Awesome Common Lisp Application Software

this is a list of awesome application software built with Common Lisp.

Table of Contents

• Awesome Common Lisp Application Software
  • Applications
    • Audio
    • Blogging
      • Static Blog Generator
    • Chat
      • Chat Bot
    • Development Tools
      • Databases
      • IDE
    • Desktop Environment
    • Editors
    • Education
    • Email
    • File Manager
    • Games
      • City Building Simulation
      • FPS
      • RTS
      • Turn Based Strategy
      • RPG
      • Miscellaneous
    • Graphics
      • Image Creation
      • Image Viewer
    • Health
    • Internet
      • Browser
      • Torrent
    • Operating System
    • Productivity
    • Social news
    • Utilities
    • Video
      • Video Player
    • Wiki software
    • Window Manager
    • Other
      • Historical Purposes
  • Mobile Applications
  • Other Lists
  • Contributors
  • Guidelines to contribute
  • Unsure how to contribute?
  • Note
  • Credit
  • License

Applications

Audio

• Ernestine - Ernestine is a music management application in McClim. MIT.
• OpusModus - Music composition package. Proprietary.
• o7 - Visual programming / Computer-aided music composition environment. [No License Specified].
• PWGL - A Visual Programming Language for Music and Sound.

Blogging

• Cliki2 - The wiki software behind cliki.net AGPL3
• Ext-blog - blog engine. It supports custom theme and you can port a WordPress theme for it. [No License Specified].

Static Blog Generator

• Coleslaw - Flexible Lisp Blogware.

Chat

• Beirc - A clim-based IRC client. No license specified.
• Chatter - A chat client based on Twitter DMs.
• Climc - A Common Lisp Instant Messaging Client.
• Collen - Common Lisp IRC bot with a modular framework.
• Lisp-chat - An experimental minimal chat. MIT.
• Lichat - Lichat client for Maiden. Artistic License 2.0
• Potato - Delicious conversations platform in Common Lisp and ClojureScript.
• WeirdIRC - Widely portable IRC-Client. LGPL.

Chat Bot

• Alice - Alice Margatroid, a dollmaster that pretends not to be a doll itself. [No license Specified].
• Lisp-paste - Bots from #lisp. MIT.
• Magitek - Whimsical robots infused with just a hint of magic. No license specified.

Development Tools

• Quickdocs - Ready and Up-to-Date Documentation for All Common Lisp Projects. [No License Specified].
• Quickutil - The solution to the Utility Library problem. [No License Specified].
• Asdf-viz - ASDF system dependency visualizer. LLGPL.
• Cepl - Code Evaluate Play Loop. 2-clause BSD.
• Cl-bunny - Common Lisp RabbitMQ client based on IOLib.
• Dirtylogman - Command line tool for reading lots of log files. LLGPL
• Eazy-project - Boost your development!. [No License Specified].
• Lake - Lake is a GNU make like build utility in Common Lisp. MIT.
• baf - A simple Nixpkgs and NixOS helper. CC0.
• Seed - Interactive software environment based on Common Lisp. GPL3.
• Sbcl-shell - A command shell. [No License Specified].
• Sluglisp - Like Quicklisp, only slower (a web GUI based Quicklisp for searching the projects). [No License Specified].
• prometheus.cl - Prometheus.io Common Lisp client. MIT.

Databases

• Pgchart - A self-contained web application that takes as input an SQL query text and outputs its data as a chart. [No License Specified]
• Pgloader - Migrate to PostgreSQL in a single command!. PostgreSQL License
• AllegroGraph - A modern, high-performance, persistent graph database.
• LambdaLite - A functional, relational database in about 250 lines of Common Lisp. MIT.

IDE

• SLIME - The Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs.
• Sly - Sylvester the Cat's Common Lisp IDE (slime's fork)
• Mcclide - Ide. No license specified.

For more, see Awesome-cl.

Desktop Environment

• Mcclim-desktop - a clim-desktop clone. GPL3.

