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Awesome Linux Software

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🐧 This repo is a collection of AWESOME Linux applications and tools for any users/developers.
🐧 Feel free to contribute / star / fork / pull request . Any recommendations and suggestions are welcome.

Update: This repo has a friendlier version available here.

Acknowledgement:Everything written below is from my own experience in college and after reading various materials. I am neither a professional nor an expert, but a passionate student. Anyone can open a discussion in the issue section, or a pull request if something should be modified or added.

Table of Contents



Applications

Audio

For a more comprehensive/advanced/better categorized/... list of Linux audio software, you may want to click here

  • Open-Source SoftwareAirtime - The open broadcast software for scheduling and remote station management.
  • Open-Source SoftwareArdour - Record, Edit, and Mix on Linux.
  • Open-Source SoftwareAudacious - An open source audio player that plays your music how you want it, without stealing away your computer’s resources from other tasks.
  • Open-Source SoftwareAudacity - Free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.
  • Open-Source SoftwareAudio Recorder - Simple audio recorder available in an Ubuntu PPA.
  • Open-Source SoftwareAuryo - Unofficial multiplatform SoundCloud® app for your desktop.
  • Open-Source Softwarebeets - Beets is the media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks.
  • Non FreeBitwig - DAW for music production
  • Open-Source SoftwareCantata - Qt5 Graphical MPD (Music Player Daemon) Client for Linux, Windows, MacOS.
  • Open-Source SoftwareClementine - Play numerous lossy and lossless audio formats.
  • Open-Source SoftwareCmus - A small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
  • Open-Source SoftwareDeaDBeeF - DeaDBeeF is a modular audio player for GNU/Linux, BSD, OpenSolaris, macOS, and other UNIX-like systems.
  • Open-Source SoftwareDeepin Music - An application, developed by Deepin Technology Team, which focused on local music playing.
  • Open-Source Softwarefre:ac - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGnormalize - An audio converter and CD ripper with ReplayGain normalization algorithms, a metadata (tag) editor and an audio player. It uses gtk2-perl under GNU/Linux.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGoogle Play Music Desktop Player - Unofficial but beautiful cross-platform desktop player for Google Play Music.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGpodder - Media aggregator and podcast client.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGRadio - Radio software for Ubuntu Linux.
  • Open-Source SoftwareHelm - A software synthesizer, that runs either standalone, or as an LV2, VST, VST3 or AU plugin.
  • Open-Source SoftwareHydrogen - Advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux.
  • Open-Source SoftwareieaseMusic - iEaseMusic is a multiplatform program built in electron for listening to NetEase Music.
  • Open-Source SoftwareK3b - The CD/DVD Kreator for Linux, optimized for KDE.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKid3Qt - Edit tags of multiple files, e.g. the artist, album, year and genre of all mp3 files of an album.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKxStudio - A collection of applications and plugins for professional audio production.
  • Open-Source SoftwareLibretime - The open broadcast software for scheduling and remote station management; forked from Airtime.
  • Open-Source SoftwareLMMS - Making music on your PC by creating melodies and beats, synthesizing and mixing sounds, arranging samples and much more.
  • Open-Source SoftwareLollypop - A GNOME music playing application.
  • Open-Source SoftwareLyricfier - A Spotify Lyrics alternative app.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMellow Player - Cloud music integration for your desktop.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMixxx - Free DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes; veritable alternative to Traktor.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMopidy - An extensible music server written in Python.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMuseeks - A simple, clean and cross-platform music player.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMuseScore - Create, play and print beautiful sheet music.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMusicBrainz Picard - Picard is a cross-platform music tagger written in Python.
  • MusixMatch - A Capable lyrics app with synchronized lyrics function.
  • Netease Music - A music player of Netease - a cloud music service in China.
  • Open-Source SoftwareNuclear - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareOSD Lyrics - Show lyrics with your favorite media player.
  • Open-Source SoftwareParlatype - GNOME audio player for transcription.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePithos - A native Pandora client for Linux.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePulseEffects - Limiter, compressor, reverberation, equalizer and auto volume effects for Pulseaudio applications.
  • Open-Source SoftwareQuod Libet - GTK+ music player written with huge libraries in mind. Supports search-based dynamic playlists, regular expressions, tagging, Replay Gain, podcasts & Internet radio.
  • Open-Source SoftwareRadioTray-NG - An Internet radio player for Linux.
  • Non FreeReaper - Audio Production without Limits.
  • Open-Source SoftwareRhythmbox - Music player from GNOME.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSayonara Player - A small, clear and fast audio player for Linux written in C++, supported by the Qt framework.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSonata - A Music player that is designed to be an elegant and intuitive interface for your music collection via the Music Player Daemon (MPD).
  • Open-Source SoftwareSoundconverter - Leading audio file converter. Aims to be simple to use, and very fast.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSoundJuicer - CD Ripping tool for GNOME.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSoundnode - An opensource SoundCloud app for desktop.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSpotio - A Rdio-inspired light theme for the Spotify desktop app.
  • Open-Source SoftwareVCV Rack - An open-source virtual modular synthesizer.
  • Open-Source SoftwareViper4Linux - An audio effect processor based on Viper4Android
  • Open-Source SoftwareVocal - Podcast client for the modern desktop.
  • Open-Source SoftwareYktoo Sound Switcher Indicator - Sound input/output selector indicator for Ubuntu/Unity.

Chat Clients

3rd party Client

  • Open-Source SoftwareCaprine - Elegant Facebook Messenger desktop app.
  • Open-Source SoftwareChatty - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGhettoSkype - open source web wrapper for Skype.
  • Open-Source SoftwareYakYak - Desktop chat client for Google Hangouts.

All-in-One Client

  • Open-Source-SoftwareFranz - Franz is a free messaging app that combines many chat & messaging services into one application.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePidgin - A universal chat client.
  • Open-Source SoftwareRambox - Free, Open Source and Cross Platform messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one.

Chat Client Utilities

  • Open-Source SoftwareRed Discord Bot - 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.

IRC Client

  • Open-Source SoftwareHexChat - HexChat is an IRC client based on XChat, but unlike XChat it’s completely free for both Windows and Unix-like system.
  • Open-Source SoftwareIrssi - Irssi is a modular chat client that is most commonly known for its text mode user interface.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKVIrc - KVIrc is a free portable IRC client based on the excellent Qt GUI toolkit.

Official Client

  • Open-Source-SoftwareBeeBEEP - BeeBEEP is an open source, peer to peer, lan messenger. You can talk and share files with anyone inside your local area network. You don't need a server, just download, unzip and start it. Simple, fast and secure.
  • Open-Source SoftwareDino - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareElement - A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGitter - Gitter — Where developers come to talk. Gitter is designed to make community messaging, collaboration and discovery as smooth and simple as possible.
  • Open-Source SoftwareJami - Chat. Talk. Share. Jami is a free and universal communication platform which preserves the users' privacy and freedoms. Formerly Ring.
  • Open-Source SoftwareJitsi - Jitsi is a free and open source multiplatform voice, videoconferencing and instant messaging application for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Android.
  • Open-Source SoftwareqTox - A simple distributed, secure messenger with audio and video chat capabilities.
  • Skype - Skype keeps the world talking, for free.
  • Slack - real-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTelegram - A messaging app with a focus on speed and security, it’s super fast, simple and free.
  • 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareWeechat - WeeChat is a fast, light and extensible chat client.
  • Open-Source SoftwareWire - Secure communication. Full privacy.

Data Backup and Recovery

  • Open-Source SoftwareBack In Time - A simple backup tool for Linux, inspired by "flyback project".
  • Open-Source SoftwareBorgBackup - A deduplicating backup program with compression and authenticated encryption.
  • Open-Source Softwarebup - 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).
  • Open-Source SoftwareDeja Dup - A simple backup tool with built-in encryption.
  • Open-Source SoftwareDuplicity - Duplicity does directory backups by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploading them to a remote or local file server.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFreeFileSync - FreeFileSync is a folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files. Instead of copying every file every time, FreeFileSync determines the differences between a source and a target folder and transfers only the minimum amount of data needed.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePhotorec - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareQt-fsarchiver - qt-fsarchiver is a GUI for the fsarchiver program to save/restore partitions, folders and even the MBR/GPT table. The program is for systems based on Debian, OpenSuse or Fedora.
  • Open-Source Softwarerclone - Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from various cloud storage solutions. It also allows encrypted backups.
  • Open-Source Softwarerestic - 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).
  • Open-Source Softwarersnapshot - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSystem Rescue CD - SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTest Disk - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTimeshift - TimeShift is a system restore utility which takes incremental snapshots of the system using rsync and hard-links. These snapshots can be restored at a later date to undo all changes that were made to the system after the snapshot was taken. Snapshots can be taken manually or at regular intervals using scheduled jobs.

