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Internet – Multimedia – Utilities – Documents – Security – Science – Other
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  • Daemon packages usually include the relevant systemd unit file to start; some packages even include different ones. After installation pacman -Qql package | grep -Fe .service -e .socket can be used to check and find the relevant one.
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Internet

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Network connection

+

Network managers

+

See Network configuration#Network managers. +

+

VPN clients

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  • Bitmask — Secured and encrypted communication using various service providers
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https://bitmask.net/ || bitmaskAUR
+
  • Libreswan — A free software implementation of the most widely supported and standarized VPN protocol based on ("IPsec") and the Internet Key Exchange ("IKE").
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https://libreswan.org/ || libreswanAUR
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  • Mullvad — A GUI client for the Mullvad VPN service
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https://mullvad.net/ || mullvad-vpnAUR
+
  • NetworkManager — Supports a variety of protocols (e.g. MS, Cisco, Fortinet) via a plugin system.
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https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager/VPN || networkmanager
+ +
https://www.infradead.org/openconnect/ || openconnect
+ +
https://www.openswan.org/ || openswanAUR
+
  • OpenVPN — To connect to OpenVPN VPNs.
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https://openvpn.net/ || openvpn
+
  • PPTP Client — To connect to PPTP VPNs, like Microsoft VPNs (MPPE). (insecure)
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http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ || pptpclient
+
  • RiseupVPN — A GUI client for the Riseup VPN service from riseup.net. RiseupVPN does not require a user account, keep logs, or track you in any way. The service is paid for entirely by donations. There is also a snap package available.
+
https://riseup.net/ || riseup-vpnAUR or riseup-vpn-gitAUR
+ +
https://www.strongswan.org/ || strongswan
+
  • tinc — tinc is a free VPN daemon.
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https://www.tinc-vpn.org/ || tinc
+
  • vopono — OpenVPN and Wireguard wrapper to launch applications with VPN tunnels in network namespaces.
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https://github.com/jamesmcm/vopono || voponoAUR
+
  • Vpnc — To connect to Cisco 3000 VPN Concentrators.
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https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/ || vpnc
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  • WireGuard — Next generation secure network tunnel.
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https://www.wireguard.com/ || wireguard-tools
+

Proxy servers

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  • Brook — Proxy focusing on strong encryption and being undetectable.
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https://txthinking.github.io/brook/ || brook
+
  • Clash — A rule-based tunnel in Go.
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https://github.com/Dreamacro/clash || clash
+
  • Dante — SOCKS server and SOCKS client, implementing RFC 1928 and related standards.
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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.
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https://www.privoxy.org/ || privoxy
+
  • Project V — Project V is a set of tools to help you build your own privacy network over internet.
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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.
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http://www.squid-cache.org/ || squid
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  • Stunnel — A server and client to add and remove TLS encryption to TCP data flow.
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https://www.stunnel.org/ || stunnel
+
  • Tinyproxy — Lightweight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon.
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https://tinyproxy.github.io/ || tinyproxy
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  • Trojan — An unidentifiable mechanism that helps you bypass GFW.
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https://trojan-gfw.github.io/trojan/ || trojan
+
  • Varnish — High-performance HTTP accelerator.
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https://varnish-cache.org/ || varnish
+
  • XX-Net — Easy to use web proxy tool.
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https://github.com/XX-net/XX-Net/ || xx-netAUR
+
  • Ziproxy — Forwarding (non-caching) compressing HTTP proxy server.
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http://ziproxy.sourceforge.net/ || ziproxy
+

Anonymizing networks

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  • Freenet — An encrypted network without censorship.
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https://freenetproject.org/ || freenetAUR
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  • GNUnet — Framework for secure peer-to-peer networking.
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https://gnunet.org/ || CLI: gnunetAUR, GUI: gnunet-gtkAUR
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  • I2P — Distributed anonymous network.
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https://geti2p.net/ || i2pd, i2pAUR, i2p-binAUR
+
  • Lantern — Peer-to-peer internet censorship circumvention software.
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https://getlantern.org/ || lantern-binAUR
+
  • Tor — Anonymizing overlay network.
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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.
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https://www.brow.sh/ || browshAUR
+
  • 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).
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http://elinks.or.cz/ || elinks
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  • Links — Graphics and text mode web browser. Includes a console version similar to Lynx.
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http://links.twibright.com/ || links
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  • Lynx — Text browser for the World Wide Web.
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https://lynx.invisible-island.net/ || lynx
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  • w3m — Pager/text-based web browser. It has vim-like keybindings, and is able to display images.
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https://salsa.debian.org/debian/w3m || w3m
+

Graphical

+
Gecko-based
+

See also Wikipedia:Gecko (software). +

+
  • Firefox — Extensible browser from Mozilla based on Gecko with fast rendering.
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https://mozilla.com/firefox || firefox
+
  • SeaMonkey — Continuation of the Mozilla Internet Suite.
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https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ || seamonkey
+
Firefox spin-offs
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  • Cliqz — Firefox-based privacy aware web browser. Discontinued.
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https://cliqz.com/ || cliqzAUR or cliqz-binAUR
+
  • Dot — A fork of firefox focused on privacy and a sleeker UI.
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https://www.dothq.co/ || dot-binAUR
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  • FireDragon — A fork of LibreWolf that includes KDE integration patches and custom branding.
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https://gitlab.com/dr460nf1r3/settings/ || firedragonAUR
+
  • 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.
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https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ || icecatAUR or icecat-binAUR
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  • LibreWolf — A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.
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https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/ || librewolfAUR or librewolf-binAUR
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  • Tor Browser Launcher — Securely and easily download, verify, install, and launch Tor Browser, a fork of Firefox ESR.
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https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher || torbrowser-launcher
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  • Waterfox Classic — Optimized fork of Firefox 56, without data collection and allowing unsigned extensions and NPAPI plugins.
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https://www.waterfox.net/ || waterfox-classic-binAUR
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  • Waterfox Current — Optimized fork of Firefox ESR, updated feature-rich branch of Waterfox.
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https://www.waterfox.net/ || waterfox-current-binAUR
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  • Waterfox G3 — Optimized fork of Firefox 78, updated feature-rich branch of Waterfox.
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https://www.waterfox.net/ || waterfox-g3-binAUR
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Blink-based
+

See also Wikipedia:Blink (web engine). +

+
  • Chromium — Web browser developed by Google, the open source project behind Google Chrome.
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https://www.chromium.org/ || chromium
+
Privacy-focused chromium spin-offs
+
  • Brave — Web browser with builtin ad- and tracker blocking.
+
https://www.brave.com/ || brave-binAUR
+ +
https://iridiumbrowser.de/ || iridium-rpmAUR
+
  • Ungoogled Chromium — Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration and enhancing privacy, control, and transparency
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https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium || ungoogled-chromiumAUR
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Proprietary chromium spin-offs
+ +
https://www.google.com/chrome/ || google-chromeAUR
+ +
https://www.microsoft.com/edge/ || microsoft-edge-stable-binAUR
+
  • Opera — Proprietary browser developed by Opera Software.
+
https://opera.com || opera
+
  • Slimjet — Fast, smart and powerful proprietary browser based on Chromium.
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https://www.slimjet.com/ || slimjetAUR
+
  • Vivaldi — An advanced proprietary browser made with the power user in mind.
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https://vivaldi.com/ || vivaldi
+
  • Yandex Browser — Proprietary browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.
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https://browser.yandex.com/ || yandex-browser-betaAUR
+
Browsers based on qt5-webengine
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  • Dooble — Colorful Web browser.
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https://textbrowser.github.io/dooble/ || doobleAUR
+
  • Eric — QtWebEngine-based HTML browser, part of the eric6 development toolset, can be launched with the eric6_browser command.
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https://eric-ide.python-projects.org/ || ericAUR
+
  • Falkon — Web browser based on QtWebEngine, written in Qt framework.
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https://falkon.org/ || falkon
+
  • Konqueror — Web browser based on Qt toolkit and Qt WebEngine (or KHTML layout engine), part of kde-network.
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https://apps.kde.org/konqueror/ || konqueror
+
  • Liri Browser — A minimalistic material design web browser written for Liri.
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https://github.com/lirios/browser || liri-browser-gitAUR
+
  • Qt WebBrowser — Browser for embedded devices developed using the capabilities of Qt and Qt WebEngine.
+
https://doc.qt.io/QtWebBrowser/ || qtwebbrowserAUR
+
  • 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.
+
https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker || beaker-browserAUR
+
  • Ferdi — Messaging browser that allows you to combine your favorite messaging services into one application. Based on Franz.
+
https://getferdi.com/ || ferdiAUR
+
  • Franz — Messaging browser for WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Telegram and many other web services.
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https://meetfranz.com/ || franzAUR
+
  • Min — A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy. It includes an interface designed to minimize distractions.
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https://minbrowser.org/ || min
+
  • Rambox — A GPL-licensed alternative to Franz. Offers all the features of its Apache 2 counterpart.
+
https://rambox.app/ || rambox-binAUR
+
WebKit-based
+

See also Wikipedia:WebKit. +

+
Note: webkitgtk, webkitgtk2 and qtwebkit-based browsers were removed from the list, because these are today considered insecure and outdated. More info here.
+
Browsers based on webkit2gtk
+

Most of these support ad-blocking via wyebadblock. +

+
  • Badwolf — A minimalist privacy-focused browser.
+
https://hacktivis.me/projects/badwolf || badwolfAUR
+
  • Ephemeral — A private-by-default, always-incognito browser for elementary OS.
+
https://github.com/cassidyjames/ephemeral || ephemeralAUR
+
  • Eolie — Simple web browser for GNOME.
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https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Eolie || eolie
+
  • GNOME Web — Browser which uses the WebKitGTK rendering engine, part of gnome.
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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/ || larizaAUR
+
  • Luakit — Fast, small, webkit based browser framework extensible by Lua.
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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/ || nyxtAUR
+
  • surf — Lightweight WebKit-based browser, which follows the suckless philosophy (basically, the browser itself is a single C source file).
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https://surf.suckless.org/ || surfAUR
+
  • Surfer — Simple keyboard based web browser, written in C. It supports custom JS-scripts.
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https://github.com/nihilowy/surfer || surfer-gitAUR
+
  • Tangram — Integration of web applications into the desktop, specifically GNOME.
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https://github.com/sonnyp/Tangram || tangramAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
Browsers based on qt5-webkit
+
  • OSPKit — Webkit based html browser for printing.
+
http://osp.kitchen/tools/ospkit/ || ospkit-gitAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
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-binAUR
+
  • 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.
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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
+ +
https://www.palemoon.org/ || palemoonAUR or palemoon-binAUR
+

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-gitAUR
+
  • Castor — Graphical client for the Gemini, Gopher, and Finger protocols, written in Rust with GTK.
+
https://git.sr.ht/~julienxx/castor || castorAUR
+
  • Kristall — Qt-based Gemini browser.
+
https://github.com/MasterQ32/kristall || kristallAUR
+
  • Lagrange — Desktop GUI client for browsing Gemini space, offering modern conveniences familiar from web browsers.
+
https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange || lagrangeAUR
+

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. +

+ +
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 || katwebAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • serve — Static file serving and directory listing.
+
https://github.com/zeit/serve || nodejs-serveAUR
+
  • servy — A tiny little web server, single binary, written in Rust.
+
https://github.com/zethra/servy || servyAUR
+
  • 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 || mongooseAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • 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 || woofAUR
+

WSGI servers

+
  • Gunicorn — A Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX.
+
https://gunicorn.org/ || gunicorn, python2-gunicornAUR
+
  • 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_loadAUR
+
  • httperf — Can generate various HTTP workloads, written in C.
+
https://github.com/httperf/httperf || httperfAUR
+
  • 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 || webbenchAUR
+

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/ || streamripperAUR
+
  • 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-viewerAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • Forklift — Simple GUI for youtube-dl using PyGObject.
+
https://github.com/Johnn3y/Forklift || forklift-gitAUR
+
  • FreeRapid — Java-based downloader that supports downloading from file-sharing services.
+
https://wordrider.net/freerapid/ || freerapidAUR
+
  • gtk-youtube-viewer — GTK utility for viewing YouTube videos.
+
https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer || youtube-viewerAUR + 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-gitAUR
+
  • Gyre — GTK3 downloader for videos from Coub.
+
https://github.com/HelpSeeker/Gyre || gyreAUR
+
  • JDownloader — Java-based downloader for one-click hosting sites.
+
https://jdownloader.org/ || jdownloader2AUR
+
  • 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-binAUR
+
  • Motrix — Full-featured download manager that supports downloading HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Magnet, etc. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://motrix.app/ || motrixAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR[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/ || streamtuner2AUR
+
  • 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-downloaderAUR
+
  • 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/ || xdmanAUR
+
  • youtubedl-gui — Simple-to-use graphical interface for youtube-dl.
+
https://github.com/JaGoLi/ytdl-gui || youtubedl-guiAUR
+

LAN file transfer

+

See also #LAN messengers. +

+
  • LAN Share — Cross platform local area network file transfer application, built using Qt GUI framework. It can be used to transfer a whole folder, one or more files, large or small immediately without any additional configuration.
+
https://github.com/abdularis/LAN-Share || lanshareAUR
+
  • NitroShare — Cross-platform network file transfer application, built using Qt GUI framework. It is designed to make transferring files from one device to another on the local network extremely simple.
+
https://nitroshare.net/ || nitroshare
+
  • Teleport — Native GTK3 app to effortlessly share files on the local network.
+
https://gitlab.gnome.org/jsparber/teleport || teleport-share-gitAUR
+
  • Warpinator — GTK app to share files across the LAN.
+
https://github.com/linuxmint/warpinator || warpinator
+

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/ || pydioAUR
+
  • Seafile — An online file storage and collaboration tool with advanced support for file syncing, privacy protection and teamwork.
+
https://www.seafile.com/ || seafile-serverAUR
+

Cloud synchronization clients

+
Tip: + +
+
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/ || cloudcrossAUR
+
  • Rclone — Multi-provider sync, copy, and mount client.
+
https://rclone.org/ || rclone
+
  • Rclone Browser — GUI client for Rclone.
+
https://github.com/kapitainsky/RcloneBrowser || rclone-browserAUR
+
Google Drive clients
+
  • drive — Tiny program to pull or push Google Drive files.
+
https://github.com/odeke-em/drive || drive-binAUR, drive-gitAUR
+
  • DriveSync — Command line utility that synchronizes your Google Drive files with a local folder on your machine.
+
https://github.com/MStadlmeier/drivesync || drivesyncAUR
+
  • gdrive — Command line utility for interacting with Google Drive.
+
https://github.com/prasmussen/gdrive || gdriveAUR
+
  • Grive — Google Drive client with support for new Drive REST API and partial sync.
+
https://github.com/vitalif/grive2 || griveAUR
+
  • Insync — Unofficial proprietary Google Drive desktop client.
+
https://www.insynchq.com/ || insyncAUR
+
  • ODrive — Google Drive GUI based on the Electron platform.
+
https://github.com/liberodark/ODrive || odrive-binAUR
+
  • VGrive — GTK-based GUI client (back-end and front-end) for Google Drive made in Vala.
+
https://github.com/bcedu/VGrive || vgriveAUR
+
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-b2AUR
+
  • Baidu Netdisk — Proprietary client for cloud storage service launched by Baidu (formerly Baidu Cloud).
+
https://pan.baidu.com || baidunetdisk-binAUR
+
  • 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/ || dropboxAUR
+
  • hubiC — Proprietary synchronization client service and command line tools for hubiC.
+
https://hubic.com/en/downloads || hubicAUR
+
  • Mega Sync Client — Proprietary desktop client to sync files with Mega.
+
https://mega.nz/ || megasyncAUR
+
  • Megatools — Unofficial CLI for Mega.
+
https://megatools.megous.com/ || megatoolsAUR
+
  • Nextcloud Client — Desktop client for Nextcloud.
+
https://nextcloud.com/ || nextcloud-client
+
  • Nutstore — Proprietary desktop client for Nutstore.
+
https://www.jianguoyun.com/ || nutstoreAUR
+
  • OneDrive — Unofficial CLI for OneDrive.
+
https://github.com/skilion/onedrive || onedriveAUR
+
  • 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-driveAUR
+
  • PydioSync — Desktop client for Pydio.
+
https://pydio.com/ || pydio-syncAUR
+
  • S3cmd — Unofficial CLI for Amazon S3.
+
https://s3tools.org/s3cmd || s3cmd
+
  • Seafile Client — GUI client for Seafile.
+
https://www.seafile.com/ || seafile-clientAUR
+
  • SpiderOak One — Proprietary client for SpiderOak One.
+
https://spideroak.com/ || spideroak-oneAUR
+
  • Synology Drive — Proprietary GUI client to sync and share files between a centralized Synology NAS and multiple client computers.
+
https://www.synology.com/ || synology-driveAUR
+
  • Tresorit — Proprietary desktop syncing client for Tresorit.
+
https://tresorit.com/download || tresoritAUR
+ +
https://disk.yandex.ru/ || yandex-diskAUR
+

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/ || proftpdAUR
+
  • Pure-FTPd — Free (BSD-licensed), secure, production-quality and standard-compliant FTP server.
+
https://www.pureftpd.org/project/pure-ftpd/ || pure-ftpdAUR
+
  • 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-ctorrentAUR
+
  • 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 || peerflixAUR
+
  • 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/ || frostwireAUR
+
  • 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-binAUR
+
  • 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/ || tixatiAUR
+
  • 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 || tremotesfAUR
+
  • Tribler — 4th generation file sharing system BitTorrent client.
+
https://www.tribler.org || triblerAUR
+
  • Vuze — Feature-rich BitTorrent client written in Java (formerly Azureus).
+
https://www.vuze.com/ || vuzeAUR
+
  • WebTorrent Desktop — Streaming BitTorrent application. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://webtorrent.io/desktop/ || webtorrent-desktopAUR
+

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-gtkAUR, Qt: eiskaltdcpp-qtAUR
+
  • gtk-gnutella — GTK server/client for the Gnutella peer-to-peer network.
+
http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/ || gtk-gnutellaAUR
+
  • KaMule — KDE graphical front-end for aMule.
+
https://www.linux-apps.com/content/show.php?content=150270 || kamuleAUR
+
  • LBRY — Browser and wallet for LBRY, the decentralized, user-controlled content marketplace. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://lbry.io/ || lbry-app-binAUR
+
  • lbt — Small set of command-line tools for LBRY.
+
https://gitlab.com/gardenappl/lbt || lbtAUR
+
  • MLDonkey — Multi-protocol P2P client that supports HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Direct Connect, eDonkey and FastTrack.
+
http://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/ || mldonkeyAUR
+
  • ncdc — Modern and lightweight Direct Connect and ADC client with a friendly ncurses interface.
+
https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdc || ncdcAUR
+
  • 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/ || sendanywhereAUR
+
  • Valknut — Direct Connect client (like DC++) with segmented downloading.
+
http://wxdcgui.sourceforge.net/ || valknutAUR
+
  • IPFS — IPFS is a P2P Network powered by Blockchain capable to share and receive file.
+
https://ipfs.io/ || go-ipfs
+

