Curlew
A GTK media converter for the GNOME desktop
wimpysworld/deb-get
Deb-get makes is easy to install and update .debs published in 3rd party apt repositories or made available via direct download on websites or GitHub release pages
dev47apps/droidcam
DroidCam turns your Android device into a wireless webcam for your PC
thjaeger/easystroke
Easystroke is a gesture-recognition application for X11
OzymandiasTheGreat/emoji-keyboard
Virtual keyboard-like emoji picker for Linux
sindresorhus/fast-cli
Test your download and upload speed using fast.com
tchx84/flatseal
Flatseal is a graphical utility to review and modify permissions from your Flatpak applications
FreeRDP/FreeRDP
FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
Simmesimme/Gnome-Pie
The circular app launcher for Linux desktops
nomic-ai/gpt4all
gpt4all: an ecosystem of open-source chatbots trained on a massive collections of clean assistant data including code, stories and dialogue
gramps-project/gramps
Research, organize and share your family tree with Gramps
GSConnect/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect
KDE Connect implementation for GNOME
cheesecakeufo/komorebi
Komorebi is a background manager for all Linux platforms, provides fully customizable backgrounds that can be tweaked at any time
rastapasta/mapscii
MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console
mobile-shell/mosh
Mosh is a Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes
nmap/nmap
Nmap is a free, open-source tool for network exploration, management, and security auditing
jiahaog/nativefier
Make any web page a desktop application
pi-hole/pi-hole
Network-wide ad blocking via your own Linux hardware, using DNS filtering and re-direction Pi-Hole can block ads on a whole network, so Smartphones and Game Consoles can benefit from it in addition to computers
- PlexyDesk
Plexydesk supports multiple widget workspaces/desktops on Linux
fenrus75/powertop
A tool that can help diagnose issues with power consumption in Linux
pulseaudio/pulseaudio
Improve Linux Audio with customized Profiles
FreeRDP/Remmina
A feature-rich remote desktop application for Linux and other UNIXes
davatorium/rofi
A window switcher, Application launcher and dmenu replacement
Genymobile/scrcpy
Display and control your Android device
pwr-Solaar/Solaar
Logitech Unifying Receiver peripherals manager for Linux
JoseExposito/touche
Easily configure your touchpad and touchscreen multi-touch gestures using Touchégg with this GTK graphical user interface
- TLP
An application that can help optimize battery life on Linux
oniony/TMSU
TMSU lets you tags your files and then access them through a nifty virtual filesystem from any other application
Kilian/Trimage
A cross-platform tool for losslessly optimizing PNG and JPG files
adgellida/ubunsys
An application designed to allow you to change in-depth system features without the command line
popey/unsnap
Quickly migrate from using snap packages to flatpaks
upscayl/upscayl
Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler
- USB network gate
Allows you to share USB ports over a Network on Linux
peterlevi/variety-slideshow
Variety is an open-source wallpaper changer for Linux, packed with great features, yet slim and easy to use
rcaelers/workrave
A program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)
Applications / Video
xylosper/bomi
A powerful and easy-to-use multimedia player
celluloid-player/celluloid
Simple GTK+ frontend for mpv
GNOME/cheese
Cheese uses your webcam to take photos and videos, applies fancy special effects and lets you share the fun with others
Rafostar/clapper
A GNOME media player built using GJS with GTK4 toolkit and powered by GStreamer with OpenGL rendering
- Emby Theater
Emby Server's official media player
FFmpeg/FFmpeg
FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata
jellyfin/jellyfin-media-player
Jellyfin Desktop Client based on Plex Media Player
xbmc/xbmc
An award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more
mifi/lossless-cut
The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing
pculture/miro
Free, and open video, music and internet TV application; it brings video channels from thousands of sources and has more free HD than any other platform
lettier/movie-monad
A free and simple to use video player made with Haskell
mpv-player/mpv
A free, open source, and cross-platform media player
- Plex
Plex is a media server and streaming platform that organizes, streams, and shares your digital media content
- SVP
SVP allows you to watch any video on your desktop computer using frame interpolation as it is available on high-end TVs and projectors
Applications / VPN