Desktop Customization

Desktop Themes

  • Open-Source SoftwareAdapta Theme - An adaptive Gtk+ theme based on Material Design Guidelines.
  • Open-Source SoftwareAnt Theme - Ant is a flat GTK theme for Ubuntu and other GNOME-based Linux desktops it comes in three varieties: vanilla, Bloody, or Dracula.
  • Open-Source SoftwareArc Theme - A flat theme with transparent elements.
  • Open-Source SoftwareEvoPop Theme - EvoPop is a modern desktop theme suite build for the Solus Project. Its design is mostly flat with a minimal use of shadows for depth.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFlatabulous - This is a Flat theme for Ubuntu and other Gnome based Linux Systems.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFlatabulous Arc Theme - A flat and blue GTK theme that also comes in darker versions.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMaterial Ocean Theme - A material design theme with oceanic colors(GTK, QT).
  • Open-Source SoftwareNumix Theme - A flat and colorful GTK-Theme.

Desktop Widgets and Theme Utilities

  • Open-Source SoftwareConky - Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any kind of information on your desktop.
  • 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareHardcode 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.
  • Macbuntu - A transformation pack for making your desktop look like a macOS.
  • Open-Source SoftwareOCS store - Desktop app of openDesktop.org, which is one of the largest communities where developers and artists share applications, themes and other content.
  • Open-Source SoftwareOomox theme generator - A Graphical application for generating different color variations of a Numix-based and Flat-Plat themes (GTK2, GTK3), Gnome-Colors and Archdroid icons.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePolybar - Fast and easy-to-use status bar.
  • Open-Source SoftwareLemonbar - Super fast, lightweight, and mnml status bar for Linux.
  • Open-Source SoftwareWpgtk - 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.

Desktop Icon Packs

  • Open-Source SoftwareLa Capitaine Icon Theme - A macOS and Material design inspired icon theme designed to fit into most desktop environments.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMoka Icon Theme - Moka was created with simplicity in mind. With the use simple geometry & bright colours.
  • Open-Source SoftwareNumix Icon Theme - A flat icon theme that comes in two varieties, Numix Main, and Numix circle.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePapirus 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.

Development

Android

  • Open-Source SoftwareAnbox - Run Android applications on any GNU/Linux operating system.
  • Open-Source SoftwareAndroid studio - The Official IDE for Android: Android Studio provides the fastest tools for building apps on every type of Android device.

C++

  • Open-Source SoftwareCode::Blocks - Code::Blocks is a free C/C++ and Fortran IDE built to meet the most demanding needs of its users. It is designed to be very extensible and fully configurable.
  • Open-Source SoftwareCodelite - A Free, open source, cross platform C/C++, PHP and Node.js IDE.
  • Non FreeClion - A cross-platform and powerful IDE for C/C++.
  • Open-Source SoftwareQT Creator - Fully-stocked cross-platform integrated development environment for easy creation of connected devices, UIs and applications.

Database

  • Open-Source SoftwareCassandra - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareCouchDB - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareDBeaver - A universal database client supporting multiple platforms and databases.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKexi - Kexi is an open source visual database applications creator, a long-awaited competitor for programs like MS Access or Filemaker.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMariaDB - One of the most popular database servers. Made by the original developers of MySQL.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMongoDB - MongoDB is a free and open-source cross-platform document-oriented database program, uses JSON-like documents with schemas.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMyCLI - MyCLI is a command line interface for MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona with auto-completion and syntax highlighting.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMySQL - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMySQL 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareOmniDB - Browser-based tool that visually create, manage, and view databases.
  • Non FreeOracleDB - Object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation, one of the most trusted and widely-used relational database engines.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePercona MongoDB - Percona Server for MongoDB provides all features and benefits of MongoDB Community Server.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePercona Monitoring - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePercona MySQL - Percona Server for MySQL is a free, fully compatible, enhanced, open source drop-in replacement for MySQL that provides superior performance, scalability and instrumentation.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePercona 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.
  • Open-Source Softwarepgcli - Pgcli is a command line interface for Postgres with auto-completion and syntax highlighting.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePostgreSQL - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSqlite - SQLite is an in-process library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSqlite Browser - Visually create, manage, and view sqlite database files.

Golang

  • GoLand - GoLand is the codename for a new commercial IDE by JetBrains aimed at providing an ergonomic environment for Go development.
  • Open-Source SoftwareLiteIDE X - LiteIDE is a simple, open source, cross-platform Go IDE.

Java

  • Open-Source SoftwareBlueJ - A free Java Development Environment designed for beginners, used by millions worldwide.
  • Eclipse - Eclipse is famous for our Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE), but can also download packages to support C/C++ IDE and PHP IDE.
  • Open-Source SoftwareIntelliJ IDEA - Powerful IDE for JAVA. The Community version is open sourced.

Javascript

  • Webstorm - Powerful IDE for modern JavaScript development, made by JetBrains.

Microcomputer and Embedded Devices

  • Open-Source SoftwareArduino IDE - The open-source Arduino Software (IDE) makes it easy to write code and upload it to the board.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFritzing - Fritzing is an open-source hardware initiative that makes electronics accessible as a creative material for anyone.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSloeber IDE - Sloeber IDE. The Arduino IDE for Eclipse.

Multiple Languages Support

  • Open-Source SoftwareAptana - Aptana Studio harnesses the flexibility of Eclipse and focuses it into a powerful web development engine.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKDevelop - It is a free, open source IDE, feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and other programming languages.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMonoDevelop - Cross platform IDE for C#, F# and more.
  • Open-Source SoftwareNetbeans - NetBeans IDE lets you quickly and easily develop Java desktop, mobile, and web applications, as well as HTML5 applications with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.

PHP

  • PHPStorm - Lightning-smart and powerful PHP IDE from Jetbrain.

Python

Shell

  • Open-Source SoftwareFish - A smart and user-friendly command-line shell.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFisher - A plugin manager for fish shell.
  • Open-Source SoftwareIpython - Powerful Python shell.
  • Open-Source SoftwareOh-my-fish - Provides various packages and themes to extend the functionality of your fish shell.
  • Open-Source SoftwareOh-my-zsh - A delightful community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration.
  • Open-Source SoftwareShellcheck - ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts.
  • Open-Source SoftwareZsh - A powerful command line shell.

Supporting Tools

  • Open-Source SoftwareCscope - Cscope is a developer's tool for browsing source code. Although cmd-line application, it is nativelly integrated with Vim editor. It allows searching code for symbols, definitions, functions (called/calling), regex, files.
  • Open-Source SoftwareDevilbox - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareDiffuse - Diffuse is a graphical tool for comparing and merging text files. It can retrieve files for comparison from Bazaar, CVS, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, RCS, Subversion, and SVK repositories.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFossil - Self-contained, distributed software configuration management system with integrated bug-tracking, wiki, technotes and web interface.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGaphor - A simple and fast software and systems modeling tool.
  • NonfreeGenymotion - Genymotion is a fast third-party emulator that can be used instead of the default Android emulator.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGiggle - Giggle is a graphical frontend for the git content tracker.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGisto - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGit - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGitCola - Git Cola is a sleek and powerful graphical Git client. Written in Python and GPL-licensed.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGitg - gitg is the GNOME GUI client to view git repositories.
  • GitKraken - The downright luxurious Git GUI client for Windows, Mac & Linux.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGitLab - GitLab is a web-based Git repository manager with wiki and issue tracking features.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGitolite - Gitolite allows you to setup git hosting on a central server, with fine-grained access control and many more powerful features.
  • Open-Source SoftwareHeaptrack - a heap memory profiler for Linux
  • Open-Source Softwarehors - instant coding answers via the command line
  • Insomnia - A simple, beautiful, and free REST API client.
  • Open-Source SoftwareJupyter Notebook - An open source program that provides interactive data and scientific computing information across over 40 programming languages.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMeld - Meld is a visual diff and merge tool that helps you compare files, directories, and version controlled projects.
  • Mockingbot - Mockingbot is an easy-to-use prototyping tool.
  • Open-Source SoftwareNemiver - Nemiver is a project to write a standalone graphical debugger that integrates well in the GNOME desktop environment.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePencil - An open-source GUI prototyping tool that's available for ALL platforms.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePick - Simple color picker.
  • Postman - Postman, allows a user to develop and test APIs quickly.
  • Open-Source SoftwareRabbit VCS - RabbitVCS is a set of graphical tools written to provide simple and straightforward access to the version control systems you use.
  • NonfreeSmartGit - SmartGit is a Git client with support for GitHub Pull Requests+Comments and SVN.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSourcetrail - Sourcetrail is a free and open-source cross-platform source explorer that helps you get productive on unfamiliar source code.
  • Non FreeStarUML - A sophisticated software modeler.
  • Open-Source SoftwareUncrustify - Source Code Beautifier for C/C++, C#, ObjectiveC, D, Java, Pawn and VALA. See UniversalIndentGUI below.
  • Open-Source SoftwareUniversalIndentGUI - UniversalIndentGUI offers a live preview for setting the parameters of nearly any indenter.
  • Open-Source SoftwareValgrind - Valgrind is a GPL'd system for debugging and profiling Linux programs.
  • NonfreeVershd - Vershd is the free for personal use effortless Git GUI for Windows, Mac, & Linux.
  • Open-Source SoftwareWdiff - The GNU wdiff program is a front end to diff for comparing files on a word per word basis. It collects the diff output and uses it to produce a nicer display of word differences between the original files.
  • Open-Source SoftwareWireshark - Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what's happening on your network at a microscopic level. It is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions.
  • Open-Source SoftwareZeal - Zeal is an offline documentation browser for software developers.

