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Bomb

Mines is a puzzle game where you locate mines

June 13, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Mines (previously gnomine) is a puzzle game where you locate mines floating in an ocean using only your brain and a little bit of luck.

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Dot Matrix creates glyphs

May 24, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI, Utilities

Dot Matrix is a GUI tool which acts as glyph playground of creativity from simple lines.

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Sticky Notes

Jorts – colourful desktop sticky notes

May 20, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Jorts displays colourful desktop notes with eleven pastel themes, editable generated titles, link handling and privacy scribbles.

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Game Tools

MangoJuice is a GUI tool to configure MangoHud

May 20, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

MangoJuice aims to be an convenient alternative to GOverlay for setting up MangoHud.

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Time tracking

Flowtime – spend your time wisely

May 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Flowtime is a GUI program to get what motivates you done, without losing concentration.

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Music player

Turntable scrobbles your music

May 1, 2025 Luke Baker CLI, GUI, Multimedia

Turntable is a GUI and CLI program that scrobbles your music. It’s written in Vala.

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Television

Daikhan – video and music player

April 24, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Daikhan is billed as a media player for the modern desktop.

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Log Analyzers

Tags – GNOME text tagger

April 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

Tags is a GNOME text tagger. The main goal is to aid log analysis by tagging lines with user defined colors.

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Warble

Blurble is a word guessing game

April 2, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Blurble is a word guessing game. Solve the riddle until you run out of guesses! The game is a clone of Wordle.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Clairvoyant is a fortune teller

March 21, 2025 Steve Emms Other, Reviews

Clairvoyant is a simple program that’s like a magic 8-ball inspired fortune teller.

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Communique – RSS reader

March 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Reviews

Communique is a feed reader that supports a wide range of RSS services and local RSS feeds.

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Email

Mail – graphical email client

March 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Mail is designed to let you manage your email quickly and effortlessly.

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Chemistry

multiElement – alternative versions of the periodic table of chemical elements

March 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

multiElement offers complete encyclopedic information about each chemical element.

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Database

tarug – minimal Postgres SQL client

March 2, 2025 Steve Emms Database, GUI

tarug is a modern, yet another Postgres SQL client, build with GTK 4 and Libadwaita.

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multiClock – track the time around the world

February 20, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity, Reviews

multiClock is software that lets you track the current time in major financial centres around the globe.

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Remote Display

Dippi – calculate display info like DPI and aspect ratio

February 12, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Dippi is a tool which can analyze any display. Input a few details and figure out the aspect ratio, DPI, and details of a particular display.

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Home Automation

Butler – companion for Home Assistant

February 12, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Butler is a hybrid native and web app for Home Assistant. Butler is designed and developed on and for GNOME.

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Analytics Software

Tally – hybrid native and web app for Plausible Analytics

February 11, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

Plausible is a privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics. Tally wraps the Plausible web app in a native UI.

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Accountancy

Fruit Credits – graphical interface for hledger accounting

January 11, 2025 Steve Emms Financial

Fruit Credits is a graphical interface for hledger with double-entry transactions, account balances, a register and plain-text journals.

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Meteo – weather forecast application

November 29, 2024 Steve Emms Scientific

GTK Meteo is software which tells you the forecast for the next hours and days with data and maps.

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