awesome-linux-apps
Linux apps
A curated list of essential applications for Linux distributions
🚀 A list of awesome applications for 🐧 Linux distributions.
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Awesome Linux Apps / Audio | |||
| Amarok | A cross-platform and opensource audio player. 👏 | ||
| Ardour | 3,992 | almost 2 years ago | Free, open source audio workstation for recording, editing and Mixing. 👏 |
| Audacious | Free, open souce, audio player with low resource use. 👏 | ||
| Audacity | 12,739 | almost 2 years ago | Free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds. 👏 |
| Clementine | A cross-platform feature-rich music player | ||
| Frinika | Free, complete music workstation software | ||
| LMMS | 8,232 | almost 2 years ago | Free cross-platform music production software. 👏 |
| Ocenaudio | Easy, fast and powerful audio editor | ||
Awesome Linux Apps / Backup | |||
| attic | 1,108 | about 5 years ago | Efficient and secure way to backup data. 👏 |
| Back In Time | 2,144 | almost 2 years ago | Simple backup solution. 👏 |
| backup | 4,836 | about 2 years ago | Powerful backup tool distributed using RubyGems. 👏 |
| BackupPC | 1,394 | about 2 years ago | High-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up to a server's disk. 👏 |
| bup | 7,154 | almost 2 years ago | Efficient backup system, provide fast incremental saves and global deduplication. 👏 |
| Déjà Dup | Simple backup tool, hides the complexity of backing up the right way and uses duplicity as the backend. 👏 | ||
| duplicity | Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm | ||
| restic | 26,921 | almost 2 years ago | Fast, secure, efficient backup program. 👏 |
| Timeshift | Takes incremental snapshots of the file system at regular intervals. 👏 | ||
Awesome Linux Apps / Browser | |||
| Brave | Secure, fast and private web browser with Adblocker | ||
| Chrome | Fast, simple and secure browser by Google | ||
| Chromium | 19,453 | almost 2 years ago | Open source, safer, faster and more stable way for all Internet users. 👏 |
| Edge | Fast and secure browser by Microsoft | ||
| Firefox | Fast, lightweight and powerfully private web browser | ||
| Midori | Lightweight, fast and free web browser | ||
| Opera | Fast, secure, easy-to-use and free VPN | ||
| Tor | Contain everything you need to safely browse the internet | ||
| Vivaldi | Powerful, personal and flexible browser | ||
| Yandex | Fast and secure browser | ||
| Zen | A brand new cross-platform browser with attractive UI, based on Firefox. 👏 | ||
Awesome Linux Apps / Chat | |||
| Discord | Free voice and text chat for gamers | ||
| Keybase | Secure messaging and file-sharing for team collaboration | ||
| Microsoft Teams | Meet, chat, call, and collaborate in just one place | ||
| Pidgin | A chat program which lets you log into accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. 👏 | ||
| Signal | Free communication, audio, video call and secure messaging | ||
| Skype | Famous instant messaging application for talking, chatting and collaborating | ||
| Telegram | Cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging app with a focus on security and speed | ||
| Slack | Awesome tool for team collaboration and communication | ||
| Tox | Free, powerful and secure chat | ||
| Viber | Free and secure calls and messages to anyone, anywhere | ||
| WICKR | Secure for team collaboration space | ||
| Wire | Open source and secure collaboration platform. 👏 | ||
Awesome Linux Apps / Cloud Storage | |||
| Dropbox | The best cloud services on Linux | ||
| Google Drive | Powerful cloud services by Google | ||
| Mega | Powerful and Secure Coud Storage | ||
| NextCloud | Free, open source cloud storage and collaboration platform | ||
| pCloud | Secure online storage from Switzerland | ||
| insync | Google Drive and OneDrive file syncing | ||
| Terrabox | Get free cloud storage 1024GB | ||
Awesome Linux Apps / Code Editors | |||
| Atom | 60,276 | over 3 years ago | Hackable text editor for the 21st Century. 👏 |
| BlueFish | Powerful editor targeted towards programmers and web developers | ||
| Brackets | 33,236 | over 4 years ago | Modern, open source text editor that understands web design. 👏 |
| Kakoune | 10,024 | almost 2 years ago | Modal editor with multi selection and fewer keystroke 👏 |
| neovim | 84,107 | almost 2 years ago | Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability. 👏 |
| Oni | 11,338 | over 6 years ago | Modern Modal Editing - powered by Neovim. 👏 |
| Oni2 | 7,844 | about 4 years ago | Native, lightweight modal code editor. 👏 |
| Sublime Text | Sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose | ||
| Vim | 36,910 | almost 2 years ago | Greatly improved version of the good old UNIX editor Vi. 👏 |
| Visual Studio Code | 165,346 | almost 2 years ago | Free, open source, powerful and runs everywhere. 👏 |