E-Book Utilities

  • Open-Source SoftwareBookworm - A simple, focused eBook reader.
  • Open-Source SoftwareBuka - A program for EBook Management.
  • Open-Source SoftwareCalibre - Incredibly ugly but powerful software for ebook management and conversion.
  • Open-Source SoftwareCalibre-web - Calibre Web is a web app providing a clean interface for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks using an existing Calibre database.
  • Open-Source SoftwareEasy Ebook Viewer - Modern GTK Python Ebook Reader app to easily read epub files.
  • Open-Source SoftwareEvince - Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. The goal of evince is to replace the multiple document viewers that exist on the GNOME Desktop with a single simple application.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFBReader - One of the most popular eReader apps.
  • Foxit - Foxit Reader 8.0—Award-winning PDF Reader.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGnome Books - GNOME Books is application for listing, searching and reading eBooks.
  • Open-Source SoftwareK2pdfopt - K2pdfopt optimizes PDF/DJVU files for mobile e-readers (e.g. the Kindle) and smartphones.
  • Open-Source Softwarellpp - A lightweight, fast, customizable and featureful PDF, EPUB, XPS and CBZ viewer with vi-like keybindings based on MuPDF.
  • 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMcomix - GTK+ comic book viewer.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMuPDF - a lightweight PDF and XPS viewer.
  • Open-Source SoftwareOkular - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePDFsam - A desktop application to split, extract pages, rotate, mix and merge PDF files.
  • 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePolar - Polar is a personal knowledge repository for PDF and web content supporting incremental reading and document annotation.
  • Open-Source Softwareqpdf - qpdfview is a tabbed document viewer.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSigil - Sigil is a multi-platform EPUB ebook editor.
  • Open-Source SoftwareZathura - Zathura is a highly customizable and functional document viewer.

Editors

  • Open-Source SoftwareAtom - Hackable text editor for the 21st century.
  • Open-Source SoftwareBluefish - Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and web developers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code.
  • Open-Source SoftwareBrackets - A modern text editor that understands web design.
  • Open-Source SoftwareEmacs - An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGeany - Geany is a text editor using the GTK+ toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGedit -gedit is the GNOME text editor. While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGnome 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).
  • Open-Source SoftwareKakoune - Kakoune code editor - Vim inspired. Faster as in less keystrokes. Multiple selections. Orthogonal design. Has a strong focus on interactivity.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKate - Kate is a multi-document editor part of KDE since release 2.2.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKomodo Edit - Free and open source multilanguage development environment.
  • Open-Source SoftwareLighttable - The next generation code editor! Support live coding.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMicro - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareNano - GNU Nano is a text editor which aims to introduce a simple interface and intuitive command options to console based text editing.
  • Open-Source SoftwareNeovim - Neovim is a fork of Vim aiming to improve user experience, plugins, and GUIs.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSpacemacs - A community-driven Emacs distribution.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSpaceVim - A community-driven modular vim distribution.
  • Sublime - A very capable text editor with advanced search capabilities, and many powerful plugins to improve its functionality.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTextadept - Minimalist text editor for programmers. Textadept is extensible with Lua programming language.
  • Open-Source SoftwareVim -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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareVSCode - 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.

Education

  • Open-Source SoftwareAnki - Powerful, intelligent flash cards which makes remembering things easy.
  • Open-Source SoftwareArtha - Artha is a free cross-platform English thesaurus that works completely off-line and is based on WordNet.
  • Open-Source SoftwareBibleTime - BibleTime is a Bible study application based on the Sword library and Qt toolkit.
  • Open-Source SoftwareCelestia - The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions.
  • Open-Source SoftwareChemtool - Chemtool is a small program for drawing chemical structures on Linux.
  • Open-Source SoftwareEpoptes - An open source computer lab management and monitoring tool.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGAP - A computer algebra system for computational discrete algebra with particular emphasis on computational group theory.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGcompris - GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGeogebra - The graphing calculator for functions, geometry, algebra, calculus, statistics and 3D mathematics.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGnome-dictionary - A powerful dictionary for GNOME.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGNU Octave - GNU Octave is a scientific programming language, primarily intended for numerical computations, that is mostly compatible with MATLAB.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGNU Typist - ncurses-based free-software typing instructor.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGNUKhata - Open source accounting software.
  • Google Earth - Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGPeriodic - GPeriodic is a periodic table application for Linux.
  • KDE Edu Suite - Free Educational Software based on the KDE technologies.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKlavaro - A touch typing tutor very flexible, supporting customizable keyboard layouts. You can edit and save new or unknown keyboard layouts, as the basic course was designed to not depend on specific ones. Also, there are some charts about the learning process.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKtouch - KTouch is a program to learn and practice touch typing.
  • NonfreeMAPLE - 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.
  • NonfreeMapTiler - MapTiler generates zoomable raster maps from images in user-defined coordinate system.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMarble - Marble is a virtual globe and world atlas — your swiss army knife for maps.
  • NonfreeMATLAB - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMaxima - Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, and much more.
  • Mendeley - Mendeley is a program for managing and sharing research papers, finding research data and collaborating online.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMoodle - Course management system for online learning.
  • Open-Source SoftwareOpenEuclid - OpenEuclide is a 2D geometry software: figures are defined dynamically by describing formal geometrical constraints.
  • Open-Source SoftwareOpenMapTiles - OpenMapTiles is a set of open-source tools for self-hosting of OpenStreetMaps in more than 50 languages. It provides both raster as well as vector tiles, WMS, WMTS, support for JavaScript viewers and mobile SDK.
  • Open-Source SoftwareOpenSIS - School Management Software that Increases Student Achievements & Teacher Performances.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePARI/GP - A computer algebra system for fast computations in number theory.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSageMath - A mathematical software with features covering many aspects of mathematics, including algebra, combinatorics, numerical mathematics, number theory, and calculus.
  • Open-Source SoftwareScipy - SciPy is a Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.
  • Open-Source SoftwareScratch - With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community.
  • Open-Source SoftwareStellarium - Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSugar Desktop Environment - Sugar is a learning platform that reinvents how computers are used for education. Collaboration, reflection, and discovery are integrated directly into the user interface.
  • Open-Source SoftwareUGENE - UGENE is free open-source cross-platform integrated GUI-based bioinformatics software.
  • Open-Source SoftwareVeyon - Veyon is a computer management software for classrooms, it allows a teacher to control student computers and guide students over a computer network.

Email

  • Open-Source Softwareaerc - aerc is an efficient, extensible email client that runs in the terminal. It features special support for git email workflows, reviewing patches, and processing HTML emails in a terminal-based browser.
  • Open-Source SoftwareClaws - Claws is an email client and news reader, featuring sophisticated interface, easy configuration, intuitive operation, abundant features and plugins, robustness and stability.
  • Open-Source SoftwareElectronMail - ElectronMail is an Electron-based unofficial desktop client for ProtonMail and Tutanota end-to-end encrypted email providers.
  • Open-Source SoftwareEvolution - Evolution is a personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring and address book functionality.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGeary - Geary is an email application built for GNOME 3. It allows you to read and send email with a simple, modern interface.
  • NonfreeHiri - Hiri is a business focused desktop e-mail client for sending and receiving e-mails, managing calendars, contacts, and tasks.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKMail - KMail is the email component of Kontact, the integrated personal information manager from KDE.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMailnag - Mailnag is a daemon program that checks POP3 and IMAP servers for new mail.
  • Mailspring - A beautiful, fast and maintained fork of Nylas Mail (dead) by one of the original authors.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSylpheed - Lightweight and user-friendly e-mail client.
  • Open-Source SoftwareThunderbird - Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize and it’s loaded with great features.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTrojita - A super fast desktop email client for Linux.
  • Open-Source SoftwareVmail - Vim-like Gmail client.
  • Open-Source SoftwareWmail - Gmail & Google Inbox unofficial desktop client for linux.

File Manager

  • Open-Source Software7Zip - A very capable program that can unzip nearly any file archiving format.
  • Open-Source SoftwareCaja - Is the default file manager for the MATE desktop environment, it is very fast and simple to use.
  • Open-Source SoftwareDolphin - Dolphin is the default file manager of the KDE desktop environment featuring usability as well as functionality.
  • Open-Source SoftwareDouble Commander - Double Commander is a cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander and features some new ideas.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKrusader - Krusader is an advanced twin panel (commander style) file manager for KDE and other desktops in the *nix world, similar to Midnight or Total Commander.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMidnight Commander - A feature rich full-screen file manager that allows you to copy, move and delete files and whole directory trees.
  • Open-Source SoftwareNautilus - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareNemo - Nemo is the file manager for the Cinnamon desktop environment.
  • Open-Source Softwarennn - A very lightweight and fast terminal file browser with excellent desktop integration.
  • Open-Source SoftwareQDirStat - Qt-based directory statistics - KDirStat without any KDE, from the original KDirStat author.
  • Open-Source SoftwareRanger - Ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSpaceFM - Multi-panel tabbed file and desktop manager with built-in VFS, udev- or HAL-based device manager, customisable menu system and bash-GTK integration.
  • Open-Source SoftwareVifm - Vifm is an ncurses based file manager with VI like keybindings, which also borrows some useful ideas from mutt.

