List of applications

This article is a general list of applications sorted by category, as a reference for those looking for packages. Many sections are split between console and graphical applications.

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Note: Applications listed in "Console" sections can have graphical front-ends. Official ones are currently omitted.

Internet

Network connection

Network managers

See Network configuration#Network managers.

VPN clients

  • Bitmask Secured and encrypted communication using various service providers
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").
https://libreswan.org/ || libreswanAUR
  • NetworkManager Supports a variety of protocols (e.g. MS, Cisco, Fortinet) via a plugin system.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager/VPN || networkmanager
http://www.infradead.org/openconnect/ || openconnect
https://www.openswan.org/ || openswanAUR
  • OpenVPN To connect to OpenVPN VPNs.
https://openvpn.net/ || openvpn
  • PPTP Client To connect to PPTP VPNs, like Microsoft VPNs (MPPE). (insecure)
http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ || pptpclient
https://www.strongswan.org/ || strongswan
  • tinc tinc is a free VPN daemon.
https://www.tinc-vpn.org/ || tinc
  • Vpnc To connect to Cisco 3000 VPN Concentrators.
https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/ || vpnc
  • WireGuard Next generation secure network tunnel.
https://www.wireguard.com/ || wireguard-tools

Proxy servers

  • Dante SOCKS server and SOCKS client, implementing RFC 1928 and related standards.
https://www.inet.no/dante/ || dante
  • Privoxy Non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk.
https://www.privoxy.org/ || privoxy
  • Project V Project V is a set of tools to help you build your own privacy network over internet.
https://www.v2fly.org/en/ || v2ray
  • Shadowsocks Secure socks5 proxy, designed to protect your Internet traffic.
https://www.shadowsocks.org/en/index.html || Python: shadowsocks, C: shadowsocks-libev, Qt: shadowsocks-qt5
  • Squid Caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.
http://www.squid-cache.org/ || squid
  • Stunnel A server and client to add and remove TLS encryption to TCP data flow.
https://www.stunnel.org/ || stunnel
  • Tinyproxy Lightweight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon.
https://tinyproxy.github.io/ || tinyproxy
  • Trojan An unidentifiable mechanism that helps you bypass GFW.
https://trojan-gfw.github.io/trojan/ || trojan
  • Varnish High-performance HTTP accelerator.
https://varnish-cache.org/ || varnish
  • XX-Net Easy to use web proxy tool.
https://github.com/XX-net/XX-Net/ || xx-netAUR
  • Ziproxy Forwarding (non-caching) compressing HTTP proxy server.
http://ziproxy.sourceforge.net/ || ziproxy

Anonymizing networks

  • Freenet An encrypted network without censorship.
https://freenetproject.org/ || freenetAUR
  • GNUnet Framework for secure peer-to-peer networking.
https://gnunet.org/ || CLI: gnunet, GUI: gnunet-gtkAUR
  • I2P Distributed anonymous network.
https://geti2p.net/ || i2pAUR, i2p-binAUR
  • Lantern Peer-to-peer internet censorship circumvention software.
https://getlantern.org/ || lantern-binAUR
  • Tor Anonymizing overlay network.
https://www.torproject.org/ || tor

Web browsers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of web browsers.

Console

  • browsh A fully-modern text-based browser. Runs as a frontend to headless Firefox.
https://www.brow.sh/ || browshAUR
  • ELinks Advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web browser with mouse wheel scroll support (links fork, barely supported since 2009).
http://elinks.or.cz/ || elinks
  • Links Graphics and text mode web browser. Includes a console version similar to Lynx.
http://links.twibright.com/ || links
  • Lynx Text browser for the World Wide Web.
https://lynx.invisible-island.net/ || lynx
  • w3m Pager/text-based web browser. It has vim-like keybindings, and is able to display images.
http://w3m.sourceforge.net/ || w3m

Graphical

Gecko-based

See also Wikipedia:Gecko (software).

  • Firefox Extensible browser from Mozilla based on Gecko with fast rendering.
https://mozilla.com/firefox || firefox
  • SeaMonkey Continuation of the Mozilla Internet Suite.
https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ || seamonkey
Firefox spin-offs
  • Cliqz Firefox-based privacy aware web browser.
https://cliqz.com/ || cliqzAUR or cliqz-binAUR
  • GNU IceCat A customized build of Firefox ESR distributed by the GNU Project, stripped of non-free components and with additional privacy extensions. Release cycle may be delayed compared to Mozilla Firefox.
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ || icecatAUR or icecat-binAUR
  • LibreWolf A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.
https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/ || librewolfAUR or librewolf-binAUR
  • Tor Browser Launcher Securely and easily download, verify, install, and launch Tor Browser, a fork of Firefox ESR.
https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher || torbrowser-launcher
  • Waterfox Classic Optimized fork of Firefox 56, without data collection and allowing unsigned extensions and NPAPI plugins.
https://www.waterfox.net/ || waterfox-classic-binAUR
  • Waterfox Current Optimized fork of Firefox ESR, updated feature-rich branch of Waterfox.
https://www.waterfox.net/ || waterfox-current-binAUR

See also Wikipedia:Blink (web engine).

