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Focus Timer – Pomodoro time-management application

September 10, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Focus Timer is a GTK Pomodoro application with configurable work and break sessions, statistics, shortcuts, overlays and GNOME integration.

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HPR – automatic offline activity tracker

September 10, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

HPR is an offline automatic activity tracker that records active windows, browser tabs and coding projects with local-only data storage.

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Task Manager

Autasker – flexible offline task manager

September 10, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Autasker is an offline graphical task manager with flexible repeating tasks, reminders, day planning, categories, habits and a canvas view.

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Task Manager

Tasks – simple task manager for the COSMIC desktop

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Tasks is a simple graphical task manager for the COSMIC desktop with search, reminders, sorting, favourites, trash and Flatpak support.

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Backup software

NPBackup – secure and efficient file backup solution

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Reviews, System Software

NPBackup adds a GUI, scheduling, monitoring and multi-repository management to restic’s encrypted, deduplicated backup engine.

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Lumalarm – smart alarm clock that wakes your computer from sleep

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Lumalarm is a Qt alarm clock that can suspend and wake your PC, with anti-oversleep challenges, timers, stopwatch and custom sounds.

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EDA

Kactus2 – graphical EDA tool based on the IP-XACT standard

September 9, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Kactus2 is a graphical EDA tool for designing SoCs, packaging reusable IP, creating hardware hierarchies, and integrating hardware and software.

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Chat

MERK – cross-platform graphical IRC client

September 8, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

MERK is a highly configurable open source graphical IRC client with multiple server connections, scripting, plugins, theming, and logging.

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Yutovo – visual calculator and mathematical text editor

September 8, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Yutovo is a graphical calculator and math editor combining WYSIWYG formulas, symbolic calculations, unit conversion and function plotting.

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Painting tools

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Pixelmator Pro

September 7, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Best free and open source alternatives to Apple Pixelmator Pro for image editing, photo retouching, painting and graphics on Linux.

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Document Management Systems

Typesetter – Minimalist Typst Editor

September 7, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Typesetter is a GUI for writing Typst documents with live previews, package management, templates, accessibility tools and multiple export formats.

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DVDs

Brasero – simple CD/DVD mastering tool for GNOME

September 6, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Brasero is a simple CD/DVD mastering tool for GNOME with support for data and audio discs, copying, disc images and multisession burning.

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DVDs

K3b – full-featured optical disc burning and ripping application

September 6, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

K3b is a full-featured graphical application for burning, copying and ripping CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs under Linux.

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WyrmRSS – RSS and Atom feed reader

September 6, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Reviews

WyrmRSS is a free and open source RSS and Atom feed reader with desktop and self-hosted options, feed filtering and YouTube support.

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Flash OS

Mintstick – create and format USB sticks

September 6, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Mintstick is a graphical Linux utility for writing ISO and IMG files to USB sticks, formatting drives and verifying ISO images.

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Flash OS

Fedora Media Writer – create bootable USB installation media

September 5, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Fedora Media Writer downloads, verifies and writes Fedora images and other ISO files to bootable USB drives.

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Compression

MAZANOKE – private browser-based image optimizer

September 5, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

MAZANOKE is a self-hosted image optimizer that works locally in your browser, compresses and converts images, and removes EXIF metadata.

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Pixelitor – advanced image editor with non-destructive editing

September 5, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Pixelitor is a Java image editor with layers, masks, non-destructive editing, painting tools, filters, text layers, and unlimited undo.

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Images

Image Optimizer – fast private image optimization

September 5, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Image Optimizer is a desktop app for compressing JPEG, PNG, GIF and SVG images, converting to WebP and processing files locally.

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Flash OS

ISO Image Writer – write ISO images to USB drives

September 5, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

ISO Image Writer is a KDE utility for writing ISO images to USB drives with integrated checksum and digital signature verification.

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