Games

RTS

  • Open-Source Software0 AD - Age of Empires like RTS game of ancient warfare.
  • Open-Source SoftwareNethack - Open-source rogue-like with ASCII graphics.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTripleA - Open source grand strategy game with "Axis and Allies" game rules.
  • Open-Source SoftwareWarzone 2100 - Open-source real-time strategy game that takes place after a nuclear war.
  • Open-Source SoftwareWidelands - Widelands is a open source RTS game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode inspired by Settlers II.

Turn Based Strategy

  • Open-Source SoftwareBattle for 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFreeCiv - 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.

City Building Simulation

  • Dwarf Fortress - A famously complex simulation of a High Fantasy Dwarf Fortress, fight goblins, and slay massive legendary beasts. Strike the earth!
  • Open-Source SoftwareOpenTTD - An open-source clone of Transport Tycoon Plus with major improvements.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSimutrans - Simutrans is a freeware and open-source transportation simulator.
  • Open-Source SoftwareUnknown Horizons - A 2D realtime strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building. Multiplayer currently broken.

FPS

  • Open-Source SoftwareChaosEsqueAnthology Disc 1ChaosEsqueAnthology Disc 2 - A modification of Xonotic which included extended weapons, maps, vehicles, buildable buildings, mounted weapons, spell casting, monsters, player characters, textures, and game mode (such as colorwar (think liquidwar)).
  • Open-Source SoftwareFreedoom - Free version of the original Doom games, with newly created free-licensed assets.
  • Open-Source SoftwareOpenArena - Free and open-source clone of Quake III Arena, based on the realeased source code, with newly created assets.
  • Open-Source SoftwareRed Eclipse - 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".
  • Open-Source SoftwareXonotic - Arena shooter inspired by Unreal Tournament and Quake.
  • Open-Source SoftwareZandronum - Leading the way in newschool multiplayer Doom online.
  • Open-Source SoftwareZdoom - ZDoom is a source port for the modern era, supporting current hardware and operating systems and sporting a vast array of user options.

RPG

  • Open-Source SoftwareFLARE - Singleplayer Diablo clone with beautiful original graphics.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFreedroidRPG - Sci-fi 2D top-down RPG inspired by Diablo games.
  • 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTales of Maj'Eyal - Tales of Maj’Eyal (ToME) is a free, open source roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building.
  • Open-Source SoftwareZelda Classic - A tribute to Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda with additional quests, items and challenges.
  • Open-Source SoftwareZelda: Mystery of Solarus DX - A direct sequel to The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on the SNES, using the same graphics and game mechanisms.

Command Line

  • Open-Source Software2048 - Play the famous 2048 in commandline.
  • Open-Source SoftwareBackgammon - Play Backgammon in commandline.
  • Open-Source SoftwareBastet - Play Tetris in commandline.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGreed - Tron game in the linux command line.
  • Open-Source SoftwareNinvaders - Play Space Invaders on the command line.
  • Open-Source SoftwarenSnake - Play the classic Nokia snake game on the command line.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePacman4console - Play Pacman game in console.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTron - Play the best action game, Tron in the command line.

Miscellaneous

  • Open-Source SoftwareAstroMenace - Hardcore 3D space scroll-shooter with spaceship upgrade possibilities.
  • Open-Source SoftwareCockatrice - Cockatrice is an open-source multiplatform supported program for playing tabletop card games over a network.
  • Open-Source SoftwareC-Dogs SDL - Classic overhead run-and-gun game in beautiful pixel-art.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFlightGear - Professional quality 3D flight simulator.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGalois - Galois is a Falling Blocks type game that isn't limited to the standard tetrominoes that most games in it's genre are limited to.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGBrainy - Gbrainy is a brain teaser game with logic puzzles and memory trainers.
  • NonfreeMinecraft - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareNonfreeMcpelauncher - Unoffical Open-source launcher for Minecraft: Bedrock edition
  • Open-Source SoftwareMinetest - Open-source Minecraft written in C++ (uses less resources) and includes modding API.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMudlet - A cross-platform, open source, and super fast MUD (text-only MMORPGs) client with scripting in Lua.
  • Open-Source SoftwareNeverball - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePingus - 2D puzzle game that clones the popular Lemmings. Your goal is to guide a group of penguins safely across the game map.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSnake Game - Cross-platform Classic Snake Game based on Node.js.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSuperTux - Clone of the popular sidescrolling Super Mario games.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSuperTuxKart - SuperTuxKart is a 3D open-source arcade racer with a variety characters, tracks, and modes to play.
  • Open-Source SoftwareXMoto - 2D motocross physics-based game requiring a lot of skill to master, with a built-in replay-recording and sharing system.

Engine Re-creations (require the actual game)

  • Open-Source SoftwareFreeablo - A free recreation of the original Diablo game engine that runs natively on Linux. Requires the original game assets.
  • Open-Source SoftwareNXEngine - A source port of Cave Story that runs natively on Linux, source needs to be built.
  • Open-Source Softwareopenage - Free (as in freedom) open source clone of the Age of Empires II engine, source needs to be built.
  • Open-Source SoftwareOpenMW - A recreation of the Morrowind engine, expanding upon the original. It can be used to play legitimate copies of original game.
  • Open-Source SoftwareOpenRA - Classic strategy games, rebuilt for the modern era. Open source.
  • Open-Source SoftwareOpenRCT2 - A recreation of the Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 engine. Requires the original games assests.

Gaming Applications

  • Open-Source Softwareitch - The itch.io app. All of your downloads are kept in a single place and are automatically updated. Plenty of free games.
  • Open-Source SoftwareLutris - Lutris is an open gaming platform for Linux. It helps you install and manage your games in a unified interface.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePlayOnLinux - A front-end for Wine.
  • Open-Source SoftwareRetroArch - A front-end for a lot of game emulators.
  • Steam - Gaming store, which opens the gates to many games.
  • Open-Source SoftwareWine - Wine ("Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on Linux, quality depends from game to game.

Machine Emulators

  • Open-Source SoftwareDolphin Emulator - Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFuse - Fuse (the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator) is a ZX Spectrum emulator for Unix.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGNOME Video Arcade - GNOME Video Arcade is a simple Mame frontend for any freedesktop.org compliant desktop environment.
  • Open-Source SoftwareHigan - 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 Higan Installation.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMAME - MAME is an Arcade Cabinet emulator that strives for accuracy, and can play a huge number of different arcade games.
  • Open-Source Softwarenestopia - nestopia is a Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicon emulator.
  • Open-Source Softwareqmc2 - QMC2 is the successor to QMamecat, it is a gui for MAME and a ROM manager.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSnes9x - Is a multiplatform Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator that has gone through many incarnations, but is still being actively developed.
  • Open-Source SoftwareStella - is an Atari 2600 Emulator that is multiplatform.
  • Open-Source SoftwareVisual Boy Advance-M - A Gameboy and Gameboy Advance Emulator that is still undergoing active development and can even emulate a system link between two gameboys.
  • Open-Source SoftwareZSNES - A capable and commonly used Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom emulator, many consider it the gold standard in SNES/Super Famicom emulation.

Graphics

Graphic Creation

  • Open-Source SoftwareAseprite - Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool.
  • Open-Source SoftwareBlender - a free and open source complete 3D creation pipeline for artists and small teams.
  • Open-Source SoftwareCinepaint - Open source deep paint software.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGifcurry - Your open source video to GIF maker built with Haskell.
  • Gravit - Gravit Designer is a full featured free vector design app right at your fingertip.
  • Heron Animation - A free stop animation making program.
  • Open-Source SoftwareInkscape - A powerful, free design tool for you , whether you are an illustrator, designer, web designer or just someone who needs to create some vector imagery.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKarbon - An open source vector drawing program.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKnotter - A Program designed solely to help design and create Celtic Knots.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKrita - Open Source Software for Concept Artists, Digital Painters, and Illustrators.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMypaint - Mypaint is a paint program for use with graphics tablets.
  • Open-Source SoftwareOpen DVD Producer - A modern, open source cross platform software to produce DVD images.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePinta - Pinta is a free, open source program for drawing and image editing.
  • Open-Source SoftwareStopMotion - Linux Stopmotion is a Free Open Source application to create stop-motion animations. It helps you capture and edit the frames of your animation and export them as a single file.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSynfig Studio - Open-source 2D animation software.
  • Open-Source SoftwareScan Tailor - Scan Tailor is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. For a tutorial on how to use it, consult its User Guide.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSweet Home 3D - House interior and exterior designer with 3D preview, free model database, virtual visits and useful repository of plugins.
  • Vectr - Vectr is a free graphics software used to create vector graphics easily and intuitively. It's a simple yet powerful web and desktop cross-platform tool to bring your designs into reality.
  • Open-Source SoftwareXara Extreme - Xara Xtreme for Linux is a powerful, general purpose graphics program for Unix platforms including Linux, FreeBSD.
  • yEd Graph Editor - yEd is a powerful desktop application that can be used to quickly and effectively generate high-quality diagrams. Create diagrams manually, or import your external data for analysis. Our automatic layout algorithms arrange even large data sets with just the press of a button.