- CyberGhost
CyberGhost VPN allows you to surf the Internet freely, as if in disguise, regardless of the type of application you use and from where you log in
- ExpressVPN
ExpressVPN is the worlds fastest VPN service. It is both safe and reliable to watch and stream movies abroad, or simply access your favourite sites
- IVPN
IVPN offers a secure VPN service to privacy minded individuals including multi-hop technology and fast bandwidth
mozilla-mobile/mozilla-vpn-client
Protect your web history, feel safer on public Wi-Fi, and limit ad tracking by increasing the security of your network connection
mullvad/mullvadvpn-app
Mullvad is a VPN service that helps keep your online activity, identity, and location private
- NordVPN
NordVPN gives you military-grade protection online, and you can access all your favorite sites without restriction
pia-foss/desktop
Private Internet Access provides state of the art, multi-layered security with advanced privacy protection using VPN tunneling
- PureVPN
PureVPN is much more than your usual VPN services provider. It offers unparalleled security and anonymity, making it your only choice for a secure online browsing experience
- Surfshark
All you need in a VPN and more in one easy-to-use app
Windscribe/Desktop-App
Browse the web privately as it was meant to be
Applications / Wiki Software
splitbrain/dokuwiki
A popular self-hostable wiki software with a large number of plugins
Jermolene/TiddlyDesktop
A desktop app for TiddlyWiki, an open-source personal wiki written in javascript, great if you're still searching for a good note-taking (and more) app
Applications / Others
fontforge/fontforge
Free (libre) font editor for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux
MycroftAI/mycroft-core
Mycroft is a hackable open source voice assistant
libratbag/piper
Piper is a GTK+ application to configure gaming mice
polychromatic/polychromatic
Graphical front end and tray applet for configuring Razer peripherals on GNU/Linux
z411/trackma
Open multi-site list manager for Unix-like systems
Command Line Utilities / Internet
federicotorrielli/Daily-Reddit-Wallpaper
Change your wallpaper to the most upvoted image of the day from /r/wallpapers or any other subreddit on system startup
jarun/ddgr
DuckDuckGo from the command line
mikf/gallery-dl
Command-line program to download image galleries and collections from pixiv, exhentai, danbooru and more
jarun/googler
A program that can Google anything right in the command line
mps-youtube/mps-youtube
A terminal based program for searching, streaming and downloading music. This implementation uses YouTube as a source of content and can play and download video as well as audio
newsboat/newsboat
Newsboat is a fork of Newsbeuter, an RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console
orakaro/rainbowstream
A smart and nice Twitter client on terminal written in Python
streamlink/streamlink
Streamlink is a CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player
sdushantha/tmpmail
A temporary email right from your terminal written in POSIX sh
soimort/translate-shell
Command-line translator using Google Translate, Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, etc
vasani-arpit/WBOT
A simple CLI based BOT for WhatsApp™ in NodeJS. reply to your friends quickly and have fun along the way
iamtalhaasghar/yewtube
Terminal based YouTube player and downloader. No Youtube API key required. Forked from mps-youtube. Can be installed using pip as described
rg3/youtube-dl
youtube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter (2.6, 2.7, or 3.2+), and it is not platform specific
yt-dlp/yt-dlp
A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes
deepjyoti30/ytmdl
A simple app to get songs from YouTube in mp3 format with artist name, album name etc from sources like iTunes, Spotify, LastFM, Deezer, Gaana etc
Command Line Utilities / System Info / Monitoring
AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq
Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux
ClementTsang/bottom
Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor
aristocratos/bpytop
Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes. Python port and continuation of bashtop
aristocratos/btop
Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes
fastfetch-cli/fastfetch
Fastfetch is a Neofetch-like tool for fetching system information and displaying it prettily. It is written mainly in C, with performance and customizability in mind
nicolargo/glances
Glances is a system monitoring terminal application that shows you your disk usage, ram usage, and cpu usage in a very friendly way using the Ncurses programming library. It is tolerant to windows resizing, and very low on system ram usage