Pastebin services

+

See also Wikipedia:Pastebin. +

Pastebin services are often used to quote text or images while collaborating and troubleshooting. Pastebin clients provide a convenient way to post from the command line. +

+
Note: An acceptable pastebin service does not require enabling JavaScript for viewing, does not display adverts, manipulate the pasted content or require a login. +pastebin.com is blocked for some people because of malware found on the site and has a history of annoying issues (requires JavaScript, displays adverts, inserts CRLF line-endings and displaying CAPTCHAs at random). Do not use it.
+
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. Usage examples are:
+
command |& curl -F 'sprunge=<-' sprunge.us
or upload a file: 
curl -F 'sprunge=<-' sprunge.us < file
+
Note that you can append ?<lang> to the returned URL to get syntax highlighting for <lang> (e.g. http://sprunge.us/xxxxxx?bash for a bash configuration file or script).
+
As of December 2021, it also seems that sprunge.us accepts longer input than ix.io.
+ +
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 || elmerAUR
+ +
https://paste.xinu.at || fb-client
+ +
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.shAUR
+
  • Ix — Client for the ix.io pastebin.
+
http://ix.io || ixAUR
+ +
https://launchpad.net/pastebinit || pastebinit
+ +
https://github.com/seejohnrun/haste-client || ruby-hasteAUR
+
  • Uppity — The pastebin client with an attitude.
+
https://github.com/Kiwi/Uppity || uppity-gitAUR
+ +
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-gitAUR
+
  • 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 || muAUR
+
  • 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/ || nmhAUR
+
  • 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/ || sendemailAUR
+
  • Sup — CLI mail client with very fast searching, tagging, threading and GMail like operation.
+
https://sup-heliotrope.github.io/ || supAUR
+
  • 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-binAUR
+
  • 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 kde-pim.
+
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/ || mailspringAUR
+
  • openWMail — The missing desktop client for Gmail & Google Inbox. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://openwmail.github.io/ || openwmailAUR
+ +
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
+ +
http://trojita.flaska.net/ || trojita
+
  • Tutanota — Email client for Tutanota mail service. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://github.com/tutao/tutanota || tutanota-desktopAUR
+
  • 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/ || viageeAUR
+
Web-based
+
  • Mailpile — A modern, fast web-mail client with user-friendly encryption and privacy features.
+
https://www.mailpile.is/ || mailpileAUR[broken link: package not found]
+
  • 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
+ +
https://squirrelmail.org/ || squirrelmailAUR
+

Mail notifiers

+
  • Ayatana Webmail — Webmail notifications and actions for any desktop.
+
https://tari.in/www/software/ayatana-webmail/ || ayatana-webmailAUR
+
  • Bubblemail — New and Unread mail notification service for local mailboxes, pop, imap, and gnome online accounts. A fork of Mailnag.
+
http://bubblemail.free.fr/ || bubblemailAUR
+
  • CheckMails — System tray unread mail checker using IMAP protocol.
+
https://github.com/j4321/CheckMails || checkmailsAUR
+
  • 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 || qgmailnotifierAUR
+

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/ || davmailAUR
+
  • Modoboa — A modular mail hosting and management platform, written in Python.
+
https://modoboa.org/ || modoboaAUR
+

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/ || getmailAUR
+
  • hydroxide — A third-party, open-source ProtonMail CardDAV, IMAP and SMTP bridge
+
https://github.com/emersion/hydroxide || hydroxideAUR
+
  • 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/ || barnowlAUR
+
  • BitlBee — IRC gateway to popular chat networks (XMPP, ICQ and Twitter).
+
https://bitlbee.org/ || bitlbeeAUR
+
  • CenterIM — Text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface. Supports most of widely used IM protocols, including ICQ, IRC, XMPP.
+
http://centerim.org/ || centerimAUR
+
  • EKG2 — Ncurses based XMPP, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ and IRC client.
+
https://github.com/ekg2/ekg2 || ekg2AUR
+
  • 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/ || jitsiAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • 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/ || qutimAUR
+
  • Smuxi — Cross-platform IRC client that also supports Twitter and XMPP.
+
https://smuxi.im/ || smuxiAUR
+
  • 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/ || voltAUR
+
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-gitAUR
+
  • 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/ || iiAUR
+
  • 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/ || irciiAUR
+
  • 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/ || scrollzAUR
+
  • sic — Extremely simple IRC client, similar to ii.
+
https://tools.suckless.org/sic/ || sicAUR
+
  • tiny — an IRC client written in Rust with a clutter-free interface
+
https://github.com/osa1/tiny || tiny-irc-client-gitAUR
+

Comparison +

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
NamePackageWritten inExtensibleSASL +
BitchX +bitchx-gitAURC?? +
ERC +emacsELispin ELispvia script +
ii +iiAURCstdin/stdoutNo +
Irssi +irssiCin PerlYes +
pork +porkCin PerlNo +
ScrollZ +scrollzAURC?No +
sic +sicAURCstdin/stdoutNo +
tiny +tiny-irc-client-gitAURRustNoYes +
WeeChat +weechatCmultiple languagesYes +
+
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
+ +
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/ || loquiAUR
+
  • LostIRC — Simple GTK IRC client with tab-autocompletion, multiple server support, logging and others.
+
http://lostirc.sourceforge.net || lostircAUR
+
  • 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/ || srainAUR
+
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/ || freetalkAUR
+
  • jabber.el — Minimal XMPP client for Emacs.
+
http://emacs-jabber.sourceforge.net/ || emacs-jabberAUR
+
  • jp (Salut à Toi) — CLI frontend for Salut à Toi, multi-purpose XMPP client
+
https://salut-a-toi.org/ || sat-jpAUR
+
  • 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/ || poezioAUR
+
  • Primitivus (Salut à Toi) — Console frontend for Salut à Toi, multi-purpose XMPP client
+
https://salut-a-toi.org/ || sat-primitivusAUR
+
  • 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-clientAUR[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-hgAUR
+
  • Converse.js — Web-based XMPP chat client written in JavaScript.
+
https://conversejs.org/ || conversejs-gitAUR
+
  • 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/ || kaidanAUR
+
  • Kadu — Qt-based XMPP and Gadu-Gadu client.
+
http://www.kadu.im/ || kaduAUR
+
  • Libervia (Salut à Toi) — Web frontend for Salut à Toi, multi-purpose XMPP client
+
https://salut-a-toi.org/ || sat-libervia-hgAUR
+
  • 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-jsxcAUR
+
  • 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/ || sparkAUR
+
  • 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/ || tkabberAUR
+
  • Vacuum IM — Full-featured crossplatform XMPP client.
+
https://github.com/Vacuum-IM/vacuum-im || vacuum-imAUR
+
SIP clients
+

See also Wikipedia:List of SIP software#Clients. +

+
  • Blink — State of the art, easy to use SIP client.
+
https://icanblink.com/ || blinkAUR
+
  • 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-desktopAUR
+
  • Twinkle — Qt softphone for VoIP and IM communication using SIP.
+
http://twinkle.dolezel.info/ || twinkleAUR
+
  • Zoiper — Proprietary SIP and IAX2 VoIP softphone
+
https://zoiper.com || zoiperAUR
+
Matrix clients
+

See also Matrix and Matrix Clients. +

+
  • Element — Glossy Matrix client with an emphasis on performance and usability. Web application and desktop application based on the Electron platform.
+
https://element.io/ || element-web, element-desktop
+
  • FluffyChat — Multi-platform Matrix client with a simple and clean UI written in Dart/Flutter.
+
https://fluffychat.im/ || fluffychatAUR
+
  • Fractal — Matrix client for GNOME written in Rust.
+
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Fractal || fractal
+
  • Gomuks — Terminal Matrix client written in Go using mautrix and mauview.
+
https://maunium.net/go/gomuks || gomuksAUR
+
  • Mirage — A fancy, customizable, keyboard-operable Matrix chat client for encrypted and decentralized communication. Written in Qt/QML + Python with nio, currently in alpha.
+
https://github.com/mirukana/mirage || matrix-mirageAUR, matrix-mirage-gitAUR
+
  • Neochat — KDE client for the Matrix protocol.
+
https://apps.kde.org/neochat/ || neochat
+
  • nheko — Desktop client for the Matrix protocol.
+
https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko || nhekoAUR, nheko-gitAUR
+
  • Quaternion — Qt5-based IM client for the Matrix protocol.
+
https://github.com/QMatrixClient/Quaternion || quaternionAUR
+
  • SchildiChat — Matrix client based on Element with a more traditional instant messaging experience. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://schildi.chat/ || schildichat-desktop-binAUR
+
  • Spectral — Qt5-based Glossy cross-platform client for Matrix.
+
https://gitlab.com/spectral-im/spectral || spectral-matrixAUR
+
  • Syphon — Privacy-centric cross-platform Matrix client with E2EE support, currently in alpha.
+
https://github.com/syphon-org/syphon || syphon-binAUR
+
Tox clients
+

See also Tox. +

+
  • qTox — Powerful Tox client written in C++/Qt that follows the Tox design guidelines.
+
https://qtox.github.io/ || qtox
+
  • ratox — FIFO based tox client.
+
https://git.z3bra.org/ratox/file/README.html || ratox-gitAUR
+
  • Toxic — ncurses-based Tox client
+
https://github.com/Jfreegman/toxic || toxic
+
  • Toxygen — Tox client written in pure Python3.
+
https://github.com/toxygen-project/toxygen || toxygen-gitAUR
+
  • Venom — a modern Tox client for the GNU/Linux desktop
+
https://github.com/naxuroqa/Venom || venomAUR
+
  • µTox — Lightweight Tox client.
+
https://github.com/uTox/uTox || utox
+
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/ || lmcAUR
+
P2P messaging clients
+

See also Ring and Tox. +

+
  • Bitmessage — Decentralized and trustless P2P communications protocol for sending encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers.
+
https://bitmessage.org/ || pybitmessageAUR
+
  • Briar — Briar is a messaging app designed for activists, journalists, and anyone else who needs a safe, easy and robust way to communicate.
+
https://briarproject.org/ || briar-gtkAUR, briar-headlessAUR, python-briar-wrapperAUR
+
  • Patchwork — Decentralized messaging and sharing app built on top of Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB). Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork || ssb-patchworkAUR
+
  • RetroShare — Serverless encrypted instant messenger with filesharing, chatgroups, mail.
+
https://retroshare.cc/ || retroshareAUR
+
  • Ricochet — Anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging system built on Tor hidden services.
+
https://ricochet.im/ || ricochetAUR
+
Other IM clients
+
  • BlueJeans — Proprietary desktop application for BlueJeans video calls. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://www.bluejeans.com/ || bluejeansAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • Delta Chat — A privacy oriented chat application built on e-mail. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://delta.chat/ || deltachat-desktop-gitAUR
+
  • 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/ || gitterAUR
+
  • Hangups — Third-party instant messaging client for Google Hangouts with console interface.
+
https://github.com/tdryer/hangups || hangupsAUR
+
  • ICQ — Official ICQ client for Linux.
+
https://icq.com/linux/ || icqdesktop-binAUR
+
  • IRCCloud — Desktop client for a modern, always-connected IRC client service. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://www.irccloud.com/ || irccloudAUR
+
  • Jitsi Meet — Desktop application for Jitsi Meet. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron || jitsi-meet-desktopAUR
+
  • Kotatogram Desktop — Experimental fork of Telegram Desktop.
+
https://kotatogram.github.io/ || kotatogram-desktopAUR
+
  • Matterhorn — Console client for the Mattermost chat system.
+
https://github.com/matterhorn-chat/matterhorn || matterhornAUR
+
  • Mattermost Desktop — Desktop application for Mattermost. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://github.com/mattermost/desktop || mattermost-desktopAUR
+
  • Meowgram — Telegram client written in GTK and Python.
+
https://github.com/ExposedCat/Meowgram || meowgram-gitAUR
+ +
https://teams.microsoft.com/downloads || teamsAUR
+
  • 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/ || linuxqqAUR
+
  • Rocket.Chat Desktop — Desktop application for Rocket.Chat. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Electron || rocketchat-desktopAUR
+
  • Session Desktop — Onion routing based messenger. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://getsession.org/ || session-desktopAUR
+
  • 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-binAUR
+
  • Slack — Proprietary Slack client for desktop. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://slack.com/downloads/linux || slack-desktopAUR
+
  • teams-for-linux — Unofficial Microsoft Teams for Linux client. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux || teams-for-linuxAUR
+
  • 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 || teamtalkAUR
+
  • Telegram Desktop — Official Telegram desktop client.
+
https://desktop.telegram.org/ || telegram-desktop
+
  • Telegrand — GTK4 telegram client for GNOME.
+
https://github.com/melix99/telegrand || telegrand-gitAUR
+
  • ThreemaQT — Unofficial Threema Web desktop client.
+
https://gitlab.com/bit3/threemaqt || threemaqtAUR
+
  • Viber — Proprietary cross-platform IM and VoIP software.
+
https://www.viber.com/products/linux/ || viberAUR
+
  • WhatsAppQT — Unofficial WhatsApp Web desktop client.
+
https://gitlab.com/bit3/whatsappqt || whatsappqtAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • Zoom — Proprietary video conferencing, online meetings and group messaging application.
+
https://zoom.us/ || zoomAUR
+
  • Zulip — Desktop client for Zulip group chat. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://zulipchat.com/apps/linux || zulip-desktopAUR
+

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/ || inspircdAUR
+
  • IRCD-Hybrid — A lightweight, high-performance internet relay chat daemon.
+
https://www.ircd-hybrid.org/ || ircd-hybridAUR
+
  • miniircd — A small and configuration free IRC server, suitable for private use.
+
https://github.com/jrosdahl/miniircd || miniircd-gitAUR
+
  • 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/ || ergochatAUR
+ +
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/ || jabberd2AUR
+
  • 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. +

+ +
https://www.asterisk.org/ || asteriskAUR
+
  • Kamailio — Rock solid SIP server.
+
https://www.kamailio.org/ || kamailioAUR
+
  • 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 || reproAUR
+
  • 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-serverAUR
+
  • Spreed WebRTC — WebRTC audio/video call and conferencing server.
+
https://github.com/strukturag/spreed-webrtc || spreed-webrtc-serverAUR
+
  • 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/ || webcitAUR
+
  • Kolab — Kolab Groupware solution consisting of a server and various clients.
+
https://kolab.org/ || kolabAUR[broken link: package not found]
+
  • SOGo — Groupware server built around OpenGroupware.org (OGo) and the SOPE application server.
+
https://sogo.nu/ || sogoAUR
+

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/ || rawdogAUR
+
  • sfeed — Lightweight RSS and Atom parser.
+
https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html || sfeed-gitAUR
+
  • Snownews — Text mode RSS news reader.
+
https://github.com/kouya/snownews || snownewsAUR
+
Graphical
+ +
https://apps.kde.org/akregator/ || akregator
+
  • Alduin — RSS, Atom and JSON feed aggregator. Based on the Electron platform. Discontinued.
+
https://alduinapp.github.io/ || alduinAUR
+
  • Alligator — Kirigami-based RSS/Atom feed reader for mobile devices.
+
https://apps.kde.org/alligator/ || alligatorAUR
+
  • FeedReader — Modern desktop application designed to complement existing web-based RSS accounts. Discontinued.
+
https://jangernert.github.io/FeedReader/ || feedreaderAUR
+
  • 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-readerAUR
+
  • HackUp — Read Hacker News from the desktop.
+
https://github.com/mdh34/hackup || hackup-gitAUR
+
  • 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-readerAUR
+
  • 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/ || selfossAUR
+
  • 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/ || tickrAUR
+ +
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. +

See also Wikipedia:List of podcatchers. +

+
Console
+
  • castero — A TUI podcast client for the terminal.
+
https://github.com/xgi/castero || castero-gitAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • Marrie — A simple podcast client that runs on the Command Line Interface.
+
https://github.com/rafaelmartins/marrie/ || marrie-gitAUR
+
  • pcd — A minimal podcast client written in go
+
https://github.com/kvannotten/pcd || pcdAUR
+
Graphical
+
  • CPod — Simple, beautiful podcast app. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://github.com/z-------------/CPod || cpodAUR
+
  • 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/ || nnAUR
+
  • slrn — Text-based news client.
+
https://www.slrn.org/ || slrnAUR
+
  • tin — A cross-platform threaded NNTP and spool based UseNet newsreader.
+
http://tin.org/ || tinAUR
+
  • trn — A text-based Threaded Usenet newsreader.
+
http://trn.sourceforge.net/ || trnAUR
+
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/ || sabnzbdAUR
+
  • XRN — Usenet newsreader for X Window System.
+
http://www.mit.edu/people/jik/software/xrn.html || xrnAUR
+

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-gitAUR
+
  • Rainbowstream — A powerful and fully-featured console Twitter client written in Python.
+
https://github.com/orakaro/rainbowstream || rainbowstreamAUR
+
  • toot — CLI and TUI tool for interacting with Mastodon instances
+
https://github.com/ihabunek/toot || tootAUR
+
  • turses — Twitter client for the console based off tyrs with major improvements.
+
https://github.com/louipc/turses || turses-gitAUR
+
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 || giaraAUR
+
  • Mikutter — Simple, powerful Twitter client using GTK and Ruby.
+
https://mikutter.hachune.net/ || mikutterAUR
+
  • Pumpa — Pump.io client written in C++ and Qt.
+
https://pumpa.branchable.com/ || pumpa-gitAUR
+
  • Tootle — GTK3 client for Mastodon.
+
https://github.com/bleakgrey/tootle || tootleAUR
+
  • Turpial — Multi-interface Twitter client written in Python.
+
http://turpial.org.ve/ || turpial-gitAUR
+
  • Whalebird — Mastodon client application. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://whalebird.social/ || whalebird-binAUR
+

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-mysqlAUR or diaspora-postgresqlAUR
+
  • 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-webAUR[broken link: package not found]
+
  • Joomla — A php Content Management System (CMS) which enables you to build websites and powerful online applications.
+
https://www.joomla.org/ || joomlaAUR
+
  • Wordpress — Blog tool and publishing platform.
+
https://wordpress.org/ || wordpress
+