Image Editor

  • NonfreeAftershot - A powerful alternative to Adobe Photoshop.
  • Open-Source SoftwareDarktable - Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGIMP - GIMP is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGraphicsMagick - GraphicsMagick is the swiss army knife of image processing.
  • Open-Source SoftwareHugin - an easy to use cross-platform panoramic imaging toolchain based on Panorama Tools.
  • Open-Source SoftwareImageMagik - ImageMagick is a suite of command-line utilities for modifying and working with images.
  • Open-Source Softwareimgp - Blazing fast terminal image resizer and rotator.
  • Open-Source SoftwareLuminance HDR - Luminance HDR is an open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePhotivo - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePiskel - Browser-based editor for animated sprites and pixel art. Available as offline application.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePixelitor - Pixelitor is a free and open source image editing software that supports layers, layer masks, text layers, filters, multiple undo etc.
  • Open-Source SoftwareRawTherapee - A good looking but lesser known photo editing app.

Image Management

  • Open-Source SoftwareDigikam - DigiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for Linux.
  • Open-Source SoftwareExifCleaner - Remove image metadata with drag and drop. Supports multi-core batch processing.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFeh - lightweight and fast image viewer.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFotoxx - Fotoxx is a free open source Linux program for image editing and collection management.
  • Open-Source Softwaregeeqie - image viewer / photo collection browser. Successor of GQview.
  • Open-Source SoftwaregThumb - gThumb is an image viewer and browser (it also includes an importer tool for transferring photos from cameras).
  • Open-Source Softwaregwenview - Simple yet powerful image viewer and management for KDE desktops.
  • Open-Source SoftwareImagine - An open source image optimizer that can shrink the size of images with a minimal loss of quality.
  • Open-Source Softwarenomacs - nomacs is an image viewer that is able to view nearly any image format, and has powerful renaming and sorting tools.
  • Open-Source SoftwareOjo - A fast and pretty image viewer.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePhockup - Command line sorting tool to organize photos and videos from your camera in folders by year, month and day.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePhotonic - Phototonic is image viewer and organizer.
  • Open-Source Softwarequickviewer - very fast image/comic viewer by using OpenGL.
  • Open-Source SoftwareShotwell - Shotwell is a photo manager for GNOME 3.

Miscellaneous

  • Open-Source SoftwareHandbrake - HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePotrace - Potrace is a tool for tracing a bitmap, which means, transforming a bitmap into a smooth, scalable image.
  • Open-Source SoftwareRadiance - Radiance - A Validated Lighting Simulation Tool.
  • Open-Source SoftwareRamme - Unofficial Instagram desktop application.
  • Open-Source SoftwareRapid Photo Downloader - Rapid Photo Downloader makes it easy to import photos from a camera or smartphone.

PSD, Sketch Inspection

  • NonfreeAvocode - Avocode - Share and inspect Photoshop and Sketch designs in a heart beat.

Screen Recorder

  • Open-Source Softwareasciinema - Terminal session recorder.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGreen 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKazam - An easy to use and very intuitive screen recording program that will capture the content of your screen and record a video file that can be played by any video player that supports VP8/WebM video format.
  • Open-Source SoftwareOBS 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePeek - Simple animated GIF screen recorder with an easy to use interface.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSilentcast - Silentcast can create MKV screencasts and also output to an animated GIF.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSimpleScreenRecorder - SimpleScreenRecorder is a feature-rich screen recorder that supports X11 and OpenGL. It has a Qt-based graphical user interface.
  • Open-Source SoftwareVokoscreen - A free, multilingual and easy to use screencast recorder with audio for Linux. It has many features.

Screenshot

  • Open-Source SoftwareFlameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software.
  • Open-Source SoftwareScreencloud - ScreenCloud is an easy to use screenshot sharing tool consisting of a cross-platform client and a sharing website: http://screencloud.net/.
  • Open-Source SoftwareShutter - Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program for Linux based operating systems such as Ubuntu.

Streaming

  • Open-Source SoftwareReadyMedia - Formerly known as MiniDLNA, ReadyMedia is a is a simple, lightweight media server software, with the aim of being fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients. The MiniDNLA daemon serves media files (music, pictures, and video) to clients on a network such as smartphones, portable media players, televisions, other computers and some gaming systems.

Video editor

  • Open-Source SoftwareCinelerra-cv - Professional video editing and compositing environment.
  • NonfreeDavinci Resolve - Revolutionary tools for editing, color correction, audio post and now visual effects, all in a single application.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFlowblade - A multitrack non-linear video editor for Linux.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKdenlive - Kdenlive is a Non-Linear Video Editor, which is much more powerful than beginners’ (linear) editors.
  • NonfreeLightworks - Professional non-linear video editing program with a free version available.
  • Open-Source SoftwareOlive - Olive is a free non-linear video editor aiming to provide a fully-featured alternative to high-end professional video editing software.
  • Open-Source SoftwareOpenShot - OpenShot is a free, simple-to-use, feature-rich video editor for Linux.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePitivi - A free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive user interface, a clean codebase and a fantastic community.
  • Open-Source SoftwareShotcut - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareVidcutter - Cross-platform Qt5 based app for quick and easy video trimming/splitting and merging/joining for simple quick edits.

Internet

Browser

  • Open-Source SoftwareBrave - Brave is a fast, good desktop browser for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
  • Chrome - A popular Web Browser with a lot of plugins/apps.
  • Open-Source SoftwareChromium - Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFirefox - A popular Web Browser with a lot of plugins/apps.
  • Open-Source SoftwareIceCat - GNU version of Firefox built for privacy, using only free software and free of trademarks.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMidori - A lightweight free browser that runs well on low spec systems.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMin - A smarter, faster web browser.
  • Opera - Opera browser is everything you need to do more on the web.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFalkon - Falkon aims to be a lightweight web browser available through all major platforms.
  • Open-Source SoftwareQuteBrowser - A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5.
  • Vivaldi - A new and rising browser with a lot of customizations.
  • Yandex - Fast and convenient browser.

Supportive Tool

  • Clipgrab - A friendly downloader for YouTube and other sites.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTor - Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy.
  • Open-Source Softwareyoutube-dl - Command line video downloader from youtube.com and about other thousand video platforms. It's really awesome, at least for me.
  • Open-Source Softwareyoutube-dlg - Youtube-dlg is a GUI for youtube-dl and allows for simple copy and paste from all youtube-dl compatible websites. It can auto-update youtube-dl as well as process a list of URL's in parallel.
  • Open-Source SoftwareZerotier - 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.

Web Service Client

  • Open-Source SoftwareAkregator - A KDE Feed Reader.
  • Open-Source SoftwareChoqok - Choqok is a Qt5 client for Twitter, GNU Social, Friendica and Pump.IO.
  • Open-Source SoftwareCorebird - Corebird is native gtk+ twitter desktop client.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFeedReader - A modern desktop application designed to complement existing web-based RSS accounts, combines all the advantages of web based services and modern desktop application.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFeedTheMonkey - FeedTheMonkey is a desktop client for TinyTinyRSS.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGnomeTwitch - Enjoy Twitch on your GNU/Linux desktop with this Twitch non-Adobe-flash client.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKaku - An opensource youtube music player for Ubuntu.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePopcorntime - Watch torrent movies instantly.

Office

Accounting

  • Open-Source SoftwareGnuCash - 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.
  • Open-Source Softwarehledger - Easy-to-use command-line/curses/web plaintext accounting tool.
  • Open-Source SoftwareHomeBank - HomeBank is a free software that will assist you to manage your personal accounting.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKMyMoney - KMyMoney is the personal finance manager by KDE. Its operation is similar to Microsoft Money and Quicken.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSkrooge - A personal finances manager, powered by KDE.

Office Suites

  • Open-Source SoftwareCaligra Office - offers a comprehensive set of 8 applications which satisfies the office, graphics and management needs.
  • Open-Source SoftwareLibreOffice - Arguably the most popular office suite for Linux, it is very heavily developed and widely known.
  • Open-Source SoftwareOnlyOffice - An office suite that charges for a cloud version of itself, but is free for other uses.
  • WPS office - A popular office suite in China, but is fully translated and functions well in English.

LaTeX

  • Open-Source Software Gummi gtk2|gtk3 - Simple latex editor with templates, spell check, and wizards.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGNOME LaTeX - GNOME LaTeX is a LaTeX editor for the GNOME desktop.
  • Open-Source SoftwareLyX - Mature document editor that renders into LaTeX.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTexLive - TeX Live is an easy way to get up and running with the TeX document production system.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTeXmacs - Free scientific text editor, inspired by TeX and GNU Emacs. WYSIWYG editor and CAS-interface.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTexmaker - Free cross-platform LaTeX editor.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTeXstudio - TeXstudio's goal is to make writing LaTeX documents as easy and comfortable as possible.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTeXworks - 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.

Markdown

  • Open-Source SoftwareGhost Writer - A distraction-free Markdown editor for Windows and Linux.
  • Open-Source SoftwareRemarkable - A capable markdown editor that uses a variant of GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM)
  • Open-Source SoftwareRetext - A Simple but powerful editor for Markdown and reStructuredText.
  • Typora - A Minimal markdown editor.

Novel Writing

  • Open-Source SoftwareBibisco - A novel writing software with focus on ideas and characters.
  • Open-Source SoftwareManuskript - Manuskript is a perfect tool for those writer who like to organize and plan everything before writing.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePlume Creator - An open-source tool for novelist that gives you an outliner, a distraction-free mode, a note manager and much more.
  • Open-Source SoftwareScribus - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTrelby - Trelby is simple, fast and elegantly laid out to make screenwriting simple.

