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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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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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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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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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Chemistry

pychemqt – chemical engineering process simulator

September 4, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

pychemqt is a Python and Qt chemical engineering application for process simulation, thermodynamic calculations, equipment design, and scientific tools.

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Backup software

10 Best Free and Open Source BorgBackup Front-Ends

September 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Roundup, System Software

BorgBackup (Borg) is a deduplicating backup program. We recommend the best front-ends for Borg.

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K’uychi – generate colour palettes from a base tone

September 2, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

K’uychi is a GNOME colour palette generator that creates perceptually uniform lighter and darker shades and copies their hexadecimal values.

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QR Tools

Barcoder – barcode and QR code generator

September 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Barcoder is a GTK barcode and QR code generator supporting common 1D formats, QR and Aztec codes, with bitmap and vector export.

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dna-medical

Aliza MS – medical imaging and DICOM viewer

September 1, 2026 Steve Emms Scientific

Aliza MS is a free DICOM viewer with 2D and 3D imaging, volume rendering, MPR, RTSTRUCT support, de-identification, and metadata tools.

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QR Tools

Kodaskanna – multi-format 1D/2D code scanner

September 1, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Kodaskanna is a KDE utility for reading QR codes and other 1D/2D barcodes from images, with clipboard, file and desktop integration.

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Color Picker for COSMIC – color utility for COSMIC desktop

September 1, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Color Picker for COSMIC is a native colour picker supporting six colour spaces, screen sampling, HEX editing, graphs and clipboard copying.

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Polyphone – powerful SoundFont editor

August 31, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Polyphone is a graphical SoundFont editor for creating and editing sampled instruments with SF2, SF3, SFZ and sfArk support on Linux.

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Cherrypick – modern screen color picker

August 31, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Cherrypick is a modern GTK4 color picker for sampling screen colours, previewing clipboard values, and copying RGB, HEX, HSL and CMYK codes.

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Astronomy

FIPS – OpenGL-based FITS image viewer

August 30, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

FIPS is an OpenGL-accelerated FITS image viewer offering responsive zooming, panning, level adjustment and broad 2D FITS support.

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3D Illustration

Laigter – generate lighting maps for 2D game artwork

August 30, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Laigter generates normal, parallax, specular and occlusion maps from 2D artwork, with real-time lighting previews, presets and batchable CLI use.

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3d render

Gaffer – node-based VFX look development and production application

August 30, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Gaffer is a node-based VFX application for look development, lighting, scene assembly, rendering, compositing and production automation.

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Network

Apache Directory Studio – Eclipse-based LDAP browser and directory client

August 30, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Apache Directory Studio is an Eclipse-based LDAP browser and directory client with tools for editing entries, LDIF files, schemas, and ApacheDS.

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