Awesome Linux Apps
Contents
- Audio
- Backup
- Browser
- Chat
- Cloud Storage
- Code Editors
- Databases
- Game
- IDEs
- Image Editors
- Markdown Editors
- Music
- Notes
- Office
- Terminal
- Version Control
- Video
- Virtualization
Audio
- 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.
Backup
- 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.
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Browser
- 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.
Chat
- 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.
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Cloud Storage
- 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.
Code Editors
- 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.
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Databases
- 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.
Game
- 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.
IDEs
- 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.
Image Editors
- 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.
Markdown Editors
- 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.
Music
- 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.
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Notes
- 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.
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Office
- 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.
Terminal
- 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.
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Version Control
- 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.
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Video
- 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.
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Virtualization
- 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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License
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