Static site generators

+
  • Hexo — Fast, simple and powerful blog framework.
+
https://hexo.io/ || hexo-cliAUR
+
  • 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/ || jekyllAUR
+
  • 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/ || nanobloggerAUR
+
  • 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-binAUR
+
  • 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 || remotelyAUR
+
  • 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 || sunloginclientAUR
+
  • ToDesk — Proprietary remote desktop client that suits for remote teamwork. It uses its own proprietary protocol.
+
https://www.todesk.com/ || todesk-binAUR
+
  • TeamViewer — Proprietary remote desktop client. It uses its own proprietary protocol.
+
https://www.teamviewer.com/ || teamviewerAUR
+ +
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

+ +
https://apps.kde.org/krfb/ || krfb
+ +
https://nomachine.com/ || nomachineAUR
+
  • wayvnc — VNC server for wlroots based wayland compositors (such as sway).
+
https://github.com/any1/wayvnc || wayvnc
+ +
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/ || xrdpAUR
+

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/ || fimAUR
+
  • 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 || jfbviewAUR
+
Graphical image viewers
+
  • CoreImage — Simple lightweight easy to use image viewer based on Qt. Part of C-Suite.
+
https://cubocore.org/ || coreimageAUR
+
  • 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
+
  • 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 || eyesightAUR
+
  • 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 || galapixAUR
+
  • 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/ || kokoAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • Mirage — PyGTK image viewer featuring support for crop and resize, custom actions and a thumbnail panel.
+
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mirageiv.berlios/ || mirageAUR
+
  • 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/ || photoqtAUR
+
  • 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/ || qimgvAUR
+
  • qeh — Actually fast and simple image viewer. Like feh but faster and simpler, and support for more formats.
+
https://github.com/sandsmark/qeh/ || qeh-gitAUR
+
  • 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/ || qviewAUR
+
  • 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 || shuftiAUR
+
  • 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-qtAUR
+
  • vpv — Image viewer designed for scientific image visualization.
+
https://github.com/kidanger/vpv || vpvAUR
+
  • Xloadimage — Classic X image viewer.
+
https://sioseis.ucsd.edu/xloadimage.html[dead link 2021-05-17 ⓘ] || xloadimage
+

Image organizers

+

See also Wikipedia:Image organizer. +

+
  • Deepin Album — Photo manager for viewing and organizing pictures, for Deepin desktop.
+
https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-album || deepin-album
+
  • digiKam — KDE-based image organizer with built-in editing features via a plugin architecture. digiKam asserts it is more full featured than similar applications with a larger set of image manipulation features including RAW image import and manipulation.
+
https://www.digikam.org/ || digikam
+
  • Frogr — Small application for the GNOME desktop that allows users to manage their accounts in the Flickr image hosting website.
+
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Frogr || frogrAUR
+
  • GNOME Photos — Access, organize, and share your photos on GNOME.
+
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Photos || gnome-photos
+
  • gThumb — Image viewer and browser for the GNOME desktop.
+
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gthumb || gthumb
+
  • KPhotoAlbum — Digital image cataloging software that supports annotation, browsing, searching and viewing of digital images and videos.
+
https://www.kphotoalbum.org/ || kphotoalbum
+
  • Memories — Image viewer and manager designed for elementary OS.
+
https://anufrij.org/memories/ || showmypicturesAUR
+
  • Pantheon Photos — Photo organizer for Pantheon.
+
https://launchpad.net/pantheon-photos || pantheon-photos
+
  • PhotoPrism — Personal Photo Management powered by Go and Google TensorFlow
+
https://photoprism.app/ || photoprismAUR
+
  • Phototonic — Fast and functional image viewer and browser (Qt).
+
https://github.com/oferkv/phototonic/ || phototonic
+
  • Pix — Image gallery and image viewer that can be used to open images with other applications like an image editor, add tags to the files, add annotations to pictures, rotate and share them.
+
https://apps.kde.org/pix/ || maui-pix
+
  • Pix — Image viewer and browser based on gthumb. X-Apps Project.
+
https://github.com/linuxmint/pix || pixAUR
+
  • Rapid Photo Downloader — Download photos and videos from cameras, memory cards and portable storage devices.
+
https://www.damonlynch.net/rapid/ || rapid-photo-downloader
+
  • Shotwell — A digital photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment
+
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Shotwell || shotwell
+

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 || cropguiAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
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-gitAUR
+
  • Trimage — Qt-based tool for optimizing PNG and JPG files.
+
https://trimage.org/ || trimageAUR
+

Raster graphics editors

+

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of raster graphics editors. +

+
  • AzPainter — Painting software for illustration drawing.
+
https://gitlab.com/azelpg/azpainter || azpainterAUR
+
  • CorePaint — Simple bitmap painting tool to produce very simple graphics. Part of C-Suite.
+
https://cubocore.org/ || corepaintAUR
+
  • 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/ || drawpileAUR
+
  • 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-editorAUR[broken link: package not found]
+ +
https://www.gnu.org/software/gpaint/ || gpaintAUR
+
  • GrafX2 — Bitmap paint program specialized in 256 color drawing.
+
http://grafx2.chez.com/ || grafx2
+
  • ImEditor — Simple and versatile image editor.
+
https://imeditor.github.io/ || imeditorAUR
+
  • 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/ || miltonAUR
+
  • 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/ || pixelitorAUR
+
  • 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/ || xpaintAUR
+

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/ || filmulatorAUR
+
  • FOSStriangulator — Tool for making triangulated illustrations out of photos.
+
https://github.com/FOSStriangulator/FOSStriangulator || fosstriangulatorAUR
+
  • Hugin — Panorama photo stitcher.
+
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ || hugin
+
  • LightZone — Professional-level digital darkroom and photo editor comparable to Photoshop Lightroom.
+
http://lightzoneproject.org/ || lightzoneAUR
+
  • 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/ || oqapyAUR
+
  • Rawstudio — Raw-image converter written in GTK.
+
https://rawstudio.org/ || rawstudioAUR
+
  • 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 || geotaggingAUR
+
  • 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 || gpicsyncAUR
+
  • 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-desktopAUR
+
  • Dot Matrix — The glyph playground of creativity from simple lines.
+
https://github.com/lainsce/dot-matrix/ || dot-matrixAUR
+
  • Figma — Unofficial desktop application for Figma collaborative design tool. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://github.com/Figma-Linux/figma-linux || figma-linuxAUR
+
  • Gravit Designer — Proprietary vector design application. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://designer.io/ || gravit-designer-binAUR
+
  • 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/ || mockingbotAUR
+
  • OpenOffice Draw — Vector graphics editor and diagramming tool included in the OpenOffice suite.
+
https://www.openoffice.org/product/draw.html || openoffice-binAUR
+
  • Pencil Project — GUI prototyping and mockup tool. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://pencil.evolus.vn/ || pencilAUR
+
  • sK1 — Replacement for Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw, oriented for "prepress ready" PostScript & PDF output.
+
https://sk1project.net/ || sk1AUR
+
  • SvgVi — SVG viewer and editor using XML declarations.
+
https://gitlab.com/pwmc/svgvi || svgviAUR
+
  • 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 || yedAUR
+
  • Xfig — Interactive drawing tool.
+
http://mcj.sourceforge.net/ || xfigAUR
+

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
+ +
https://fontforge.github.io/ || fontforge
+
  • TruFont — Font-editing application.
+
https://trufont.github.io/ || trufontAUR
+

2D animation

+
  • enve — Flexible, user expandable 2D animation software.
+
https://maurycyliebner.github.io/ || enve-gitAUR
+
  • Glaxnimate — Vector 2D animation software, mainly for Lottie and TGS formats, but have a good standard animated SVG export
+
https://glaxnimate.mattbas.org/ || glaxnimateAUR
+
  • 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/ || scriblAUR
+
  • 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/ || stopmotionAUR
+
  • 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/ || asepriteAUR
+
  • Pixelorama — Pixel art 2d animation
+
https://orama-interactive.itch.io/pixelorama || pixeloramaAUR
+

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/ || aoiAUR
+
  • 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/ || cloudcompareAUR
+
  • 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/ || dust3dAUR
+
  • F3D — A fast and minimalist KISS 3D viewer. Supported file formats: VTK (legacy and XML), STL, GLTF, PLY, OBJ, 3DS, …
+
https://f3d-app.github.io/f3d/ || f3dAUR
+
  • Goxel — Open Source 3D voxel editor.
+
https://goxel.xyz/ || goxel
+
  • MakeHuman™ — Parametrical modeling program for creating human bodies.
+
http://www.makehumancommunity.org/ || makehumanAUR
+
  • MeshLab — System for processing and editing 3D triangular meshes.
+
https://www.meshlab.net/ || meshlabAUR
+
  • 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 ⓘ] || voxelshopAUR
+
  • Wings 3D — Advanced subdivision modeler that is both powerful and easy to use.
+
http://www.wings3d.com/ || wings3dAUR
+

Color pickers and palettes

+
  • Agave — Colorscheme designer tool for GNOME.
+
https://web.archive.org/web/20170327063642/http://home.gna.org/colorscheme/ || agaveAUR
+
  • Chameleon — Simple color picker for X11 which outputs colors to stdout.
+
https://github.com/seebye/chameleon || chameleon-gitAUR
+
  • ColorGrab — Cross-platform color picker.
+
https://github.com/nielssp/colorgrab || colorgrabAUR
+
  • Color Palette — Tool for viewing the GNOME color palette as defined by the design guidelines.
+
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/design/palette || paletteAUR
+
  • colorpicker — Click on a pixel on your screen and print its color value in RGB. Written for X11.
+
https://github.com/Jack12816/colorpicker || colorpickerAUR
+
  • Color Picker — Simplistic color picker for the Pantheon desktop.
+
https://github.com/RonnyDo/ColorPicker || color-pickerAUR
+
  • Coulr — Color box to help developers and designers.
+
https://github.com/Huluti/Coulr || coulrAUR
+
  • 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 || delicolourAUR
+
  • 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-pickerAUR
+
  • PrestoPalette — An artist's tool for creating harmonious color palettes.
+
https://github.com/PrestoPalette/PrestoPalette || prestopaletteAUR
+
  • 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
+
  • Funkwhale — self-hosted, modern, free and open-source music server, heavily inspired by Grooveshark. Instances can be federated.
+
https://funkwhale.audio/ || funkwhaleAUR
+
  • Sonospy — A music server for Sonos that allows you overcome the 65,000 local track limit and also offers various customization options.
+
https://github.com/henkelis/sonospy/wiki/Welcome-to-Sonospy || sonospy-gitAUR
+
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 || cplayAUR
+
  • davis — A CLI client for mpd, written in Rust.
+
https://github.com/SimonPersson/davis || not packaged? search in AUR
+
  • Herrie — Minimalistic console-based music player with native AudioScrobbler support.
+
https://github.com/EdSchouten/herrie || herrieAUR
+
  • 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/ || mpfcAUR
+
  • 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/ || vitunesAUR
+
  • whistle — Curses-based commandline audio player.
+
https://github.com/ap0calypse/whistle/ || whistle-gitAUR
+
  • 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 || bansheeAUR
+
  • 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 || byteAUR
+
  • Clementine — Amarok 1.4 clone, ported to Qt5. See also Strawberry (below).
+
https://www.clementine-player.org/ || clementine
+
  • Cozy — Modern audio book player for Linux using GTK 3.
+
https://cozy.geigi.de/ || cozy-audiobooksAUR
+
  • Exaile — GTK clone of Amarok.
+
https://www.exaile.org/ || exaileAUR
+
  • 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/ || guayadequeAUR
+
  • 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/ || playmymusicAUR
+
  • Muine — A music player written in C Sharp.
+
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/muine || muineAUR
+
  • 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/ || parlatypeAUR
+
  • 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-playerAUR
+
  • Strawberry — Fork of Clementine aimed at audio enthusiasts and music collectors. Uses Qt6.
+
https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/ || strawberry
+
  • Tauon Music Box — Modern, comfortable and streamlined music player for the playback of your music collection.
+
https://tauonmusicbox.rocks/ || tauon-music-boxAUR
+
Phonon-based
+
  • Amarok — Mature Qt-based player known for its plethora of features.
+
https://amarok.kde.org/ || amarokAUR
+
  • 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/ || yarockAUR
+
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/ || aqualungAUR
+ +
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/ || deadbeefAUR
+
  • 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/ || dmidiplayerAUR
+
  • 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/ || gmusicbrowserAUR
+
  • 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-binAUR
+
  • Musique — Just another music player, only better.
+
https://flavio.tordini.org/musique || musiqueAUR
+
  • 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/ || sounduxAUR
+
  • 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-locatorAUR
+
  • Goodvibes — Lightweight internet radio player.
+
https://gitlab.com/goodvibes/goodvibes || goodvibesAUR
+
  • Radiotray-NG — Internet radio player systray applet.
+
https://github.com/ebruck/radiotray-ng || radiotray-ngAUR
+
  • Shortwave — GTK 3 application for finding and listening to internet radio stations.
+
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Shortwave || shortwaveAUR
+
  • Tuner — Minimalist radio station player.
+
https://github.com/louis77/tuner || tunerAUR
+

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 ⓘ] || gpmdpAUR
+
  • Headset — Desktop app that turns YouTube into a world class music streaming service. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://headsetapp.co/ || headsetAUR
+
  • 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/ || mellowplayerAUR
+
  • Nuclear — Modern music player focused on streaming from free sources. Based on the Electron platform.
+
http://nuclear.gumblert.tech/ || nuclear-player-binAUR
+
  • 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/ || pithosAUR
+
  • Spotify — Proprietary music streaming service. It supports local playback and streaming from Spotify's vast library (requires a free account).
+
https://www.spotify.com/ || spotifyAUR
+

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/ || demloAUR
+
  • id3 — Command-line utility to edit ID3 1.x and 2.x tags.
+
https://squell.github.io/id3/ || id3AUR
+
  • id3ted — Command line id3 tag editor.
+
https://muennich.github.io/id3ted/ || id3tedAUR[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 || taffyAUR
+
  • 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 || tagutilAUR
+
Graphical
+
  • Audio Tag Tool — Tool to edit tags in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files.
+
https://github.com/impegoraro/tagtool || tagtoolAUR
+
  • Coquillo — Metadata editor for various audio formats.
+
https://github.com/sjuvonen/coquillo || coquilloAUR
+
  • 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 || gabtagAUR
+
  • 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 || ktageditorAUR
+
  • 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 || ntagAUR
+
  • Puddletag — Replacement for the famous MP3tag for Windows.
+
https://docs.puddletag.net/ || puddletagAUR
+
  • Qoobar — Universal Qt-based audio tagger (specialized for classical music).
+
http://qoobar.sourceforge.net/en/index.htm || qoobarAUR
+
  • 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 || tageditorAUR
+
  • 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-presenterAUR
+
  • Give Me Lyrics — See the lyrics of the song that is playing, from any application.
+
https://github.com/muriloventuroso/givemelyrics || givemelyricsAUR
+
  • Lyrics — Display lyrics on media players with MPRIS interface.
+
https://github.com/naaando/lyrics || lyricsAUR[broken link: package not found]
+
  • 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 || clyricsAUR
+
  • 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/ || karlyriceditorAUR
+
  • LyricsX — Lyrics editor.
+
https://github.com/timxx/lyricsx || lyricsxAUR
+

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/ || caudecAUR
+
  • 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 || ffaudioconverterAUR
+
  • 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/ || flaconAUR
+
  • fre:ac — Audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders.
+
https://freac.org/ || freacAUR
+
  • 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
+ +
http://gwc.sourceforge.net/ || gwcAUR
+
  • 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/ || mhwaveeditAUR
+
  • 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-binAUR
+
  • 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/ || wavesurferAUR
+

Digital audio workstations

+

See also Professional audio. +

+
  • Ardour — Multichannel hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation.
+
https://ardour.org/ || ardour
+
  • Bitwig Studio — Proprietary professional digital audio workstation.
+
https://www.bitwig.com/en/home.html || bitwig-studioAUR
+
  • Frinika — Digital audio workstation, features sequencer, soft-synths, realtime effects and audio recording.
+
https://www.frinika.com/ || frinikaAUR
+
  • LMMS — Digital audio workstation which allows you to produce music with your computer.
+
https://lmms.io/ || lmms
+
  • MusE — MIDI/Audio sequencer (digital audio workstation) with recording and editing capabilities, aims to be a complete multitrack virtual studio for Linux.
+
https://muse-sequencer.github.io// || muse
+
  • Non — Modular digital audio workstation composed of four main parts: Timeline, Sequencer, Mixer and Session Manager.
+
https://non.tuxfamily.org/ || non-timeline, non-sequencer, non-mixer, new-session-manager
+
  • Qtractor — Qt-based hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application that aims to provide digital audio workstation software simple enough for the average home user, and yet powerful enough for the professional user.
+
https://qtractor.sourceforge.io/qtractor-index.html || qtractor
+
  • REAPER — Proprietary digital audio workstation, offering a full multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering toolset.
+
https://www.reaper.fm/ || reaper-binAUR
+
  • Rosegarden — Digital audio workstation program developed with ALSA and Qt that acts as an audio and MIDI sequencer, scorewriter and musical composition and editing tool.
+
https://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ || rosegarden
+
  • Tracktion Waveform — Proprietary digital audio workstation, specifically designed for the needs of modern music producers.
+
https://www.tracktion.com/ || tracktion-waveformAUR
+

Audio analyzers

+
  • audioprism — Spectrogram tool for PulseAudio input and WAV files.
+
https://github.com/vsergeev/audioprism || audioprismAUR
+
  • 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-pacuAUR
+
  • Baudline — Proprietary time-frequency and spectrogram analyzer
+
http://www.baudline.com/index.html || baudline-binAUR
+
  • FMIT — Graphical utility for tuning your musical instruments, with error and volume history and advanced features.
+
https://gillesdegottex.github.io/fmit/ || fmitAUR
+
  • Friture — Real-time audio analyzer.
+
https://friture.org/ || fritureAUR
+
  • Mousai — Simple application for identifying songs using the API of audd.io.
+
https://github.com/SeaDve/Mousai || mousaiAUR
+
  • rtspeccy — Real time audio spectrum analyzer.
+
https://www.uninformativ.de/git/rtspeccy/ || rtspeccy-gitAUR
+
  • sndpeek — Real-time audio visualization tool.
+
https://soundlab.cs.princeton.edu/software/sndpeek/ || ALSA: sndpeek-alsaAUR, JACK: sndpeek-jackAUR
+
  • 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
+ +
https://www.sonicvisualiser.org/ || sonic-visualiser
+
  • Spek — Helps to analyse your audio files by showing their spectrogram.
+
http://spek.cc/ || spekAUR
+

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 || ariamaestosaAUR
+
  • 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/ || canorusAUR
+
  • 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-visorAUR
+
  • 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/ || tuxguitarAUR
+

