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Category: GUI

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 – native PDF viewer with configurable keybindings

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

miro is a PDF viewer with Vim-style navigation, dark mode, document search, bookmarks, annotations and support for multiple tabs.

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File Managers

Fint – keyboard-driven graphical file manager

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Web Apps

Fint is a keyboard-driven Linux file manager with three-column navigation, media previews, custom themes, tabs and file-picker modes.

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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 scientific and programmer calculator

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

SwitchCalc is a GTK4 calculator providing standard, scientific, programmer and date modes, bitwise operations and time conversion.

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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 device synchronization

January 22, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Passy stores credentials and personal records offline, with encrypted device synchronization, two-factor codes, sharing and autofill.

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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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