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Science

Webots – robot simulator

September 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Webots provides a complete development environment to model, program, and simulate robots, vehicles, and mechanical systems.

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Music sketch

mtoc – visually-rich music player and library browser

September 5, 2025 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

mtoc (music table of contents) is billed as a visually-rich music player and library browser. It’s written in C++ and built with Qt, TagLib and GStreamer.

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Guitar

Fretboard – look up guitar chords

September 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Fretboard lets you find guitar chords by typing their names or plotting them on an interactive guitar neck.

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UML

Gaphor – simple UML and SysML modeling tool

September 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

Gaphor is a UML, SysML, RAAML, and C4 modeling application. It is designed to be easy to use, while still being powerful.

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OnTheSpot – GUI music downloader

September 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia

OnTheSpot is an easy to use music downloader. It’s written in Python.

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Video Conversion

Gyroflow – video stabilization using gyroscope data

September 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Gyroflow is an application that can stabilize your video by using motion data from a gyroscope and optionally an accelerometer.

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Application Launchers

Walker – fast application launcher

September 1, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, GUI

Walker is a fast, customizable application launcher built with GTK4 and Rust, designed for Linux desktop environments.

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Tetris

Quadrapassel – falling-block game

August 30, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Quadrapassel is a derivative of a classic falling-block game.

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Task Manager

Diurnals – get daily Todoist notifications

August 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Diurnals lets you receive a daily popup to notify about upcoming Todoist tasks. It’s simple and easy to configure.

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KLog – ham radio logger

August 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

KLog provides general purpose ham radio DX logging support.

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Color Palette – look up GNOME colors

August 28, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Color Palette is a tool for viewing the GNOME color palette as defined by the design guidelines.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Word2IPA – turn words into their true sounds

August 23, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Word2IPA converts English words into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), providing a clear representation of pronunciation.

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Video-Emulators

Eden – Nintendo Switch emulator

August 23, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games, GUI

Eden is an experimental emulator for the Nintendo Switch, built with performance and stability in mind.

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Cppcheck – static analysis tool

August 23, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, GUI, Programming

Cppcheck is a static analysis tool for C/C++ code. It provides unique code analysis to detect bugs and focuses on detecting undefined behaviour

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Password Managers

FMP – password manager written in memory-safe Rust

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Forgot My Password (FMP) is a password manager that safely allows you to generate, store, and manage your passwords in encrypted vaults.

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Sessions – focus with timed work intervals

August 20, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Sessions is a simple visual timer application for the Pomodoro technique, helping you stay productive by breaking work into focused sessions

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Pomolin – minimalist Pomodoro timer

August 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Pomolin is billed as a simple, beautiful, and minimalist Pomodoro timer for your desktop.

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fooyin

fooyin v0.9.1 is released – the best open source music player gets better

August 19, 2025 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

fooyin is a customisable music player that strongly resembles foobar2000. The new release adds some neat features and improvements.

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Comic Books

ACBR – comic book reader and converter

August 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

ACBR is a cross-platform comic book reader and converter.

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Sudoku

Sudoku – solve Sudoku puzzles

August 17, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Sudoku is a modern Sudoku app focused on delivering a clean, distraction-free experience. Designed with simplicity and comfort in mind.

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