🚀 A list of awesome applications for 🐧 Linux distributions.
- Audio
- Backup
- Browser
- Chat
- Cloud Storage
- Code Editors
- Databases
- Game
- IDEs
- Image Editors
- Markdown Editors
- Music
- Notes
- Office
- Terminal
- Version Control
- Video
- Virtualization
- Amarok - A cross-platform and opensource audio player. 👏
- Ardour - Free, open source audio workstation for recording, editing and Mixing. 👏
- Audacious Free, open souce, audio player with low resource use. 👏
- Audacity - Free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds. 👏
- Clementine - A cross-platform feature-rich music player.
- Frinika - Free, complete music workstation software.
- LMMS - Free cross-platform music production software. 👏
- Ocenaudio - Easy, fast and powerful audio editor.
- attic - Efficient and secure way to backup data. 👏
- Back In Time - Simple backup solution. 👏
- backup - Powerful backup tool distributed using RubyGems. 👏
- BackupPC - High-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up to a server's disk. 👏
- bup - Efficient backup system, provide fast incremental saves and global deduplication. 👏
- Déjà Dup - Simple backup tool, hides the complexity of backing up the right way and uses duplicity as the backend. 👏
- duplicity - Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm.
- restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program. 👏
- Timeshift - Takes incremental snapshots of the file system at regular intervals. 👏
- Brave - Secure, fast and private web browser with Adblocker.
- Chrome - Fast, simple and secure browser by Google.
- Chromium - Open source, safer, faster and more stable way for all Internet users. 👏
- Edge - Fast and secure browser by Microsoft.
- Firefox - Fast, lightweight and powerfully private web browser.
- Midori - Lightweight, fast and free web browser.
- Opera - Fast, secure, easy-to-use and free VPN.
- Tor - Contain everything you need to safely browse the internet.
- Vivaldi - Powerful, personal and flexible browser.
- Yandex - Fast and secure browser.
- Discord - Free voice and text chat for gamers.
- Keybase - Secure messaging and file-sharing for team collaboration.
- Microsoft Teams - Meet, chat, call, and collaborate in just one place.
- Pidgin - A chat program which lets you log into accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. 👏
- Signal - Free communication, audio, video call and secure messaging.
- Skype - Famous instant messaging application for talking, chatting and collaborating.
- Telegram - Cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging app with a focus on security and speed.
- Slack - Awesome tool for team collaboration and communication.
- Tox - Free, powerful and secure chat.
- Viber - Free and secure calls and messages to anyone, anywhere.
- WICKR - Secure for team collaboration space.
- Wire - Open source and secure collaboration platform. 👏
- Dropbox - The best cloud services on Linux.
- Google Drive - Powerful cloud services by Google.
- Mega - Powerful and Secure Coud Storage.
- NextCloud - Free, open source cloud storage and collaboration platform.
- pCloud - Secure online storage from Switzerland.
- insync - Google Drive and OneDrive file syncing
- Terrabox - Get free cloud storage 1024GB.
- Atom - Hackable text editor for the 21st Century. 👏
- BlueFish - Powerful editor targeted towards programmers and web developers.
- Brackets - Modern, open source text editor that understands web design. 👏
- Kakoune - Modal editor with multi selection and fewer keystroke 👏
- neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability. 👏
- Oni - Modern Modal Editing - powered by Neovim. 👏
- Oni2 - Native, lightweight modal code editor. 👏
- Sublime Text - Sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.
- Vim - Greatly improved version of the good old UNIX editor Vi. 👏
- Visual Studio Code - Free, open source, powerful and runs everywhere. 👏
- CockroachDB - CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database built on a transactional and strongly-consistent key-value store. 👏
- DB Browser for SQLite - High quality, visual, open source tool with SQLite. 👏
- DBeaver - Free universal database tool and SQL client. 👏
- Gun - Gun is an open-source and realtime, decentralized, offline-first, graph database engine written in JavaScript. 👏
- Mongodb Compass - Nice GUI for MongoDB with dark mode included.
- Postbird - Cross-platform PostgreSQL GUI client, written in JavaScript, runs with Electron. 👏
- Postgres admin - Free Postgres admin GUI, you can export and import database and rarely fail.
- Robo 3T - Free lightweight GUI for MongoDB enthusiasts.
- GameHub - GameHub provides games from multiple game sources and services (Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, Humble Trove, etc). 👏
- GOG.com - Web platform to donwload games.
- Humble - Platform to buy games bundles.
- itch.io - Platform to buy games.
- Lutris - Open Source gaming platform for Linux. 👏
- PlayOnLinux - Support install Windows app and games on Linux. 👏
- Portable Linux Games - Collection of a number of Linux games.
- Steam - Platform to buy games.
- Android Studio - The fastest tools for building apps on every type of Android device.
- CLion - Cross-platform IDE for C and C++.
- DataGrip - Many databases, one tool.
- Eclipse - Free, open source, written by Java and plugin architecture allows Eclipse to be extended in other languages.
- GoLand - Cross-platform IDE built specially for Go developers.
- IntelliJ IDEA - Powerful IDE for JVM languages.
- NetBeans - Quickly and easily develop desktop, mobile, and web applications with Java.
- PyCharm - Powerful Python IDE for Professional Developers.
