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Omnicom – graphical interface for serial communication

February 16, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Omnicom is a modern and elegant graphical interface for serial communication via picocom.

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Laser cutting

Inkcut – control plotters, cutters and CNC machines

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Inkcut controls plotters, vinyl cutters, engravers and CNC machines with layout tools, device control, job history and live status.

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Selection of utilities

qdia – schematic/diagram editor

February 9, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

qia is a simple schematic/diagram editor with focus on quick diagram generation with high quality graphics.

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Ampere – lightweight music player

February 5, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Ampere is a GUI-based playlist-based audio player written in Python and Qt. It’s free and open source software.

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Classroom Tools

Drawy – brainstorming tool

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms Education, Graphics, GUI

Drawy is a work-in-progress infinite whiteboard tool which aims to be a native-desktop alternative to the web-based Excalidraw.

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Notes

LinNote – keyboard-driven scratchpad

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

LinNote is a fast, keyboard-driven scratchpad for Linux. It’s built for KDE Plasma with Qt6.

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Video Editing

VideoCut – lossless video cutter

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

VideoCut is a MP2/MP4 Cutter for Linux on base of mpv and ffmpeg. Cutting is lossless, the target file will not be reencoded.

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Selection of utilities

beekeeper-qt – deduplicate redundant data

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

beekeeper-qt lets you free up disk space by removing redundant block-level data, both inside files and across multiple files.

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System administration

RevLix – data recovery tool

January 20, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

RevLix is a data recovery tool developed to recover deleted files on Linux systems. This program uses the PhotoRec infrastructure.

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PDF

dodo – fast and configurable PDF viewer

January 19, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

dodo is billed as a fast, keyboard-friendly PDF reader built for smooth reading, quick navigation, and deep customization.

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Video

xt7-player-mpv – mpv GUI

January 18, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

xt7-player-mpv aims to be an (in)complete graphical interface to mpv, focused on usability.

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Screen Capture

HyprSnipper – snipping tool for Hyprland

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

HyprSnipper is a Qt-based screenshot tool designed specifically for Hyprland. It’s written in Python.

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Whatsit – native desktop client for WhatsApp

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Whatsit is a lightweight, native desktop client for WhatsApp Web built with Qt 6 and Qt WebEngine.

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Desktop

Orbitiny Desktop – modern looking desktop environment

January 8, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Orbitiny Desktop is a portable, innovative and traditional but modern looking desktop environment for Linux.

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Coding

Seer – graphical frontend to GDB

January 7, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

Seer is a Qt GUI front end to GDB, providing source-level debugging, variable tracking, breakpoint management and memory visualisation.

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Not1MM – amateur radio contest logger

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Other

Not1MM is a Linux amateur radio contest logger with CAT control, CW keying, DX cluster, bandmap, contest plugins, and Cabrillo output.

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Music player

namp – terminal-based music player

December 30, 2025 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

namp is a minimalistic terminal-based MP3 player for Linux and macOS, implemented in C++ / Qt.

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Card Games

Qt Hearts – classic Hearts card game

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Qt Hearts is a classic card game. Try to avoid taking hearts and especially the Queen of Spades.

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Network

Nekobox – GUI proxy utility

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Nekobox is a cross-platform GUI proxy utility powered by Sing-box. It supports Linux and Windows.

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AyanDict – basic dictionary app

December 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

AyanDict is a simple cross-platform desktop dictionary application based on Qt framework and written in Go.

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