Awesome Linux Apps

🚀 A list of awesome applications for 🐧 Linux distributions.

Contents

• Audio
• Backup
• Brower
• Chat
• Cloud Storage
• Database
• Image Editors
• Mail
• Music
• Notes
• Office
• Terminal
• Text Editors
• Video

Audio

• Ardour - Free, open source audio workstation for Mac, Linux, and Windows. 👏
• Audacity - Free, open source, cross-platform audio software. 👏
• Frinika - Free, complete music workstation software for Linux.
• Ocenaudio - Easy, fast and powerful audio editor.

Backup

• attic - Deduplicating backup program. 👏
• Back In Time - Simple backup tool for Linux. 👏
• backup - Easy full stack backup operations on UNIX-like systems. 👏
• 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.
• duplicity - Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm.
• restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program. 👏

Brower

• Brave - Secure, Fast & Private Web Browser with Adblocker.
• Chrome - Fast, simple and secure browser for all devices.
• Chromium - Open source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster and more stable way for all Internet users. 👏
• Firefox - The new, fast browser for Mac, PC and Linux.
• Midori - Lightweight, fast, and free web browser.
• Opera - Fast, secure, easy-to-use browser.
• Tor - Contain everything you need to safely browse the Internet.
• Vivaldi - The browser that gives you control.
• Yandex - Fast and secure browser.

Chat

• Discord - Free Voice and Text Chat for Gamers.
• Skype - The most famous instant messaging application for any platform.
• Telegram - WhatsApp alternative with a blue theme color and a bot API.
• Slack - The messaging app almost every startup company in the world uses.
• Tox - peer-to-peer instant messaging app with end-to-end encryption and no central server. 👏
• Viber - Offer text, audio, gif, and video services as well as Unity integration.
• WICKR - Famous for its automatic self-destructing message security feature.
• Wire - The best instant messaging app available for Linux.

Cloud Storage

• Dropbox - One of the best cloud services out there.
• Google Drive - One of the best cloud services for Linux users.
• NextCloud - Free and open source cloud storage and collaboration platform.
• pCloud - European offering from Switzerland.

Database

• DB Browser for SQLite - High quality, visual, open source tool with SQLite. 👏
• DBeaver - Free universal database tool and SQL client. 👏
• Postbird - Cross-platform PostgreSQL GUI client, written in JavaScript, runs with Electron. 👏
• Robo 3T - Free lightweight GUI for MongoDB enthusiasts.

Image Editors

• GIMP - Free & Open Source Image Editor. 👏
• 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 - Simple drawing and painting program. 👏
• Pinta - Free, open source program for drawing and image editing. 👏
• Vectr - Free graphics software used to create vector graphics easily and intuitively.

Mail

• Hiri - Linux email client for Exchange and Office 365.
• Mailspring - The best mail client for Mac, Linux, and Windows. 👏
• Nylas Mail - Open source, extensible mail client. 👏
• Thunderbird - Free email application, easy to install and customize.

Music

• Amarok - Powerful music player for Linux with an intuitive interface. 👏
• Audacious - Open source media player that’s widely popular among audiophiles. 👏
• Clementine - Cross-platform, open source music player that’s a popular choice of Linux-using music enthusiasts. 👏
• cmus - Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems. 👏
• Rhythmbox - Music playing application for GNOME. 👏

Notes

• Boostnote - Markdown editor for developers on Mac, Windows and Linux. 👏
• Laverna - Keep your notes private. 👏
• Simplenote - Simplenote React app packaged in Electron. 👏
• Tagspaces - Offline, open source, data manager. 👏
• Turtl - Secure, collaborative notebook. 👏

Office

• LibreOffice - Best free office suite in the Linux community. 👏
• WPS Office - Beautiful, faster, lightweight and offers modern slick user interface.

Terminal

• Alacritty - Cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator. 👏
• Hyper - Terminal built on web technologies. 👏
• Konsole - Terminal emulator for the K Desktop Environment. 👏
• Tilda - Gtk based drop down terminal for Linux and Unix. 👏
• Tilix - Tiling terminal emulator for Linux. 👏
• Upterm - Terminal emulator for the 21st century. 👏

Text Editors

• Atom - Hackable text editor for the 21st Century. 👏
• BlueFish - Powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdevelopers.
• Brackets - A modern, open source text editor that understands web design. 👏
• Sublime Text - A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.
• Vim - The ubiquitous text editor. 👏
• Visual Studio Code - Free, open source and runs everywhere. 👏

Video

• 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. 👏
• SMPlayer - Free Media Player with built-in codecs.
• VLC - Free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework. 👏

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