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DB Browser for SQLite (DB4S) is a high quality, visual, open source tool to create, design, and edit database files compatible with SQLite.
DB4S is for users and developers who want to create, search, and edit databases. DB4S uses a familiar spreadsheet-like interface, and complicated SQL commands do not have to be learned.
Solus is an operating system that is designed for home computing. Every tweak enables us to deliver a cohesive computing experience.
A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
STAnd aLONE TRAY (notification area) implementation for X11.
Stalonetray is a STAndaLONE freedesktop.org and KDE system tray (notification area) for X Window System/X11 (Xorg or XFree86). It has full XEMBED support and minimal dependencies: an X11 lib only. Stalonetray works with virtually any EWMH-compliant window manager.
A container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.
Waydroid uses Linux namespaces (user, pid, uts, net, mount, ipc) to run a full Android system in a container and provide Android applications on any GNU/Linux-based platform.
Text-To-Speech, RAG, and LLMs. All local!
Dot is a standalone, open-source application designed for seamless interaction with documents and files using local LLMs and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). It is inspired by solutions like Nvidia's Chat with RTX, providing a user-friendly interface for those without a programming background. Using the Phi-3 LLM by default, Dot ensures accessibility and simplicity right out of the box.
Fast, Git Friendly API Client
Bruno is a new and innovative open source API client, aimed at revolutionizing the status quo represented by Postman, Insomnia and similar tools out there.
Bruno stores your collections directly in a folder on your filesystem. We use a plain text markup language, Bru, to save information about API requests.
Linux multi-touch gesture recognizer.
Touchégg is an app that runs in the background and transform the gestures you make on your touchpad or touchscreen into visible actions in your desktop.
Beautiful creative nature themed desktop wallpaper by the worlds best artists and designers.
Creative nature themed desktop wallpapers. At their best, desktop wallpapers bring animation to often lifeless computer screens, reflecting the personality of the user and acting as a calling card for creative talent. Designers and developers spend about 90% of their waking life in front of a computer so the most appealing genre for a wallpaper would be one that has beautiful design mixed with the all important aspect of being outdoors.
Duc is a collection of tools for inspecting and visualizing disk usage.
Bird’s-eye view for Kubernetes. Seabird is the native desktop app that simplifies working with Kubernetes. Native Kubernetes desktop client.
Seabird is a native cross-platform Kubernetes desktop client that makes it super easy to explore your cluster's resources. We aim to visualize all common resource types in a simple, bloat-free user interface.
Simple note taking with mobile-first design and a focus on Nextcloud Notes sync.
Infinite canvas drawing/whiteboarding app for Windows, Linux and macOS. Made with Godot.
Lorien is an infinite canvas drawing/note-taking app that is focused on performance, small savefiles and simplicity. It's primarily designed to be used as a digital notebook and as brainstorming tool. While it can totally be used to make small sketches and diagrams, it is not meant to replace traditional art programs that operate on bitmap images.
Betterlockscreen is a fast and sweet looking lock screen for GNU/Linux systems with effects.
Zen is the best way to browse the web.
Beautifully designed, privacy-focused, and packed with features. We care about your experience, not your data.
Gaphor is the simple modeling tool. Gaphor is a UML and SysML modeling application written in Python. It is designed to be easy to use, while still being powerful. Gaphor implements a fully-compliant UML 2 data model, so it is much more than a picture drawing tool. You can use Gaphor to quickly visualize different aspects of a system as well as create complete, highly complex models.
Take back control of your writing.
Meet the new way to take notes, tasks, and organize your thoughts.
download Bittorrents, Direct Downloads and Youtube videos. Mipony is a download manager specially designed to optimize and automate the downloads.
A lightweight free Spotify 🎧 crossplatform-client 🖥📱 which handles playback manually, streams music using Youtube & no Spotify premium account is needed 😱 Spotube is a Flutter based lightweight spotify client. It utilizes the power of Spotify & Youtube's public API & creates a hazardless, performant & resource friendly User Experience.
MariaDB, MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite made easy.
HeidiSQL is free software, and has the aim to be easy to learn. "Heidi" lets you see and edit data and structures from computers running one of the database systems MariaDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite. Invented in 2002 by Ansgar, HeidiSQL belongs to the most popular tools for MariaDB and MySQL worldwide.
