The List Of Design Apps On Linux

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Internet

Network connection

Network managers

See Network configuration#Network managers.

VPN clients

Bitmask — Secured and encrypted communication using various service providers

https://bitmask.net/ || bitmask ^AUR

Libreswan — A free software implementation of the most widely supported and standarized VPN protocol based on ("IPsec") and the Internet Key Exchange ("IKE").

https://libreswan.org/ || libreswan ^AUR

NetworkManager — Supports a variety of protocols (e.g. MS, Cisco, Fortinet) via a plugin system.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager/VPN || networkmanager

OpenConnect — Supports Cisco and Juniper VPNs.

https://www.infradead.org/openconnect/ || openconnect

Openswan — IPsec-based VPN Solution.

https://www.openswan.org/ || openswan ^AUR

OpenVPN — To connect to OpenVPN VPNs.

https://openvpn.net/ || openvpn

PPTP Client — To connect to PPTP VPNs, like Microsoft VPNs (MPPE). (insecure)

http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ || pptpclient

strongSwan — IPsec-based VPN Solution.

https://www.strongswan.org/ || strongswan

tinc — tinc is a free VPN daemon.

https://www.tinc-vpn.org/ || tinc

vopono — OpenVPN and Wireguard wrapper to launch applications with VPN tunnels in network namespaces.

https://github.com/jamesmcm/vopono || vopono ^AUR

Vpnc — To connect to Cisco 3000 VPN Concentrators.

https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/ || vpnc

WireGuard — Next generation secure network tunnel.

https://www.wireguard.com/ || wireguard-tools

Proxy servers

Brook — Proxy focusing on strong encryption and being undetectable.

https://txthinking.github.io/brook/ || brook

Dante — SOCKS server and SOCKS client, implementing RFC 1928 and related standards.

https://www.inet.no/dante/ || dante

Privoxy — 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.

https://www.privoxy.org/ || privoxy

Project V — Project V is a set of tools to help you build your own privacy network over internet.

https://www.v2fly.org/en_US/ || v2ray

Shadowsocks — Secure socks5 proxy, designed to protect your Internet traffic.

https://www.shadowsocks.org/en/index.html || Python: shadowsocks, C: shadowsocks-libev, Qt: shadowsocks-qt5

Squid — Caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.

http://www.squid-cache.org/ || squid

Stunnel — A server and client to add and remove TLS encryption to TCP data flow.

https://www.stunnel.org/ || stunnel

Tinyproxy — Lightweight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon.

https://tinyproxy.github.io/ || tinyproxy

Trojan — An unidentifiable mechanism that helps you bypass GFW.

https://trojan-gfw.github.io/trojan/ || trojan

Varnish — High-performance HTTP accelerator.

https://varnish-cache.org/ || varnish

XX-Net — Easy to use web proxy tool.

https://github.com/XX-net/XX-Net/ || xx-net ^AUR

Ziproxy — Forwarding (non-caching) compressing HTTP proxy server.

http://ziproxy.sourceforge.net/ || ziproxy

Anonymizing networks

Freenet — An encrypted network without censorship.

https://freenetproject.org/ || freenet ^AUR

GNUnet — Framework for secure peer-to-peer networking.

https://gnunet.org/ || CLI: gnunet ^AUR, GUI: gnunet-gtk ^AUR

I2P — Distributed anonymous network.

https://geti2p.net/ || i2p ^AUR, i2p-bin ^AUR

Lantern — Peer-to-peer internet censorship circumvention software.

https://getlantern.org/ || lantern-bin ^AUR

Tor — Anonymizing overlay network.

https://www.torproject.org/ || tor

Web browsers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of web browsers.

Console

browsh — A fully-modern text-based browser. Runs as a frontend to headless Firefox.

https://www.brow.sh/ || browsh ^AUR

ELinks — Advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web browser with mouse wheel scroll support, frames and tables, extensible with Lua & Guile (links fork).

http://elinks.or.cz/ || elinks

Links — Graphics and text mode web browser. Includes a console version similar to Lynx.

http://links.twibright.com/ || links

Lynx — Text browser for the World Wide Web.

https://lynx.invisible-island.net/ || lynx

w3m — Pager/text-based web browser. It has vim-like keybindings, and is able to display images.

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/w3m || w3m

Graphical

Gecko-based

Firefox spin-offs

Cliqz — Firefox-based privacy aware web browser. Discontinued.

https://cliqz.com/ || cliqz ^AUR or cliqz-bin ^AUR

Dot — A fork of firefox focused on privacy and a sleeker UI.

https://www.dothq.co/ || dot-bin ^AUR

FireDragon — A fork of LibreWolf that includes KDE integration patches and custom branding.

https://gitlab.com/dr460nf1r3/settings/ || firedragon ^AUR

GNU IceCat — A customized build of Firefox ESR distributed by the GNU Project, stripped of non-free components and with additional privacy extensions. Release cycle may be delayed compared to Mozilla Firefox.

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ || icecat ^AUR or icecat-bin ^AUR

LibreWolf — A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.

https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/ || librewolf ^AUR or librewolf-bin ^AUR

Tor Browser Launcher — Securely and easily download, verify, install, and launch Tor Browser, a fork of Firefox ESR.

https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher || torbrowser-launcher

Waterfox Classic — Optimized fork of Firefox 56, without data collection and allowing unsigned extensions and NPAPI plugins.

https://www.waterfox.net/ || waterfox-classic-bin ^AUR

Waterfox Current — Optimized fork of Firefox ESR, updated feature-rich branch of Waterfox.

https://www.waterfox.net/ || waterfox-current-bin ^AUR

Waterfox G3 — Optimized fork of Firefox 78, updated feature-rich branch of Waterfox.

https://www.waterfox.net/ || waterfox-g3-bin ^AUR

Blink-based

Privacy-focused chromium spin-offs

Brave — Web browser with builtin ad- and tracker blocking.

https://www.brave.com/ || brave-bin ^AUR

Iridium — A privacy-focused patchset for Chromium. See differences from Chromium.

https://iridiumbrowser.de/ || iridium-rpm ^AUR

Ungoogled Chromium — Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration and enhancing privacy, control, and transparency

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium || ungoogled-chromium ^AUR

Proprietary chromium spin-offs

Google Chrome — Proprietary web browser developed by Google.

https://www.google.com/chrome/ || google-chrome ^AUR

Microsoft Edge (Preview) — Proprietary web browser developed by Microsoft.

https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/ || Beta: microsoft-edge-beta-bin ^AUR, Dev: microsoft-edge-dev-bin ^AUR

Opera — Proprietary browser developed by Opera Software.

https://opera.com || opera

Slimjet — Fast, smart and powerful proprietary browser based on Chromium.

https://www.slimjet.com/ || slimjet ^AUR

Vivaldi — An advanced proprietary browser made with the power user in mind.

https://vivaldi.com/ || vivaldi

Yandex Browser — Proprietary browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

https://browser.yandex.com/ || yandex-browser-beta ^AUR

Browsers based on qt5-webengine

Dooble — Colorful Web browser.

https://textbrowser.github.io/dooble/ || dooble ^AUR

Eric — QtWebEngine-based HTML browser, part of the eric6 development toolset, can be launched with the eric6_browser command.

https://eric-ide.python-projects.org/ || eric ^AUR

Falkon — Web browser based on QtWebEngine, written in Qt framework.

https://falkon.org/ || falkon

Konqueror — Web browser based on Qt toolkit and Qt WebEngine (or KHTML layout engine), part of kde-network.

https://apps.kde.org/konqueror/ || konqueror

Liri Browser — A minimalistic material design web browser written for Liri.

https://github.com/lirios/browser || liri-browser-git ^AUR

Qt WebBrowser — Browser for embedded devices developed using the capabilities of Qt and Qt WebEngine.

https://doc.qt.io/QtWebBrowser/ || qtwebbrowser ^AUR

qutebrowser — A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5 and QtWebEngine.

https://qutebrowser.org/ || qutebrowser

Browsers based on electron

Beaker — Peer-to-peer web browser with tools to create and host websites. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker || beaker-browser ^AUR

Ferdi — Electron application. Messaging browser that allows you to combine your favorite messaging services into one application. It is based on Franz.

https://getferdi.com/ || ferdi ^AUR

Franz — Electron application. Messaging browser for WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Telegram and many other web services.

https://meetfranz.com/ || franz ^AUR

Min — A smarter, faster web browser based on the Electron platform.

https://minbrowser.github.io/min/ || min

WebKit-based

Browsers based on webkit2gtk

Most of these support ad-blocking via wyebadblock.

Badwolf — A minimalist privacy-focused browser.

https://hacktivis.me/projects/badwolf || badwolf ^AUR

Ephemeral — A private-by-default, always-incognito browser for elementary OS.

https://github.com/cassidyjames/ephemeral || ephemeral ^AUR

Eolie — Simple web browser for GNOME.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Eolie || eolie

GNOME Web — Browser which uses the WebKitGTK rendering engine, part of gnome.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web/ || epiphany

Lariza — A simple, experimental web browser using GTK 3, GLib and WebKit2GTK.

https://www.uninformativ.de/git/lariza/ || lariza ^AUR

Luakit — Fast, small, webkit based browser framework extensible by Lua.

https://luakit.github.io/ || luakit

Midori — Lightweight web browser based on GTK and WebKit.

https://www.midori-browser.org/ || midori

Nyxt — Keyboard-oriented, infinitely extensible browser designed for power users. It has familiar key-bindings (Emacs, VI, CUA) and features fuzzy searching between tabs, multiple selections, history as a tree and more.

https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/ || nyxt ^AUR

surf — Lightweight WebKit-based browser, which follows the suckless philosophy (basically, the browser itself is a single C source file).

https://surf.suckless.org/ || surf ^AUR

Surfer — Simple keyboard based web browser, written in C. It supports custom JS-scripts.

https://github.com/nihilowy/surfer || surfer-git ^AUR

Tangram — Integration of web applications into the desktop, specifically GNOME.

https://github.com/sonnyp/Tangram || tangram ^AUR

Vimb — A Vim-like web browser written in C that is inspired by Pentadactyl and Vimprobable. It includes a manpage and a howto for common configurations. It supports custom JS-scripts, dark mode and handles geolocation requests.

https://fanglingsu.github.io/vimb/ || vimb

wyeb — A vim-like web browser inspired by dwb and luakit with Adblock.

https://github.com/jun7/wyeb || wyeb-git ^AUR

Browsers based on qt5-webkit

OSPKit — Webkit based html browser for printing.

http://osp.kitchen/tools/ospkit/ || ospkit-git ^AUR

Otter Browser — Browser aiming to recreate classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5.

https://otter-browser.org/ || otter-browser

qutebrowser — A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5 with QtWebKit as an available backend.

https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser || qutebrowser

smtube — Application that allows to browse, search and play YouTube videos.

https://www.smtube.org/ || smtube

WCGBrowser — A web browser for kiosk systems.

http://www.alandmoore.com/wcgbrowser/wcgbrowser.html || wcgbrowser-git ^AUR

Other

Basilisk — Another Goanna-based browser from the developers of Pale Moon. It features a Firefox 52-based UI, and is a perpetual beta. It lacks support for WebExtensions, but still supports XUL-based addons.

https://basilisk-browser.org/ || basilisk-bin ^AUR

Dillo — Small, fast graphical web browser built on FLTK. Uses its own layout engine.

https://www.dillo.org/ || dillo

Links — Graphics and text mode web browser. Includes a graphical X-window/framebuffer version with CSS, image rendering, pull-down menus. It can be launched with the xlinks -g command.

http://links.twibright.com/ || links

NetSurf — Featherweight browser written in C, notable for its slowly developing JavaScript support and fast rendering through its own layout engine.

https://www.netsurf-browser.org/ || netsurf

Pale Moon — A Firefox fork focussing on speed, with a pre-Firefox 29 interface. Uses Goanna layout engine, a fork of Gecko. Firefox add-ons may not be compatible. Without support for newer Firefox features such as WebExtensions, cache2, e10s, and OTMC. Many of the old 93,598 versions of 19,450 Firefox add-ons created by 14,274 developers over the past 15 years using XUL/XPCOM technology in the Classic Add-ons Archive still work.

https://www.palemoon.org/ || palemoon ^AUR or palemoon-bin ^AUR

Gemini browsers

See also Wikipedia:Gemini (protocol)#Software.

Amfora — Terminal browser for the Gemini protocol.

https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/amfora || amfora

Bombabillo — Non-web client for the terminal, supporting Gopher, Gemini and much more.

https://bombadillo.colorfield.space/ || bombadillo-git ^AUR

Castor — Graphical client for the Gemini, Gopher, and Finger protocols, written in Rust with GTK.

https://git.sr.ht/~julienxx/castor || castor ^AUR

Kristall — Qt-based Gemini browser.

https://github.com/MasterQ32/kristall || kristall ^AUR

Lagrange — Desktop GUI client for browsing Gemini space, offering modern conveniences familiar from web browsers.

https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange || lagrange ^AUR

Web servers

A web server serves HTML web pages and other files via HTTP to clients like web browsers. The major web servers can be interfaced with programs to serve dynamic content (web applications).

See also Category:Web server and Wikipedia:Comparison of web server software.

Apache HTTP Server — A high performance Unix-based HTTP server.

https://httpd.apache.org/ || apache

Caddy — HTTP/2 web server with automatic HTTPS.

https://caddyserver.com/ || caddy

Hiawatha — Secure and advanced web server.

https://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/ || hiawatha

Lighttpd — A secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server.

https://www.lighttpd.net/ || lighttpd

nginx — Lightweight HTTP server and IMAP/POP3 proxy server.

https://nginx.org/ || nginx

sthttpd — Supported fork of the thttpd web server.

https://github.com/blueness/sthttpd || sthttpd

yaws — Web server/framework written in Erlang.

http://yaws.hyber.org/ || yaws

Static web servers

darkhttpd — A small and secure static web server, written in C, does not support HTTPS or Auth.

https://unix4lyfe.org/darkhttpd/ || darkhttpd

KatWeb — A lightweight static web server and reverse proxy, written in Go, designed for the modern web.

https://github.com/kittyhacker101/KatWeb || katweb ^AUR

quark — An extremly small and simple http get-only web server. It only serves static pages on a single host.

https://tools.suckless.org/quark/ || quark-git ^AUR

serve — Static file serving and directory listing.

https://github.com/zeit/serve || nodejs-serve ^AUR

servy — A tiny little web server, single binary, written in Rust.

https://github.com/zethra/servy || servy ^AUR

Webfs — Simple and instant web server for mostly static content.

https://linux.bytesex.org/misc/webfs.html || webfs

The Python standard library module http.server can also be used from the command-line.

Specialized web servers

chezdav — WebDAV server that allows to share a particular directory.

https://wiki.gnome.org/phodav || phodav

Mongoose — Embedded web server library, supports WebSocket and MQTT.

https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose || mongoose ^AUR

OnionShare — Lets you securely and anonymously send and receive files. It works by starting a web server, making it accessible as a Tor onion service, and generating an unguessable web address so others can download files from you, or upload files to you.

https://onionshare.org/ || onionshare

VServer — GTK application, which opens an http server in the selected folder and shares your files.

https://github.com/bcedu/ValaSimpleHTTPServer || vserver-git ^AUR

webhook — Small server for creating HTTP endpoints (hooks)

https://github.com/adnanh/webhook || webhook

Woof — An ad-hoc single file webserver; Web Offer One File.

http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/woof.html || woof ^AUR

WSGI servers

Gunicorn — A Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX.

https://gunicorn.org/ || gunicorn, python2-gunicorn ^AUR

uWSGI — A fast, self-healing and developer/sysadmin-friendly application container server written in C.

https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/ || uwsgi

Waitress — A WSGI server for Python 3.

https://github.com/Pylons/waitress || python-waitress

Apache also supports WSGI with mod_wsgi.

Performance testing

http_load — A webserver performance testing tool, runs in a single process.

https://www.acme.com/software/http_load/ || http_load ^AUR

httperf — Can generate various HTTP workloads, written in C.

https://github.com/httperf/httperf || httperf ^AUR

siege — An HTTP regression testing and benchmarking utility.

https://www.joedog.org/siege-home/ || siege

vegeta — HTTP load testing tool, written in Go.

https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta || vegeta

Web Bench — Benchmarking tool, uses fork() for simulating multiple clients.

http://home.tiscali.cz/~cz210552/webbench.html || webbench ^AUR

File sharing

Download managers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of download managers.

Console

aria2 — Lightweight download utility that supports HTTP/S, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. It can run as a daemon controlled via a built-in JSON-RPC or XML-RPC interface.

https://aria2.github.io/ || aria2

Axel — Featherweight command line download accelerator sitting at under 250kB on disk. Supports HTTP/S and FTP.

https://github.com/eribertomota/axel || axel

cURL — An URL retrieval utility and library. Supports HTTP, FTP and SFTP.

https://curl.haxx.se/ || curl

HTTPie — Human-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era.

https://github.com/httpie/httpie || httpie

HTTrack — An easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer.

https://www.httrack.com/ || httrack

LFTP — Sophisticated file transfer program. Supports HTTP, FTP, SFTP, FISH, and BitTorrent.

https://lftp.yar.ru/ || lftp

mps-youtube — Terminal based YouTube jukebox with playlist management. Plays audio/video through mplayer/mpv.

https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube || mps-youtube

Plowshare — A set of command-line tools designed for managing file-sharing websites (aka Hosters).

https://github.com/mcrapet/plowshare || plowshare

RTMPDump — Download FLV videos through RTMP (Adobe's proprietary protocol for Flash video players)

http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/ || rtmpdump

snarf — Command-line URL retrieval tool. Supports HTTP and FTP.

https://www.xach.com/snarf/ || snarf

Streamlink — Launch streams from various streaming services in a custom video player or save them to a file.

https://streamlink.github.io/ || streamlink

Streamripper — Records and splits streaming mp3 into tracks.

http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/ || streamripper ^AUR

You-Get — Download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the Web.

https://you-get.org/ || you-get

youtube-dl — Download videos from YouTube and many other web sites.

https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ || youtube-dl

youtube-viewer — Command line utility for viewing YouTube videos.

https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer || youtube-viewer ^AUR

yt-dlp — A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp || yt-dlp

Wget — A network utility to retrieve files from the Web. Supports HTTP and FTP.

https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/ || wget

Graphical

ClipGrab — Downloader and converter for YouTube, Vimeo and many other online video sites.

https://clipgrab.org/ || clipgrab

FatRat — Qt based download manager with support for HTTP, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

https://github.com/LubosD/fatrat || fatrat-git ^AUR

Forklift — Simple GUI for youtube-dl using PyGObject.

https://github.com/Johnn3y/Forklift || forklift-git ^AUR

FreeRapid — Java-based downloader that supports downloading from file-sharing services.

https://wordrider.net/freerapid/ || freerapid ^AUR

gtk-youtube-viewer — GTK utility for viewing YouTube videos.

https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer || youtube-viewer ^AUR + perl-gtk3 + perl-file-sharedir

Gwget — Download manager for GNOME. Supports HTTP and FTP.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gwget || gwget

Gydl — GUI wrapper around the already existing youtube-dl program to download content from sites like YouTube.

https://github.com/JannikHv/gydl || gydl-git ^AUR

Gyre — GTK3 downloader for videos from Coub.

https://github.com/HelpSeeker/Gyre || gyre ^AUR

JDownloader — Java-based downloader for one-click hosting sites.

https://jdownloader.org/ || jdownloader2 ^AUR

KGet — Download manager for KDE. Supports HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. Part of kde-network.

https://apps.kde.org/kget/ || kget

MegaBasterd — Yet another unofficial MEGA downloader/uploader/streaming suite.

https://github.com/tonikelope/megabasterd || megabasterd-bin ^AUR

Motrix — Full-featured download manager that supports downloading HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Magnet, etc. Based on the Electron platform.

https://motrix.app/ || motrix ^AUR

Persepolis — Graphical front-end for aria2 download manager with lots of features. Supports HTTP and FTP.

https://persepolisdm.github.io/ || persepolis

pyLoad — Downloader written in Python and designed to be extremely lightweight, easily extensible and fully manageable via web.

https://pyload.net/ || pyload-git ^AUR ^{[broken link: package not found]}

Steadyflow — Simple download manager for GNOME. Supports HTTP and FTP.

https://launchpad.net/steadyflow || steadyflow

Streamtuner2 — Internet radio station and video browser. It simply lists stations in categories from different directories and launches your preferred media apps for playback.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/streamtuner2/ || streamtuner2 ^AUR

uGet — GTK download manager featuring download classification and HTML import. Supports HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Metalink, YouTube and Mega.

https://ugetdm.com/ || uget

Video Downloader — GTK application to download videos from websites like YouTube and many others (based on youtube-dl).

https://github.com/Unrud/video-downloader || video-downloader ^AUR

Xtreme Download Manager — Powerful tool to increase download speed up-to 500%. Supports HTTP and FTP. Video grabber works in a general way and is not limited to certain websites.

https://subhra74.github.io/xdm/ || xdman ^AUR

youtubedl-gui — Simple-to-use graphical interface for youtube-dl.

https://github.com/JaGoLi/ytdl-gui || youtubedl-gui ^AUR

LAN file transfer

Cloud storage servers

Cozy — A personal cloud you can hack, host and delete.

https://cozy.io/ || cozy-stack

Nextcloud — A cloud server to store your files centrally on a hardware controlled by you.

https://nextcloud.com || nextcloud

Pydio — Mature open source web application for file sharing and synchronization.

https://pydio.com/ || pydio ^AUR

Seafile — An online file storage and collaboration tool with advanced support for file syncing, privacy protection and teamwork.

https://www.seafile.com/ || seafile-server ^AUR

Cloud synchronization clients

Multi-protocol clients

CloudCross — Synchronize local files and folders with many cloud providers. Mail.ru Cloud, Yandex Disk, Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox support is available.

https://cloudcross.mastersoft24.ru/ || cloudcross ^AUR

Rclone — Multi-provider sync, copy, and mount client.

https://rclone.org/ || rclone

Rclone Browser — GUI client for Rclone.

https://github.com/kapitainsky/RcloneBrowser || rclone-browser ^AUR

Google Drive clients

drive — Tiny program to pull or push Google Drive files.

https://github.com/odeke-em/drive || drive-bin ^AUR, drive-git ^AUR

DriveSync — Command line utility that synchronizes your Google Drive files with a local folder on your machine.

https://github.com/MStadlmeier/drivesync || drivesync ^AUR

gdrive — Command line utility for interacting with Google Drive.

https://github.com/prasmussen/gdrive || gdrive ^AUR

Grive — Google Drive client with support for new Drive REST API and partial sync.

https://github.com/vitalif/grive2 || grive ^AUR

Insync — Unofficial proprietary Google Drive desktop client.

https://www.insynchq.com/ || insync ^AUR

ODrive — Google Drive GUI based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/liberodark/ODrive || odrive-bin ^AUR

VGrive — GTK-based GUI client (back-end and front-end) for Google Drive made in Vala.

https://github.com/bcedu/VGrive || vgrive ^AUR

Other synchronization clients

aws-cli — CLI for Amazon Web Services, including efficient file transfers to and from Amazon S3.

https://aws.amazon.com/cli/ || aws-cli

Backblaze B2 — Backblaze B2 open-source command-line client.

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html || backblaze-b2 ^AUR

Baidu Netdisk — Proprietary client for cloud storage service launched by Baidu (formerly Baidu Cloud).

https://pan.baidu.com || baidunetdisk-bin ^AUR

Cozy Drive — Desktop client for Cozy.

https://cozy-labs.github.io/cozy-desktop/ || cozy-desktop

Dropbox — Proprietary desktop client for Dropbox.

https://www.dropbox.com/ || dropbox ^AUR

hubiC — Proprietary synchronization client service and command line tools for hubiC.

https://hubic.com/en/downloads || hubic ^AUR

Mega Sync Client — Proprietary desktop client to sync files with Mega.

https://mega.nz/ || megasync ^AUR

Megatools — Unofficial CLI for Mega.

https://megatools.megous.com/ || megatools ^AUR

Nextcloud Client — Desktop client for Nextcloud.

https://nextcloud.com/ || nextcloud-client

Nutstore — Proprietary desktop client for Nutstore.

https://www.jianguoyun.com/ || nutstore ^AUR

OneDrive — Unofficial CLI for OneDrive.

https://github.com/skilion/onedrive || onedrive ^AUR

ownCloud Desktop Client — Desktop syncing client for ownCloud.

https://owncloud.com/client/ || owncloud-client

pCloud Drive — Proprietary desktop syncing client for pCloud. Based on the Electron platform.

https://www.pcloud.com/download-free-online-cloud-file-storage.html || pcloud-drive ^AUR

PydioSync — Desktop client for Pydio.

https://pydio.com/ || pydio-sync ^AUR

S3cmd — Unofficial CLI for Amazon S3.

https://s3tools.org/s3cmd || s3cmd

Seafile Client — GUI client for Seafile.

https://www.seafile.com/ || seafile-client ^AUR

SpiderOak One — Proprietary client for SpiderOak One.

https://spideroak.com/ || spideroak-one ^AUR

Synology Drive — Proprietary GUI client to sync and share files between a centralized Synology NAS and multiple client computers.

https://www.synology.com/ || synology-drive ^AUR

Tresorit — Proprietary desktop syncing client for Tresorit.

https://tresorit.com/download || tresorit ^AUR

Yandex Disk — Proprietary CLI for Yandex Disk.

https://disk.yandex.ru/ || yandex-disk ^AUR

FTP

FTP clients

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of FTP client software.

FileZilla — Fast and reliable FTP, FTPS and SFTP client.

https://filezilla-project.org/ || filezilla

gFTP — Multithreaded FTP client for Linux.

https://www.gftp.org/ || gftp

ftp — Simple ftp client provided by GNU Inetutils

https://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/manual/inetutils.html#ftp-invocation || inetutils

ncftp — A set of free application programs implementing FTP.

https://www.ncftp.com/ || ncftp

tnftp — FTP client with several advanced features for NetBSD.

http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/tnftp || tnftp

Some file managers like Dolphin, GNOME Files and Thunar also provide FTP functionality.

FTP servers

See also Wikipedia:List of FTP server software.

bftpd — Small, easy-to-configure FTP server

http://bftpd.sourceforge.net/ || bftpd

ftpd — Simple ftp server provided by GNU Inetutils

https://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/manual/inetutils.html#ftpd-invocation || inetutils

proFTPd — A secure and configurable FTP server

http://www.proftpd.org/ || proftpd ^AUR

Pure-FTPd — Free (BSD-licensed), secure, production-quality and standard-compliant FTP server.

https://www.pureftpd.org/project/pure-ftpd/ || pure-ftpd ^AUR

SSH — SFTP is a network protocol that provides file access, file transfer, and file management over any reliable data stream.

https://www.openssh.com || openssh

vsftpd — Lightweight, stable and secure FTP server for UNIX-like systems.

https://security.appspot.com/vsftpd.html || vsftpd

BitTorrent clients

Some download managers are also able to connect to the BitTorrent network: Aria2, LFTP, FatRat, KGet, MLDonkey, uGet.

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of BitTorrent clients.

Console

Ctorrent — CTorrent is a BitTorrent client implemented in C++ to be lightweight and quick.

https://www.rahul.net/dholmes/ctorrent/ || enhanced-ctorrent ^AUR

Deluge — BitTorrent client with multiple user interfaces in a client/server model. This package includes a console client.

https://deluge-torrent.org/ || deluge

peerflix — Streaming torrent client for node.js.

https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix || peerflix ^AUR

rTorrent — Simple and lightweight ncurses BitTorrent client. Requires libtorrent backend.

https://rakshasa.github.io/rtorrent/ || rtorrent

Transmission CLI — Simple and easy-to-use BitTorrent client with a daemon version and multiple front-ends. This package includes backend, daemon, command-line interface, and a Web UI interface.

https://transmissionbt.com/ || transmission-cli

Graphical

Deluge (GTK interface) — User-friendly BitTorrent client written in Python using GTK.

https://deluge-torrent.org/ || deluge-gtk

Fragments — Easy to use BitTorrent client for the GNOME desktop environment.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Fragments || fragments

FrostWire — Easy to use cloud downloader, BitTorrent client and media player.

https://www.frostwire.com/ || frostwire ^AUR

Ktorrent — Feature-rich BitTorrent client for KDE.

https://apps.kde.org/ktorrent/ || ktorrent

Powder Player — Hybrid between a streaming BitTorrent client and a player. Based on the Electron platform.

https://powder.media/ || powder-player-bin ^AUR

qBittorrent — Open source (GPLv2) BitTorrent client with an integrated torrent search engine that strongly resembles µtorrent.

https://www.qbittorrent.org/ || qbittorrent

Tixati — Proprietary peer-to-peer file sharing program that uses the popular BitTorrent protocol.

https://tixati.com/ || tixati ^AUR

Torrential — Simple torrent client for elementary OS.

https://github.com/davidmhewitt/torrential || torrential

Transmission — Simple and easy-to-use BitTorrent client with a daemon version and multiple front-ends.

https://transmissionbt.com/ || GTK: transmission-gtk, Qt: transmission-qt

Transmission Remote — GTK client for remote management of the Transmission BitTorrent client, using its HTTP RPC protocol.

https://github.com/transmission-remote-gtk/transmission-remote-gtk || transmission-remote-gtk

Tremotesf — Qt client for remote management of the Transmission BitTorrent client, using its HTTP RPC protocol.

https://github.com/equeim/tremotesf2 || tremotesf ^AUR

Tribler — 4th generation file sharing system BitTorrent client.

https://www.tribler.org || tribler ^AUR

Vuze — Feature-rich BitTorrent client written in Java (formerly Azureus).

https://www.vuze.com/ || vuze ^AUR

WebTorrent Desktop — Streaming BitTorrent application. Based on the Electron platform.

https://webtorrent.io/desktop/ || webtorrent-desktop ^AUR

Other P2P networks

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of file-sharing applications.

aMule — Well-known eDonkey/Kad client with a daemon version and GTK, web, and CLI front-ends.

https://www.amule.org/ || amule

EiskaltDC++ — Direct Connect and ADC client.

https://github.com/eiskaltdcpp/eiskaltdcpp || GTK: eiskaltdcpp-gtk ^AUR, Qt: eiskaltdcpp-qt ^AUR

gtk-gnutella — GTK server/client for the Gnutella peer-to-peer network.

http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/ || gtk-gnutella ^AUR

KaMule — KDE graphical front-end for aMule.

https://www.linux-apps.com/content/show.php?content=150270 || kamule ^AUR

LBRY — Browser and wallet for LBRY, the decentralized, user-controlled content marketplace. Based on the Electron platform.

https://lbry.io/ || lbry-app-bin ^AUR

lbt — Small set of command-line tools for LBRY.

https://gitlab.com/gardenappl/lbt || lbt ^AUR

MLDonkey — Multi-protocol P2P client that supports HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Direct Connect, eDonkey and FastTrack.

http://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/ || mldonkey ^AUR

ncdc — Modern and lightweight Direct Connect and ADC client with a friendly ncurses interface.

https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdc || ncdc ^AUR

Nicotine+ — A graphical client for the Soulseek P2P network.

https://github.com/Nicotine-Plus/nicotine-plus || nicotine+

Send Anywhere — Proprietary file sharing service where users can directly share digital content in real time. Based on the Electron platform.

https://send-anywhere.com/ || sendanywhere ^AUR

Valknut — Direct Connect client (like DC++) with segmented downloading.

http://wxdcgui.sourceforge.net/ || valknut ^AUR

Pastebin services

Without a dedicated client

Some services can be used with more general command line tool, such as CURL. For extensions, such as line numbers, one can use more command line tools. Such as cat -n.

ix.io. Usage examples are:

              command              |& curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io

or upload a file:

curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io <              file

sprunge.us has a similar service, and also offers a plain HTML form.
termbin.com works with nc.

Dedicated clients

Elmer — Pastebin client similar to wgetpaste and curlpaste, except written in Perl and usable with wget or curl. Servers: codepad.org, rafb.me, sprunge.us.

https://github.com/sudokode/elmer || elmer ^AUR

Fb-client — Client for the paste.xinu.at pastebin.

https://paste.xinu.at || fb-client

Gist — Command-line interface for the gist.github.com pastebin service.

https://github.com/defunkt/gist || gist

imgur — A CLI client which can upload image to imgur.com image sharing service.

https://github.com/tremby/imgur.sh || imgur.sh ^AUR

Ix — Client for the ix.io pastebin.

http://ix.io || ix ^AUR

Pastebinit — Really small Python script that acts as a Pastebin client. Servers: pastie.org, paste.kde.org, paste.debian.net, paste.ubuntu.com and others (for a full list see pastebinit -l).

https://launchpad.net/pastebinit || pastebinit

ruby-haste — Client for hastebin.com.

https://github.com/seejohnrun/haste-client || ruby-haste ^AUR

Uppity — The pastebin client with an attitude.

https://github.com/Kiwi/Uppity || uppity-git ^AUR

Wgetpaste — Bash script that automates pasting to a number of pastebin services. Servers: pastebin.ca, codepad.org, dpaste.com and pastebin.osuosl.org.

http://wgetpaste.zlin.dk/ || wgetpaste

Communication

Email clients

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of email clients

Console

aerc — Work in progress asynchronous email client.

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc || aerc

alot — An experimental terminal MUA based on notmuch mail. It is written in python using the urwid toolkit.

https://github.com/pazz/alot || alot

Alpine — Fast, easy-to-use and Apache-licensed email client based on Pine.

https://alpine.x10host.com/ || alpine-git ^AUR

S-nail — a mail processing system with a command syntax reminiscent of ed with lines replaced by messages. Provides the functionality of mailx.

https://www.sdaoden.eu/code.html#s-mailx || s-nail

mu/mu4e — Email indexer (mu) and client for emacs (mu4e). Xapian based for fast searches.

https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html || mu ^AUR

Mutt — Small but very powerful text-based mail client.

http://www.mutt.org/ || mutt

NeoMutt — Command line mail reader (or MUA). It's a fork of Mutt with added features.

https://neomutt.org/ || neomutt

nmh — A modular mail handling system.

https://www.nongnu.org/nmh/ || nmh ^AUR

notmuch — A fast mail indexer built on top of xapian.

https://notmuchmail.org/ || notmuch

sendemail — A lightweight command line SMTP email client written in Perl.

http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/ || sendemail ^AUR

Sup — CLI mail client with very fast searching, tagging, threading and GMail like operation.

https://sup-heliotrope.github.io/ || sup ^AUR

swaks — Swiss Army Knife SMTP; Command line SMTP testing, including TLS and AUTH, can be used to send emails.

https://jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/ || swaks

Wanderlust — Email client and news reader for Emacs.

http://www.gohome.org/wl/ || wanderlust

Graphical

Balsa — Simple and light email client for GNOME.

https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ || balsa

Claws Mail — Lightweight GTK-based email client and news reader.

https://www.claws-mail.org/ || claws-mail

ElectronMail — Unofficial desktop app for several end-to-end encrypted email providers (like ProtonMail, Tutanota). Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/vladimiry/ElectronMail || electronmail-bin ^AUR

Evolution — Mature and feature-rich e-mail client that is part of the GNOME project. Part of gnome-extra.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution || evolution

Geary — Simple desktop mail client built in Vala.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary || geary

Kmail — Mature and feature-rich email client. Part of kdepim.

https://kontact.kde.org/components/kmail.html || kmail

Kube — Modern communication and collaboration client built with QtQuick.

https://kube-project.com/ || kube

Mailspring — Fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original authors. The paid "Pro" version requires a Mailspring ID and has extra features like snooze, send later. Based on the Electron platform.

https://getmailspring.com/ || mailspring ^AUR

openWMail — The missing desktop client for Gmail & Google Inbox. Based on the Electron platform.

https://openwmail.github.io/ || openwmail ^AUR

SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups — Email client included in the SeaMonkey suite.

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ || seamonkey

Sylpheed — Lightweight and user-friendly GTK email client.

https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ || sylpheed

Thunderbird — Feature-rich email client from Mozilla written in GTK.

https://www.thunderbird.net/ || thunderbird

Trojitá — Qt IMAP email client. Only supports one IMAP account.

http://trojita.flaska.net/ || trojita

Tutanota — Email client for Tutanota mail service. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/tutao/tutanota || tutanota-desktop ^AUR

Viagee — It allows desktop mail actions, such as 'Send File as Email' or web 'mailto' links, to be handled by the Gmail web client.

https://davesteele.github.io/viagee/ || viagee ^AUR

Web-based

Mailpile — A modern, fast web-mail client with user-friendly encryption and privacy features.

https://www.mailpile.is/ || mailpile ^AUR

Nextcloud Mail — An email webapp for NextCloud.

https://github.com/nextcloud/mail || nextcloud-app-mail

Roundcubemail — Browser-based multilingual IMAP client webapp with a native application-like user interface.

https://roundcube.net/ || roundcubemail

SquirrelMail — Webmail for Nuts!

https://squirrelmail.org/ || squirrelmail ^AUR

Mail notifiers

Ayatana Webmail — Webmail notifications and actions for any desktop.

https://tari.in/www/software/ayatana-webmail/ || ayatana-webmail ^AUR

Bubblemail — New and Unread mail notification service for local mailboxes, pop, imap, and gnome online accounts. A fork of Mailnag.

http://bubblemail.free.fr/ || bubblemail ^AUR

CheckMails — System tray unread mail checker using IMAP protocol.

https://github.com/j4321/CheckMails || checkmails ^AUR

Gnubiff — Mail notification program that checks for mail and displays headers when new mail has arrived.

http://gnubiff.sourceforge.net/ || gnubiff

Mailnag — Extensible mail notification daemon.

https://github.com/pulb/mailnag || mailnag

QGmailNotifier — Portable Qt5 based GMail notifier.

https://github.com/eteran/qgmailnotifier || qgmailnotifier ^AUR

Mail servers

See Mail server.

DavMail — POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP exchange gateway allowing users to use any mail/calendar client with an Exchange server.

http://davmail.sourceforge.net/ || davmail ^AUR

Modoboa — A modular mail hosting and management platform, written in Python.

https://modoboa.org/ || modoboa ^AUR

Mail retrieval agents

See also Wikipedia:Mail retrieval agent.

fdm — Program to fetch and deliver mail.

https://github.com/nicm/fdm || fdm

Fetchmail — A remote-mail retrieval utility.

https://www.fetchmail.info/ || fetchmail

getmail — A POP3/IMAP4 mail retriever with reliable Maildir and command delivery.

http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/ || getmail ^AUR

hydroxide — A third-party, open-source ProtonMail CardDAV, IMAP and SMTP bridge

https://github.com/emersion/hydroxide || hydroxide ^AUR

imapsync — IMAP synchronisation, sync, copy or migration tool

https://imapsync.lamiral.info/ || imapsync

isync — IMAP and MailDir mailbox synchronizer

http://isync.sourceforge.net/ || isync

mpop — A small, fast POP3 client suitable as a fetchmail replacement

https://marlam.de/mpop/ || mpop

OfflineIMAP — Synchronizes emails between two repositories.

https://www.offlineimap.org/ || offlineimap

Instant messaging clients

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of instant messaging clients and Wikipedia:Comparison of VoIP software.

This section lists all client software with instant messaging support.

Multi-protocol clients

Note: All messengers, that support several networks by means of direct connections to them, belong to this section.

The number of networks supported by these clients is very large but they (like any multi-protocol clients) usually have very limited or no support for network-specific features.

Console

BarnOwl — Ncurses-based chat client with support for the Zephyr, XMPP, IRC and Twitter protocols.

https://barnowl.mit.edu/ || barnowl ^AUR

BitlBee — IRC gateway to popular chat networks (XMPP, ICQ and Twitter).

https://bitlbee.org/ || bitlbee ^AUR

CenterIM — Text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface. Supports most of widely used IM protocols, including ICQ, IRC, XMPP.

http://centerim.org/ || centerim ^AUR

EKG2 — Ncurses based XMPP, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ and IRC client.

https://github.com/ekg2/ekg2 || ekg2 ^AUR

Finch — Ncurses-based chat client that uses libpurple and supports all its protocols (Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, SIMPLE, XMPP, Zephyr).

https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Finch || finch

WeeChat — Modular, lightweight ncurses-based IRC client. A variety of other protocols are supported through plugins.

https://weechat.org/ || weechat

Graphical

Jitsi — Audio/video VoIP phone and instant messenger written in Java that supports protocols such as SIP, XMPP, ICQ, IRC and many other useful features.

https://jitsi.org/ || jitsi ^AUR

Kopete — User-friendly IM supporting Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise, ICQ, XMPP.

https://apps.kde.org/kopete/ || kopete

KDE Telepathy — KDE instant messaging client using the Telepathy framework. Meant as a replacement for Kopete.

https://userbase.kde.org/Telepathy || telepathy-kde-meta

Lith — WeeChat Relay client, allowing to connect to a running WeeChat instance from anywhere.

https://lith.app/ || lith-git ^AUR

Pidgin — Multi-protocol instant messaging client with audio support that uses libpurple and supports all its protocols (Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, SIMPLE, XMPP, Zephyr).

https://pidgin.im/ || pidgin

qutIM — Simple and user-friendly IM supporting ICQ, XMPP, Mail.Ru, IRC and VKontakte messaging.

https://qutim.org/ || qutim ^AUR

Smuxi — Cross-platform IRC client that also supports Twitter and XMPP.

https://smuxi.im/ || smuxi ^AUR

Thunderbird — Feature-rich email client supports instant messaging and chat using IRC and XMPP.

https://www.thunderbird.net/ || thunderbird

Volt — Proprietary native desktop client for Skype, Telegram, Slack, XMPP, Discord, IRC and more.

https://volt-app.com/ || volt ^AUR

IRC clients

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients.