| Zed | Fast, modern & open source code editor with focus on performance. 👏 | ||
Awesome Linux Apps / Databases | |||
| CockroachDB | 30,270 | almost 2 years ago | CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database built on a transactional and strongly-consistent key-value store. 👏 |
| DB Browser for SQLite | 21,505 | almost 2 years ago | High quality, visual, open source tool with SQLite. 👏 |
| DBeaver | 40,942 | almost 2 years ago | Free universal database tool and SQL client. 👏 |
| Gun | 18,201 | almost 2 years ago | Gun is an open-source and realtime, decentralized, offline-first, graph database engine written in JavaScript. 👏 |
| Mongodb Compass | Nice GUI for MongoDB with dark mode included | ||
| Postbird | 1,551 | over 3 years ago | Cross-platform PostgreSQL GUI client, written in JavaScript, runs with Electron. 👏 |
| Postgres admin | Free Postgres admin GUI, you can export and import database and rarely fail | ||
| Robo 3T | Free lightweight GUI for MongoDB enthusiasts | ||
Awesome Linux Apps / Game | |||
| GameHub | 2,257 | almost 2 years ago | GameHub provides games from multiple game sources and services (Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, Humble Trove, etc). 👏 |
| GOG.com | Web platform to donwload games | ||
| Humble | Platform to buy games bundles | ||
| itch.io | Platform to buy games | ||
| Lutris | Open Source gaming platform for Linux. 👏 | ||
| PlayOnLinux | Support install Windows app and games on Linux. 👏 | ||
| Portable Linux Games | Collection of a number of Linux games | ||
| Steam | Platform to buy games | ||
Awesome Linux Apps / IDEs | |||
| Android Studio | The fastest tools for building apps on every type of Android device | ||
| CLion | Cross-platform IDE for C and C++ | ||
| DataGrip | Many databases, one tool | ||
| Eclipse | Free, open source, written by Java and plugin architecture allows Eclipse to be extended in other languages | ||
| GoLand | Cross-platform IDE built specially for Go developers | ||
| IntelliJ IDEA | Powerful IDE for JVM languages | ||
| NetBeans | Quickly and easily develop desktop, mobile, and web applications with Java | ||
| PyCharm | Powerful Python IDE for Professional Developers | ||
| Rider | Fast and powerful cross-platform .NET IDE | ||
| WebStorm | The powerful IDE for modern JavaScript development | ||
Awesome Linux Apps / Image Editors | |||
| DigiKam | Free & Open-source digital photo management application. 👏 | ||
| Fotoxx | Free & Open-source photo editing and collection management tool. 👏 | ||
| GIMP | 4,999 | almost 2 years ago | Free & Open Source Image Editor. 👏 |
| GrafX2 | Bitmap paint program inspired by Deluxe Paint on Amiga | ||
| Inkscape | 2,289 | over 4 years ago | Professional vector graphics editor. 👏 |
| Karbon | Vector drawing application that is easy to use, highly customizable and extensible | ||
| Krita | 7,587 | almost 2 years ago | Open source professional software and free digital painting. 👏 |
| MyPaint | 2,709 | almost 2 years ago | Fast and dead-simple painting app for artists. 👏 |
| Pinta | 1,877 | almost 2 years ago | Free, open source program for drawing and image editing. 👏 |
| Shotcut | Free, open source, cross-platform video editor. 👏 | ||
| ShowFOTO | Free & Lightweight image editor | ||
| Vectr | Free graphics software used to create vector graphics easily and intuitively | ||
Awesome Linux Apps / Mail | |||
| Hiri | Linux email client for Exchange and Office 365 | ||
| Mailspring | 15,629 | almost 2 years ago | Free, open source, beautiful and fast mail client. 👏 |
| Thunderbird | Free email application, easy to install and customize | ||
Awesome Linux Apps / Markdown Editors | |||
| ghostwriter | 4,366 | almost 2 years ago | Cross-platform, aesthetic, distraction-free Markdown editor. 👏 |
| Haroopad | 1,607 | almost 8 years ago | The next document processor based on Markdown. 👏 |
| Marktext | Simple and Elegant Markdown Editor, focused on speed and usability. 👏 | ||
| Moeditor | 4,127 | about 6 years ago | Your all-purpose Markdown editor. 👏 |
| Remarkable | 1,974 | almost 2 years ago | Open source, lightweight and powerful Markdown editor. 👏 |
| ReText | 1,894 | almost 2 years ago | Simple but powerful editor for Markdown and reStructuredText. 👏 |
| Typora | Truly minimal Markdown editor featuring seamless live preview | ||
Awesome Linux Apps / Music | |||
| Amarok | 182 | almost 2 years ago | Powerful music player for Linux with an intuitive interface. 👏 |
| Audacious | Open source audio player that is low resource and has a minimal feature interface. 👏 | ||
| Clementine | 3,795 | almost 2 years ago | Cross-platform music player and library organizer forked from Amarok 1.4. 👏 |
| cmus | 5,605 | almost 2 years ago | Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems. 👏 |