  • Chromium Web browser developed by Google, the open source project behind Google Chrome.
https://www.chromium.org/ || chromium
Privacy-focused chromium spin-offs
  • Brave Web browser that blocks ads and trackers by default.
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
https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium || ungoogled-chromiumAUR
Proprietary chromium spin-offs
  • browser360 A proprietary chromium based web browser from Qihoo 360.
https://browser.360.cn/se/ || browser360AUR
https://www.google.com/chrome/ || google-chromeAUR
  • Opera Proprietary browser developed by Opera Software.
https://opera.com || opera
  • Slimjet Fast, smart and powerful proprietary browser based on Chromium.
https://www.slimjet.com/ || slimjetAUR
  • Vivaldi An advanced proprietary browser made with the power user in mind.
https://vivaldi.com/ || vivaldiAUR
  • Yandex Browser Proprietary browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.
https://browser.yandex.com/ || yandex-browser-betaAUR
Browsers based on qt5-webengine
  • Crusta Blazingly fast full feature web browser with unique features.
https://github.com/crusta/desktop/ || crustaAUR
  • Dooble Colorful Web browser.
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.
https://eric-ide.python-projects.org/ || eric
  • Falkon Web browser based on QtWebEngine, written in Qt framework.
https://falkon.org/ || falkon
  • Konqueror Web browser based on Qt toolkit and Qt WebEngine (or KHTML layout engine), part of kde-network.
https://kde.org/applications/internet/org.kde.konqueror || konqueror
  • Liri Browser A minimalistic material design web browser written for Liri.
https://github.com/lirios/browser || liri-browser-gitAUR
  • Otter Browser Browser aiming to recreate classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5. It can use Qt WebEngine as an alternative backend.
https://otter-browser.org/ || otter-browser
  • 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. Based on the Electron platform.
https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker || beakerAUR
  • Ferdi Electron application. Messaging browser that allows you to combine your favorite messaging services into one application. It is based on Franz.
https://getferdi.com/ || ferdiAUR
  • Franz Electron application. Messaging browser for WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Telegram and many other web services.
https://meetfranz.com/ || franzAUR
  • Min A smarter, faster web browser based on the Electron platform.
https://minbrowser.github.io/min/ || min
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
  • Ephemeral A private-by-default, always-incognito browser for elementary OS.
https://github.com/cassidyjames/ephemeral || ephemeralAUR
  • Eolie Simple web browser for GNOME.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Eolie || eolie
  • GNOME Web Browser which uses the WebKitGTK rendering engine, part of gnome.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web/ || epiphany
  • Lariza A simple, experimental web browser using GTK 3, GLib and WebKit2GTK.
https://www.uninformativ.de/git/lariza/ || larizaAUR
  • Luakit Fast, small, webkit based browser framework extensible by Lua.
https://luakit.github.io/ || luakit
  • Midori Lightweight web browser based on GTK and WebKit.
https://www.midori-browser.org/ || midori
  • Nyxt Keyboard-oriented, infinitely extensible browser.
https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/ || nyxt-browserAUR
  • surf Lightweight WebKit-based browser, which follows the suckless philosophy (basically, the browser itself is a single C source file).
https://surf.suckless.org/ || surfAUR
  • Surfer Simple keyboard based web browser, written in C.
https://github.com/nihilowy/surfer || surfer-gitAUR
  • Tangram Integration of web applications into the desktop, specifically GNOME.
https://github.com/sonnyp/Tangram || tangramAUR
  • Vimb A Vim-like web browser that is inspired by Pentadactyl and Vimprobable.
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 or otter-browser-nowebengine
  • 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.
http://links.twibright.com/ || links
  • NetSurf Featherweight browser written in C, notable for its slowly developing JavaScript support and fast rendering through its own layout engine.
https://www.netsurf-browser.org/ || netsurf
  • Pale Moon A Firefox fork focussing on speed, with a pre-Firefox 29 interface. Uses Goanna layout engine, a fork of Gecko. Firefox add-ons may not be compatible. Without support for newer Firefox features such as cache2, e10s, and OTMC.
http://www.palemoon.org/ || palemoonAUR or palemoon-binAUR

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.
http://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.
http://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.
http://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.
http://www.acme.com/software/http_load/ || http_loadAUR
  • httperf Can generate various HTTP workloads, written in C.
https://github.com/httperf/httperf || httperfAUR
  • 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
  • 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.
http://www.httrack.com/ || httrack
  • LFTP Sophisticated file transfer program. Supports HTTP, FTP, SFTP, FISH, and BitTorrent.
http://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-viewer
  • 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.
http://wordrider.net/freerapid/ || freerapidAUR
  • gtk-youtube-viewer GTK utility for viewing YouTube videos.
https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer || youtube-viewer + gtk2-perl + 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
  • 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://www.kde.org/applications/internet/kget/ || kget
  • 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
  • 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.
http://xdman.sourceforge.net/ || xdmanAUR

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/ || nitroshareAUR
  • 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 || warpinatorAUR

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
  • 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
  • btpd The BitTorrent Protocol Daemon.
https://github.com/btpd/btpd || btpdAUR
  • Ctorrent CTorrent is a BitTorrent client implemented in C++ to be lightweight and quick.
http://www.rahul.net/dholmes/ctorrent/ || enhanced-ctorrentAUR
  • 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 User-friendly BitTorrent client written in Python using GTK that can run as a daemon.
https://deluge-torrent.org/ || deluge
  • Fragments Easy to use BitTorrent client which follows the GNOME HIG and includes well thought-out features.
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://www.kde.org/applications/internet/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 || tribler
  • 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.
http://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
  • MLDonkey Multi-protocol P2P client that supports HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Direct Connect, eDonkey and FastTrack.
http://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/ || mldonkey
  • 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://www.nicotine-plus.org/ || nicotine+
  • Send Anywhere Proprietary file sharing service where users can directly share digital content in real time. Based on the Electron platform.
http://send-anywhere.com/ || sendanywhereAUR
  • Valknut Direct Connect client (like DC++) with segmented downloading.
http://wxdcgui.sourceforge.net/ || valknutAUR

Pastebin clients

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.

Tip: You can access the ix.io pastebin using curl. For example pipe the output of a command to ix.io:
''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.
Note: pastebin.com is blocked for some people and has a history of annoying issues (javascript, adverts, poor formatting, etc). Do not use it.
  • 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
http://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 || aercAUR
  • 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.
http://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.
http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/ || nmhAUR
  • notmuch A fast mail indexer built on top of xapian.
https://notmuchmail.org/ || notmuch
  • Sup CLI mail client with very fast searching, tagging, threading and GMail like operation.
https://sup-heliotrope.github.io/ || supAUR
  • 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
  • GNOME Gmail 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/gnome-gmail/ || gnome-gmailAUR
  • Inboxer Unofficial, free and open-source Google Inbox desktop app. Based on the Electron platform.
https://denysdovhan.com/inboxer/ || inboxerAUR
  • Kmail Mature and feature-rich email client. Part of kdepim.
https://kde.org/applications/en/internet/org.kde.kmail2/ || kmail
  • Kube Modern communication and collaboration client built with QtQuick.
https://kube.kde.org/ || kube
  • Mailspring Proprietary fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original authors.
https://getmailspring.com/ || mailspringAUR
  • Nylas Mail Extensible desktop mail app. Based on the Electron platform.
https://www.nylas.com/nylas-mail/ || nylas-mail-lives-binAUR
  • openWMail The missing desktop client for Gmail & Google Inbox. Based on the Electron platform.
https://openwmail.github.io/ || openwmailAUR
  • Protonmail Desktop Unofficial app that emulates a native client for the ProtonMail e-mail service. Based on the Electron platform.
https://github.com/protonmail-desktop/application || protonmail-desktopAUR
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
Web-based
  • Mailpile A modern, fast web-mail client with user-friendly encryption and privacy features.
https://www.mailpile.is/ || mailpileAUR
  • 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

  • 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
  • Unity Mail Mail notifications and count for Unity/MATE/Xfce/LXDE/etc.
https://tari.in/www/software/unity-mail/ || unity-mail-bzrAUR

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/ || fetchmailAUR
  • 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/ || imapsyncAUR
  • 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.
http://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/ || bitlbee
  • 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
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://userbase.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
  • 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).
http://pidgin.im/ || pidgin
  • qutIM Simple and user-friendly IM supporting ICQ, XMPP, Mail.Ru, IRC and VKontakte messaging.
http://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, XMPP and Twitter.
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
  • WeeChat Modular, lightweight ncurses-based IRC client.
https://weechat.org/ || weechat

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
  • 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://launchpad.net/loqui || 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/ || quassel-monolithic
  • 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
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.
http://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.
http://www.linphone.org/ || linphone-desktop-gitAUR
  • Twinkle Qt softphone for VoIP and IM communication using SIP.
http://twinkle.dolezel.info/ || twinkle-qt5AUR
  • Zoiper Proprietary SIP and IAX2 VoIP softphone
https://zoiper.com || zoiperAUR
Matrix clients

See also Matrix.