Editors

• Lem - Common Lisp editor/IDE with high expansibility. MIT.
• Able - A Basic Lisp Editor. MIT.
• Alpaca - The Alpaca programmable editor. [No license specified].
• Climacs - An Emacs-like editor in Common Lisp. LGPL.
• Hemlock - Portable version of the Hemlock editor. [No Licence Specified].
• MarkEdit - Markdown editor and previewer built with Ceramic. [No license specified].
• Magic-ed - Editing facility for Common Lisp REPL.
• Med - Emacs-like text editor for the Mezzano operating system. MIT.

Education

• ACL2 - A theorem proving environment. 3-clause BSD.
• Axiom - Axiom is a free, open source computer algebra system.
• BioBike - Fully programmable research environment and biological knowledge base.
• Biochat - Where biological datasets learn to talk to each other. MIT.
• Clnuplot - GNUplot in Common Lisp. MIT.
• Geiriadur - Dictionary lookup engine and a dictionary editing system. No license specified.
• Maxima - Computer Algebra System written in Common Lisp. GPL2.
• Mandelbrot set explorer - Mandelbrot set explorer. Proprietary
• PVS - The People's Verification System . GPL2.
• Sparser - A natural language understanding system for English, [No License Specified].
• Weyl - Computer algebra substrate from Cornell University. [No License Specified].
• Yotta-zoomer - Deep Fractal Zoomer. No license specified.

Email

File Manager

• FTD - The Flexi-Trivial Dired. No license specified.
• Filer - Mezzano File Manager.

Games

City Building Simulation

FPS

• CotD - A roguelike battle of Angels and Demons in the streets of a Human city. GPL3.
• Jak and Daxter - Jak and Daxter. Proprietary.
• Option-9 - A Shoot'em Up Game. No license specified.
• Shootman - a shootman game.

RTS

• Perfectstorm - Perfectstorm is a real time strategy game study. MIT.

Turn Based Strategy

• Clim-chess - CLIM interface for playing chess. No license specified.
• Cl-reversi - Common Lisp implementation of the classic game of reversi.
• Lispstone - Simple card game written in Common Lisp for TWG7. No license specified.
• Sudoku-mcclim - sudoku problem generator & solver for Common Lisp & McCLIM. No license specified.

RPG

• Ninja-sphere - Ninja Sphere. No license specified.

Miscellaneous

• Asteroids - Asteroids game in Common Lisp. [No License Specified].
• asteroid-wars - An asteroids game remake. GPL2.
• Ball-z - Game with balls.
• Breakout - A Remake of the Classic Game Breakout. GPL2.
• Climon - A Simon game written in Common Lisp. MIT.
• Cl-dino - A Chrome Dinosaur Robot. GPL3.
• Common-worm - A simple, hackish version of the classic snake game. No license specified.
• Final-hours - A Remake of the Classic Game Missile Command. GPL2.
• Notalone - You wake up nowhere in the night. Hungry zombies around, but your ol' pal "BOOMSTICK" is with you. GPL3
• Snake - A Remake of the Classic Game Snake. GPL2.
• Starwar - Starwar. [No License Specified].
• The-invaders - A remake of the classic game Space Invader. GPL2.

Graphics

Image Creation

• Sketch -A Common Lisp framework for the creation of electronic art, visual design, game prototyping, game making, computer graphics, exploration of human-computer interaction, and more.
• Wigflip - image playground.
• Flow - Tools for the representation of graphs and flowcharts.
• kiga-wavesim - Simple wave simulator.
• McPixel - A toy Lisp program for drawing and animating pixel art. No license specified.
• Mirai - 3D editor built on the winged-edge data structure. Proprietary.
• Parasol - A Common Lisp painting application.
• PTC's 3d designer - 3D Design Software. Proprietary.
• Snek - An experimental system for writing generative systems.
• Stektcheroo - 2D drawing and layout.

Image Viewer

• Halftone - A simple image viewer in Common Lisp.
• Spectacle - A CLIM application for viewing opticl images. 2-clause BSD.

Health

• PRISM - The Prism project is a long term project to build software tools for radiation therapy planning, including artificial intelligence tools as well as manual simulation systems.

Internet

Browser

• nEXT - nEXT - The fastest productivity web-browser.

See also Closure (using McClim) and Lispkit (using WebKit).

Torrent

• cl-torrents - a library and app with a command line and readline interface to search for torrents on popular trackers.

Operating System

• Mezzano - An operating system written in Common Lisp

See also Yalo.

