Skip to content
LinuxLinks

LinuxLinks

Best Free Linux Software & Open Source Reviews

  • Home
  • Software
  • Hardware
  • Reviews
  • Series
  • Search

Category: GUI

Image Compression Tools

CoreImage – lightweight image viewer

July 26, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

CoreImage is a simple lightweight easy to use image viewer which is part of the C Suite.

Read more
Graphics

Tacent View – image and texture viewer

July 25, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Tacent View is a graphical image and texture viewer. It can also be used as a command-line tool for batch processing of images

Read more
Painting tools

Vara – minimalist digital painting tool

July 24, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Vara is a drawing and digital painting application with pressure-sensitive brushes.

Read more
Manage creative assets

Fotema – simple photo gallery software

July 23, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI, Reviews

Fotema is photo gallery software that’s written in Rust.

Read more
Text Editor

GNOME Text Editor – simple text editor that focuses on session management

July 14, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Text Editor is a simple text editor that focuses on session management.

Read more
Text Editor

CorePad – simple lightweight but powerful text editor

July 14, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

CorePad is a document editor for C Suite, a minimalistic application suite to cover all the basic day to day tasks.

Read more
Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

Pluma – text editor for the MATE desktop environment

July 13, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Pluma is a small and lightweight UTF-8 text editor for the MATE environment. It started as a fork of Gedit.

Read more
Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

Nota – browse, create, and edit text files

July 12, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Nota is a very small text editor that lets you browse, create and edit text files. It’s designed for desktop and mobile computers.

Read more
Text Editing

FeatherPad – lightweight Qt plain-text editor

July 11, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

FeatherPad is a lightweight Qt plain-text editor for Linux. It is independent of any desktop environment.

Read more
Text Editor

gedit – GNOME text editor

July 11, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

gedit is a small and lightweight text editor for the GNOME environment. gedit supports most standard editing features.

Read more
Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

Airpad – basic GUI text editor

July 10, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Airpad is a basic, generic graphical text editor. It has all of the functionalities one would expect.

Read more
Text Editor

xed – small and lightweight text editor

July 10, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

xed is a small and lightweight text editor. xed supports most standard editing features, plus several not found in your typical text editor.

Read more
Text Editing

Kate – multi document editor

July 10, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

The KDE Advanced Text Editor, or Kate, is a source code editor developed by the KDE free software community.

Read more
Text Editing

Mousepad – simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment

July 9, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Mousepad is a simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment.

Read more
ebook reader

Librum – modern e-book reader and library manager

April 10, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI, Reviews

Librum is billed as software designed to make reading enjoyable and straightforward for everyone.

Read more
ebook reader

Thorium Reader – EPUB reading application

April 4, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI, Reviews

Thorium Reader is a cross platform desktop reading app, based on the Readium Desktop toolkit.

Read more
Magical Potions

MakeHuman – character creation suite

February 27, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

MakeHuman is a completely free, innovative and professional software for the modelling of 3-Dimensional humanoid characters.

Read more
SQL

DbGate – database manager for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

December 5, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

DbGate is a cross-platform database manager. It’s designed to be simple to use and effective, when working with more databases simultaneously.

Read more
SQL

NocoDB – build databases as spreadsheets

December 5, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

NocoDB provides an intuitive spreadsheet interface for creating online databases.

Read more
Image Viewers

GPicView – simple and fast image viewer

November 18, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

GPicView is a simple and fast image viewer for X. It’s the standard image viewer for LXDE.

Read more

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 … 54 55 56 57 58 … 65 Next Posts»

Best Free Software

Document Management Systems
Documents
Web Browsers
Internet
Education
Education
Internet Radio
Audio
YouTube Tools
Video
Paint Palette
Graphics
System Administration
Admin
Docks
Desktop
Productivity
Productivity
Genome Browsers - Web Based
Science
Games
Games
Vulnerability detection
Security
Replacements for du
Utilities
Object Relational Mapping
Coding
Stockmarket
Finance
Web Delivery
Web Apps
Crafting
Other
Programming Books
Books

Data Science

Data ScienceTake our free interactive courses in data science. There are courses for Python using pandas and plotnine and R using ggplot2.

