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Task Manager

Progress – simple Kanban board manager

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Progress is a Kanban board management app designed to be simple yet flexible for most workflows.

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Laser cutting

Rayforge – control laser cutters and engravers

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Rayforge is a modern laser control application with 2D design tools, simulation, camera support and broad hardware compatibility.

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Wattage – monitor battery and power devices

November 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Wattage monitors batteries and other power devices through UPower, showing health, energy data, history and device information.

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Stockmarket

Merkato – GNOME financial markets tracker

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms Financial, GUI

Merkato is a GNOME financial tracker for stocks, currencies and crypto with heatmaps, watchlists, price alerts and delayed quotes.

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Selection of utilities

Share Preview – test social media cards locally

October 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Share Preview lets you review and debug websites metadata tags for social media share.

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Game Tools

Draughts – comprehensive draughts (checkers) game

October 26, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Draughts is a comprehensive checkers/draughts game featuring 16 international game variants, multiple AI difficulty levels

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Text Editor

Scratchmark – organized Markdown editor

October 19, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Scratchmark is an organized Markdown editor designed for note keeping and writing. It’s intended to become a spiritual successor to ThiefMD. This is free and open source software. Website: github.com/sevonj/scratchmark Support: Developer: Sevonj License: GNU General Public License v3.0 Scratchmark

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Embellish – install nerd fonts

September 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Embellish is a GTK4 font manager for browsing, previewing, installing and removing Nerd Fonts, with custom fonts and an icon browser.

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Password Managers

Key Rack – view and edit GNOME application secrets

September 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Key Rack manages application secrets in desktop keyrings, letting users search, create and edit stored passwords, tokens and other records.

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Sudoku

Sudoku – solve Sudoku puzzles

August 17, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Sudoku is a modern Sudoku app focused on delivering a clean, distraction-free experience. Designed with simplicity and comfort in mind.

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Selection of utilities

Emblem – generate project avatars

August 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Emblem generates projects avatars for your Matrix rooms and git forges from a symbolic icon.

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Security

NetPeek – discover devices on your local network

August 14, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Security

NetPeek is a simple network scanner that helps you discover active devices on your local network.

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Files

Buffer – embrace ephemeral text

August 8, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI, Productivity

Buffer provides a minimal editing space for all those things that don’t need keeping. It’s written in Rust.

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Notes

Noteworthy – Markdown notes app

August 5, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Noteworthy is billed as a modern, fast, and version-controlled Markdown notes app.

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Musical instruments

Tempo – metronome for musicians

July 23, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Tempo is a reliable metronome application designed for musicians of all levels. Built with modern GTK4 and Libadwaita

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Education

Kana – learn Japanese characters

July 16, 2025 Steve Emms Education, GUI

Kana helps you hone your Japanese skills by matching romanized characters to their correct hiragana and katakana counterparts.

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Karere – GTK4 WhatsApp client

July 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Karere is a GTK4 WhatsApp desktop client with Chromium rendering, separate account sessions, notifications and accessible controls.

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Files

Lorem – generate placeholder text

July 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Lorem is a simple app to generate the well-known Lorem Ipsum placeholder text.

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Cuneo – compact calculator and unit conversion tool

June 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Cuneo is a compact GTK calculator offering keyboard-first arithmetic, an operator menu, unit conversions and session history.

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Download manager

Parabolic – tool to download web video and audio

December 24, 2024 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews

Parabolic is a Qt and GTK-based utility which is a frontend for yt-dlp, a feature-rich audio/video downloader.

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