Console

BitchX — Console-based IRC client developed from the popular ircII.

http://www.bitchx.org/ || bitchx-git ^AUR

ERC — Powerful, modular and extensible IRC client for Emacs.

https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/erc/ || included with emacs

ii — Featherweight IRC client, literally tail -f the conversation and echo back your replies to a file.

https://tools.suckless.org/ii/ || ii ^AUR

ircii — Oldest maintained IRC client which lays claim to being small and fast owing to its reduced feature set.

http://www.eterna.com.au/ircii/ || ircii ^AUR

Irssi — Highly-configurable ncurses-based IRC client.

https://irssi.org/ || irssi

pork — Programmable, ncurses-based IRC client that mostly looks and feels like ircII.

http://dev.ojnk.net/ || pork

ScrollZ — Advanced IRC client based on ircII.

https://www.scrollz.info/ || scrollz ^AUR

sic — Extremely simple IRC client, similar to ii.

https://tools.suckless.org/sic/ || sic ^AUR

tiny — an IRC client written in Rust with a clutter-free interface

https://github.com/osa1/tiny || tiny-irc-client-git ^AUR

Comparison

Name	Package	Written in	Extensible	SASL
BitchX	bitchx-git ^AUR	C	?	?
ERC	emacs	ELisp	in ELisp	via script
ii	ii ^AUR	C	stdin/stdout	No
Irssi	irssi	C	in Perl	Yes
pork	pork	C	in Perl	No
ScrollZ	scrollz ^AUR	C	?	No
sic	sic ^AUR	C	stdin/stdout	No
tiny	tiny-irc-client-git ^AUR	Rust	No	Yes
WeeChat	weechat	C	multiple languages	Yes

Graphical

ChatZilla — Clean, easy to use and highly extensible Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client, built on the Mozilla platform using XULRunner. Included in the SeaMonkey suite.

http://chatzilla.hacksrus.com/ || seamonkey

HexChat — Fork of XChat for Linux and Windows.

https://hexchat.github.io/ || hexchat

Konversation — Qt-based IRC client for the KDE desktop.

https://konversation.kde.org/ || konversation

KVIrc — Qt-based IRC client featuring extensive themes support.

http://kvirc.net/ || kvirc

Loqui — GTK IRC client.

https://loqui.sunnyone.org/ || loqui ^AUR

LostIRC — Simple GTK IRC client with tab-autocompletion, multiple server support, logging and others.

http://lostirc.sourceforge.net || lostirc ^AUR

Polari — Simple IRC client by the GNOME project.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Polari || polari

Quassel — Modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client.

https://quassel-irc.org/ || KDE: quassel-monolithic, Qt: quassel-monolithic-qt

Srain — Modern, beautiful IRC client written in GTK 3.

https://srain.im/ || srain ^AUR

XMPP clients

See also Wikipedia:XMPP and Wikipedia:Comparison of instant messaging clients#XMPP-related features.

Console

Freetalk — Console-based XMPP client.

https://www.gnu.org/software/freetalk/ || freetalk ^AUR

jabber.el — Minimal XMPP client for Emacs.

http://emacs-jabber.sourceforge.net/ || emacs-jabber ^AUR

jp (Salut à Toi) — CLI frontend for Salut à Toi, multi-purpose XMPP client

https://salut-a-toi.org/ || sat-jp ^AUR

MCabber — Small XMPP console client, includes features: SSL, PGP, MUC, OTR and UTF8.

https://mcabber.com/ || mcabber

Poezio — XMPP client with IRC feeling

https://poez.io/ || poezio ^AUR

Primitivus (Salut à Toi) — Console frontend for Salut à Toi, multi-purpose XMPP client

https://salut-a-toi.org/ || sat-primitivus ^AUR

Profanity — A console based XMPP client inspired by Irssi.

https://profanity-im.github.io/ || profanity

xmpp-client — A minimalist XMPP client with OTR support.

https://github.com/agl/xmpp-client || go-xmpp-client ^AUR ^{[broken link: package not found]}

Graphical

Cagou (Salut à Toi) — Desktop/mobiles frontend for Salut à Toi, multi-purpose XMPP client

https://salut-a-toi.org/ || sat-cagou-hg ^AUR

Converse.js — Web-based XMPP chat client written in JavaScript.

https://conversejs.org/ || conversejs-git ^AUR

Dino — A modern, easy to use XMPP client, with PGP and OMEMO support.

https://dino.im/ || dino

Gajim — XMPP client with audio support written in Python using GTK.

https://gajim.org/ || gajim

Kaidan — A simple, user-friendly Jabber/XMPP client providing a modern user interface using Kirigami and QtQuick.

https://www.kaidan.im/ || kaidan ^AUR

Kadu — Qt-based XMPP and Gadu-Gadu client.

http://www.kadu.im/ || kadu ^AUR

Libervia (Salut à Toi) — Web frontend for Salut à Toi, multi-purpose XMPP client

https://salut-a-toi.org/ || sat-libervia-hg ^AUR

Nextcloud JavaScript XMPP Client — Chat app for Nextcloud with XMPP, end-to-end encryption, video calls, file transfer & group chat.

https://github.com/nextcloud/jsxc.nextcloud || nextcloud-app-jsxc ^AUR

Psi — Qt-based XMPP client.

https://psi-im.org/ || psi or psi-nowebengine

Spark — Cross-platform real-time XMPP collaboration client optimized for business and organizations.

https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/spark/ || spark ^AUR

Swift — XMPP client written in C++ with Qt and Swiften.

https://swift.im/ || swift-im

Tkabber — Easy to hack feature-rich XMPP client by the author of the ejabberd XMPP server.

http://tkabber.jabber.ru/ || tkabber ^AUR

Vacuum IM — Full-featured crossplatform XMPP client.

https://github.com/Vacuum-IM/vacuum-im || vacuum-im ^AUR

SIP clients

See also Wikipedia:List of SIP software#Clients.

Blink — State of the art, easy to use SIP client.

https://icanblink.com/ || blink ^AUR

Jami — SIP-compatible softphone and instant messenger for the decentralized Jami network. Formerly known as Ring and SFLphone.

https://jami.net/ || jami-gnome

Linphone — VoIP phone application (SIP client) for communicating freely with people over the internet, with voice, video, and text instant messaging.

https://www.linphone.org/ || linphone-desktop ^AUR

Twinkle — Qt softphone for VoIP and IM communication using SIP.

http://twinkle.dolezel.info/ || twinkle ^AUR

Zoiper — Proprietary SIP and IAX2 VoIP softphone

https://zoiper.com || zoiper ^AUR

Matrix clients

Tox clients

LAN messengers

See also Avahi#Link-Local (Bonjour/Zeroconf) chat and Wikipedia:Comparison of LAN messengers.

BeeBEEP — Secure LAN Messenger.

https://www.beebeep.net/ || beebeep

iptux — LAN communication software, compatible with IP Messenger.

https://github.com/iptux-src/iptux || iptux

LAN Messenger — P2P chat application for intranet communication and does not require a server. A variety of handy features are supported including notifications, personal and group messaging with encryption, file transfer and message logging.

https://lanmessenger.github.io/ || lmc ^AUR

P2P messaging clients

Other IM clients

BlueJeans — Proprietary desktop application for BlueJeans video calls. Based on the Electron platform.

https://www.bluejeans.com/ || bluejeans ^AUR

Caprine — Unofficial Facebook Messenger app. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine || caprine

Chatterino — Chat client for Twitch chat.

https://chatterino.com/ || chatterino2-git ^AUR

Delta Chat — A privacy oriented chat application built on e-mail. Based on the Electron platform.

https://delta.chat/ || deltachat-desktop-git ^AUR

Discord — Proprietary all-in-one voice and text chat application for gamers that's free and works on both your desktop and phone. Based on the Electron platform.

https://discordapp.com/ || discord

Gitter — Communication product for communities and teams on GitHub.

https://gitter.im/ || gitter ^AUR

Hangups — Third-party instant messaging client for Google Hangouts with console interface.

https://github.com/tdryer/hangups || hangups ^AUR

ICQ — Official ICQ client for Linux.

https://icq.com/linux/ || icqdesktop-bin ^AUR

IRCCloud — Desktop client for a modern, always-connected IRC client service. Based on the Electron platform.

https://www.irccloud.com/ || irccloud ^AUR

Jitsi Meet — Desktop application for Jitsi Meet. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron || jitsi-meet-desktop ^AUR

Kotatogram Desktop — Experimental fork of Telegram Desktop.

https://kotatogram.github.io/ || kotatogram-desktop ^AUR

Matterhorn — Console client for the Mattermost chat system.

https://github.com/matterhorn-chat/matterhorn || matterhorn ^AUR

Mattermost Desktop — Desktop application for Mattermost. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/mattermost/desktop || mattermost-desktop ^AUR

Meowgram — Telegram client written in GTK and Python.

https://github.com/ExposedCat/Meowgram || meowgram-git ^AUR

Microsoft Teams — Official proprietary client for Microsoft Teams. Based on the Electron platform.

https://teams.microsoft.com/downloads || teams ^AUR

Mumble — Voice chat application similar to TeamSpeak.

https://www.mumble.info/ || mumble

QQ — Proprietary instant messaging software developed by Tencent (imitating ICQ).

https://im.qq.com/ || linuxqq ^AUR

Rocket.Chat Desktop — Desktop application for Rocket.Chat. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Electron || rocketchat-desktop ^AUR

Session Desktop — Onion routing based messenger. Based on the Electron platform.

https://getsession.org/ || session-desktop ^AUR

Signal Desktop — Desktop application for Signal private messenger. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop || signal-desktop

Skype — Popular but proprietary application for voice and video communication. Based on the Electron platform.

https://www.skype.com/ || skypeforlinux-stable-bin ^AUR

Slack — Proprietary Slack client for desktop. Based on the Electron platform.

https://slack.com/downloads/linux || slack-desktop ^AUR

teams-for-linux — Unofficial Microsoft Teams for Linux client. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux || teams-for-linux ^AUR

TeamSpeak — Proprietary VoIP application with gamers as its target audience.

https://www.teamspeak.com/ || teamspeak3

TeamTalk — Proprietary VoIP application with video chat, file and desktop sharing. Desktop sharing does not appear to be working in Linux though. AUR package is server only, but client is built in the make process.

https://bearware.dk || teamtalk ^AUR

Telegram Desktop — Official Telegram desktop client.

https://desktop.telegram.org/ || telegram-desktop

Telegrand — GTK4 telegram client for GNOME.

https://github.com/melix99/telegrand || telegrand-git ^AUR

ThreemaQT — Unofficial Threema Web desktop client.

https://gitlab.com/bit3/threemaqt || threemaqt ^AUR

Viber — Proprietary cross-platform IM and VoIP software.

https://www.viber.com/products/linux/ || viber ^AUR

WhatsAppQT — Unofficial WhatsApp Web desktop client.

https://gitlab.com/bit3/whatsappqt || whatsappqt ^AUR

Wire — Modern, private messenger. Based on the Electron platform.

https://wire.com/ || wire-desktop

YakYak — Unofficial desktop client for Google Hangouts. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/yakyak/yakyak || yakyak-git ^AUR

Zoom — Proprietary video conferencing, online meetings and group messaging application.

https://zoom.us/ || zoom ^AUR

Zulip — Desktop client for Zulip group chat. Based on the Electron platform.

https://zulipchat.com/apps/linux || zulip-desktop ^AUR

Instant messaging servers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of instant messaging protocols.

IRC servers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of Internet Relay Chat daemons.

InspIRCd — A stable, modern and lightweight IRC daemon.

https://www.inspircd.org/ || inspircd ^AUR

IRCD-Hybrid — A lightweight, high-performance internet relay chat daemon.

https://www.ircd-hybrid.org/ || ircd-hybrid ^AUR

miniircd — A small and configuration free IRC server, suitable for private use.

https://github.com/jrosdahl/miniircd || miniircd-git ^AUR

ngIRCd — A free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server for small or private networks.

https://ngircd.barton.de/ || ngircd

Ergo — A modern and simple to set up IRC server written in Go. Combines the features of an IRCd, a services framework, and a bouncer.

https://ergo.chat/ || ergochat ^AUR

UnrealIRCd — Open Source IRC Server.

https://www.unrealircd.org/ || unrealircd

XMPP servers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of XMPP server software.

Prosody — An XMPP server written in the Lua programming language. Prosody is designed to be lightweight and highly extensible. It is licensed under a permissive MIT license.

https://prosody.im/ || prosody

Ejabberd — Robust, scalable and extensible XMPP Server written in Erlang

https://www.ejabberd.im/ || ejabberd

Jabberd2 — An XMPP server written in the C language and licensed under the GNU General Public License. It was inspired by jabberd14.

https://jabberd2.org/ || jabberd2 ^AUR

Openfire — An XMPP IM multiplatform server written in Java

https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/ || openfire

SIP servers

See also Wikipedia:List of SIP software#Servers.

Asterisk — A complete PBX solution.

https://www.asterisk.org/ || asterisk ^AUR

Kamailio — Rock solid SIP server.

https://www.kamailio.org/ || kamailio ^AUR

openSIPS — SIP proxy/server for voice, video, IM, presence and any other SIP extensions.

https://opensips.org/ || opensips

Repro — An open-source, free SIP server.

https://www.resiprocate.org/About_Repro || repro ^AUR

Yate — Advanced, mature, flexible telephony server that is used for VoIP and fixed networks, and for traditional mobile operators and MVNOs.

http://yate.ro/ || yate

Other IM servers

Mattermost — Open source private cloud server, Slack-alternative.

https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server || mattermost

Murmur — The voice chat application server for Mumble.

https://www.mumble.info/ || murmur

Nextcloud Talk — Video- and audio-conferencing app for Nextcloud.

https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed || nextcloud-app-spreed

Rocket.Chat — Web chat server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor fullstack framework.

https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat || rocketchat-server ^AUR

Spreed WebRTC — WebRTC audio/video call and conferencing server.

https://github.com/strukturag/spreed-webrtc || spreed-webrtc-server ^AUR

Synapse — Reference homeserver for the Matrix protocol.

https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse || matrix-synapse

TeamSpeak Server — Proprietary VoIP conference server.

https://teamspeak.com/ || teamspeak3-server

uMurmur — Minimalistic Mumble server.

https://umurmur.net/ || umurmur

Collaborative software

See also Wikipedia:Collaborative software.

Citadel/UX — Includes an email & mailing list server, instant messaging, address books, calendar/scheduling, bulletin boards, and wiki and blog engines.

https://www.citadel.org/ || webcit ^AUR

Kolab — Kolab Groupware solution consisting of a server and various clients.

https://kolab.org/ || kolab ^AUR

SOGo — Groupware server built around OpenGroupware.org (OGo) and the SOPE application server.

https://sogo.nu/ || sogo ^AUR

News, RSS, and blogs

News aggregators

RSS/Atom aggregators. Some email clients are also able to act as news aggregator: Claws Mail RSSyl plugin, Evolution RSS plugin, SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups, Thunderbird.

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of feed aggregators.

Console

Canto — Ncurses RSS aggregator.

https://github.com/themoken/canto-curses || canto-curses

Gnus — Email, NNTP and RSS client for Emacs.

https://www.gnus.org/ || emacs

Newsboat — Ncurses RSS aggregator with layout and keybinding similar to the Mutt email client.

https://newsboat.org/ || newsboat

Rawdog — "RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur" that parses RSS/CDF/Atom feeds into a static HTML page of articles in chronological order.

https://offog.org/code/rawdog/ || rawdog ^AUR

sfeed — Lightweight RSS and Atom parser.

https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html || sfeed-git ^AUR

Snownews — Text mode RSS news reader.

https://github.com/kouya/snownews || snownews ^AUR

Graphical

Akregator — News aggregator for KDE, part of kdepim.

https://kontact.kde.org/components/akregator.html || akregator

Alduin — RSS, Atom and JSON feed aggregator. Based on the Electron platform. Discontinued.

https://alduinapp.github.io/ || alduin ^AUR

Alligator — Kirigami-based RSS/Atom feed reader for mobile devices.

https://apps.kde.org/alligator/ || alligator ^AUR

FeedReader — Modern desktop application designed to complement existing web-based RSS accounts. Discontinued.

https://jangernert.github.io/FeedReader/ || feedreader ^AUR

Feeds — An RSS/Atom feed reader for GNOME.

https://gabmus.gitlab.io/gnome-feeds/ || gfeeds

Fluent Reader — Modern desktop RSS reader built with React and Fluent UI. Based on the Electron platform.

https://hyliu.me/fluent-reader/ || fluent-reader ^AUR

HackUp — Read Hacker News from the desktop.

https://github.com/mdh34/hackup || hackup-git ^AUR

Liferea — GTK news aggregator for online news feeds and weblogs.

https://lzone.de/liferea/ || liferea

NewsFlash — Modern feed reader designed for the GNOME desktop. The spiritual successor to FeedReader.

https://gitlab.com/news-flash/news_flash_gtk || newsflash

Nextcloud News — RSS/Atom feed reader for Nextcloud.

https://github.com/nextcloud/news || nextcloud-app-news

QuiteRSS — RSS/Atom feed reader written on Qt/С++.

https://quiterss.org/ || quiterss

Raven — Simple desktop RSS reader made using VueJS. Based on the Electron platform.

https://ravenreader.app/ || raven-reader ^AUR

RSS Guard — Very tiny RSS and ATOM news reader developed using Qt framework.

https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard || rssguard or rssguard-nowebengine

selfoss — The new multipurpose RSS reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application.

https://selfoss.aditu.de/ || selfoss ^AUR

Tickr — GTK-based RSS Reader that displays feeds as a smooth scrolling line on your desktop, as known from TV stations.

https://www.open-tickr.net/ || tickr ^AUR

Tiny Tiny RSS — Web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) aggregator.

https://tt-rss.org/ || tt-rss

Podcast clients

Some media players are also able to act as podcast client: Amarok, Banshee, Cantata, Clementine, Goggles Music Manager, Rhythmbox, VLC media player. git-annex can also function as podcatcher.

Console

castero — A TUI podcast client for the terminal.

https://github.com/xgi/castero || castero-git ^AUR

castget — Simple, command-line RSS enclosure downloader, primarily intended for automatic, unattended downloading of podcasts.

https://castget.johndal.com/ || castget

gpo — Text mode interface of gPodder.

https://gpodder.github.io/ || gpodder

Greg — A command-line podcast aggregator.

https://github.com/manolomartinez/greg || greg-git ^AUR

Marrie — A simple podcast client that runs on the Command Line Interface.

https://github.com/rafaelmartins/marrie/ || marrie-git ^AUR

pcd — A minimal podcast client written in go

https://github.com/kvannotten/pcd || pcd ^AUR

Graphical

CPod — Simple, beautiful podcast app. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/z-------------/CPod || cpod ^AUR

GNOME Podcasts — Podcast client for the GNOME Desktop written in Rust.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/podcasts || gnome-podcasts

gPodder — Podcast client and media aggregator (GTK interface).

https://gpodder.github.io/ || gpodder

Vocal — Simple podcast client for the Modern Desktop (GTK).

https://vocalproject.net/ || vocal

Usenet newsreaders

Some email clients are also able to act as Usenet newsreader: Claws Mail, Evolution, NeoMutt, SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups, Sylpheed, Thunderbird.

See also: Wikipedia:List of Usenet newsreaders, Wikipedia:Comparison of Usenet newsreaders.

Console

nn — Alternative more user-friendly (curses-based) Usenet newsreader for UNIX.

http://www.nndev.org/ || nn ^AUR

slrn — Text-based news client.

https://www.slrn.org/ || slrn ^AUR

tin — A cross-platform threaded NNTP and spool based UseNet newsreader.

http://tin.org/ || tin ^AUR

trn — A text-based Threaded Usenet newsreader.

http://trn.sourceforge.net/ || trn ^AUR

Graphical

NZBGet — Usenet binary downloader for .nzb files with web and CLI interface.

https://nzbget.net/ || nzbget

Pan — GTK Usenet newsreader that's good at both text and binaries.

http://pan.rebelbase.com/ || pan

SABnzbd — An open-source binary newsreader webapp written in Python.

https://sabnzbd.org/ || sabnzbd ^AUR

XRN — Usenet newsreader for X Window System.

http://www.mit.edu/people/jik/software/xrn.html || xrn ^AUR

Microblogging clients

See also Wikipedia:List of Twitter services and applications.

Console

bti — Simple command line client for twitter/identi.ca

https://gregkh.github.io/bti/ || bti

oysttyer — (official fork of ttytter) An interactive console text-based command-line Twitter client written in Perl.

https://github.com/oysttyer/oysttyer || oysttyer-git ^AUR

Rainbowstream — A powerful and fully-featured console Twitter client written in Python.

https://github.com/orakaro/rainbowstream || rainbowstream ^AUR

toot — CLI and TUI tool for interacting with Mastodon instances

https://github.com/ihabunek/toot || toot ^AUR

turses — Twitter client for the console based off tyrs with major improvements.

https://github.com/louipc/turses || turses-git ^AUR

Graphical

Cawbird — Native GTK Twitter client for the Linux desktop.

https://ibboard.co.uk/cawbird/ || cawbird

Choqok — Microblogging client for KDE that supports Twitter.com, Pump.io, GNU social and opendesktop.org services.

https://choqok.kde.org/ || choqok

Giara — Reddit app, built with Python, GTK and Handy.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/giara || giara ^AUR

Mikutter — Simple, powerful Twitter client using GTK and Ruby.

https://mikutter.hachune.net/ || mikutter ^AUR

Pumpa — Pump.io client written in C++ and Qt.

https://pumpa.branchable.com/ || pumpa-git ^AUR

Tootle — GTK3 client for Mastodon.

https://github.com/bleakgrey/tootle || tootle ^AUR

Turpial — Multi-interface Twitter client written in Python.

http://turpial.org.ve/ || turpial-git ^AUR

Whalebird — Mastodon client application. Based on the Electron platform.

https://whalebird.social/ || whalebird-bin ^AUR

Blog engines

See also Wikipedia:Blog software and Wikipedia:List of content management systems.

Note: Content managers, social networks, and blog publishers overlap in many functions.

Diaspora — A distributed privacy aware social network.

https://diasporafoundation.org || diaspora-mysql ^AUR or diaspora-postgresql ^AUR

Drupal — A PHP-based content management platform.

https://www.drupal.org/ || drupal

Ghost — Blogging platform written in JavaScript and distributed under the MIT License, designed to simplify the process of online publishing for individual bloggers as well as online publications.

https://ghost.org/ || ghost-web ^AUR

Joomla — A php Content Management System (CMS) which enables you to build websites and powerful online applications.

https://www.joomla.org/ || joomla ^AUR

Wordpress — Blog tool and publishing platform.

https://wordpress.org/ || wordpress

Static site generators

Hexo — Fast, simple and powerful blog framework.

https://hexo.io/ || hexo-cli ^AUR

Hugo — Hugo is a static HTML and CSS website generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, ease of use, and configurability.

https://gohugo.io/ || hugo

Jekyll — Static blog engine, written in Ruby, which supports Markdown, textile and other formats.

https://jekyllrb.com/ || jekyll ^AUR

Nanoblogger — A small weblog engine written in Bash for the command line. It uses common UNIX tools such as cat, grep, and sed to create static HTML content. It is not maintained anymore.

http://nanoblogger.sourceforge.net/ || nanoblogger ^AUR

Nikola — Static site generator written in Python, with incremental rebuilds and multiple markup formats.

https://getnikola.com/ || nikola

Pelican — Static site generator, powered by Python.

https://docs.getpelican.com/ || pelican

Remote desktop

See also Wikipedia:Remote desktop software and Wikipedia:Comparison of remote desktop software.

See also Chrome Remote Desktop for a web browser based solution.

Remote desktop clients

AnyDesk — Proprietary remote desktop software.

https://anydesk.com/ || anydesk-bin ^AUR

GNOME Connections — Remote desktop client for GNOME. Supports RDP and VNC.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/connections || gnome-connections

GVncViewer — Simple VNC Client on Gtk-VNC. Run with gvncviewer.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gtk-vnc || gtk-vnc

KRDC — Remote Desktop Client for KDE. Supports RDP and VNC. Part of kde-network.

https://apps.kde.org/krdc/ || krdc

Remmina — Remote desktop client written in GTK. Supports RDP, VNC, NX, XDMCP and SSH.

https://remmina.org/ || remmina

Remote Viewer — Simple remote display client. Supports SPICE and VNC.

https://virt-manager.org/ || virt-viewer

Remotely — Simple VNC viewer for GNOME. Discontinued.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Remotely || remotely ^AUR

Sunlogin Remote Control — Proprietary software that supports remote control of mobile devices, Windows, Mac, Linux and other systems. It uses its own proprietary protocol.

https://sunlogin.oray.com/en/about/about || sunloginclient ^AUR

ToDesk — Proprietary remote desktop client that suits for remote teamwork. It uses its own proprietary protocol.

https://www.todesk.com/ || todesk-bin ^AUR

TeamViewer — Proprietary remote desktop client. It uses its own proprietary protocol.

https://www.teamviewer.com/ || teamviewer ^AUR

vncviewer (TigerVNC) — VNC viewer for X.

https://tigervnc.org/ || tigervnc

Vinagre — Remote desktop viewer for GNOME. Supports RDP, VNC, SPICE and SSH. Part of gnome-extra.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Vinagre || vinagre

xfreerdp — FreeRDP X11 client. Run with xfreerdp.

https://www.freerdp.com/ || freerdp

X2Go Client — A graphical client (Qt5) for the X2Go system that uses the NX technology protocol.

https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php || x2goclient

Remote desktop servers

Krfb — VNC server for KDE. Part of kde-network.

https://apps.kde.org/krfb/ || krfb

NoMachine — Proprietary remote desktop server and client based on NX technology.

https://nomachine.com/ || nomachine ^AUR

wayvnc — VNC server for wlroots based wayland compositors (such as sway).

https://github.com/any1/wayvnc || wayvnc

x0vncserver (TigerVNC) — VNC Server for X displays.

https://tigervnc.org/ || tigervnc

x11vnc — VNC server for real X displays.

http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/ || x11vnc

X2Go Server — An open source remote desktop software that uses the NX technology protocol.

https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php || x2goserver

Xpra — A multi-platform screen and application forwarding system.

https://xpra.org/ || xpra

Xrdp — A daemon that supports RDP. It uses Xvnc, X11rdp or xorgxrdp as a backend.

http://xrdp.org/ || xrdp ^AUR

Multimedia

Codecs

See the main article: Codecs.

Image

Image viewers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of image viewers.

Framebuffer image viewers

fbi — Image viewer for the linux framebuffer console.

https://www.kraxel.org/blog/linux/fbida/ || fbida

fbv — Very simple graphic file viewer for the framebuffer console.

http://s-tech.elsat.net.pl/fbv/ || fbv

fim — Highly customizable and scriptable framebuffer image viewer based on fbi.

https://www.nongnu.org/fbi-improved/ || fim ^AUR

jfbview — Framebuffer PDF and image viewer based on Imlib2. Features include Vim-like controls, rotation and zoom, zoom-to-fit, and fast multi-threaded rendering.

https://github.com/jichu4n/jfbview || jfbview ^AUR

Graphical image viewers

CoreImage — Simple lightweight easy to use image viewer based on Qt. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/ || coreimage ^AUR

Deepin Image Viewer — Image viewer for Deepin desktop.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-image-viewer/ || deepin-image-viewer

Ephoto — A light image viewer based on EFL.

https://www.enlightenment.org/about-ephoto || ephoto ^AUR

Eye of GNOME — Image viewing and cataloging program, which is a part of the GNOME desktop environment.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EyeOfGnome || eog

Eye of MATE — Simple graphics viewer for the MATE desktop.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/eom || eom

EyeSight — Image viewer for the Hawaii desktop environment.

https://github.com/hawaii-desktop/eyesight || eyesight ^AUR

feh — Fast, lightweight image viewer that uses imlib2.

https://feh.finalrewind.org/ || feh

GalaPix — OpenGL-based image viewer for simultaneously viewing and zooming large collections of image files,

https://github.com/Galapix/galapix || galapix ^AUR

Geeqie — Image browser and viewer (fork of GQview) that adds additional functionality such as support for RAW files.

http://geeqie.org/ || geeqie

GPicView — Simple and fast image viewer for X, which is part of the LXDE desktop.

http://lxde.sourceforge.net/gpicview/ || gpicview

Gwenview — Fast and easy to use image viewer for the KDE desktop.

https://apps.kde.org/gwenview/ || gwenview

ida — X11 application (Motif based) for viewing images.

https://www.kraxel.org/blog/linux/fbida/ || fbida + libxpm + openmotif

imv — Lightweight image viewer with support for Wayland and animated GIFs which uses FreeImage.

https://www.github.com/eXeC64/imv/ || imv

Koko — Image viewer designed for desktop and touch devices.

https://apps.kde.org/koko/ || koko ^AUR

KuickShow — Fast and convenient image viewer for KDE.

https://userbase.kde.org/KuickShow || kuickshow

LxImage-Qt — The LXQt image viewer.

https://github.com/lxde/lximage-qt || lximage-qt

meh — meh is a small, simple, super fast image viewer using raw XLib.

https://www.johnhawthorn.com/meh/ || meh-git ^AUR

Mirage — PyGTK image viewer featuring support for crop and resize, custom actions and a thumbnail panel.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mirageiv.berlios/ || mirage ^AUR

nomacs — Qt image viewer. It is feature-rich but starts fast and can be configured to show additional widgets or only the image.

https://nomacs.org/ || nomacs

PhotoQt — Fast and highly configurable image viewer with a simple and nice interface.

https://photoqt.org/ || photoqt ^AUR

pqiv — GTK 3 based command-line image viewer with a minimal UI supporting images in compressed archives, rewrite of qiv.

https://github.com/phillipberndt/pqiv/ || pqiv

qimgv — Fast and easy to use Qt5 image viewer. Supports webm/mp4 playback via mpv.

https://github.com/easymodo/qimgv/ || qimgv ^AUR

qeh — Actually fast and simple image viewer. Like feh but faster and simpler, and support for more formats.

https://github.com/sandsmark/qeh/ || qeh-git ^AUR

Quick Image Viewer — Very small and fast image viewer based on GTK and imlib2.

http://spiegl.de/qiv/ || qiv

qView — Qt image viewer designed with minimalism and usability in mind.

https://interversehq.com/qview/ || qview ^AUR

Ristretto — Fast and lightweight image viewer for the Xfce desktop environment.

https://docs.xfce.org/apps/ristretto/start || ristretto

shufti — shufti non-destructively saves and restores the zoom level, rotation, window size, desktop location and viewing area on a per-image/file location basis

https://github.com/danboid/shufti || shufti ^AUR

sxiv — Simple image viewer based on imlib2 that works well with tiling window managers.

https://github.com/muennich/sxiv || sxiv

Viewnior — Minimalistic GTK image viewer featuring support for flipping, rotating, animations and configurable mouse actions.

https://siyanpanayotov.com/project/viewnior || viewnior

Vimiv — An image viewer with vim-like keybindings. It is written in python3 using the Gtk3 toolkit.

https://karlch.github.io/vimiv/ || vimiv

Vimiv (Qt port) — An image viewer with vim-like keybindings. It is written in python3 and PyQt5.

https://karlch.github.io/vimiv-qt/ || vimiv-qt ^AUR

vpv — Image viewer designed for scientific image visualization.

https://github.com/kidanger/vpv || vpv ^AUR

Xloadimage — Classic X image viewer.

https://sioseis.ucsd.edu/xloadimage.html^{[dead link 2021-05-17 ⓘ]} || xloadimage

Image organizers

Image processing

CairoSVG — SVG to PNG, PDF, PS converter.

https://cairosvg.org/ || python-cairosvg

Converseen — Qt-based batch image converter and resizer.

https://converseen.fasterland.net/ || converseen

CropGUI — GTK utility for lossless cropping and rotation of jpeg files

https://github.com/jepler/cropgui || cropgui ^AUR

dcraw — Converts many camera RAW formats.

https://dechifro.org/dcraw/ || dcraw

G'MIC — Full-featured open-source framework for image processing, providing several different user interfaces to convert/manipulate/filter/visualize generic image datasets, ranging from 1d scalar signals to 3d+t sequences of multi-spectral volumetric images, including 2d color images.

https://www.gmic.eu/ || gmic

GraphicsMagick — Fork of ImageMagick designed to have API and command-line stability. It also supports multi-CPU for enhanced performance and thus is used by some large commercial sites (Flickr, etsy) for its performance.

http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ || graphicsmagick

ImageMagick — Command-line image manipulation program. It is known for its accurate format conversions with support for over 100 formats. Its API enables it to be scripted and it is usually used as a backend processor.

https://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php || imagemagick

PosteRazor — Cut an image or PDF into pieces which can be printed and assembled to a poster

https://posterazor.sourceforge.io/ || posterazor

Image compression

Console

Guetzli — A perceptual JPEG encoder, aiming for excellent compression density at high visual quality.

https://github.com/google/guetzli || guetzli

jpegoptim — JPEG optimization utility providing lossless and lossy compression.

https://www.kokkonen.net/tjko/projects.html#jpegoptim || jpegoptim

optipng — Lossless PNG compressor.

http://optipng.sourceforge.net/ || optipng

oxipng — Lossless multithreaded PNG compressor.

https://github.com/shssoichiro/oxipng || oxipng

pngcrush — Tool for optimizing the compression of PNG files.

https://pmt.sourceforge.io/pngcrush/ || pngcrush

pngquant — Lossy compression of PNG images.

https://pngquant.org/ || pngquant

zopflipng — Highly efficient PNG optimisation tool using Google's zopfli library

https://github.com/google/zopfli || zopflipng-git ^AUR

Graphical

Curtail — GTK-based image compressor, supporting PNG and JPEG file types.

https://github.com/Huluti/Curtail || curtail

Image Optimizer — Simple lossless image optimizer built with Vala and Gtk for Elementary OS.

https://github.com/GijsGoudzwaard/Image-Optimizer || image-optimizer-git ^AUR

Trimage — Qt-based tool for optimizing PNG and JPG files.

https://trimage.org/ || trimage ^AUR

Raster graphics editors

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of raster graphics editors.

AzPainter — Painting software for illustration drawing.

https://gitlab.com/azelpg/azpainter || azpainter ^AUR

CorePaint — Simple bitmap painting tool to produce very simple graphics. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/ || corepaint ^AUR

Deepin Draw — Lightweight drawing tool for Deepin desktop.

https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-draw || deepin-draw

Drawing — Drawing application for the GNOME desktop, using Cairo and GdkPixbuf for basic drawing operations.

https://github.com/maoschanz/drawing || drawing

Drawpile — Collaborative drawing program that allows multiple users to sketch on the same canvas simultaneously.

https://drawpile.net/ || drawpile ^AUR

GIMP — Image editing suite in the vein of proprietary editors such as Adobe Photoshop. GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) has been started in the mid 1990s and has acquired a large number of plugins and additional tools.

https://www.gimp.org/ || gimp

Glimpse — A fork of GIMP, usability-focused free software application capable of expert level image manipulation.

https://glimpse-editor.github.io/ || glimpse-editor ^AUR ^{[broken link: package not found]}

Gpaint — Paintbrush clone for GNOME.

https://www.gnu.org/software/gpaint/ || gpaint ^AUR

GrafX2 — Bitmap paint program specialized in 256 color drawing.

http://grafx2.chez.com/ || grafx2

ImEditor — Simple and versatile image editor.

https://imeditor.github.io/ || imeditor ^AUR

KolourPaint — Free raster graphics editor for KDE, similar to Microsoft's Paint application before Windows 7, but with some additional features such as support for transparency. Part of kde-applications and kde-graphics groups.

http://kolourpaint.org/ || kolourpaint

Krita — Digital painting and illustration software included based on the KDE platform.

https://krita.org/ || krita

Milton — Infinite-canvas paint program.

https://www.miltonpaint.com/ || milton ^AUR

mtPaint — Graphics editing program geared towards creating indexed palette images and pixel art.

http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/ || mtpaint

MyPaint — Free software graphics application for digital painters.

http://mypaint.org || mypaint

PhotoFlare — Simple but powerful image editor originally inspired by PhotoFiltre.

https://photoflare.io/ || photoflare

Pinta — Drawing and editing program modeled after Paint.NET. Its goal is to provide a simplified alternative to GIMP for casual users.

https://pinta-project.com/ || pinta

Pixelitor — Advanced image editor with support for layers, layer masks, text layers, multiple undo, blending modes, cropping, Gaussian blurring, unsharp masking, histograms, etc.

https://pixelitor.sourceforge.io/ || pixelitor ^AUR

Swappy — Wayland native snapshot editing tool.

https://github.com/jtheoof/swappy || swappy

XPaint — Color image editing tool which features most standard paint program options.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/sf-xpaint/ || xpaint ^AUR

Some image viewers and organizers like digiKam, Ephoto, GNOME Photos, gThumb, ida, nomacs, Pantheon Photos, Phototonic and Shotwell also provide some basic image manipulation functionality.

Specialized photo editors

darktable — Photography workflow and RAW development application.

https://www.darktable.org/ || darktable

Filmulator — Simple raw photo editor based on the process of developing film.

https://filmulator.org/ || filmulator ^AUR

FOSStriangulator — Tool for making triangulated illustrations out of photos.

https://github.com/FOSStriangulator/FOSStriangulator || fosstriangulator ^AUR

Hugin — Panorama photo stitcher.

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ || hugin

LightZone — Professional-level digital darkroom and photo editor comparable to Photoshop Lightroom.

http://lightzoneproject.org/ || lightzone ^AUR

Luminance HDR — Open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging.

http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/ || luminancehdr

nUFRaw — Utility to read and manipulate raw images from digital cameras using DCRaw.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/nufraw/ || gimp-nufraw

Oqapy — Photographic workflow application.

https://oqapy.eu/ || oqapy ^AUR

Rawstudio — Raw-image converter written in GTK.

https://rawstudio.org/ || rawstudio ^AUR

RawTherapee — A powerful cross-platform raw image processing program.

https://www.rawtherapee.com/ || rawtherapee

Showfoto — Photo editor with powerful image editing tools.

https://www.digikam.org/ || digikam

Photo geotagging

Geotag — Match date/time information from photos with location information from a GPS unit or from a map.

http://geotag.sourceforge.net/ || geotag

Geotagging — Photography geotagging tool to synchronize photos with gps track log (GPX).

https://github.com/jmlich/geotagging || geotagging ^AUR

GottenGeography — Easy to use photo geotagging application for the GNOME desktop.

https://launchpad.net/gottengeography || gottengeography

GPicSync — Inserts location in your pictures metadata from a GPS tracklog.

https://github.com/FrancoisSchnell/GPicSync || gpicsync ^AUR

GPSCorrelate — Correlate (geotagging) digital camera photos with GPS data in GPX format.

https://github.com/freefoote/gpscorrelate || gpscorrelate

Vector graphics editors

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of vector graphics editors.