  • 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
  • Fractal Matrix client for GNOME written in Rust.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Fractal || fractal
  • 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-mirage-gitAUR
  • 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
  • Spectral Qt5-based Glossy cross-platform client for Matrix.
https://gitlab.com/spectral-im/spectral || spectral-matrixAUR
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://ratox.2f30.org/ || 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/ || beebeepAUR
  • iptux LAN communication software, compatible with IP Messenger.
https://github.com/iptux-src/iptux || iptuxAUR
  • 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
  • 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.
http://retroshare.net/ || retroshareAUR
  • Ricochet Anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging system built on Tor hidden services.
https://ricochet.im/ || ricochetAUR
Other IM clients
  • Caprine Unofficial Facebook Messenger app. Based on the Electron platform.
https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine || caprine
  • 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.
https://discordapp.com/ || discord
  • Esmska Program for sending SMS over the Internet.
https://github.com/kparal/esmska || esmska
  • 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
  • Kotatogram 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
  • Mumble Voice chat application similar to TeamSpeak.
https://www.mumble.info/ || mumble
  • QHangups Alternative client for Google Hangouts written in PyQt.
https://github.com/xmikos/qhangups || qhangupsAUR
  • 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
  • Signal Signal Private Messenger for the Desktop. 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
  • 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
  • Viber Proprietary cross-platform IM and VoIP software.
https://www.viber.com/products/linux/ || viberAUR
  • 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 || yakyakAUR
  • 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.
http://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
  • oragono A modern IRC server written in Go.
https://oragono.io/ || oragonoAUR
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.
http://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
http://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.
http://www.citadel.org/ || webcitAUR
  • Kolab Kolab Groupware solution consisting of a server and various clients.
https://kolab.org/ || kolabAUR
  • Open-Xchange A groupware solution providing mail facilities, calendaring, shared contacts and Google-Docs-like text editing
https://www.open-xchange.com/ || open-xchangeAUR
  • 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://codezen.org/canto/ || 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.
http://offog.org/code/rawdog/ || rawdog
  • 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://www.kde.org/applications/internet/akregator/ || akregator
  • Alduin RSS, Atom and JSON feed aggregator. Based on the Electron platform.
https://alduinapp.github.io/ || alduinAUR
  • FeedReader Modern desktop application designed to complement existing web-based RSS accounts. Discontinued.
https://jangernert.github.io/FeedReader/ || feedreader
  • Feeds An RSS/Atom feed reader for GNOME.
https://gabmus.gitlab.io/gnome-feeds/ || gfeedsAUR
  • 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 || newsflashAUR
  • 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++.
http://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.
http://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
  • LottaNZB A SABnzbd (Usenet binary downloader) GUI front-end written in PyGTK (Python 2)
https://launchpad.net/lottanzb/ || lottanzbAUR
  • 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
  • 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
  • Birdie Beautiful Twitter client designed for elementary OS.
https://birdie.ivonunes.me/ || birdie-gitAUR
  • 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
  • Mikutter Simple, powerful Twitter client using GTK and Ruby.
https://mikutter.hachune.net/ || mikutterAUR
  • Polly Linux Twitter client designed for multiple columns of multiple accounts.
https://launchpad.net/polly/ || pollyAUR
  • 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.org/ || 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
  • 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/ || nodejs-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.

Remote desktop clients

  • AnyDesk Proprietary remote desktop software.
https://anydesk.com/ || anydesk-binAUR
  • GNOME Boxes A simple GNOME 3 application to access remote or virtual systems. Supports RDP, VNC and SPICE.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Boxes || gnome-boxes
  • GNOME Connections Remote desktop client for GNOME. Supports RDP and VNC.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/felipeborges/gnome-connections || gnome-connectionsAUR
  • 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://www.kde.org/applications/internet/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.
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
  • 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.
http://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://www.kde.org/applications/system/krfb || krfb
  • wayvnc VNC server for wlroots based wayland compositors (such as sway).
https://github.com/any1/wayvnc || wayvncAUR
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
  • 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.
http://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
  • 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 || ephotoAUR
  • 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/ || GTK 2: gpicview, GTK 3: gpicview-gtk3
  • Gwenview Fast and easy to use image viewer for the KDE desktop.
https://userbase.kde.org/Gwenview || gwenview
  • ida X11 application (Motif based) for viewing images.
https://www.kraxel.org/blog/linux/fbida/ || fbida
  • imv Lightweight image viewer with support for Wayland and animated GIFs which uses FreeImage.
https://www.github.com/eXeC64/imv/ || imv
  • 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
  • Phototonic Fast and functional image viewer and browser (Qt).
https://github.com/oferkv/phototonic/ || phototonic
  • 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
  • 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.
http://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
  • 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 || 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.
http://anufrij.org/memories/ || showmypicturesAUR
  • Pantheon Photos Photo organizer for Pantheon.
https://launchpad.net/pantheon-photos || pantheon-photos
  • 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.
http://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
  • Fyre Tool for producing computational artwork based on histograms of iterated chaotic functions.
http://fyre.navi.cx/ || fyreAUR
  • 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.
http://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.
http://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
  • 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
  • Image Optimizer Simple lossless image optimizer built with Vala and Gtk for Elementary OS.
https://github.com/GijsGoudzwaard/Image-Optimizer || image-optimizer-gitAUR
  • ImCompressor GTK-based image compressor, supporting PNG and JPEG file types.
https://github.com/Huluti/ImCompressor || imcompressorAUR
  • 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://github.com/Symbian9/azpainter || azpainterAUR
  • 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-editor-gitAUR
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
  • 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/ || pintaAUR
  • 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.
http://www.darktable.org/ || darktable
  • 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.
http://www.rawtherapee.com/ || rawtherapee

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
  • 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
  • Milton Infinite-canvas paint program.
https://www.miltonpaint.com/ || miltonAUR
  • 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.
http://www.openoffice.org/product/draw.html || openofficeAUR
http://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

  • 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
  • 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

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
  • 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://kitware.github.io/F3D/ || f3dAUR
  • Goxel Open Source 3D voxel editor.
https://guillaumechereau.github.io/goxel/ || goxelAUR
  • MakeHuman™ Parametrical modeling program for creating human bodies.
http://www.makehumancommunity.org/ || makehumanAUR
  • 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.
http://www.povray.org/ || povray
  • VoxelShop Extremely intuitive and powerful software to modify and create voxel objects.
https://blackflux.com/node/11 || voxelshopAUR
  • Wings 3D Advanced subdivision modeler that is both powerful and easy to use.
http://www.wings3d.com/ || wings3d

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://www.kde.org/applications/graphics/kcolorchooser/ || kcolorchooser
  • 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/ || xcolorAUR

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.