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-blueAUR
+
  • Cabbage — Framework for audio software development using simple markup text and the Csound audio synthesis language.
+
https://cabbageaudio.com/ || cabbage-binAUR
+
  • 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/ || vcvrackAUR
+

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-svnAUR[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/ || gsequencerAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • QXGEdit — Qt GUI for editing MIDI System Exclusive files for XG devices (eg. Yamaha DB50XG).
+
https://qxgedit.sourceforge.io/ || qxgedit
+
  • setBfree — DSP tonewheel organ.
+
https://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 ⓘ] || buzztraxAUR
+
  • FamiStudio — Very simple music editor for the Nintendo Entertainment System or Famicom.
+
https://famistudio.org/ || famistudioAUR
+
  • klystrack — Tracker for making C64/NES/Amiga-style chiptunes on a modern platform.
+
https://kometbomb.github.io/klystrack/ || klystrack-gitAUR
+
  • 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/ || openmptAUR
+
  • Radium — Music editor with a new type of interface.
+
https://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/ || radiumAUR
+
  • 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/ || schismtrackerAUR
+

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/ || idjcAUR
+
  • 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-playerAUR
+
  • 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-bzrAUR
+
  • 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 || pulseeffectsAUR[broken link: replaced by easyeffects], pulseeffects-legacy-gitAUR
+
  • Rakarrack — Richly featured multi-effects processor emulating a guitar effects pedalboard.
+
http://rakarrack.sourceforge.net/ || rakarrackAUR
+

Audio visualizers

+
  • Barva — Visualizer for PulseAudio that pulses the background of your terminal.
+
https://github.com/Kharacternyk/barva/ || barva-gitAUR
+
  • C.A.V.A. — Console-based audio visualizer for ALSA, MPD and PulseAudio.
+
https://github.com/karlstav/cava/ || cavaAUR
+
  • Cavalcade — GTK GUI for C.A.V.A.
+
https://github.com/worron/cavalcade/ || cavalcadeAUR
+
  • cli-visualizer — Highly configurable CLI-based audio visualizer.
+
https://github.com/dpayne/cli-visualizer || cli-visualizerAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • Le Biniou — User-friendly, powerful music visualization / VJing tool.
+
https://biniou.net/ || lebiniouAUR
+
  • 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/ || vsxuAUR
+

Remote audio

+
  • jammr — Play jam sessions with musicians around the world over the internet.
+
https://jammr.net/ || jammrAUR
+
  • Jamulus — Enables musicians to perform real-time jam sessions over the internet.
+
https://jamulus.io/ || jamulusAUR
+
  • Noson — Fast and smart controller for SONOS devices.
+
https://janbar.github.io/noson-app/ || noson-appAUR
+
  • SonoBus — Application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network.
+
https://sonobus.net/ || sonobusAUR
+
  • Upplay — Qt-based UPnP audio control point.
+
https://lesbonscomptes.com/upplay/ || upplayAUR
+

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-trayAUR
+
  • AlsaVolume — Tray ALSA volume changer written using gtkmm.
+
https://github.com/Vitozz/cppAlsaVolume || cpp-alsa-volumeAUR
+
  • AMixST — Volume wheel using ALSA and Qt5.
+
https://github.com/FenixFyreX/amixst || amixstAUR
+
  • 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-alsamixerAUR
+
  • GVolWheel — Audio mixer which lets you control the volume through a tray icon.
+
https://github.com/Junker/gvolwheel || gvolwheelAUR
+
  • 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 || pnmixerAUR
+
  • 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 || retrovolAUR
+
  • Volctl — Per-application system tray applet volume control for PulseAudio.
+
https://buzz.github.io/volctl/ || volctlAUR
+
  • Volnoti — A lightweight volume notification daemon for GNU/Linux and other POSIX operating systems.
+
https://github.com/davidbrazdil/volnoti || volnotiAUR
+
  • 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 || voltiAUR
+
  • 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 || volwheelAUR
+
  • Xfce ALSA Panel Plugin — Simple ALSA volume control plugin for Xfce4 panel.
+
https://github.com/equeim/xfce4-alsa-plugin || xfce4-alsa-pluginAUR
+

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. It is mostly used as a testbed for the various FFmpeg APIs.
+
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/ || playmyvideosAUR
+
  • Clapper — GNOME media player built using GJS with GTK4 toolkit and powered by GStreamer with OpenGL rendering.
+
https://rafostar.github.io/clapper/ || clapperAUR
+
  • 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
+ +
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Videos || totem
+
  • Identity — Program for comparing multiple versions of an image or video.
+
https://gitlab.gnome.org/YaLTeR/identity || identityAUR
+
  • 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-monadAUR
+
  • 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
+
  • 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 || spivakAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • 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 || harunaAUR
+
  • 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-playerAUR
+
  • KittehPlayer — A YouTube-like video player based on Qt, QML and mpv.
+
https://github.com/purringChaos/KittehPlayer || kittehplayer-gitAUR
+ +
https://github.com/mpc-qt/mpc-qt || mpc-qtAUR
+
  • 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 || moonplayerAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • 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 management, YouTube, online radios, podcasts, DVB-T and more.
+
https://github.com/kokoko3k/xt7-player-mpv || xt7-player-mpvAUR
+
MPlayer-based
+
  • GNOME MPlayer — Simple GTK-based GUI for MPlayer.
+
https://sites.google.com/site/kdekorte2/gnomemplayer || gnome-mplayer
+
Phonon-based
+ +
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
+
  • Electronplayer — An application using the Electron framework. It is used for viewing Netflix, YouTube, Twitch, Floatplane, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video and more. Most notably to isolate the cookies from these websites from your main web browser.
+
https://github.com/oscartbeaumont/ElectronPlayer/ || electronplayerAUR
+
  • 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-binAUR
+
  • 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-binAUR
+
  • 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 || qmplay2AUR
+
  • 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/ || stremioAUR, stremio-betaAUR
+
  • 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 || yuviewAUR
+

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/ || ffmpegyagAUR
+
  • 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/ || ffmulticonverterAUR
+
  • 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/ || qwinffAUR
+
  • 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/ || winffAUR
+

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
+ +
http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php || cinelerra-hvAUR
+ +
http://cinelerra-cv.wikidot.com/ || cinelerra-cvAUR
+ +
https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/ || cinelerra-gg-gitAUR
+ +
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/ || davinci-resolveAUR
+
  • 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/ || lightworksAUR
+
  • LiVES — Video editor and VJ (live performance) platform.
+
http://lives-video.com/ || livesAUR
+
  • LosslessCut — GUI tool for lossless trimming/cutting of video/audio files. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://mifi.no/losslesscut/ || losslesscut-binAUR
+
  • Natron — Open-source compositing software. Node-graph based. Similar in functionalities to Adobe After Effects and Nuke by The Foundry.
+
https://natrongithub.github.io/ || natronAUR
+
  • Olive — Non-linear video editor aiming to provide a fully-featured alternative to high-end professional video editing software.
+
https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/ || oliveAUR
+
  • 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-editorAUR
+
  • 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-trimmerAUR
+

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-gitAUR
+
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. +

+ +
https://github.com/Aegisub/Aegisub || aegisub
+
  • Gaupol — Full-featured subtitle editor.
+
https://otsaloma.io/gaupol/ || gaupol
+ +
http://www.gnomesubtitles.org/ || gnome-subtitles
+
  • Jubler — Open-source multiplatform subtitle editor written in Java.
+
https://www.jubler.org/ || jublerAUR
+
  • Subtitle Composer — Subtitle editor for KDE supporting various formats, features different player backends, able to display wave form.
+
https://subtitlecomposer.kde.org/ || subtitlecomposerAUR
+
  • Subtitle Edit — Subtitle editing program. Written in C# using mono.
+
https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit || subtitleeditAUR
+
  • 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/ || fswebcamAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • v4l2ucp — Universal control panel for V4L2 devices.
+
http://v4l2ucp.sourceforge.net/ || v4l2ucpAUR
+
  • v4l-utils — Provides a series of utilities for media devices.
+
https://linuxtv.org/ || v4l-utils
+
  • Webcamoid — Full featured webcam suite.
+
https://webcamoid.github.io/ || webcamoidAUR
+
  • ZArt — GUI for G'MIC real-time manipulations on the output of a webcam.
+
https://gmic.eu/ || zart[broken link: package not found]
+

DVD authoring

+

See also Wikipedia:List of DVD authoring applications. +

+
  • Bombono DVD — DVD authoring program with nice and clean GUI.
+
https://bombono.com/ || bombono-dvdAUR
+
  • 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 || vcsiAUR
+
  • 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-sheetAUR
+

Game and interactive application development

+
  • Allegro — A cross-platform library mainly aimed at video game and multimedia programming.
+
https://liballeg.org/ || allegro
+
  • Godot Engine — Game development platform for both 2D and 3D games, with integrate IDE
+
https://godotengine.org || godot
+
  • LÖVE — Lua based game development environment
+
https://love2d.org || love
+
  • TIC-80 — Fantasy computer/console
+
https://tic80.com || tic-80-gitAUR
+

Collection managers

+
  • Data Crow — Media cataloger and media organizer.
+
https://datacrow.net/ || datacrowAUR
+
  • GCstar — GNOME application for organizing various collections (board games, comic books, movies, stamps, etc.).
+
http://www.gcstar.org/ || gcstarAUR
+
  • 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-managerAUR
+
  • vMovieDB — Movie collection manager for the Gnome desktop.
+
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vmoviedb/ || vmoviedbAUR
+

Media servers

+
  • Airsonic — Web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music. (Fork of Subsonic.)
+
https://airsonic.github.io/ || airsonicAUR
+
  • 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-serverAUR
+
  • Gerbera — UPnP Media Server to stream your media to devices on your home network. (Fork of MediaTomb.)
+
https://gerbera.io/ || gerbera
+
  • 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: jellyfinAUR, desktop client: jellyfin-media-playerAUR, cast client: jellyfin-mpv-shimAUR
+
  • 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-serverAUR
+
  • 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/ || serviioAUR
+
  • Subsonic — Proprietary media server to stream from your own computer.
+
http://www.subsonic.org/ || subsonicAUR
+
  • 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/ || tvheadendAUR
+
  • 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/ || umsAUR
+

Metadata

+
  • CoreInfo — Simple media metadata viewer built on mediainfo library. Part of C-Suite.
+
https://cubocore.org/ || coreinfoAUR
+
  • DV Analyzer — Technical quality control and reporting tool that examines DV streams in order to report errors.
+
https://mediaarea.net/DVAnalyzer || CLI: dvanalyzerAUR, GUI: dvanalyzer-guiAUR
+
  • 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/ || jexiftoolguiAUR
+
  • 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: mediaconchAUR, GUI: mediaconch-guiAUR
+
  • 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

+ +
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/ || gnokiiAUR
+ +
https://gmtp.sourceforge.io/ || gmtp
+
  • GNOME Phone Manager — Control your mobile phone from your GNOME desktop.
+
https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/PhoneManager || gnome-phone-managerAUR
+
  • 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/ || gtkpodAUR
+
  • 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/ || wammuAUR
+

Optical disc burning

+

See Optical disc drive#Burning CD/DVD/BD with a GUI. +

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Utilities

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Terminal

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Command shells

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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. +

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  • Alacritty — A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.
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https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty || alacritty
+
  • aterm — Xterm replacement with transparency support. It has been deprecated in favour of urxvt since 2008.
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http://www.afterstep.org/aterm.php || atermAUR
+
  • cool-retro-term — A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display.
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https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term || cool-retro-term
+
  • CoreTerminal — Terminal emulator based on qtermwidget. Part of C-Suite.
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https://cubocore.org/ || coreterminalAUR
+
  • CuteCom — A graphical serial terminal.
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https://gitlab.com/cutecom/cutecom || cutecomAUR
+
  • Deepin Terminal — Terminal emulation application for Deepin desktop.
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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.
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https://github.com/mej/Eterm || etermAUR
+
  • foot — Lightweight terminal emulator for Wayland with sixel support
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https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot || footAUR, foot-gitAUR
+
  • Hyper — A terminal with JS/CSS support. Based on the Electron platform.
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https://github.com/zeit/hyper || hyperAUR
+
  • Konsole — Terminal emulator included in the KDE desktop.
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https://konsole.kde.org/ || konsole
+
  • kitty — A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator
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https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty || kitty
+
  • Liri Terminal — Material Design terminal for Liri.
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https://github.com/lirios/terminal || liri-terminal
+
  • mlterm — A multi-lingual terminal emulator supporting various character sets and encodings in the world.
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/mlterm/ || mltermAUR
+
  • moserial — GTK-based serial terminal for the GNOME desktop.
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https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Moserial || moserial
+
  • PuTTY — Highly configurable ssh/telnet/serial console program.
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https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ || putty
+
  • QTerminal — Lightweight Qt-based terminal emulator.
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https://github.com/qterminal/qterminal || qterminal
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  • rxvt — Popular replacement for xterm.
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http://rxvt.sourceforge.net/ || rxvtAUR
+
  • shellinabox — A web-based SSH Terminal
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https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox || shellinabox-gitAUR
+
  • st — Simple terminal implementation for X.
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https://st.suckless.org || stAUR
+
  • Station — Terminal emulation features different view modes such as split vertically and horizontally, a tabbed interface, and copy and paste commands.
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https://mauikit.org/ || maui-station
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  • Terminology — Terminal emulator by the Enlightenment project team with innovative features: file thumbnails and media play like a media player.
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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.
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http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html || rxvt-unicode
+
  • wayst — Simple terminal emulator for Wayland and X11 with OpenGL rendering and minimal dependencies.
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https://github.com/91861/wayst || wayst-gitAUR
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  • 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.
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https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ || xterm
+
  • Yakuake — Drop-down terminal (Quake style) emulator based on Konsole.
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https://apps.kde.org/yakuake/ || yakuake
+
  • zutty — A high-end terminal for low-end systems.
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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.
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https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-terminal-gtk || deepin-terminal-gtk
+
  • EasySSH — SSH Connection Manager.
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https://github.com/muriloventuroso/easyssh || easysshAUR
+
  • Germinal — Minimalist terminal emulator which provides a borderless maximized terminal, attached to a tmux session by default, hence providing tabs and panels.
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https://www.imagination-land.org/tags/germinal.html || germinalAUR
+
  • Gnome Console — Formerly known as King’s Cross, a simple user-friendly terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop.
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https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/console || gnome-consoleAUR
+ +
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Terminal || gnome-terminal
+
  • Guake — Drop-down terminal for the GNOME desktop.
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http://guake-project.org/ || guake
+
  • kermit — A VTE-based terminal emulator that aims to be simple, fast and effective.
+
https://github.com/orhun/kermit || kermitAUR
+
  • LXTerminal — Desktop independent terminal emulator for LXDE.
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https://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXTerminal || lxterminal
+ +
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/ || roxtermAUR
+
  • sakura — Terminal emulator based on GTK and VTE.
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https://www.pleyades.net/david/projects/sakura || sakura
+
  • Terminator — Terminal emulator supporting multiple resizable terminal panels.
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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.
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https://github.com/thestinger/termite || termiteAUR
+
  • Tilda — Configurable drop down terminal emulator.
+
https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda/ || tilda
+
  • Tilix — Tiling terminal emulator for GNOME.
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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.
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https://github.com/uobikiemukot/yaft || yaftAUR
+

Terminal pagers

+

See also Wikipedia:Terminal pager. +

+
  • more — A simple and feature-light pager. It is a part of util-linux.
+
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/about/ || util-linux
+
  • less — A program similar to more, but with support for both forward and backward scrolling, as well as partial loading of files.
+
https://www.gnu.org/software/less/ || less
+
  • most — A pager with support for multiple windows, left and right scrolling, and built-in colour support
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http://www.jedsoft.org/most/ || most
+
  • mcview — A pager with mouse and colour support. It is bundled with midnight commander.
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https://midnight-commander.org/ || mc
+ +

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
+ +
http://dtach.sourceforge.net/ || dtachAUR
+
  • dvtm — dwm-style window manager in the console.
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https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/ || dvtm
+
  • GNU Screen — Full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal.
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https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ || screen
+
  • mtm — Simple terminal multiplexer with just four commands: change focus, split, close, and screen redraw.
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https://github.com/deadpixi/mtm || mtm-gitAUR
+
  • tmux — BSD licensed terminal multiplexer.
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https://tmux.github.io/ || tmux
+
  • zellij — Terminal multiplexer on steroids written in Rust
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https://zellij.dev/ || zellij-gitAUR
+
  • 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
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http://www.clex.sk/ || clexAUR
+
  • CliFM — The command line file manager: full-featured, fast, extensible, and lightweight as hell.
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https://github.com/leo-arch/clifm || clifmAUR
+
  • ded — directory editor, file manager similar to Emacs dired
+
https://invisible-island.net/ded/ded.html || dedAUR
+ +
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Dired.html || emacs
+
  • joshuto — ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust.
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https://github.com/kamiyaa/joshuto || joshuto-gitAUR
+
  • Last File Manager — Powerful file manager written in Python 3 with a curses interface.
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https://inigo.katxi.org/devel/lfm/ || lfmAUR
+
  • lf — Terminal file manager written in Go using server/client architecture.
+
https://github.com/gokcehan/lf || lfAUR
+ +
https://midnight-commander.org || mc
+
  • nffm — "Nothing Fancy File Manager", a mouseless ncurses file manager written in C.
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https://github.com/mariostg/nffm || nffm-gitAUR
+
  • nnn — Tiny, lightning fast, feature-packed file manager.
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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.
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https://alpine.x10host.com/ || alpine-gitAUR
+
  • Ranger — Console-based file manager with vi bindings, customizability, and lots of features.
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https://ranger.github.io/ || ranger
+
  • Vifm — Ncurses-based two-panel file manager with vi-like keybindings.
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https://vifm.info || vifm
+
  • xplr — A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer.
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https://xplr.dev || xplr
+
Graphical
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  • Caja — The file manager for the MATE desktop.
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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.
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https://cubocore.org/ || corefmAUR
+
  • Deepin File Manager — File manager developed for Deepin.
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https://www.deepin.org/en/original/dde-file-manager/ || deepin-file-manager
+
  • Dolphin — File manager included in the KDE desktop.
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https://apps.kde.org/dolphin/ || dolphin
+
  • Gentoo — A lightweight file manager for GTK.
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/gentoo/ || gentooAUR
+
  • GNOME Files — Extensible, heavyweight file manager used by default in GNOME with support for custom scripts.
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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.
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https://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/[dead link 2021-05-17 ⓘ] || nemo
+
  • Pantheon Files — File browser designed for elementary OS.
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https://github.com/elementary/files || pantheon-files
+
  • PathFinder — File browser that comes with the FOX toolkit.
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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/ || qtfmAUR
+
  • 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
+ +
https://gcmd.github.io/ || gnome-commanderAUR
+
  • 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/ || mucommanderAUR
+
  • SpaceFM — GTK multi-panel tabbed file manager.
+
https://ignorantguru.github.io/spacefm/ || spacefmAUR
+
  • Sunflower — Small and highly customizable twin-panel file manager for Linux with support for plugins.
+
https://sunflower-fm.org/ || sunflowerAUR
+
  • trolCommander — Lightweight, dual-pane file manager written in Java. Fork of muCommander.
+
https://github.com/trol73/mucommander || trolcommanderAUR
+
  • 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/ || workerAUR
+
  • Xfe — Microsoft Explorer-like file manager for X (X File Explorer).
+
http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/ || xfeAUR
+