Dia — GTK-based diagram creation program.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dia || dia

diagrams.net — Diagram drawing application built on web technology. Based on the Electron platform.

https://www.diagrams.net/ || drawio-desktop ^AUR

Dot Matrix — The glyph playground of creativity from simple lines.

https://github.com/lainsce/dot-matrix/ || dot-matrix ^AUR

Figma — Unofficial desktop application for Figma collaborative design tool. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/Figma-Linux/figma-linux || figma-linux ^AUR

Gravit Designer — Proprietary vector design application. Based on the Electron platform.

https://designer.io/ || gravit-designer-bin ^AUR

Inkscape — Vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. It's developers also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.

https://inkscape.org/ || inkscape

Karbon — Vector graphics editor, part of the Calligra Suite.

https://www.calligra.org/karbon/ || calligra

LibreOffice Draw — Vector graphics editor and diagramming tool included in the LibreOffice suite similar to Microsoft Visio.

https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/draw/ || libreoffice-still or libreoffice-fresh

Mockingbot — Proprietary prototyping & collaboration design tool. Based on the Electron platform.

https://mockingbot.com/ || mockingbot ^AUR

OpenOffice Draw — Vector graphics editor and diagramming tool included in the OpenOffice suite.

https://www.openoffice.org/product/draw.html || openoffice-bin ^AUR

Pencil Project — GUI prototyping and mockup tool. Based on the Electron platform.

https://pencil.evolus.vn/ || pencil ^AUR

sK1 — Replacement for Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw, oriented for "prepress ready" PostScript & PDF output.

https://sk1project.net/ || sk1 ^AUR

SvgVi — SVG viewer and editor using XML declarations.

https://gitlab.com/pwmc/svgvi || svgvi ^AUR

yEd — General-purpose proprietary diagramming program for flowcharts, network diagrams, UML diagrams, BPMN diagrams, mind maps, organization charts, and Entity Relationship diagrams.

https://www.yworks.com/products/yed || yed ^AUR

Xfig — Interactive drawing tool.

http://mcj.sourceforge.net/ || xfig ^AUR

Font editors

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of font editors.

Birdfont — Font editor which lets you create vector graphics and export TTF, EOT and SVG fonts.

https://birdfont.org/ || birdfont

FontForge — Outline font editor.

https://fontforge.github.io/ || fontforge

TruFont — Font-editing application.

https://trufont.github.io/ || trufont ^AUR

2D animation

enve — Flexible, user expandable 2D animation software.

https://maurycyliebner.github.io/ || enve-git ^AUR

Glaxnimate — Vector 2D animation software, mainly for Lottie and TGS formats, but have a good standard animated SVG export

https://glaxnimate.mattbas.org/ || glaxnimate ^AUR

OpenToonz — 2D animation creation software.

https://opentoonz.github.io/e/ || opentoonz

Pencil2D — Easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations.

https://www.pencil2d.org/ || pencil2d

qStopMotion — Application for creating stop-motion animation movies. The users will be able to create stop-motions from pictures imported from a camera or from the harddrive and export the animation to different video formats such as mpeg or avi.

http://qstopmotion.org/ || qstopmotion

Scribl — Application to create simple video lectures that combine audio with hand-drawn animation.

https://www.scribl.ink/ || scribl ^AUR

Stopmotion — Application to create stop-motion animations. It helps you capture and edit the frames of your animation and export them as a single file.

http://linuxstopmotion.org/ || stopmotion ^AUR

Synfig Studio — 2D animation software, designed as powerful industrial-strength solution for creating film-quality animation using a vector and bitmap artwork.

https://www.synfig.org/ || synfigstudio

TupiTube Desk — Desktop application to create and share 2D animations, focused on kids and teenagers.

https://www.maefloresta.com/ || tupitube

Aseprite — Pixel art 2d animation

https://www.aseprite.org/ || aseprite ^AUR

Pixelorama — Pixel art 2d animation

https://orama-interactive.itch.io/pixelorama || pixelorama ^AUR

The drawing application Krita and the 3D editor Blender (Grease Pencil mode) have both 2D animation features too.

3D computer graphics

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of 3D computer graphics software.

Art of Illusion — 3D modeling and rendering studio written in Java.

http://www.artofillusion.org/ || aoi ^AUR

Blender — Fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite capable of 3D modeling, texturing, and animation, among other things.

https://www.blender.org/ || blender

CloudCompare — 3D point cloud and mesh processing software.

https://cloudcompare.org/ || cloudcompare ^AUR

Dust3D — 3D modeling software. It helps you create a 3D watertight base model in seconds. Use it to speed up your character modeling in game making, 3D printing, and so on.

https://dust3d.org/ || dust3d ^AUR

F3D — A fast and minimalist KISS 3D viewer. Supported file formats: VTK (legacy and XML), STL, GLTF, PLY, OBJ, 3DS, …

https://kitware.github.io/F3D/ || f3d ^AUR

Goxel — Open Source 3D voxel editor.

https://goxel.xyz/ || goxel

MakeHuman™ — Parametrical modeling program for creating human bodies.

http://www.makehumancommunity.org/ || makehuman ^AUR

MeshLab — System for processing and editing 3D triangular meshes.

https://www.meshlab.net/ || meshlab ^AUR

Sweet Home 3D — Interior design software application for the planning and development of floor plans

http://sweethome3d.com/ || sweethome3d

POV-Ray — Script-based raytracer for creating 3D graphics.

https://www.povray.org/ || povray

VoxelShop — Extremely intuitive and powerful software to modify and create voxel objects.

https://blackflux.com/node/11^{[dead link 2021-05-17 ⓘ]} || voxelshop ^AUR

Wings 3D — Advanced subdivision modeler that is both powerful and easy to use.

http://www.wings3d.com/ || wings3d ^AUR

Color pickers and palettes

Agave — Colorscheme designer tool for GNOME.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170327063642/http://home.gna.org/colorscheme/ || agave ^AUR

Chameleon — Simple color picker for X11 which outputs colors to stdout.

https://github.com/seebye/chameleon || chameleon-git ^AUR

ColorGrab — Cross-platform color picker.

https://github.com/nielssp/colorgrab || colorgrab ^AUR

Color Palette — Tool for viewing the GNOME color palette as defined by the design guidelines.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/design/palette || palette ^AUR

colorpicker — Click on a pixel on your screen and print its color value in RGB. Written for X11.

https://github.com/Jack12816/colorpicker || colorpicker ^AUR

Color Picker — Simplistic color picker for the Pantheon desktop.

https://github.com/RonnyDo/ColorPicker || color-picker ^AUR

Coulr — Color box to help developers and designers.

https://github.com/Huluti/Coulr || coulr ^AUR

Deepin Picker — Color picker tool for Deepin desktop.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-picker/ || deepin-picker

delicolour — Lightweight GTK 3 color finder.

https://github.com/eepp/delicolour || delicolour ^AUR

gcolor2 — Simple GTK 2 color selector.

http://gcolor2.sourceforge.net/ || gcolor2

Gcolor3 — Simple GTK 3 color selector.

https://www.hjdskes.nl/projects/gcolor3/ || gcolor3

GPick — Advanced color picker tool.

http://www.gpick.org/ || gpick

KColorChooser — Simple application to select the color from the screen or from a pallete. Part of kde-graphics.

https://apps.kde.org/kcolorchooser/ || kcolorchooser

Kontrast — Tool to check contrast for colors that allows verifying that your colors are correctly accessible. Part of kde-accessibility.

https://apps.kde.org/kontrast/ || kontrast

MATE Color Selection — Choose colors from the palette or the screen. Run with mate-color-select.

https://mate-desktop.org/ || mate-desktop

Pick — Simple color picker tool for the Linux desktop.

https://www.kryogenix.org/code/pick || pick-colour-picker ^AUR

PrestoPalette — An artist's tool for creating harmonious color palettes.

https://github.com/PrestoPalette/PrestoPalette || prestopalette ^AUR

xcolor — Lightweight color picker for X11.

https://soft.github.io/xcolor/ || xcolor

Screenshot

See Screen capture#Screenshot software.

Digital camera managers

See gPhoto#Installation.

Audio

Audio systems

See also the main article Sound system and Wikipedia:Sound server.

Audio players

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of audio player software.

Many applications in the #Video players section also support audio playback.

Server

Music Player Daemon — Audio player that has a server-client architecture. In order to interface with it, a separate client is needed.

https://www.musicpd.org/ || mpd

Console

cmus — Very feature-rich ncurses-based music player.

https://cmus.github.io/ || cmus

Cplay — Curses front-end for various audio players (ogg123, mpg123, mpg321, splay, madplay, and mikmod, xmp, and sox).

https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Cplay || cplay ^AUR

Herrie — Minimalistic console-based music player with native AudioScrobbler support.

https://github.com/EdSchouten/herrie || herrie ^AUR

MOC — Ncurses console audio player with support for the MP3, OGG, and WAV formats.

https://moc.daper.net/ || moc

MPFC — Gstreamer-based audio player with curses interface.

https://code.google.com/archive/p/mpfc/ || mpfc ^AUR

mpg123 — Fast free MP3 console audio player for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, HP-UX and nearly all other UNIX systems (also decodes MP1 and MP2 files).

https://www.mpg123.org/ || mpg123

vitunes — Curses-based music player and playlist manager with vim-like keybindings.

http://vitunes.org/ || vitunes ^AUR

whistle — Curses-based commandline audio player.

https://github.com/ap0calypse/whistle/ || whistle-git ^AUR

XMMS2 — Complete rewrite of the popular music player.

https://xmms2.org || xmms2

Graphical

GStreamer-based

Banshee — iTunes clone, built with GTK and Mono, feature-rich. Discontinued upstream.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/banshee || banshee ^AUR

Blanket — Improve focus and increase your productivity by listening to different sounds.

https://github.com/rafaelmardojai/blanket || blanket

Byte — Music player designed for elementary OS.

https://github.com/alainm23/byte || byte ^AUR

Clementine — Amarok 1.4 clone, ported to Qt5.

https://www.clementine-player.org/ || clementine

Cozy — Modern audio book player for Linux using GTK 3.

https://cozy.geigi.de/ || cozy-audiobooks ^AUR

Exaile — GTK clone of Amarok.

https://www.exaile.org/ || exaile ^AUR

GNOME Music — Music is the new GNOME music playing application. It aims to combine an elegant and immersive browsing experience with simple and straightforward controls.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Music || gnome-music

Guayadeque — Full featured media player that can easily manage large collections and uses the GStreamer media framework.

https://www.guayadeque.org/ || guayadeque ^AUR

Lollypop — A GNOME music player.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Lollypop || lollypop

Melody — Music player for listening to local music files, online radios and audio CD's.

https://anufrij.org/melody/ || playmymusic ^AUR

Muine — A music player written in C Sharp.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/muine || muine ^AUR

Pantheon Music — Simple, fast, and good looking music player. The official elementary music player.

https://github.com/elementary/music || pantheon-music

Parlatype — Minimal audio player for manual speech transcription, for GNOME. It plays audio sources to transcribe them in your favorite text application.

https://www.parlatype.org/ || parlatype ^AUR

Pragha — A lightweight two-panel GTK music manager written in C.

https://pragha-music-player.github.io/ || pragha

Quod Libet — Audio player written with GTK, Python and GStreamer with support for regular expressions in playlists.

https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/ || quodlibet

Rhythmbox — GTK clone of iTunes, used by default in GNOME.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Rhythmbox || rhythmbox

Sayonara — Small, clear and fast audio player for Linux written in C++, uses the Qt framework.

https://sayonara-player.com/ || sayonara-player ^AUR

Strawberry — Fork of Clementine aimed at audio enthusiasts and music collectors.

https://strawbs.org/ || strawberry

Tauon Music Box — Modern, comfortable and streamlined music player for the playback of your music collection.

https://tauonmusicbox.rocks/ || tauon-music-box ^AUR

Phonon-based

Amarok — Mature Qt-based player known for its plethora of features.

https://amarok.kde.org/ || amarok ^AUR

JuK — JuK is an audio jukebox application, supporting collections of MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC audio files.

https://juk.kde.org/ || juk

Yarock — Modern looking music player, packed with features, that doesn't depend on any specific desktop environment. Yarock is designed to provide an easy and pretty music browser based on cover art.

https://seb-apps.github.io/yarock/ || yarock ^AUR

Other

Aqualung — Advanced music player, which plays audio CDs, internet radio streams and podcasts as well as soundfiles in just about any audio format and has the feature of inserting no gaps between adjacent tracks.

https://aqualung.jeremyevans.net/ || aqualung ^AUR

Audacious — Winamp clone like Beep and old XMMS versions.

https://audacious-media-player.org/ || audacious

DeaDBeeF — Light and fast music player with many features, no GNOME or KDE dependencies, supports console-only, as well as a GTK GUI, comes with many plugins, and has a metadata editor.

https://deadbeef.sourceforge.io/ || deadbeef ^AUR

Deepin Music — Awesome music player with brilliant and tweakful UI Deepin-UI based.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-music/ || deepin-music

Drumstick MIDI File Player — MIDI file player based on Drumstick.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/dmidiplayer/ || dmidiplayer ^AUR

Elisa — Simple music player by the KDE community aiming to provide a nice experience for its users.

https://apps.kde.org/elisa/ || elisa

gmusicbrowser — Open-source jukebox for large collections of MP3/OGG/FLAC files.

https://gmusicbrowser.org/ || gmusicbrowser ^AUR

Goggles Music Manager — Music collection manager and player that automatically categorizes your music, supports gapless playback, features easy tag editing, and internet radio support. Uses the Fox toolkit.

https://gogglesmm.github.io/ || gogglesmm

LXMusic — A minimalist xmms2-based music player.

https://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXMusic || lxmusic

museeks — Minimalistic and easy to use music player. Based on the Electron platform.

https://museeks.io/ || museeks-bin ^AUR

Musique — Just another music player, only better.

https://flavio.tordini.org/musique || musique ^AUR

Qmmp — Qt-based multimedia player with a user interface that is similar to Winamp or XMMS.

https://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/ || qmmp

Soundux — Soundboard that features a simple user interface.

https://soundux.rocks/ || soundux ^AUR

Vvave — Tiny Qt music player to keep your favorite songs at hand.

https://vvave.kde.org/ || vvave

Internet radio listeners

GNOME Internet Radio Locator — Easily find live radio programs based on geographical location of radio broadcasters on the Internet.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/InternetRadioLocator || gnome-internet-radio-locator ^AUR

Goodvibes — Lightweight internet radio player.

https://gitlab.com/goodvibes/goodvibes || goodvibes ^AUR

Radiotray-NG — Internet radio player systray applet.

https://github.com/ebruck/radiotray-ng || radiotray-ng ^AUR

Shortwave — GTK 3 application for finding and listening to internet radio stations.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Shortwave || shortwave ^AUR

Tuner — Minimalist radio station player.

https://github.com/louis77/tuner || tuner ^AUR

Music streaming clients

Google Play Music Desktop Player — Beautiful cross platform desktop player for Google Play Music. Based on the Electron platform.

https://googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/^{[dead link 2021-05-17 ⓘ]} || gpmdp ^AUR

Headset — Desktop app that turns YouTube into a world class music streaming service. Based on the Electron platform.

https://headsetapp.co/ || headset ^AUR

MellowPlayer — A free, open source and cross-platform Qt-based desktop application that runs web-based music streaming services in its own window and provides integration with your desktop.

https://colinduquesnoy.gitlab.io/MellowPlayer/ || mellowplayer ^AUR

Nuclear — Modern music player focused on streaming from free sources. Based on the Electron platform.

http://nuclear.gumblert.tech/ || nuclear-player-bin ^AUR

pianobar — Console-based frontend for the online radio Pandora.

https://6xq.net/projects/pianobar/ || pianobar

Pithos — Python/GTK Pandora Radio desktop client.

https://pithos.github.io/ || pithos ^AUR

Spotify — Proprietary music streaming service. It supports local playback and streaming from Spotify's vast library (requires a free account).

https://www.spotify.com/ || spotify ^AUR

Audio tag editors

Console

Beets — Music library organizer, tagger and more.

https://beets.io/ || beets

Demlo — Batch music tagger, encoder, renamer and more.

https://ambrevar.bitbucket.io/demlo/ || demlo ^AUR

id3 — Command-line utility to edit ID3 1.x and 2.x tags.

https://squell.github.io/id3/ || id3 ^AUR

id3ted — Command line id3 tag editor.

https://muennich.github.io/id3ted/ || id3ted ^AUR ^{[broken link: package not found]}

id3v2 — Command line editor for id3v2 tags.

http://id3v2.sourceforge.net/ || id3v2

MP3Info — MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor.

https://ibiblio.org/mp3info/ || mp3info

MP3Unicode — Command line utility to convert ID3 tags in mp3 files between different encodings.

http://mp3unicode.sourceforge.net/ || mp3unicode

Taffy — Simple command-line tag editor for many audio formats.

https://github.com/jangler/taffy || taffy ^AUR

Tagutil — CLI tool to edit music file's tag. It aims to provide both an easy-to-script interface and ease of use interactively.

https://github.com/kAworu/tagutil || tagutil ^AUR

Graphical

Audio Tag Tool — Tool to edit tags in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files.

https://github.com/impegoraro/tagtool || tagtool ^AUR

Coquillo — Metadata editor for various audio formats.

https://github.com/sjuvonen/coquillo || coquillo ^AUR

EasyTag — Utility for viewing, editing and writing ID3 tags of music files, supports many audio formats.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EasyTAG || easytag

Ex Falso — Cross-platform free and open source audio tag editor and library organizer. Run with exfalso.

https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/ || quodlibet

GabTag — Audio tagging tool written in GTK.

https://github.com/lachhebo/gabtag || gabtag ^AUR

Kid3 — MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV and AIFF files tag editor.

https://kid3.kde.org/ || KDE: kid3, Qt: kid3-qt

KTag Editor — ID3v tag editor developed in Qt5 framework. Supported files are mp3, wav, ogg, wma, flac, asf.

https://karoljkocmaros.blogspot.com/p/ktag-editor.html || ktageditor ^AUR

MP3Info GUI — MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor. The graphical interface can be launched with the gmp3info command.

https://ibiblio.org/mp3info/ || mp3info

Picard — Cross-platform audio tag editor written in Python (the official MusicBrainz tagger).

https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ || picard

NTag — Graphical tag editor focused on everyday life use cases.

https://github.com/nrittsti/ntag || ntag ^AUR

Puddletag — Replacement for the famous MP3tag for Windows.

https://docs.puddletag.net/ || puddletag ^AUR

Qoobar — Universal Qt-based audio tagger (specialized for classical music).

http://qoobar.sourceforge.net/en/index.htm || qoobar ^AUR

Tag Editor — A tag editor with Qt GUI and command-line interface supporting MP4/M4A/AAC (iTunes), ID3v1/ID3v2, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC and Matroska.

https://github.com/Martchus/tageditor || tageditor ^AUR

Thunar Media Tags Plugin — Adds special features for media files to the Thunar File Manager, including the ability to edit tags.

https://goodies.xfce.org/projects/thunar-plugins/thunar-media-tags-plugin || thunar-media-tags-plugin

Lyrics

Lyrics players

Floodlight Presenter — Presentation and lyrics program for churches to display lyrics and media.

https://floodlight.gitlab.io/ || floodlight-presenter ^AUR

Give Me Lyrics — See the lyrics of the song that is playing, from any application.

https://github.com/muriloventuroso/givemelyrics || givemelyrics ^AUR

Lyrics — Display lyrics on media players with MPRIS interface.

https://github.com/naaando/lyrics || lyrics ^AUR

OSD Lyrics — Lyric show compatible with various media players.

https://github.com/osdlyrics/osdlyrics || osdlyrics

Lyrics downloaders

clyrics — Extensible lyrics fetcher, with daemon support for cmus and mocp.

https://github.com/trizen/clyrics || clyrics ^AUR

glyrc — Command-line music related metadata searchengine, including support for downloading lyrics.

https://github.com/sahib/glyr || glyr

Lyrics editors

Karaoke Lyrics Editor — Lyrics editor and CD+G/video exporter for Karaoke.

https://www.ulduzsoft.com/linux/karaoke-lyrics-editor/ || karlyriceditor ^AUR

LyricsX — Lyrics editor.

https://github.com/timxx/lyricsx || lyricsx ^AUR

Audio converters

Caudec — A multiprocess command line audio converter that supports many formats (FLAC, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Windows codecs and many more)

https://caudec.cocatre.net/ || caudec ^AUR

Ecasound — Command line tools designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling.

https://nosignal.fi/ecasound/ || ecasound

FFaudioConverter — Batch audio converter and effects processor. It can convert files or whole folders containing music and video files to other audio formats with FFmpeg.

https://github.com/Bleuzen/FFaudioConverter || ffaudioconverter ^AUR

Flacon — Extracts individual tracks from one big audio file containing the entire album of music and saves them as separate audio files.

https://flacon.github.io/ || flacon ^AUR

fre:ac — Audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders.

https://freac.org/ || freac ^AUR

Gnac — Audio converter for GNOME.

http://gnac.sourceforge.net/ || gnac

SoundConverter — A graphical application to convert audio files into different formats.

https://soundconverter.org/ || soundconverter

soundKonverter — Qt-based GUI front-end to various audio converters.

https://github.com/dfaust/soundkonverter || soundkonverter

SoX — Command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files into other formats.

http://sox.sourceforge.net/ || sox

Audio editors

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of digital audio editors.

Audacity — Program that lets you manipulate digital audio waveforms.

https://www.audacityteam.org/ || audacity

GNOME Sound Recorder — The Sound Recorder application enables you to record and play .flac, .ogg (OGG audio, or .oga), and .wav sound files.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/SoundRecorder || gnome-sound-recorder

Gnome Wave Cleaner — Digital audio editor to denoise, dehiss and amplify audio files.

http://gwc.sourceforge.net/ || gwc ^AUR

Kwave — Sound editor for KDE.

http://kwave.sourceforge.net/ || kwave

mhWaveEdit — Graphical program for editing, playing and recording sound files.

https://github.com/magnush/mhwaveedit/ || mhwaveedit ^AUR

Mp3splt — Utility to split mp3, ogg vorbis and native FLAC files selecting a begin and an end time position, without decoding.

http://mp3splt.sourceforge.net/ || CLI: mp3splt, GUI: mp3splt-gtk

ocenaudio — Proprietary cross-platform, easy to use, fast and functional audio editor.

https://www.ocenaudio.com/en/ || ocenaudio-bin ^AUR

Play it Slowly — Play back audio files at a different speed or pitch.

https://29a.ch/playitslowly || playitslowly

Polyphone — A soundfont editor to create and edit a musical instrument based on samples, using the sf2 format.

https://www.polyphone-soundfonts.com/ || polyphone

Snd — Advanced sound editor modeled loosely after Emacs.

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/ || snd

Sweep — Audio editor and live playback tool.

http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/ || sweep

WaveSurfer — Tool for sound visualization and manipulation. Typical applications are speech/sound analysis and sound annotation/transcription.

https://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/ || wavesurfer ^AUR

Digital audio workstations

Audio analyzers

audioprism — Spectrogram tool for PulseAudio input and WAV files.

https://github.com/vsergeev/audioprism || audioprism ^AUR

BRP-PACU — Dual channel FFT based acoustic analysis tool to help engineers analyze live professional sound systems using the transfer function.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/brp-pacu/ || brp-pacu ^AUR

Baudline — Proprietary time-frequency and spectrogram analyzer

http://www.baudline.com/index.html || baudline-bin ^AUR

FMIT — Graphical utility for tuning your musical instruments, with error and volume history and advanced features.

https://gillesdegottex.github.io/fmit/ || fmit ^AUR

Friture — Real-time audio analyzer.

https://friture.org/ || friture ^AUR

Mousai — Simple application for identifying songs using the API of audd.io.

https://github.com/SeaDve/Mousai || mousai ^AUR

rtspeccy — Real time audio spectrum analyzer.

https://www.uninformativ.de/git/rtspeccy/ || rtspeccy-git ^AUR

sndpeek — Real-time audio visualization tool.

https://soundlab.cs.princeton.edu/software/sndpeek/ || ALSA: sndpeek-alsa ^AUR, JACK: sndpeek-jack ^AUR

SongRec — Unofficial Shazam client to recognize audio from an arbitrary audio file or from the microphone, written in Rust.

https://github.com/marin-m/SongRec || songrec

Sonic Visualiser — Viewing and analyzing the contents of music audio files.

https://www.sonicvisualiser.org/ || sonic-visualiser

Spek — Helps to analyse your audio files by showing their spectrogram.

http://spek.cc/ || spek ^AUR

Scorewriters

See also LilyPond#Front-ends and Wikipedia:Comparison of scorewriters.

Aria Maestosa — MIDI sequencer/editor. It lets you compose, edit and play MIDI files with a few clicks in a user-friendly interface offering score, keyboard, guitar, drum and controller views.

https://ariamaestosa.github.io/ariamaestosa/docs/index.html || ariamaestosa ^AUR

Canorus — Music score editor. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of notes, chord markings, lyrics, import/export filters to formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MusiXTeX and LilyPond.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/canorus/ || canorus ^AUR

Impro-Visor — Music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised.

https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/improvisor/ || impro-visor ^AUR

LilyPond — Music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible.

https://lilypond.org/ || lilypond

MuseScore — Create, playback, and print sheet music.

https://musescore.org/ || musescore

TuxGuitar — Multitrack guitar tablature editor and player.

http://tuxguitar.com.ar/ || tuxguitar ^AUR

Audio synthesis environments

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of audio synthesis environments.

Blue — Music composition environment for Csound, written in Java.

https://blue.kunstmusik.com/ || csound-blue ^AUR

Cabbage — Framework for audio software development using simple markup text and the Csound audio synthesis language.

https://cabbageaudio.com/ || cabbage ^AUR

ChucK — Strongly-timed, concurrent, and on-the-fly music programming language.

https://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ || chuck

Csound — Sound and music computing system.

https://csound.com/ || csound

CsoundQt — Frontend for Csound featuring a highlighting editor with autocomplete, interactive widgets and integrated help.

https://csoundqt.github.io/ || csoundqt

FoxDot — Live Coding with Python and SuperCollider.

https://foxdot.org/ || foxdot

Pure Data — Real-time music and multimedia environment.

http://msp.ucsd.edu/software.html || pd

Sonic Pi — Code-based music creation and performance tool.

https://sonic-pi.net/ || sonic-pi

SuperCollider — Platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition, used by musicians, artists, and researchers working with sound.

https://supercollider.github.io/ || supercollider

VCV Rack — Virtual Eurorack DAW. Use a plugin systems to add more Eurorack emulated modules.

https://vcvrack.com/ || vcvrack ^AUR

Sound generators

This section contains drum machines, software samplers and software synthesizers.

ADLMIDI — OPL3/OPN2 synthesizer using ADLMIDI.

https://github.com/jpcima/adljack || adljack

ADLplug — FM Yamaha OPL3 synthesizer for ADLMIDI.

https://github.com/jpcima/ADLplug || adlplug

Agordejo — Music and audio production session manager based on NSM.

https://www.laborejo.org/agordejo/ || agordejo

ams — Alsa Modular Synth. Realtime modular synthesizer and effect processor.

http://alsamodular.sourceforge.net/ || ams

amsynth — Analog Modelling SYNTHesizer. Easy-to-use software synthesizer with a classic subtractive synthesizer topology.

https://amsynth.github.io/ || amsynth

DIN — Sound synthesizer and musical instrument.

https://dinisnoise.org/ || din

Drumstick — Set of MIDI tools: drum grid, MIDI player, virtual piano.

https://drumstick.sourceforge.io/ || drumstick

Element — A modular LV2/VST3 audio plugin host.

https://kushview.net/element/ || element

Fluajho — SF2 soundfont sample player for JACK based on Fluidsynth.

https://www.laborejo.org/fluajho/ || fluajho

FluidSynth — Real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications.

https://www.fluidsynth.org/ || fluidsynth

Geonkick — Synthesizer that can synthesize elements of percussion. The most basic examples are: kicks, snares, hit-hats, shakers, claps.

https://gitlab.com/iurie-sw/geonkick || geonkick

Gigedit — Graphical instrument editor for sample based virtual instruments, based on the GigaStudio/Gigasampler file format.

http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Gigedit/ || gigedit

GrandOrgue — Virtual pipe organ sample player application supporting a HW1 compatible file format.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ourorgan/ || grandorgue-svn ^AUR ^{[broken link: package not found]}

GSequencer — Provides various tools to play, create, edit and mix your own music. It features a step sequencer, piano roll, automation and wave-form editor.

https://nongnu.org/gsequencer/ || gsequencer ^AUR

Helm — Software synthesizer to create electronic music on your computer.

https://tytel.org/helm/ || helm-synth

Hydrogen — Advanced drum machine to create drum sequences.

https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen || hydrogen

JSampler — Java GUI for LinuxSampler software audio sampler.

http://jsampler.sourceforge.net/ || jsampler

OPNplug — FM Yamaha OPN2 synthesizer for OPNMIDI.

https://github.com/jpcima/ADLplug || opnplug

Patroneo — Easy to use pattern based midi sequencer.

https://www.laborejo.org/patroneo/ || patroneo

PySynth — Suite of simple music synthesizers and helper scripts written in Python 3.

https://mdoege.github.io/PySynth/ || python-pysynth-git ^AUR

QMidiArp — Advanced MIDI arpeggiator, programmable step sequencer and LFO.

http://qmidiarp.sourceforge.net/ || qmidiarp

QmidiCtl — MIDI remote controller application that sends MIDI data over the network, using UDP/IP multicast.

https://qmidictl.sourceforge.io/ || qmidictl

QmidiNet — MIDI network gateway application that sends and receives MIDI data over the network, using UDP/IP multicast.

https://qmidinet.sourceforge.io/ || qmidinet

QMidiRoute — MIDI router and processor for ALSA.

http://alsamodular.sourceforge.net/ || qmidiroute

Qsampler — Qt GUI for LinuxSampler software audio sampler.

https://qsampler.sourceforge.io/ || qsampler

Qsynth — Qt GUI for Fluidsynth.

https://qsynth.sourceforge.io/ || qsynth

Qwertone — Simple music synthesizer app (like a toy-piano), but based on usual qwerty-keyboard for input.

https://gitlab.com/azymohliad/qwertone || qwertone-git ^AUR

QXGEdit — Qt GUI for editing MIDI System Exclusive files for XG devices (eg. Yamaha DB50XG).

https://qxgedit.sourceforge.io/ || qxgedit

setBfree — DSP tonewheel organ.

http://setbfree.org/ || setbfree

SpectMorph — Analyze samples of musical instruments and combine them (morphing).

http://spectmorph.org/ || spectmorph

TiMidity++ — Software synthesizer, which can play MIDI files by converting them into PCM waveform data.

http://timidity.sourceforge.net/ || timidity++

Vee One Suite — Old-school software instruments: synthv1, a polyphonic subtractive synthesizer; samplv1, a polyphonic sampler synthesizer; drumkv1, yet another drum-kit sampler; padthv1, a polyphonic additive synthesizer.

https://www.rncbc.org/ || synthv1, samplv1, drumkv1, padthv1

Vico — Minimalistic Midi sequencer that is intended to be used in parallel with other software.

https://www.laborejo.org/vico/ || vico

VMPK — Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard. MIDI events generator and receiver. It can use midi SoundFonts to generate sound by itself, or can be used to drive a MIDI synthesizer.

https://vmpk.sourceforge.io/ || vmpk

Yoshimi — Software synthesizer, a fork of ZynAddSubFX.

http://yoshimi.sourceforge.net/ || yoshimi

ZynAddSubFX — Fully featured software synthesizer capable of making a countless number of instruments, from some common heard from expensive hardware to interesting sounds that you will boost to an amazing universe of sounds.

https://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io/ || zynaddsubfx

Music trackers

Buzztrax — Music studio to compose songs using only a computer with a soundcard.

https://news.buzztrax.org/^{[dead link 2021-05-17 ⓘ]} || buzztrax ^AUR

FamiStudio — Very simple music editor for the Nintendo Entertainment System or Famicom.

https://famistudio.org/ || famistudio ^AUR

klystrack — Tracker for making C64/NES/Amiga-style chiptunes on a modern platform.

https://kometbomb.github.io/klystrack/ || klystrack-git ^AUR

MilkyTracker — Music application for creating .MOD and .XM module files.

https://milkytracker.titandemo.org/ || milkytracker

OpenMPT — Tracker software to create and play back some great music on your computer.

https://openmpt.org/ || openmpt ^AUR

Radium — Music editor with a new type of interface.

https://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/ || radium ^AUR

Schism Tracker — Create high quality music without the requirements of specialized, expensive equipment, and with a unique "finger feel" that is difficult to replicate in part.

http://schismtracker.org/ || schismtracker ^AUR

DJ

Giada — Minimal, hardcore audio tool for DJs, live performers and electronic musicians.

https://giadamusic.com/ || giada

IDJC — Powerful yet easy to use source-client for individuals interested in streaming live radio shows over the Internet using Shoutcast or Icecast servers.

http://idjc.sourceforge.net/ || idjc ^AUR

Linux Show Player — Powerful and feature-rich software to arrange cue lists. Designed for theatre plays and live music shows.

https://www.linux-show-player.org/ || linux-show-player ^AUR

Luppp — Music creation tool, intended for live use. The focus is on real time processing and a fast and intuitive workflow.

http://openavproductions.com/luppp/ || luppp

Mixxx — Integrates the tools DJs need to perform creative live mixes with digital music files.

https://mixxx.org/ || mixxx

Seq24 — Minimal loop based MIDI sequencer for a live performance with a very simple interface for editing and playing MIDI 'loops'.

http://filter24.org/seq24/ || seq24-bzr ^AUR

xwax — Digital Vinyl System (DVS) for Linux. It allows DJs and turntablists to playback digital audio files (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC and more), controlled using a normal pair of turntables via timecoded vinyls.

https://xwax.org/ || xwax

Audio effects

Calf Plugin Pack for JACK — Process and produce sounds using a set of plugins with JACK interface. (calfjackhost)

https://calf-studio-gear.org/ || calf

Carla — Audio plugin host, with support for many audio drivers and plugin formats.

https://kxstudio.linuxaudio.org/Applications:Carla || carla

guitarix — Virtual guitar amplifier for JACK.

https://guitarix.org/ || guitarix

PulseEffects — Apply effects to PulseAudio applications and input sources over PipeWire (over PulseAudio with legacy package).

https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects || pulseeffects ^AUR ^{[broken link: replaced by easyeffects]}, pulseeffects-legacy-git ^AUR

Rakarrack — Richly featured multi-effects processor emulating a guitar effects pedalboard.

http://rakarrack.sourceforge.net/ || rakarrack ^AUR

Audio visualizers

Barva — Visualizer for PulseAudio that pulses the background of your terminal.

https://github.com/Kharacternyk/barva/ || barva-git ^AUR

C.A.V.A. — Console-based audio visualizer for ALSA, MPD and PulseAudio.

https://github.com/karlstav/cava/ || cava ^AUR

Cavalcade — GTK GUI for C.A.V.A.

https://github.com/worron/cavalcade/ || cavalcade ^AUR

cli-visualizer — Highly configurable CLI-based audio visualizer.

https://github.com/dpayne/cli-visualizer || cli-visualizer ^AUR

GLava — OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer. Its primary use case is for desktop windows or backgrounds.

https://github.com/wacossusca34/glava || glava

GLMViz — Fully configurable OpenGL music visualizer.

https://github.com/hannesha/GLMViz || glmviz-git ^AUR

Le Biniou — User-friendly, powerful music visualization / VJing tool.

https://biniou.net/ || lebiniou ^AUR

projectM — Music visualizer which uses 3D accelerated iterative image-based rendering.

https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm || projectm-pulseaudio

VSXu — OpenGL-based (hardware-accelerated), modular programming environment with its main purpose to visualize music and create graphic effects in real-time.

https://www.vsxu.com/ || vsxu ^AUR

Remote audio

jammr — Play jam sessions with musicians around the world over the internet.

https://jammr.net/ || jammr ^AUR

Jamulus — Enables musicians to perform real-time jam sessions over the internet.

https://jamulus.io/ || jamulus ^AUR

Noson — Fast and smart controller for SONOS devices.

https://janbar.github.io/noson-app/ || noson-app ^AUR

SonoBus — Application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network.

https://sonobus.net/ || sonobus ^AUR

Upplay — Qt-based UPnP audio control point.

https://lesbonscomptes.com/upplay/ || upplay ^AUR

Volume control

See also PulseAudio#Front-ends and JACK Audio Connection Kit#GUI.

alsamixer — Soundcard mixer for ALSA soundcard driver, with ncurses interface.

https://alsa-project.org/ || alsa-utils

ALSA Tray — Provides a systray icon and a command line interface for setting the volume of the ALSA Mixers.

https://projects.flogisoft.com/alsa-tray/ || alsa-tray ^AUR

AlsaVolume — Tray ALSA volume changer written using gtkmm.

https://github.com/Vitozz/cppAlsaVolume || cpp-alsa-volume ^AUR

AMixST — Volume wheel using ALSA and Qt5.

https://github.com/FenixFyreX/amixst || amixst ^AUR

Emixer — Utility to control volume levels. Part of Enlightenment.

https://www.enlightenment.org/about-enlightenment || enlightenment

GNOME ALSA Mixer — ALSA mixer for GNOME.

https://launchpad.net/gnome-alsamixer || gnome-alsamixer ^AUR

GVolWheel — Audio mixer which lets you control the volume through a tray icon.

https://github.com/Junker/gvolwheel || gvolwheel ^AUR

KMix — KDE volume control program.

https://apps.kde.org/kmix/ || kmix

MATE Volume Control — Audio mixer application and system tray applet for MATE to mix audio and adjust volume levels of various audio mixer devices.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-media || mate-media

PNMixer — A fork of Obmixer. It has many new features such as ALSA channel selection, connect/disconnect detection, shortcuts, etc.

https://github.com/nicklan/pnmixer/wiki || pnmixer ^AUR

QasTools — Collection of desktop applications for the Linux sound system ALSA. It provides QasMixer (mixer), QasHctl (HCTL mixer) and QasConfig (configuration browser).

https://gitlab.com/sebholt/qastools || qastools

Retrovol — Retro-looking volume setting tray applet.

https://github.com/pizzasgood/retrovol || retrovol ^AUR

Volctl — Per-application system tray applet volume control for PulseAudio.

https://buzz.github.io/volctl/ || volctl ^AUR

Volnoti — A lightweight volume notification daemon for GNU/Linux and other POSIX operating systems.

https://github.com/davidbrazdil/volnoti || volnoti ^AUR

Volti — A GTK application for controlling audio volume from system tray with an internal mixer and support for multimedia keys that uses only ALSA.

https://github.com/gen2brain/volti || volti ^AUR

Volume Icon — Another volume control for your system tray with channel selection, themes and an external mixer.

http://nullwise.com/volumeicon.html || volumeicon

VolWheel — A little application which lets you control the sound volume easily through a tray icon you can scroll on.

https://oliwer.net/b/volwheel.html || volwheel ^AUR

Xfce ALSA Panel Plugin — Simple ALSA volume control plugin for Xfce4 panel.

https://github.com/equeim/xfce4-alsa-plugin || xfce4-alsa-plugin ^AUR

CD ripping

See Optical disc drive#Audio CD.

Video

Video players

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of video player software.

Console

FFplay — Very simple and portable media player using the FFmpeg libraries and the SDL library.

https://ffmpeg.org/ || ffmpeg

gst-play-1.0 — Simple command line playback testing tool for GStreamer.

https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ || gst-plugins-base-libs

MPlayer — Video player that supports a complete and versatile array of video and audio formats.

https://mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html || mplayer

mpv — Movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2.

https://mpv.io/ || mpv

VLC media player — Command-line version of the famous video player that can play smoothly high definition videos in the TTY. The rc interface can be launched with vlc -I rc, and the ncurses interface can be launched with vlc -I ncurses.

