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Category: GUI

Application Launchers

Hamr – desktop launcher

February 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Desktop, GUI

Hamr learns from your usage patterns to surface what you need, when you need it. Type a few characters to launch apps, calculate math…

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Screen Capture

SnipText – screen capture OCR tool

February 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, GUI

SnipText is a screen capture OCR tool. Select a screen area, get text in the clipboard.

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Television

Cine – mpv frontend

February 4, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Cine combines a clean interface with a high-performance engine to deliver a seamless viewing experience.

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YouTube

Pipeline – watch YouTube and PeerTube videos

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Access YouTube content without using a web browser. Pipeline goes one step further by letting you also view PeerTube content.

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YouTube

Youwee – YouTube video downloader

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Youwee is billed as a modern, beautiful YouTube video downloader built with Tauri and React.

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Spreadsheets

VisiGrid – local-first spreadsheet

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Office

VisiGrid prioritizes speed, correctness, and keyboard-driven workflows over cloud lock-in and opaque automation.

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Classroom Tools

Drawy – brainstorming tool

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms Education, Graphics, GUI

Drawy is a work-in-progress infinite whiteboard tool which aims to be a native-desktop alternative to the web-based Excalidraw.

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PDF

miro – PDF viewer

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

miro is a native pdf viewer for Linux (Wayland/X11), macOS, and Windows with configurable keybindings.

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File Managers

Fint – keyboard-driven GUI file manager

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Web Apps

Fint is billed as a high-performance, keyboard-driven GUI file manager for Linux, combining TUI efficiency with GUI media capabilities.

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Music

Hummingbird – modern music player

January 28, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Hummingbird is a cross-platform Rust-based music player with basic functionality already implemented. It’s worth checking out!

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Notes

LinNote – keyboard-driven scratchpad

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

LinNote is a fast, keyboard-driven scratchpad for Linux. It’s built for KDE Plasma with Qt6.

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Education

Relational – educational tool for relational algebra

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Education, GUI

Relational is an educational tool to provide a workspace for experimenting with relational algebra, an offshoot of first-order logic.

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Video Editing

VideoCut – lossless video cutter

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

VideoCut is a MP2/MP4 Cutter for Linux on base of mpv and ffmpeg. Cutting is lossless, the target file will not be reencoded.

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Chat

Frolic – modified F-Chat client

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Frolic is an F-Chat client developed for simplicity and stability. It’s based on the feature set of the legacy client Rising

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Magical Potions

Vipster – powerful editor for molecular structures

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

VIsual Periodic STructure EditoR (Vipster) is a fast and easy to use graphical editor for periodic atomistic simulations.

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Files

Athas – cross-platform code editor

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

Athas is a lightweight, cross-platform code editor, built with Tauri (Rust and React) with Git support, AI agents, vim keybindings.

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SwitchCalc – GTK4 calculator

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

SwitchCalc is a GTK4 calculator application for Linux with Standard, Scientific, Programmer, and Date calculation modes.

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Linux

LazyCat Terminal – terminal emulator

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

LazyCat Terminal is billed as a high-performance terminal emulator with multi-tab, split-pane, and transparent background support

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Linux Candy

WallPicker – wallpacker picker with Wallhaven integration and AI upscaling

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Reviews, Utilities

WallPicker is a modern wallpaper picker application. This isn’t the first wallpaper program that’s been explored in this series.

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Font Tools

Modular Font Editor K – modular font editor

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

MFEKglif is a Glyph editor for the Modular Font Editor K project.

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