Productivity

• Grammarly - Grammar checking. Proprietary.
• Turtl - a secure note taking, bookmarking and document storage app. AGPL.
• Cl-Markdown - A Common Lisp rewrite of Markdown. MIT.
• Ichiran - Linguistic tools for texts in Japanese language. MIT.
• Projectured - ProjecturEd is a generic purpose projectional editor. [No License Specified].

Social news

• Reddit v1 source code (reddit). Proprietary.

Utilities

• cl-ledger - a port of the double-entry accounting system. 3-clause BSD.
• Hju - Simple command line (CLI) controller for Hue lights. MIT.
• Mediaimport - Import media files (jpgs/movies) from cameras. [No License Specified].

Video

Video Player

• Terentino - Mezzano Video Player. MIT.

Wiki software

• Aliw - A Lisp in Wonderland (aka. ALIW) is a wiki software. 2-clause BSD.

Window Manager

• Stumpwm - The Stump Window Manager.
• Eclipse - Eclipse, the Common Lisp window manager. No license specified.
• Paulownia - A modern re-write of stumpwm. GPL2.

Other

• Kindista - A social network for local sharing. AGPL3
• Cyc - Build a database of heuristics. Proprietary.
• Denso - A controller package suite for robots from Densowave based on open-industrial-ros-controllers. [No License Specified].
• Hiper - Term rewriting E-completion system. No license specified.
• Matrix Airfare Search - low-fare search engine. Proprietary.
• Missile Defense - Missile Defense at Raytheon. Proprietary.
• Movie box office charts - Display box office data graphically. [No License Specified].
• Orbitz - Travel fare aggregator website and travel metasearch engine. Proprietary.
• Piano - A complete aircraft analysis suite. Proprietary.
• Pocket Change - Converts leftover coins and bills to electronic money, gift codes, and coupons of your choice. Proprietary.
• Routific - Route optimization and fleet management. Proprietary.
• Sandfall - Falling sands simulator.
• Tv-series-status - Check the web for the next episodes of TV series and find new episodes at a glance. No license specified.
• Zen - The zen X server in Common Lisp. GPL3.

Historical Purposes

• DART - Application to optimize and schedule the transportation of supplies or personnel and solve other logistical problems.
• ICAD - A knowledge-based CAD system.
• Interleaf Publisher - A document processor.
• Itasca database - Database.
• Metal - Siemens machine translation system.
• Sk8 - A multimedia authoring environment.
• Action! - Expertelligence' Interface Designer.
• Endless list.

Mobile Applications

• CL REPLay - A REPL with simple editor. No license specified.
• Sokoban - Sokoban game. No license specified.

Other Lists

• Allegro Common Lisp Success Stories - by Franc Inc
  • Customer Application List
• awesome-cl
• Cliki - CLiki the common lisp wiki
  • Application - Stand-alone applications written in Common Lisp
• Common Lisp games
  • Lisp Game Jams
• Lisp Companies - by Peter Christensen.
• Lisp-lang Success Stories
• LispWorks Success Stories
• Paul Graham - Applications
• Wikipedia Common Lisp Software

Contributors

Thanks to All of Github contributors and Everyone @ reddit.com/r/lisp ad r/Common_Lisp/ for many suggestions and compliments.

Guidelines to contribute

Please follow this format of the list [Appname](#link) - description. [License]. if you want to make a contribution.

• Put the name of the application and link to its homepage in the list.
• Write a short description for the application.
• Add a license in the end of the list. see the list format above
• Make sure it is put under the appropriate topic.
• If the application doesn't fit in any existing topic, make a new one for it.
• Sort the item by it's popularity.
  • we come up with this approach since alphabetically sorted make people unnoticed which app has more active development and which app unmaintained or abandoned.

Unsure how to contribute?

• How to Use Github
• How to Git from the Command Line
• What is Markdown? - Markdown is the writing method used to create this list, if you want to know how to format properly, it's best that you learn how to use Github Markdown.
• Alternative Markdown Guide:

Note

• You can learn about licenses in tl;drLegal
• There are so many Applications buit with Lisp, but most of them are more than 20 years old, this list will be endless as Rainer Joswig said, so here I wil only include the relevant application.

Credit

• I made this skeleton of topics from Awesome Linux Software.

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.