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Category: GUI

Wattage – monitor battery and power devices

November 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Wattage monitors batteries and other power devices through UPower, showing health, energy data, history and device information.

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OCR Tools

Document Scanner – GNOME based tool

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Document Scanner lets you capture images using image scanners (e.g. flatbed scanners) that have suitable SANE drivers installed.

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Stockmarket

Merkato – GNOME financial markets tracker

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms Financial, GUI

Merkato is a GNOME financial tracker for stocks, currencies and crypto with heatmaps, watchlists, price alerts and delayed quotes.

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System Administration

Easy Flatpak – graphical application management utility

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Easy Flatpak offers graphical application management with guided installation recipes, version control, backups and maintenance tools.

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Turn Based Strategy Games

SLADE3 – modern editor for Doom-engine based games

October 30, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

SLADE3 is a modern editor for Doom-engine based games and source ports. It can view, modify, and write many different game-specific formats.

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Voice Recognition

hyprwhspr – native speech-to-text

October 30, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

hyprwhspr is a native speech-to-text designed for Arch / Omarchy. It aims to provide fast, accurate and easy system-wide dictation.

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Karaoke

Karapulse – karaoke player

October 30, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Karapulse is a Linux karaoke player supporting CDG/MP3 as well as video files.

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Reference Managers

bibman – CLI and TUI bibliography manager

October 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, GUI

bibman manages bibliography entries and attached documents as individual files, with a terminal interface and Pandoc-based format support.

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zomodoro – simple pomodoro

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

zomodoro is a simple pomodoro made with Qt.

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Selection of utilities

mtr-gtk – graphical network route diagnostics

October 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

mtr-gtk provides a graphical interface for continuous route tracing, hop-level packet-loss measurements and network latency statistics.

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Speech

Epicenter – speech recognition tool

October 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Press shortcut → speak → get text. Desktop transcription that cuts out the middleman.

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Data Science

Hydraulics Channel GVF – compute water surface profiles

October 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Hydraulics Channel GVF computes water surface profiles in a prismatic channel for gradually varied flow.

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Selection of utilities

Share Preview – test social media cards locally

October 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Share Preview lets you review and debug websites metadata tags for social media share.

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Game Tools

Draughts – comprehensive draughts (checkers) game

October 26, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Draughts is a comprehensive checkers/draughts game featuring 16 international game variants, multiple AI difficulty levels

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Mixer

deej – open-source hardware volume mixer

October 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

deej is a hardware volume mixer using Arduino sliders to control application, microphone and master audio levels on Linux and Windows.

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Anti-Malware Tools

Lenspect – check files and URLs with VirusTotal

October 25, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Security

Lenspect checks files and URLs through VirusTotal, with detailed detection results, scan history, report exports, and quota monitoring.

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Development

Positron – next-generation data science IDE

October 25, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming, Scientific

Positron is a next-generation data science IDE. It’s also an extensible, polyglot tool for writing code and exploring data.

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Password Managers

Identities – GNOME client for pass password stores

October 25, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Identities is a GNOME client for pass password stores, providing multiple stores, custom entry attributes and one-time authentication codes.

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Notes

Notesnook – private and encrypted note-taking application

October 24, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Notesnook protects notes with end-to-end encryption and offers notebooks, tags, encrypted sync, private vaults, backups and sharing.

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Forkgram – Unofficial Telegram Messenger

October 22, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Forkgram is billed as a cutting-edge Telegram fork with small Quality-of-Life enhancements.

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