Server
  • Music Player Daemon Audio player that has a server-client architecture. In order to interface with it, a separate client is needed.
https://www.musicpd.org/ || mpd
Console
  • cmus Very feature-rich ncurses-based music player.
https://cmus.github.io/ || cmus
  • Cplay Curses front-end for various audio players (ogg123, mpg123, mpg321, splay, madplay, and mikmod, xmp, and sox).
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Cplay || cplayAUR
  • 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
  • pianobar Console-based frontend for the online radio Pandora.
https://6xq.net/projects/pianobar/ || pianobar
  • 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
http://banshee.fm/ || bansheeAUR
  • Byte Music player designed for elementary OS.
https://github.com/alainm23/byte || byteAUR
https://www.clementine-player.org/ || clementine
  • Cozy Modern audio book player for Linux using GTK 3.
https://github.com/geigi/cozy || cozy-audiobooksAUR
  • Exaile GTK clone of Amarok.
https://www.exaile.org/ || exaileAUR
  • 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
  • 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
  • Goodvibes Lightweight internet radio player.
https://gitlab.com/goodvibes/goodvibes || goodvibesAUR
  • 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.
http://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://gkarsay.github.io/parlatype/ || parlatypeAUR
  • Pithos Python/GTK Pandora Radio desktop client.
https://pithos.github.io/ || pithosAUR
  • 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
  • Radiotray-NG Internet radio player systray applet.
https://github.com/ebruck/radiotray-ng || radiotray-ngAUR
  • 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
  • Shortwave GTK 3 application for finding and listening to internet radio stations.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Shortwave || shortwaveAUR
  • Strawberry Fork of Clementine aimed at audio enthusiasts and music collectors.
https://strawbs.org/ || strawberry
  • Tauon Music Box Modern, comfortable and streamlined music player for the playback of your music collection.
https://tauonmusicbox.rocks/ || tauon-music-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://www.kde.org/applications/multimedia/juk/ || juk
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
  • ArchSimian Graphical Qt-based playlist creator that mines data from the user's MediaMonkey database.
https://github.com/Harpo3/archsimian || archsimian-gitAUR
https://audacious-media-player.org/ || audacious
  • DeaDBeeF Light and fast music player with many features, no GNOME or KDE dependencies, supports console-only, as well as a GTK GUI, comes with many plugins, and has a metadata editor.
https://deadbeef.sourceforge.io/ || deadbeef
  • Deepin Music Awesome music player with brilliant and tweakful UI Deepin-UI based.
https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-music/ || deepin-music
  • Elisa Simple music player by the KDE community aiming to provide a nice experience for its users.
https://community.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
  • Google Play Music Desktop Player Beautiful cross platform desktop player for Google Play Music. Based on the Electron platform.
https://googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com/ || gpmdpAUR
  • LXMusic A minimalist xmms2-based music player.
https://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXMusic || GTK 2: lxmusic, GTK 3: lxmusic-gtk3
  • 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 mellowplayer-gitAUR
  • 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
  • Noson Fast and smart controller for SONOS devices.
https://janbar.github.io/noson-app/ || noson-appAUR
  • Nuclear Modern music player focused on streaming from free sources. Based on the Electron platform.
http://nuclear.gumblert.tech/ || nuclear-player-binAUR
  • Qmmp Qt-based multimedia player with a user interface that is similar to Winamp or XMMS.
http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/ || qmmp
  • 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
  • Upplay Qt-based UPnP audio control point.
https://lesbonscomptes.com/upplay/ || upplayAUR
  • Vvave Tiny Qt music player to keep your favorite songs at hand.
https://vvave.kde.org/ || babe
  • Yarock Modern looking music player, packed with features, that doesn’t depend on any specific desktop environment. Yarock is designed to provide an easy and pretty music browser based on cover art.
https://seb-apps.github.io/yarock/ || yarock-mpvAUR

Audio tag editors

Console
  • Beets Music library organizer, tagger and more.
http://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
  • 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
  • Puddletag Replacement for the famous MP3tag for Windows.
http://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
  • Lyrics Display lyrics on media players with MPRIS interface.
https://github.com/naaando/lyrics || lyricsAUR
  • 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)
http://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
  • XCFA Tool to extract the content of audio CDs and convert files to various formats.
http://www.xcfa.tuxfamily.org/ || xcfaAUR

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 or ocenaudioAUR
  • 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
  • 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.
http://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
  • Traverso Multitrack audio recorder and editor with a very clean and intuitive interface which supports ALSA and Jack as the sound driver.
https://traverso-daw.org/ || traversoAUR

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.
http://friture.org/ || fritureAUR
  • 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
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/ || canorus
  • 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/ || cabbageAUR
  • 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.

  • 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.
http://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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • setBfree DSP tonewheel organ.
http://setbfree.org/ || setbfree
  • SpectMorph Analyze samples of musical instruments and combine them (morphing).
http://spectmorph.org/ || spectmorph
  • TiMidity++ Software synthesizer, which can play MIDI files by converting them into PCM waveform data.
http://timidity.sourceforge.net/ || timidity++
  • Vee One Suite Old-school software instruments: synthv1, a polyphonic subtractive synthesizer; samplv1, a polyphonic sampler synthesizer; drumkv1, yet another drum-kit sampler; padthv1, a polyphonic additive synthesizer.
https://www.rncbc.org/ || synthv1, samplv1, drumkv1, padthv1
  • Vico Minimalistic Midi sequencer that is intended to be used in parallel with other software.
https://www.laborejo.org/vico/ || vico
  • VMPK Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard. MIDI events generator and receiver. It can use midi SoundFonts to generate sound by itself, or can be used to drive a MIDI synthesizer.
https://vmpk.sourceforge.io/ || vmpk
  • Yoshimi Software synthesizer, a fork of ZynAddSubFX.
http://yoshimi.sourceforge.net/ || yoshimi
  • ZynAddSubFX Fully featured software synthesizer capable of making a countless number of instruments, from some common heard from expensive hardware to interesting sounds that you will boost to an amazing universe of sounds.
https://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io/ || zynaddsubfx

Music trackers

  • Buzztrax Music studio to compose songs using only a computer with a soundcard.
https://news.buzztrax.org/ || buzztraxAUR
  • 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
  • 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.
http://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
https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects || pulseeffects
  • 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://karlstav.github.io/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
  • 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.
http://www.vsxu.com/ || vsxuAUR

Volume control

See also PulseAudio#Front-ends.