💻 Send notifications to your desktop directly from your PHP script.
Run Windows applications (including Microsoft 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud) on GNU/Linux with KDE, GNOME or XFCE, integrated seamlessly as if they were native to the OS.
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easy to use, completely free.
Violet is a UML editor with these benefits: Very easy to learn and use. Draws nice-looking diagrams. Completely free. Cross-platform. Violet is intended for developers, students, teachers, and authors who need to produce simple UML diagrams quickly
Application for Mind Mapping, Knowledge Management, Project Management. Develop, organize and communicate your ideas and knowledge in the most effective way.
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.
A (work-in-progress) cross-platform libre handwritten notes app.
You can sync your notes across devices knowing that they are encrypted and stored securely, and not even the server can read them.
The most intuitive desktop API client
Organize and execute REST, GraphQL, and gRPC requests in a simple and intuitive app. Yaak is a desktop API client for organizing and executing REST, GraphQL, and gRPC requests. It's built using Tauri, Rust, and ReactJS.
Fast, light, simple Docker & Linux on macOS.
OrbStack is the fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux. Develop at lightspeed with our Docker Desktop alternative.
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A neat notification daemon.
Avizo is a notification daemon, mainly intended to add multimedia keys support to tiling window managers (Sway).
Baking Delicious Native Apps. NativePHP is a new way to build native applications, using the tools you already know. Create native desktop apps with PHP.
NativePHP is a new framework for rapidly building rich, native desktop applications using PHP.
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At its core, Heynote is a large, persistent text buffer divided into blocks. Creating a new block is as easy as pressing Ctrl-Enter, and pressing Ctrl-A within a block selects the content of just that block.
Heynote is a dedicated scratchpad for developers. It functions as a large persistent text buffer where you can write down anything you like. Works great for that Slack message you don't want to accidentally send, a JSON response from an API you're working with, notes from a meeting, your daily to-do list, etc.
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Home Assistant companion app for Linux.
Hybrid native + web app for Home Assistant. Butler wraps your Home Assistant dashboard up in a native UI, integrating better with your OS. Native features include:
A simple GTK based notification daemon for SwayWM.
SwayNotificationCenter is a simple notification daemon with a GTK GUI for
notifications and the control center.
It supports Desktops and Window Managers with wlr_layer_shell_unstable_v1
support like Sway or anything wlroots-based
polybar is a fast and intuitive to use tool for creating status bars. It aims to help users build beautiful and highly customizable status bars for their desktop environment, without the need of having a black belt in shell scripting.
Tiling compositor with the looks. Hyprland provides the latest Wayland features, dynamic tiling, all the eyecandy, powerful plugins and much more.
Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
xmobar is a minimalistic status bar. It's usable with any window manager in X11 and (via its text output mode) Wayland.
the best interactive whiteboard for schools and universities.
OpenBoard is an open source cross-platform interactive white board application designed primarily for use in schools. It was originally forked from Open-Sankoré, which was itself based on Uniboard.
Curlew is an easy to use, Free and Open-Source Multimedia converter for Linux.
Wavy is a toolset for running GUI applications on Kubernetes.
Wavy makes it possible to run containerized GUI desktop applications — think VS Code, or Libreoffice — on Kubernetes and makes them accessible via the browser or on a display connected to a node. This workflow allows users to run applications in the cloud and access them from any device without needing to install any software. Wavy works by patching Kubernetes workloads that are annotated with wavy.squat.ai/enable=true to include the necessary tools.
Buttercup is a beautifully-simple password manager designed to help manage your credentials. Buttercup uses very strong encryption to protect your sensitive details under a single master password - Feel free to use stronger and more complex passwords for each service and let Buttercup store them securely.
Emora is an OSINT tool like sherlock but with a GUI, which search for accounts by username across social networks.
Emora allows you to search for accounts by username across social networks. Inspired by tools like Sherlock, Emora provides a user-friendly graphical interface to ease the usage and navigation through the results.
Foundational software for designing beautiful user experiences. Use it on your favorite distro!
Impress users with the tools you build for them. COSMIC offers better performance, efficiency, and in-depth personalization to empower a wide variety of use cases.
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Fast and secure translation on your local machine, powered by marian and Bergamot.