Productivity

Automation

  • Open-Source SoftwareActiona - An utility for task automation Ubuntu/Linux. (Previously Actionaz)
  • Open-Source SoftwareAutokey - A desktop automation utility for Linux allows you to manage collection of scripts and phrases, and assign abbreviations and hotkeys to these.
  • Open-Source SoftwareCaffeine - Prevents Ubuntu from automatically going to sleep.
  • Open-Source Softwareespanso - Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust

Dock

  • Open-Source SoftwareCairo-Dock - Cairo-Dock is a desktop interface that takes the shape of docks, desklets, panel, etc.
  • Open-Source SoftwareDocky - Docky is a full fledged dock application that makes opening common applications and managing windows easier and quicker.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePlank - Plank is meant to be the simplest dock of apps on the planet.

Local Search

  • Open-Source SoftwareAlbert - An awesome keyboard launcher for the Linux desktop.
  • Open-Source SoftwareAngrySearch - Linux file search, instant results as you type.
  • Open-Source SoftwareCatfish - Catfish is a versatile file searching tool.
  • Open-Source SoftwareCerebro - Open-source productivity booster with a brain / MacOS-Spotlight alternative.
  • Open-Source Softwarefsearch - A fast file search utility for Unix-like systems based on GTK+3. Wildcard support, RegEx support, Filter support.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePlotinus - A searchable command palette in every modern GTK+ application.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSynapse - Synapse is a semantic launcher written in Vala that you can use to start applications as well as find and access relevant documents and files by making use of the Zeitgeist engine.

Miscellaneous

  • Open-Source SoftwareAmbient Noise - An ambient noise generator for Linux.
  • Open-Source Softwarebcal - Perform storage conversions and calculations.
  • Open-Source SoftwareCopyQ -CopyQ is advanced clipboard manager with editing and scripting features.
  • f.lux - A program that reddens your display to help you sleep better.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGpick - Gpick allows you to sample any color from anywhere on your desktop, and it also provides some other advanced features!
  • Open-Source Softwarepdd - Tiny date, time diff calculator.
  • Open-Source SoftwareRedshift - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSpeedCrunch - A nice, open source, high-precision scientific calculator.
  • Open-Source SoftwareUndistract me - Notifies you when long-running terminal commands complete.
  • Open-Source SoftwareXmind - A mind mapping tool.

Note Taking

  • Open-Source SoftwareBasket Note Pads - This multi-purpose note-taking application helps you to easily take all sort of notes.
  • Open-Source SoftwareBoostnote - Boostnote is an open source note-taking app made for programmers just like you.
  • Open-Source SoftwareCherrytree - A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file.
  • NonfreeInkdrop - The Note-Taking App for Markdown Lovers with simple interface, seemless security and powerful APIs.
  • Open-Source SoftwareJoplin - a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMindforger - Thinking notebook and Markdown editor.
  • Open-Source SoftwareNixNote - An open source client for Evernote.
  • Open-Source SoftwareNotepadqq - Notepadqq is a Notepad++-like editor for the Linux desktop.
  • Open-Source SoftwareNotes - A clean simple note taking app for Linux.
  • Open-Source SoftwareOneNote - Linux Electron OneNote.
  • Open-Source SoftwareOrg mode - Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system.
  • Open-Source SoftwareQOwnNotes - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSpringseed - Simple and beautiful note taking app for daily user.
  • Open-Source SoftwareStickynote - Sticky notes on your Linux desktop.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTomboy - Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application which is simple and easy to use.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTrilium Notes - Trilium Notes is a hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTusk - Refined Evernote desktop app.
  • Open-Source SoftwareWhatever - An unofficial Evernote desktop client for Linux.
  • Open-Source SoftwareWizNote - A cross-platform cloud based note-taking client.

Time and Task

  • Open-Source SoftwareAlarm Clock - Alarm Clock is a fully-featured alarm clock for your GNOME panel or equivalent.
  • Open-Source Softwarecalcurse - A calendar and scheduling application for the command line.
  • Open-Source SoftwareCalifornia - Complete Calendar app replacement which uses natural language for creating events.
  • NonfreeEverdo - TODO list and Getting Things Done® app for all platforms. Beautiful, powerful, not SaaS, free version available.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGnome Pomodoro - A full-featured pomodoro timer for GNOME.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGo 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.
  • NonfreePomodone App - PomoDoneApp is the easiest way to track your workflow using Pomodoro technique®, on top of your current task management service.
  • Open-Source SoftwareRSIBreak - RSIBreak takes care of your health and regularly breaks your work to avoid repetitive strain injury.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSuper 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTaskbook - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTaskWarrior - Taskwarrior is Free and Open Source Software that manages your TODO list from the command line.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTodo.txt - todo.txt is a set of focused editors which help you manage your tasks with as few keystrokes and taps possible.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTodoist - Unofficial client of Todoist, the cross-platform to-do manager with mobile apps, great UI and has some optional premium features.

Widget and Indicator

Proxy

  • Open-Source SoftwarePrivoxy - Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk.
  • Open-Source SoftwareProxyChains - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareShadowsocks - A secure socks5 proxy, designed to protect your Internet traffic.
  • Open-Source Softwareelectron-ssr - Cross platform Shadowsocksr desktop client using electron.

Security

Compartmentalization

  • Open-Source SoftwareFirejail - Firejail is a SUID program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKVM - KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V).
  • Open-Source Softwareops - OPS is a tool that builds, runs and deploys ordinary linux applications as unikernels.
  • Open-Source SoftwareVirtualbox - VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use.

Firewall

  • Open-Source SoftwareFireHOL - Linux firewall (iptables) manager for humans.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFirewalld - Firewalld provides a dynamically managed firewall with support for network or firewall zones to define the trust level of network connections or interfaces.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGuFW - One of the easiest firewalls in the world of Linux.

Password Manager

  • Open-Source SoftwareBitwarden - A cross-platform password management service which also support self-hosting.
  • Open-Source SoftwareEncryptr - Encryptr is a zero-knowledge, cloud-based e-wallet / password manager powered by Crypton.
  • Enpass - Enpass makes your life easy by securely managing your passwords and important information.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePass - The standard Unix password manager.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePassword Safe - Password Safe allows you to safely and easily create a secured and encrypted user name/password list.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKeePass - Windows focused password manager, with some cross platform support through Mono.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKeePassXC - Cross platform password manager. A Community-maintained fork of KeePassX.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKeeWeb - Free cross-platform password manager compatible with KeePass
  • LastPass - LastPass is a crossplatform freemium password management service that stores encrypted passwords in private accounts.

Other

  • Open-Source SoftwareClamAV - ClamAV is an open source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFail2ban - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFireQoS - Linux QoS (tc) manager for humans.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGnuPG - GnuPG allows to encrypt and sign your data and communication, features a versatile key management system as well as access modules for all kinds of public key directories.
  • Open-Source SoftwareIPrange - A very fast command line utility for processing IP lists (merge, compare, exclude, etc).
  • Open-Source Softwarekeysniffer - Linux kernel mode debugfs keylogger.
  • Open-Source SoftwareLynis - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareOpenSSH - OpenSSH Secure Shell Server and Client
  • Open-Source SoftwareOWASP ZAP - OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) web security testing tool.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSeahorse - A Gnome frontend for GnuPG.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSirikali - A Qt/C++ GUI front end to cryfs,gocryptfs,securefs,ecryptfs and encfs.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTcpdump - TCP Debugging/Capture Tool.
  • Open-Source SoftwareUktools - Keep your system up-to-date with last kernel available. Possibility to clean old kernel too.
  • Open-Source SoftwareUpdate-IPsets - A manager for all cybercrime IP feeds that can download, convert and install netfilter ipsets.

Sharing Files

  • Open-Source Softwarearia2 - aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility.
  • CrossFTP - CrossFTP makes it extremely simple to manage the FTP related tasks.
  • D-lan - A free LAN file sharing software.
  • Open-Source SoftwareDeluge - Deluge is a lightweight, Free Software, cross-platform BitTorrent client.
  • Dropbox - Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFilezilla - The free FTP solution.
  • Flareget - Full featured, multi-threaded download manager and accelerator.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKTorrent - KTorrent is a BitTorrent application by KDE which allows you to download files using the BitTorrent protocol.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMega - Easy automated syncing between your computers and your MEGA cloud drive.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMeiga - A tool that makes possible to share selected local directories via web.
  • Open-Source SoftwarenextCloud - an actively maintained fork of ownCloud, a suite of client-server software for creating and using file hosting services.
  • Open-Source SoftwareNitroShare - Cross-Platform network file transfer application.
  • Open-Source SoftwareOnionShare - Securely and anonymously share a file of any size.
  • Open-Source SoftwareownCloud - The goal of ownCloud is to give you access to your files wherever you are.
  • PushBullet - Pushbullet connects your devices, making them feel like one.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePushBullet for desktop - The missing Desktop application for Pushbullet.
  • Open-Source SoftwareqBittorent - The qBittorrent project aims to provide a Free Software alternative to µTorrent.
  • Quazaa - A cross platform multi-network peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing client.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSeafile - 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.
  • SpiderOak - Real-time collaboration for teams and businesses that care about privacy.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSyncthing - Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized.
  • Teamviewer - PC remote control/remote access software, free for personal use.
  • Tixati - Freeware, advanced featured torrent client, a web user interface is included.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTransmission - Simple, lightweight, multi-platform torrent client.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTransmission Remote GUI - Transmission Remote GUI is a feature rich cross platform front-end to remotely control a Transmission Bit-Torrent client daemon via its RPC protocol.
  • Open-Source SoftwareuGet - A download manager that can monitor the clipboard for downloadable links, and can create a list of downloads, and run them in parallel.
  • Open-Source SoftwareVuze - Bittorrent Client is an end-to-end software application for all your torrent needs.
  • Open-Source SoftwareWeb Torrent Desktop - Web Torrent Desktop is for streaming torrents which connects to both BitTorrent and WebTorrent peers.
  • Open-Source SoftwareWormhole - get arbitrary-sized files and directories (or short pieces of text) from one computer to another safely.