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ || vlc

Graphical

GStreamer-based

Cinema — Video player and manager for watching local video files.

https://anufrij.org/cinema/ || playmyvideos ^AUR

Clapper — GNOME media player built using GJS with GTK4 toolkit and powered by GStreamer with OpenGL rendering.

https://rafostar.github.io/clapper/ || clapper ^AUR

Glide — Simple and minimalistic media player relying on GStreamer for the multimedia support and GTK for the user interface.

https://github.com/philn/glide || glide

GNOME Videos — Media player (audio and video) for the GNOME desktop that uses GStreamer. Part of gnome.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Videos || totem

Identity — Program for comparing multiple versions of an image or video.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/YaLTeR/identity || identity ^AUR

Movie Monad — Free and simple to use video player made with Haskell using GStreamer and GTK. Precompiled and no Haskell dependency in run-time.

https://lettier.github.io/movie-monad/ || movie-monad ^AUR

Pantheon Videos — Video player and library app designed for elementary OS using GStreamer.

https://github.com/elementary/videos || pantheon-videos

Parole — Modern media player based on the GStreamer framework.

https://docs.xfce.org/apps/parole/start || parole

Rage — Video and audio player written with Enlightenment Foundation Libraries with some extra bells and whistles. Uses GStreamer

https://www.enlightenment.org/about-rage || rage ^AUR

Snappy — Powerful media player with a minimalistic interface that uses GStreamer.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Snappy || snappy-player

Spivak — Karaoke player based on GStreamer and Qt5.

https://github.com/gyunaev/spivak || spivak ^AUR

Xnoise — GTK and GStreamer-based media player for both audio and video with "a slick GUI, great speed and lots of features." (development ceased)

http://xnoise-media-player.com/ || xnoise

mpv-based

Baka MPlayer — Free and open source, cross-platform, mpv based multimedia player (Qt 5).

https://github.com/u8sand/Baka-MPlayer || baka-mplayer

Bomi — bomi is a graphical user interface(GUI) player based on mpv for Linux.

https://bomi-player.github.io/ || bomi-git ^AUR

Celluloid — Simple GTK frontend for mpv, formerly GNOME MPV.

https://celluloid-player.github.io/ || celluloid

Clip — Video player and collection manager utilizing mpv as the backend.

https://mauikit.org/ || maui-clip

Deepin Movie — Movie player for Deepin desktop based on mpv.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-movie/ || deepin-movie

Haruna Video Player — Qt/QML video player built on top of mpv.

https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/haruna || haruna ^AUR

Kawaii-Player — Audio/video manager and multimedia player (based on mpv) with PC-to-PC casting feature, along with functionalities of portable media server and torrent streaming server.

https://github.com/kanishka-linux/kawaii-player || kawaii-player ^AUR

KittehPlayer — A YouTube-like video player based on Qt, QML and mpv.

https://github.com/purringChaos/KittehPlayer || kittehplayer-git ^AUR

Media Player Classic Qute Theater — Clone of Media Player Classic reimplimented in Qt and based on mpv.

https://github.com/mpc-qt/mpc-qt || mpc-qt ^AUR

Minitube — YouTube desktop application written in C++ using mpv and Qt.

https://flavio.tordini.org/minitube || minitube

MoonPlayer — Video player for playing and downloading online videos from YouTube, Youku etc.

https://github.com/coslyk/moonplayer || moonplayer ^AUR

mpv — Very basic GUI for mpv. Can be launched with mpv --player-operation-mode=pseudo-gui.

https://mpv.io/ || mpv

mpvz — Qt5/QML based GUI for libmpv. Based on the Tethys theme for Bomi.

https://github.com/Zren/mpvz || mpvz-git ^AUR

SMPlayer — Qt multimedia player with extra features (CSS themes, YouTube integration, etc.) based on mpv. It can use MPlayer as alternative backend.

https://www.smplayer.info/ || smplayer

xt7-player-mpv — Qt/Gambas GUI to mpv with a rich set of configurable options including filters and drivers, ladspa plugins support as well as library/playlist managment, YouTube, online radios, podcasts, DVB-T and more.

https://github.com/kokoko3k/xt7-player-mpv || xt7-player-mpv ^AUR

MPlayer-based

GNOME MPlayer — Simple GTK-based GUI for MPlayer.

https://sites.google.com/site/kdekorte2/gnomemplayer || gnome-mplayer

Phonon-based

Dragon Player — Simple video player for KDE based on Phonon. Part of the kde-multimedia group.

https://apps.kde.org/dragonplayer/ || dragon

KMPlayer — Simple Phonon-based video player for KDE and video player plugin for Konqueror. It can use MPlayer as alternative backend.

https://apps.kde.org/kmplayer/ || kmplayer

Other

FreeTube — Desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. Use YouTube without advertisements and prevent Google from tracking you with their cookies and JavaScript. Based on the Electron platform.

https://freetubeapp.io/ || freetube-bin ^AUR

Kaffeine — Very versatile KDE media player that, by default, utilizes VLC as its backend and has excellent support of digital TV (DVB-T, DVB-C, DVB-S).

https://apps.kde.org/kaffeine/ || kaffeine

Kaku — Highly integrated music player supports different online platform like YouTube, SoundCloud, Vimeo and more. Based on the Electron platform.

https://kaku.rocks/ || kaku-bin ^AUR

Kodi — Media player and entertainment hub for digital media.

https://kodi.tv/ || kodi-x11 ^{[broken link: replaced by kodi]}, kodi-wayland ^{[broken link: replaced by kodi]} or kodi-gbm ^{[broken link: replaced by kodi]}

QMPlay2 — Qt based video player. It can play and stream all formats supported by FFmpeg and libmodplug. It has on integrated module system, which includes a YouTube browser.

https://github.com/zaps166/QMPlay2 || qmplay2 ^AUR

QtAV Player — Simple media player based on QtAV and FFmpeg. Run with Player or QMLPlayer.

https://www.qtav.org/ || qtav

Stremio — Extensible media center.

https://www.stremio.com/ || stremio ^AUR, stremio-beta ^AUR

tvtime — High quality television application for use with video capture cards.

https://linuxtv.org/ || tvtime

VLC media player — Middleweight video player with support for a wide variety of audio and video formats.

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ || vlc

xine — Free multimedia player.

https://www.xine-project.org/ || xine-ui

Xjadeo — Video player that displays a video-clip in sync with an external time source (MTC, LTC, JACK-transport).

http://xjadeo.sourceforge.net/ || xjadeo

YUView — Qt-based YUV player with an advanced analytic toolset.

https://github.com/IENT/YUView || yuview ^AUR

Video converters

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of video converters and Codecs and containers#Container format tools.

Console

Avidemux CLI — Free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.

https://www.avidemux.org/ || avidemux-cli

FFmpeg — Complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.

https://ffmpeg.org/ || ffmpeg

HandBrake CLI — Simple yet powerful video transcoder ideal for batch mkv/x264 ripping.

https://handbrake.fr/ || handbrake-cli

MEncoder — Free command line video decoding, encoding and filtering tool.

https://mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html || mencoder

Transcode — Command line tool for video stream processing.

http://www.transcoding.org/ || transcode

Graphical

Ciano — Simple multimedia file converter using FFmpeg and ImageMagick.

https://robertsanseries.github.io/ciano/ || ciano

FFmpegYAG — Advanced GUI for the popular FFmpeg audio/video encoding tool.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpegyag/ || ffmpegyag ^AUR

FF Multi Converter — Simple graphical application which enables you to convert audio, video, image and document files between all popular formats, by utilizing other command-line tools.

https://sites.google.com/site/ffmulticonverter/ || ffmulticonverter ^AUR

HandBrake — Simple yet powerful video transcoder ideal for batch mkv/x264 ripping. GTK version.

https://handbrake.fr/ || handbrake

QWinFF — Qt5 GUI for FFmpeg that can read audio and video files in various formats and convert them into other formats.

https://qwinff.github.io/ || qwinff ^AUR

Transmageddon — Simple python application for transcoding video into formats supported by GStreamer.

http://www.linuxrising.org/ || transmageddon

WinFF — Graphical video and audio batch converter using FFmpeg.

https://www.biggmatt.com/winff/ || winff ^AUR

Video editors

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of video editing software.

Avidemux — Free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.

http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ || avidemux-qt

Blender — Fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite with a built-in non-linear video editor.

https://www.blender.org/ || blender

Cinelerra (Heroine Virtual) — Advanced video editing and compositing environment.

http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php || cinelerra-hv ^AUR

Cinelerra (Community Version) — Advanced video editing and compositing environment.

http://cinelerra-cv.wikidot.com/ || cinelerra-cv ^AUR

Cinelerra GG Infinity — Professional video editing and compositing environment.

https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/ || cinelerra-gg-git ^AUR

DaVinci Resolve — Proprietary A/V post-production software suite.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/ || davinci-resolve ^AUR

Flowblade — Multitrack non-linear video editor for Linux, designed to provide a fast, robust editing experience.

https://jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/ || flowblade

Kdenlive — Non-linear video editor designed for basic to semi-professional work.

https://kdenlive.org/ || kdenlive

Lightworks — Professional proprietary non-linear editing system for editing and mastering digital video in various formats.

https://www.lwks.com/ || lightworks ^AUR

LiVES — Video editor and VJ (live performance) platform.

http://lives-video.com/ || lives ^AUR

LosslessCut — GUI tool for lossless trimming/cutting of video/audio files. Based on the Electron platform.

https://mifi.no/losslesscut/ || losslesscut-bin ^AUR

Natron — Open-source compositing software. Node-graph based. Similar in functionalities to Adobe After Effects and Nuke by The Foundry.

https://natrongithub.github.io/ || natron ^AUR

Olive — Non-linear video editor aiming to provide a fully-featured alternative to high-end professional video editing software.

https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/ || olive ^AUR

OpenShot — Non-linear video editor based on MLT framework.

https://www.openshot.org/ || openshot

Pitivi — Video editor designed to be intuitive and integrate well in the GNOME desktop.

https://www.pitivi.org/ || pitivi

Shotcut — Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor.

https://www.shotcut.org/ || shotcut

VapourSynth Editor — Editor for VapourSynth scripts.

https://bitbucket.org/mystery_keeper/vapoursynth-editor || vapoursynth-editor ^AUR

VidCutter — Fast lossless media cutter + joiner w/ frame-accurate SmartCut options powered by mpv, FFmpeg via a sleek Qt5 GUI.

https://vidcutter.ozmartians.com/ || vidcutter

Video Trimmer — Cut out a fragment of a video given the start and end timestamps. The video is never re-encoded, so the process is very fast and does not reduce the video quality.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/YaLTeR/video-trimmer || video-trimmer ^AUR

Subtitles

Subtitle players

Penguin Subtitle Player — Standalone subtitle player that provides a translucent window which always stays on the top so subtitles can be shown on top of the video without blocking anything.

https://github.com/carsonip/Penguin-Subtitle-Player || penguin-subtitle-player

SubtitlesPrinter — Print subtitles above a X-screen, independently of the video player.

https://github.com/OlivierMarty/SubtitlesPrinter || subtitles-printer-git ^AUR

Subtitle downloaders

QNapi — Qt client for downloading movie subtitles from NapiProjekt, OpenSubtitles, Napisy24.

https://qnapi.github.io/ || qnapi

subdl — Command-line tool for downloading subtitles from opensubtitles.org.

https://github.com/akexakex/subdl || subdl

SubDownloader — Automatic download/upload of subtitles using fast hashing.

https://github.com/subdownloader/subdownloader || subdownloader

Subtitle editors

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of subtitle editors.

Aegisub — Subtitle editor.

https://github.com/Aegisub/Aegisub || aegisub

Gaupol — Full-featured subtitle editor.

https://otsaloma.io/gaupol/ || gaupol

Gnome Subtitles — Video subtitle editor for GNOME.

http://www.gnomesubtitles.org/ || gnome-subtitles

Jubler — Open-source multiplatform subtitle editor written in Java.

https://www.jubler.org/ || jubler ^AUR

Subtitle Composer — Subtitle editor for KDE supporting various formats, features different player backends, able to display wave form.

https://subtitlecomposer.kde.org/ || subtitlecomposer ^AUR

Subtitle Edit — Subtitle editing program. Written in C# using mono.

https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit || subtitleedit ^AUR

Subtitle Editor — GTK 3 tool to edit subtitles for GNU/Linux/*BSD.

https://kitone.github.io/subtitleeditor/ || subtitleeditor

Screencast

See Screen capture#Screencast software.

Miracast

See Miracast#Implementations.

Webcam

See also FFmpeg#Recording webcam and Wikipedia:Comparison of webcam software.

Cheese — Take photos and videos with your webcam, with fun graphical effects.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Cheese || cheese

Deepin Camera — Tool to view camera, take photo and video.

https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-camera || deepin-camera

fswebcam — Small and simple command line webcam software that generates images for a webcam.

https://www.sanslogic.co.uk/fswebcam/ || fswebcam ^AUR

Guvcview — Simple interface for capturing and viewing video from v4l2 devices.

http://guvcview.sourceforge.net/ || GTK: guvcview, Qt: guvcview-qt

Kamoso — Webcam recorder from KDE community.

https://apps.kde.org/kamoso/ || kamoso

MJPG-streamer — Command line application which can be used to stream M-JPEG over an IP-based network from a webcam to various types of viewers.

https://github.com/jacksonliam/mjpg-streamer || mjpg-streamer-git ^AUR

Motion — Highly configurable program that monitors video signals from many types of cameras. It is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed; in other words, it can detect motion.

https://motion-project.github.io/ || motion

Pantheon Camera — Camera app designed for elementary OS.

https://github.com/elementary/camera || pantheon-camera

QtCAM — Webcam software with more than 10 image control settings, extension settings and color space switching.

https://www.e-consystems.com/opensource-linux-webcam-software-application.asp || qtcam-git ^AUR

v4l2ucp — Universal control panel for V4L2 devices.

http://v4l2ucp.sourceforge.net/ || v4l2ucp ^AUR

v4l-utils — Provides a series of utilities for media devices.

https://linuxtv.org/ || v4l-utils

Webcamoid — Full featured webcam suite.

https://webcamoid.github.io/ || webcamoid ^AUR

ZArt — GUI for G'MIC real-time manipulations on the output of a webcam.

https://gmic.eu/ || zart ^{[broken link: package not found]}

See also Wikipedia:List of DVD authoring applications.

Bombono DVD — DVD authoring program with nice and clean GUI.

https://bombono.com/ || bombono-dvd ^AUR

Devede — Program to create VideoDVDs and CDs.

https://rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html || devede

DVDStyler — DVD authoring application for the creation of professional-looking DVDs.

https://www.dvdstyler.org/ || dvdstyler

DVD ripping

See Optical disc drive#DVD-Video.

Video thumbnails

vcsi — Create video contact sheets. A video contact sheet is an image composed of video capture thumbnails arranged on a grid.

https://github.com/amietn/vcsi || vcsi ^AUR

Video Contact Sheet — Bash script meant to create video contact sheets (previews) of videos. Any video supported by mplayer and ffmpeg can be used.

https://p.outlyer.net/vcs || video-contact-sheet ^AUR

Game and interactive application development

Godot Engine — Game development platform for both 2D and 3D games, with integrate IDE

https://godot-engine.org || godot

LÖVE — Lua based game development environment

https://love2d.org || love

TIC-80 — Fantasy computer/console

https://tic80.com || tic-80-git ^AUR

Collection managers

Data Crow — Media cataloger and media organizer.

https://datacrow.net/ || datacrow ^AUR

GCstar — GNOME application for organizing various collections (board games, comic books, movies, stamps, etc.).

http://www.gcstar.org/ || gcstar ^AUR

Griffith — Movie collection manager application.

https://gitlab.com/Strit/griffith || griffith

MediaElch — Media manager for Kodi. Information about movies, TV shows, concerts and music are stored as nfo files.

https://www.kvibes.de/mediaelch/ || mediaelch

Tellico — KDE application for organizing various collections (books, video, music, coins, etc.).

https://tellico-project.org/ || tellico

tinyMediaManager — Media management tool to provide metadata for Kodi.

https://www.tinymediamanager.org/ || tiny-media-manager ^AUR

vMovieDB — Movie collection manager for the Gnome desktop.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/vmoviedb/ || vmoviedb ^AUR

Media servers

Airsonic — Web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music. (Fork of Subsonic.)

https://airsonic.github.io/ || airsonic ^AUR

Emby — Proprietary media server, which automatically converts and streams your media on-the-fly to play on any device.

https://emby.media/ || emby-server

OwnTone — DAAP (iTunes) and MPD media server with support for AirPlay devices, Apple Remote, Chromecast, Spotify and internet radio.

https://owntone.github.io/owntone-server/ || owntone-server ^AUR

Gerbera — UPnP Media Server to stream your media to devices on your home network. (Fork of MediaTomb.)

https://gerbera.io/ || gerbera ^AUR

Icecast — Streaming media (audio/video) server which currently supports Ogg (Vorbis and Theora), Opus, WebM and MP3 streams.

https://icecast.org/ || icecast

Jellyfin — Media system that puts you in control of managing and streaming your media.

https://jellyfin.org/ || Server: jellyfin ^AUR, desktop client: jellyfin-media-player ^AUR, cast client: jellyfin-mpv-shim ^AUR

Plex — Proprietary media server, which organizes your personal video, music, and photo collections and streams them to all of your devices.

https://www.plex.tv/ || plex-media-server ^AUR

ReadyMedia — Simple media server software, with the aim of being fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna/ || minidlna

Rygel — UPnP AV MediaServer and MediaRenderer that allows you to easily share audio, video and pictures, and control of media player on your home network.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Rygel || rygel

Serviio — Proprietary media server, which allows you to stream your media files (music, video or images) to renderer devices (e.g. a TV set, Bluray player, games console or mobile phone) on your connected home network.

https://serviio.org/ || serviio ^AUR

Subsonic — Proprietary media server to stream from your own computer.

http://www.subsonic.org/ || subsonic ^AUR

Tvheadend — TV streaming server and recorder supporting DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-C, DVB-T, ATSC, ISDB-T, IPTV, SAT>IP and HDHomeRun as input sources.

https://tvheadend.org/ || tvheadend ^AUR

Universal Media Server — UPnP media server, which is capable of sharing video, audio and images between most modern devices. (Fork of PS3 Media Server.)

https://www.universalmediaserver.com/ || ums ^AUR

Metadata

CoreInfo — Simple media metadata viewer built on mediainfo library. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/ || coreinfo ^AUR

DV Analyzer — Technical quality control and reporting tool that examines DV streams in order to report errors.

https://mediaarea.net/DVAnalyzer || CLI: dvanalyzer ^AUR, GUI: dvanalyzer-gui ^AUR

ExifTool — Command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files.

https://sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ || perl-image-exiftool

Exiv2 — Command line utility to manage image metadata. It provides fast and easy read and write access to the Exif, IPTC and XMP metadata and the ICC Profile embedded within digital images in various formats.

https://exiv2.org/ || exiv2

ffprobe — Gather information from multimedia streams and print it in human- and machine-readable fashion.

https://ffmpeg.org/ffprobe.html || ffmpeg

jExifToolGUI — Java/Swing graphical frontend for ExifTool, which reads and writes all kind of metadata tags from/to image files.

https://hvdwolf.github.io/jExifToolGUI/ || jexiftoolgui ^AUR

jhead — Exif jpeg header manipulation tool.

https://sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/ || jhead

MediaConch — Implementation checker, policy checker, reporter, and fixer.

https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch || CLI: mediaconch ^AUR, GUI: mediaconch-gui ^AUR

MediaInfo — Convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.

https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo || CLI: mediainfo, GUI: mediainfo-gui

sndfile-info — Obtaining information about the contents of an audio file.

http://mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/ || libsndfile

Mobile device managers

Android File Transfer — Interactive Media Transfer Protocol client with Qt5 GUI.

https://whoozle.github.io/android-file-transfer-linux/ || android-file-transfer

gnokii — Tools and user space driver for use with mobile phones.

https://www.gnokii.org/ || gnokii ^AUR

gMTP — Simple MP3 and media player client for Media Transfer Protocol.

https://gmtp.sourceforge.io/ || gmtp

GNOME Phone Manager — Control your mobile phone from your GNOME desktop.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/PhoneManager || gnome-phone-manager ^AUR

gtkpod — GUI for Apple's iPod using GTK. It allows you to import your existing iTunes database, add songs, podcasts, videos and cover art, and to edit ID3 tags.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gtkpod/ || gtkpod ^AUR

KDE Connect — Provides integration between devices.

https://kdeconnect.kde.org/ || kdeconnect

Modem Manager GUI — Control EDGE/3G/4G broadband modem specific functions.

https://linuxonly.ru/page/modem-manager-gui || modem-manager-gui

Wammu — Manage data in your cell phone such as contacts, calendar or messages.

https://wammu.eu/ || wammu ^AUR

Optical disc burning

See Optical disc drive#Burning CD/DVD/BD with a GUI.

Utilities

Terminal

Command shells

See the main article: Command-line shell.

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of command shells.

Terminal emulators

Terminal emulators show a GUI Window that contains a terminal. Most emulate Xterm, which in turn emulates VT102, which emulates typewriter. For further background information, see Wikipedia:Terminal emulator.

For a comprehensive list, see Wikipedia:List of terminal emulators.

Alacritty — A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.

https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty || alacritty

aterm — Xterm replacement with transparency support. It has been deprecated in favour of urxvt since 2008.

http://www.afterstep.org/aterm.php || aterm ^AUR

cool-retro-term — A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display.

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term || cool-retro-term

CoreTerminal — Terminal emulator based on qtermwidget. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/ || coreterminal ^AUR

CuteCom — A graphical serial terminal.

https://gitlab.com/cutecom/cutecom || cutecom ^AUR

Deepin Terminal — Terminal emulation application for Deepin desktop.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-terminal/ || deepin-terminal

Eterm — Terminal emulator intended as a replacement for xterm and designed for the Enlightenment desktop.

https://github.com/mej/Eterm || eterm ^AUR

foot — Lightweight terminal emulator for Wayland with sixel support

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot || foot ^AUR, foot-git ^AUR

Hyper — A terminal with JS/CSS support. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/zeit/hyper || hyper ^AUR

Konsole — Terminal emulator included in the KDE desktop.

https://konsole.kde.org/ || konsole

kitty — A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty || kitty

Liri Terminal — Material Design terminal for Liri.

https://github.com/lirios/terminal || liri-terminal

mlterm — A multi-lingual terminal emulator supporting various character sets and encodings in the world.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mlterm/ || mlterm ^AUR

moserial — GTK-based serial terminal for the GNOME desktop.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Moserial || moserial

PuTTY — Highly configurable ssh/telnet/serial console program.

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ || putty

QTerminal — Lightweight Qt-based terminal emulator.

https://github.com/qterminal/qterminal || qterminal

rxvt — Popular replacement for xterm.

http://rxvt.sourceforge.net/ || rxvt ^AUR

shellinabox — A web-based SSH Terminal

https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox || shellinabox-git ^AUR

st — Simple terminal implementation for X.

https://st.suckless.org || st ^AUR

Station — Terminal emulation features different view modes such as split vertically and horizontally, a tabbed interface, and copy and paste commands.

https://mauikit.org/ || maui-station

Terminology — Terminal emulator by the Enlightenment project team with innovative features: file thumbnails and media play like a media player.

https://www.enlightenment.org/about-terminology || terminology

urxvt — Highly extendable (with Perl) unicode enabled rxvt-clone terminal emulator featuring tabbing, url launching, a Quake style drop-down mode and pseudo-transparency.

http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html || rxvt-unicode

wayst — Simple terminal emulator for Wayland and X11 with OpenGL rendering and minimal dependencies.

https://github.com/91861/wayst || wayst-git ^AUR

xterm — Simple terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that cannot use the window system directly.

https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ || xterm

Yakuake — Drop-down terminal (Quake style) emulator based on Konsole.

https://apps.kde.org/yakuake/ || yakuake

zutty — A high-end terminal for low-end systems.

https://tomscii.sig7.se/zutty/ || zutty

VTE-based

VTE (Virtual Terminal Emulator) is a widget developed during early GNOME days for use in the GNOME Terminal. It has since given birth to many terminals with similar capabilities.

Deepin Terminal (GTK version) — Old terminal emulation application for Deepin desktop.

https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-terminal-gtk || deepin-terminal-gtk

EasySSH — SSH Connection Manager.

https://github.com/muriloventuroso/easyssh || easyssh ^AUR

Germinal — Minimalist terminal emulator which provides a borderless maximized terminal, attached to a tmux session by default, hence providing tabs and panels.

https://www.imagination-land.org/tags/germinal.html || germinal ^AUR

GNOME Terminal — A terminal emulator included in the GNOME desktop with support for Unicode.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Terminal || gnome-terminal

Guake — Drop-down terminal for the GNOME desktop.

http://guake-project.org/ || guake

kermit — A VTE-based terminal emulator that aims to be simple, fast and effective.

https://github.com/orhun/kermit || kermit ^AUR

King's Cross — Simple user-friendly terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/ZanderBrown/kgx || kgx ^AUR

LXTerminal — Desktop independent terminal emulator for LXDE.

https://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXTerminal || lxterminal

MATE terminal — A fork of Wikipedia:GNOME terminal for the MATE desktop.

https://www.mate-desktop.org/ || mate-terminal

Pantheon Terminal — A super lightweight, beautiful, and simple terminal emulator. It is designed to be setup with sane defaults and little to no configuration.

https://github.com/elementary/terminal || pantheon-terminal

ROXTerm — Tabbed terminal emulator with a small footprint.

http://roxterm.sourceforge.net/ || roxterm ^AUR

sakura — Terminal emulator based on GTK and VTE.

https://www.pleyades.net/david/projects/sakura || sakura

Terminator — Terminal emulator supporting multiple resizable terminal panels.

https://gnome-terminator.org/ || terminator

Termite — Keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support. Unmaintained - the developers recommend switching to Alacritty.

https://github.com/thestinger/termite || termite ^AUR

Tilda — Configurable drop down terminal emulator.

https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda/ || tilda

Tilix — Tiling terminal emulator for GNOME.

https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/ || tilix

Xfce Terminal — Terminal emulator included in the Xfce desktop with support for a colorized prompt and a tabbed interface.

https://docs.xfce.org/apps/terminal/start || xfce4-terminal

KMS-based

The following terminal emulators are based on the kernel mode setting that could be invoked without X.

KMSCON — A KMS/DRM-based system console(getty) with an integrated terminal emulator for Linux operating systems.

https://github.com/dvdhrm/kmscon || kmscon

framebuffer-based

In the GNU/Linux world, the framebuffer can refer to a virtual device in the Linux kernel (fbdev) or the virtual framebuffer system for X (xvfb). This section mainly lists the terminal emulators based on the in-kernel virtual device, i.e. fbdev.

yaft — A simple terminal emulator for living without X, with UCS2 glyphs, wallpaper and 256color support.

https://github.com/uobikiemukot/yaft || yaft ^AUR

Terminal multiplexers

See also Wikipedia:Terminal multiplexer.

abduco — Tool for session attach and detach support which allows a process to run independently from its controlling terminal.

https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/abduco/ || abduco

byobu — An GPLv3 licensed addon for tmux or screen. It requires a terminal multiplexer installed.

https://byobu.org/ || byobu

dtach — Program that emulates the detach feature of GNU Screen.

http://dtach.sourceforge.net/ || dtach ^AUR

dvtm — dwm-style window manager in the console.

https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/ || dvtm

GNU Screen — Full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal.

https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ || screen

mtm — Simple terminal multiplexer with just four commands: change focus, split, close, and screen redraw.

https://github.com/deadpixi/mtm || mtm-git ^AUR

tmux — BSD licensed terminal multiplexer.

https://tmux.github.io/ || tmux

wezterm — GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer implemented in Rust.

https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/ || wezterm

Tip: Kitty, a terminal emulator, offers similar functions.

Files

File managers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of file managers.

Console

Clex — File manager with full-screen user interface

http://www.clex.sk/ || clex ^AUR

ded — directory editor, file manager similar to Emacs dired

https://invisible-island.net/ded/ded.html || ded ^AUR

Dired — Directory editor integrated with Emacs.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Dired.html || emacs

joshuto — ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust.

https://github.com/kamiyaa/joshuto || joshuto-git ^AUR

Last File Manager — Powerful file manager written in Python 3 with a curses interface.

https://inigo.katxi.org/devel/lfm/ || lfm ^AUR

lf — Terminal file manager written in Go using server/client architecture.

https://github.com/gokcehan/lf || lf ^AUR

Midnight Commander — Console-based, dual-paneled file manager.

https://midnight-commander.org || mc

nffm — "Nothing Fancy File Manager", a mouseless ncurses file manager written in C.

https://github.com/mariostg/nffm || nffm-git ^AUR

nnn — Tiny, lightning fast, feature-packed file manager.

https://github.com/jarun/nnn || nnn

fff — A simple file manager written in Bash.

https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff || fff

Pilot — File manager that comes with the Alpine email client.

https://alpine.x10host.com/ || alpine-git ^AUR

Ranger — Console-based file manager with vi bindings, customizability, and lots of features.

https://ranger.github.io/ || ranger

Vifm — Ncurses-based two-panel file manager with vi-like keybindings.

https://vifm.info || vifm

CliFM — The KISS file manager: non-curses, fast, extensible, and lightweight as hell.

https://github.com/leo-arch/clifm || clifm ^AUR

Graphical

Caja — The file manager for the MATE desktop.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/caja || caja

CoreFM — Simple lightweight easy to use file manager with many features like image previews, mime-icon support, split view, auto-mounting of removable media, drag-n-drop support etc. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/ || corefm ^AUR

Deepin File Manager — File manager developed for Deepin.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/dde-file-manager/ || deepin-file-manager

Dolphin — File manager included in the KDE desktop.

https://apps.kde.org/dolphin/ || dolphin

Gentoo — A lightweight file manager for GTK.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gentoo/ || gentoo ^AUR

GNOME Files — Extensible, heavyweight file manager used by default in GNOME with support for custom scripts.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Files || nautilus

Index — File manager that lets you browse your system files and applications and preview your music, text, image and video files and share them with external applications.

https://apps.kde.org/index-fm/ || index-fm

Konqueror — File manager and web browser for the KDE desktop.

https://apps.kde.org/konqueror/ || konqueror

Liri Files — The file manager for Liri.

https://github.com/lirios/files || liri-files

Nemo — Nemo is the file manager of the Cinnamon desktop. A fork of Nautilus.

https://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/^{[dead link 2021-05-17 ⓘ]} || nemo

Pantheon Files — File browser designed for elementary OS.

https://github.com/elementary/files || pantheon-files

PathFinder — File browser that comes with the FOX toolkit.

http://fox-toolkit.org/ || fox

PCManFM — Very fast and lightweight file manager which can also optionally manage the desktop icons and background.

https://wiki.lxde.org/en/PCManFM || pcmanfm

PCManFM-Qt — Qt port of PCManFM file manager.

https://github.com/lxqt/pcmanfm-qt || pcmanfm-qt

Peony — File manager for the UKUI desktop.

https://github.com/ukui/peony || peony

qtFM — Small, lightweight filemanager for Linux desktops based on pure Qt.

https://qtfm.eu/ || qtfm ^AUR

ROX Filer — Small and fast file manager which can optionally manage the desktop background and panels.

http://rox.sourceforge.net/ || rox

Thunar — File manager that can be run as a daemon with excellent start up and directory load times.

https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/start || thunar

Twin-panel

Note that some of these twin-panel file managers can also be set to have only one pane.

Double Commander — File manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander and features some new ideas.

https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/ || GTK: doublecmd-gtk2, Qt5: doublecmd-qt5

emelFM2 — File manager that implements the popular two-panel design.

https://emelfm2.net/ || emelfm2

GNOME Commander — A dual-paned file manager for the GNOME Desktop.

https://gcmd.github.io/ || gnome-commander ^AUR

Krusader — Advanced twin panel (Midnight Commander style) file manager for the KDE desktop.

https://krusader.org/ || krusader

muCommander — A lightweight, cross-platform file manager with a dual-pane interface written in Java.

https://www.mucommander.com/ || mucommander ^AUR

SpaceFM — GTK multi-panel tabbed file manager.

https://ignorantguru.github.io/spacefm/ || spacefm ^AUR

Sunflower — Small and highly customizable twin-panel file manager for Linux with support for plugins.

https://sunflower-fm.org/ || sunflower ^AUR

trolCommander — Lightweight, dual-pane file manager written in Java. Fork of muCommander.

https://github.com/trol73/mucommander || trolcommander ^AUR

Tux Commander — Windowed file manager with two panels side by side similar to popular Total Commander or Midnight Commander file managers.

http://tuxcmd.sourceforge.net/description.php || tuxcmd

Worker — Fast, lightweight and feature-rich file manager for the X Window System.

http://www.boomerangsworld.de/cms/worker/ || worker ^AUR

Xfe — Microsoft Explorer-like file manager for X (X File Explorer).

http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/ || xfe ^AUR

Trash management

trash-cli — A command-line interface implementing FreeDesktop.org's Trash specification.

https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli || trash-cli

File synchronization and backup

See also Synchronization and backup programs, Wikipedia:Comparison of file synchronization software, and Wikipedia:Comparison of backup software.

borg — Deduplicating backup program with compression and authenticated encryption that supports backing up over ssh

https://www.borgbackup.org || borg

Déjà Dup — Simple GTK backup program. It hides the complexity of doing backups the 'right way' (encrypted, off-site, and regular) and uses duplicity as the backend.

https://launchpad.net/deja-dup || deja-dup

DirSync Pro — Small, but powerful utility for file and folder synchronization.

https://dirsyncpro.org/ || dirsyncpro ^AUR

Duplicati — Backup client that securely stores encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on cloud storage services and remote file servers.

https://www.duplicati.com/ || duplicati-latest ^AUR

duplicity — Simple command-line utility which allows encrypted compressed incremental backup to nearly any storage.

https://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/ || duplicity

Duply — Command-line front-end for duplicity which simplifies running it. It manages backup job settings in profiles and allows to batch execute commands.

https://www.duply.net/ || duply ^AUR

FreeFileSync — Folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files.

https://www.freefilesync.org/ || freefilesync ^AUR

git-annex — Manage files with git, without checking the file contents into git.

https://git-annex.branchable.com/ || git-annex

grsync — GTK+ GUI for rsync to synchronize folders, files and make backups

https://www.opbyte.it/grsync/ || grsync

hsync — Command line program to sync only those files that have been renamed/moved but otherwise unchanged. It works by issuing simple move operations at the destination without actually transferring the files, and is meant to be used in conjunction with other synchronization programs that lack this capability.

https://ambrevar.bitbucket.io/hsync/ || hsync ^AUR

rclone — Command line program to sync files and directories to and from Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Yandex Disk and many other cloud storage services as well as between local paths.

https://rclone.org/ || rclone

restic — Fast, secure, efficient backup program that supports backing up to many cloud services.

https://restic.net/ || restic

rsync — File transfer program that uses the "rsync algorithm" which provides a very fast method for bringing remote files into sync. It does this by sending just the differences in the files across the link, without requiring that both sets of files are present at one of the ends of the link beforehand. Has multiple frontends available.

https://rsync.samba.org/ || rsync

SparkleShare — File sharing and collaboration application written in C#. It can sync with any Git server over SSH.

https://www.sparkleshare.org/ || sparkleshare

Syncthing — Continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in a simple way without advanced configuration.

https://syncthing.net/ || syncthing

Syncany — Cloud storage and filesharing application with a focus on security and abstraction of storage.

https://www.syncany.org/ || syncany ^AUR

Synkron — Application that helps you keep your files and folders always updated. You can easily sync your documents, music or pictures to have their latest versions everywhere.

http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ || synkron ^AUR

Tarsnap — Secure, efficient proprietary online backup service.

https://www.tarsnap.com/ || tarsnap

Timeshift — A system restore tool for Linux.

https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift || timeshift ^AUR

Unison — File synchronization tool that allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.

https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ || unison

Archiving and compression tools

For archiving and compression command-line tools, see Archiving and compression.

Archive managers

360zip — A proprietary archiving tool.

https://yasuo.360.cn/ || 360zip ^AUR

Ark — Archiving tool included in the KDE desktop.

https://apps.kde.org/ark/ || ark

Arqiver — Simple Qt archive manager based on libarchive.

https://github.com/tsujan/Arqiver || arqiver-git ^AUR

CoreArchiver — Simple file compressing/extracting utility based on Qt and libarchive-qt. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/ || corearchiver ^AUR

Deepin Archive Manager — Fast and lightweight application for creating and extracting archives.

https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-compressor || deepin-compressor

Engrampa — Archive manager for MATE

https://github.com/mate-desktop/engrampa || engrampa

GNOME Archive Manager — Archive manager included in the GNOME desktop (previously File Roller).

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller || file-roller

LXQt File Archiver — Simple and lightweight desktop-agnostic Qt file archiver.

https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-archiver || lxqt-archiver

p7zip-gui — The GUI belonging to the p7zip software.

http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/ || p7zip-gui ^AUR

PeaZip — Open source file and archive manager.

https://www.peazip.org/peazip-linux.html || GTK: peazip-gtk2-bin ^AUR, Qt: peazip-qt-bin ^AUR

Xarchiver — Lightweight desktop independent archive manager built with GTK.

https://github.com/ib/xarchiver || GTK 3: xarchiver, GTK 2: xarchiver-gtk2

Comparison, diff, merge

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of file comparison tools.

For managing pacnew/pacsave files, specialised tools exist. See Pacnew and Pacsave files#Managing .pac* files.

Console

See diff(1) from diffutils and its alternatives.

colordiff — A Perl script wrapper for 'diff' that produces the same output but with pretty 'syntax' highlighting.

https://www.colordiff.org/ || colordiff

diffr — A Rust utility to pretty-print diff with highlighting at word-level for ease of review.

https://github.com/mookid/diffr || diffr ^AUR

ydiff — A Python wrapper to get highlighted diff output from stdin or VCS-tracked file/dirs, in either unfied or side-by-side view.

https://github.com/ymattw/ydiff || ydiff ^AUR

delta — A diff viewer written in Rust with syntax highlighting.

https://github.com/dandavison/delta || git-delta

diff-so-fancy — A diff output decorator. It does not calculate the diff, it only decorates it.

https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy || diff-so-fancy

Graphical

DiffPDF — Compare the text or the visual appearance of each page in two PDF files.

https://gitlab.com/eang/diffpdf || diffpdf

Diffuse — Small and simple text merge tool written in Python.

http://diffuse.sourceforge.net/ || diffuse

KDiff3 — File and directory diff and merge tool for the KDE desktop.

https://apps.kde.org/kdiff3/ || kdiff3

Kompare — GUI front-end program for viewing and merging differences between source files. It supports a variety of diff formats and provides many options to customize the information level displayed.

https://apps.kde.org/kompare/ || kompare

Meld — Visual diff and merge tool that can compare files, directories, and version controlled projects.

https://meldmerge.org/ || meld

xxdiff — A graphical browser for file and directory differences.

https://furius.ca/xxdiff/ || xxdiff ^AUR

Vim and Emacs provide merge functionality with vimdiff and ediff.

Batch renamers

Console

See rename(1) from util-linux.

edir — Rename, delete, and copy files and directories using your editor (enhanced vidir).

https://github.com/bulletmark/edir || edir ^AUR

f2 — Cross-platform command-line tool for batch renaming files and directories quickly and safely, can also rename files based on audio tags.

https://github.com/ayoisaiah/f2 || f2 ^AUR

rename.pl — Batch renamer based on perl regex.

https://search.cpan.org/~pederst/rename/ || perl-rename

vidir — Rename and delete files and directories using your editor.

https://linux.die.net/man/1/vidir || vidir ^AUR

Graphical

Caja-Rename — Batch renaming extension for Caja.

https://tari.in/www/software/caja-rename || caja-rename ^AUR

CoreRenamer — Simple lightweight batch file renamer application. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/ || corerenamer ^AUR

GPRename — GTK batch renamer for files and directories.

http://gprename.sourceforge.net || gprename

KRename — Very powerful batch file renamer for the KDE desktop.

https://apps.kde.org/krename/ || krename

metamorphose2 — wxPython based batch renamer with support for regular expressions, renaming multimedia files according to their metadata, etc.

http://file-folder-ren.sourceforge.net || metamorphose2 ^AUR

Thunar Bulk Rename — Change the name of multiple files at once using some criterion that applies to at least one of the files. Run with thunar -B.

https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/bulk-renamer/start || thunar

File searching

This section lists utilities for file searching based on filename, file path or metadata. For full-text searching, see the next section.

See also Wikipedia:List of search engines#Desktop search engines.

Console

See find(1) from findutils and its alternatives.

Graphical

Catfish — Versatile file searching tool by Xfce, can be powered by find, locate and Zeitgeist.

https://launchpad.net/catfish-search || catfish

CoreHunt — Easy to use fast file searching tool with categorized search and search history. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/ || corehunt ^AUR

GNOME Search Tool — GNOME utility to search for files, depends on GNOME/Files.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-search-tool || gnome-search-tool

KFind — Search tool for KDE to find files by name, type or content. Has internal search and supports locate.

https://apps.kde.org/kfind/ || kfind

MATE Search Tool — MATE utility to search for files.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-utils || mate-utils

regexxer — Interactive search and replace tool featuring Perl-style regular expressions.

http://regexxer.sourceforge.net/ || regexxer

Searchmonkey — Powerful GUI search utility for matching regex patterns.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/searchmonkey/ || searchmonkey ^AUR ^{[broken link: package not found]}

File indexers

These programs index your files to allow for quick searching.

