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Text Editor

Looksyk – simple personal knowledge platform

September 14, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Looksyk is a simple personal knowledge platform with a focus on clean markdown files, simple queries and a journal. This is free and open source software. Key Features Local Storage: Your information is always exclusively in Markdown files (currently in

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Software

Pamac – Gtk and CLI front ends of libpamac

September 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

Pamac offers lpm, AUR, Appstream, Flatpak, and Snap support.

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Machine Learning in Linux

Gerbil – desktop app to easily run Large Language Models locally

September 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Scientific

Gerbil lets you run LLMs locally powered by KoboldCpp which itself is a highly modified fork of llama.cpp.

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Application Launchers

Vicinae – native launcher for the desktop

September 12, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, GUI

Vicinae is a high-performance, native launcher for your desktop — built with C++ and Qt.

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Text Editor

NovProg – graph your progress in writing a novel

September 12, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

NovProg tracks daily and total word counts for novels, charting writing progress against goals in a desktop application for Linux.

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Musical instruments

GrandOrgue – pipe organ simulator

September 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

GrandOrgue is a virtual pipe organ sample player application supporting a HW1 compatible file format.

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Notes

Bookup – organise Markdown notes into books

September 8, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Bookup is a Markdown note-taking app with SQLite notebooks, nested sections, tags, full-text search, drag-and-drop sorting and PDF export.

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Notes

Notorious – keyboard centric notes

September 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Notorious is a keyboard centric notes app made for power users.

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Youp – WhatsApp wrapper

September 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Youp is a WhatsApp wrapper that makes it easier to use.

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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 – explore guitar chords and fingerings

September 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Fretboard helps guitarists explore chords on an interactive neck, discover alternative fingerings and bookmark chord shapes for practice.

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Cloud storage

Peergos – secure file storage, social network and application protocol

September 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Peergos offers private self-hosted cloud storage with client-side encryption, protected metadata, secure sharing and file synchronisation.

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Bazaar – graphical app store for Linux

September 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Bazaar is a fast Flatpak app store with Flathub favourites, queued installations, app permissions and a unified library for updates.

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UML

Gaphor – simple UML and SysML modeling tool

September 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

Gaphor is an approachable UML, SysML, RAAML and C4 modeling application with standards-based models, diagrams and report generation.

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Cloud storage

Puter – privacy-first personal cloud

September 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Puter is a self-hosted web desktop combining cloud file storage, app hosting and developer tools, accessible through a browser on Linux.

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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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