- Rider - Fast and powerful cross-platform .NET IDE.
- WebStorm - The powerful IDE for modern JavaScript development.
- DigiKam - Free & Open-source digital photo management application. 👏
- Fotoxx - Free & Open-source photo editing and collection management tool. 👏
- GIMP - Free & Open Source Image Editor. 👏
- GrafX2 - Bitmap paint program inspired by Deluxe Paint on Amiga.
- Inkscape - Professional vector graphics editor. 👏
- Karbon - Vector drawing application that is easy to use, highly customizable and extensible.
- Krita - Open source professional software and free digital painting. 👏
- MyPaint - Fast and dead-simple painting app for artists. 👏
- Pinta - Free, open source program for drawing and image editing. 👏
- Shotcut - Free, open source, cross-platform video editor. 👏
- ShowFOTO - Free & Lightweight image editor.
- Vectr - Free graphics software used to create vector graphics easily and intuitively.
- Hiri - Linux email client for Exchange and Office 365.
- Mailspring - Free, open source, beautiful and fast mail client. 👏
- Thunderbird - Free email application, easy to install and customize.
- ghostwriter - Cross-platform, aesthetic, distraction-free Markdown editor. 👏
- Haroopad - The next document processor based on Markdown. 👏
- Marktext - Simple and Elegant Markdown Editor, focused on speed and usability. 👏
- Moeditor - Your all-purpose Markdown editor. 👏
- Remarkable - Open source, lightweight and powerful Markdown editor. 👏
- ReText - Simple but powerful editor for Markdown and reStructuredText. 👏
- Typora - Truly minimal Markdown editor featuring seamless live preview.
- Amarok - Powerful music player for Linux with an intuitive interface. 👏
- Audacious - Open source audio player that is low resource and has a minimal feature interface. 👏
- Clementine - Cross-platform music player and library organizer forked from Amarok 1.4. 👏
- cmus - Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems. 👏
- ocp - Music visualizer for various tracked music formats, chiptunes and other formats related to demoscene. 👏
- Lollypop - Modern music player for GNOME. 👏
- Rhythmbox - Music playing application for GNOME. 👏
- Boostnote - Intuitive and stylish note taking tool for developers. 👏
- Laverna - Keep your notes private. 👏
- notes - GPG Encrypted Notes/Notebook manager for BSD/Linux👏
- Simplenote - Light, clean and free. 👏
- Tagspaces - Offline, open source and data manager. 👏
- Turtl - Secure and collaborative notebook. 👏
- LibreOffice - Best free office suite in the Linux community. 👏
- OpenOffice - The free and open productive suite. 👏
- WPS Office - Beautiful, faster, lightweight and offers modern slick user interface.
- Alacritty - Cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator. 👏
- Fzf command-line fuzzy finder - General-purpose command-line fuzzy finder that makes searching in history way easier. 👏
- Hyper - Terminal built on web technologies. 👏
- Kitty - Fast, feature-rich, cross-platform, GPU based terminal. 👏
- Konsole - Terminal emulator for the K Desktop Environment. 👏
- st - Simple terminal implementation for X. 👏
- Terminator - Multiple terminals in one window. 👏
- Termite - A keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal. 👏
- Tilda - Easy to configure the hotkeys and change the appearance. 👏
- Tilix - Tiling terminal emulator using GTK+ 3. 👏
- Tmux - Tmux is a terminal multiplexer, like screen, but much better. 👏
- Upterm - Terminal emulator for the 21st century. 👏
- Aurees - Easy, fast and free.
- CodeReview - Git GUI tool to perform code review. 👏
- GitAhead - Graphical Git client designed to help you understand and manage your source code history. 👏
- Git Cola - Powerful Git GUI with a slick and intuitive user interface. 👏
- Git Extensions - Standalone UI tool for managing git repositories. 👏
- Git Horizon - Cross-platform, Actionable, Graphical Git Dashboard.
- GitKraken - Git client with efficiency, elegance and reliability.
- SmartGit - Graphical Git client with support for SVN and Pull Requests for GitHub and Bitbucket.
- Sublime Merge - Powerful Git client from the creators of Sublime Text.
- ungit - Clean and intuitive UI, running on the web. 👏
- Bomi - Powerful and Easy-to-use multimedia player. 👏
- Kodi - Free and open source media player application. 👏
- Miro - Beautiful, open-source music and video player that lets you break free! 👏
- mpv - Free, open source, and cross-platform media player. 👏
- OBS Studio - Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. 👏
- SimpleScreenRecorder - Free and open source screen recording is easy to do. 👏
- SMPlayer - Free Media Player with built-in codecs.
- VLC - Free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework. 👏
- Docker - Powerful, performs operating-system-level virtualization. 👏
- Docker Machine - Machine management for a container-centric world. 👏
- Gnome Boxes - Easy to view, access, and manage remote and virtual systems. 👏
- QEMU - Generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. 👏
- UCS Virtual Machine Manager - Linux VM management tool for Linux, which specializes in working with cloud VMs, clusters, and other enterprise-level virtual systems.
- Vagrant - Tool for building and distributing development environments. 👏
- Virtual Box - Free, feature rich, high performance and maintained by Oracle.
- Virtual Machine Manager - Graphical tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt. 👏
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