Basenji — Volume indexing tool designed for easy and fast indexing of CD/DVD and other type of volume collections.

https://github.com/pulb/basenji || basenji ^AUR

fsearch — A fast file search utility for Unix-like systems based on GTK 3.

https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch || fsearch-git ^AUR

Full-text searching

See grep(1) from grep and its alternatives, which provide non-indexed full-text search.

Full-text indexers

Baloo — KDE's file indexing and search solution, has a CLI and is used by KRunner.

https://community.kde.org/Baloo || baloo

DocFetcher — Graphical Java desktop search application.

http://docfetcher.sourceforge.net || docfetcher ^AUR

Recoll — Full text search tool based on Xapian, has CLI and GUI.

https://lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/ || recoll

Tracker — All-in-one indexer, search tool and metadata database, used by GNOME Documents, Music, Photos and Videos.

https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/tracker/ || tracker, tracker3

Zeitgeist — Event aggregation framework for the user's activities and notifications (files opened, websites visited, conversations had, etc.), has several third-party front-ends.

https://launchpad.net/zeitgeist-project || zeitgeist

Development

Code forges

GitLab — Project management and code hosting application.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss || gitlab

Gitea — Painless self-hosted Git service. Community managed fork of Gogs.

https://gitea.io || gitea

Code forge clients

git-open — Open a repo website (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket) in your browser

https://github.com/paulirish/git-open || git-open ^AUR

github-cli — GitHub's official command line tool

https://github.com/cli/cli || github-cli

hub — Command line interface for GitHub

https://hub.github.com || hub

lab — A hub-like tool for GitLab

https://zaquestion.github.io/lab/ || lab-bin ^AUR

snippet — A terminal based interface to create a new GitLab snippet

https://gitlab.com/zj/snippet || snippet ^AUR

Version control systems

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of revision control software.

Bazaar — Distributed version control system that helps you track project history over time and to collaborate easily with others.

https://bazaar.canonical.com/ || bzr ^AUR

CVS — Concurrent Versions System, a client-server revision control system.

http://cvs.nongnu.org/ || cvs

Darcs — Distributed revision control system that was designed to replace traditional, centralized source control systems such as CVS and Subversion.

http://darcs.net/ || darcs

Fossil — Distributed VCS with bug tracking, wiki, forum, and technotes.

https://www.fossil-scm.org/ || fossil

Git — Distributed revision control and source code management system with an emphasis on speed.

https://git-scm.com/ || git

Mercurial — Distributed version control system written in Python and similar in many ways to Git.

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/ || mercurial

Subversion — Full-featured centralized version control system originally designed to be a better CVS.

https://subversion.apache.org/ || subversion

Build automation

See also Wikipedia:List of build automation software.

Apache Ant — Java library and command-line tool whose mission is to drive processes described in build files as targets and extension points dependent upon each other.

https://ant.apache.org/ || ant

Apache Maven — Build automation tool used primarily for Java.

https://maven.apache.org/ || maven

CMake — Family of tools designed to build, test and package software.

https://cmake.org/ || cmake

GNU make — GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs.

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/ || make (part of base-devel)

Meson — Extremely fast and user friendly build system.

https://mesonbuild.com/ || meson

Gradle — Powerful build system for the JVM.

https://gradle.org/ || gradle

Phing — PHP program designed to automate tasks of all kinds.

https://www.phing.info/ || phing ^AUR

Integrated development environments

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of integrated development environments.

For PHP specific list, see PHP#Development tools.

Android Studio — The official Android development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA.

https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html || android-studio ^AUR

Anjuta — Versatile IDE with project management, an application wizard, an interactive debugger, a source editor, version control support and many more tools.

http://anjuta.org/ || anjuta

Aptana Studio — IDE based on Eclipse, but geared towards web development, with support for HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Adobe AIR and others.

http://www.aptana.com/ || aptana-studio ^AUR

Bluefish — Powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdevelopers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. It supports many programming and markup languages.

http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ || bluefish

Code::Blocks — 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.

https://codeblocks.org/ || codeblocks

CLion — A cross-platform IDE for C and C++.

https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/ || clion ^AUR

CodeLite — Open source and cross-platform C/C++/PHP and Node.js IDE written in C++ .

https://codelite.org/ || codelite ^AUR

Cloud9 — State-of-the-art IDE that runs in your browser and lives in the cloud, allowing you to run, debug and deploy applications from anywhere, anytime.

https://c9.io/ || c9.core ^AUR ^{[broken link: package not found]}

Eclipse — IDE for Java, C/C++, PHP, Perl and Python with subversion support and task management.

https://www.eclipse.org/ || Java EE: eclipse-jee ^AUR, Java: eclipse-java ^AUR, C/C++: eclipse-cpp ^AUR, PHP: eclipse-php ^AUR, JavaScript and Web: eclipse-javascript ^AUR ^{[broken link: package not found]}, Rust: eclipse-rust ^AUR ^{[broken link: package not found]}

Eric — Full-featured Python and Ruby IDE written in PyQt5.

https://eric-ide.python-projects.org/ || eric ^AUR

Gambas — IDE based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions.

http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html || gambas3-ide

Geany — Small and lightweight IDE with many supported many programming and markup languages including C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal.

https://geany.org/ || geany

GNOME Builder — Tool to write and contribute to great GNOME-based applications.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Builder || gnome-builder

KDevelop — Feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and other programming languages.

https://www.kdevelop.org/ || kdevelop

Komodo Edit — A free, multi-language editor.

https://www.activestate.com/products/komodo-edit/ || komodo-edit ^AUR

Lazarus — Delphi (Object Pascal) compatible IDE for Rapid Application Development. It has variety of components ready for use and a graphical form designer to easily create complex graphical user interfaces.

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ || lazarus

LiteIDE — Simple Go IDE.

https://github.com/visualfc/liteide || liteide

MonoDevelop — Cross-platform IDE targeted for the Mono and .NET frameworks.

https://www.monodevelop.com/ || monodevelop-git ^AUR

MPLAB — IDE for Microchip PIC and dsPIC development.

https://www.microchip.com/mplabx || microchip-mplabx-bin ^AUR

Netbeans — IDE for developing with Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Groovy, C, C++, Scala, Clojure, and other languages.

https://netbeans.org/ || netbeans

PhpStorm — JetBrains PhpStorm is a commercial, cross-platform IDE for PHP built on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA platform, providing an editor for PHP, HTML and JavaScript with on-the-fly code analysis, error prevention and automated refactorings for PHP and JavaScript code.

https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/ || phpstorm ^AUR phpstorm-eap ^AUR

Qt Creator — Lightweight, cross-platform C++ integrated development environment with a focus on Qt.

https://www.qt.io/ide/ || qtcreator

Theia — Eclipse Theia is a free and open-source IDE for desktop and web applications. It is implemented in TypeScript, is based on Visual Studio Code, and emphasizes extensibility. It can be run as a web or a desktop application.

https://theia-ide.org/ || theia-electron ^AUR

Visual Studio Code — Visual Studio Code is a cross-platform, free and open-source text editor developed by Microsoft, written in JavaScript and TypeScript. It supports a variety of languages thanks to its extensions.

https://code.visualstudio.com/ || code visual-studio-code-bin ^AUR

VSCodium — Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VSCode.

https://vscodium.com/ || vscodium-bin ^AUR

Java IDEs

BlueJ — Fully featured Java IDE used mainly for educational and beginner purposes.

https://bluej.org/ || bluej ^AUR

IntelliJ IDEA — IDE for Java, Groovy and other programming languages with advanced refactoring features.

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ || intellij-idea-community-edition

Python IDEs

Ninja-IDE — IDE for Python development.

http://ninja-ide.org/ || ninja-ide ^AUR

PyCharm — Python IDE with support for code analysis, debugging, unit testing, version control and web development with Django.

https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/ || community edition: pycharm-community-edition, professional edition: pycharm-professional ^AUR, edu edition: pycharm-edu ^AUR

Spyder — Scientific Python Development Environment providing MATLAB-like features.

https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder || spyder

Thonny — Python IDE for beginners.

https://thonny.org/ || thonny ^AUR

WingIDE — Proprietary Python development environment. It is fully featured and meant for professional use.

https://wingware.com/ || wingide ^AUR

Rust IDEs

Educational IDEs

Etoys — Educational tool and media-rich authoring environment for teaching children.

http://squeakland.org/ || etoys ^AUR ^{[broken link: package not found]}

KTurtle — Educational programming environment that aims to make learning how to program as easily as possible. Part of kde-education.

https://apps.kde.org/kturtle/ || kturtle

Processing — Playground for teaching non-programmers the fundamentals of computer programming in a visual context.

https://processing.org/ || processing ^AUR

Scratch — Programming system and content development tool for educational and entertainment purposes, such as creating interactive projects and simple sprite-based games. It is used primarly by unskilled users (such as children) as an entry to event-driven programming.

https://scratch.mit.edu/ || scratch

Debuggers

Accerciser — Interactive Python accessibility explorer. It uses the AT-SPI library to inspect, examine, and interact with widgets, allowing you to check if an application is providing correct information to assistive technologies and automated testing frameworks.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Accerciser || accerciser

Bustle — Draws sequence diagrams of D-Bus activity. It shows signal emissions, method calls and their corresponding returns, with time stamps for each individual event and the duration of each method call.

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Bustle/ || bustle-git ^AUR

Data Display Debugger — Graphical front-end for command-line debuggers such as GDB.

https://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/ || ddd ^AUR

Desed — TUI-based debugger for sed. Features variable and regex preview, setting breakpoints and stepping back and forth.

https://github.com/SoptikHa2/desed || desed ^AUR

D-Feet — Easy to use D-Bus debugger to inspect D-Bus interfaces of running programs and invoke methods on those interfaces.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DFeet || d-feet

GammaRay — Qt-application inspection and manipulation tool.

https://www.kdab.com/development-resources/qt-tools/gammaray/ || gammaray

KCachegrind — Profile data visualization tool, used to determine the most time consuming execution parts of program.

https://apps.kde.org/kcachegrind/ || KDE: kcachegrind, Qt: qcachegrind

KDbg — Graphical user interface to GDB, the GNU debugger. It provides an intuitive interface for setting breakpoints, inspecting variables, and stepping through code.

http://kdbg.org/ || kdbg

Massif-Visualizer — Visualizer for Valgrind Massif data files.

https://apps.kde.org/massif-visualizer/ || massif-visualizer

Nemiver — Easy to use standalone C/C++ debugger (GDB front-end) that integrates well in the GNOME environment.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Nemiver || nemiver

Qt QDbusViewer — Tool to introspect D-Bus objects and messages.

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qdbusviewer.html || qt5-tools

scanmem — Debugging utility designed to isolate the address of an arbitrary variable in an executing process.

https://github.com/scanmem/scanmem || CLI: scanmem, GUI: gameconqueror

Sysprof — Profiling tool that helps in finding the functions in which a program uses most of its time.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Sysprof || sysprof

Lexing and parsing

Lex and Yacc are part of POSIX.

flex — A tool for generating text-scanning programs, alternative to Lex.

https://github.com/westes/flex || flex

Berkeley Yacc — Berkeley reimplementation of the Unix parser generator Yacc.

https://invisible-island.net/byacc/ || byacc

GNU Bison — The GNU general-purpose parser generator, alternative to byacc.

https://www.gnu.org/software/bison/ || bison

And then there are also:

ANTLR — Parser generator, written in Java, for parsing structured text or binary files.

https://www.antlr.org/ || antlr4

LPeg — Pattern-matching library, based on PEGs, for Lua.

http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/ || lua-lpeg, lua52-lpeg, lua51-lpeg

peg/leg — Recursive-descent parser generators for C.

https://www.piumarta.com/software/peg/ || peg

Ragel — Compiles finite state machines from regular languages into executable C, C++, Objective-C, or D code.

https://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/ || ragel

GUI builders

FLUID — FLTK GUI designer.

https://www.fltk.org/ || fltk

Glade — Create or open user interface designs for GTK applications.

https://glade.gnome.org/ || glade

KUIViewer — Quick viewer for Qt Designer UI File.

https://apps.kde.org/kuiviewer/ || kde-dev-utils

Qt Designer — Tool for designing and building graphical user interfaces (GUIs) with Qt Widgets.

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtdesigner-manual.html || qt5-tools

Hex editors

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of hex editors.

Bless — High quality, full featured hex editor.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170503150524/http://home.gna.org/bless/ || bless

GHex — Hex editor for GNOME, which allows the user to load data from any file, view and edit it in either hex or ascii.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Ghex || ghex

hyx — Minimalistic but powerful console hex editor.

https://yx7.cc/code/ || hyx ^AUR

Reverse Engineer's Hex Editor — Hex editor with features for analyzing and annotating binary file formats

https://github.com/solemnwarning/rehex || rehex ^AUR

Okteta — KDE hex editor for viewing and editing the raw data of files.

https://apps.kde.org/okteta/ || okteta

JSON tools

gron — gron transforms JSON into discrete assignments to make it easier to grep.

https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron || gron-bin ^AUR

jid — JSON incremental digger

https://github.com/simeji/jid || jid ^AUR

jo — A command to create JSON.

https://github.com/jpmens/jo || jo-git ^AUR

jq — Command-line JSON processor

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ || jq

jsawk — Like awk, but for JSON.

https://github.com/micha/jsawk || jsawk-git ^AUR

jshon — A JSON parser for the shell.

http://kmkeen.com/jshon/ || jshon

the Elvish shell has built-in support for JSON

Literate programming

See also Wikipedia:Literate programming.

Noweb — A Simple, Extensible Tool for Literate Programming build against ICON libs and texlive

https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/noweb/ || noweb ^AUR

nuweb — A Simple Literate Programming Tool

http://nuweb.sourceforge.net/ || nuweb ^AUR

UML modelers

See also Wikipedia:List of Unified Modeling Language tools.

ArgoUML — UML modeling tool with support for all standard UML 1.4 diagrams.

http://argouml.tigris.org/ || argouml ^AUR

Eclipse Modeling Tools — Tools and runtimes for building model-based applications.

https://www.eclipse.org/ || eclipse-modeling-tools ^AUR

Gaphor — Simple modeling tool for UML.

https://github.com/gaphor/gaphor || python-gaphor ^AUR

Modelio — Modeling environment supporting the main standards: UML, BPMN, MDA, SysML.

https://www.modelio.org/ || modelio-bin ^AUR

Papyrus — Model-based engineering tool based on Eclipse.

https://www.eclipse.org/papyrus/ || papyrus ^AUR

PlantUML — Tool to create UML diagrams from a plain text language.

https://plantuml.com || plantuml

PlantUML QEditor — PlantUML editor written in Qt.

https://github.com/borco/plantumlqeditor || plantumlqeditor-git ^AUR

Umbrello — Unified Modelling Language (UML) diagram program based on KDE Technology.

https://umbrello.kde.org/ || umbrello

UML Designer — Graphical tool based on Eclipse to edit and visualize UML models.

https://www.umldesigner.org/ || umldesigner ^AUR

UMLet — UML tool with a simple user interface: draw UML diagrams fast, build sequence and activity diagrams from plain text, export diagrams to eps, pdf, jpg, svg, and clipboard, share diagrams using Eclipse, and create new, custom UML elements.

https://umlet.com/ || umlet ^AUR

UML/INTERLIS-editor — Facilitate the application of the model driven approach to a greater number of users.

http://www.umleditor.org/ || umleditor ^AUR

Violet — Very easy to learn and use UML editor that draws nice-looking diagrams.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/violet/ || violetumleditor ^AUR

API documentation browsers

Devhelp — Developer tool for browsing and searching API documentation.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Devhelp || devhelp

Doc Browser — API documentation browser with support for DevDocs and Hoogle.

https://github.com/qwfy/doc-browser || doc-browser-git ^AUR

Qt Assistant — Tool for viewing on-line documentation in Qt help file format.

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtassistant-index.html || qt5-tools

quickDocs — Fast developer docs reader for reading Valadoc and DevDocs.

https://github.com/mdh34/quickDocs || quickdocs ^AUR

Zeal — Offline API documentation browser for software developers.

https://zealdocs.org/ || zeal ^AUR

Issue tracking systems

Bugzilla — Bug tracker from Mozilla.

https://www.bugzilla.org || bugzilla

Flyspray — Lightweight, web-based bug tracking system written in PHP

https://www.flyspray.org/ || flyspray

MantisBT — Web-based issue tracking system

https://www.mantisbt.org/ || mantisbt ^AUR

Redmine — A flexible project management web application. Written using the Ruby on Rails, it is cross-platform and cross-database.

https://www.redmine.org || redmine

Request Tracker (RT) — The leading open-source issue tracking system.

https://bestpractical.com/rt/ || rt ^AUR

Trac — Trac Integrated SCM & Project Management using Apache & Subversion.

https://trac.edgewall.org/ || trac ^AUR

See also Git server#Advanced web applications.

Code review

Gerrit — A web-based code review tool built on top of the Git version control system

https://www.gerritcodereview.com/ || gerrit ^AUR

GitLab also supports code reviews.

See also Wikipedia:List of tools for code review.

Game development

See also Wikipedia:List of game engines.

GDevelop — Game creator designed to be used by everyone - no programming skills required.

https://gdevelop-app.com/ || gdevelop ^AUR

Godot — Advanced, feature-packed, multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine. Create games with ease, using Godot's unique approach to game development.

https://godotengine.org/ || godot

LibreSprite — Animated sprite editor and pixel art tool lets you create 2D animations for videogames.

https://github.com/LibreSprite/LibreSprite || libresprite ^AUR

Pixelorama — 2D sprite editor with animation support, made by Orama Interactive in the Godot Engine using GDScript.

https://www.orama-interactive.com/pixelorama^{[dead link 2021-05-17 ⓘ]} || pixelorama-bin ^AUR

Tiled — General purpose 2D level editor with powerful tile map editing features. It is built to be easy to use and is suitable for many type of games.

https://www.mapeditor.org/ || tiled

Unity — Unity is a flexible and powerful development platform for creating multi-platform 3D and 2D games. Proprietary, but a free version is available for certain use-cases (see here for more details).

https://unity3d.com/unity || unity-editor ^AUR

Repository managers

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Nexus 2 — Nexus 2 Repository Manager (OSS)

https://www.sonatype.com/nexus-repository-oss || nexus ^AUR

Nexus 3 — Nexus 3 Repository OSS

https://www.sonatype.com/nexus-repository-oss || nexus-oss ^AUR

Artifactory — Artifactory is an advanced Binary Repository Manager for use by build tools, dependency management tools and build servers

https://bintray.com/jfrog/product/JFrog-Artifactory-Oss/view || artifactory-oss ^AUR

Text input

Character selectors

GNOME Characters — Character map application for GNOME.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-characters || gnome-characters

gucharmap — GTK 3 character selector for GNOME.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gucharmap || gucharmap

KCharSelect — Tool to select special characters from all installed fonts and copy them into the clipboard. Part of kde-utilities.

https://apps.kde.org/kcharselect/ || kcharselect

On-screen keyboards

CellWriter — Grid-entry handwriting recognition input panel.

https://github.com/risujin/cellwriter || cellwriter ^AUR

CoreKeyboard — Simple X11 based Qt virtual keyboard with word suggestions. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/ || corekeyboard ^AUR

eekboard — Easy to use virtual keyboard toolkit.

https://github.com/ueno/eekboard || eekboard ^AUR

Florence — Extensible scalable on-screen virtual keyboard for GNOME that stays out of your way when not needed.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/florence/ || florence ^AUR

Onboard — Onscreen keyboard useful for tablet PC users and for mobility impaired users.

https://launchpad.net/onboard || onboard

qtvkbd — Virtual keyboard written in Qt, a fork of kvkbd.

https://github.com/Alexander-r/qtvkbd || qtvkbd ^AUR

QVKbd — Virtual keyboard written in Qt.

https://github.com/KivApple/qvkbd || qvkbd

Squeekboard — GTK 3 virtual keyboard for Wayland, written in Rust/C.

https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/squeekboard || squeekboard ^AUR

theShell On Screen Keyboard — Touchscreen keyboard for theShell.

https://github.com/vicr123/ts-kbd || ts-kbd ^AUR

xvkbd — Virtual keyboard for X window system.

http://t-sato.in.coocan.jp/xvkbd/ || xvkbd ^AUR

Keyboard layout switchers

fbxkb — A NETWM compliant keyboard indicator and switcher. It shows a flag of current keyboard in a systray area and allows you to switch to another one.

http://fbxkb.sourceforge.net/ || fbxkb ^AUR

xxkb — A lightweight keyboard layout indicator and switcher.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/xxkb/ || xxkb

gxkb — X11 keyboard layout indicator and switcher.

https://github.com/zen-tools/gxkb || gxkb

qxkb — A keyboard switcher written in Qt.

https://github.com/disels/qxkb || qxkb ^AUR

X Neural Switcher — A text analyser, it detects the language of the input and corrects the keyboard layout if needed.

https://xneur.ru/ || gxneur ^AUR (GUI)

Keybinding managers

See Keyboard shortcuts#Xorg.

Input methods

See the main article: Input method.

Disks

Partitioning tools

See Partitioning#Partitioning tools.

Formatting tools

See File systems#Types of file systems.

Cloning tools

See Disk cloning#Disk cloning software.

Mount tools

Disk usage display

Console

duc — A library and suite of tools for inspecting disk usage.

https://duc.zevv.nl/ || duc ^AUR

gdu — Disk usage analyzer with console interface written in Go.

https://github.com/Dundee/gdu || gdu ^AUR

gt5 — Diff-capable "du-browser".

http://gt5.sourceforge.net || gt5 ^AUR

ncdu — Simple ncurses disk usage analyzer.

https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu || ncdu

Graphical

Filelight — Disk usage analyzer that creates an interactive map of concentric, segmented rings that help visualise disk usage on your computer.

https://apps.kde.org/filelight/ || filelight

GNOME Disk Usage Analyzer — Disk usage analyzer for the GNOME desktop to check folder sizes and available disk space.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer || baobab

Graphical Disk Map — Disk usage analyzer that draws a map of rectangles sized according to file or dir sizes.

http://gdmap.sourceforge.net/ || gdmap

fsview (part of Konqueror) — KDE based disk usage analyzer that draws a map of rectangles sized according to file or dir sizes.

https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/konqueror/konqueror/view-extensions.html || konqueror

MATE Disk Usage Analyzer — Disk usage analyzing tool for MATE Desktop.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-utils || mate-utils

qdirstat — Qt-based directory statistics (KDirStat/K4DirStat without any KDE - from the original KDirStat author).

https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat || qdirstat ^AUR

Disk health status

See S.M.A.R.T.#GUI applications.

File recovery tools

See File recovery#List of utilities.

Disk cleaning

Console

duff — A command-line utility for quickly finding duplicates in a given set of files.

https://github.com/elmindreda/duff || duff ^AUR

fclones — Very fast duplicate file Finder written in rust.

https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones || fclones-git ^AUR

fdupes — Program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories.

https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes || fdupes

jdupes — Identify and take actions upon duplicate files.

https://github.com/jbruchon/jdupes || jdupes ^AUR

rdfind — Command line tool that finds duplicate files. It compares files based on their content.

https://github.com/pauldreik/rdfind || rdfind ^AUR

rmlint — Tool to quickly find (and optionally remove) duplicate files and other lint.

https://github.com/sahib/rmlint || rmlint

Graphical

BleachBit — Frees disk space and guards your privacy; frees cache, deletes cookies, clears Internet history, shreds temporary files, deletes logs, and discards junk you did not know was there.

https://www.bleachbit.org/ || bleachbit

dupeGuru — GUI tool to find duplicate files in a system.

https://dupeguru.voltaicideas.net/ || dupeguru ^AUR

FSlint — A utility to find and clean various forms of lint on a filesystem.

https://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/ || fslint ^AUR

GConf Cleaner — cleans up the unknown/invalid GConf keys that still sitting down on your GConf database.

https://code.google.com/archive/p/gconf-cleaner/ || gconf-cleaner ^AUR

Shredder — Graphical user interface for rmlint.

https://github.com/sahib/rmlint || rmlint-shredder

Sweeper — System cleaning utility for KDE.

https://apps.kde.org/sweeper/ || sweeper

Disk image writing

See also Wikipedia:List of tools to create Live USB systems.

Warning: Some disk image writing tools are known to be adware, for example etcher.

Deepin Boot Maker — Tool to make boot disk for Deepin OS.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-boot-maker/ || deepin-boot-maker

Fedora Media Writer — Tool that helps users put Fedora images on their portable drives such as flash disks.

https://github.com/FedoraQt/MediaWriter || mediawriter ^AUR

GNOME MultiWriter — Write an ISO file to multiple USB devices at once.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/MultiWriter || gnome-multi-writer

Image Burner — Simple imageburner designed for elementary OS.

https://github.com/artemanufrij/imageburner || imageburner ^AUR

ISOImageWriter — Tool to write a .iso file to a USB disk.

https://community.kde.org/ISOImageWriter || isoimagewriter ^AUR

LiveUSB Install — Install various Linux distributions and operating systems on removable flash drive or external disk drive.

http://live.learnfree.eu/ || live-usb-install ^AUR

MultiBootUSB — Install multiple live distributions on a USB disk non-destructively and has an option to uninstall them.

https://github.com/mbusb/multibootusb/ || multibootusb ^AUR

MultiSystem — GUI tool to create a USB system that can boot multiple distributions.

http://liveusb.info/ || multisystem ^AUR

Popsicle — Utility for flashing multiple USB devices in parallel, written in Rust.

https://github.com/pop-os/popsicle || popsicle-git ^AUR

SUSE Studio ImageWriter — Utility for writing raw disk images & hybrid isos to USB keys.

https://github.com/openSUSE/imagewriter || imagewriter ^AUR

UNetbootin — Installs Linux/BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive.

https://unetbootin.github.io/ || unetbootin ^AUR

Usbimager — Minimal GUI application to write compressed disk images to USB drives.

https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/usbimager || usbimager ^AUR

WoeUSB — Simple tool to create USB stick windows installer from an ISO image or a real DVD. (Fork of WinUSB).

https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB-frontend-wxgtk || woeusb ^AUR

windows2usb — Windows 7/8/8.1/10 ISO to Flash Drive burning utility for Linux with MBR/GPT, BIOS/UEFI, FAT32/NTFS support

https://github.com/ValdikSS/windows2usb || windows2usb-git ^AUR

System

Task managers

CoreStats — Simple lightweight system resource viewer to monitor the CPU, RAM, Network and Disk IO statistics. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/ || corestats ^AUR

Deepin System Monitor — Monitor system process status for Deepin desktop.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-system-monitor/ || deepin-system-monitor

GNOME System Monitor — System monitor for GNOME to view and manage system resources.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/SystemMonitor || gnome-system-monitor

GNOME Usage — View information about use of system resources, like memory and disk space.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Usage || gnome-usage

htop — Simple, ncurses interactive process viewer.

http://htop.sourceforge.net/ || htop

bpytop — Htop but more lightweight with more features.

https://github.com/aristocratos/bpytop || bpytop

btop — Rewrite of bpytop in C++

https://github.com/aristocratos/btop || btop

KSysGuard — System monitor for KDE to monitor running processes and system performance.

https://apps.kde.org/ksysguard/ || ksysguard

Linux Process Explorer — Graphical process explorer for Linux.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/procexp/ || procexp ^AUR

LXTask — Lightweight task manager for LXDE.

https://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXTask || lxtask

qps — Lightweight task manager for LXQt.

https://github.com/lxqt/qps || qps ^AUR

MATE System Monitor — System monitor for MATE.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-system-monitor || mate-system-monitor

Stacer — System optimizer and application monitor that helps users to manage entire system with different aspects, its an all in one system utility.

https://oguzhaninan.github.io/Stacer-Web/ || stacer ^AUR

Task Manager — GTK2/GTK3 based process manager with basic system resource monitor for Xfce.

https://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-taskmanager || xfce4-taskmanager

System monitors

Hardware sensor monitoring

See lm_sensors#Graphical front-ends.

System information viewers

Console

alsi — A system information tool for Arch Linux. It can be configured for every other system without even touching the source code of the script.

https://trizenx.blogspot.com/2012/08/alsi.html || alsi ^AUR

archey3 — Python script to display system infomation alongside the Arch Linux logo.

https://lclarkmichalek.github.io/archey3 || archey3

dmidecode — It reports information about your system's hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard.

https://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/ || dmidecode

hwdetect — Simple script to list modules that are exported in /sys/.

https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/packages/hwdetect/trunk/hwdetect || hwdetect

hwinfo — Powerful hardware detection tool come from openSUSE.

https://github.com/openSUSE/hwinfo || hwinfo

hw-probe — Tool to probe for hardware, check operability and find drivers with the help of Linux Hardware Database.

https://github.com/linuxhw/hw-probe || hw-probe ^AUR

inxi — A script to get system information.

https://github.com/smxi/inxi || inxi ^AUR

neofetch — A fast, highly customizable system info script that supports displaying images with w3m.

https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch || neofetch

nmon — Console based application for monitoring various system components.

http://nmon.sourceforge.net/ || nmon

pfetch — A pretty system information tool written in POSIX sh.

https://github.com/dylanaraps/pfetch || pfetch ^AUR

screenfetch — Similar to archey but has an option to take a screenshot. Written in bash.

https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch || screenfetch

Graphical

GPU-Viewer — GUI to glxinfo, vulkaninfo, clinfo and es2_info; written in Python with GTK.

https://github.com/arunsivaramanneo/GPU-Viewer || gpu-viewer ^AUR

hardinfo — A small application that displays information about your hardware and operating system, it looks like the Device Manager in Windows.

https://www.berlios.de/software/hardinfo/ || hardinfo

i-Nex — An application that gathers information for hardware components available on your system and displays it using an user interface similar to the popular Windows tool CPU-Z.

http://i-nex.linux.pl/ || i-nex-git ^AUR

lshw — A small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine with CLI and GTK interfaces.

https://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter || lshw

KInfoCenter — Centralized and convenient overview of system information for KDE.

https://userbase.kde.org/KInfoCenter || kinfocenter

USBView — Display the topology of devices on the USB bus.

http://www.kroah.com/linux/usb/ || usbview

System log viewers

GNOME Logs — Viewer for the systemd journal. Part of gnome.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Logs || gnome-logs

GNOME System Log — System log viewer for GNOME.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-system-log || gnome-system-log

KSystemLog — System log viewer tool for KDE.

https://apps.kde.org/ksystemlog/ || ksystemlog

MATE System Log — System log viewer for MATE.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-utils || mate-utils

Pacman Log Viewer — Tool used to inspect pacman log file, in particular it lists installed, removed and upgraded packages letting you to filter by package's name and/or date.

https://www.opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=150484 || pacmanlogviewer

QJournalctl — Qt-based graphical user interface for systemd's journalctl command.

https://github.com/pentix/qjournalctl || qjournalctl

Font viewers

See also Wikipedia:Font management software.

Deepin Font Manager — A font management tool for Deepin desktop.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-font-manager/ || deepin-font-manager

Font Manager — Simple font management for GTK desktop environments.

https://fontmanager.github.io/ || font-manager ^AUR

Fonty Python — Manage, view and find your fonts.

https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fontypython || fontypython ^AUR

GNOME Fonts — Font viewer for GNOME.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-font-viewer || gnome-font-viewer

KFontview — KDE application to view and install different types of fonts.

https://kde.org/ || plasma-desktop

MATE Font Viewer — Font viewer for MATE.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-control-center || mate-utils

Help viewers

See man page#Installation.

Command schedulers

Shutdown timers

GShutdown — Advanced shutdown utility which allows you to schedule the shutdown or the restart of your computer, or logout your actual session.

https://gshutdown.tuxfamily.org/ || gshutdown ^AUR

Hsiu-Ming's Timer — Graphical shutdown timer, which enables you to shutdown, turn off monitor, reboot or play sound after a period of time.

https://cges30901.github.io/hmtimer-website/ || hmtimer ^AUR

KShutdown — Graphical shutdown utility, which allows you to turn off or suspend a computer at a specified time. It features various time and delay options, command-line support, and notifications.

https://kshutdown.sourceforge.io/ || kshutdown

Clock synchronization

See Time synchronization.

Screen management

See Xrandr#Graphical front-ends.

Backlight management

See Backlight#Backlight utilities.

Color management

See ICC profiles#Utilities and Backlight#Color correction.

Printer management

See CUPS#GUI applications.

Bluetooth management

See Bluetooth#Front-ends.

Power management

See Power management#Userspace tools.

System management

See Systemd#GUI configuration tools.

Boot management

See GRUB/Tips and tricks#GUI configuration tools.

Package management

See pacman tips#Utilities.

Virtualization

See Libvirt#Client and VirtualBox.

Compatibility layers

See Wine (Windows) and Darling (MacOS).

Documents and texts

Text editors

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of text editors.

Some of the lighter-weight Integrated development environments can also serve as text editors.

Vi-style text editors

Amp — Text editor written in Rust, that aims to take the core interaction model of Vim, simplify it, and bundle in the essential features required for a modern text editor.

https://amp.rs/ || amp ^AUR

BusyBox vi — Provides "a small 'vi' clone". Can be invoked with busybox vi.

https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/editors/vi.c || busybox

Kakoune — Modal editor. Fewer keystrokes. Selection based, multi-cursor editing. Orthogonal design.

https://github.com/mawww/kakoune || kakoune

Helix — A post-modern modal text editor.

https://helix-editor.com/ || helix

Neovim — Vim's rebirth for the 21st century.

https://neovim.io/ || neovim

Neovim-Qt — Qt GUI for Neovim.

https://github.com/equalsraf/neovim-qt || neovim-qt

vi — The original ex/vi text editor.

http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/ || vi

Vim — Advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'vi', with a more complete feature set.

https://www.vim.org/ || with GUI: gvim, without GUI: vim

Vis — Modern, legacy free, simple yet efficient vim-like editor.

https://github.com/martanne/vis || vis

Emacs-style text editors

Emacs — The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor by GNU.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html || with GUI: emacs, without GUI: emacs-nox

mg — Small, fast, and portable Emacs-like editor.

https://github.com/hboetes/mg || mg

MicroEmacs — Ncurses-based text editor.

http://www.jasspa.com/ || jasspa-me ^AUR ^{[broken link: package not found]}

vile — Lightweight Emacs clone with vi-like key bindings.

https://invisible-island.net/vile/vile.html || vile ^AUR

Zile — Lightweight Emacs clone.

https://www.gnu.org/software/zile/ || zile

Console

dte — Small, easy to use editor with multi-tabbed interface, syntax highlighting, ctags navigation, etc.

https://craigbarnes.gitlab.io/dte/ || dte ^AUR

e3 — Tiny editor without dependencies, written in assembly.

https://sites.google.com/site/e3editor/ || e3

ee — Classic curse-based text editor. Born in HP-UX, used in FreeBSD.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160719002816/http://www.users.qwest.net/~hmahon/ || ee-editor ^AUR

JED — Text editor that makes extensive use of the S-Lang library. Includes a console version (jed) and an X-window version (xjed).

http://jedsoft.org/jed/ || jed ^AUR

JOE (Joe's Own Editor) — Terminal-based text editor designed to be easy to use.

https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/ || joe ^AUR

mcedit — Useful text editor that comes with Midnight Commander file manager.

https://www.ibiblio.org/mc/ || mc

micro — Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor, written in go and extensible through plugins.

https://micro-editor.github.io/ || micro

Minimum Profit — Text editor for programmers.

https://triptico.com/software/mp.html || mp ^AUR

nano — Console text editor based on pico with on-screen key bindings help.

https://nano-editor.org/ || nano

ne — Minimalist text editor with Windows-like key-bindings.

http://ne.di.unimi.it/ || ne ^AUR

slap — Sublime-like terminal-based text editor.

https://github.com/slap-editor/slap || slap ^AUR

Tilde — Intuitive text editor with Windows-like key bindings.

https://os.ghalkes.nl/tilde/ || tilde ^AUR

Graphical

Acme — Minimalist and flexible programming environment developed by Rob Pike for the Plan 9 operating system.

http://acme.cat-v.org/ || plan9port

Adie — Fast and convenient programming text editor.

http://fox-toolkit.org/ || fox

Atom — Promising text editor developed by GitHub. With support for plug-ins written in Node.js and embedded Git Control.

https://atom.io/ || atom

Beaver — GTK editor designed to be modular, lightweight and stylish.

http://beaver-editor.sourceforge.net/ || beaver

Brackets — Code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

https://brackets.io/ || brackets ^AUR

CorePad — Simple lightweight but powerful text editor with syntax-highlighting support for a dozen or more languages. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/ || corepad ^AUR

Deepin Text Editor — Simple text editor for Deepin desktop.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-editor/ || deepin-editor

Ecrire — Simple text editor based on EFL.

https://git.enlightenment.org/apps/ecrire.git/ || ecrire-git ^AUR

Enki — Text editor for programmers.

http://enki-editor.org/ || enki-editor ^AUR

FeatherPad — Minimal Qt5 plain text editor featuring a native dark theme and support for tabs, printing and syntax highlighting.

https://github.com/tsujan/FeatherPad || featherpad

FLTK Editor — Simple text editor application for FLTK.

https://www.fltk.org/ || fltk-editor ^AUR

gCSVedit — Simple text editor for CSV, TSV and other kinds of delimiter-separated values (DSV) files.

https://github.com/swilmet/gCSVedit || gcsvedit ^AUR

gedit — GTK editor for the GNOME desktop with syntax highlighting, automatic indentation, matching brackets, etc., and a number of add-ons to increase functionality.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit || gedit

GNOME Text Editor — Simple text editor for GNOME focused on a pleasing default experience.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-text-editor || gnome-text-editor ^AUR

Gobby — Collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat.

https://gobby.github.io/ || gobby

Howl — General purpose, fast and lightweight editor with a keyboard-centric minimalistic user interface.

https://howl.io/ || howl

jEdit — Text editor for programmers, written in Java.

http://www.jedit.org/ || jedit ^AUR

JuffEd — Simple tabbed text editor with syntax highlighting, written in Qt.

http://juffed.com/en/index.html || juffed ^AUR

Kate — Full-featured programmer's editor for the KDE desktop with MDI and a filesystem browser.

https://kate-editor.org/ || kate

KWrite — Lightweight text editor for the KDE desktop that uses the same editor widget as Kate.

https://apps.kde.org/kwrite/ || kwrite

L3afpad — Simple text editor forked from Leafpad, supports GTK 3.

https://github.com/stevenhoneyman/l3afpad || l3afpad

Leafpad — Notepad clone for GTK that emphasizes simplicity.

http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/ || leafpad

Light Table — Next generation code editor that connects you to your creation with instant feedback.

http://lighttable.com/ || lighttable-bin ^AUR or lighttable-git ^AUR

Liri Text — Text editor for Liri.

https://github.com/lirios/text || liri-text

medit — Programming and around-programming text editor.

http://mooedit.sourceforge.net || medit ^AUR

Mousepad — Fast text editor for the Xfce Desktop Environment.

https://www.xfce.org || mousepad

NEdit — Text editor for the Motif environment.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/nedit/ || nedit

Notepadqq — Qt-based, Notepad++-like text editor with support for syntax highlighting for more than 100 languages.

https://notepadqq.com/s/ || notepadqq

Nota — Easy to use text editor with a simple interface with support for tabbed documents, syntax highlighting for various languages, Focus mode, annotations, configurable fonts, and colors, a side panel with an integrated file browser, and more.

https://mauikit.org/ || maui-nota

Pantheon Code — Code editor for elementaryOS. It auto-saves your files, meaning they are always up-to-date. Plus it remembers your tabs so you never lose your spot, even in between sessions.

https://github.com/elementary/code || pantheon-code

Pluma — Powerful text editor for MATE.

https://mate-desktop.org/ || pluma

QSciTE — Qt clone of the SciTE text and code editor.

https://code.google.com/archive/p/qscite/ || qscite ^AUR

Sam — Minimalist text editor with a graphical user interface, a very powerful command language and remote editing capabilities, developed by Rob Pike.

http://sam.cat-v.org || plan9port or 9base

SciTE — Generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs.

https://scintilla.org/SciTE.html || scite

Scribes — Ultra minimalist text editor that combines simplicity with power.

http://scribes.sourceforge.net || scribes ^AUR

Sublime Text — Proprietary C++ and Python-based editor with many advanced features and plugins while staying lightweight and pretty.

https://www.sublimetext.com/ || version 3: sublime-text-dev ^AUR, version 2: sublime-text2 ^AUR

Tau — Minimal GTK front end to the xi editor core written in Rust.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Tau || tau-editor ^AUR

TEA — Qt-based feature-rich text editor.

http://semiletov.org/tea/ || tea-qt ^AUR

Textadept — Lua-extensible feature rich text editor based on Scintilla and written in C.

https://foicica.com/textadept/ || textadept ^AUR

Textosaurus — Simple cross-platform text editor based on Qt and QScintilla.

https://github.com/martinrotter/textosaurus || textosaurus ^AUR

Visual Studio Code — Editor for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.

https://code.visualstudio.com || code

xed — Text editor based on Pluma developed for Linux Mint.

https://github.com/linuxmint/xed || xed

XEdit — Simple text editor for the X Window System.

https://www.x.org/wiki || xorg-xedit

wxMEdit — Text/Hex editor written in C++ and wxWidgets.

https://wxmedit.github.io/ || wxmedit ^AUR

Office

Office suites

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of office suites.