  • 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://sourceforge.net/projects/gvolwheel/ || gvolwheelAUR
  • KMix KDE volume control program.
https://kde.org/applications/multimedia/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
  • 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.
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.
http://anufrij.org/cinema/ || playmyvideosAUR
  • 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-playerAUR
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Videos || totem
  • 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 || rageAUR
  • 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
  • Celluloid Simple GTK frontend for mpv, formerly GNOME MPV.
https://celluloid-player.github.io/ || celluloid
  • 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://github.com/g-fb/haruna || haruna-gitAUR
  • 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/NamedKitten/KittehPlayer || kittehplayer-gitAUR
https://gitlab.com/mpc-qt/mpc-qt || mpc-qtAUR, mpc-qt-gitAUR
  • 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
  • SMPlayer Qt multimedia player with extra features (CSS themes, YouTube integration, etc.) based on mpv. It can use MPlayer as alternative backend.
https://www.smplayer.info/ || smplayer
  • xt7-player-mpv Qt/Gambas GUI to mpv with a rich set of configurable options including filters and drivers, ladspa plugins support as well as library/playlist managment, YouTube, online radios, podcasts, DVB-T and more.
https://github.com/kokoko3k/xt7-player-mpv || xt7-player-mpvAUR
MPlayer-based
  • GNOME MPlayer Simple GTK-based GUI for MPlayer.
https://sites.google.com/site/kdekorte2/gnomemplayer || gnome-mplayer
  • KPlayer Multimedia player for KDE4 using MPlayer as a backend.
http://kplayer.sourceforge.net/ || kplayerAUR
Phonon-based
https://www.kde.org/applications/multimedia/dragonplayer/ || dragon
  • KMPlayer Simple Phonon-based video player for KDE and video player plugin for Konqueror. It can use MPlayer as alternative backend.
https://kmplayer.kde.org/ || kmplayer
Other
  • FreeTube Desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. Use YouTube without advertisements and prevent Google from tracking you with their cookies and JavaScript. Based on the Electron platform.
https://freetubeapp.io/ || freetube-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://www.kde.org/applications/multimedia/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
  • 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
  • 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
  • traGtor Convert all your audio and video files through FFmpeg without using a terminal.
https://mein-neues-blog.de/tragtor-gui-for-ffmpeg/ || tragtorAUR
  • 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-heroineAUR
http://cinelerra-cv.wikidot.com/ || cinelerra-cvAUR
https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/ || cin-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.
http://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/ || losslesscutAUR
  • 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.
http://www.pitivi.org/ || pitivi
  • Shotcut Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor.
https://www.shotcut.org/ || shotcut
  • 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://invent.kde.org/multimedia/subtitlecomposer || 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.

  • Screenkey A screencast tool to display your keys.
https://www.thregr.org/~wavexx/software/screenkey/ || screenkey

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
  • 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://userbase.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

DVD authoring

See also Wikipedia:List of DVD authoring applications.

  • Bombono DVD DVD authoring program with nice and clean GUI.
http://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.
http://p.outlyer.net/vcs || video-contact-sheetAUR

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
  • forked-daapd DAAP (iTunes) and MPD media server with support for AirPlay devices, Apple Remote, Chromecast, Spotify and internet radio.
https://ejurgensen.github.io/forked-daapd/ || forked-daapdAUR
  • Gerbera UPnP Media Server to stream your media to devices on your home network. (Fork of MediaTomb.)
https://gerbera.io/ || gerberaAUR
  • Icecast Streaming media (audio/video) server which currently supports Ogg (Vorbis and Theora), Opus, WebM and MP3 streams.
https://icecast.org/ || icecast
  • Jellyfin Jellyfin is a Free Software Media System that puts you in control of managing and streaming your media.
https://jellyfin.github.io/ || jellyfinAUR
  • 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

  • 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/ || gnokii
https://gmtp.sourceforge.io/ || gmtp
  • GNOME Phone Manager Control your mobile phone from your GNOME desktop.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/PhoneManager || gnome-phone-manager
  • 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 Aims to communicate all your devices.
https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect || 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.

Utilities

Terminal

Command shells

See the main article: Command-line shell.

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of command shells.

Terminal emulators

Terminal emulators show a GUI Window that contains a terminal. Most emulate Xterm, which in turn emulates VT102, which emulates typewriter. For further background information, see Wikipedia:Terminal emulator.

For a comprehensive list, see Wikipedia:List of terminal emulators.

  • Alacritty A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.
https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty || alacritty
  • aterm Xterm replacement with transparency support. It has been deprecated in favour of urxvt since 2008.
http://www.afterstep.org/aterm.php || atermAUR
  • Cool Retro Term A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display.
https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term || cool-retro-term
  • CuteCom A graphical serial terminal.
https://gitlab.com/cutecom/cutecom || cutecomAUR
  • Eterm Terminal emulator intended as a replacement for xterm and designed for the Enlightenment desktop.
https://github.com/mej/Eterm || etermAUR
  • foot Lightweight terminal emulator for Wayland with sixel support
https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot || footAUR, foot-gitAUR
  • Hyper A terminal with JS/CSS support. Based on the Electron platform.
https://github.com/zeit/hyper || hyperAUR
  • Konsole Terminal emulator included in the KDE desktop.
https://www.kde.org/applications/system/konsole/ || konsole
  • kitty A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty || kitty
  • Liri Terminal Material Design terminal for Liri.
https://github.com/lirios/terminal || liri-terminal
  • mlterm A multi-lingual terminal emulator supporting various character sets and encodings in the world.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mlterm/ || mltermAUR
  • moserial GTK-based serial terminal for the GNOME desktop.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Moserial || moserial
  • PuTTY Highly configurable ssh/telnet/serial console program.
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ || putty
  • QTerminal Lightweight Qt-based terminal emulator.
https://github.com/qterminal/qterminal || qterminal
  • rxvt Popular replacement for xterm.
http://rxvt.sourceforge.net/ || rxvtAUR
  • shellinabox A web-based SSH Terminal
https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox || shellinabox-gitAUR
  • st Simple terminal implementation for X.
http://st.suckless.org || stAUR
  • Terminology Terminal emulator by the Enlightenment project team with innovative features: file thumbnails and media play like a media player.
https://www.enlightenment.org/about-terminology || terminology
  • urxvt Highly extendable (with Perl) unicode enabled rxvt-clone terminal emulator featuring tabbing, url launching, a Quake style drop-down mode and pseudo-transparency.
http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html || rxvt-unicode
  • xterm Simple terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that cannot use the window system directly.
https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ || xterm
  • Yakuake Drop-down terminal (Quake style) emulator based on Konsole.
https://kde.org/applications/system/org.kde.yakuake || yakuake
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 Terminal emulation application for Deepin desktop.
https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-terminal/ || deepin-terminal
  • EasySSH SSH Connection Manager.
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.
https://www.imagination-land.org/tags/germinal.html || germinalAUR
  • GNOME Terminal A terminal emulator included in the GNOME desktop with support for Unicode and pseudo-transparency.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Terminal || gnome-terminal
  • Guake Drop-down terminal for the GNOME desktop.
http://guake-project.org/ || guake
  • kermit A VTE-based terminal emulator that aims to be simple, fast and effective.
https://github.com/orhun/kermit || kermitAUR
  • LXTerminal Desktop independent terminal emulator for LXDE.
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's 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.
http://www.pleyades.net/david/projects/sakura || sakura
  • Terminator Terminal emulator supporting multiple resizable terminal panels.
https://gnometerminator.blogspot.com/ || terminator
  • Termite Keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support.
https://github.com/thestinger/termite || termite
  • Tilda Configurable drop down terminal emulator.
https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda/ || tilda
  • Tilix Tiling terminal emulator for GNOME.
https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/ || tilix
  • Xfce Terminal Terminal emulator included in the Xfce desktop with support for a colorized prompt and a tabbed interface.
https://docs.xfce.org/apps/terminal/start || xfce4-terminal
KMS-based

The following terminal emulators are based on the kernel mode setting that could be invoked without X.