Trash management

+ +
https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli || trash-cli
+

File synchronization and backup

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+

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Notes: There is a dedicated article. (Discuss in Talk:List of applications)
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+

See also Synchronization and backup programs, Wikipedia:Comparison of file synchronization software, and Wikipedia:Comparison of backup software. +

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  • borg — Deduplicating backup program with compression and authenticated encryption that supports backing up over ssh
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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/ || dirsyncproAUR
+
  • Duplicati — Backup client that securely stores encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on cloud storage services and remote file servers.
+
https://www.duplicati.com/ || duplicati-latestAUR
+
  • 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/ || duplyAUR
+
  • FreeFileSync — Folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files.
+
https://www.freefilesync.org/ || freefilesyncAUR
+
  • 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/ || hsyncAUR
+
  • 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/ || syncanyAUR
+
  • 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/ || synkronAUR
+
  • Tarsnap — Secure, efficient proprietary online backup service.
+
https://www.tarsnap.com/ || tarsnap
+
  • Timeshift — A system restore tool for Linux.
+
https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift || timeshiftAUR
+
  • 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/ || 360zipAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • CoreArchiver — Simple file compressing/extracting utility based on Qt and libarchive-qt. Part of C-Suite.
+
https://cubocore.org/ || corearchiverAUR
+
  • 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
+ +
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-guiAUR
+
  • PeaZip — Open source file and archive manager.
+
https://www.peazip.org/peazip-linux.html || GTK: peazip-gtk2-binAUR, Qt: peazip-qt-binAUR
+
  • 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 || diffrAUR
+
  • 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 || ydiffAUR
+
  • 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/ || xxdiffAUR
+

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 || edirAUR
+
  • 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 || f2AUR
+
  • 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 || vidirAUR
+
Graphical
+
  • Caja-Rename — Batch renaming extension for Caja.
+
https://tari.in/www/software/caja-rename || caja-renameAUR
+
  • CoreRenamer — Simple lightweight batch file renamer application. Part of C-Suite.
+
https://cubocore.org/ || corerenamerAUR
+
  • 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 || metamorphose2AUR
+
  • 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/ || corehuntAUR
+
  • 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/ || searchmonkeyAUR[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 || basenjiAUR
+
  • fsearch — A fast file search utility for Unix-like systems based on GTK 3.
+
https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch || fsearch-gitAUR
+

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 || docfetcherAUR
+
  • 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-openAUR
+
  • 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-binAUR
+
  • snippet — A terminal based interface to create a new GitLab snippet
+
https://gitlab.com/zj/snippet || snippetAUR
+

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/ || bzrAUR
+
  • 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/ || phingAUR
+

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-studioAUR
+
  • 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-studioAUR
+
  • 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/ || clionAUR
+
  • CodeLite — Open source and cross-platform C/C++/PHP and Node.js IDE written in C++ .
+
https://codelite.org/ || codeliteAUR
+
  • 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.coreAUR[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-jeeAUR, Java: eclipse-javaAUR, C/C++: eclipse-cppAUR, PHP: eclipse-phpAUR, JavaScript and Web: eclipse-javascriptAUR[broken link: package not found], Rust: eclipse-rustAUR[broken link: package not found]
+
  • Eric — Full-featured Python and Ruby IDE written in PyQt5.
+
https://eric-ide.python-projects.org/ || ericAUR
+
  • 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
+ +
https://www.activestate.com/products/komodo-edit/ || komodo-editAUR
+
  • 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
+
  • MPLAB — IDE for Microchip PIC and dsPIC development.
+
https://www.microchip.com/mplabx || microchip-mplabx-binAUR
+
  • 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/ || phpstormAUR phpstorm-eapAUR
+
  • 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-electronAUR
+
  • 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-binAUR
+
  • VSCodium — Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VSCode.
+
https://vscodium.com/ || vscodium-binAUR
+
Java IDEs
+
  • BlueJ — Fully featured Java IDE used mainly for educational and beginner purposes.
+
https://bluej.org/ || bluejAUR
+
  • 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
+ +
http://ninja-ide.org/ || ninja-ideAUR
+
  • 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-professionalAUR, edu edition: pycharm-eduAUR
+
  • Spyder — Scientific Python Development Environment providing MATLAB-like features.
+
https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder || spyder
+
  • Thonny — Python IDE for beginners.
+
https://thonny.org/ || thonnyAUR
+
  • WingIDE — Proprietary Python development environment. It is fully featured and meant for professional use.
+
https://wingware.com/ || wingideAUR
+
Rust IDEs
+

See also: [1] +

+
  • IntelliJ IDEA — IDE for Java, Groovy and other programming languages with advanced refactoring features.
+
https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ || intellij-idea-community-edition Install the rust plugin.
+
  • 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-binAUR Install the rust extension.
+
  • VSCodium — Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VSCode.
+
https://vscodium.com/ || vscodium-binAUR
+
Educational IDEs
+
  • Etoys — Educational tool and media-rich authoring environment for teaching children.
+
http://squeakland.org/ || etoysAUR[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/ || processingAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+ +
https://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/ || dddAUR
+
  • Desed — TUI-based debugger for sed. Features variable and regex preview, setting breakpoints and stepping back and forth.
+
https://github.com/SoptikHa2/desed || desedAUR
+
  • 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/ || hyxAUR
+
  • Reverse Engineer's Hex Editor — Hex editor with features for analyzing and annotating binary file formats
+
https://github.com/solemnwarning/rehex || rehexAUR
+
  • 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-binAUR
+
  • jid — JSON incremental digger
+
https://github.com/simeji/jid || jidAUR
+
  • jo — A command to create JSON.
+
https://github.com/jpmens/jo || jo-gitAUR
+
  • jq — Command-line JSON processor
+
https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ || jq
+
  • jsawk — Like awk, but for JSON.
+
https://github.com/micha/jsawk || jsawk-gitAUR[broken link: package not found]
+
  • 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/ || nowebAUR
+
  • nuweb — A Simple Literate Programming Tool
+
http://nuweb.sourceforge.net/ || nuwebAUR
+

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/ || argoumlAUR
+
  • Eclipse Modeling Tools — Tools and runtimes for building model-based applications.
+
https://www.eclipse.org/ || eclipse-modeling-toolsAUR
+
  • Gaphor — Simple modeling tool for UML.
+
https://github.com/gaphor/gaphor || python-gaphorAUR
+
  • Modelio — Modeling environment supporting the main standards: UML, BPMN, MDA, SysML.
+
https://www.modelio.org/ || modelio-binAUR
+
  • Papyrus — Model-based engineering tool based on Eclipse.
+
https://www.eclipse.org/papyrus/ || papyrusAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • 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/ || umldesignerAUR
+
  • 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/ || umletAUR
+
  • UML/INTERLIS-editor — Facilitate the application of the model driven approach to a greater number of users.
+
http://www.umleditor.org/ || umleditorAUR
+
  • Violet — Very easy to learn and use UML editor that draws nice-looking diagrams.
+
https://sourceforge.net/projects/violet/ || violetumleditorAUR
+

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-gitAUR
+
  • 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 || quickdocsAUR
+
  • Zeal — Offline API documentation browser for software developers.
+
https://zealdocs.org/ || zealAUR
+

Issue tracking systems

+ +
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/ || mantisbtAUR
+
  • 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
+ +
https://bestpractical.com/rt/ || rtAUR[broken link: package not found]
+
  • Trac — Trac Integrated SCM & Project Management using Apache & Subversion.
+
https://trac.edgewall.org/ || tracAUR
+

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/ || gerritAUR
+
  • 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/ || gdevelopAUR
+
  • 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 || librespriteAUR
+
  • 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-binAUR
+
  • 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-editorAUR
+

Repository managers

+
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+
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+
+
  • Nexus 2 — Nexus 2 Repository Manager (OSS)
+
https://www.sonatype.com/nexus-repository-oss || nexusAUR
+
  • Nexus 3 — Nexus 3 Repository OSS
+
https://www.sonatype.com/nexus-repository-oss || nexus-ossAUR
+
  • 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-ossAUR
+

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 || cellwriterAUR
+
  • CoreKeyboard — Simple X11 based Qt virtual keyboard with word suggestions. Part of C-Suite.
+
https://cubocore.org/ || corekeyboardAUR
+
  • eekboard — Easy to use virtual keyboard toolkit.
+
https://github.com/ueno/eekboard || eekboardAUR
+
  • Florence — Extensible scalable on-screen virtual keyboard for GNOME that stays out of your way when not needed.
+
https://sourceforge.net/projects/florence/ || florenceAUR
+
  • 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 || qtvkbdAUR
+
  • 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 || squeekboardAUR
+
  • theShell On Screen Keyboard — Touchscreen keyboard for theShell.
+
https://github.com/vicr123/ts-kbd || ts-kbdAUR
+
  • xvkbd — Virtual keyboard for X window system.
+
http://t-sato.in.coocan.jp/xvkbd/ || xvkbdAUR
+

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/ || fbxkbAUR
+
  • 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 || qxkbAUR
+
  • X Neural Switcher — A text analyser, it detects the language of the input and corrects the keyboard layout if needed.
+
https://xneur.ru/ || gxneurAUR (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

+

See also udisks#Mount helpers. +

+
  • 9mount — Mount 9p filesystems.
+
http://sqweek.net/code/9mount/ || 9mountAUR
+
  • cryptmount — Mount an encrypted file system as a regular user.
+
https://sourceforge.net/projects/cryptmount/ || cryptmountAUR
+
  • KDiskFree — Displays information about hard disks and other storage devices. It also allows to mount and unmount drives and view them in a file manager.
+
https://apps.kde.org/kdf/ || kdf
+
  • ldm — A lightweight daemon that mounts drives automagically using udev
+
https://github.com/LemonBoy/ldm || ldmAUR
+
  • pmount — Mount source as a regular user to an automatically created destination /media/source_name.
+
Debian:pmount || pmountAUR
+
  • pmount-safe-removal — Mount removable devices as regular user with safe removal
+
https://mywaytoarch.tumblr.com/post/13111098534/pmount-safe-removal-of-usb-device || pmount-safe-removalAUR
+
  • udevil — Mounts removable devices as a regular user, show device info, and monitor device changes. Only depends on udev and glib.
+
https://ignorantguru.github.io/udevil || udevil
+
  • ws — Mount Windows network shares (CIFS and VFS).
+
https://sourceforge.net/projects/winshares/ || wsAUR
+
  • zulucrypt — A GUI frontend for cryptsetup to create, manage and mount encrypted volumes; supports encfs as well
+
https://mhogomchungu.github.io/zuluCrypt/ || zulucryptAUR
+

Disk usage display

+
Console
+
  • duc — A library and suite of tools for inspecting disk usage.
+
https://duc.zevv.nl/ || ducAUR
+
  • gdu — Disk usage analyzer with console interface written in Go.
+
https://github.com/Dundee/gdu || gdu
+
  • gt5 — Diff-capable "du-browser".
+
http://gt5.sourceforge.net || gt5AUR
+
  • 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
+ +
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 || qdirstatAUR
+

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 || duffAUR
+
  • fclones — Very fast duplicate file Finder written in rust.
+
https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones || fclonesAUR, fclones-gitAUR}}
+
  • 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 || jdupesAUR
+
  • rdfind — Command line tool that finds duplicate files. It compares files based on their content.
+
https://github.com/pauldreik/rdfind || rdfindAUR
+
  • 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/ || dupeguruAUR
+
  • FSlint — A utility to find and clean various forms of lint on a filesystem.
+
https://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/ || fslintAUR
+
  • 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-cleanerAUR
+
  • 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 || mediawriterAUR
+
  • 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 || imageburnerAUR
+
  • ISOImageWriter — Tool to write a .iso file to a USB disk.
+
https://community.kde.org/ISOImageWriter || isoimagewriterAUR
+
  • LiveUSB Install — Install various Linux distributions and operating systems on removable flash drive or external disk drive.
+
http://live.learnfree.eu/ || live-usb-installAUR
+
  • MultiBootUSB — Install multiple live distributions on a USB disk non-destructively and has an option to uninstall them.
+
https://github.com/mbusb/multibootusb/ || multibootusbAUR
+
  • MultiSystem — GUI tool to create a USB system that can boot multiple distributions.
+
http://liveusb.info/ || multisystemAUR
+
  • Popsicle — Utility for flashing multiple USB devices in parallel, written in Rust.
+
https://github.com/pop-os/popsicle || popsicle-gitAUR
+ +
https://github.com/openSUSE/imagewriter || imagewriterAUR
+
  • UNetbootin — Installs Linux/BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive.
+
https://unetbootin.github.io/ || unetbootinAUR
+
  • Usbimager — Minimal GUI application to write compressed disk images to USB drives.
+
https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/usbimager || usbimagerAUR
+
  • 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 || woeusbAUR woeusb-ngAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+

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/ || corestatsAUR
+
  • 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/ || procexpAUR
+
  • LXTask — Lightweight task manager for LXDE.
+
https://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXTask || lxtask
+
  • qps — Lightweight task manager for LXQt.
+
https://github.com/lxqt/qps || qpsAUR
+
  • 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/ || stacerAUR
+
  • 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

+

See also Category:Monitoring. +

+
  • Conky — Lightweight, scriptable system monitor.
+
https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky || conky
+
  • Collectd — Simple, extensible system monitoring daemon based on rrdtool. It has a small footprint and can be set up either stand-alone or as a server/client application.
+
https://collectd.org/ || collectdAUR
+
  • collectl — Collectl is a light-weight performance monitoring tool capable of reporting interactively as well as logging to disk. It reports statistics on cpu, disk, infiniband, lustre, memory, network, nfs, process, quadrics, slabs and more in easy to read format.
+
http://collectl.sourceforge.net/ || collectlAUR
+
  • dstat — Versatile resource statistics tool.
+
http://dag.wiee.rs/home-made/dstat/ || dstat
+
  • Fsniper — Daemon to run scripts based on changes in files monitored by inotify.
+
https://github.com/l3ib/fsniper || fsniperAUR
+
  • GKrellM — Simple, flexible system monitor package for GTK with many plug-ins.
+
https://billw2.github.io/gkrellm/gkrellm.html || gkrellm
+
  • glances — CLI curses-based monitoring tool in Python.
+
https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/ || glances
+
  • kmon — Linux kernel manager and activity monitor.
+
https://github.com/orhun/kmon || kmon
+
  • Nagstamon — Status monitor that connects to multiple Nagios, Icinga, Opsview, Centreon, Op5 Monitor/Ninja, Checkmk and Thruk monitoring servers.
+
https://github.com/orhun/kmon || nagstamonAUR
+
  • netdata — Web-based real-time performance monitor.
+
https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki || netdata
+
  • Telegraf — Agent written in Go for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics.
+
https://docs.influxdata.com/telegraf/latest/ || telegrafAUR
+
  • Paramano — Light battery monitor and a CPU frequency scaler. Forked from trayfreq
+
https://github.com/phillid/paramano || paramanoAUR
+
  • Sysstat — Collection of resource monitoring tools: iostat, isag, mpstat, pidstat, sadf, sar.
+
http://sebastien.godard.pagesperso-orange.fr/ || sysstat
+
  • xosview — System monitor that resembles gr_osview from SGI IRIX.
+
https://www.pogo.org.uk/~mark/xosview/ || xosviewAUR
+
  • zps — A small utility for listing and reaping zombie processes on GNU/Linux.
+
https://github.com/orhun/zps || zps
+

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 || alsiAUR
+
  • 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-probeAUR
+
  • inxi — A script to get system information.
+
https://github.com/smxi/inxi || inxiAUR
+
  • 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 || pfetchAUR
+
  • 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-viewerAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • 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
+
  • Fonty Python — Manage, view and find your fonts.
+
https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fontypython || fontypythonAUR
+
  • 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

+

See also Cron. +

+
  • FcronQ — Fcron GUI, an advanced periodic command scheduler.
+
http://fcronq.xavion.name/ || fcronqAUR
+
  • GNOME Schedule — Graphical interface to crontab and at for GNOME.
+
http://gnome-schedule.sourceforge.net/ || gnome-scheduleAUR
+
  • KCron — Tool for KDE to run applications in the background at regular intervals. It is a graphical interface to the Cron command.
+
https://apps.kde.org/kcron/ || kcron
+
  • KTimer — Little tool for KDE to execute programs after some time. It allows you to enter several tasks and to set a timer for each of them. The timers for each task can be started, stopped, changed, or looped.
+
https://apps.kde.org/ktimer/ || ktimer
+

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/ || gshutdownAUR
+
  • 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/ || hmtimerAUR
+
  • 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. +

+

Configuration management

+
  • aconfmgr — Package to track, manage, and restore the configuration of an Arch Linux system.
+
https://github.com/CyberShadow/aconfmgr || aconfmgr-gitAUR
+
  • Ansible — IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs.
+
https://www.ansible.com/ || ansible
+
  • cdist — Simple configuration management system with Arch Linux support.
+
https://www.cdi.st/ || cdistAUR
+
  • Chef — Automation Software for Continuous Delivery of Secure Applications and Infrastructure.
+
https://www.chef.io/ || chef-workstationAUR, chef-clientAUR
+
  • etckeeper — Collection of tools to let /etc be stored in a VCS repository.
+
https://etckeeper.branchable.com/ || etckeeper
+
  • Puppet — IT automation software that helps system administrators manage infrastructure throughout its lifecycle, from provisioning and configuration to patch management and compliance.
+
https://puppet.com/ || puppet
+

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/ || ampAUR
+
  • 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
+ +
http://www.jasspa.com/ || jasspa-meAUR[broken link: package not found]
+
  • vile — Lightweight Emacs clone with vi-like key bindings.
+
https://invisible-island.net/vile/vile.html || vileAUR
+
  • 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/ || dteAUR
+
  • 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-editorAUR
+
  • 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/ || jedAUR
+ +
https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/ || joeAUR
+
  • 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 || mpAUR
+
  • 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/ || neAUR
+
  • slap — Sublime-like terminal-based text editor.
+
https://github.com/slap-editor/slap || slapAUR
+
  • Tilde — Intuitive text editor with Windows-like key bindings.
+
https://os.ghalkes.nl/tilde/ || tildeAUR
+