aksakalli/gtop
A system monitoring dashboard for terminal. Think 'graphical top', with bar charts, line graphs, pie charts, and etc
hishamhm/htop
An interactive process viewer for Unix systems with improved features and user experience
orhun/kmon
Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor
Syllo/nvtop
GPUs process monitoring for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA
dylanaraps/pfetch
A pretty system information tool written in POSIX sh
KittyKatt/screenFetch
Fetches system/theme information in terminal for Linux desktop screenshots
amanusk/s-tui
s-tui is an UI for monitoring your computer's CPU temperature, frequency and utilization in a graphical way from the terminal
Command Line Utilities / Tools
FiloSottile/age
Simple, Modern, Secure encryption tool
Canop/broot
A new way to see and navigate directory trees
jarun/Buku
A Command line bookmark manager
owenthereal/ccat
Colorizing
Slackadays/Clipboard
Cut, copy, and paste anything, anywhere, anytime
AlDanial/cloc
Count Lines of Code: cloc counts blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages
athityakumar/colorls
Color Ls is a Ruby Gem that spices up the ls command and shows more visually than ls does without additional commands
maaslalani/draw
Draw in your terminal
muesli/duf
Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative
ogham/exa
exa is a modern replacement for ls
LubuntuFu/fishfry
Replaces fish history with a history tailored to pentesters for efficiency and newbie pentesters for learning
junegunn/fzf
A general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder with interactive filter and preview feature for things like files, command history, git commits, hostnames, etc
sindresorhus/fkill-cli
Fabulously kill processes. Cross-platform
heppu/gkill
An interactive process killer for Linux
orf/gping
ping but with graph, cross platform
oguzhaninan/korkut
Quick and simple image processing at the command line
nojhan/liquidprompt
A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
busyloop/lolcat
Displays text in rainbow colors
Peltoche/lsd
The next gen ls command
o2sh/onefetch
Git repository summary on your terminal
facebook/PathPicker
A command that lets you select files that were output from a previous command in the command line, so you can then run another command or edit them
dylanaraps/pywal
pywal is a script that takes an image (or a directory of images), generates a colorscheme (using imagemagick) and then changes all of your open terminal's colors to the new colorscheme on the fly, allowing you to have your terminal colors change with your wallpaper, or other criteria
BurntSushi/ripgrep
Ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches the current directory for a regex pattern
maaslalani/slides
Terminal based presentation tool
ggreer/the_silver_searcher
A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster
nvbn/thefuck
Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command
tldr-pages/tldr
The tldr-pages project is a collection of community-maintained help pages for command-line tools, that aims to be a simpler, more approachable complement to traditional man pages
dbrgn/tealdeer
A very fast implementation of tldr written in Rust
tmux/tmux
It lets you switch easily between several programs in one terminal, detach them (they keep running in the background) and reattach them to a different terminal. And do a lot more
jml/undistract-me
A command line program that plays a sound or sends a notification when a long command has finished running in the command line
hashicorp/vagrant
Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments
charmbracelet/vhs
Your CLI home video recorder vhs
- wicd-curses
Command line WiFi connection manager
BurntSushi/xsv
A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust
skywind3000/z.lua
A new cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits
ajeetdsouza/zoxide
A better way to navigate your filesystem written in Rust
maximumadmin/zramd
Automatically setup swap on zram sparkles with optional systemd support, a simpler alternative to zram-generator and systemd-swap
Custom Linux Kernels
anthraxx/linux-hardened
A security-focused Linux kernel applying a set of hardening patches to mitigate kernel and userspace exploits. It also enables more upstream kernel hardening features than linux
Frogging-Family/linux-tkg
Scripts to automatically download, patch and compile the Linux Kernel from the official Linux git repository, with a selection of patches aiming for better desktop/gaming experience
damentz/liquorix-package