Calligra — Actively developed fork of KOffice, the KDE office suite. It offers most of the features of OpenOffice while also having versions for smartphones (Calligra Mobile) and tablets (Calligra Active).

https://calligra.org/ || calligra

LibreOffice — The office productivity suite compatible to the open and standardized ODF document format. Fork of OpenOffice, supported by The Document Foundation.

https://www.libreoffice.org/ || libreoffice-still or libreoffice-fresh

OnlyOffice — Office suite that combines text, spreadsheet and presentation editors.

https://www.onlyoffice.com/ || onlyoffice-bin ^AUR

OpenOffice — Open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more, under the Apache Licence.

https://www.openoffice.org/ || openoffice-bin ^AUR

SoftMaker Office — Complete, reliable, lightning-fast and Microsoft Office-compatible proprietary office suite with a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation graphics software.

https://www.freeoffice.com/ || freeoffice ^AUR

WPS Office — Proprietary office productivity suite, previously known as Kingsoft Office.

https://www.wps.com/ || wps-office ^AUR

Yozo Office — Proprietary office suite, compatible with MS Office.

https://www.yozosoft.com/product-officelinux.html || yozo-office ^AUR

Word processors

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of word processors.

AbiWord — Full-featured word processor.

https://www.abisource.com/ || abiword

Calligra Words — Powerful word processor included in the Calligra Suite.

https://www.calligra.org/words/ || calligra

LibreOffice Writer — Full-featured word processor included in the LibreOffice suite.

https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/writer || libreoffice-still or libreoffice-fresh

OpenOffice Writer — Full-featured word processor included in the OpenOffice suite.

https://www.openoffice.org/product/writer.html || openoffice-bin ^AUR

Ted — Easy to use GTK-based rich text processor (with footnote support).

https://nllgg.nl/Ted/ || ted ^AUR

WordGrinder — Word processor for the console.

https://cowlark.com/wordgrinder/ || wordgrinder ^AUR

WYSIWYG HTML editors

BlueGriffon — WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide Web.

http://www.bluegriffon.com/ || bluegriffon

PageEdit — ePub visual XHTML editor.

https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/PageEdit || pageedit

SeaMonkey Composer — Powerful yet simple HTML editor included in the SeaMonkey suite.

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ || seamonkey

Desktop publishing

gLabels — Program for creating labels, business cards and media covers.

http://glabels.org/ || glabels

Scribus — Desktop publishing program. Uses hyphen and its language packs for hyphenation.

https://www.scribus.net/ || scribus

Presentations

Calligra Stage — Easy to use yet still flexible presentation application included in the Calligra Suite.

https://www.calligra.org/stage/ || calligra

LibreOffice Impress — Presentation program included in the LibreOffice suite.

https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/writer || libreoffice-still or libreoffice-fresh

OpenOffice Impress — Presentation program included in the OpenOffice suite.

https://www.openoffice.org/product/impress.html || openoffice-bin ^AUR

sent — Simple plaintext presentation tool.

https://git.suckless.org/sent/ || sent ^AUR

Sozi — Zooming presentation editor and player. Based on the Electron platform.

https://sozi.baierouge.fr/ || sozi ^AUR

Spice-Up — Create simple and beautiful presentations.

https://github.com/Philip-Scott/Spice-up || spice-up

Spreadsheets

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of spreadsheet software.

Calligra Sheets — Powerful spreadsheet application included in the Calligra Suite.

https://www.calligra.org/sheets/ || calligra

Gnumeric — Spreadsheet program for the GNOME desktop.

http://www.gnumeric.org/ || gnumeric

LibreOffice Calc — Full-featured spreadsheet application included in the LibreOffice suite.

https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/calc/ || libreoffice-still or libreoffice-fresh

OpenOffice Calc — Full-featured spreadsheet application included in the OpenOffice suite.

https://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html || openoffice-bin ^AUR

Pyspread — Pyspread is a non-traditional spreadsheet application that is based on and written in the programming language Python.

https://manns.github.io/pyspread/index.html || pyspread ^AUR

sc — Curses-based lightweight spreadsheet.

https://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/apps/financial/spreadsheet/!INDEX.html || sc

sc-im — Spreadsheet program based on sc.

https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im/ || sc-im ^AUR

Database tools

For DBMS-specific tools, see:

MySQL#Graphical tools
PostgreSQL#Graphical tools
SQLite#Graphical tools

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of database tools.

Adminer — Full-featured database management webapp with support for many database types.

https://www.adminer.org/ || adminer ^AUR

DBeaver — Java-based graphical database editor with support for many database types.

https://dbeaver.io/ || dbeaver

GdaBrowser — Graphical tool to get a quick access to a database's structure and contents.

https://www.gnome-db.org/GdaBrowser || libgda

GSQL — Integrated database development tool for GNOME. Last released in 2010.

http://gsql.org/ || gsql ^AUR

Kexi — Visual database applications creator tool by KDE, designed to fill the gap between spreadsheets and database solutions requiring more sophisticated development.

http://kexi-project.org/ || kexi

LibreOffice Base — Full-featured desktop database front end included in the LibreOffice suite, designed to meet the needs of a broad array of users.

https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/base/ || libreoffice-still or libreoffice-fresh

OpenOffice Base — Full-featured desktop database front end included in the OpenOffice suite, designed to meet the needs of a broad array of users.

https://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html || openoffice-bin ^AUR

Orbada — Excellent tool for database developers, SQL developers, DBA administrators, as well as for users who wish to broaden their knowledge and skills in SQL.

https://orbada.sourceforge.io/ || orbada ^AUR

Sequeler — SQL client built in Vala and Gtk. It allows you to connect to your local and remote databases, write SQL in a handy text editor with language recognition, and visualize SELECT results in a Gtk.Grid Widget.

https://github.com/Alecaddd/sequeler || sequeler ^AUR

SQuirreL SQL Client — Graphical Java program that will allow you to view the structure of a JDBC compliant database, browse the data in tables, issue SQL commands etc.

http://www.squirrelsql.org/ || squirrel-sql ^AUR

TOra — Database management GUI that supports accessing most of the common database platforms in use, including Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, as well as limited support for any target that can be accessed through Qt's ODBC support.

https://github.com/tora-tool/tora/wiki || tora ^AUR

Simplified database software

Glom — Easy-to-use database designer and user interface.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glom/ || glom

Symphytum — Personal database software for everyone who desires to manage and organize data in an easy and intuitive way, without having to study complex database languages and software user interfaces.

https://github.com/giowck/symphytum || symphytum

TreeLine — Store almost any kind of information in a tree structure, which makes it easy to keep things organized.

https://treeline.bellz.org/ || treeline ^AUR

Formula editors

See also #TeX formula editors and Wikipedia:Formula editor.

LibreOffice Math — Create and edit scientific formulas and equations. Included in the LibreOffice suite.

https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/math/ || libreoffice-still or libreoffice-fresh

OpenOffice Math — Create equations and formulas for your documents. Included in the OpenOffice suite.

https://www.openoffice.org/product/math.html || openoffice-bin ^AUR

Markup languages

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of document markup languages.

Sphinx — A documentation generation system using reStructuredText to generate output in multiple formats (primary documentation system for the Python project).

https://www.sphinx-doc.org/ || python-sphinx

txt2tags — Dead-simple, KISS-compliant lightweight, human-readable markup language to produce rich format content out of plain text files.

https://txt2tags.org/ || txt2tags

AsciiDoc

Markdown

See also the official website and Wikipedia:Markdown.

Discount — A Markdown implementation written in C.

https://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount/ || discount, Ruby wrapper library: ruby-rdiscount

lowdown — Markdown translator producing HTML5 and roff documents in the ms and man formats.

https://kristaps.bsd.lv/lowdown/ || lowdown

Marked — Markdown parser and compiler built for speed.

https://marked.js.org/ || marked

Pandoc also supports Markdown.

Python implementations

CommonMark-py — Python parser for the CommonMark Markdown specification.

https://github.com/rtfd/CommonMark-py || python-commonmark

M2R — Markdown to reStructuredText converter.

https://github.com/miyakogi/m2r || m2r

Mistune — The fastest markdown parser in pure Python with renderer feature.

https://github.com/lepture/mistune || python-mistune

Python-Markdown — Extensible Python implementation of John Gruber's Markdown.

https://github.com/Python-Markdown/markdown || python-markdown

Ruby implementations

kramdown — Fast, pure Ruby Markdown superset converter, using a strict syntax definition.

https://kramdown.gettalong.org/ || ruby-kramdown

Maruku — Pure Ruby Markdown-superset interpreter.

https://github.com/bhollis/maruku || ruby-maruku

mdless — Pure Ruby terminal-based markdown viewer/interpeter.

https://github.com/ttscoff/mdless || ruby-mdless ^AUR

Markdown editors

Abricotine — Markdown editor built for desktop. Based on the Electron platform.

https://abricotine.brrd.fr/ || abricotine ^AUR

Apostrophe — Distraction free Markdown editor made with GTK.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/apostrophe || apostrophe ^AUR

CuteMarkEd — Qt-based Markdown editor with live HTML preview, math expressions, code and markdown syntax highlighting. Discontinued since 2016.

https://cloose.github.io/CuteMarkEd/ || cutemarked ^AUR

Formiko — reStructuredText and Markdown editor and live previewer written in Python with GTK.

https://github.com/ondratu/formiko || formiko ^AUR

ghostwriter — Distraction-free Markdown editor.

https://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter/ || ghostwriter

Marker — Simple yet robust Markdown editor.

https://fabiocolacio.github.io/Marker/ || marker

Mark My Words — Minimal markdown editor.

https://github.com/voldyman/MarkMyWords || markmywords ^AUR

Mark Text — Next generation markdown editor. Based on the Electron platform.

https://marktext.app/ || marktext ^AUR

Moeditor — Your all-purpose markdown editor. Based on the Electron platform. Discontinued since 2016.

https://moeditor.js.org/ || moeditor-bin ^AUR ^{[broken link: package not found]}

Remarkable — Fully featured Markdown editor.

https://remarkableapp.github.io/ || remarkable ^AUR

ReText — Simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText.

https://github.com/retext-project/retext || retext

ThiefMD — Markdown and Fountain editor inspired by Ulysses.

https://thiefmd.com/ || thiefmd ^AUR

Typora — Proprietary, minimalist Markdown editor.

https://typora.io/ || typora ^AUR

Typesetting systems

groff — GNU implementation of troff, a heirloom Unix document processing system and the default formatter for man pages.

https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/groff.html || groff

Lout — A lightware document formatting system. Reads a high-level description of a document similar in style to LaTeX and produces a PostScript.

https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lout || lout

SILE — Modern typesetting system inspired by TeX.

https://sile-typesetter.org/ || sile

TeX — A high-quality typesetting system popular in academia.

https://tug.org/ || texlive-core

Texinfo — Typesetting syntax for software manuals used by the GNU Project.

https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ || texinfo

TeX editors

With TeX, LaTeX and friends, creation of any scientific document, article, journal, etc. is made commonplace.

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of TeX editors and Wikibooks:LaTeX/Installation#Editors.

AUCTeX — Together with RefTex, AUCTeX provices an extensible environment for writing and formatting TeX files in Emacs.

https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/ || auctex ^AUR

gedit LaTeX Plugin — Add code-completion to gedit and allows for compiling LaTeX documents and managing BibTeX bibliographies.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit/LaTeXPlugin || gedit-latex ^AUR

GNOME LaTeX — LaTeX editor for the GNOME Desktop including support for code completion, compiling and project management.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/GNOME-LaTeX || gnome-latex

Gummi — Lightweight TeX/LaTeX GTK-based editor. It features a continuous preview mode, integrated BibTeX support, extendable snippet interface and multi-document support.

https://github.com/alexandervdm/gummi/ || gummi

Kile — User-friendly TeX/LaTeX editor for the KDE desktop with many features.

https://kile.sourceforge.io/ || kile

Ktikz — Small application helping you to create PGF/TikZ diagrams for your publications.

http://www.hackenberger.at/blog/ktikz-editor-for-the-tikz-language/ || KDE: ktikz, Qt: qtikz

LyX — Document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG).

https://www.lyx.org/ || lyx

Setzer — LaTeX editor written in Python with GTK.

https://www.cvfosammmm.org/setzer/ || setzer ^AUR

TeXmacs — WYSIWYW (what you see is what you want) editing platform with special features for scientists.

http://www.texmacs.org/ || texmacs

Texmaker — Cross-platform, light and easy-to-use LaTeX IDE. It integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX, in just one application

https://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/ || texmaker

TeXstudio — Fork of TeXMaker including support for code completion of bibtex items, grammar check and automatic detection of the need for multiple LaTeX runs.

http://texstudio.sourceforge.net/ || texstudio

TeXworks — Simple TeX front-end program modeled after TeXShop.

https://tug.org/texworks/ || texworks

TikZiT — Graphical tool for rapidly creating graphs and diagrams using PGF/TikZ.

https://tikzit.github.io/ || tikzit ^AUR

Vim-LaTeX-suite — Customizable LaTeX environment for Vim.

http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/ || vim-latexsuite

TeX formula editors

EqualX — LaTeX equation editor with real time preview.

http://equalx.sourceforge.net/ || equalx ^AUR

KLatexFormula — GUI for generating images from LaTeX equations.

https://klatexformula.sourceforge.io/ || klatexformula ^AUR

LibreOffice TexMaths extension — LaTeX equation editor for LibreOffice.

http://roland65.free.fr/texmaths/ || libreoffice-extension-texmaths

XML editors

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of XML editors.

QXmlEdit — Simple Qt XML editor and XSD viewer.

https://qxmledit.org/ || qxmledit

XML Copy Editor — Fast, validating XML editor.

https://xml-copy-editor.sourceforge.io/ || xmlcopyeditor ^AUR

XML Tree Editor — Displays XML files as tree views and allows basic operations: adding, editing and deleting text nodes and their attributes.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/xmltreeeditor/ || xmltreeedit-bin ^AUR

Document converters

See also #Markup languages and PDF, PS and DjVu.

Antiword — MS Word to text converter.

http://www.winfield.demon.nl/ || antiword

catdoc — Converter for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and RTF files to text.

https://wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/ || catdoc

docx2txt — MS Word Docx to text converter.

http://docx2txt.sourceforge.net/ || docx2txt

HTMLDOC — Reads HTML and Markdown source files or web pages and generates corresponding EPUB, HTML, PostScript, or PDF files with an optional table of contents.

https://www.msweet.org/htmldoc/ || htmldoc

mutool — All purpose tool based on MuPDF for dealing with document files in various manners.

https://mupdf.com/ || mupdf-tools

Pandoc — Swiss-army knife for converting markup and document formats.

https://pandoc.org/ || pandoc

unoconv — Libreoffice-based document converter.

http://dag.wiee.rs/home-made/unoconv/ || unoconv

UnRTF — Command-line program which converts RTF documents to other formats.

https://www.gnu.org/software/unrtf/unrtf.html || unrtf

Bibliographic reference managers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of reference management software.

Bibus — A bibliographic database that can directly insert references in OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice and generate the bibliographic index.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/bibus-biblio/ || bibus ^AUR

DocEar — Docear is an academic literature suite for searching, organizing and creating academic literature, built upon the mind mapping software Freeplane and the reference manager JabRef.

https://www.docear.org/ || docear ^AUR

JabRef — Java GUI frontend for managing BibTeX and other bibliographies.

https://www.jabref.org/ || jabref ^AUR

KBibTeX — BibTeX editor by KDE to edit bibliographies used with LaTeX.

https://apps.kde.org/kbibtex/ || kbibtex

Mendeley Desktop — Proprietary reference manager and academic social network.

https://www.mendeley.com/ || mendeleydesktop ^AUR

Papis — A command-line based document and bibliography manager.

https://github.com/papis/papis || papis ^AUR

Pybliographer — Tool for managing bibliographic databases.

https://pybliographer.org/ || pybliographer ^AUR

Referencer — GNOME application to organize documents or references, and ultimately generate a BibTeX bibliography file.

https://launchpad.net/referencer/ || referencer ^AUR

Zotero — An easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. Can import and export BibTeX and has browser extensions.

https://www.zotero.org/ || zotero ^AUR

Readers and viewers

NFO Viewer — Simple viewer for NFO files.

https://otsaloma.io/nfoview/ || nfoview

PDF and DjVu

See PDF, PS and DjVu.

E-book

Bookworm — Simple, focused e-book reader for Elementary OS with EPUB, PDF, Mobipocket and Comicbook support.

https://babluboy.github.io/bookworm/ || bookworm

Calibre — E-book library management application that can also edit EPUB files, convert between different formats and sync with a variety of e-book readers. Supported formats include CHM, Comicbook, DjVu, DOCX, EPUB, FictionBook, HTML, HTMLZ, Kindle, LIT, LRF, Mobipocket, ODT, PDF, PRC, PDB, PML, RB, RTF, SNB, TCR, TXT and TXTZ.

https://calibre-ebook.com/ || calibre

Cool Reader — E-book viewer with many supported formats such as EPUB (non-DRM), FictionBook, TXT, RTF, HTML, CHM and TCR.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/crengine/ || coolreader

FBReader — E-book viewer with many supported formats such as EPUB, FictionBook, HTML, plucker, PalmDoc, zTxt, TCR, CHM, RTF, OEB, Mobipocket (non-DRM) and TXT.

https://fbreader.org/ || fbreader

Foliate — Simple and modern GTK eBook reader. Supports EPUB, Mobipocket, Kindle, FictionBook, and Comicbook formats.

https://johnfactotum.github.io/foliate/ || foliate

GNOME Books — E-book manager application for GNOME with EPUB, Mobipocket, FictionBook, DjVu and Comicbook support.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Books || gnome-books

Lector — Qt based e-book reader with PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Mobipocket and Comicbook support.

https://github.com/BasioMeusPuga/Lector || lector ^AUR

Sigil — WYSIWYG EPUB e-book editor.

https://sigil-ebook.com/ || sigil

Some PDF viewers like apvlv, Atril, MuPDF, Okular and Xreader also support the EPUB format.

Comic book

Buoh — Online strips comics reader for GNOME.

http://buoh.steve-o.org/ || buoh

HakuNeko — Downloader for manga and anime from various websites. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/manga-download/hakuneko || hakuneko-desktop ^AUR

Kindle Comic Converter — Allows you to transform your PNG, JPG, GIF, CBZ, CBR and CB7 files into EPUB or MOBI format e-books.

https://github.com/ciromattia/kcc/ || kcc ^AUR

Komikku — Online/offline manga reader for GNOME.

https://gitlab.com/valos/Komikku || komikku ^AUR

Manga Reader — Manga reader for local files. Supports zip, rar, tar, 7z, cbz, cbr, cbt, cb7 files and also folders.

https://gitlab.com/g-fb/mangareader || mangareader ^AUR

MComix — GTK3 image viewer specifically designed to handle comic book archives (fork of Comix). Also includes library manager.

https://github.com/multiSnow/mcomix3 || mcomix

Peruse — Comic book reader by KDE.

https://peruse.kde.org/ || peruse ^AUR

QComicBook — Viewer for comic book archives that aims at convenience and simplicity.

https://github.com/stolowski/QComicBook || qcomicbook ^AUR

YACReader — Comic book viewer written in C++ and Qt5. Comes with YACReaderLibrary for managing comics.

https://yacreader.com/ || yacreader ^AUR

Some PDF and E-book viewers like Atril, Bookworm, Calibre, Evince, Foliate, Lector, MuPDF, Okular, Xreader and Zathura also support the Comicbook format.

CHM

See also Wikipedia:Microsoft Compiled HTML Help.

Archmage — Extensible reader and decompiler for files in the CHM format.

https://github.com/dottedmag/archmage || archmage ^AUR

Kchmviewer — Qt-based CHM viewer that uses chmlib and borrows some ideas from xchm. It does not depend on KDE, but it can be compiled to integrate with it.

http://www.ulduzsoft.com/linux/kchmviewer/ || kchmviewer

xCHM — Lightweight CHM viewer, based on chmlib.

https://github.com/rzvncj/xCHM || xchm

Some PDF and E-book viewers like Cool Reader, FBReader and Okular also support the CHM format.

Document managers

GNOME Documents — Document manager application for GNOME with PDF, DVI, XPS, PostScript, Microsoft Office, LibreOffice and Google Docs support.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Documents || gnome-documents

Paperwork — Personal document manager. It manages scanned documents and PDFs.

https://openpaper.work/ || paperwork

Shelf — Document and EBook collection manager that supports PDF and EPUB files.

https://mauikit.org/ || maui-shelf

Scanning software

See SANE#Install a frontend.

ScanTailor Advanced — Interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. Fork of Scan Tailor with additional features and fixes.

https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced || scantailor-advanced

OCR software

Console

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of optical character recognition software.

CuneiForm — Command line OCR system originally developed and open sourced by Cognitive technologies. Supported languages: eng, ger, fra, rus, swe, spa, ita, ruseng, ukr, srp, hrv, pol, dan, por, dut, cze, rum, hun, bul, slo, lav, lit, est, tur.

https://launchpad.net/cuneiform-linux || cuneiform

GOCR — OCR engine which also supports barcode recognition.

https://www-e.uni-magdeburg.de/jschulen/ocr/ || gocr

Ocrad — OCR program based on a feature extraction method.

https://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ || ocrad

OCRmyPDF — Adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched.

https://github.com/jbarlow83/OCRmyPDF || ocrmypdf ^AUR

OCRopus — OCR platform, modules exist for document layout analysis, OCR engines (it can use Tesseract or its own engine), natural language modeling, etc.

https://github.com/tmbdev/ocropy || ocropy ^AUR

Tesseract — Accurate open source OCR engine. Package splitted, you need install some datafiles for each language (tesseract-data-eng for example).

https://github.com/tesseract-ocr || tesseract

Graphical

gImageReader — Graphical GTK/Qt frontend to Tesseract.

https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader || GTK: gimagereader-gtk, Qt: gimagereader-qt

gscan2pdf — Scans, runs an OCR engine, minor post-processing, creates a document.

http://gscan2pdf.sourceforge.net/ || gscan2pdf

Linux-Intelligent-Ocr-Solution — Easy-OCR solution and Tesseract trainer for converting print into text using either scanner or a camera.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/lios/ || lios-git ^AUR

OCRFeeder — Python GUI for Gnome which performs document analysis and rendition, and can use either CuneiForm, GOCR, Ocrad or Tesseract as OCR engines. It can import from PDF or image files, and export to HTML or OpenDocument.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/OCRFeeder || ocrfeeder

Paperwork — Personal document manager. It manages scanned documents and PDFs.

https://openpaper.work/ || paperwork

Scans to PDF — Create small, searchable PDFs from scanned documents.

https://github.com/Unrud/djpdf || djpdf ^AUR

YAGF — Graphical interface for the CuneiForm text recognition program on the Linux platform.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/yagf-ocr/ || yagf ^AUR

Notes

Note-taking software

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of notetaking software.

Console

Geeknote — Command line client for Evernote.

https://github.com/VitaliyRodnenko/geeknote || geeknote-git ^AUR

hierarchical notebook — Program to organize many kinds of data (addresses, to-do lists, ideas, book reviews, etc.) in one place using the XML format.

http://hnb.sourceforge.net/ || hnb ^AUR

Org mode — Emacs mode for notes, project planning and authoring.

https://orgmode.org/ || emacs-org-mode ^AUR

tnote — Small note taking program for the terminal.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/tnote/ || tnote ^AUR

Vimwiki — Personal wiki for Vim – interlinked, plain text files written in a markup language.

https://vimwiki.github.io/ || vim-vimwiki ^AUR

Graphical

BasKet — Application for organizing, sharing, and taking notes. It can manage various types of information such as to-do lists, links, pictures, and other types, similar to a scrapbook.

https://basket-notepads.github.io/ || basket

Boostnote — Note-taking application for programmers that focuses on markdown, snippets, and customizability. Based on the Electron platform.

https://boostnote.io/ || boostnote ^AUR

Buho — Task and note keeper to save links, write quick notes and organize pages as books.

https://mauikit.org/ || buho

Cherrytree — Hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file.

https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/ || cherrytree

Deepin Voice Notes — Lightweight memo tool to make text notes and voice recordings.

https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-voice-note || deepin-voice-note

Encryptic — JavaScript note taking application with Markdown editor and encryption support. Based on the Electron platform.

https://www.encryptic.org/ || encryptic ^AUR

FeatherNotes — Lightweight Qt hierarchical notes-manager.

https://github.com/tsujan/feathernotes || feathernotes

FromScratch — Simple but smart note-taking application that you can use as a quick note taking or todo app. Based on the Electron platform.

https://fromscratch.rocks/ || fromscratch-bin ^AUR

GNOME Notes — Note editor for GNOME designed to remain simple to use.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Notes || gnome-notes

Gnote — Port of Tomboy to C++. It is the same note taking application, including most of the add-ins.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gnote || gnote

Joplin — Note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organized into notebooks. Based on the Electron platform.

https://joplinapp.org/ || joplin ^AUR

KeepNote — Cross-platform GTK note-taking application with rich text formatting.

http://keepnote.org || keepnote ^AUR

KJots — Note taking application for KDE.

https://userbase.kde.org/KJots || kjots

Mikidown — Note taking application featuring markdown syntax.

https://shadowkyogre.github.io/mikidown/ || mikidown ^AUR

MyNotex — Note-taking, document file and activity manager.

https://sites.google.com/site/mynotex/ || mynotex ^AUR

Nextcloud Notes — Simple notes app for Nextcloud.

https://github.com/nextcloud/notes || nextcloud-app-notes

NixNote — Helps you take notes and stay organized. Create text notes, attach files or images, and even synchronize with Evernote. Formerly called Nevernote.

http://nixnote.org/ || nixnote2 ^AUR

Norka — Note-taking software with Markdown support designed for Pantheon.

https://tenderowl.com/work/norka/ || norka ^AUR

Notejot — Stupidly simple sticky notes applet for elementaryOS.

https://github.com/lainsce/notejot || notejot ^AUR

Notes — Note-taking application, write down your thoughts.

https://www.get-notes.com/ || notes ^AUR

Notes-Up — Markdown notes editor and manager for elementaryOS.

https://github.com/Philip-Scott/Notes-up || notes-up

Notorious — Keyboard centric note-taking application with Markdown syntax highlighting support.

https://notorious.gabmus.org/ || notorious-git ^AUR

nvPY — Simplenote syncing note-taking application, inspired by Notational Velocity and ResophNotes, but uglier and cross-platformerer.

https://github.com/cpbotha/nvpy || nvpy ^AUR

OutWiker — Store notes in a tree.

https://jenyay.net/Outwiker/English || outwiker ^AUR

QOwnNotes — Notepad and todo list manager with markdown support and optional ownCloud integration built on Qt5.

https://www.qownnotes.org/ || qownnotes ^AUR

Simplenote — The simplest way to keep notes. Based on the Electron platform.

https://simplenote.com/ || simplenote-electron-bin ^AUR

Standard Notes — Simple and private notes application which focuses on simplicity, and encrypts data locally before it ever touches a cloud. Based on the Electron platform.

https://standardnotes.com/ || standardnotes-desktop ^AUR

TagSpaces — Offline personal data manager for managing of your local files. Based on the Electron platform.

https://www.tagspaces.org/ || tagspaces ^AUR

TiddlyWiki — Unique non-linear notebook for capturing, organizing and sharing complex information.

https://tiddlywiki.com/ || tiddlywiki ^AUR

Tomboy — Desktop note-taking application for Linux and Unix with a wiki-like linking system to connect notes together.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Tomboy || tomboy ^AUR

Trilium — Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes.

https://github.com/zadam/trilium || trilium-bin ^AUR, trilium-server-bin ^AUR

TuxCards — Hierarchical notebook to enter and manage ever every kind of notes and ideas in a structured manner.

https://tuxcards.de/ || tuxcards

VNote — Vim-inspired note-taking application that knows programmers and Markdown better.

https://vnotex.github.io/vnote || vnote ^AUR

WikidPad — Wiki-like notebook for storing your thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, or anything else you can think of to write down.

http://wikidpad.sourceforge.net/ || wikidpad ^AUR

WizNote — Cloud based note-taking client.

https://github.com/WizTeam/WizQTClient || wiznote

Zim — WYSIWYG text editor that aims at bringing the concept of a wiki to the desktop.

https://zim-wiki.org/ || zim

zNotes — Lightweight application for notes management with simple interface.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/znotes/ || znotes ^AUR

μPad — Note-taking app that helps you organise + take notes without restrictions. Based on the Electron platform.

https://getmicropad.com || micropad ^AUR

Stylus note-taking

Cournal — Collaborative note taking and journal application using a stylus. It allows multiple users to annotate PDF files in real-time.

https://github.com/flyser/cournal || cournal ^AUR

Write — A proprietary word processor for handwriting.

http://www.styluslabs.com/ || write_stylus ^AUR

Xournal — Application for notetaking, sketching and keeping a journal using a stylus. Capable of annotating existing PDF files as well.

http://xournal.sourceforge.net/ || xournal ^AUR

Xournal++ — Notetaking software designed around a tablet. C++ rewrite of Xournal with PDF annotation support.

https://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp || xournalpp

Diary

Almanah — Small GTK application to allow you to keep a diary of your life.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Almanah_Diary || almanah

Hazama — Simple and highly customizable application for keeping diary. There is no calendar but a big list that contains preview of diaries.

https://hazama.cc/ || hazama ^AUR

Lifeograph — Off-line and private journal and note taking application. It offers a rich feature set presented in a clean and simple user interface.

http://lifeograph.sourceforge.net/ || lifeograph

RedNotebook — Modern journal, which lets you format, tag and search your entries.

https://rednotebook.sourceforge.io/ || rednotebook

Simple Diary — Simple and lightweight diary app with Markdown support.

https://github.com/johan-bjareholt/simple-diary-gtk || simple-diary-gtk ^AUR

Mind-mapping

See also Wikipedia:List of concept- and mind-mapping software.

FreeMind — Mind-mapping software written in Java.

http://freemind.sourceforge.net || freemind

Freeplane — Fork of FreeMind, supports thinking, sharing information and getting things done at work. The software can be used for mind mapping and analyzing the information contained in mind maps.

https://www.freeplane.org/ || freeplane ^AUR

Labyrinth — Lightweight mind-mapping tool, written in Python using GTK, with support for image import and drawing.

https://github.com/labyrinth-team/labyrinth || labyrinth ^AUR

Minder — Mind-mapping application designed for Pantheon.

https://github.com/phase1geo/Minder || minder

MindMaster — Proprietary mindmap and brainstorm software with modern UI and beautiful template. It also provides online mindmap service and cross-platform sharing.

https://www.edrawsoft.com/mindmaster/ || mindmaster_en ^AUR

Semantik — Mind-mapping application for KDE.

https://waf.io/semantik.html || semantik ^AUR

TreeSheets — A "hierarchical spreadsheet" that is a great replacement for spreadsheets, mind mappers, outliners, PIMs, text editors and small databases.

https://strlen.com/treesheets/ || treesheets-git ^AUR

View Your Mind — Tool to generate and manipulate maps which show your thoughts. Such maps can help you to improve your creativity and effectivity. You can use them for time management, to organize tasks, to get an overview over complex contexts, to sort your ideas etc.

https://www.insilmaril.de/vym/^{[dead link 2021-11-13 ⓘ]} || vym

Visual Understanding Environment — Flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research.

https://vue.tufts.edu/ || vue ^AUR

XMind — Brainstorming and mind mapping application. It provides a rich set of different visualization styles, and allows sharing of created mind maps via their website.

https://www.xmind.net/ || xmind ^AUR

Sticky notes

GloboNote — Easy to use desktop note taking application. You can use it to create sticky notes, to-do lists, personal journals, reminders and other notes all in one application.

https://globonote.info/ || globonote ^AUR

KNotes — Program that lets you write the computer equivalent of sticky notes. Part of kdepim.

https://kontact.kde.org/components/knotes.html || knotes

MyNotes — Sticky note application. An icon appears in the system tray and from it you can create and manage your sticky notes.

https://github.com/j4321/MyNotes || mynotes ^AUR

Notes — Provides you a quick way to paste text, to write down a list of things, to leave a note to your friend, or whatever you had do with Post-It's.

https://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-notes-plugin || xfce4-notes-plugin

qtPad — Modern and customizable sticky note application written in PyQt5.

https://gitlab.com/william.belanger/qtpad || qtpad-git ^AUR

xNots — Desktop post-it/sticky note system for the Unix geek.

https://github.com/thePalindrome/xnots || xnots-git ^AUR

Xpad — Sticky note application for jotting down things to remember.

https://launchpad.net/xpad || xpad

Special writing environments

Distraction-free writing

See also #Markdown editors and Wikipedia:Full-screen writing program.

FocusWriter — Simple, distraction-free writing environment. It utilizes a hide-away interface that you access by moving your mouse to the edges of the screen, allowing the program to have a familiar look and feel to it while still getting out of the way so that you can immerse yourself in your work.

https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/ || focuswriter

PyRoom — Fullscreen editor without buttons, widgets, formatting options, menus and with only the minimum of required dialog windows, it does not have any distractions and lets you focus on writing and only writing.

https://pyroom.org/ || pyroom ^AUR

Quilter — Focus on your writing and write beautiful solid stories with the Focus Mode in tow in this Markdown editor.

https://github.com/lainsce/quilter || quilter ^AUR

TextRoom — Fullscreen text editor for writers.

https://github.com/dbuksbaum/TextRoom || textroom ^AUR

Story writing

Manuskript — Provides a rich environment to help writers create their first draft and then further refine and edit their masterpiece.

http://www.theologeek.ch/manuskript/ || manuskript

NovProg — Tool to graph your progress in writing a NaNoWriMo style novel.

https://gottcode.org/novprog/ || novprog ^AUR

oStorybook — Tool for writers, essayists, authors from the draft to the final work.

https://ostorybook.tuxfamily.org/?lng=en || ostorybook ^AUR

Screenwriting

KIT Scenarist — Simple and powerful application for creating screenplays.

https://kitscenarist.ru/en/ || scenarist

Magic Fountain — Fountain syntax editor and viewer for writing screenplays.

https://aztorius.github.io/magicfountain/ || magicfountain ^AUR

Trelby — Simple, fast and elegantly laid out to make screenwriting simple.

https://www.trelby.org/ || trelby-git ^AUR

Language

Dictionary and thesaurus

See also Wikipedia:Category:Dictionary software and Wikipedia:DICT#DICT clients.

Console

dictd — Client/server software for the DICT protocol.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/dict/ || dictd

sdcv — Command line dictionary. It provides access to dictionaries in StarDict's format.

https://dushistov.github.io/sdcv/ || sdcv

thesauromatic — Static, offline, command-line thesaurus written in Rust.

https://github.com/cjrh/thesauromatic || not packaged? search in AUR

Graphical

Artha — English thesaurus that works completely off-line and is based on WordNet.

http://artha.sourceforge.net/ || artha ^AUR

Gjiten Kai — Rewrite of Gjiten, a GTK Japanese dictionary.

https://github.com/odrevet/gjiten-kai || gjitenkai-git ^AUR

GNOME Dictionary — GNOME application to check word definitions and spellings in an online dictionary.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dictionary || gnome-dictionary

GoldenDict — Feature-rich dictionary lookup program.

http://www.goldendict.org/ || goldendict

Kiten — Japanese reference and study tool. Part of kde-education.

https://apps.kde.org/kiten/ || kiten

MATE Dictionary — MATE application to look up words in dictionary sources.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-utils || mate-utils

OpenDict — Computer dictionary, which supports popular computer dictionary formats including Slowo and Mova. It also acts as a client for DICT servers.

http://opendict.sourceforge.net/ || opendict ^AUR

Palaura — Handy dictionary to find any word's definition.

https://github.com/lainsce/palaura || palaura ^AUR

PowerWord — Proprietary Chinese-English dictionary tool.

https://www.iciba.com || powerword-bin ^AUR

QStarDict — Dictionary program written using Qt. The user interface is similar to StarDict.

http://qstardict.ylsoftware.com/ || qstardict

Quick Lookup — Simple GTK dictionary application powered by Wiktionary.

https://github.com/johnfactotum/quick-lookup || quick-lookup ^AUR

StarDict — International dictionary software.

http://stardict-4.sourceforge.net/ || stardict

Xfce4 Dictionary — Search different kinds of dictionary services for words or phrases.

https://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict || xfce4-dict

Spell checkers

See Language checking.

Translation and localization

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of computer-assisted translation tools.

Apertium — Free and open source rule-based machine translation platform with available language data. It supports the following formats: HTML, Microsoft Office 2007 XML, OpenDocument, TMX, MediaWiki and others.

https://www.apertium.org/ || apertium ^AUR

Crow Translate — Simple and lightweight translator that allows to translate and speak text using Google, Yandex and Bing.

https://crow-translate.github.io/ || crow-translate ^AUR

Dialect — A translation app for GNOME based on Google Translate.

https://github.com/dialect-app/dialect || dialect ^AUR

Gtranslator — Enhanced gettext po file editor for the GNOME. It handles all forms of gettext po files and includes very useful features.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gtranslator || gtranslator

Lokalize — Standard KDE tool for software translation. It includes basic editing of PO files, support for glossary, translation memory, project managing, etc. It belongs to kdesdk

https://apps.kde.org/lokalize/ || lokalize

Moses — Statistical machine translation tool (language data not included).

http://statmt.org/moses/ || mosesdecoder ^AUR

OmegaT — General translator's tool which contains a lot of translation memory features and can give suggestions from Google Translate. It supports the following formats: HTML, Microsoft Office 2007 XML, OpenDocument, XLIFF/Okapi, MediaWiki, plain text, TMX and others.

https://omegat.org/ || omegat ^AUR

Poedit — Simple translation editor for gettext (PO, POT) and XLIFF.

https://poedit.net || poedit

Pology — Set of Python tools for dealing with gettext/po-files.

https://techbase.kde.org/Localization/Tools/Pology || pology ^AUR

Qt Linguist — Translating Qt C++ and Qt Quick applications into local languages.

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtlinguist-index.html || qt5-tools

Translate Shell — Command-line interface and interactive shell for Google Translate.

https://www.soimort.org/translate-shell/ || translate-shell

Translate Toolkit — Localization and translation toolkit, which provides a set of tools for working with localization file formats and files that might need localization.

https://toolkit.translatehouse.org/ || translate-toolkit

Barcode generators and readers

Console

barcode — A tool to convert text strings to printed bars.

https://www.gnu.org/software/barcode/ || barcode

iec16022 — Produce 2D barcodes often also referenced as DataMatrix.

https://datenfreihafen.org/projects/iec16022.html || iec16022

qrencode — C library and command line tool for encoding data in a QR Code symbol.

https://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/ || qrencode

ZBar — Application and library for reading bar codes from various sources.

http://zbar.sourceforge.net/ || zbar

Zint — Barcode encoding library and command line tool supporting over 50 symbologies.

http://zint.org.uk/ || zint

Graphical

CoBang — QR Code scanner application.

https://github.com/hongquan/CoBang || cobang ^AUR

gLabels — Program for creating labels and business cards. It also supports creating barcodes.

http://glabels.org/ || glabels

QRab — Simply grabs QR code from screen and copies decoded text into clipboard.

https://qrab.sourceforge.io/ || qrab ^AUR

Qreator — Graphical utility for creating QR codes.

https://davidplanella.org/qreator/ || qreator

QtQR — QR Code generator and decoder.

https://launchpad.net/qr-tools || qtqr

ZBarCam GUI — Simple GUI for ZBar to read bar codes from various sources.

http://zbar.sourceforge.net/ || zbar

Zint Barcode Studio — Barcode generator GUI.

http://zint.org.uk/ || zint-qt

Security

For detailed guides, see the main ArchWiki page, Security.