Terminal

  • Open-Source SoftwareAlacritty - A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.
  • Open-Source SoftwareCool Retro Term - A good looking terminal that mimicks the old cathode display.
  • Open-Source SoftwareDBAN - Delete information stored on hard disk drives (HDDs) in PC laptops, desktops or servers.
  • Open-Source SoftwareeDEX-UI - eDEX-UI is a fullscreen, cross-platform terminal emulator and system monitor that looks and feels like a sci-fi computer interface.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGnomeTerminal - A widely preinstalled terminal emulator in Linux world.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGuake - Guake is a top-down terminal for Gnome.
  • Open-Source SoftwareHyper - A terminal built on web technologies.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKermit - A VTE-based, simple and froggy terminal emulator.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature full, OpenGL based terminal emulator.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKonsole - An alternative terminal emulator for KDE desktop environment.
  • Open-Source SoftwareRXVT - A terminal emulator for X11, a popular replacement for the standard ‘xterm’.
  • Open-Source SoftwareRXVT-Unicode - rxvt-unicode is a fork of the well known terminal emulator.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSakura - Simple but powerful libvte based terminal emulator, supporting utf-8 and input methods as provided by gtk+ and pango libraries.
  • Open-Source Softwarest - st is a simple terminal implementation for X.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTerminator - Feature filled terminal emulator that supports tabs and grids.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTerminology - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTerminus - modern, highly configurable terminal app based on web technologies.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTermit - Simple terminal emulator based on vte library, extensible via Lua.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTermite - A keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support.
  • Termius - cross-platform terminal with built-in SSH and Telnet.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTilda - A Gtk based drop down terminal for Linux and Unix.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTilix - A tiling terminal emulator for Linux using GTK+ 3.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTmux - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTwin - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareUpterm - Upterm (formerly Black Screen) is an IDE in the world of terminals. Strictly speaking, it's both a terminal emulator and an interactive shell based on Electron.
  • Open-Source SoftwareVisidata - A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data.
  • Open-Source SoftwareXterm - The Xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly.
  • Open-Source SoftwareYakuake - A Quake-style terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology.

Utilities

Disk Utilities

  • Open-Source SoftwareBrasero - A capable CD/DVD burner.
  • Open-Source SoftwareClonezilla - Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program similar to True Image® or Norton Ghost®.
  • Open-Source SoftwareDiskonaut - A disk space visualizer and navigator for the terminal.
  • Open-Source SoftwareDuc - Duc, a library and suite of tools for indexing, and visualizing inspecting disk usage.
  • Open-Source SoftwareEtcher - Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMultiBootUSB - MultiBootUSB allows you to install multiple live linux on a USB disk.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGParted - Disk Partition utility for Linux.
  • Open-Source SoftwareUnetbootin - 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.

System Maintenance

  • Open-Source SoftwareAptik - A tool for you to organize your Favorite PPAs and manage Packages Easily.
  • Open-Source SoftwareBleach bit - BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and more.
  • Open-Source Softwarermlint - rmlint finds space waste and other broken things on your filesystem and offers to remove it.
  • Open-Source SoftwareStacer - The most well known Ubuntu System Optimizer.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSynaptic - Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt.
  • Open-Source SoftwareUbuntuCleaner - Ubuntu Cleaner is a tool that makes it easy to clean your Ubuntu system.

System Monitoring

  • Open-Source Softwarebandwhich - Terminal bandwidth utilization tool.
  • Open-Source SoftwareCPU-G - Easy monitoring the battery life of your Ubuntu laptop.
  • Open-Source Softwarecpupower-gui - Graphical program to easily change the frequency limits and governors of the CPU, similar to cpupower.
  • GD map - A tool to visualize disk usage.
  • Open-Source Softwareindicator-cpufreq - It provides the same functionality as the Gnome CPU frequency applet, but doesn't require Gnome panel and works under Unity.
  • Open-Source Softwareindicator-multiload - Graphical system load indicator for CPU, ram, etc.
  • Open-Source SoftwareIndicator-SysMonitor - An Application Indicator showing cpu temperature, memory, network speed, cpu usage, public IP address and internet connection status.
  • Open-Source SoftwareNcdu - A disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface.
  • Open-Source SoftwareNetData - Next-gen web based real-time performance and health monitoring for physical and virtual servers, containers and IoT devices. It is also a distributed statsd server with automatic visualization for APM (applications performance monitoring).
  • Open-Source SoftwarePsensor - A graphical hardware temperature monitor for Linux.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSystemload - A program that shows current system load in a status bar.

Other

  • Open-Source SoftwareAlien Package Converter - Package converter. Converts between RPM, DPKG, SLP, and TGZ package formats.
  • Open-Source SoftwareAngry IP Scanner - Fast and friendly network scanner.
  • Open-Source Softwareantimicro - Bind controller button presses and joystick movement to keyboard and mouse actions with an intuitive GUI. Allows saving profiles into files.
  • Open-Source SoftwareCheat - Cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line.
  • Open-Source SoftwareConvertall - A program that can convert many units of measurement to other units.
  • Open-Source SoftwareCurlew - A GTK media converter for the GNOME desktop.
  • Open-Source Softwaredmenu - dmenu is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for dwm. It manages large numbers of user-defined menu items efficiently.
  • Open-Source SoftwareDroidcam - DroidCam turns your Android device into a wireless webcam for your PC.
  • Open-Source SoftwareEasyStroke - Easystroke is a gesture-recognition application for X11.
  • Open-Source SoftwareEmoji Keyboard - Virtual keyboard-like emoji picker for Linux.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFreeRDP - FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).
  • Open-Source SoftwareGnomePie - the circular app launcher for Linux desktops.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGramps - Research, organize and share your family tree with Gramps.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKDE-Connect - A tool, that allows one to integrate the Linux desktop with an Android smartphone and can be used to send files to and from the phone and the linux desktop, use the phone as a trackpad, control the desktop media player using the phone, and lots more.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKeynav - Keynav is a piece of an on-going experiment to make pointer-driven interfaces easier and faster for users to operate. It lets you move the pointer quickly to most points on the screen with only a few keystrokes.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKomorebi - Komorebi is a background manager for all Linux platforms, provides fully customizable backgrounds that can be tweaked at any time.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMosh - Mosh is a Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes.
  • Open-Source SoftwareNativefier - Make any web page a desktop application.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePeaExtractor A utility designed to unzip files and be as frictionless as possible, and easy to use as possible.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePeazip - A utility to unzip any of a huge variety of compression formats.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePi-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.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePowertop - A tool that can help diagnose issues with power consumption in Linux.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePulse Audio - Improve Linux Audio with customized Profiles.
  • Open-Source SoftwareRemmina - A feature-rich remote desktop application for Linux and other UNIXes.
  • Open-Source Softwarescrcpy - Display and control your Android device.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSushi - Sushi is a quick previewer for Nautilus, the GNOME desktop file manager.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTightVNC - A Free, Lightweight, Fast and Reliable Remote Control / Remote Desktop Software.
  • TLP - An application that can help optimize battery life on Linux.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTMSU - TMSU lets you tags your files and then access them through a nifty virtual filesystem from any other application.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTrimage - A cross-platform tool for losslessly optimizing PNG and JPG files.
  • Open-Source SoftwareUbunsys - An application designed to allow you to change in-depth system features without the command line.
  • Open-Source SoftwareULauncher - An application launcher for Linux.
  • USB network gate - Allows you to share USB ports over a Network on Linux.
  • Open-Source SoftwareVariety - Variety is an open-source wallpaper changer for Linux, packed with great features, yet slim and easy to use.
  • Open-Source SoftwareWorkrave - A program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI).
  • Open-Source SoftwareXtreme Download Manager - A good download manager with fresh UI for Linux.

