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Category: GUI

Laser cutting

Inkcut – control 2D plotters, cutters, engravers and CNC machines

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Inkcut is an application for controlling 2D plotters, cutters, engravers, and CNC machines.

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Game Engines

TuxTuner – Wayland-native performance control for ASUS gaming laptops

February 9, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

TuxTuner is a Wayland-native performance control for ASUS gaming laptops on Linux.

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Selection of utilities

qdia – schematic/diagram editor

February 9, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

qia is a simple schematic/diagram editor with focus on quick diagram generation with high quality graphics.

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Graphics card

Gale – lightweight Thunderstore client

February 8, 2026 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Gale is a modern and lightweight mod manager for Thunderstore, built with Svelte and Tauri.

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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

v2 – rich-text editor

February 8, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

v2 is a local-first rich-text editor with versioning capabilities.

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Notes

mnemo – note-taking app

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

mnemo is a local-first, cross-platform note-taking app leveraging the Typst ecosystem. It’s designed to minimize distractions

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Musical concept image

Ampere – lightweight music player

February 5, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Ampere is a GUI-based playlist-based audio player written in Python and Qt. It’s free and open source software.

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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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