Network security

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of packet analyzers.

airgeddon — Multi-use bash script to audit wireless networks

https://github.com/v1s1t0r1sh3r3/airgeddon || airgeddon-git ^AUR

Arpwatch — Tool that monitors ethernet activity and keeps a database of Ethernet/IP address pairings.

https://ee.lbl.gov/ || arpwatch

bettercap — Swiss army knife for network attacks and monitoring.

https://www.bettercap.org/ || bettercap

darkstat — Captures network traffic, calculates statistics about usage, and serves reports over HTTP.

https://unix4lyfe.org/darkstat/ || darkstat

dsniff — Collection of tools for network auditing and penetration testing.

https://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/dsniff/ || dsniff

EtherApe — Graphical network monitor for Unix modeled after etherman. Featuring link layer, IP and TCP modes, it displays network activity graphically. Hosts and links change in size with traffic. Color coded protocols display.

https://etherape.sourceforge.io/ || etherape

Ettercap — Multipurpose Network sniffer/analyser/interceptor/logger.

https://ettercap.github.io/ettercap/ || CLI: ettercap, GUI: ettercap-gtk

GNOME Network Tools — GNOME interface for various networking tools.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-nettool || gnome-nettool

Honeyd — Tool that allows the user to set up and run multiple virtual hosts on a computer network.

http://www.honeyd.org/ || honeyd ^AUR

hping — Command-line oriented TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer.

http://hping.org/ || hping

IPTraf — Console-based network monitoring utility.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/iptraf-ng/ || iptraf-ng

jnettop — top-like console network traffic visualizer.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/jnettop/ || jnettop

justniffer — Network protocol analyzer that captures network traffic and produces logs in a customized way, can emulate Apache web server log files, track response times and extract all "intercepted" files from the HTTP traffic.

http://justniffer.sourceforge.net/ || justniffer ^AUR

Kismet — 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system.

https://www.kismetwireless.net/ || kismet

LinSSID — Graphical wireless scanner.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/linssid/ || linssid

Nemesis — Command-line network packet crafting and injection utility.

http://nemesis.sourceforge.net/ || nemesis ^AUR

Net Activity Viewer — Graphical network connections viewer, similar in functionality with Netstat.

http://netactview.sourceforge.net/ || netactview ^AUR

netsniff-ng — High performance Linux network sniffer for packet inspection.

http://netsniff-ng.org/ || netsniff-ng

ngrep — grep-like utility that allows you to search for network packets on an interface.

https://github.com/jpr5/ngrep || ngrep

Nmap — Security scanner used to discover hosts and services on a computer network, thus creating a "map" of the network.

https://nmap.org/ || CLI: nmap, GUI: zenmap ^AUR

Ntop — Network probe that shows network usage in a way similar to what top does for processes.

https://www.ntop.org/ || ntop ^AUR

pyNeighborhood — GTK-based SMB/CIFS browsing utility.

https://launchpad.net/pyneighborhood || pyneighborhood ^AUR

Smb4K — Advanced network neighborhood browser and Samba share mounting utility for KDE.

https://smb4k.sourceforge.io/ || smb4k

Snort — Network intrusion prevention and detection system.

https://www.snort.org/ || snort ^AUR

Spectools — A set of utilities for spectrum analyzer hardware including Wi-Spy devices.

https://www.kismetwireless.net/static/spectools/ || spectools ^AUR

Sshguard — Daemon that protects SSH and other services against brute-force attacts, similar to Fail2ban.

https://www.sshguard.net/ || sshguard

Suricata — High performance Network IDS, IPS and Network Security Monitoring engine.

https://suricata-ids.org/ || suricata ^AUR

Tcpdump — Common console-based packet analyzer that allows the user to intercept and display TCP/IP and other packets being transmitted or received over a network.

https://www.tcpdump.org/ || tcpdump

vnStat — Console-based network traffic monitor that keeps a log of network traffic for the selected interfaces.

https://humdi.net/vnstat/ || vnstat

What IP — Small GTK application to get info on your IP.

https://gabmus.gitlab.io/whatip/ || whatip ^AUR

wifiphisher — Fast automated phishing attacks against WPA networks.

https://github.com/wifiphisher/wifiphisher || wifiphisher-git ^AUR ^{[broken link: package not found]}

Wireshark — Network protocol analyzer that lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network.

https://www.wireshark.org/ || CLI: wireshark-cli, GUI: wireshark-qt

Xplico — Network forensics analysis tool (NFAT), which is a software that reconstructs the contents of acquisitions performed with a packet sniffer.

https://www.xplico.org/ || xplico ^AUR

Zeek — Powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know.

https://zeek.org/ || zeek ^AUR

Firewall management

See iptables#Front-ends.

Threat and vulnerability detection

AFICK — Security tool that allows to monitor the changes on your file systems, and so can detect intrusions.

http://afick.sourceforge.net/ || afick ^AUR

Lynis — Security and system auditing tool to harden Unix/Linux systems.

https://cisofy.com/lynis/ || lynis

Metasploit Framework — An advanced open-source platform for developing, testing, and using exploit code.

https://www.metasploit.com/ || metasploit

Nessus — Comprehensive vulnerability scanning program.

https://www.tenable.com/products/nessus || nessus ^AUR

OpenVAS — Framework of several services and tools offering a comprehensive and powerful vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management solution. FOSS Nessus fork.

https://www.openvas.org/ || openvas-scanner ^AUR

OSSEC — Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System that performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response.

https://ossec.github.io/ || ossec-local ^AUR ossec-server ^AUR

Samhain — Host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) provides file integrity checking and log file monitoring/analysis, as well as rootkit detection, port monitoring, detection of rogue SUID executables, and hidden processes.

https://www.la-samhna.de/samhain/index.html || samhain-client ^AUR, samhain-server ^AUR, samhain-standalone ^AUR

Tiger — Security tool that can be used both as a security audit and intrusion detection system.

https://www.nongnu.org/tiger/ || tiger ^AUR

Tripwire — Intrusion detection system.

https://github.com/Tripwire/tripwire-open-source || tripwire-git ^AUR

File security

AIDE — File and directory integrity checker.

https://aide.github.io || aide ^AUR

Logwatch — Customizable log analysis system.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/logwatch/ || logwatch

Anti malware

ClamAV — Open source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats.

https://www.clamav.net/ || clamav

ClamTk — Graphical front-end for ClamAV using Perl and Gtk libraries. It is designed to be an easy-to-use, lightweight, on-demand antivirus scanner for Linux systems.

https://gitlab.com/dave_m/clamtk/ || clamtk, Nautilus plugin: clamtk-gnome ^AUR, MATE plugin: clamtk-mate ^AUR, Thunar plugin: thunar-sendto-clamtk ^AUR

Linux Malware Detect — Malware scanner designed around the threats faced in shared hosted environments.

https://www.rfxn.com/projects/linux-malware-detect/ || maldet ^AUR

Rootkit Hunter — Checks machines for the presence of rootkits and other unwanted tools.

http://rkhunter.sourceforge.net/ || rkhunter

Hostsblock — A script that downloads, sorts, and compiles multiple ad- and malware-blocking hosts files.

https://gaenserich.github.io/hostsblock/ || hostsblock ^AUR

Screen lockers

Password auditing

John the Ripper — Password cracker.

https://www.openwall.com/john || john

Hashcat — Multithreaded advanced password recovery utility.

https://hashcat.net/hashcat || hashcat

Password managers

Console

1password CLI — Proprietary command line tool for 1Password password manager.

https://1password.com/downloads/command-line/ || 1password-cli ^AUR

Bitwarden — Open source password manager with desktop, mobile, browser, and CLI versions. Cloud or self-hosted.

https://bitwarden.com/ || bitwarden-cli

gopass — Advanced console based password manager, supporting GnuPG and other backends.

https://github.com/justwatchcom/gopass || gopass

KeePassC — Curses-based password manager compatible to KeePass v.1.x.

https://outerhaven.de/keepassc/ || keepassc ^AUR

LastPass — Hosted password manager.

https://www.lastpass.com/ || lastpass-cli

pass — Simple console-based password manager featuring flat text file organization and GnuPG encryption.

https://www.passwordstore.org/ || pass

pwsafe — Unix command-line program that manages encrypted password databases.

http://nsd.dyndns.org/pwsafe/ || pwsafe ^AUR

spm — Simple Password Manager written entirely in POSIX shell using PGP. Fast, lightweight and easily scriptable.

https://notabug.org/kl3/spm/ || spm ^AUR

tpm — tiny password manager, inspired by pass, written entirely in POSIX shell.

https://github.com/nmeum/tpm || tpm ^AUR

Ylva — Command-line password manager, written in C, uses OpenSSL.

https://www.ylvapasswordmanager.com/ || ylva ^AUR

Graphical

1password — Proprietary password manager and secure wallet.

https://1password.com/downloads/linux/ || 1password ^AUR

Authenticator — Two-factor authentication application built for GNOME.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Authenticator || authenticator ^AUR

Bitwarden — Open source password manager with desktop, mobile, browser, and CLI versions. Cloud or self-hosted.

https://bitwarden.com/ || bitwarden

Encryptr — Zero-knowledge, cloud-based password manager.

https://spideroak.com/encryptr/ || encryptr ^AUR

Enpass — A multiplatform password manager

https://www.enpass.io/ || enpass-bin ^AUR

Figaro's Password Manager 2 — GTK2 port of Figaro's Password Manager with some new enhancements.

https://als.regnet.cz/fpm2/ || fpm2 ^AUR

GNOME Password Safe — Password manager for GNOME which makes use of the KeePass v.4 format.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/PasswordSafe || gnome-passwordsafe

Ked Password Manager — A password manager that helps to manage large numbers of passwords.

http://kedpm.sourceforge.net || kedpm ^AUR

KeePass Password Safe — Mono-based password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way.

https://keepass.info/ || keepass

KeePassX — Qt-based password manager. Compatible with KeePass v.1.x and KeePass v.2.x.

https://www.keepassx.org/ || version 1: keepassx ^AUR, version 2: keepassx2 ^AUR

KeePassXC — Community fork of KeePassX with more active development. Compatible with KeePass v.1.x (import only) and KeePass v.2.x.

https://keepassxc.org/ || keepassxc

KDE Wallet Manager — Tool to manage the passwords on your system. By using the KDE wallet subsystem it not only allows you to keep your own secrets but also to access and manage the passwords of every application that integrates with the wallet.

https://apps.kde.org/kwalletmanager5/ || kwalletmanager

OTPClient — Highly secure and easy to use GTK software for two-factor authentication that supports both Time-based One-time Passwords (TOTP) and HMAC-Based One-Time Passwords (HOTP).

https://github.com/paolostivanin/OTPClient || otpclient ^AUR

Passbook — Modern password manager for GNOME.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Passbook || passbook ^AUR

Password Gorilla — A cross-platform password manager.

https://github.com/zdia/gorilla/wiki || password-gorilla ^AUR

Password Safe — Simple and secure password manager.

https://pwsafe.org/ || passwordsafe ^AUR

QPass — Easy to use password manager with built-in password generator.

http://qpass.sourceforge.net/ || qpass ^AUR

QtPass — GUI for pass, the standard unix password manager.

https://qtpass.org/ || qtpass

Revelation — Password manager for the GNOME desktop.

https://revelation.olasagasti.info/ || revelation ^AUR

Seahorse — GNOME application for managing encryption keys and passwords in the GNOME Keyring.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Seahorse || seahorse

Universal Password Manager — Allows you to store usernames, passwords, URLs and generic notes in an encrypted database protected by one master password.

http://upm.sourceforge.net/ || universal-password-manager ^AUR

Cryptography

Hash checkers

cfv — Tiny utility to both test and create checksum files, support .sfv, .csv, .crc, .md5, md5sum, sha1sum, .torrent, par, and .par2 files.

http://cfv.sourceforge.net/ || cfv ^AUR

GtkHash — A GTK utility for computing message digests or checksums

https://github.com/tristanheaven/gtkhash || gtkhash ^AUR

hashdeep — A cross-platform tools to compute hashes, or message digests, for any number of files

http://md5deep.sourceforge.net/ || hashdeep

Quick Hash GUI — A GUI to enable the rapid selection and subsequent hashing of files (individually or recursively throughout a folder structure) text and (on Linux) disks.

https://www.quickhash-gui.org/ || quickhash-gui-bin ^AUR

RHash — Utility for verifying hash sums (SFV, CRC, etc). Supports lots of algorithms.

https://github.com/rhash/RHash/ || rhash

MassHash — A set of file hashing tools (both CLI and GTK GUI) written in Python. Supported algorithms include MD5, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512.

https://jdleicher.github.io/MassHash/ || masshash ^AUR

Parchive — Utility which creates and uses PAR2 files to detect damage in data files and repair them if necessary.

https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline || par2cmdline

Encryption, signing, steganography

age — A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.

https://age-encryption.org/v1 || Go: age age-git ^AUR Rust: rust-rage ^AUR rust-rage-git ^AUR

ccrypt — A command-line utility for encrypting and decrypting files and streams based on Rijndael.

http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/ || ccrypt ^AUR

Enigmail — A security extension to Mozilla Thunderbird and Seamonkey. It enables you to write and receive email messages signed and/or encrypted with the OpenPGP standard.

https://enigmail.net || thunderbird-extension-enigmail ^{[broken link: package not found]}

GNOME Keysign — GTK/GNOME application to use GnuPG for signing other people's keys. Quickly, easily, and securely.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Keysign || gnome-keysign ^AUR

GnuPG — The GNU project's complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC4880. Free and Open Source replacement of PGP, mostly used for digital signing of packages.

https://gnupg.org/ || gnupg

GPG-Crypter — Graphical front-end to GnuPG(GPG) using the GTK3 toolkit and GPGME library.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gpg-crypter/ || gpg-crypter

Keybase — Key directory mapping social media identities, with cross platform encrypted chat, cloud storage, and git repositories.

https://keybase.io/ || keybase

KGpg — Simple interface for GnuPG, for KDE.

https://apps.kde.org/kgpg/ || kgpg

Kleopatra — Certificate Manager and Unified Crypto GUI for KDE. It supports managing X.509 and OpenPGP certificates in the GpgSM keybox and retrieving certificates from LDAP servers.

https://apps.kde.org/kleopatra/ || kleopatra

minisign — Simple program that only implements key signing

https://github.com/jedisct1/minisign || minisign

Seahorse — GNOME application for managing encryption keys and passwords in the GNOME Keyring.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Seahorse || seahorse

scrypt — Command-line encryption utility featuring the memory-hardened scrypt key derivation function.

https://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html || scrypt

steghide — A steganography utility that is able to hide data in various kinds of image and audio files.

http://steghide.sourceforge.net || steghide ^AUR

Data-at-rest encryption

See Data-at-rest encryption.

Privilege elevation

doas — A portable version of OpenBSD's doas command, known for being substantially smaller in size compared to sudo.

https://github.com/Duncaen/OpenDoas || opendoas

pkexec(1) — A Polkit application that allows an authorized user to run commands or an interactive shell as another user. Configured using Polkit rules.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/ || polkit

su — Command used to assume the identity of another user on the system.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/about/ || util-linux

sudo — Command to delegate the ability to run commands as root or another user while providing an audit trail.

https://www.sudo.ws/sudo/ || sudo

Science

Note: For possibly more up to date selection of scientific applications, try checking the AUR 'science' category

Mathematics

Calculator

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of software calculators.

Console

bc — Arbitrary precision calculator language.

https://www.gnu.org/software/bc/ || bc

calc — Arbitrary precision console calculator.

http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/ || calc

clac — Command-line, stack-based calculator with postfix notation.

https://github.com/soveran/clac || clac ^AUR

qalc — Command-line calculator and equation solver with fault-tolerant parsing, constant recognition and units.

https://qalculate.github.io/ || libqalculate

Graphical

Deepin Calculator — Easy to use calculator for Deepin desktop.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-calculator/ || deepin-calculator

Extcalc — Qt-based scientific graphical calculator.

http://extcalc-linux.sourceforge.net/ || extcalc ^AUR

FOX Calculator — Simple desktop calculator.

http://fox-toolkit.org/ || fox

galculator — GTK-based scientific calculator.

http://galculator.mnim.org/ || galculator

Genius — Advanced calculator including a mathematical programming language.

https://www.jirka.org/genius.html || genius

GNOME Calculator — Scientific calculator included in the GNOME desktop.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Calculator || gnome-calculator

KAlgebra — Calculator and 3D plotter. Part of kde-education.

https://apps.kde.org/kalgebramobile/ || kalgebra

KCalc — Scientific calculator included in the KDE desktop.

https://apps.kde.org/kcalc/ || kcalc

Liri Calculator — Calculator for Liri.

https://github.com/lirios/calculator || liri-calculator

MATE Calc — Calculator for the MATE desktop environment.

https://mate-desktop.org/ || mate-calc

Qalculate! — Calculator and equation solver with fault-tolerant parsing, constant recognition and units.

https://qalculate.github.io/ || qalculate-gtk

SpeedCrunch — Fast, high precision and powerful cross-platform calculator.

https://speedcrunch.org || speedcrunch

xcalc — Scientific calculator for X with algebraic and reverse polish notation modes.

https://www.x.org/ || xorg-xcalc

Computer algebra system

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of computer algebra systems.

AXIOM — FriCAS: derivative of the powerful AXIOM-CAS

http://fricas.sourceforge.net || fricas ^AUR

GAP — Computer algebra system for computational discrete algebra with particular emphasis on computational group theory.

https://www.gap-system.org/ || gap

Maple — Famous commercial CAS. Often used in education.

https://www.maplesoft.com/products/maple/ ||

Mathics — A free CAS for symbolic mathematical computations which uses Python as its main language. It aims at achieving a Mathematica-compatible syntax and functions. It relies mostly on Sympy for most mathematical tasks and, optionally, Sage for more advanced functionality.

https://mathics.github.io/ || mathics ^AUR

Mathomatic — General purpose Computer Algebra System written in C.

http://www.mathomatic.org/ || mathomatic

Maxima — Maple/Mathematica-like computer algebra system.

http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ || maxima

PARI/GP — Computer algebra system designed for fast computations in number theory.

https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/ || pari

Singular — Computer algebra system for polynomial computations, with special emphasis on commutative and non-commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, and singularity theory.

https://www.singular.uni-kl.de/ || singular

wxMaxima — Graphical user interface for Maxima being a powerful computer algebra system.

https://andrejv.github.io/wxmaxima/ || wxmaxima

Xcas — User interface to Giac, a free, basic computer algebra system.

https://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/giac.html || giac

Visualization of networks/graphs

Graphia — Visualizes large graphs specified in various formats (including GML and GraphML) in 3D space in real time. See this issue on the Graphia Github for the Archlinux package dependencies of Graphia.

https://graphia.app || not packaged? search in AUR

Graphviz — The established tool for displaying smallish graphs in 2D.

https://www.graphviz.org || graphviz

Scientific or technical computing

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of numerical analysis software.

Cadabra — A field-theory motivated approach to computer algebra.

https://cadabra.science/ || cadabra2 ^AUR

Cantor — Application that lets you use your favorite mathematical applications from within a nice KDE-integrated Worksheet Interface. Part of kde-education.

https://cantor.kde.org/ || cantor

EngLab — Cross-compile mathematical platform with a C like syntax.

http://englab.bugfest.net || englab ^AUR

FFTW — A Fast Fourier Transform library for computing discrete Fourier transforms. Used for a wide variety of numerical applications, which includes spectral methods.

https://www.fftw.org/ || fftw fftw-mpi ^AUR fftw-mpich ^AUR

FreeMat — Matlab-like program that supports many of its functions and features a codeless interface to external C, C++, and Fortran code, further parallel distributed algorithm development (via MPI), and 3D visualization capabilities.

http://freemat.sourceforge.net/ || freemat ^AUR

GeoGebra — Dynamic mathematics software with interactive graphics, algebra and spreadsheet

https://www.geogebra.org/ || geogebra

Julia — High-level, high-performance dynamic language for technical computing.

https://julialang.org/ || julia

Kig — Application for Interactive Geometry. Part of kde-education.

https://apps.kde.org/kig/ || kig

matplotlib (PyLab) — Collection of Python modules (pyplot, numpy, etc.) used for scientific calculations.

https://www.scipy.org/ || python-matplotlib

Octave — MATLAB-like language and interface for numerical computations.

https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ || octave

SageMath — Mathematics software system, that combines many existing open-source packages into a common Python interface. Alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab.

https://www.sagemath.org/ || sagemath

Scilab — Matlab alternative used for numerical computations. Its syntax is not equivalent to that of Matlab, but it can be easily converted.

https://www.scilab.org/ || scilab ^AUR, scilab-bin ^AUR, scilab-git ^AUR

Statistics

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of statistical packages.

gretl — A cross-platform software package for econometric analysis, written in the C programming language.

http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ || gretl ^AUR

JAGS (Just another Gibbs sampler) — Cross-platform program for analysis of Bayesian hierarchical models using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation.

http://mcmc-jags.sourceforge.net/ || jags ^AUR

jamovi — Statistics package, which is easy to use, and designed to be familiar to users of SPSS. Based on the Electron platform.

https://www.jamovi.org/ || jamovi-git ^AUR

Python Data Analysis Library (pandas) — Providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools with Python programming language.

https://pandas.pydata.org/ || python-pandas

PSPP — Free SPSS implementation.

https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/ || pspp ^AUR

R — Software environment for statistical computing and graphics.

https://cran.r-project.org/ || r

RKWard — Frontend for the statistical language R.

https://rkward.kde.org/ || rkward

RStudio — A powerful and productive IDE for R written in Qt.

https://www.rstudio.com/ || rstudio-desktop-bin ^AUR

Data analysis and plotting

See also Wikipedia:List of information graphics software.

AlphaPlot — Application for scientific data analysis and visualization, fork of SciDavis / QtiPlot.

https://alphaplot.sourceforge.io/ || alphaplot ^AUR

Engauge Digitizer — Extracts data points from images of graphs.

https://markummitchell.github.io/engauge-digitizer/ || engauge ^AUR

Fityk — Curve fitting and data analysis application, predominantly used to fit analytical, bell-shaped functions to experimental data.

https://fityk.nieto.pl/ || fityk ^AUR

Gnuplot — Command-line program that can generate 2D and 3D plots of functions, data, and data fits.

http://www.gnuplot.info/ || gnuplot

Grace — WYSIWYG 2D graph plotting tool.

https://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/ || grace ^AUR, qtgrace ^AUR, gracegtk ^AUR

KmPlot — Program to draw graphs, their integrals or derivatives. Part of kde-education.

https://apps.kde.org/kmplot/ || kmplot

LabPlot — Free software data analysis and visualization application, similar to SciDAVis.

https://labplot.kde.org/ || labplot

Plots — A graph plotting app for GNOME.

https://github.com/alexhuntley/Plots || plots ^AUR

Rocs — Graph Theory IDE for everybody interested in designing and analyzing graph algorithms (e.g., lecturers, students, researchers). Part of kde-education.

https://apps.kde.org/rocs/ || rocs

ROOT — Data analysis program and library (originally for particle physics) developed by CERN.

https://root.cern.ch/ || root

See also List of applications/Documents#Spreadsheets.

Proof assistants

Physics

Physics simulation

Code_Aster — Software package for Civil and Structural Engineering finite element analysis (FEA) and numeric simulation in structural mechanics.

https://www.code-aster.org/V2/spip.php?rubrique2 || aster ^AUR

OpenFOAM — Software package and toolkit for computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

https://www.openfoam.com https://openfoam.org || openfoam-org ^AUR

Calculix — A three-dimensional structural finite element program.

http://www.calculix.de/ || calculix ^AUR

Elmer_FEM_solver — Finite element analysis (FEA/FEM) software for multiphysics problems. Includes models for fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, electromagnetics, heat transfer, and acoustics.

https://www.csc.fi/web/elmer http://www.elmerfem.org/ || elmerfem ^AUR

Netgen/NGSolve — A high performance multiphysics finite element software, with a flexible Python interface to implement new physical equations and solution algorithms easily.

https://ngsolve.org/ || netgen-git ^AUR, ngsolve-git ^AUR

ONELAB/Gmsh — An open-source, lightweight interface to finite element software, by default containing the mesh generator Gmsh, the finite element solver GetDP and the optimization library conveks.

http://onelab.info/ https://getdp.info/ https://gmsh.info/ http://onelab.info/conveks/ || gmsh ^AUR, getdp ^AUR

FEniCS — An open-source computing platform for solving partial differential equations, enabling users to quickly translate scientific models into efficient finite element code with the high-level Python and C++ interfaces that scale across platforms ranging from laptops to high-performance clusters.

https://fenicsproject.org/ || dolfin ^AUR, python-dolfin ^AUR

FEBio — An open-source software tool for nonlinear finite element analysis specifically focused on solving nonlinear large deformation problems in biomechanics and biophysics, able to solve problems in mixture mechanics (i.e. biphasic or multiphasic materials), fluid mechanics, reaction-diffusion, and heat transfer, including fluid-solid interactions.

https://febio.org/ || not packaged? search in AUR

EPANET — EPANET performs extended period simulation of the water movement and quality behavior within pressurized pipe networks.

https://www.epa.gov/ || epanet2-git ^AUR

Step — Two-dimensional physics simulation engine. Part of kde-education.

https://apps.kde.org/step/ || step

SWMM — Storm Water Management Model is a dynamic rainfall-runoff-subsurface runoff simulation model used for simulation of the surface/subsurface hydrology quantity and quality.

https://www.epa.gov/ || swmm5-git ^AUR

Unit conversion

ConvertAll — Unit conversion application that allows one to combine units in any way (e.g. inches per decade), even if it does not make sense.

https://convertall.bellz.org/ || convertall ^AUR

Gonvert — Conversion utility that allows conversion between many units like CGS, Ancient, Imperial with many categories like length, mass, numbers, etc.

http://www.unihedron.com/projects/gonvert/ || gonvert ^AUR

Units — Command-line unit converter and calculator that can handle multiplicative scale changes, nonlinear conversions such as Fahrenheit to Celsius or wire gauge and others.

https://www.gnu.org/software/units/ || units

Chemistry

Molecules

Viewers

See also Wikipedia:List of molecular graphics systems.

Avogadro — Editor, viewer and simulator for 3D molecule structures (also supports downloading files from the Protein Data Bank).

https://avogadro.cc/ || avogadro ^AUR

BALLView — Standalone molecular modeling and visualization application, part of the BALL framework.

https://ball-project.org/ || ball ^AUR

Ghemical — Computational chemistry software package used to edit, view and simulate molecular structures.

http://bioinformatics.org/ghemical/ghemical/index.html || ghemical ^AUR

PyMOL — Open-source molecular visualization system that can produce high quality 3D images of small molecules and biological macromolecules, such as proteins.

https://pymol.org/ || pymol

VMD — VMD is a molecular visualization program for displaying, animating, and analyzing large biomolecular systems using 3-D graphics and built-in scripting.

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ || vmd ^AUR

Drawing

BKChem — Practical and goodlooking skeletal formula molecule drawing program.

https://bkchem.zirael.org/ || bkchem ^AUR ^{[broken link: package not found]}

Chemtool — GTK-based program for drawing chemical structural formulas.

http://ruby.chemie.uni-freiburg.de/~martin/chemtool/chemtool.html || chemtool

Gabedit — Graphical user interface to computational chemistry packages like GAMESS, Gaussian, MOLCAS, MOLPRO, MPQC, OpenMopac, Firefly (previously PC GAMESS) and Q-Chem.

http://gabedit.sourceforge.net/ || gabedit ^AUR

Modeling

APBS — Electrostatic and solvation properties for complex molecules.

https://www.poissonboltzmann.org/ || apbs ^AUR

CP2K — A quantum chemistry and solid state physics software package.

https://www.cp2k.org/ || cp2k ^AUR

Fpocket — Fpocket is a very fast open source protein pocket detection algorithm based on Voronoi tessellation.

https://github.com/Discngine/fpocket || fpocket-git ^AUR

GROMACS (GROningen MAchine for Chemical Simulations) — Versatile package to perform molecular dynamics, i.e. simulate the Newtonian equations of motion for systems with hundreds to millions of particles.

https://www.gromacs.org || gromacs ^AUR

AmberTools — AmberTools consists of several independently developed packages that work well by themselves, and with Amber18 itself. The suite can also be used to carry out complete molecular dynamics simulations, with either explicit water or generalized Born solvent models.

https://ambermd.org/AmberTools.php || ambertools ^AUR

NAMD — NAMD is a parallel molecular dynamics code designed for high-performance simulation of large biomolecular systems.

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/ || namd ^AUR

ORCA — ORCA is an ab initio, DFT, and semi-empirical SCF-MO package.

https://orcaforum.kofo.mpg.de/app.php/portal || orcaqm ^AUR

PDB2PQR — Electrostatic and solvation properties for complex molecules.

https://www.poissonboltzmann.org/ || python-pdb2pqr ^AUR

PMEMD — PMEMD module of AMBER software package.

https://ambermd.org/AmberMD.php || pmemd ^AUR

Quantum ESPRESSO — Integrated suite of applications for electronic-structure calculations and materials modeling at nanoscale. It is based on density-functional theory, plane waves, and pseudopotentials (both norm-conserving and ultrasoft).

https://www.quantum-espresso.org/ || quantum-espresso ^AUR

smina — Smina is a fork of Autodock Vina that focuses on improving scoring and minimization.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/smina/ || smina-bin ^AUR

Periodic table

eperiodique — A simple Periodic Table Of Elements viewer using the EFL.

http://eperiodique.sourceforge.net/ || eperiodique ^AUR

gElemental — Periodic table of the elements with additional information.

http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/gelemental || gelemental ^AUR

Kalzium — Periodic table of the elements with molecule editor and equation solver. Part of kde-education.

https://apps.kde.org/kalzium/ || kalzium

Earth science

Geography

BT747 — The swiss army knife for MTK GPS dataloggers.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/bt747/ || bt747

FoxtrotGPS — Lightweight and fast mapping application.

https://www.foxtrotgps.org/ || foxtrotgps ^AUR

Gebabbel — Alternative GUI for GPSBabel.

http://gebabbel.sourceforge.net/ || gebabbel ^AUR

GeoDa — A tool for spatial data analysis.

https://geodacenter.github.io/ || geoda-bin ^AUR

GNOME Maps — A simple map client for GNOME. Part of gnome-extra.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Maps || gnome-maps

Gpredict — Real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application.

http://gpredict.oz9aec.net/ || gpredict ^AUR

GPSBabel — Reads, writes, and manipulates GPS waypoints, tracks, routes in a variety of formats.

https://www.gpsbabel.org/ || gpsbabel

gpsd — Service daemon that monitors one or more GPSes or AIS receivers attached to a host computer through serial or USB ports, making all data on the location/course/velocity of the sensors available to be queried on TCP port 2947 of the host computer.

http://catb.org/gpsd/ || gpsd

GpsPrune — View, edit and convert coordinate data from GPS systems.

https://activityworkshop.net/software/gpsprune/ || gpsprune

GPXSee — GPS log file viewer and analyzer.

https://www.gpxsee.org/ || gpxsee

GPX Viewer — Simple tool to visualize tracks and waypoints stored in a gpx file.

https://blog.sarine.nl/tag/gpxviewer/ || gpx-viewer

GRASS GIS — Geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling and visualization.

https://grass.osgeo.org/ || grass ^AUR

gvSIG — vSIG is a geographic information system (GIS), that is, a desktop application designed for capturing, storing, handling, analyzing and deploying any kind of referenced geographic information in order to solve complex management and planning problems.

http://www.gvsig.com/en || gvsig-desktop-bin ^AUR

JOSM — Main editor for OpenStreetMap written in Java.

https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ || josm

Mapton — Extensible desktop map and globe application written in Java.

https://mapton.org/ || mapton ^AUR

Marble — Virtual Globe and World Atlas that can be used to learn more about the Earth. Part of kde-education.

https://marble.kde.org/ || KDE: marble, Qt: marble-qt

Merkaartor — OpenStreetMap editor.

http://merkaartor.be/ || merkaartor

Navit — Modular turn-by-turn car navigation system.

https://www.navit-project.org/ || navit

OffRoad — Offline vector map display ported from OsmAnd.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/offroadosm/ || offroad

OpenOrienteering Mapper — Orienteering mapmaking program.

https://www.openorienteering.org/apps/mapper/ || openorienteering-mapper ^AUR

QMapShack — Plan your next outdoor trip.

https://github.com/Maproom/qmapshack/ || qmapshack

QGIS — Geographic Information System (GIS) that supports vector, raster & database formats.

https://qgis.org/ || qgis

Subsurface — Diving logbook to keep track of your dives by logging dive locations (with GPS coordinates), weights and exposure protection used, divemasters and dive buddies, etc.

https://subsurface-divelog.org/ || subsurface ^AUR

Viking — GTK 2 application to manage GPS data.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/viking/ || viking

Meteorology

Gis Weather — Customizable weather forecast desktop widget.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gis-weather/ || gis-weather ^AUR

GNOME Weather — Small application for GNOME that allows you to monitor the current weather conditions for your city, or anywhere in the world, and to access updated forecasts provided by various internet services.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Weather || gnome-weather

meteo-qt — System tray application for weather status information.

https://github.com/dglent/meteo-qt || meteo-qt ^AUR

wttr — A simple console application to check the weather, using data from https://wttr.in

https://github.com/AmirrezaFiroozi/wttr || wttr ^AUR

Xfce Weather Panel Plugin — Weather forecast plugin for the Xfce4 panel.

https://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-plugin || xfce4-weather-plugin

wego-darksky — A fork of the terminal weather app wego with Dark Sky support.

https://tylerwolf35.github.io/wego || wego-darksky ^AUR

Astronomy

Astropy — The Astropy Project is a community effort to develop a common core package for Astronomy in Python and foster an ecosystem of interoperable astronomy packages.

https://www.astropy.org/ || python-astropy ^AUR

Celestia — 3D astronomy simulation program that allows users to travel through an extensive universe, modeled after reality, at any speed, in any direction and at any time in history.

https://celestia.space/ || celestia

GIMP Astronomy Plugins — Set of GIMP plugins for astronomical image processing.

http://hennigbuam.de/georg/gimp.html || gimp-plugin-astronomy ^AUR

GoQat — Camera acquisition software, especially for QSI cameras, that provides other features such as autoguiding, focusing help and others.

https://canburytech.net/GoQat/ || goqat ^AUR

KStars — Planetarium application that provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. It is included in KDE Edu.

https://apps.kde.org/kstars/ || kstars

Qastrocam-g2 — Webcam acquisition software for planetary imaging.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/qastrocam-g2/ || qastrocam-g2 ^AUR ^{[broken link: package not found]}

Skychart / Cartes du Ciel — Planetarium that maps out and labels most of the constellations, planets, and objects you can see with a telescope. It can also download Digitized Sky Survey Charts and superimpose images over these charts.

https://www.ap-i.net/skychart/ || skychart-bin ^AUR

StarPlot — 3-dimensional star chart viewer.

http://starplot.org/ || starplot ^AUR

Stellarium — Beautiful 3D planetarium that uses OpenGL to render a realistic sky in real time.

https://stellarium.org/ || stellarium

Where Is M13 — Application to visualize the locations and physical properties of deep sky objects.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200217020806/https://www.thinkastronomy.com/M13/ || where-is-m13 ^AUR

XEphem — Motif-based ephemeris and planetarium program.

http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/xephem.html || xephem ^AUR

Biology

Gramps — Genealogy program, which helps you track your family tree.

https://gramps-project.org/ || gramps

Computational biology and bioinformatics

See also Wikipedia:List of open source bioinformatics software.

BALL (Biochemical Algorithms Library) — Application framework in C++ that provides an extensive set of data structures as well as classes for molecular mechanics, advanced solvation methods, comparison and analysis of protein structures, file import/export, and visualization.

https://ball-project.org/ || ball ^AUR

BioJava — Set of Java tools for computational biology, as well as bioinformatics.

https://biojava.org/ || biojava ^AUR

Biopython — Python package with tools for computational biology, as well as bioinformatics.

https://biopython.org/wiki/Biopython || python-biopython

EMBOSS (European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite) — Open source software analysis package specially developed for the needs of the molecular biology and bioinformatics user community.

http://emboss.sourceforge.net/ || emboss ^AUR

MUMmer — Bioinformatics software system for sequence alignment based on suffix trees.

http://mummer.sourceforge.net/ || mummer ^AUR

Snapgene — Closed source molecular cloning application that offers a fast and easy way to plan, visualize, and document molecular biology procedures. Supports a wide range of cloning and PCR manipulations. The free version allows most common visualizations of a molecular biology workflow.

https://www.snapgene.com/ || snapgene-viewer ^AUR

UGENE — Application that integrates dozens of well-known biological tools and algorithms, providing both graphical user and command-line interfaces.

https://ugene.net/ || ugene-bin ^AUR, ugene-git ^AUR

Image manipulation

ImageJ — Java-based image processing and analysing program that provides extensibility via plugins and macros. It is widely used in microscopy (e.g. for cell counting).

https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/ || imagej ^AUR

Fiji — ImageJ distribution (and soon ImageJ2) with a lot of plugins organized into a coherent menu structure.

https://fiji.sc || fiji-bin ^AUR

DICOM viewers and volume rendering

aeskulap — Simple DICOM data viewer

https://www.nongnu.org/aeskulap/ || aeskulap ^AUR

weasis — Multipurpose DICOM viewer with a highly modular architecture

https://nroduit.github.io/en/ || weasis-bin ^AUR

aliza — Open 2D, 3D and 4D images in DICOM, MetaIO, Nifti, Nrrd and other formats, meshes in DICOM, VTK, STL and OBJ formats

https://www.aliza-dicom-viewer.com/ || aliza ^AUR

Ginkgo CADx — Advanced DICOM viewer and dicomizer. Continuation of the now abandoned free version developed by MetaEmotion

https://github.com/gerddie/ginkgocadx || ginkgo-cadx ^AUR

3DSlicer — Comprehensive MRI, CT, LSCM microscopy volume processing, segmentation and 3D-reconstruction

https://www.slicer.org/ || 3dslicer ^AUR

ParaView — Interactive data visualization tool built using VTK that can scale across distributed computer hardware.

https://www.paraview.org/ || paraview

Engineering

Computer-aided design

See also Wikipedia:List of computer-aided design editors.

BRL-CAD — Constructive solid geometry modeling CAD system that includes an interactive geometry editor, ray tracing support for graphics rendering and geometric analysis, computer network distributed framebuffer support, scripting, image-processing and signal-processing tools.

https://brlcad.org/ || brlcad ^AUR

FreeCAD — Parametric 3D CAD modeler based on OpenCascade, Coin3D, Qt, and Python with features such as macro recording, workbenches and the ability to run as a server.

https://freecadweb.org/ || freecad

LeoCAD — CAD program for creating virtual LEGO models. It has an easy to use interface and currently includes over 10,000 different pieces created by the LDraw community.

https://www.leocad.org/ || leocad

LibreCAD — A 2D CAD application based on Qt5. Forked from QCAD Community Edition.

https://www.librecad.org/ || librecad

OpenSCAD — A 3D CAD modeler that uses a textual, programmatic approach to creating and manipulating objects.

https://www.openscad.org || openscad

QCAD — A 2D CAD application based on Qt. Supports the DFX and HPGL standard file formats, and optionally the DWG format through a proprietary plugin.

https://www.qcad.org/ || qcad

SolveSpace — Powerful 3D CAD constraint-based parametric modeler with simple mechanical simulation capabilities.

https://solvespace.com/ || solvespace ^AUR

Electronics

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of EDA software.

Digital logic

Digital logic software are mainly simple educational tools that intended for only designing and simulating logic circuits.

Digital — Interactive simulator similiar to the discontinued Logisim. Features Karnaugh maps, logic tables, FSM editor, VHDL export and more, written in Java.

https://github.com/hneemann/Digital || digital ^AUR

glogic — An educational graphical logic circuit simulator, written in Python.

https://launchpad.net/glogic || glogic ^AUR

GTKWave — Fully featured GTK-based wave viewer which reads LXT, LXT2, VZT, FST, and GHW files as well as standard Verilog VCD/EVCD files and allows their viewing.

http://gtkwave.sourceforge.net/ || gtkwave

Logisim — Educational digital logic design and simulation software, written in Java, officially its development has stopped.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/circuit/ || logisim ^AUR

Logisim Evolution — Project which continue the development of the original Logisim with new features, written in Java.

https://github.com/reds-heig/logisim-evolution || logisim-evolution-git ^AUR

PulseView — Logic analyzer, oscilloscope and MSO GUI.

https://sigrok.org/wiki/PulseView || pulseview

SmartSim — Simple and beautiful digital logic circuit design and simulation software, mainly target teachers and students, very lightweight and cross platform, GPL licensed, written in Vala.

https://smartsim.org.uk || smartsim-git ^AUR

WaveDrom editor — Timing diagram rendering in real-time from simple textual description. Can also be edited and embedded in the browser.

https://wavedrom.com/ || wavedrom-editor ^AUR

HDL

Also see Wikipedia:Hardware description language.

