A curated list of awesome apps, extensions, modules, themes and tools for the KDE Desktop Environment.
KDE is a free software community dedicated to creating an open and user-friendly computing experience, offering an advanced graphical desktop, a wide variety of applications for communication, work, education and entertainment and a platform to easily build new applications upon.
Items marked with 📌 (push pin) are projects hosted on KDE's own infrastructure and developed by the KDE community.
- Falkon - QtWebEngine based cross-platform web browser 📌.
- Konqueror - Uses the KHTML rendering engine (and optionally Webkit) so it supports the latest web standards such as HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, and others 📌.
- Qt WebBrowser - Qt WebBrowser is a browser for embedded devices developed using the capabilities of Qt and Qt WebEngine.
- Otter Browser - Otter Browser aims to recreate the best aspects of the classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5.
- Firefox KDE - Standalone web browser from mozilla.org with OpenSUSE patch, integrate better with KDE.
- KGet - A versatile and user-friendly download manager 📌.
- KTorrent - A BitTorrent application which allows you to download files using the BitTorrent protocol 📌.
- qBittorrent - An advanced BitTorrent client programmed in C++, based on Qt toolkit and libtorrent-rasterbar.
- KMail - KMail is the email component of Kontact, the integrated personal information manager from KDE 📌.
- KDE Connect - A project to communicate across all your devices: receive your phone notifications on your desktop computer, control your desktop from your phone, etc 📌.
- GSConnect - A complete implementation of KDE Connect especially for GNOME Shell with Nautilus, Chrome and Firefox integration.
- Plasma-browser-integration - A suite of new features which make Firefox, Chrome and Chromium-based browsers work with your desktop 📌.
- KRDC - A client application that allows you to view or control a desktop session on another machine that is running a compatible server (VNC & RDP) 📌.
- Konversation - A user-friendly Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client built on the KDE Platform 📌.
- Akregator - Enables you to follow news sites, blogs and other RSS/Atom-enabled websites 📌.
- KNetworkManager - A KDE client for the back end NetworkManager software 📌.
- Smb4K - Advanced Network Neighborhood Browser and Samba Share Mounting Utility 📌.
- Gwenview - A fast and easy to use image viewer by KDE 📌.
- Okular - A universal document viewer 📌.
- Spectacle - An application for capturing desktop screenshots 📌.
- KolourPaint - A simple painting program to quickly create raster images. It is useful as a touch-up tool and simple image editing tasks 📌.
- Krita - Painting tool designed for concept artists, illustrators, matte and texture artists, and the VFX industry 📌.
- digiKam - Professional Photo Management with the Power of Open Source 📌.
- KColorChooser - A simple application to select the color from the screen or from a pallete 📌.
- Amarok - Amarok is a powerful music player for Linux, Unix and Windows with an intuitive interface 📌.
- Kdenlive - A non-linear video editor for Linux using the MLT video framework.
- SMPlayer - Media player with built-in codecs that can play virtually all video and audio formats.
- Elisa - A music player developed by the KDE community that strives to be simple and nice to use 📌.
- KMix - A sound channel mixer and volume control 📌.
- KWave - A sound editor built on the KDE Frameworks 5 📌.
- Calligra - Includes efficient and capable office components 📌.
- Kate - A multi-document, multi-view text editor by KDE 📌.
- KWrite - A text editor by KDE, based on the KDE Frameworks editor component 📌.
- Dolphin - File manager included in the KDE desktop 📌.
- Discover - Intended for users and distros where the terminal isn't the optimal solution for installation of apps and add-ons or updates 📌.
- Konsole - Terminal emulator included in the KDE desktop 📌.
- Yakuake - A drop-down terminal emulator based on KDE's Konsole technology 📌.
- KDiskFree - Displays the available file devices (hard drive partitions, drives, etc.) along with information on their capacity, free space, type and mount point 📌.
- KInfoCenter - A utility that provides detailed information about a computer system 📌.
- KSystemLog - A system log viewer tool 📌.
- Sweeper - Sweeper helps to clean unwanted traces the user leaves on the system and to regain disk space removing unused temporary files 📌.
- Ark - Archiving Tool 📌.
- KFind - A standalone search tool, launched by KRunner or from your menu. It is also integrated into Konqueror as "Find File" in the "Tools" menu 📌.
- KFontview - An application to view and install different types of fonts 📌.
- KDE Wallet Manager - Manage the passwords on KDE systems. The KDE wallet subsystem allows access and password management of every application that integrates with the KDE wallet 📌.
- KeePassXC - Cross-platform community-driven port of Keepass password manager.
- QtPass - A multi-platform GUI for pass.
- Android File Transfer - Reliable MTP client with minimalistic UI.
- RSIBreak - RSIBreak can be used to remind you to take a break now and then 📌.
- KRename - A utility to rename multiple files 📌.
- KDevelop - A cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, QML/JavaScript and PHP 📌.
- Kompare - A diff/patch frontend 📌.
- KTurtle - An educational programming environment that aims to make learning how to program as easy as possible 📌.
- Qt Designer - Qt tool for designing and building graphical user interfaces (GUIs) with Qt Widgets.
- Umbrello - UML Modeller is a Unified Modelling Language (UML) diagram program based on KDE Technology 📌.
- Okteta - Hex Editor 📌.
- Latte-Dock - Latte is a dock based on Plasma frameworks that provides an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and plasmoids 📌.
- Kvantum - An SVG-based theme engine for Qt4/Qt5, KDE and LXQt, with an emphasis on elegance, usability and practicality.
- kde-gtk-config - GTK2 and GTK3 Configurator for KDE 📌.
- kcm-wacomtablet - KDE GUI for the Wacom Linux Drivers 📌.
- kded_rotation - A small, hacky KDED module for handling automatic screen rotation on tablets and hybrid laptops.
- Adapta KDE - A port of the popular GTK theme Adapta for Plasma 5 desktop with a few additions and extras.
- Arc KDE - A port of the popular GTK theme Arc for Plasma 5 desktop with a few additions and extras.
- Materia KDE - A port of the popular GTK theme Materia for Plasma 5 desktop with a few additions and extras.
- Helium - A translucent theme for Plasma 5.
- Breath - Breath Theme for Manjaro Linux (Plasma 5).
- breeze-gtk - A GTK Theme Built to Match KDE's Breeze 📌.
- Papirus - Material icon theme, initially based on Paper.
- Antu - A smooth icon theme designed for Plasma Desktop.
- Zafiro - Minimalist icons created with the flat-desing technique, utilizing washed out colors and always accompanied by white. The priority is simplicity.
- Bibata - Material Based Cursor Theme.
- Capitaine - An x-cursor theme inspired by macOS and based on KDE Breeze.
- kwin-tiling - Tiling script for kwin.
- KDE Wikis - The KDE wikis are a source of information and documentation for the KDE desktop, applications, teams, events and more 📌.
- ArchWiki - Arch Linux KDE Wiki.
- Gentoo Wiki - Gentoo KDE Wiki.
- KDE.news - The official KDE news website 📌.
- Planet KDE - Blogs of KDE contributors 📌.
- Phoronix - Phoronix KDE News Archives.
- Nate Graham's Blog - Adventures in Linux and KDE.
- Nico's Blog - Programmer from Germany that is working on KDE.
- Kai Uwe's Blog - Stories of a Plasma developer.
- Kreddit - KDE Community on Reddit.
- KDE Store - Official KDE Store for developers to share Plasma customizations 📌.
- Stack Overflow - Questions tagged with
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