  • KMSCON A KMS/DRM-based system console(getty) with an integrated terminal emulator for Linux operating systems.
https://github.com/dvdhrm/kmscon || kmscon
framebuffer-based

In the GNU/Linux world, the framebuffer can refer to a virtual device in the Linux kernel (fbdev) or the virtual framebuffer system for X (xvfb). This section mainly lists the terminal emulators based on the in-kernel virtual device, i.e. fbdev.

  • yaft A simple terminal emulator for living without X, with UCS2 glyphs, wallpaper and 256color support.
https://github.com/uobikiemukot/yaft || 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
http://www.jedsoft.org/most/ || most
  • mcview A pager with mouse and colour support. It is bundled with midnight commander.
http://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.
https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/ || dvtm
  • GNU Screen Full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal.
https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ || screen
  • mtm Simple terminal multiplexer with just four commands: change focus, split, close, and screen redraw.
https://github.com/deadpixi/mtm || mtm-gitAUR
  • tmux BSD licensed terminal multiplexer.
https://tmux.github.io/ || tmux
Tip: Kitty, a terminal emulator, offers similar functions.

Files

File managers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of file managers.

Console
  • Clex File manager with full-screen user interface
http://www.clex.sk/ || clexAUR
  • 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
  • Last File Manager Powerful file manager written in Python 3 with a curses interface.
https://inigo.katxi.org/devel/lfm/ || lfmAUR
  • lf Terminal file manager written in Go using server/client architecture.
https://github.com/gokcehan/lf || lf-gitAUR
http://midnight-commander.org || mc
  • nffm "Nothing Fancy File Manager", a mouseless ncurses file manager written in C.
https://github.com/mariostg/nffm || nffm-gitAUR
  • nnn Tiny, lightning fast, feature-packed file manager.
https://github.com/jarun/nnn || nnn
  • fff A simple file manager written in Bash.
https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff || fff
  • Pilot File manager that comes with the Alpine email client.
http://alpine.x10host.com/ || alpine-gitAUR
  • Ranger Console-based file manager with vi bindings, customizability, and lots of features.
https://ranger.github.io/ || ranger
  • Vifm Ncurses-based two-panel file manager with vi-like keybindings.
https://vifm.info || vifm
Graphical
  • Caja The file manager for the MATE desktop.
https://github.com/mate-desktop/caja || caja
  • Deepin File Manager File manager developed for Deepin.
https://www.deepin.org/en/original/dde-file-manager/ || deepin-file-manager
  • Dolphin File manager included in the KDE desktop.
https://userbase.kde.org/Dolphin || dolphin
  • Gentoo A lightweight file manager for GTK.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gentoo/ || gentooAUR
  • GNOME Files Extensible, heavyweight file manager used by default in GNOME with support for custom scripts.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Files || nautilus
  • Konqueror File manager and web browser for the KDE desktop.
https://konqueror.org/ || konqueror
  • Liri Files The file manager for Liri.
https://github.com/lirios/files || liri-files
  • Nemo Nemo is the file manager of the Cinnamon desktop. A fork of Nautilus.
https://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/ || nemo
  • Pantheon Files File browser designed for elementary OS.
https://github.com/elementary/files || pantheon-files
  • PathFinder File browser that comes with the FOX toolkit.
http://fox-toolkit.org/ || fox
  • PCManFM Very fast and lightweight file manager which can also optionally manage the desktop icons and background.
https://wiki.lxde.org/en/PCManFM || pcmanfm
  • PCManFM-Qt Qt port of PCManFM file manager.
https://github.com/lxqt/pcmanfm-qt || pcmanfm-qt
  • 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.
http://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.
http://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

See also Synchronization and backup programs#Data synchronization and Wikipedia:Comparison of file synchronization software.

  • DirSync Pro Small, but powerful utility for file and folder synchronization.
https://dirsyncpro.org/ || dirsyncproAUR
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
https://rsync.samba.org/ || rsync
  • SparkleShare File sharing and collaboration application written in C#. It can sync with any Git server over SSH.
http://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/ || Web: syncthing, GTK: syncthing-gtk
  • 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
  • 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.
http://yasuo.360.cn/ || 360zipAUR
  • Ark Archiving tool included in the KDE desktop.
https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/ark/ || ark
  • Arqiver Simple Qt archive manager based on libarchive.
https://github.com/tsujan/Arqiver || arqiver-gitAUR
  • 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
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.
http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/ || 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://www.kde.org/applications/development/kompare/ || kompare
  • Meld Visual diff and merge tool that can compare files, directories, and version controlled projects.
http://meldmerge.org/ || meld
  • xxdiff A graphical browser for file and directory differences.
http://furius.ca/xxdiff/ || xxdiffAUR

Vim and Emacs provide merge functionality with vimdiff and ediff.

Batch renamers

Console

See rename(1) from util-linux.

  • rename.pl Batch renamer based on perl regex.
https://search.cpan.org/~pederst/rename/ || perl-rename
Graphical
  • GPRename GTK batch renamer for files and directories.
http://gprename.sourceforge.net || gprename
  • KRename Very powerful batch file renamer for the KDE desktop.
https://kde.org/applications/utilities/org.kde.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
  • 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://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/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
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://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Tracker || tracker
  • 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-ce || 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
  • hub cli 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.
http://ant.apache.org/ || ant
  • Apache Maven Build automation tool used primarily for Java.
http://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)
  • 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.

  • 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
  • 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
  • Eric Full-featured Python and Ruby IDE written in PyQt5.
https://eric-ide.python-projects.org/ || eric
  • 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
  • MonoDevelop Cross-platform IDE targeted for the Mono and .NET frameworks.
https://www.monodevelop.com/ || monodevelop-gitAUR
  • 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
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
Educational IDEs
  • Etoys Educational tool and media-rich authoring environment for teaching children.
http://squeakland.org/ || etoysAUR
  • KTurtle Educational programming environment that aims to make learning how to program as easily as possible. Part of kde-education.
https://www.kde.org/applications/education/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://www.kde.org/applications/development/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://phabricator.kde.org/source/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.
http://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://userbase.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
  • Okteta KDE hex editor for viewing and editing the raw data of files.
https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/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
  • 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.
http://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.
http://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
  • 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/ || godotAUR
  • 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 || pixelorama-binAUR
  • Tiled General purpose 2D level editor with powerful tile map editing features. It’s 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

  • 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://utils.kde.org/projects/kcharselect/ || kcharselect

On-screen keyboards

  • CellWriter Grid-entry handwriting recognition input panel.
https://github.com/risujin/cellwriter || cellwriterAUR
  • 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
  • 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/ || xneurAUR, gxneurAUR (GUI)

Keybinding managers

See Keyboard shortcuts#Xorg.