Native desktop automation CLI for AI agents. Control any application through OS accessibility trees with structured JSON output and deterministic element refs.
agent-desktop is a native desktop automation CLI designed for AI agents, built with Rust. It gives structured access to any application through OS accessibility trees — no screenshots, no pixel matching, no browser required.
Free personal finance software, money management for everyone. Free, easy, personal accounting, for everyone.
HomeBank is a free software (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") that will assist you to manage your personal accounting.
Soothing pastel theme for the high-spirited! A community-driven color scheme meant for coding, designing, and much more!
Catppuccin is a community-driven pastel theme that aims to be the middle ground between low and high contrast themes. It consists of 4 soothing warm flavors with 26 eye-candy colors each, perfect for coding, designing, and much more!
darkman is a framework for dark-mode and light-mode transitions on UNIX desktops. It runs in the background and turns on dark mode at sundown, and turns it off again at sunrise. It's designed to run in the background.
Git Branching, Refined. The GitButler version control client, backed by Git, powered by Tauri/Rust/Svelte.
GitButler is a git client that lets you work on multiple branches at the same time. It allows you to quickly organize file changes into separate branches while still having them applied to your working directory. You can then push branches individually to your remote, or directly create pull requests.
Settle your people on fertile land, gather resources and construct your village, as the commander of a Bronze Age civilization in the Near East.
Inspired by the rise and fall of historical civilizations, you must manage the delicate balance between food production and the maintenance of your army, for a decrease in food sources can push even the mightiest of civilizations to collapse.
A simple, elegant desktop BSD Operating System.
GhostBSD provides a simple desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD with MATE and OS packages for simplicity. In addition, GhostBSD has a selection of commonly used software preinstalled to make it easy on your computing journey.
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Type so fast, your boss will think there's 3 of you!
BetterDictation is your personal scribe. You speak, and it will quickly and flawless transcribe into any app.
Turn any websites into desktop apps, explore thousands of exclusive apps for Mac and PC, organize apps with spaces, switch between multiple accounts, and work more productively with WebCatalog.
FireDM is a python open source (Internet Download Manager) with multi-connections, high speed engine, it downloads general files and videos from youtube and tons of other streaming websites .
Cables is a tool for creating beautiful interactive content.With an easy to navigate interface and real time visuals, it allows for rapid prototyping and fast adjustments.
You are provided with a set of operators, such as mathematical functions, shapes, materials and post processing effects. Connect these to each other with virtual cables to create the experience you have in mind. Easily export your piece of work at any time. Embed it into your website or use it for any kind of creative installation.
Open source RGB lighting control that doesn't depend on manufacturer software.
improved tiling wm.
i3 is a tiling window manager for X11. It primarily targets advanced users and developers.
Gromit-MPX is an on-screen annotation tool that works with any Unix desktop environment under X11 as well as Wayland.
Its main use is for making presentations of some application. Normally, you would have to move the mouse pointer around the point of interest until hopefully everybody noticed it. With Gromit-MPX, you can draw everywhere onto the screen, highlighting some button or area.
Official cross-platform Nmap Security Scanner GUI.
Zenmap is the official Nmap Security Scanner GUI. It is a multi-platform (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, BSD, etc.) free and open source application which aims to make Nmap easy for beginners to use while providing advanced features for experienced Nmap users. Frequently used scans can be saved as profiles to make them easy to run repeatedly. A command creator allows interactive creation of Nmap command lines. Scan results can be saved and viewed later. Saved scan results can be compared with one another to see how they differ. The results of recent scans are stored in a searchable database.
The Evolution of Spreadsheets. A modern, open source spreadsheet that goes beyond the grid.
Grist is a modern relational spreadsheet. It combines the flexibility of a spreadsheet with the robustness of a database. Grist is a hybrid database/spreadsheet.
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Auto-suspend inactive X11 applications. 👀 💻 💤 🔋 Save battery by auto-suspending unfocused X11 applications.
Modern GUI applications tend to use significant system resources, such as CPU time, even when they're not being actively used.
XSuspender configurably suspends application activity (using Unix signal SIGSTOP or a custom shell script) shortly after its window(s) loses focus. When the window regains focus, the application is transparently resumed exactly where it had left off.