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Video

KikoPlay – full-featured danmu media player.

July 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

KikoPlay is a full-featured danmu media player using libmpv as its playback engine and Qt for its interface

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Compression

Kanzi – modern lossless data compressor

July 1, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Kanzi is a modern, modular, portable, and efficient lossless data compressor.

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Recording Studio

wf-recorder – command-line screen recording utility

July 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

wf-recorder is a command-line screen recording utility for wlroots-based Wayland compositors.

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Music Trackers

Little Piggy Tracker – music tracker

July 1, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

LittleGPTracker, also known as Little Piggy Tracker, is a music tracker optimized for portable game consoles and retro gaming handhelds.

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Music Trackers

RetroTrax – music tracker inspired by ProTracker, FastTracker II and OctaMED

June 30, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

RetroTrax combines an Amiga-style pattern grid with C64 SID sounds, sampler features, module import, and DAW integration.

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Music Trackers

Noteahead – pattern-based MIDI sequencer

June 30, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Noteahead is a pattern-based MIDI sequencer and tracker-style music production environment for Linux.

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Bitcoin

Nunchuk Desktop – Qt-based Bitcoin wallet client

June 30, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, GUI

Nunchuk Desktop is a Qt-based Bitcoin wallet client that brings Nunchuk’s multisignature custody platform to Linux and other desktop systems.

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Bitcoin

Blockstream – desktop Bitcoin wallet

June 28, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, GUI

Blockstream is a desktop Bitcoin wallet that provides a non-custodial way to store, send, and receive bitcoin.

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Music player

Musik – lightweight audio player

June 27, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Musik is a lightweight audio player built for the KDE Plasma desktop.

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Cloud storage

KIO GDrive – KDE KIO worker that lets KDE applications access Google Drive

June 26, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

KIO GDrive is a KDE KIO worker that lets KDE applications access Google Drive as a network location.

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fooyin

fooyin v0.11 released with internet radio browsing and much more

June 23, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

fooyin v0.11.0 adds internet radio browsing, spectrum visualisations, playlist improvements, layout refinements, and better playback handling.

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ebook reader

PageEdit – visual XHTML editor for ePub books

June 23, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

PageEdit is a visual XHTML editor for ePub books, developed by the Sigil-Ebook project.

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Database

YugabyteDB – PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL database

June 23, 2026 Steve Emms Database, Documents

YugabyteDB is a PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL database designed for cloud-native OLTP workloads

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DNA

ITK-SNAP – multi-platform medical image segmentation application

June 19, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

ITK-SNAP is a multi-platform medical image segmentation application for working with 3D and 4D biomedical image data.

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DNA

Orthanc – lightweight DICOM server

June 18, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

Orthanc is a lightweight DICOM server designed for healthcare environments and medical research.

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Whatevr – Linux-first native client for WhatsApp

June 18, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Whatevr is a Linux-first native client for WhatsApp. It’s built around a background daemon that manages WhatsApp.

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Physics

DualSPHysics – Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics solver

June 18, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

DualSPHysics is a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics solver designed for modelling free-surface flow phenomena.

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Physics

ESPResSo – molecular dynamics package

June 17, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

ESPResSo is a molecular dynamics package designed for simulating and analyzing coarse-grained many-particle systems used in soft-matter research.

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Search

Mroonga – MySQL storage engine based on the Groonga search engine

June 17, 2026 Steve Emms Big Data, Internet

Mroonga is a MySQL storage engine based on the Groonga search engine.

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Physics

Meep – electromagnetic simulation

June 17, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

Meep is a software package for electromagnetic simulation using the finite-difference time-domain method.

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