| ocp | 299 | almost 2 years ago | Music visualizer for various tracked music formats, chiptunes and other formats related to demoscene. 👏 |
| Lollypop | Modern music player for GNOME. 👏 | ||
| Rhythmbox | 205 | almost 2 years ago | Music playing application for GNOME. 👏 |
Awesome Linux Apps / Notes | |||
| Boostnote | 17,058 | over 3 years ago | Intuitive and stylish note taking tool for developers. 👏 |
| Laverna | 9,203 | over 5 years ago | Keep your notes private. 👏 |
| notes | 11 | over 4 years ago | GPG Encrypted Notes/Notebook manager for BSD/Linux👏 |
| Simplenote | 4,848 | almost 2 years ago | Light, clean and free. 👏 |
| Tagspaces | 3,885 | almost 2 years ago | Offline, open source and data manager. 👏 |
| Turtl | 702 | over 5 years ago | Secure and collaborative notebook. 👏 |
Awesome Linux Apps / Office | |||
| LibreOffice | Best free office suite in the Linux community. 👏 | ||
| OpenOffice | The free and open productive suite. 👏 | ||
| WPS Office | Beautiful, faster, lightweight and offers modern slick user interface | ||
Awesome Linux Apps / Terminal | |||
| Alacritty | 56,937 | almost 2 years ago | Cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator. 👏 |
| Fzf command-line fuzzy finder | 66,191 | almost 2 years ago | General-purpose command-line fuzzy finder that makes searching in history way easier. 👏 |
| Hyper | 43,516 | about 2 years ago | Terminal built on web technologies. 👏 |
| Kitty | 25,038 | almost 2 years ago | Fast, feature-rich, cross-platform, GPU based terminal. 👏 |
| Konsole | 520 | almost 2 years ago | Terminal emulator for the K Desktop Environment. 👏 |
| st | Simple terminal implementation for X. 👏 | ||
| Terminator | 2,155 | almost 2 years ago | Multiple terminals in one window. 👏 |
| Termite | 2,724 | over 5 years ago | A keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal. 👏 |
| Tilda | 1,283 | almost 2 years ago | Easy to configure the hotkeys and change the appearance. 👏 |
| Tilix | 5,430 | almost 2 years ago | Tiling terminal emulator using GTK+ 3. 👏 |
| Tmux | 35,762 | almost 2 years ago | Tmux is a terminal multiplexer, like screen, but much better. 👏 |
| Upterm | 19,219 | over 7 years ago | Terminal emulator for the 21st century. 👏 |
Awesome Linux Apps / Version Control | |||
| Aurees | Easy, fast and free | ||
| CodeReview | 413 | about 3 years ago | Git GUI tool to perform code review. 👏 |
| GitAhead | 1,849 | over 2 years ago | Graphical Git client designed to help you understand and manage your source code history. 👏 |
| Git Cola | 2,286 | almost 2 years ago | Powerful Git GUI with a slick and intuitive user interface. 👏 |
| Git Extensions | 7,823 | almost 2 years ago | Standalone UI tool for managing git repositories. 👏 |
| Git Horizon | Cross-platform, Actionable, Graphical Git Dashboard | ||
| GitKraken | Git client with efficiency, elegance and reliability | ||
| SmartGit | Graphical Git client with support for SVN and Pull Requests for GitHub and Bitbucket | ||
| Sublime Merge | Powerful Git client from the creators of Sublime Text | ||
| ungit | 10,460 | almost 2 years ago | Clean and intuitive UI, running on the web. 👏 |
Awesome Linux Apps / Video | |||
| Bomi | Powerful and Easy-to-use multimedia player. 👏 | ||
| Kodi | 18,641 | almost 2 years ago | Free and open source media player application. 👏 |
| Miro | 243 | almost 7 years ago | Beautiful, open-source music and video player that lets you break free! 👏 |
| mpv | 28,974 | almost 2 years ago | Free, open source, and cross-platform media player. 👏 |
| OBS Studio | 60,958 | almost 2 years ago | Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. 👏 |
| SimpleScreenRecorder | 2,595 | almost 2 years ago | Free and open source screen recording is easy to do. 👏 |
| SMPlayer | Free Media Player with built-in codecs | ||
| VLC | 14,434 | almost 2 years ago | Free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework. 👏 |
Awesome Linux Apps / Virtualization | |||
| Docker | Powerful, performs operating-system-level virtualization. 👏 | ||
| Docker Machine | 6,635 | over 4 years ago | Machine management for a container-centric world. 👏 |
| Gnome Boxes | Easy to view, access, and manage remote and virtual systems. 👏 | ||
| QEMU | 10,574 | almost 2 years ago | Generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. 👏 |
| UCS Virtual Machine Manager | Linux VM management tool for Linux, which specializes in working with cloud VMs, clusters, and other enterprise-level virtual systems | ||
| Vagrant | 26,356 | almost 2 years ago | Tool for building and distributing development environments. 👏 |
| Virtual Box | Free, feature rich, high performance and maintained by Oracle | ||
| Virtual Machine Manager | 2,472 | almost 2 years ago | Graphical tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt. 👏 |