Input methods

See the main article: Internationalization#Input methods.

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://kde.org/applications/en/system/org.kde.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.
https://wiki.debian.org/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
  • 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://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/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
  • 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
  • fdupes Program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories.
https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes || fdupes
  • rmlint Tool to quickly find (and optionally remove) duplicate files and other lint.
https://github.com/sahib/rmlint || rmlint
  • rdfind Command line tool that finds duplicate files. It compares files based on their content.
https://github.com/pauldreik/rdfind || rdfindAUR
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://kde.org/applications/utilities/org.kde.sweeper/ || sweeper

Disk image writing

See also Wikipedia:List of tools to create Live USB systems.

  • Deepin Boot Maker Tool to make boot disk for Deepin OS.
https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-boot-maker/ || deepin-boot-maker
  • Etcher Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily. Based on the Electron platform.
https://etcher.io/ || balena-etcherAUR
  • 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 Linux on a USB disk non destructively and option to uninstall distros.
http://multibootusb.org/ || multibootusbAUR
  • MultiSystem GUI tool to create a USB system that can boot multiple distro's.
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
  • WoeUSB Simple tool to create USB stick windows installer from an ISO image or a real DVD. (Fork of WinUSB).
https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB-frontend-wxgtk || woeusb
  • 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

  • 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
  • KSysGuard System monitor for KDE to monitor running processes and system performance.
https://userbase.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/ || collectd
  • 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.
http://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 || zpsAUR

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.
http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/ || dmidecode
  • hwdetect Simple script to list modules that are exported in /sys/.
https://projects.archlinux.org/ || 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 || pfetch-gitAUR
  • 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://www.kde.org/applications/system/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.

  • Font Manager Simple font management for GTK desktop environments.
https://fontmanager.github.io/ || font-managerAUR
  • 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://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kde-workspace/kfontview/index.html || plasma-desktop
  • MATE Font Viewer Font viewer for MATE.
https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-control-center || mate-utils
  • Waterfall GTK application to view all characters of font in all sizes.
https://keithp.com/cgit/gwaterfall.git || gwaterfall

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's a graphical interface to the Cron command.
https://userbase.kde.org/System_Settings/Task_Scheduler || 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://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/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.

Virtualization

See Libvirt#Client and VirtualBox.

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.

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/ || joe
  • mcedit Useful text editor that comes with Midnight Commander file manager.
http://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/ || microAUR
  • 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.
http://brackets.io/ || bracketsAUR
  • Deepin Editor Simple text editor for Deepin desktop.
https://github.com/linuxdeepin/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
  • Gobby Collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat.
https://gobby.github.io/ || gobby
  • Howl General purpose, fast and lightweight editor with a keyboard-centric minimalistic user interface.
https://howl.io/ || howl
  • jEdit Text editor for programmers, written in Java.
http://www.jedit.org/ || jedit
  • 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://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/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
  • 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
  • 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

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
  • 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

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
  • Kakoune Modal editor. Fewer keystrokes. Selection based, multi-cursor editing. Orthogonal design.
https://github.com/mawww/kakoune || kakoune
  • 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 (Vi IMproved) 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

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://www.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/ || openofficeAUR
  • 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
http://www.openoffice.org/product/writer.html || openofficeAUR
  • Ted Easy to use GTK-based rich text processor (with footnote support).
https://nllgg.nl/Ted/ || tedAUR
http://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
http://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.
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
http://www.openoffice.org/product/impress.html || openofficeAUR
  • 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.
http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html || openofficeAUR
  • 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.
http://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
  • 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://www.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.
http://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html || openofficeAUR
  • 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.
http://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.
http://www.openoffice.org/product/math.html || openofficeAUR

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..
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/ || lowdownAUR
  • 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, python2-m2r
  • Mistune The fastest markdown parser in pure Python with renderer feature.
https://github.com/lepture/mistune || python-mistune, python2-mistune
  • Python-Markdown Extensible Python implementation of John Gruber's Markdown.
https://github.com/Python-Markdown/markdown || python-markdown, python2-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/somas/apostrophe || apostropheAUR
  • CuteMarkEd Qt-based Markdown editor with live HTML preview, math expressions, code and markdown syntax highlighting.
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
  • 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
  • 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.
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lout || lout
  • SILE Modern typesetting system inspired by TeX.
https://sile-typesetter.org/ || sileAUR
  • 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 the LaTeX Wikibook.

  • 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/ || setzer-gitAUR
  • TeXmacs WYSIWYW (what you see is what you want) editing platform with special features for scientists.
http://www.texmacs.org/ || texmacs
  • Texmaker Cross-platform, light and easy-to-use LaTeX IDE. It integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX, in just one application
https://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/ || texmaker
  • TeXstudio Fork of TeXMaker including support for code completion of bibtex items, grammar check and automatic detection of the need for multiple LaTeX runs.
http://texstudio.sourceforge.net/ || texstudio
  • TeXworks Simple TeX front-end program modeled after TeXShop.
https://tug.org/texworks/ || texworks
  • TikZiT Graphical tool for rapidly creating graphs and diagrams using PGF/TikZ.
https://tikzit.github.io/ || 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.
http://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
  • 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.
http://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://userbase.kde.org/KBibTeX || kbibtex
https://www.mendeley.com/ || mendeleydesktopAUR
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

Note: Some PDF and DjVu viewers also support other e-book formats.
  • 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.
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

Comic book

  • Buoh Online strips comics reader for GNOME.
http://buoh.steve-o.org/ || buoh
  • Komikku Online/offline manga reader for GNOME.
https://gitlab.com/valos/Komikku || komikkuAUR
  • MComix GTK3 image viewer specifically designed to handle comic book archives (fork of Comix). Also includes library manager.
https://github.com/multiSnow/mcomix3 || mcomix
  • Peruse Comic book reader by KDE.
https://peruse.kde.org/ || peruse-gitAUR
  • 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

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

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

Scanning software

See SANE#Install a frontend.