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/ || bracketsAUR
+
  • CorePad — Simple lightweight but powerful text editor with syntax-highlighting support for a dozen or more languages. Part of C-Suite.
+
https://cubocore.org/ || corepadAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • Enki — Text editor for programmers.
+
http://enki-editor.org/ || enki-editorAUR
+
  • 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-editorAUR
+
  • gCSVedit — Simple text editor for CSV, TSV and other kinds of delimiter-separated values (DSV) files.
+
https://github.com/swilmet/gCSVedit || gcsveditAUR
+
  • 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-editorAUR
+
  • 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/ || jeditAUR
+
  • JuffEd — Simple tabbed text editor with syntax highlighting, written in Qt.
+
http://juffed.com/en/index.html || juffedAUR
+
  • 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-binAUR or lighttable-gitAUR
+
  • Liri Text — Text editor for Liri.
+
https://github.com/lirios/text || liri-text
+
  • medit — Programming and around-programming text editor.
+
http://mooedit.sourceforge.net || meditAUR
+
  • 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/ || qsciteAUR
+
  • 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 || scribesAUR[broken link: package not found]
+
  • 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-devAUR, version 2: sublime-text2AUR
+
  • Tau — Minimal GTK front end to the xi editor core written in Rust.
+
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Tau || tau-editorAUR
+
  • TEA — Qt-based feature-rich text editor.
+
http://semiletov.org/tea/ || tea-qtAUR
+
  • Textadept — Lua-extensible feature rich text editor based on Scintilla and written in C.
+
https://foicica.com/textadept/ || textadeptAUR
+
  • Textosaurus — Simple cross-platform text editor based on Qt and QScintilla.
+
https://github.com/martinrotter/textosaurus || textosaurusAUR
+
  • 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/ || wxmeditAUR
+

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-binAUR
+
  • OpenOffice — Open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more, under the Apache Licence.
+
https://www.openoffice.org/ || openoffice-binAUR
+
  • 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/ || freeofficeAUR
+
  • WPS Office — Proprietary office productivity suite, previously known as Kingsoft Office.
+
https://www.wps.com/ || wps-officeAUR
+
  • Yozo Office — Proprietary office suite, compatible with MS Office.
+
https://www.yozosoft.com/product-officelinux.html || yozo-officeAUR
+

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
+ +
https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/writer || libreoffice-still or libreoffice-fresh
+ +
https://www.openoffice.org/product/writer.html || openoffice-binAUR
+
  • Ted — Easy to use GTK-based rich text processor (with footnote support).
+
https://nllgg.nl/Ted/ || tedAUR
+ +
https://cowlark.com/wordgrinder/ || wordgrinderAUR
+
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
+ +
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
+ +
https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/writer || libreoffice-still or libreoffice-fresh
+ +
https://www.openoffice.org/product/impress.html || openoffice-binAUR
+
  • sent — Simple plaintext presentation tool.
+
https://git.suckless.org/sent/ || sentAUR
+
  • Sozi — Zooming presentation editor and player. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://sozi.baierouge.fr/ || soziAUR
+
  • 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-binAUR
+
  • 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 || pyspreadAUR
+
  • 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-imAUR
+

Database tools

+

For DBMS-specific tools, see: +

+ +

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of database tools. +

+
  • Adminer — Full-featured database management webapp with support for many database types.
+
https://www.adminer.org/ || adminerAUR
+
  • DBeaver — Java-based graphical database editor with support for many database types.
+
https://dbeaver.io/ || dbeaver
+
  • DbVisualizer — The Universal Database Tool
+
https://www.dbvis.com/ || dbvisAUR
+
  • 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/ || gsqlAUR
+
  • 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-binAUR
+
  • 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/ || orbadaAUR
+
  • 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 || sequelerAUR
+
  • 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-sqlAUR
+
  • 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 || toraAUR
+
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/ || treelineAUR
+

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-binAUR
+

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

+

See also Wikipedia:AsciiDoc. +

+
  • AsciiDoc — The original implementation, written in Python. Used by Arch for generating pacman's man pages.[2].
+
https://asciidoc.org/ || asciidoc
+ +
https://asciidoctor.org/ || asciidoctor
+

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-mdlessAUR
+
Markdown editors
+
  • Abricotine — Markdown editor built for desktop. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://abricotine.brrd.fr/ || abricotineAUR
+
  • Apostrophe — Distraction free Markdown editor made with GTK.
+
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/apostrophe || apostropheAUR
+
  • CuteMarkEd — Qt-based Markdown editor with live HTML preview, math expressions, code and markdown syntax highlighting. Discontinued since 2016.
+
https://cloose.github.io/CuteMarkEd/ || cutemarkedAUR
+
  • Formiko — reStructuredText and Markdown editor and live previewer written in Python with GTK.
+
https://github.com/ondratu/formiko || formikoAUR
+
  • 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 || markmywordsAUR
+
  • Mark Text — Next generation markdown editor. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://marktext.app/ || marktextAUR
+
  • Moeditor — Your all-purpose markdown editor. Based on the Electron platform. Discontinued since 2016.
+
https://moeditor.js.org/ || moeditor-binAUR[broken link: package not found]
+
  • Remarkable — Fully featured Markdown editor.
+
https://remarkableapp.github.io/ || remarkableAUR
+
  • 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/ || thiefmdAUR
+
  • Typora — Proprietary, minimalist Markdown editor.
+
https://typora.io/ || typoraAUR
+

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
+ +
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/ || auctexAUR
+
  • 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-latexAUR
+
  • 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/ || setzerAUR
+
  • TeXmacs — WYSIWYW (what you see is what you want) editing platform with special features for scientists.
+
https://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/ || tikzitAUR
+ +
http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/ || vim-latexsuite
+

TeX formula editors

+
  • EqualX — LaTeX equation editor with real time preview.
+
http://equalx.sourceforge.net/ || equalxAUR
+
  • KLatexFormula — GUI for generating images from LaTeX equations.
+
https://klatexformula.sourceforge.io/ || klatexformulaAUR
+
  • 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/ || xmlcopyeditorAUR
+
  • 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-binAUR
+

Document converters

+

See also #Markup languages and PDF, PS and DjVu. +

+ +
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/ || bibusAUR
+
  • 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/ || docearAUR
+
  • JabRef — Java GUI frontend for managing BibTeX and other bibliographies.
+
https://www.jabref.org/ || jabrefAUR
+
  • KBibTeX — BibTeX editor by KDE to edit bibliographies used with LaTeX.
+
https://apps.kde.org/kbibtex/ || kbibtex
+ +
https://www.mendeley.com/ || mendeleydesktopAUR
+
  • Papis — A command-line based document and bibliography manager.
+
https://github.com/papis/papis || papisAUR
+ +
https://pybliographer.org/ || pybliographerAUR
+
  • Referencer — GNOME application to organize documents or references, and ultimately generate a BibTeX bibliography file.
+
https://launchpad.net/referencer/ || referencerAUR
+
  • 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/ || zoteroAUR
+

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 || lectorAUR
+
  • 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-desktopAUR
+
  • 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/ || kccAUR
+
  • Komikku — Online/offline manga reader for GNOME.
+
https://gitlab.com/valos/Komikku || komikkuAUR
+
  • 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 || mangareaderAUR
+
  • 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/ || peruseAUR
+
  • QComicBook — Viewer for comic book archives that aims at convenience and simplicity.
+
https://github.com/stolowski/QComicBook || qcomicbookAUR
+
  • YACReader — Comic book viewer written in C++ and Qt5. Comes with YACReaderLibrary for managing comics.
+
https://yacreader.com/ || yacreaderAUR
+

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 || archmageAUR
+
  • 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 || ocrmypdfAUR
+
  • 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 || ocropyAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • 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 || djpdfAUR
+
  • YAGF — Graphical interface for the CuneiForm text recognition program on the Linux platform.
+
https://sourceforge.net/projects/yagf-ocr/ || yagfAUR
+

Notes

+

Note-taking software

+

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of notetaking software. +

+
Console
+
  • Geeknote — Command line client for Evernote.
+
https://github.com/VitaliyRodnenko/geeknote || geeknote-gitAUR
+
  • 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/ || hnbAUR
+
  • Org mode — Emacs mode for notes, project planning and authoring.
+
https://orgmode.org/ || emacs-org-modeAUR
+
  • tnote — Small note taking program for the terminal.
+
https://sourceforge.net/projects/tnote/ || tnoteAUR
+
  • Vimwiki — Personal wiki for Vim – interlinked, plain text files written in a markup language.
+
https://vimwiki.github.io/ || vim-vimwikiAUR
+
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/ || boostnoteAUR
+
  • 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/ || encrypticAUR
+
  • 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-binAUR
+
  • 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/ || joplinAUR
+
  • KeepNote — Cross-platform GTK note-taking application with rich text formatting.
+
http://keepnote.org || keepnoteAUR
+
  • KJots — Note taking application for KDE.
+
https://userbase.kde.org/KJots || kjots
+
  • Mikidown — Note taking application featuring markdown syntax.
+
https://shadowkyogre.github.io/mikidown/ || mikidownAUR
+
  • MyNotex — Note-taking, document file and activity manager.
+
https://sites.google.com/site/mynotex/ || mynotexAUR
+
  • 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/ || nixnote2AUR
+
  • Norka — Note-taking software with Markdown support designed for Pantheon.
+
https://tenderowl.com/work/norka/ || norkaAUR
+
  • Notejot — Stupidly simple sticky notes applet for elementaryOS.
+
https://github.com/lainsce/notejot || notejotAUR
+
  • Notes — Note-taking application, write down your thoughts.
+
https://www.get-notes.com/ || notesAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • nvPY — Simplenote syncing note-taking application, inspired by Notational Velocity and ResophNotes, but uglier and cross-platformerer.
+
https://github.com/cpbotha/nvpy || nvpyAUR
+
  • OutWiker — Store notes in a tree.
+
https://jenyay.net/Outwiker/English || outwikerAUR
+
  • QOwnNotes — Notepad and todo list manager with markdown support and optional ownCloud integration built on Qt5.
+
https://www.qownnotes.org/ || qownnotesAUR
+ +
https://simplenote.com/ || simplenote-electron-binAUR
+
  • 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-desktopAUR
+
  • TagSpaces — Offline personal data manager for managing of your local files. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://www.tagspaces.org/ || tagspacesAUR
+
  • TiddlyWiki — Unique non-linear notebook for capturing, organizing and sharing complex information.
+
https://tiddlywiki.com/ || tiddlywikiAUR
+
  • 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 || tomboyAUR
+
  • Trilium — Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes.
+
https://github.com/zadam/trilium || trilium-binAUR, trilium-server-binAUR
+
  • 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 || vnoteAUR
+
  • 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/ || wikidpadAUR
+
  • 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/ || znotesAUR
+
  • μPad — Note-taking app that helps you organise + take notes without restrictions. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://getmicropad.com || micropadAUR
+

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 || cournalAUR
+
  • Write — A proprietary word processor for handwriting.
+
http://www.styluslabs.com/ || write_stylusAUR
+
  • Xournal — Application for notetaking, sketching and keeping a journal using a stylus. Capable of annotating existing PDF files as well.
+
http://xournal.sourceforge.net/ || xournalAUR
+
  • Xournal++ — Notetaking software designed around a tablet. C++ rewrite of Xournal with PDF annotation support.
+
https://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp || xournalpp
+
  • Rnote — A simple note taking application written in Rust and GTK4.
+
https://github.com/flxzt/rnote || rnoteAUR
+

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/ || hazamaAUR
+
  • 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-gtkAUR
+

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
+
  • Labyrinth — Lightweight mind-mapping tool, written in Python using GTK, with support for image import and drawing.
+
https://github.com/labyrinth-team/labyrinth || labyrinthAUR[broken link: package not found]
+
  • 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_enAUR
+
  • Semantik — Mind-mapping application for KDE.
+
https://waf.io/semantik.html || semantikAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • 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
+ +
https://vue.tufts.edu/ || vueAUR
+
  • 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/ || xmindAUR
+

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/ || globonoteAUR
+
  • KNotes — Program that lets you write the computer equivalent of sticky notes. Part of kdepim[broken link: package not found].
+
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 || mynotesAUR
+
  • 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
+
  • PrimeNote — Most polished, cross-platform sticky note application (PyQt5). Provides support for Cloud, Vim, CSS styling and more !
+
https://gitlab.com/william.belanger/primenote || primenote-gitAUR
+
  • xNots — Desktop post-it/sticky note system for the Unix geek.
+
https://github.com/thePalindrome/xnots || xnots-gitAUR
+
  • 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/ || pyroomAUR
+
  • 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 || quilterAUR
+
  • TextRoom — Fullscreen text editor for writers.
+
https://github.com/dbuksbaum/TextRoom || textroomAUR
+

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/ || novprogAUR
+
  • oStorybook — Tool for writers, essayists, authors from the draft to the final work.
+
https://ostorybook.tuxfamily.org/?lng=en || ostorybookAUR
+

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/ || magicfountainAUR
+
  • Trelby — Simple, fast and elegantly laid out to make screenwriting simple.
+
https://www.trelby.org/ || trelby-gitAUR
+
  • Fade In — Fade In Professional Screenwriting Software is the most advanced software used by professionals writing for motion pictures, television, video games, the stage, radio, and more.
+
https://www.fadeinpro.com/ || fadeinAUR
+

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/ || arthaAUR
+
  • Gjiten Kai — Rewrite of Gjiten, a GTK Japanese dictionary.
+
https://github.com/odrevet/gjiten-kai || gjitenkai-gitAUR
+
  • 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/ || opendictAUR
+
  • Palaura — Handy dictionary to find any word's definition.
+
https://github.com/lainsce/palaura || palauraAUR
+
  • PowerWord — Proprietary Chinese-English dictionary tool.
+
https://www.iciba.com || powerword-binAUR
+
  • 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-lookupAUR
+
  • 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/ || apertiumAUR
+
  • Crow Translate — Simple and lightweight translator that allows to translate and speak text using Google, Yandex and Bing.
+
https://crow-translate.github.io/ || crow-translateAUR
+
  • Dialect — A translation app for GNOME based on Google Translate.
+
https://github.com/dialect-app/dialect || dialectAUR
+
  • 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/ || mosesdecoderAUR
+
  • 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/ || omegatAUR
+
  • 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 || pologyAUR
+
  • 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

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  • 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 || cobangAUR
+
  • 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/ || qrabAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • 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/ || honeydAUR
+
  • 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/ || justnifferAUR
+
  • 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/ || nemesisAUR
+
  • Net Activity Viewer — Graphical network connections viewer, similar in functionality with Netstat.
+
http://netactview.sourceforge.net/ || netactviewAUR
+
  • 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: zenmapAUR
+
  • Ntop — Network probe that shows network usage in a way similar to what top does for processes.
+
https://www.ntop.org/ || ntopAUR
+
  • pyNeighborhood — GTK-based SMB/CIFS browsing utility.
+
https://launchpad.net/pyneighborhood || pyneighborhoodAUR
+
  • 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/ || snortAUR
+
  • Spectools — A set of utilities for spectrum analyzer hardware including Wi-Spy devices.
+
https://www.kismetwireless.net/static/spectools/ || spectoolsAUR
+
  • Sshguard — Daemon that protects SSH and other services against brute-force attacks, similar to Fail2ban.
+
https://www.sshguard.net/ || sshguard
+
  • Suricata — High performance Network IDS, IPS and Network Security Monitoring engine.
+
https://suricata-ids.org/ || suricataAUR
+
  • 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/ || whatipAUR
+
  • wifiphisher — Fast automated phishing attacks against WPA networks.
+
https://github.com/wifiphisher/wifiphisher || wifiphisher-gitAUR[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/ || xplicoAUR
+
  • Zeek — Powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know.
+
https://zeek.org/ || zeekAUR
+

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/ || afickAUR
+
  • 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 || nessusAUR
+
  • 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-scannerAUR
+
  • 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-localAUR ossec-serverAUR
+
  • 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-clientAUR, samhain-serverAUR, samhain-standaloneAUR
+
  • Tiger — Security tool that can be used both as a security audit and intrusion detection system.
+
https://www.nongnu.org/tiger/ || tigerAUR
+
  • Tripwire — Intrusion detection system.
+
https://github.com/Tripwire/tripwire-open-source || tripwire-gitAUR
+

File security

+
  • AIDE — File and directory integrity checker.
+
https://aide.github.io || aideAUR
+
  • 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-gnomeAUR, MATE plugin: clamtk-mateAUR[broken link: package not found], Thunar plugin: thunar-sendto-clamtkAUR
+
  • Linux Malware Detect — Malware scanner designed around the threats faced in shared hosted environments.
+
https://www.rfxn.com/projects/linux-malware-detect/ || maldetAUR
+
  • 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/ || hostsblockAUR
+

Screen lockers

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Notes: Same purpose. (Discuss in Talk:List of applications)
+
+

