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Category: GUI

WiFi

Adwaita Network – modern network manager for GNOME

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Adwaita Network offers clean WiFi and hotspot management with an Adwaita-native UI.

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Animation

Synfig – 2D animation software

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Synfig is a vector based 2D animation package. It is designed to be capable of producing feature-film quality animation.

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Blender – 3D creation suite

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Blender is a free and open source 3D content creation suite available for many operating systems including Linux.

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LibreSprite – create 2D animations for videogames

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

LibreSprite is software to create and animate sprites. LibreSprite originated as a fork of Aseprite, developed by David Capello.

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Animation

Pencil2D – easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Pencil2D is an easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations.

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Animation

OpenToonz – 2D animation software

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

OpenToonz is full-featured 2D animation creation software. It is based on Toonz Studio Ghibli Version.

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Animation

Tahoma2D – powerful software for 2D and stop motion animators

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Tahoma2DTahoma2D is a full-featured 2D and Stop Motion animation creation software. It is based on Toonz Studio, Ghibli Version.

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Animation

Glaxnimate – simple and fast vector graphics animation program

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Glaxnimate is a simple vector graphics animation tool. Vector graphics are images are described with objects like lines, curves, and points.

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K-3D – 3D modeling and animation software

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

K-3D is a free and open source procedural modeler, meaning that the entire history of user modifications are stored when creating a model.

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Animation

enve – 2D animation software

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

enve is 2D animation software. You can use enve to create vector animations, raster animations, and even use sound and video files.

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MapWizard – tool for osu! beatmap editing

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

MapWizard is a modern tool for osu! beatmap editing, designed to streamline your workflow with features like hitsound transfer.

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Text Editor

HelixNotes – local-first Markdown note-taking app

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

HelixNotes is a local-first markdown note-taking app built with Tauri, SvelteKit, and Rust.

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Selection of utilities

Tiny RDM – Redis desktop manager

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Tiny RDM is a modern lightweight cross-platform Redis desktop manager available for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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Application Launchers

AppManager – install and uninstall AppImages

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

AppManager is a GTK/Libadwaita developed desktop utility in Vala that makes installing and uninstalling AppImages on Linux desktop painless.

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3D Printer

QIDIStudio – 3D printer slicing software

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

QIDIStudio is a professional 3D printer slicing software,which is compatible with all printers and 3D printing filaments of QIDI Technology.

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Application Launchers

Vanta – application launcher for Wayland

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop, GUI

Vanta is a scriptable application launcher and command palette for Wayland.

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Luminance – control brightness of displays

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Luminance is a simple GTK application to control brightness of displays including external displays supporting DDC/CI.

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Photo collection

Annotator – image annotation tool

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Annotator lets you annotate your images and let a picture say 1000 words.

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Text Editor

MerMark Editor – Markdown editor with Mermaid diagram support

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

MerMark Editor combines the simplicity of Markdown with the power of Mermaid diagrams in a beautiful, native desktop application.

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Selection of utilities

TrackAudio – Audio-For-VSTSIM ATC client

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

TrackAudio is a specialized Audio-for-VATSIM (AFV) client application designed for air traffic controllers (ATCs) on the VATSIM network

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