  • Scan Tailor Interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages.
http://scantailor.org/ || scantailor
  • ScanTailor Advanced Fork of Scan Tailor with additional features and fixes.
https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced || scantailor-advancedAUR

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
  • 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/ || cherrytreeAUR
  • 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://joplin.cozic.net/ || 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
  • Notes Note-taking application, write down your thoughts.
https://www.get-notes.com/ || notesAUR
  • NotesTree Note taking application, which organizes notes in a hierarchical (tree like) structure.
https://bitbucket.org/baltic/notestree/overview || notes-treeAUR
  • 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 support.
https://gabmus.gitlab.io/notorious/ || 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.org/ || standardnotes-desktopAUR sn-binAUR
  • TagSpaces Offline personal data manager for managing of your local files. Based on the Electron platform.
https://www.tagspaces.org/ || tagspacesAUR tagspaces-binAUR
  • 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
  • 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://tamlok.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

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

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/ || freeplaneAUR
  • Labyrinth Lightweight mind-mapping tool, written in Python using GTK, with support for image import and drawing.
https://github.com/labyrinth-team/labyrinth || labyrinthAUR
  • 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/ || mindmasterAUR
  • 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.
http://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.
http://www.insilmaril.de/vym/ || 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.
https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/knotes/ || 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
  • Notejot Stupidly simple sticky notes applet for elementaryOS.
https://github.com/lainsce/notejot || notejotAUR
  • Notes Provides you a quick way to paste text, to write down a list of things, to leave a note to your friend, or whatever you had do with Post-It's.
https://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-notes-plugin || xfce4-notes-plugin
  • qtPad Modern and customizable sticky note application written in PyQt5.
https://gitlab.com/william.belanger/qtpad || qtpad-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.
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

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
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://www.kde.org/applications/education/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 || palaura-gitAUR
  • PowerWord Proprietary Chinese-English dictionary tool.
http://www.iciba.com || powerword-binAUR
  • QStarDict Dictionary program written using Qt. The user interface is similar to StarDict.
http://qstardict.ylsoftware.com/ || qstardict
  • 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
  • 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://userbase.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
http://virtaal.translatehouse.org/ || virtaalAUR

Barcode generators and readers

Console

  • barcode A tool to convert text strings to printed bars.
https://www.gnu.org/software/barcode/ || barcode
  • iec16022 Produce 2D barcodes often also referenced as DataMatrix.
https://datenfreihafen.org/projects/iec16022.html || iec16022
  • qrencode C library and command line tool for encoding data in a QR Code symbol.
https://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/ || qrencode
  • ZBar Application and library for reading bar codes from various sources.
http://zbar.sourceforge.net/ || zbar
  • Zint Barcode encoding library and command line tool supporting over 50 symbologies.
http://zint.org.uk/ || zint

Graphical

  • CoBang QR Code scanner application.
https://github.com/hongquan/CoBang || 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/ || ntop
  • 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 attacts, 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.
http://www.tcpdump.org/ || tcpdump
  • tcptrace TCP dump file analysis tool.
http://tcptrace.org/ || tcptrace
  • vnStat Console-based network traffic monitor that keeps a log of network traffic for the selected interfaces.
https://humdi.net/vnstat/ || vnstat
  • What IP Small GTK application to get info on your IP.
https://gabmus.gitlab.io/whatip/ || whatip-gitAUR
  • wifiphisher Fast automated phishing attacks against WPA networks.
https://github.com/wifiphisher/wifiphisher || wifiphisherAUR
  • 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.
http://www.openvas.org/ || openvasAUR
  • 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-agentAUR 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 || samhainAUR
  • Tiger Security tool that can be use both as a security audit and intrusion detection system.
http://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.
http://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://dave-theunsub.github.io/clamtk/ || clamtk, Nautilus plugin: clamtk-gnomeAUR, MATE plugin: clamtk-mateAUR, 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

Backup programs

See also Synchronization and backup programs#Incremental backups and Wikipedia:Comparison of backup software.

  • 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
  • borg Deduplicating backup program with compression and authenticated encryption that supports backing up over ssh
https://www.borgbackup.org || borg
  • 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.
http://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.
http://www.duply.net/ || duplyAUR
  • restic Fast, secure, efficient backup program that supports backing up to many cloud services.
https://restic.net/ || restic
  • Tarsnap Secure, efficient proprietary online backup service.
http://www.tarsnap.com/ || tarsnap

Screen lockers

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 Screen locker for the GNOME Flashback desktop.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeScreensaver || gnome-screensaver
  • 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-color, 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
http://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.
http://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

  • 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

  • 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-binAUR, bitwarden-cliAUR
  • 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://kde.org/applications/en/system/org.kde.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/ || upmAUR

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
  • Parano A GNOME frontend for creating/editing/checking MD5 and SFV files
https://sourceforge.net/projects/parano.berlios/ || paranoAUR
  • 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

  • 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
  • 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://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/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://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/kleopatra/ || kleopatra
  • minisign Simple program that only inplements 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
  • 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.

  • 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
  • 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/ || GTK 3: galculator, GTK 2: galculator-gtk2
  • Genius Advanced calculator including a mathematical programming language.
https://www.jirka.org/genius.html || genius
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Calculator || gnome-calculator
https://www.kde.org/applications/education/kalgebra/ || kalgebra
  • KCalc Scientific calculator included in the KDE desktop.
https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/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.
http://speedcrunch.org || speedcrunch
  • xcalc Scientific calculator for X with algebraic and reverse polish notation modes.
https://www.x.org/ || xorg-xcalc

Computer algebra system

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of computer algebra systems.

  • AXIOM FriCAS: derivative of the powerful AXIOM-CAS
http://fricas.sourceforge.net || 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.
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.
http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/ || pari
  • Singular Computer algebra system for polynomial computations, with special emphasis on commutative and non-commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, and singularity theory.
https://www.singular.uni-kl.de/ || singular
  • wxMaxima Graphical user interface for Maxima being a powerful computer algebra system.
https://andrejv.github.io/wxmaxima/ || wxmaxima
  • Xcas User interface to Giac, a free, basic computer algebra system.
http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/giac.html || xcas

Scientific or technical computing

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of numerical analysis software.

  • Cantor Application that lets you use your favorite mathematical applications from within a nice KDE-integrated Worksheet Interface. Part of kde-education.
https://www.kde.org/applications/education/cantor/ || 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
  • 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://www.kde.org/applications/education/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.

  • 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

See also Wikipedia:List of information graphics software.

  • 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.
http://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://www.kde.org/applications/education/kmplot/ || kmplot
  • LabPlot Free software data analysis and visualization application, similar to SciDAVis.
https://labplot.kde.org/ || labplot
  • Rocs Graph Theory IDE for everybody interested in designing and analyzing graph algorithms (e.g., lecturers, students, researchers). Part of kde-education.
https://www.kde.org/applications/education/rocs/ || rocs
  • ROOT Data analysis program and library (originally for particle physics) developed by CERN.
https://root.cern.ch/ || root
  • SciDAVis Fork of QtiPlot with the goal of being better documented and more user friendly.
http://scidavis.sourceforge.net/ || scidavisAUR

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.
http://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 and numeric simulation in structural mechanics.
https://www.code-aster.org/V2/spip.php?rubrique2 || asterAUR
  • EPANET EPANET performs extended period simulation of the water movement and quality behavior within pressurized pipe networks.
https://www.epa.gov/ || epanet2-gitAUR
https://www.kde.org/applications/education/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.
http://convertall.bellz.org/ || convertallAUR
  • Gonvert Conversion utility that allows conversion between m