See also Session lock. +

+
Warning: Only sflock, physlock, Cinnamon Screensaver, MATE Screensaver and GNOME Screensaver are able to block tty access. See Xorg#Block TTY access on how to manually block tty access.
+
  • betterlockscreen — i3lock-color wrapper. Betterlockscreen allows you to cache images with different filters and lockscreen with blazing speed.
+
https://github.com/pavanjadhaw/betterlockscreen || betterlockscreenAUR
+
  • Cinnamon Screensaver — Screen locker for the Cinnamon desktop.
+
https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver || cinnamon-screensaver
+
  • Deepin Screensaver — A lightweight Qt5 based screensaver.
+
https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-screensaver || deepin-screensaver
+
  • GNOME Screensaver — Legacy screen locker for the GNOME desktop. Unmaintained since 2012.
+
https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/GnomeScreensaver || gnome-screensaverAUR
+
  • i3lock — A simple screen locker. Provides user feedback and uses PAM authentication. The background can be set to an image or solid color.
+
https://i3wm.org/i3lock/ || i3lock
+
  • i3lock-blur — Fork of i3lock which can use your desktop with the blur effect applied as a background.
+
https://github.com/karulont/i3lock-blur || i3lock-blurAUR
+
  • i3lock-color — Fork of i3lock with color and positioning configuration support and can use your desktop with the blur effect applied as a background.
+
https://github.com/Raymo111/i3lock-color || i3lock-colorAUR, i3lock-color-gitAUR
+
  • Light-locker — A simple locker (forked from gnome-screensaver) that aims to have simple, sane, secure defaults and be well integrated with the desktop while not carrying any desktop-specific dependencies. It relies on LightDM for locking and unlocking your session via ConsoleKit/UPower or logind/systemd.
+
https://github.com/the-cavalry/light-locker || light-locker
+
  • MATE Screensaver — Screensaver and locker for MATE Desktop Environment.
+
https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-screensaver || mate-screensaver
+
  • physlock — Screen and console locker.
+
https://github.com/muennich/physlock || physlock
+
  • sflock — Simple screen locker utility for X, based on slock. Provides a very basic user feedback.
+
https://github.com/benruijl/sflock || sflock-gitAUR
+
  • slock — Very simple and lightweight X screen locker. Offers only a black background when locked, there are no animations or text fields.
+
https://tools.suckless.org/slock/ || slock
+
  • sxlock — Fork of sflock with a few enhancements. Provides basic user feedback, uses PAM authentication, supports DPMS and RandR. Supports sxlock.service to lock the screen on suspend/hibernation. See the README for more information.
+
https://github.com/lahwaacz/sxlock || sxlock-gitAUR
+
  • tsscreenlock — Screen locker used in theShell. Shows music controls, and if used with theShell, also shows desktop notifications.
+
https://github.com/vicr123/tsscreenlock || tsscreenlockAUR
+ +
https://kbd-project.org/ || kbd
+
  • xfce4-screensaver — A screen saver and locker that aims to have simple, sane, secure defaults and be well integrated with the xfce desktop.
+
https://git.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-screensaver/about/ || xfce4-screensaver
+
  • xlockmore — Simple X11 screen lock with PAM support.
+
https://sillycycle.com/xlockmore.html || xlockmore
+
  • XScreenSaver — Screen saver and locker for the X Window System.
+
https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/ || xscreensaver
+
  • XSecureLock — X11 screen lock utility designed with the primary goal of security.
+
https://github.com/google/xsecurelock || xsecurelock
+
  • xtrlock — Very lightweight X display locker. Keeps windows visible and displays lock icon instead of mouse cursor. Typing password followed by enter unlocks the screen.
+
https://packages.debian.org/sid/xtrlock || xtrlock
+

Password auditing

+ +
https://www.openwall.com/john || john
+
  • Hashcat — Multithreaded advanced password recovery utility.
+
https://hashcat.net/hashcat || hashcat
+

Password managers

+

See also KeePass. +

+

Console

+
  • 1password CLI — Proprietary command line tool for 1Password password manager.
+
https://1password.com/downloads/command-line/ || 1password-cliAUR
+
  • 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/ || keepasscAUR
+
  • 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/ || pwsafeAUR
+
  • spm — Simple Password Manager written entirely in POSIX shell using PGP. Fast, lightweight and easily scriptable.
+
https://notabug.org/kl3/spm/ || spmAUR
+
  • tpm — tiny password manager, inspired by pass, written entirely in POSIX shell.
+
https://github.com/nmeum/tpm || tpmAUR
+
  • Ylva — Command-line password manager, written in C, uses OpenSSL.
+
https://www.ylvapasswordmanager.com/ || ylvaAUR
+

Graphical

+
  • 1password — Proprietary password manager and secure wallet.
+
https://1password.com/downloads/linux/ || 1passwordAUR
+
  • Authenticator — Two-factor authentication application built for GNOME.
+
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Authenticator || authenticatorAUR
+
  • 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/ || encryptrAUR
+
  • Enpass — A multiplatform password manager
+
https://www.enpass.io/ || enpass-binAUR
+ +
https://als.regnet.cz/fpm2/ || fpm2AUR
+
  • 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 || kedpmAUR
+
  • 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: keepassxAUR, version 2: keepassx2AUR
+
  • 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 || otpclientAUR
+
  • Passbook — Modern password manager for GNOME.
+
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Passbook || passbookAUR
+
  • Password Gorilla — A cross-platform password manager.
+
https://github.com/zdia/gorilla/wiki || password-gorillaAUR
+
  • Password Safe — Simple and secure password manager.
+
https://pwsafe.org/ || passwordsafeAUR
+
  • QPass — Easy to use password manager with built-in password generator.
+
http://qpass.sourceforge.net/ || qpassAUR
+
  • QtPass — GUI for pass, the standard unix password manager.
+
https://qtpass.org/ || qtpass
+
  • Revelation — Password manager for the GNOME desktop.
+
https://revelation.olasagasti.info/ || revelationAUR
+
  • 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-managerAUR
+

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/ || cfvAUR
+
  • GtkHash — A GTK utility for computing message digests or checksums
+
https://github.com/tristanheaven/gtkhash || gtkhashAUR
+
  • 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-binAUR
+
  • 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/ || masshashAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR Rust: rust-rageAUR rust-rage-gitAUR
+
  • ccrypt — A command-line utility for encrypting and decrypting files and streams based on Rijndael.
+
http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/ || ccryptAUR
+
  • 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-keysignAUR
+
  • 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 || steghideAUR
+

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 || clacAUR
+
  • qalc — Command-line calculator and equation solver with fault-tolerant parsing, constant recognition and units.
+
https://qalculate.github.io/ || libqalculate
+
Graphical
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  • 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/ || extcalcAUR
+
  • 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
+ +
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Calculator || gnome-calculator
+ +
https://apps.kde.org/kalgebramobile/ || kalgebra
+
  • KCalc — Scientific calculator included in the KDE desktop.
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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
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http://fricas.sourceforge.net || fricasAUR
+
  • 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.
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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/ || mathicsAUR
+
  • Mathomatic — General purpose Computer Algebra System written in C.
+
http://www.mathomatic.org/ || mathomatic
+ +
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ || maxima
+
  • PARI/GP — Computer algebra system designed for fast computations in number theory.
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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.
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https://www.singular.uni-kl.de/ || singular
+
  • wxMaxima — Graphical user interface for Maxima being a powerful computer algebra system.
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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

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  • 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.
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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/ || cadabra2AUR
+
  • 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 || englabAUR
+
  • 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-mpiAUR fftw-mpichAUR[broken link: package not found]
+
  • 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/ || freematAUR
+
  • 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
+ +
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/ || scilabAUR, scilab-binAUR, scilab-gitAUR
+

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/ || gretlAUR
+
  • 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/ || jagsAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+ +
https://pandas.pydata.org/ || python-pandas
+
  • PSPP — Free SPSS implementation.
+
https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/ || psppAUR
+
  • 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-binAUR
+

Data analysis and plotting

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Notes: Many overlaps. (Discuss in Talk:List of applications)
+
+

See also Wikipedia:List of information graphics software. +

+
  • AlphaPlot — Application for scientific data analysis and visualization, fork of SciDavis / QtiPlot.
+
https://alphaplot.sourceforge.io/ || alphaplotAUR
+
  • Engauge Digitizer — Extracts data points from images of graphs.
+
https://markummitchell.github.io/engauge-digitizer/ || engaugeAUR
+
  • Fityk — Curve fitting and data analysis application, predominantly used to fit analytical, bell-shaped functions to experimental data.
+
https://fityk.nieto.pl/ || fitykAUR
+
  • 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/ || graceAUR, qtgraceAUR, gracegtkAUR
+ +
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 || plotsAUR
+
  • 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

+

See also Wikipedia:Proof assistant. +

+
  • Agda — Dependently typed functional programming language and proof assistant. It is an interactive system for writing and checking proofs.
+
https://wiki.portal.chalmers.se/agda/ || agda
+
  • Coq — Formal proof management system. It provides a formal language to write mathematical definitions, executable algorithms and theorems together with an environment for semi-interactive development of machine-checked proofs.
+
https://coq.inria.fr/ || CLI: coq, GUI: coqide
+
  • Isabelle — Generic proof assistant that allows mathematical formulas to be expressed in a formal language and provides tools for proving those formulas in a logical calculus.
+
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/hvg/Isabelle/ || isabelleAUR
+

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 || asterAUR
+
  • OpenFOAM — Software package and toolkit for computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
+
https://www.openfoam.com https://openfoam.org || openfoam-orgAUR
+
  • Calculix — A three-dimensional structural finite element program.
+
http://www.calculix.de/ || calculixAUR
+
  • 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/ || elmerfemAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR, ngsolve-gitAUR
+
  • 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/ || gmshAUR, getdpAUR
+
  • 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/ || dolfinAUR, python-dolfinAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+ +
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-gitAUR
+

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/ || convertallAUR
+
  • 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/ || gonvertAUR
+
  • 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/ || avogadroAUR
+
  • BALLView — Standalone molecular modeling and visualization application, part of the BALL framework.
+
https://ball-project.org/ || ballAUR
+
  • Ghemical — Computational chemistry software package used to edit, view and simulate molecular structures.
+
http://bioinformatics.org/ghemical/ghemical/index.html || ghemicalAUR
+
  • 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/ || vmdAUR
+
Drawing
+
  • BKChem — Practical and goodlooking skeletal formula molecule drawing program.
+
https://bkchem.zirael.org/ || bkchemAUR[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
+ +
http://gabedit.sourceforge.net/ || gabeditAUR
+
Modeling
+
  • APBS — Electrostatic and solvation properties for complex molecules.
+
https://www.poissonboltzmann.org/ || apbsAUR
+
  • CP2K — A quantum chemistry and solid state physics software package.
+
https://www.cp2k.org/ || cp2kAUR
+
  • Fpocket — Fpocket is a very fast open source protein pocket detection algorithm based on Voronoi tessellation.
+
https://github.com/Discngine/fpocket || fpocket-gitAUR
+
  • 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 || gromacsAUR
+
  • 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 || ambertoolsAUR
+
  • NAMD — NAMD is a parallel molecular dynamics code designed for high-performance simulation of large biomolecular systems.
+
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/ || namdAUR
+
  • ORCA — ORCA is an ab initio, DFT, and semi-empirical SCF-MO package.
+
https://orcaforum.kofo.mpg.de/app.php/portal || orcaqmAUR
+
  • PDB2PQR — Electrostatic and solvation properties for complex molecules.
+
https://www.poissonboltzmann.org/ || python-pdb2pqrAUR
+
  • PMEMD — PMEMD module of AMBER software package.
+
https://ambermd.org/AmberMD.php || pmemdAUR
+
  • 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-espressoAUR
+
  • smina — Smina is a fork of Autodock Vina that focuses on improving scoring and minimization.
+
https://sourceforge.net/projects/smina/ || smina-binAUR
+

Periodic table

+
  • eperiodique — A simple Periodic Table Of Elements viewer using the EFL.
+
http://eperiodique.sourceforge.net/ || eperiodiqueAUR
+
  • gElemental — Periodic table of the elements with additional information.
+
http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/gelemental || gelementalAUR
+
  • 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/ || foxtrotgpsAUR
+
  • Gebabbel — Alternative GUI for GPSBabel.
+
http://gebabbel.sourceforge.net/ || gebabbelAUR
+
  • GeoDa — A tool for spatial data analysis.
+
https://geodacenter.github.io/ || geoda-binAUR
+
  • 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/ || gpredictAUR
+
  • 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/ || grassAUR
+
  • 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-binAUR
+
  • 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/ || maptonAUR
+
  • 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-mapperAUR
+
  • 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/ || subsurfaceAUR
+
  • 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-weatherAUR
+
  • 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-qtAUR
+
  • wttr — A simple console application to check the weather, using data from https://wttr.in
+
https://github.com/AmirrezaFiroozi/wttr || wttrAUR
+
  • 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-darkskyAUR
+

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-astropyAUR
+
  • 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-astronomyAUR
+
  • GoQat — Camera acquisition software, especially for QSI cameras, that provides other features such as autoguiding, focusing help and others.
+
https://canburytech.net/GoQat/ || goqatAUR
+
  • 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-g2AUR[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-binAUR
+
  • SPICE — A comprehensive toolkit and api to design, simulate and analyse space missions
+
https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/index.html || cspiceAUR
+
  • StarPlot — 3-dimensional star chart viewer.
+
http://starplot.org/ || starplotAUR
+
  • 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-m13AUR
+
  • XEphem — Motif-based ephemeris and planetarium program.
+
http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/xephem.html || xephemAUR
+

Biology

+

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/ || ballAUR
+
  • BioJava — Set of Java tools for computational biology, as well as bioinformatics.
+
https://biojava.org/ || biojavaAUR
+
  • 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/ || embossAUR
+
  • MUMmer — Bioinformatics software system for sequence alignment based on suffix trees.
+
http://mummer.sourceforge.net/ || mummerAUR
+
  • 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-viewerAUR
+
  • UGENE — Application that integrates dozens of well-known biological tools and algorithms, providing both graphical user and command-line interfaces.
+
https://ugene.net/ || ugene-binAUR, ugene-gitAUR
+

Genealogy

+
  • Gramps — Genealogy program, which helps you track your family tree.
+
https://gramps-project.org/ || gramps
+
  • LifeLines — Text based genealogy software for family trees and reports.
+
https://github.com/lifelines/ || lifelinesAUR
+

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/ || imagejAUR
+
  • Fiji — ImageJ distribution (and soon ImageJ2) with a lot of plugins organized into a coherent menu structure.
+
https://fiji.sc || fiji-binAUR
+

DICOM viewers and volume rendering

+
  • aeskulap — Simple DICOM data viewer
+
https://www.nongnu.org/aeskulap/ || aeskulapAUR
+
  • weasis — Multipurpose DICOM viewer with a highly modular architecture
+
https://nroduit.github.io/en/ || weasis-binAUR
+
  • 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/ || alizaAUR
+ +
https://www.slicer.org/ || 3dslicerAUR
+
  • 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/ || brlcadAUR
+
  • 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/ || solvespaceAUR
+

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 || digitalAUR
+
  • glogic — An educational graphical logic circuit simulator, written in Python.
+
https://launchpad.net/glogic || glogicAUR
+
  • 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/ || logisimAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • 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-editorAUR
+
HDL
+

Also see Wikipedia:Hardware description language. +

+
  • Gowin EDA Edu IDE — An IDE for Gowin's FGPA devices, including Sipeed Tang Nano and Sipeed Tang Nano 4K.
+
http://www.gowinsemi.com.cn/faq.aspx || gowin-eda-edu-ideAUR
+
  • 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-freeAUR
+ +
https://www.latticesemi.com || lattice-diamondAUR
+
  • 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
+ +
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
+
  • OpenFPGAloader — Universal utility for programming FPGA. Try openfpgaloader-gitAUR if your board isn't managed by the stable version.
+
https://github.com/trabucayre/openFPGALoader || openfpgaloader
+
  • 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 || avrcalcAUR
+
  • 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-binAUR
+
  • esp-idf — Espressif IoT Development Framework. Official development framework for ESP32.
+
https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf || esp-idfAUR
+
  • 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/ || platformioAUR
+
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_spiceAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • gnucap — GNU circuit simulator.
+
http://gnucap.org || gnucapAUR
+
  • gspiceui — GUI to various freely available Spice electronic ciruit simulators.
+
http://users.tpg.com.au/micksw012/gspiceui.html || gspiceuiAUR
+
  • 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 || oreganoAUR
+
  • 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 || qucsAUR
+
  • 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-sAUR
+
  • 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-serialAUR
+
Electronic design and schematic capture editing
+
  • asco — SPICE Circuit Optimizer.
+
http://asco.sourceforge.net || ascoAUR
+
  • Fritzing — Easy to use program to draw good-looking circuit diagrams, and also create schematics and PCBs.
+
https://fritzing.org/home/ || fritzingAUR
+
  • 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/ || qelectrotechAUR
+

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 || pothosAUR, pothos-gitAUR
+
  • SDR# — The most popular SDR program.
+
https://airspy.com/ || sdrsharpAUR
+
  • SigDigger — Qt-based digital signal analyzer, using Suscan core and Sigutils DSP library.
+
https://github.com/BatchDrake/SigDigger || sigdigger-gitAUR
+

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/ || flightgearAUR
+
  • 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/ || gollyAUR
+
  • Netlogo — NetLogo is a multi-agent programmable modeling environment.
+
http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/ || netlogoAUR
+
  • AnyLogic — AnyLogic is a cross-platform proprietary multimethod simulation modeling tool, which is also available for personal use.
+
https://www.anylogic.com/ || anylogic-pleAUR, anylogic-universityAUR, anylogic-professionalAUR
+

Computer science

+

Artificial intelligence

+

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of deep learning software. +

+ +
http://leenissen.dk/fann/wp/ || fannAUR
+
  • Mycroft — Intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator with speech recognition.
+
https://mycroft.ai/ || mycroft-coreAUR
+
  • Orange — Data visualization, machine learning and data mining toolkit, accessible via visual programming and Python.
+
https://orange.biolab.si/ || python-orangeAUR
+
  • Torch — Machine learning library, scientific computing framework, and script language based on LuaJIT.
+
http://torch.ch/ || torch7-gitAUR
+ +
https://xneur.ru/ || xneur-devel-gitAUR, gxneurAUR
+
  • 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-theanoAUR
+

Photogrammetry

+

See also Wikipedia:Comparison_of_photogrammetry_software. +

+
  • OpenMVS — A software package.
+
https://cdcseacave.github.io/openMVS/ || openmvsAUR
+
  • OpenMVG — A software package.
+
https://github.com/openMVG/openMVG || openmvg-gitAUR
+
  • AliceVision — A software package.
+
https://alicevision.org/ || alice-visionAUR
+

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
+ +
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 || ccalAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • Pal — Very lightweight calendar with both interactive and non-interactive interfaces.
+
http://palcal.sourceforge.net/ || palAUR
+
  • pcal — A tool to create pdf calendars from pcal input which can be exported by some calendar programs.
+
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcal/ || pcalAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
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/ || coretimeAUR
+
  • 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/ || dayplannerAUR
+
  • 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/ || etmtkAUR
+
  • Gahshomar — Persian (Jalali/Farsi) calendar.
+
https://www.gahshomar.org/gahshomar/ || gahshomarAUR
+
  • GNOME Calendar — Calendar application for GNOME.
+
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Calendar || gnome-calendar
+
  • KAlarm — Personal alarm message, command and email scheduler, part of kde-pim.
+
https://apps.kde.org/kalarm/ || kalarm
+ +
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-gitAUR
+
  • 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/ || outsplineAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • 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.dev/projects/pystopwatch/ || pystopwatchAUR
+
  • 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/ || safeeyesAUR
+
  • 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-pomodoroAUR
+
  • Gnomato — Timer for the Pomodoro Technique.
+
https://github.com/diegorubin/gnomato || gnomatoAUR
+
  • GNOME Pomodoro — Time management utility for GNOME based on the Pomodoro Technique.
+
https://gnomepomodoro.org/ || gnome-shell-pomodoroAUR
+
  • Pilorama — Eye-candy timeboxing tool written in QML
+
https://github.com/eplatonoff/pilorama || pilorama-gitAUR
+
  • Pomodoro-Logger — Pomodoro timer and logger with Kanban board for task management and tracking.
+
https://github.com/zxch3n/PomodoroLogger || pomodoro-loggerAUR
+
  • Solanum — A pomodoro timer for the GNOME desktop
+
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/solanum || solanumAUR
+
  • Tomate — Timer for the Pomodoro Technique.
+
https://github.com/eliostvs/tomate-gtk || tomate-gtkAUR
+
  • Tomato — Simple, usable and efficient pomodoro app designed for elementaryOS.
+
https://github.com/luizaugustomm/tomato || tomato-gitAUR
+
  • Tomighty — Desktop timer for the Pomodoro Technique.
+
https://tomighty.github.io || tomightyAUR
+