Get up to speed in 20 minutes. No programming knowledge is required.

Recent Comments

  • Steve Emms on 16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Document-Oriented Databases
  • pigeonskiller on 16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Document-Oriented Databases
  • Lionel on 13 Best Free and Open Source Linux CLI Clipboard Managers
  • Steve Emms on MINISFORUM M2 Intel Panther Lake Mini PC Running Linux: Cores
  • Jimmy on HHKB Studio Snow Keyboard Review
  • Jimmy on MINISFORUM M2 Intel Panther Lake Mini PC Running Linux: Cores
  • Steve Emms on LinuxLinks: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
  • Jim H on LinuxLinks: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
  • Towfiq I. on Pluton – self-hosted backup management platform
  • Steve Emms on LinuxLinks: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Programming Books

Read our curated lists of great free programming books. Learn Java, C, Python, C++, C#, JavaScript, PHP, and many more languages.

Alternatively, check out our series of great free programming tutorials.

Feedback

Help expand our coverage of Linux software by completing our:

  • Open-source software form
  • Linux distro form

Your feedback is very much appreciated. Complete our contact form.

Support Us


Donate
to LinuxLinks

Thank you for supporting LinuxLinks. If you like our site, the best way to ensure it remains available is to make a donation.

Small Devices

We’re publishing a series of articles for each of these Linux-based phones, Mini PCs, SBCs, and NAS devices.

BOSGAME VTA-439 – AMD
Minisforum M2 Panther Lake
Minisforum MS-02 Mini Workstation
BOSGAME M7 285H – Intel
Minisforum MS-R1 Mini Workstation
Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus laptop
BOSGAME M6 HX370 – AMD
BOSGAME M4 Plus – AMD
Minisforum AI X1 Pro – AMD
Minisforum UM890 Pro – AMD
PELADN WO4 5600H – AMD
Volla Phone Quintus with UT (ARM)
HP ProBook 440 G8 Refurb – Intel
ASRock NUC BOX-255H – Intel

SBC series are available on our Series landing page.

Replace Proprietary Software

Migrate from large multinational software companies and embrace free and open source solutions.

Google
Google
Microsoft
Microsoft
Apple
Apple
Adobe
Adobe
IBM
IBM
Autodesk
Autodesk
Oracle
Oracle
Atlassian
Atlassian
Corel
Corel
Cisco
Cisco
Intuit
Intuit
SAS
SAS
Progress
Progress
Salesforce
Salesforce
Citrix
Citrix

Reviews

ReviewsWe’ve written tons of in-depth and completely impartial reviews of open source software. Read our reviews.

New to Linux?

NewbieBegin your Linux journey with our easy-to-understand guide designed for newcomers.

Mega Compilations

100 GUI Apps
100 TUI Apps
100 CLI Apps

Recent Posts

  • Apache Cloudberry – massively parallel processing database
  • How to Turn Old SD Videos into HD With Vmake Video Enhancer
  • Herald – terminal-native email and calendar application
  • 27 Best Free and Open Source GUI Internet Radio Software
  • Wig – modal, Vim-like text editor
  • Dolt – version-controlled SQL database
  • 6 Useful Free and Open Source TUI Notes Apps
  • Homebranch – self-hosted e-book management platform
  • BOSGAME VTA-439 Mini PC running Linux – Power Consumption
  • Hat – hackable modal text editor

Desktops

9 Best Desktops
24 KDE Themes
33 KDE Widgets
42 GNOME Extensions
Pantheon, Trinity, LXDE

Archives

Related

Contact us
Link us
FAQ
Comment FAQ
ForFOSS.com
OSSBlog.org
Privacy Policy

© LinuxLinks 1998-2026: Designed by LinuxLinks.