Liquorix is a distro kernel replacement built using the best configuration and kernel sources for desktop, multimedia, and gaming workloads
zen-kernel/zen-kernel
Result of a collaborative effort of kernel hackers to provide the best Linux kernel possible for everyday systems
Desktop Environments
BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop
Budgie is a desktop environment designed with the modern user in mind, it focuses on simplicity and elegance
linuxmint/Cinnamon
Cinnamon strives to provide a traditional user experience. Cinnamon is a fork of GNOME 3
linuxdeepin/dde-file-manager
DDE (Deepin Desktop Environment) is the default desktop environment originally created for the Linux Deepin distribution
lxqt/lxqt
LXQt is the Qt port and the upcoming version of LXDE, the Lightweight Desktop Environment
- mate-desktop/
Mate provides an intuitive and attractive desktop to Linux users using traditional metaphors. MATE is a fork of GNOME 2
ukui/ukui-desktop-environment
UKUI is a desktop environment for Linux distributions and other UNIX-like operating systems, originally developed for Ubuntu Kylin, and written using the Qt framework
ubports/unity8
Unity is a shell for GNOME designed by Canonical for Ubuntu
Display manager / Console
evertiro/cdm
A ultra-minimalistic, yet full-featured login manager written in Bash
dopsi/console-tdm
An extension for xinit written in pure Bash
coastalwhite/lemurs
A customizable TUI display/login manager written in Rust
cylgom/ly
Ly is a lightweight, TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux
spanezz/nodm
A minimalistic display manager for automatic logins
Display manager / Graphic
tomas/entrance
An EFL based display manager, highly experimental
GNOME/gdm
The GNOME display manager
davvid/lightdm
A cross-desktop display manager, can use various front-ends written in any toolkit
linuxmint/mdm
The MDM display manager, used in Linux Mint, a fork of GDM 2
sddm/sddm
The QML-based display manager and successor to KDE4's kdm; recommended for Plasma 5 and LXQt
gsingh93/slim-display-manager
Lightweight and elegant graphical login solution. (Discontinued)
bbidulock/xdm
The X display manager with support for XDMCP, and host chooser
Window Managers / Compositors
yshui/picom
Picom is a standalone composite manager, suitable for use with window managers that do not natively provide compositing functionality
Plagman/gamescope
Gamescope is a micro-compositor that provides a sandboxed Xwayland desktop with independent input, resolution, and refresh rate
hyprwm/Hyprland
Hyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks
riverwm/river
River is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor with flexible runtime configuration
swaywm/sway
Sway is tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11
WayfireWM/wayfire
Wayfire is a wayland compositor based on wlroots. It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance
Window Managers / Stacking Window Managers
venam/2bwm
A fast floating WM, with the particularity of having 2 borders, written over the XCB library and derived from mcwm
bbidulock/blackboxwm
A fast, lightweight window manager for the X Window System, without all those annoying library dependencies
fluxbox/fluxbox
A window manager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code
ice-wm/icewm
A window manager for the X Window System. The goal of IceWM is speed, simplicity, and not getting in the user’s way
danakj/openbox
A highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support
Window Managers / Tiling Window Managers
Bismuth-Forge/bismuth
Making tiling window management easy. On KDE Plasma
baskerville/bspwm
Bspwm is a tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree
herbstluftwm/herbstluftwm
Is a Manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib
i3/i3
A better tiling and dynamic window manager. It's completely written from scratch. The target platforms are GNU/Linux and BSD operating systems
pop-os/shell
Pop Shell is a keyboard-driven auto-tiling window manager that run on top of the GNOME shell
qtile/qtile
Qtile is a full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python
Window Managers / Dynamic Window Managers
awesomeWM/awesome
A highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X
cdown/dwm
A dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts
esjeon/krohnkite
A dynamic tiling extension for KWin
conformal/spectrwm
A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11, largely inspired by xmonad and dwm
codic12/worm
A dynamic, tag-based window manager written in Nim
xmonad/xmonad
A dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell
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