Time trackers

+
  • ActivityWatch — A self/local-hosted, cross-platform, client-server, privacy-focused active window tracker.
+
https://github.com/ActivityWatch/activitywatch || activitywatch-binAUR
+
  • 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/ || kapowAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • Timenaut — Time tracker that tracks active windows and lets you sort them into categories. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://timenaut.app/ || timenaut-appimageAUR
+
  • Timewarrior — A command-line time-tracking application.
+
https://timewarrior.net/ || timew
+
  • Timetrack — Simple time-tracking app for GNOME.
+
https://gitlab.gnome.org/danigm/timetrack || timetrackAUR
+
  • 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 || devtodoAUR
+
  • Taskbook — Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat.
+
https://github.com/klauscfhq/taskbook || taskbookAUR
+
  • 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/ || todotxtAUR
+
  • TuDu — Ncurses-based hierarchical To-do list manager with vim-like keybindings.
+
https://code.meskio.net/tudu/ || tuduAUR
+
Graphical
+
  • Agenda — Simple, fast, no-nonsense to-do (task) list for elementary OS.
+
https://github.com/dahenson/agenda || agenda-gitAUR
+
  • Effitask — Graphical task manager, based on the Todo.txt format.
+
https://github.com/sanpii/effitask || effitaskAUR
+
  • 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 || gtgAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • GNOME To Do — Personal task manager for GNOME.
+
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Todo || gnome-todo
+ +
https://github.com/nextcloud/tasks || nextcloud-app-tasks
+
  • Planner — Task manager with Todoist support.
+
https://planner-todo.web.app/ || elementary-plannerAUR
+ +
https://wpitchoune.net/ptask/ || ptaskAUR
+
  • QTodoTxt — UI client for todo.txt files.
+
https://github.com/mNantern/QTodoTxt || qtodotxtAUR
+
  • sleek — todo.txt app with modern GUI. Based on the Electron platform.
+
https://github.com/ransome1/sleek/ || sleekAUR
+
  • Task Coach — Simple todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists.
+
https://www.taskcoach.org || taskcoachAUR
+
  • Tasque — Easy quick task management app written in C#.
+
https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/Tasque || tasqueAUR
+
  • Zanshin — To-do management application for KDE.
+
https://zanshin.kde.org/ || zanshin
+

Contacts management

+
Console
+
  • Abook — Text-based contacts manager designed for use with mutt.
+
http://abook.sourceforge.net/ || abookAUR
+
  • 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/ || latAUR
+
  • 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
+ +
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/ || beancountAUR
+
  • esniper — Simple, lightweight tool for sniping eBay auctions.
+
http://esniper.sourceforge.net/ || esniperAUR
+
  • 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 || billreminderAUR[broken link: package not found]
+
  • Eqonomize! — Cross-platform personal accounting software, with focus on efficiency and ease of use for the small household economy.
+
https://eqonomize.github.io/ || eqonomizeAUR
+
  • 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/ || grisbiAUR
+
  • 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-accountingAUR
+
  • 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/ || odooAUR
+
  • 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-desktopAUR
+
  • Bitcoin Core — Connect to the Bitcoin P2P Network.
+
https://bitcoincore.org/ || bitcoin-qt
+
  • Cointop — Terminal based application for tracking cryptocurrencies.
+
https://cointop.sh/ || cointopAUR
+
  • Electrum — Lightweight Bitcoin client.
+
https://electrum.org/ || electrum
+ +
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/ || exodusAUR
+ +
https://github.com/ethereum/mist || mistAUR
+
  • 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/ || ganttprojectAUR
+
  • Notion-app — A note-taking software and project management software that is used for note-taking, task management, project management, knowledge management, and personal knowledge management.
+
https://www.notion.so/ || notion-appAUR
+
  • Planner — Project management application for GNOME.
+
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Planner || plannerAUR
+ +
https://www.projectlibre.com/product/projectlibre-open-source || projectlibreAUR
+
  • 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/ || taskjugglerAUR
+

Recipe management

+
  • GNOME Recipes — Recipe management application for GNOME.
+
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Recipes || gnome-recipes
+
  • Gourmand — Simple but powerful recipe-managing application.
+
https://github.com/GourmandRecipeManager/gourmand || gourmandAUR
+
  • KRecipes — KDE application designed to make organizing your personal recipes collection fast and easy.
+
https://apps.kde.org/krecipes/ || krecipesAUR
+

Education

+

See also List of games#Education. +

+
  • Moodle — Open-source software learning management system.
+
https://moodle.org/ || moodleAUR
+
  • OpenBoard — Interactive whiteboard software for schools and universities.
+
https://openboard.ch/index.en.html || openboardAUR
+

Flashcards

+

See also Wikipedia:List of flashcard software. +

+
  • Anki — Intelligent spaced-repetition memory training program.
+
https://apps.ankiweb.net/ || ankiAUR
+
  • jVLT — Vocabulary learning tool.
+
https://www.linuxlinks.com/jVLT/ || jvltAUR
+
  • 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/ || mnemosyneAUR
+
  • 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/ || paukerAUR
+
  • OpenTeacher — Open source application that helps you learn a variety of subjects
+
http://openteacher.org/en/ || openteacherAUR
+
  • StudyFlash — Learn flashcards inside your terminal
+
https://github.com/Alone2/studyFlash || studyflashAUR
+

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 || dvorak7minAUR
+
  • GNU Typist — Universal typing tutor.
+
https://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/ || gtypistAUR
+
  • psani-profi — Program that will teach you touchtyping (Czech).
+
https://www.sallyx.org/sally/psani-vsemi-deseti/ || psani-profiAUR
+
  • Typing Trainer — ncurses-based typing trainer program that knows the English and Hungarian languages.
+
http://tpgt.sourceforge.net/ || tpgtAUR
+
  • 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 || typisktAUR
+
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-svnAUR
+
  • Klavaro — Teaching touch typing that intends to be keyboard and language independent.
+
https://klavaro.sourceforge.io/ || klavaro
+ +
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-gitAUR
+

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 || ekhoAUR
+
  • eSpeak — Compact speech synthesizer for more than 50 languages.
+
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ || espeakAUR
+
  • 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 ⓘ] || gespeakerAUR
+
  • 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/ || maryttsAUR
+
  • 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 || mbrolaAUR
+
  • Mimic — Text-to-speech voice synthesis from the Mycroft project (based on Flite).
+
https://mimic.mycroft.ai/ || mimicAUR
+
  • Open JTalk — Japanese text-to-speech synthesis system.
+
https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-jtalk/ || open-jtalkAUR
+
  • 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/RHVoice/RHVoice || rhvoice
+
  • SOPS — Provides a simple way to write custom plugins for screen reader Orca.
+
https://github.com/chrys87/simple-orca-plugin-system || simpleorcapluginsystemAUR
+
  • 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-binAUR
+

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-gitAUR[broken link: package not found]
+
  • Julius — Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition engine.
+
https://github.com/julius-speech/julius || juliusAUR
+
  • Kaldi — Speech recognition toolkit.
+
https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi || kaldiAUR
+
  • Kalliope — Modular always-on voice controlled personal assistant designed for home automation.
+
https://kalliope-project.github.io/ || kalliopeAUR
+
  • Kaylee — Somewhat fancy voice command recognition program that performs actions when a user speaks loosely preset sentences.
+
https://github.com/Ratfink/kaylee || kayleevcAUR
+
  • Mycroft — Hackable voice assistant.
+
https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core || mycroft-coreAUR
+
  • Simon — Speech recognition program that can replace your mouse and keyboard.
+
https://simon.kde.org/ || simonAUR
+
  • 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/ || magnusAUR
+
  • Virtual Magnifying Glass — Simple, customizable and easy-to-use screen magnification tool.
+
http://magnifier.sourceforge.net/ || vmgAUR
+
  • xzoom — Zoom, rotate and mirror area of X display.
+
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/X11/libs/!INDEX.short.html || xzoomAUR
+

On-screen annotation

+
  • Gromit-MPX — Tool to make annotations on the screen.
+
https://github.com/bk138/gromit-mpx || gromit-mpxAUR
+
  • Pylote — Tool to draw on the screen.
+
http://pascal.peter.free.fr/pylote-en.html || pylote-gitAUR
+
  • 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 || easystrokeAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
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-gitAUR
+
  • 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/ || wumwumAUR
+

Taskbars

+

See also Wikipedia:Taskbar. +

+ +
https://launchpad.net/awn || avant-window-navigator-gitAUR[broken link: package not found]
+
  • Bmpanel — Lightweight, NETWM compliant panel.
+
https://github.com/nsf/bmpanel2 || bmpanel2AUR
+
  • Cairo-Dock — Highly customizable dock and launcher application.
+
https://www.glx-dock.org/ || cairo-dock
+
  • CoreAction — Side bar with some handy gadgets like system loads, calendar, calculator, notes etc. Part of C-Suite.
+
https://cubocore.org/ || coreactionAUR
+
  • Dash to Panel — A fully customizable icon taskbar for gnome-shell. Moves the dash into the GNOME main panel, similar to KDE Plasma and Windows 10.
+
https://github.com/home-sweet-gnome/dash-to-panel || gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-panelAUR
+
  • Docky — Full fledged dock application that makes opening common applications and managing windows easier and quicker.
+
https://launchpad.net/docky || dockyAUR[broken link: package not found]
+
  • fbpanel — Lightweight, NETWM compliant desktop panel.
+
https://aanatoly.github.io/fbpanel/ || fbpanelAUR
+ +
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomePanel || gnome-panel
+
  • Latte — Dock based on Plasma frameworks that provides an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and plasmoids.
+
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/latte-dock || latte-dock
+
  • Lemonbar — A featherweight bar based on XCB. Provides UTF-8 support, background and foreground colors, text alignment, and not much more.
+
https://github.com/LemonBoy/bar || lemonbar-gitAUR
+
  • LXPanel — Lightweight X11 desktop panel and part of the LXDE desktop.
+
https://lxde.org/ || lxpanel
+
  • MATE Panel — Panel included in the MATE desktop.
+
https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-panel/ || mate-panel
+
  • nwg-dock — GTK-based dock designed for the Sway window manager.
+
https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-dock || nwg-dockAUR
+
  • nwg-panel — GTK-based panel designed for the Sway window manager.
+
https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-panel || nwg-panelAUR
+
  • PerlPanel — The ideal accompaniment to a light-weight Window Manager such as OpenBox, or a desktop-drawing program like iDesk.
+
https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/perlpanel || perlpanel-gitAUR
+
  • Plank — Elegant, simple, clean dock from pantheon desktop environment.
+
https://launchpad.net/plank || plank
+
  • Polybar — a fast and easy-to-use tool for creating status bars.
+
https://github.com/jaagr/polybar || polybarAUR
+
  • Tint2 — Simple panel/taskbar developed specifically for Openbox.
+
https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2 || tint2
+
  • Vala Panel — Gtk3 panel for compositing window managers
+
https://gitlab.com/vala-panel-project/vala-panel || vala-panel-gitAUR
+
  • Xfce Panel — Panel included in the Xfce desktop.
+
https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/start || xfce4-panel
+
  • xmobar — A lightweight, text-based, status bar written in Haskell.
+
https://archives.haskell.org/projects.haskell.org/xmobar/ || xmobar
+
  • Waybar — A customizable taskbar for Wlroots-based Wayland compositors.
+
https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/ || waybar
+
  • yambar — A modular and lightweight status panel for X11 and Wayland that goes to great lengths to be both CPU and battery efficient.
+
https://codeberg.org/dnkl/yambar || yambarAUR
+

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-trayAUR
+
  • KDocker — Dock any application in the system tray (notification area).
+
https://github.com/user-none/KDocker || kdockerAUR
+
  • 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 || albertAUR
+
  • 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/ || bashrun2AUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • 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 || dmenu2AUR
+
  • dswitcher — dmenu-based window switcher that works regardless of workspace or minimization.
+
https://github.com/Antithesisx/dswitcher || dswitcher-gitAUR
+
  • Fehlstart — Small GTK-based application launcher.
+
https://gitlab.com/fehlstart/fehlstart || fehlstart-gitAUR
+
  • 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-doAUR
+
  • 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-desktopAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • 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-cmdAUR
+
  • 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-gitAUR
+
  • nwg-drawer — GTK-based application drawer designed for the Sway compositor.
+
https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-drawer || nwg-drawerAUR
+
  • nwg-menu — GTK-based application menu designed for the Sway compositor.
+
https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-menu || nwg-menuAUR
+
  • 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 || rlaunchAUR
+
  • 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/ || ulauncherAUR
+
  • 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 || whippetAUR
+
  • wofi — GTK-based popup window switcher for Wayland compositors such as sway. Inspired by rofi.
+
https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wofi || wofi
+

Application menu editors

+
  • Alacarte — Add or remove applications from the main menu.
+
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/alacarte || alacarte
+
  • AppEditor — Edit application entries in the application menu.
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https://github.com/donadigo/appeditor || appeditor-gitAUR
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  • Ezame — Desktop and menu file editor.
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https://github.com/linux-man/ezame || ezameAUR
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  • KMenuEdit — Edit one of the KDE application launchers.
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https://kde.org/ || kmenuedit
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  • lxmed — Application menu editor written in Java.
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxmed/ || lxmedAUR
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  • MenuLibre — Advanced menu editor that provides modern features in a clean, easy-to-use interface.
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https://launchpad.net/menulibre || menulibreAUR
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  • Meow — Application menu editor written in Java.
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https://pnmougel.github.io/meow/ || meow-binAUR
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  • Mozo — Change which applications are shown on the main menu.
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https://github.com/mate-desktop/mozo || mozo
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Wallpaper setters

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  • bgs — An extremely fast and small background setter for X based on imlib2.
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https://github.com/Gottox/bgs/ || bgs-gitAUR
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  • esetroot — Eterm's root background setter, packaged separately.
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http://www.eterm.org/ || esetrootAUR
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  • feh — A lightweight and powerful image viewer that can also be used to manage the desktop wallpaper.
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https://feh.finalrewind.org/ || feh‎
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  • Fondo — Find a variety of the most beautiful wallpapers from Unsplash.com.
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https://github.com/calo001/fondo || fondoAUR
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  • habak — A background changing app.
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https://fvwm-crystal.sourceforge.io/ || habak
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  • hsetroot — A tool to create compose wallpapers.
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https://packages.debian.org/sid/hsetroot || hsetroot
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  • HydraPaper — GTK utility to set two different backgrounds for each monitor on GNOME.
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https://gabmus.gitlab.io/HydraPaper/ || hydrapaper-gitAUR
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  • LiveWallpaper — Animated 3D wallpapers.
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https://launchpad.net/livewallpaper || livewallpaper
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  • Nitrogen — A fast and lightweight desktop background browser and setter for X windows.
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https://github.com/l3ib/nitrogen || nitrogen
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  • oguri — An animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland compositors.
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https://github.com/vilhalmer/oguri || oguri-gitAUR
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  • pacwall — A live wallpaper that shows the dependency graph and status of installed packages.
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https://github.com/Kharacternyk/pacwall || pacwall-gitAUR
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  • pybgsetter — Multi-backend (hsetroot, Esetroot, habak, feh) to set desktop wallpaper.
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https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88997 || pybgsetterAUR
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  • pywal — Changes the wallpaper and creates matching colorschemes for various applications (rofi, i3, terminals)
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https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal || python-pywal
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  • swaybg — Wallpaper tool for Wayland compositors.
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https://github.com/swaywm/swaybg || swaybg
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  • Variety — Changes the wallpaper on a regular interval using user-specified or automatically downloaded images.
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https://peterlevi.com/variety/ || variety
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  • xli — An image display program for X.
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https://packages.debian.org/sid/xli || xliAUR
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  • Xlivebg — A live wallpaper framework and collection of live wallpapers for the X window system.
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http://nuclear.mutantstargoat.com/sw/xlivebg/ || xlivebgAUR
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  • xwallpaper — Minimalistic wallpaper setting utility for X.
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https://github.com/stoeckmann/xwallpaper || xwallpaper
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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.
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Virtual desktop pagers

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  • bbpager — Dockable pager for blackbox and other window managers.
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http://bbtools.sourceforge.net/download.php?file=6 || bbpager
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  • fbpager — Virtual desktop pager for fluxbox.
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http://www.fluxbox.org/fbpager || fbpager-gitAUR
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  • IPager — A configurable pager with transparency, originally developed for Fluxbox.
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http://useperl.ru/ipager/index.en.html || ipagerAUR
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  • Neap — An non-intrusive and light pager that runs in the notification area of your panel.
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https://github.com/vzxwco/neap || neap-hotkeyAUR
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  • Netwmpager — A NetWM/EWMH compatible pager.
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/sf-xpaint/files/netwmpager/ || netwmpagerAUR
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Desktop widgets

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  • gDesklets — System for bringing mini programs (desklets) onto your desktop.
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https://launchpad.net/gdesklets || gdeskletsAUR
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  • GPhotoFrame — Photo frame gadget for the GNOME Desktop.
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https://github.com/iblis17/gphotoframe || gphotoframeAUR
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  • KRuler — Displays on screen a ruler measuring pixels. Part of kde-graphics.
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https://apps.kde.org/kruler/ || kruler
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  • Screenlets — Widget framework that consists of small owner-drawn applications.
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https://launchpad.net/screenlets || screenlets-pack-basicAUR
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Desktop notifications

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See: Notification servers. +

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Clipboard managers

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See Clipboard#Managers. +

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Logout UI

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  • clearine — Beautiful Logout UI for X11 window manager
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https://github.com/okitavera/clearine || clearine-gitAUR
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  • nwg-bar — Configurable button bar for wlroots-based compositors.
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https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-bar || nwg-barAUR
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https://launchpad.net/oblogout || oblogoutAUR
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  • wlogout — Logout menu for wayland
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https://github.com/ArtsyMacaw/wlogout || wlogoutAUR
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