Video

  • Open-Source SoftwareBomi Player - A powerful and easy-to-use multimedia player.
  • Open-Source SoftwareCheese - Cheese uses your webcam to take photos and videos, applies fancy special effects and lets you share the fun with others.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFFmpeg - FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKodi - An award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMiro - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMovie Monad - A free and simple to use video player made with Haskell.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMPlayer - MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems, play any kind of videos.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMPV - A free, open source, and cross-platform media player.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSMPlayer - Free Media Player with built-in codecs. Play all audio and video formats.
  • 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareVLC - VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

Wiki software

  • Open-Source SoftwareDokuWiki - A popular self-hostable wiki software with a large number of plugins
  • Open-Source Softwareikiwiki - ikiwiki is a wiki compiler. It converts wiki pages into HTML pages suitable for publishing on a website. Ikiwiki stores pages and history in a revision control system such as Subversion or Git.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTiddlyDesktop - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareZim - A graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages, great for notes and documents. Stored in plain text files for easy version control.

Others

  • Open-Source SoftwareDisplayCAL - Open Source Display Calibration and Characterization powered by ArgyllCMS.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFontForge - Free (libre) font editor for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGrubCustomizer - Grub Customizer is a graphical interface to configure the GRUB2/BURG settings and menuentries.
  • Open-Source SoftwareLabplot - LabPlot is a KDE-application for interactive graphing and analysis of scientific data.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMycroft - Mycroft is a hackable open source voice assistant.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePolychromatic - Graphical front end and tray applet for configuring Razer peripherals on GNU/Linux.
  • Open-Source Softwaretrackma - Open multi-site list manager for Unix-like systems.

Command Line Utilities

  • Open-Source SoftwareBuku - A Command line bookmark manager.
  • Open-Source Softwarebroot - A new way to see and navigate directory trees.
  • Open-Source SoftwareCloc - Count Lines of Code: cloc counts blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages.
  • Open-Source SoftwareColor LS - Color Ls is a Ruby Gem that spices up the ls command and shows more visually than ls does without additional commands.
  • Open-Source Softwarecurseradio - Command line radio player.
  • Open-Source SoftwareDaily Reddit Wallpaper - Change your wallpaper to the most upvoted image of the day from /r/wallpapers or any other subreddit on system startup.
  • Open-Source Softwareddgr - DuckDuckGo from the command line.
  • Open-Source Softwareexa - exa is a modern replacement for ls.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFishfry - replaces fish history with a history tailored to pentesters for efficiency and newbie pentesters for learning.
  • Open-Source Softwarefzf - A general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder with interactive filter and preview feature for things like files, command history, git commits, hostnames, etc.
  • Open-Source Softwaregallery-dl - Command-line program to download image galleries and collections from pixiv, exhentai, danbooru and more.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGkill - An interactive process killer for Linux.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGlances - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGoogler - A program that can Google anything right in the command line.
  • Open-Source Softwaregtop - A system monitoring dashboard for terminal. Think 'graphical top', with bar charts, line graphs, pie charts, and etc.
  • Open-Source Softwarehtop - An interactive process viewer for Unix systems with improved features and user experience.
  • Open-Source Softwarehyperfine - A command-line benchmarking tool.
  • Open-Source Softwarekorkut - Quick and simple image processing at the command line.
  • Open-Source SoftwareLiquidprompt - A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh.
  • Open-Source Softwarelsd - The next gen ls command.
  • Open-Source Softwaremps-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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMutt - A terminal based mail client with vim keybindings and great flexibility and customizability.
  • Open-Source SoftwareNeofetch - A fast, highly customizable system info script that supports Linux, MacOS, iOS, BSD, Solaris, Android, Haiku, GNU Hurd, MINIX, AIX and Windows.
  • Open-Source SoftwareNewsboat - Newsboat is a fork of Newsbeuter, an RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console.
  • Open-Source SoftwareOnefetch - Git repository summary on your terminal.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePathPicker - 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.
  • Open-Source Softwarepywal - 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.
  • Open-Source SoftwareRainbow Stream - A smart and nice Twitter client on terminal written in Python.
  • Open-Source SoftwareRTV - Browse Reddit from your terminal .
  • Open-Source Softwares-tui - s-tui is an UI for monitoring your computer's CPU temperature, frequency and utilization in a graphical way from the terminal.
  • Open-Source SoftwareThe Silver Searcher / Ag - A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTheFuck - Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.
  • Open-Source SoftwareTmux - 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.
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  • Open-Source Softwaretranslate-shell - Command-line translator using Google Translate, Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, etc.
  • Open-Source Softwareundistract-me - A command line program that plays a sound or sends a notification when a long command has finished running in the command line.
  • Open-Source Softwarevagrant - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.
  • wicd-curses - Command line WiFi connection manager.
  • Open-Source Softwarexsv - A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.
  • Open-Source Softwareyoutube-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.
  • Open-Source Softwarez.lua - A new cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits.
  • Open-Source Softwarezoxide - A better way to navigate your filesystem written in Rust.

Desktop Environments

  • Open-Source SoftwareBudgie - Budgie is a desktop environment designed with the modern user in mind, it focuses on simplicity and elegance.
  • Open-Source SoftwareCinnamon - Cinnamon strives to provide a traditional user experience. Cinnamon is a fork of GNOME 3.
  • Open-Source SoftwareDeepin DE - DDE (Deepin Desktop Environment) is the default desktop environment originally created for the Linux Deepin distribution.
  • Open-Source SoftwareEnlightenment - A lightweight and pretty desktop environment that is designed to run fast and look good, while retaining a large degree of customization.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGnome - The GNOME desktop environment is an attractive and intuitive desktop with both a modern (GNOME) and a classic (GNOME Classic) session.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGNOME Flashback - GNOME Flashback is a shell for GNOME 3 which was initially called GNOME fallback mode. The desktop layout and the underlying technology is similar to GNOME 2.
  • Open-Source SoftwareKDE Plasma - The KDE Plasma desktop environment is a familiar working environment. Plasma Desktop offers all the tools required for a modern desktop computing experience so you can be productive right from the start.
  • Open-Source SoftwareLXDE - The Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment is a fast and energy-saving desktop environment.
  • Open-Source SoftwareLXQt - LXQt is the Qt port and the upcoming version of LXDE, the Lightweight Desktop Environment.
  • Open-Source SoftwareManokwari - Desktop shell for GNOME 3 with Gtk+ and HTML5 frontend.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMate - Mate provides an intuitive and attractive desktop to Linux users using traditional metaphors. MATE is a fork of GNOME 2.
  • Open-Source SoftwarePantheon - Pantheon is the default desktop environment originally created for the elementary OS distribution.
  • Open-Source SoftwareUnity - Unity is a shell for GNOME designed by Canonical for Ubuntu. A guide on how to install unity 8 on Ubuntu 16.04.
  • Open-Source SoftwareXfce - Xfce embodies the traditional UNIX philosophy of modularity and re-usability.

Display manager

Console

  • Open-Source SoftwareCDM - A ultra-minimalistic, yet full-featured login manager written in Bash.
  • Open-Source SoftwareConsole TDM - An extension for xinit written in pure Bash.
  • Open-Source SoftwareLy - Ly is a lightweight, TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux.
  • Open-Source Softwarenodm - A minimalistic display manager for automatic logins.

Graphic

  • Open-Source SoftwareEntrance - An EFL based display manager, highly experimental.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGDM - The GNOME display manager.
  • Open-Source SoftwareLightDM - A cross-desktop display manager, can use various front-ends written in any toolkit.
  • Open-Source SoftwareLXDM - The LXDE display manager. Can be used independent of the LXDE desktop environment.
  • Open-Source SoftwareMDM - The MDM display manager, used in Linux Mint, a fork of GDM 2.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSDDM - The QML-based display manager and successor to KDE4's kdm; recommended for Plasma 5 and LXQt.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSLiM - Lightweight and elegant graphical login solution. (discontinued)
  • Open-Source SoftwareXDM - The X display manager with support for XDMCP, and host chooser.

Window Managers

Compositors

  • Open-Source SoftwareCompton - Compton is a standalone composite manager, suitable for use with window managers that do not natively provide compositing functionality.
  • Open-Source SoftwareGamescope - Gamescope is a micro-compositor that provides a sandboxed Xwayland desktop with independent input, resolution, and refresh rate.
  • Open-Source SoftwareSway - Sway is tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11.
  • Open-Source SoftwareXcompmgr - Xcompmgr is a simple composite manager capable of rendering drop shadows and, with the use of the transset utility, primitive window transparency.

Stacking window managers

  • Open-Source Software2bwm - A fast floating WM, with the particularity of having 2 borders, written over the XCB library and derived from mcwm.
  • Open-Source SoftwareBlackbox - A fast, lightweight window manager for the X Window System, without all those annoying library dependencies.
  • Open-Source SoftwareFluxbox - A window manager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code.
  • Open-Source SoftwareOpenbox - A highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support.

Tiling window managers

  • Open-Source SoftwareBspwm - bspwm is a tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree.
  • Open-Source SoftwareHerbstluftwm - Is a Manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.
  • Open-Source Softwarei3 WM - A better tiling and dynamic window manager. It's completely written from scratch. The target platforms are GNU/Linux and BSD operating systems.
  • Open-Source Softwarei3-gaps - i3-gaps is i3 with more features.
  • Open-Source SoftwareQtile - qtile is a full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python.

Dynamic window managers

  • Open-Source Softwareawesome - A highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X.
  • Open-Source Softwaredwm - A dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts.
  • Open-Source Softwarespectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11, largely inspired by xmonad and dwm.
  • Open-Source Softwarexmonad - A dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell.

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