Intel Quartus Prime — A set of design tools for Intel's FPGA devices that includes Quartus Prime, ModelSim-Intel, HLS Compiler, etc.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/software/programmable/overview.html || quartus-free ^AUR

Lattice Diamond — A set of design tools for Lattice's FPGA chips.

https://www.latticesemi.com || lattice-diamond ^AUR

Microsemi Libero — Development tools for designing with Microsemi's PolarFire, IGLOO2, SmartFusion2, RTG4, SmartFusion, IGLOO, ProASIC3 and Fusion families.

https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/design-resources/1750-libero-soc#overview || see Microsemi Libero

Xilinx ISE WebPACK — FPGA programmable logic design suit.

https://www.xilinx.com/products/design-tools/ise-design-suite/ise-webpack.html || see Xilinx ISE WebPACK

GHDL — Free and Open Source VHDL 2008/93/87 analyzer, compiler and simulator.

https://github.com/ghdl/ghdl || ghdl-gcc

Verilator — A Verilog/SystemVerilog simulator, performs lint code-quality checks, compile to threaded C++ code for simulation.

https://verilator.org || verilator

iverilog — Icarus Verilog compiler and simulation tool (slower but older than Verilator)

http://iverilog.icarus.com/ || iverilog

VTR — Verilog to Routing, Open Source CAD Flow for FPGA ResearchVerilog to Route

https://verilogtorouting.org || vtr

MCU IDE and programmers

Arduino — Arduino prototyping platform SDK.

https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software || arduino

avrcalc — Calculator to speed development of Atmel AVRs.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/avrcalc || avrcalc ^AUR

AVRDUDE — Download/upload/manipulate the ROM and EEPROM contents of AVR microcontrollers.

https://www.nongnu.org/avrdude/ || avrdude

dfu-util — Device firmware update (DFU) USB programmer

http://dfu-util.sourceforge.net/ || dfu-util

SPIPGM — Tool for programming serial SPI FlashROM memories attached to PC via parallel port cable.

http://rayer.g6.cz/programm/programe.htm || spipgm-bin ^AUR

platformio — Collaborative platform for embedded development, embedded development, with debugger, unit testing, code analysis, . Default IDE is vscode, but can be used by Atom, Eclipse, Emacs Qt Creator, Vim and several other IDE. Core CLI utils

https://platformio.org/ || platformio ^AUR

Electronic circuit simulation and schematic capture editing

easy_spice — Electronic circuit simulator. SPICE frontend, using gschem for schematics and ngspice as simulator.

http://easy-spice.sourceforge.net || easy_spice ^AUR

eispice — clone of the Berkley SPICE 3 Simulation Engine. It was originally targeted toward PCB level Signal Integrity Simulation; simulating IBIS model defined devices, transmission lines, and passive termination but the scope of the tool has been slowly expanding to include more general purpose circuit simulation features. Python interface.

https://charleseidsness.github.io/eispice/ https://github.com/charleseidsness/eispice || python2-eispice-git ^AUR

gnucap — GNU circuit simulator.

http://gnucap.org || gnucap ^AUR

gspiceui — GUI to various freely available Spice electronic ciruit simulators.

http://users.tpg.com.au/micksw012/gspiceui.html || gspiceui ^AUR

Oregano — Graphical software application for schematic capture and simulation of electrical circuits. The actual simulation is done by the ngspice or Gnucap engines.

https://github.com/drahnr/oregano || oregano ^AUR

ngspice — The established Linux circuit simulator. Open source successor of the spice3f5 code. Has the most versatile user interface; supporting scripting within the circuit descriptions, use through an interpreter, as a C library, through tcl or various external wrappers (e.g., Python).

http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/ || ngspice

Qucs — Electronics circuit simulator application that gives you the ability to set up a circuit with a graphical user interface and simulate its large-signal, small-signal and noise behaviour.

http://qucs.sourceforge.net || qucs ^AUR

qucs-s — Electronics circuit simulator that gives you the ability to set up a circuit with a GUI and simulate it. Fork of qucs that uses external, better, programs to do actual simulation.

https://ra3xdh.github.io/ || qucs-s ^AUR

Xyce — SANDIA Xyce is an open source, SPICE-compatible, high-performance analog circuit simulator, capable of solving extremely large circuit problems by supporting large-scale parallel computing platforms.

https://xyce.sandia.gov https://github.com/Xyce/Xyce || xyce-serial ^AUR

Electronic design and schematic capture editing

asco — SPICE Circuit Optimizer.

http://asco.sourceforge.net || asco ^AUR

Fritzing — Easy to use program to draw good-looking circuit diagrams, and also create schematics and PCBs.

https://fritzing.org/home/ || fritzing ^AUR

gEDA — Full suite and toolkit of Electronic Design Automation tools that are used for electrical circuit design, schematic capture, simulation, prototyping, and production.

http://www.geda-project.org/ || geda-gaf

gEDA PCB — Interactive printed circuit board editor.

http://pcb.geda-project.org/ || pcb

KiCad — Software suite for electronic design automation (EDA) that facilitates the design of schematics for electronic circuits and their conversion to PCB (printed circuit board).

https://kicad.org/ || kicad

QElectroTech — Application used to draw advanced electrical circuits.

https://qelectrotech.org/ || qelectrotech ^AUR

Telecommunication

GNU Radio — Software development toolkit that provides signal processing blocks to implement software radios.

https://www.gnuradio.org/ || gnuradio

Gqrx — Software defined radio receiver implemented using GNU Radio and the Qt GUI toolkit.

https://gqrx.dk/ || gqrx

Pothos — The Pothos project is a complete data-flow framework for creating topologies of interconnected processing blocks.

https://github.com/pothosware/PothosCore/wiki || pothos ^AUR, pothos-git ^AUR

SDR# — The most popular SDR program.

https://airspy.com/ || sdrsharp ^AUR

SigDigger — Qt-based digital signal analyzer, using Suscan core and Sigutils DSP library.

https://github.com/BatchDrake/SigDigger || sigdigger-git ^AUR

Amateur radio

See the main article: Amateur radio#Software list.

See also Wikipedia:List of software-defined radios.

Simulation modeling

Flight Gear — Open-source, multi-platform atmospheric and orbital flight simulator with a flight dynamics engine (JSBSim) that is part of a 2015 NASA benchmark to judge new simulation code to space industry standards.

https://www.flightgear.org/ || flightgear ^AUR

gephi — Gephi is an open-source network analysis and visualization software package written in Java.

https://gephi.org/ || gephi

golly — Golly is an open source, cross-platform application for exploring Conway's Game of Life and many other types of cellular automata.

http://golly.sourceforge.net/ || golly ^AUR

Netlogo — NetLogo is a multi-agent programmable modeling environment.

http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/ || netlogo ^AUR

AnyLogic — AnyLogic is a cross-platform proprietary multimethod simulation modeling tool, which is also available for personal use.

https://www.anylogic.com/ || anylogic-ple ^AUR, anylogic-university ^AUR, anylogic-professional ^AUR

Computer science

Artificial intelligence

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of deep learning software.

Fast Artificial Neural Network — Library for developing feedforward Artificial Neural Networks.

http://leenissen.dk/fann/wp/ || fann ^AUR

Mycroft — Intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator with speech recognition.

https://mycroft.ai/ || mycroft-core ^AUR

Orange — Data visualization, machine learning and data mining toolkit, accessible via visual programming and Python.

https://orange.biolab.si/ || python-orange ^AUR

Torch — Machine learning library, scientific computing framework, and script language based on LuaJIT.

http://torch.ch/ || torch7-git ^AUR

X Neural Switcher — Automatic (intelligent) keyboard layout adaption.

https://xneur.ru/ || xneur-devel-git ^AUR, gxneur ^AUR

Tensorflow — An end-to-end open source machine learning platform.

https://www.tensorflow.org/ || python-tensorflow, with non x86-64 CPU optimization python-tensorflow-opt, with CUDA python-tensorflow-cuda, with CUDA and with non x86-64 CPU optimizations python-tensorflow-opt-cuda

PyTorch — An open source machine learning framework that accelerates the path from research prototyping to production deployment.

https://pytorch.org/ || python-pytorch, with CUDA python-pytorch-cuda

Theano — Theano is a Python library that allows you to define, optimize, and evaluate mathematical expressions involving multi-dimensional arrays efficiently.

http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/ || python-theano ^AUR

Photogrammetry

See also Wikipedia:Comparison_of_photogrammetry_software.

OpenMVS — A software package.

https://cdcseacave.github.io/openMVS/ || openmvs ^AUR

OpenMVG — A software package.

https://github.com/openMVG/openMVG || openmvg-git ^AUR

AliceVision — A software package.

https://alicevision.org/ || alice-vision ^AUR

Others

Organization

Personal information managers

These applications support time, task and contacts management.

Evolution — Personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring and address book functionality. Part of gnome-extra.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution || evolution

Kontact — Integrated solution to your personal information management.

https://kontact.kde.org/ || kontact

Osmo — GTK personal organizer, which includes calendar, tasks manager and address book modules.

http://osmo-pim.sourceforge.net || osmo

SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups with Lightning — Extension to SeaMonkey that provides calendar and task support.

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ || seamonkey

Thunderbird with Lightning — Extension to Mozilla Thunderbird that provides calendar and task support.

https://www.thunderbird.net/calendar/ || thunderbird

Time management

Console

Calcurse — Text-based ncurses calendar and scheduling system (supports CalDAV)

https://calcurse.org || calcurse

ccal — A console program which writes a calendar together with Chinese calendar to standard output.

http://ccal.chinesebay.com/ccal/ccal.htm || ccal ^AUR

khal — Command-line (non-interactive) and ncurses (interactive) calendar system (supports CalDAV)

https://github.com/pimutils/khal || khal

mail2rem — Small script for importing .ics calendars from Maildir to Remind calendar.

https://github.com/esovetkin/mail2rem || mail2rem-git ^AUR

Pal — Very lightweight calendar with both interactive and non-interactive interfaces.

http://palcal.sourceforge.net/ || pal ^AUR

pcal — A tool to create pdf calendars from pcal input which can be exported by some calendar programs.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcal/ || pcal ^AUR

Remind — Highly sophisticated text-based calendaring and notification system.

https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/ || remind

When — Simple personal calendar program.

http://lightandmatter.com/when/when.html || when

Wyrd — Text-based front-end to Remind, a calendar and alarm program used on UNIX and Linux computers.

https://github.com/Perdu/wyrd || wyrd-git ^AUR

Graphical

chinese-calendar — Chinese traditional calendar for Ubuntu Kylin.

https://launchpad.net/chinese-calendar/ || chinese-calendar

CoreTime — Very simple Clock/Calendar application which shows a clock, supports alarms, reminders, a stop watch and a timer. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/ || coretime ^AUR

Day Planner — Program designed to help you easily plan and manage your time. It can manage appointments, birthdays and more.

https://www.day-planner.org/ || dayplanner ^AUR

Deepin Calendar — Calendar application for Deepin.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/dde-calendar/ || deepin-calendar

etmtk (Event and Task Manager) — Simple application with a "Getting Things Done!" approach to handling events, tasks, activities, reminders and projects.

https://people.duke.edu/~dgraham/ETMtk/ || etmtk ^AUR

Gahshomar — Persian (Jalali/Farsi) calendar.

https://www.gahshomar.org/gahshomar/ || gahshomar ^AUR

GNOME Calendar — Calendar application for GNOME.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Calendar || gnome-calendar

KAlarm — Personal alarm message, command and email scheduler, part of kdepim.

https://apps.kde.org/kalarm/ || kalarm

KOrganizer — Calendar and scheduling program, part of kdepim.

https://kontact.kde.org/components/korganizer.html || korganizer

Kalendar — A calendar application using Akonadi to sync with external services (NextCloud, GMail, ...).

https://invent.kde.org/pim/kalendar || kalendar-git ^AUR

Nextcloud Calendar — Calendar app for Nextcloud.

https://github.com/nextcloud/calendar || nextcloud-app-calendar

Outspline — Extensible outliner with advanced time management features, supporting events with complex recurrence schemes.

https://kynikos.github.io/outspline/ || outspline ^AUR

Pantheon Calendar — Desktop calendar app designed for elementary OS.

https://github.com/elementary/calendar || pantheon-calendar

TkRemind — Sophisticated calendar and alarm program.

https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/ || remind

Timers

Countdown timers and stopwatch

GNOME Clocks — Clocks application for GNOME, including alarm, stopwatch and timer functionality.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Clocks || gnome-clocks

Hourglass — Simple time keeping application designed for elementary OS.

https://github.com/sgpthomas/hourglass || hourglass-git ^AUR

Kronometer — Stopwatch application for KDE.

https://apps.kde.org/kronometer/ || kronometer

KTeaTime — Handy timer for steeping tea.

https://apps.kde.org/kteatime/ || kteatime

pystopwatch — Stopwatch written in Python with a clock and two countdown functions that can minimize to the tray.

https://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/pystopwatch/ || pystopwatch ^AUR

termdown — Countdown timer and stopwatch in your terminal.

https://github.com/trehn/termdown || termdown

Break timers

GNOME Break Timer — Keeps track of how much you are using the computer, and it reminds you to take regular breaks.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/BreakTimer || gnome-break-timer

RSI Break — Takes care of your health and regularly breaks your work to avoid repetitive strain injury (RSI).

https://apps.kde.org/rsibreak/ || rsibreak

Safe Eyes — Tool to reduce and prevent repetitive strain injury (RSI).

https://slgobinath.github.io/SafeEyes/ || safeeyes ^AUR

Workrave — Program that assists in the recovery and prevention of RSI.

https://workrave.org/ || workrave

Pomodoro timers

See Wikipedia:Pomodoro Technique for an introduction.

flow — Pomodoro app that blocks distractions while you work.

https://github.com/iamsergio/flow-pomodoro || flow-pomodoro ^AUR

Gnomato — Timer for the Pomodoro Technique.

https://github.com/diegorubin/gnomato || gnomato ^AUR

GNOME Pomodoro — Time management utility for GNOME based on the Pomodoro Technique.

https://gnomepomodoro.org/ || gnome-shell-pomodoro ^AUR

Pilorama — Eye-candy timeboxing tool written in QML

https://github.com/eplatonoff/pilorama || pilorama-git ^AUR

Solanum — A pomodoro timer for the GNOME desktop

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/solanum || solanum ^AUR

Tomate — Timer for the Pomodoro Technique.

https://github.com/eliostvs/tomate-gtk || tomate-gtk ^AUR

Tomato — Simple, usable and efficient pomodoro app designed for elementaryOS.

https://github.com/luizaugustomm/tomato || tomato-git ^AUR

Tomighty — Desktop timer for the Pomodoro Technique.

https://tomighty.github.io || tomighty ^AUR

Time trackers

ActivityWatch — A self/local-hosted, cross-platform, client-server, privacy-focused active window tracker.

https://github.com/ActivityWatch/activitywatch || activitywatch-bin ^AUR

Hamster — Time tracking application that helps you to keep track on how much time you have spent during the day on activities you choose to track.

http://projecthamster.org/ || hamster-time-tracker

Kapow — Punch clock to track time spent on projects.

https://gottcode.org/kapow/ || kapow ^AUR

KTimeTracker — Todo management and time tracking application.

https://apps.kde.org/ktimetracker/ || ktimetracker

Tider — Lightweight time tracking application (GTK)

https://github.com/naspeh/tider || tider-git ^AUR

Timenaut — Time tracker that tracks active windows and lets you sort them into categories. Based on the Electron platform.

https://timenaut.app/ || timenaut-appimage ^AUR

Timewarrior — A command-line time-tracking application.

https://timewarrior.net/ || timew

Timetrack — Simple time-tracking app for GNOME.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/danigm/timetrack || timetrack ^AUR

Wakatime — Open source plugins for metrics about your programming with intuitive web-interface.

https://wakatime.com/ || wakatime

Task management

Console

DevTodo — Small command line application for maintaining lists of tasks.

https://swapoff.org/devtodo1.html || devtodo ^AUR

Taskbook — Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat.

https://github.com/klauscfhq/taskbook || taskbook ^AUR

Taskwarrior — Command-line To-do list application with support for lua customization and more.

https://taskwarrior.org/ || task

todoman — Command-line To-do list manager (supports CalDAV)

https://github.com/pimutils/todoman || todoman

Todo.txt — Small command-line To-do manager.

https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-cli/ || todotxt ^AUR

TuDu — Ncurses-based hierarchical To-do list manager with vim-like keybindings.

https://code.meskio.net/tudu/ || tudu ^AUR

Graphical

Agenda — Simple, fast, no-nonsense to-do (task) list for elementary OS.

https://github.com/dahenson/agenda || agenda-git ^AUR

Effitask — Graphical task manager, based on the Todo.txt format.

https://github.com/sanpii/effitask || effitask ^AUR

Getting Things GNOME! — Personal tasks and TODO list items organizer for GNOME inspired by the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology.

https://github.com/getting-things-gnome/gtg || gtg ^AUR

Go For It! — Simple and stylish productivity app, featuring a to-do list, merged with a timer that keeps your focus on the current task. To-do lists are stored in the Todo.txt format.

http://manuel-kehl.de/projects/go-for-it/ || go-for-it-git ^AUR

GNOME To Do — Personal task manager for GNOME.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Todo || gnome-todo

Nextcloud Tasks — Tasks app for Nextcloud.

https://github.com/nextcloud/tasks || nextcloud-app-tasks

Planner — Task manager with Todoist support.

https://planner-todo.web.app/ || elementary-planner ^AUR

ptask — GTK task manager based on Taskwarrior.

https://wpitchoune.net/ptask/ || ptask ^AUR

QTodoTxt — UI client for todo.txt files.

https://github.com/mNantern/QTodoTxt || qtodotxt ^AUR

sleek — todo.txt app with modern GUI. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/ransome1/sleek/ || sleek ^AUR

Task Coach — Simple todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists.

https://www.taskcoach.org || taskcoach ^AUR

Tasque — Easy quick task management app written in C#.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/Tasque || tasque ^AUR

Zanshin — To-do management application for KDE.

https://zanshin.kde.org/ || zanshin, zanshin-git ^AUR

Contacts management

Console

Abook — Text-based contacts manager designed for use with mutt.

http://abook.sourceforge.net/ || abook ^AUR

Khard — Command-line addressbook that is able to sync with CardDAV-servers.

https://github.com/scheibler/khard || khard

Graphical

Communicator — Integrated address book and dialer application features the search for and view of contacts, edit contact details, and make new contacts, favorites, and dialer pad.

https://mauikit.org/ || communicator

GNOME Contacts — Contacts manager for GNOME.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Contacts || gnome-contacts

KAddressBook — Address book manager for KDE.

https://kontact.kde.org/components/kaddressbook.html || kaddressbook

LDAP Administration Tool — Browse LDAP-based directories and add/edit/delete entries contained within.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ldap-at/ || lat ^AUR

Nextcloud Contacts — Contacts app for Nextcloud.

https://github.com/nextcloud/contacts || nextcloud-app-contacts

phpLDAPadmin — LDAP client webapp. Its hierarchical tree-viewer and advanced search functionality make it intuitive to browse and administer your LDAP directory.

http://phpldapadmin.sourceforge.net/ || phpldapadmin

Thunderbird with CardBook extension — address book based on the CardDAV and vCard standards.

https://gitlab.com/CardBook/CardBook || thunderbird

Financial management

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of accounting software.

Console

Beancount — A double-entry bookkeeping computer language that lets you define financial transaction records in a text file, read them in memory, generate a variety of reports from them, and provides a web interface.

http://furius.ca/beancount/ || beancount ^AUR

esniper — Simple, lightweight tool for sniping eBay auctions.

http://esniper.sourceforge.net/ || esniper ^AUR

hledger — An accounting program for tracking money, time, or any other commodity, using double-entry accounting and a simple, editable file format. hledger is inspired by and largely compatible with ledger.

https://hledger.org/ || hledger

Ledger — Ledger is a powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line.

https://www.ledger-cli.org/ || ledger

Graphical

BillReminder — Small and quick accounting application designed to allow for easy tracking of bills.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/billreminder || billreminder ^AUR

Eqonomize! — Cross-platform personal accounting software, with focus on efficiency and ease of use for the small household economy.

https://eqonomize.github.io/ || eqonomize ^AUR

GnuCash — Financial application that implements a double-entry book-keeping system with features for small business accounting.

https://www.gnucash.org/ || gnucash

Grisbi — Personal finance system which manages third party, expenditure and receipt categories, as well as budgetary lines, financial years, and other information that makes it suitable for associations.

https://www.grisbi.org/ || grisbi ^AUR

HomeBank — Easy to use finance manager that can analyse your personal finance in detail using powerful filtering tools and graphs.

http://homebank.free.fr/ || homebank

KMyMoney — Personal finance manager that operates in a similar way to Microsoft Money. It supports different account types, categorisation of expenses and incomes, reconciliation of bank accounts and import/export to the "QIF" file format.

https://kmymoney.org/ || kmymoney

Kresus — Self-hosted personal finance management software. It automatically retrieves every day all your new bank transactions and lets you categorize them, study them through charts and establish a budget.

https://kresus.org/en/ || kresus

Manager — Proprietary accounting software for small business.

https://www.manager.io/ || manager-accounting ^AUR

Money Manager EX — An easy-to-use personal finance suite

https://www.moneymanagerex.org/ || moneymanagerex

Odoo — Open source ERP system purely in Python. Previously known as OpenERP.

https://www.odoo.com/ || odoo ^AUR

Skrooge — Personal finances manager for the KDE desktop.

https://skrooge.org/ || skrooge

Cryptocurrency

ARK Desktop Wallet — Wallet for ARK.

https://github.com/ArkEcosystem/desktop-wallet || ark-desktop ^AUR

Bitcoin Core — Connect to the Bitcoin P2P Network.

https://bitcoincore.org/ || bitcoin-qt

Cointop — Terminal based application for tracking cryptocurrencies.

https://cointop.sh/ || cointop ^AUR

Electrum — Lightweight Bitcoin client.

https://electrum.org/ || electrum

Etherwall — Ethereum wallet.

https://www.etherwall.com/ || etherwall

Exodus — All-in-one proprietary application to secure, manage, and exchange blockchain assets. Based on the Electron platform.

https://www.exodus.io/ || exodus ^AUR

Mist — Ethereum Dapp browser.

https://github.com/ethereum/mist || mist ^AUR

Monero — Monero wallet.

https://getmonero.org/ || monero-gui, monero

Project management

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of project management software.

Calligra Plan — Project management application, which is intended for managing moderately large projects with multiple resources.

https://www.calligra.org/plan/ || calligra-plan

GanttProject — Project scheduling application featuring gantt chart, resource management, calendaring.

https://www.ganttproject.biz/ || ganttproject ^AUR

Planner — Project management application for GNOME.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Planner || planner ^AUR

ProjectLibre — Project management software alternative to Microsoft Project.

https://www.projectlibre.com/product/projectlibre-open-source || projectlibre ^AUR

TaskJuggler — Modern and powerful project management tool. Its new approach to project planning and tracking is more flexible and superior to the commonly used Gantt chart editing tools.

https://taskjuggler.org/ || taskjuggler ^AUR

Recipe management

GNOME Recipes — Recipe management application for GNOME.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Recipes || gnome-recipes

Gourmet — Simple but powerful recipe-managing application.

https://thinkle.github.io/gourmet/ || gourmet ^AUR

KRecipes — KDE application designed to make organizing your personal recipes collection fast and easy.

https://apps.kde.org/krecipes/ || krecipes ^AUR

Education

Flashcards

See also Wikipedia:List of flashcard software.

Anki — Intelligent spaced-repetition memory training program.

https://apps.ankiweb.net/ || anki ^AUR

jVLT — Vocabulary learning tool.

https://www.linuxlinks.com/jVLT/ || jvlt ^AUR

KWordQuiz — Tool that gives you a powerful way to master new vocabularies. Part of kde-education.

https://apps.kde.org/kwordquiz/ || kwordquiz

Mnemosyne — Flash-card tool which optimizes your learning process.

https://mnemosyne-proj.org/ || mnemosyne ^AUR

Parley — Program to help you memorize things. It uses the spaced repetition learning method, also known as flash cards. Part of kde-education.

https://apps.kde.org/parley/ || parley

Pauker — Flash card based learning tool using shortterm and longterm memory training.

http://pauker.sourceforge.net/ || pauker ^AUR

OpenTeacher — Open source application that helps you learn a variety of subjects

http://openteacher.org/en/ || openteacher ^AUR

StudyFlash — Learn flashcards inside your terminal

https://github.com/Alone2/studyFlash || studyflash ^AUR

Touch typing

Console

Dvorak 7min — Simple ncurses-based typing tutor for those trying to become fluent with the Dvorak keyboard layout.

https://github.com/yaychris/dvorak7min || dvorak7min ^AUR

GNU Typist — Universal typing tutor.

https://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/ || gtypist ^AUR

psani-profi — Program that will teach you touchtyping (Czech).

https://www.sallyx.org/sally/psani-vsemi-deseti/ || psani-profi ^AUR

Typing Trainer — ncurses-based typing trainer program that knows the English and Hungarian languages.

http://tpgt.sourceforge.net/ || tpgt ^AUR

Typespeed — Test your typing speed, and get your fingers' CPS.

http://typespeed.sourceforge.net/ || typespeed

typiskt — touchtype training in the terminal (Bash).

https://github.com/budlabs/typiskt || typiskt ^AUR

Graphical

Amphetype — Layout-agnostic typing program aimed at people who do not need an on-screen keyboard, but would still like to improve their speed and accuracy.

https://code.google.com/p/amphetype/ || amphetype-svn ^AUR

Klavaro — Teaching touch typing that intends to be keyboard and language independent.

https://klavaro.sourceforge.io/ || klavaro

KTouch — Program to learn and practice touch typing. Part of kde-education.

https://apps.kde.org/ktouch/ || ktouch

TIPP10 — Intelligent touch typing tutor.

https://www.tipp10.com/ || tipp10

TypingTest — Typing test desktop program with a large amount of customization.

https://github.com/laelath/typingtest || typingtest-git ^AUR

Accessibility

See Accessibility for tips on operating the desktop and Category:Accessibility for all available articles. See also On-screen keyboards.

Speech synthesizers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of speech synthesizers and listening comparison of the different engines.

Ekho — Chinese text-to-speech (TTS) software for Cantonese, Mandarin, Zhaoan Hakka, Tibetan, Ngangien and Korean.

https://eguidedog.net/ekho.php || ekho ^AUR

eSpeak — Compact speech synthesizer for more than 50 languages.

http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ || espeak

eSpeak NG — Fork of eSpeak (due to inactivity of original maintainer).

https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng || espeak-ng

Festival — General framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole it offers full text to speech.

https://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ || festival

Flite — Lightweight speech synthesis engine.

http://festvox.org/flite/ || flite

Gespeaker — GTK frontend for espeak. It allows you to play a text in many languages with settings for voice, pitch, volume and speed.

https://muflone.com/jekyll/gespeaker/english/^{[dead link 2021-05-17 ⓘ]} || gespeaker ^AUR

KMouth — Speech synthesizer frontend which enables persons that cannot speak to let their computer speak.

https://apps.kde.org/kmouth/ || kmouth

MaryTTS — Multilingual text-to-speech synthesis platform written in Java.

http://mary.dfki.de/ || marytts ^AUR

MBROLA — Proprietary phonemes-to-audio program which supports more than 70 languages. Mbrola-voices can also be used with eSpeak.

http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html || mbrola ^AUR

Mimic — Text-to-speech voice synthesis from the Mycroft project (based on Flite).

https://mimic.mycroft.ai/ || mimic ^AUR

Open JTalk — Japanese text-to-speech synthesis system.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-jtalk/ || open-jtalk ^AUR

Orca — Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired, using eSpeak (via Speech Dispatcher).

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca || orca

RHVoice — Cross-platform (including Android) text-to-speech from a blind Russian-speaking developer, based on HTS (ru, ka, uk, ky, tt, en, pt, eo)

https://github.com/Olga-Yakovleva/RHVoice || rhvoice

SOPS — Provides a simple way to write custom plugins for screen reader Orca.

https://github.com/chrys87/simple-orca-plugin-system || simpleorcapluginsystem ^AUR

Speech Dispatcher — Common interface to speech synthesis. It has backends for eSpeak, Festival, and a few other speech synthesizers.

https://freebsoft.org/speechd || speech-dispatcher

SVOX Pico — The text-to-speech engine used on Android phones. (en-US, en-GB, de-DE, es-ES, fr-FR, it-IT)

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/svox/+/master || svox-pico-bin ^AUR

Speech recognition

See also Wikipedia:Speech recognition software for Linux.

Blather — Speech recognizer that will run commands when a user speaks preset commands, uses PocketSphinx.

https://gitlab.com/jezra/blather || blather-git ^AUR ^{[broken link: package not found]}

Julius — Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition engine.

https://github.com/julius-speech/julius || julius ^AUR

Kaldi — Speech recognition toolkit.

https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi || kaldi ^AUR

Kalliope — Modular always-on voice controlled personal assistant designed for home automation.

https://kalliope-project.github.io/ || kalliope ^AUR

Kaylee — Somewhat fancy voice command recognition program that performs actions when a user speaks loosely preset sentences.

https://github.com/Ratfink/kaylee || kayleevc ^AUR

Mycroft — Hackable voice assistant.

https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core || mycroft-core ^AUR

Simon — Speech recognition program that can replace your mouse and keyboard.

https://simon.kde.org/ || simon ^AUR

nerd-dictation — Light weight manually activated dictation using the VOSK-API

https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation || not packaged? search in AUR

Screen magnifiers

KMag — Small KDE utility to magnify a part of the screen.

https://apps.kde.org/kmag/ || kmag

Magnus — Very simple desktop magnifier, showing the area around the mouse pointer in a separate window magnified two, three, four, or five times.

https://kryogenix.org/code/magnus/ || magnus ^AUR

Virtual Magnifying Glass — Simple, customizable and easy-to-use screen magnification tool.

http://magnifier.sourceforge.net/ || vmg ^AUR

xzoom — Zoom, rotate and mirror area of X display.

https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/X11/libs/!INDEX.short.html || xzoom ^AUR

On-screen annotation

Gromit-MPX — Tool to make annotations on the screen.

https://github.com/bk138/gromit-mpx || gromit-mpx ^AUR

Pylote — Tool to draw on the screen.

http://pascal.peter.free.fr/pylote-en.html || pylote-git ^AUR

Screenkey — Tool to display pressed keys.

https://www.thregr.org/~wavexx/software/screenkey/ || screenkey

Mouse

Easystroke — Use mouse gestures to initiate commands and hotkeys.

https://github.com/thjaeger/easystroke/wiki || easystroke ^AUR

KMouseTool — Clicks the mouse whenever the mouse cursor pauses briefly. It was designed to help those with repetitive strain injuries, for whom pressing buttons hurts.

https://apps.kde.org/kmousetool/ || kmousetool

Mousetweaks — Accessibility enhancements for pointing devices.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Mousetweaks || mousetweaks

Display managers

See the main article: Display manager#List of display managers.

Desktop environments

See the main article: Desktop environment#List of desktop environments.

Window managers

Console

See also List of applications/Utilities#Terminal multiplexers, which offer some of the functions of window managers for the console.

twin — Text-mode window manager.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/twin/ || twin

Wmutils — A set of tools for X windows manipulation.

https://github.com/wmutils/core || wmutils-git ^AUR

Graphical

See the main article: Window manager#List of window managers.

Composite managers

See the main article: Xorg#List of composite managers.

Wayland Compositors

See the main article: Wayland#Compositors.

Window tilers

QuickTile — Lightweight standalone alternative to Compiz Grid plugin.

http://ssokolow.com/quicktile/ || quicktile-git ^AUR

wumwum — The Window Manager manager. It can turn emwh compliant window managers into a tiling window manager while retaining all initial functionalities.

http://wumwum.sourceforge.net/ || wumwum ^AUR

Taskbars

System tray

AllTray — Dock other applications into the system tray (notification area).

https://github.com/mbt/alltray || alltray

Docker — Docking application which acts as a system tray.

https://icculus.org/openbox/2/docker/ || docker-tray ^AUR

KDocker — Dock any application in the system tray (notification area).

https://github.com/user-none/KDocker || kdocker ^AUR

Stalonetray — Stand-alone freedesktop.org and KDE system tray (notification area) for Xorg. It has full XEMBED support and minimal dependencies: an X11 lib only. Stalonetray works with virtually any EWMH-compliant window manager.

http://stalonetray.sourceforge.net/ || stalonetray

Trayer — Lightweight GTK-based system tray (notification area).

https://gna.org/projects/fvwm-crystal/ || trayer

Application launchers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of desktop application launchers.

Albert — Sophisticated, plugin based standalone keyboard launcher.

https://github.com/manuelschneid3r/albert || albert ^AUR

Application Finder — Easy-to-use application launcher from Xfce.

https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/start || xfce4-appfinder

Bashrun2 — Provides a different, barebones approach to a run dialog, using a specialized Bash session within a small xterm window.

http://henning-bekel.de/bashrun2/ || bashrun2 ^AUR

bemenu — Lightweight dynamic menu inspired by dmenu. Works natively on Wayland.

https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu || bemenu

dmenu — Fast and lightweight dynamic menu for X which is also useful as an application launcher.

https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/ || dmenu

dmenu-extended — Extension to dmenu for quickly opening files and folders.

https://github.com/markjones112358/dmenu-extended || dmenu-extended-git ^AUR

dmenu2 — Unmaintained fork of dmenu with many useful patches applied and additional options like screen select, dim or opacity change.

https://github.com/spcmd/dmenu2 || dmenu2 ^AUR

dswitcher — dmenu-based window switcher that works regardless of workspace or minimization.

https://github.com/Antithesisx/dswitcher || dswitcher-git ^AUR

Fehlstart — Small GTK-based application launcher.

https://gitlab.com/fehlstart/fehlstart || fehlstart-git ^AUR

Gmrun — Lightweight GTK-based application launcher, with the ability to run programs inside a terminal and other handy features.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gmrun/ || gmrun

GNOME Do — Application launcher inspired by Quicksilver with many plugins, originally developed for the GNOME desktop.

https://do.cooperteam.net/ || gnome-do ^AUR

Gnome-Pie — Circular application launcher (pie menu) for Linux. It is made of several pies, each consisting of multiple slices.

https://simmesimme.github.io/gnome-pie.html || gnome-pie

j4-dmenu-desktop — Very fast dmenu application launcher.

https://github.com/enkore/j4-dmenu-desktop || j4-dmenu-desktop ^AUR

jgmenu — Simple, independent, contemporary-looking X11 menu, designed for scripting, ricing and tweaking.

https://github.com/johanmalm/jgmenu || jgmenu

higgins — Desktop agnostic application launcher, file finder, calculator and more. Plugin based and freely and easily extendable via user-written plugins

https://github.com/kokoko3k/higgins || higgins-git ^AUR

Kupfer — Convenient command and access tool for the GNOME desktop that can launch applications, open documents and access different types of objects and act on them.

https://kupferlauncher.github.io/ || kupfer

launch — Simple command for launching applications from a terminal emulator.

https://github.com/silverhammermba/launch || launch-cmd ^AUR

Launchy — Very popular cross-platform application launcher with a plugin-based system used to provide extra functionality.

https://www.launchy.net/ || launchy

Lighthouse — Simple scriptable popup dialog to run on X.

https://github.com/emgram769/lighthouse || lighthouse-git ^AUR

nwg-drawer — GTK-based application drawer designed for the Sway compositor.

https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-drawer || not packaged? search in AUR

nwg-menu — GTK-based application menu designed for the Sway compositor.

https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-menu || not packaged? search in AUR

rofi — Popup window switcher roughly based on superswitcher, requiring only xlib and pango.

https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/ || rofi

rlaunch — An extremely fast and light-weight dmenu-like application launcher written in Rust

https://github.com/PonasKovas/rlaunch || rlaunch ^AUR

Synapse — 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.

https://launchpad.net/synapse-project || synapse

Ulauncher — Modern and shiny launcher that provides fuzzy search, extensions, and themes

https://ulauncher.io/ || ulauncher ^AUR

Whippet — Launcher and xdg-open replacement for control freaks. Opens files and URLs with applications associated by name and/or mimetype. Applications and associations may be customized using an SQLite database. Uses dmenu to manage its menus.

http://appstogo.mcfadzean.org.uk/linux.html#whippet || whippet ^AUR

Alacarte — Add or remove applications from the main menu.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/alacarte || alacarte

AppEditor — Edit application entries in the application menu.

https://github.com/donadigo/appeditor || appeditor-git ^AUR

Ezame — Desktop and menu file editor.

https://github.com/linux-man/ezame || ezame ^AUR

KMenuEdit — Edit one of the KDE application launchers.

https://kde.org/ || kmenuedit

lxmed — Application menu editor written in Java.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxmed/ || lxmed ^AUR

MenuLibre — Advanced menu editor that provides modern features in a clean, easy-to-use interface.

https://launchpad.net/menulibre || menulibre ^AUR

Meow — Application menu editor written in Java.

https://pnmougel.github.io/meow/ || meow-bin ^AUR

Mozo — Change which applications are shown on the main menu.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mozo || mozo

Wallpaper setters

See also Wikipedia:Wallpaper (computing).

bgs — An extremely fast and small background setter for X based on imlib2.

https://github.com/Gottox/bgs/ || bgs-git ^AUR

esetroot — Eterm's root background setter, packaged separately.

http://www.eterm.org/ || esetroot ^AUR

feh — A lightweight and powerful image viewer that can also be used to manage the desktop wallpaper.

https://feh.finalrewind.org/ || feh‎

Fondo — Find a variety of the most beautiful wallpapers from Unsplash.com.

https://github.com/calo001/fondo || fondo ^AUR

habak — A background changing app.

https://fvwm-crystal.sourceforge.io/ || habak

hsetroot — A tool to create compose wallpapers.

https://packages.debian.org/sid/hsetroot || hsetroot

HydraPaper — GTK utility to set two different backgrounds for each monitor on GNOME.

https://gabmus.gitlab.io/HydraPaper/ || hydrapaper-git ^AUR

LiveWallpaper — Animated 3D wallpapers.

https://launchpad.net/livewallpaper || livewallpaper

Nitrogen — A fast and lightweight desktop background browser and setter for X windows.

https://github.com/l3ib/nitrogen || nitrogen

pacwall — A live wallpaper that shows the dependency graph and status of installed packages.

https://github.com/Kharacternyk/pacwall || pacwall-git ^AUR

pybgsetter — Multi-backend (hsetroot, Esetroot, habak, feh) to set desktop wallpaper.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88997 || pybgsetter ^AUR

pywal — Changes the wallpaper and creates matching colorschemes for various applications (rofi, i3, terminals)

https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal || python-pywal

swaybg — Wallpaper tool for Wayland compositors.

https://github.com/swaywm/swaybg || swaybg

Variety — Changes the wallpaper on a regular interval using user-specified or automatically downloaded images.

https://peterlevi.com/variety/ || variety

xli — An image display program for X.

https://packages.debian.org/sid/xli || xli ^AUR

xwallpaper — Minimalistic wallpaper setting utility for X.

https://github.com/stoeckmann/xwallpaper || xwallpaper

Tip: In order to avoid installing one more package, you may find convenient to use the display utility from imagemagick or gm display from graphicsmagick. E.g.: display -backdrop -background '#3f3f3f' -flatten -window root image .

Desktop widgets

gDesklets — System for bringing mini programs (desklets) onto your desktop.

https://launchpad.net/gdesklets || gdesklets ^AUR

GPhotoFrame — Photo frame gadget for the GNOME Desktop.

https://github.com/iblis17/gphotoframe || gphotoframe ^AUR

KRuler — Displays on screen a ruler measuring pixels. Part of kde-graphics.

https://apps.kde.org/kruler/ || kruler

Screenlets — Widget framework that consists of small owner-drawn applications.

https://launchpad.net/screenlets || screenlets-pack-basic ^AUR

Desktop notifications

See: Notification servers.

Clipboard managers

See Clipboard#Managers.

Logout UI

clearine — Beautiful Logout UI for X11 window manager

https://github.com/okitavera/clearine || clearine-git ^AUR

oblogout — Openbox logout script

https://launchpad.net/oblogout || oblogout ^AUR

wlogout — Logout menu for wayland

https://github.com/ArtsyMacaw/wlogout || wlogout ^AUR

The List Of Design Apps On Linux

Source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/list_of_applications

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