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Category: GUI

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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Typing

retype – typing practice

January 23, 2026 Steve Emms Education, GUI

retype is a typing practice application. Type along to epub books.

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Password manager

Passy – offline password manager with cross-platform synchronization

January 22, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Passy is an offline password manager with cross-platfrom synchronization. It’s written in Dart.

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Task Manager

Finitodo – graphical task/todo list manager

January 22, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Finitodo is a graphical task/todo list manager that aims to be flexible and capable without being overly complicated.

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Alaska

ImPPG – image post-processor

January 22, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

ImPPG performs Lucy-Richardson deconvolution, unsharp masking, brightness normalization and tone curve adjustment.

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Font Tools

Slice – create custom font design spaces

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Slice is a cross-platform GUI app that generates fonts with custom design sub-spaces from variable font inputs.

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Selection of utilities

beekeeper-qt – deduplicate redundant data

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

beekeeper-qt lets you free up disk space by removing redundant block-level data, both inside files and across multiple files.

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System administration

RevLix – data recovery tool

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

RevLix is a data recovery tool developed to recover deleted files on Linux systems. This program uses the PhotoRec infrastructure.

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Internet Radio

Transistor – GUI internet radio player

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Reviews

Transistor is a GUI internet radio player for Linux written in C++. It’s impressive to say the least!

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PDF

dodo – fast and configurable PDF viewer

January 19, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

dodo is billed as a fast, keyboard-friendly PDF reader built for smooth reading, quick navigation, and deep customization.

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Video

xt7-player-mpv – mpv GUI

January 18, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

xt7-player-mpv aims to be an (in)complete graphical interface to mpv, focused on usability.

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Screen Capture

HyprSnipper – snipping tool for Hyprland

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

HyprSnipper is a Qt-based screenshot tool designed specifically for Hyprland. It’s written in Python.

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Network

Karing – proxy utility

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Karing is billed as a simple and powerful proxy utility. It’s written in Dart.

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Git Clients

GitTop – lightweight desktop client for GitHub notifications

January 16, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

GitTop is a lightweight desktop client for GitHub notifications. Why spin up a browser just to check your GitHub notifications?

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