List of applications/Other
Organization
CalDAV/CardDAV servers
- Baïkal — A lightweight CalDAV+CardDAV server.
- kcaldav — Simple, safe, minimal CalDAV server.
- Radicale — Free and Open-Source CalDAV and CardDAV Server.
- xandikos — A lightweight yet complete CardDAV/CalDAV server that backs onto a Git repository.
Personal information managers
These applications support time, task and contacts management.
- Evolution — Personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring and address book functionality. Part of gnome-extra.
- Merkuro — Calendar and contact application that allows you to manage your tasks, events and contacts. Part of kde-pim.
- Osmo — GTK personal organizer, which includes calendar, tasks manager and address book modules.
- SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups with Lightning — Extension to SeaMonkey that provides calendar and task support.
- Thunderbird — A fully featured E-mail client formerly developed by Mozilla.
Time management
Console
- Calcurse — Text-based ncurses calendar and scheduling system (supports CalDAV)
- ccal — A console program which writes a calendar together with Chinese calendar to standard output.
- khal — Command-line (non-interactive) and ncurses (interactive) calendar system (supports CalDAV)
- gcalcli — Command-line (non-interactive) Google Calendar for event management and agendas.
- mail2rem — Small script for importing .ics calendars from Maildir to Remind calendar.
- Pal — Very lightweight calendar with both interactive and non-interactive interfaces.
- pcal — A tool to create pdf calendars from pcal input which can be exported by some calendar programs.
- Remind — Highly sophisticated text-based calendaring and notification system.
- When — Simple personal calendar program.
- Wyrd — Text-based front-end to Remind, a calendar and alarm program used on UNIX and Linux computers.
Graphical
- Agenda — Calendar application built with MauiKit. Part of maui.
- Calindori — Calendar application for Plasma Mobile.
- chinese-calendar — Chinese traditional calendar for Ubuntu Kylin.
- CoreTime — Very simple Clock/Calendar application which shows a clock, supports alarms, reminders, a stop watch and a timer. Part of C-Suite.
- Deepin Calendar — Calendar application for Deepin.
- etmtk (Event and Task Manager) — Simple application with a "Getting Things Done!" approach to handling events, tasks, activities, reminders and projects.
- Gahshomar — Persian (Jalali/Farsi) calendar.
- GNOME Calendar — Calendar application for GNOME. Part of gnome.
- Kongress — Companion application for conferences made by KDE. Part of kde-utilities.
- KOrganizer — Calendar and scheduling program, part of kde-pim.
- Merkuro Calendar — Calendar application using Akonadi that supports both local and online calendars: Nextcloud, Google Calendar, Outlook, Caldav and more. Part of kde-pim.
- Nextcloud Calendar — Calendar app for Nextcloud.
- Outspline — Extensible outliner with advanced time management features, supporting events with complex recurrence schemes.
- TkRemind — Sophisticated calendar and alarm program.
Timers
Countdown timers and stopwatch
- arttime — Clock, timer, pattern-based time manager, ASCII art viewer. Set a one-off, multiple, repeating, pattern-based timers.
- Chess Clock — Simple application to provide time control for over-the-board chess games.
- GNOME Clocks — Clocks application for GNOME, including alarm, stopwatch and timer functionality. Part of gnome.
- Hourglass — Simple time keeping application designed for elementary OS.
- KClock — A convergent clock application for Plasma. It contains alarm, timer, stopwatch and timezone functionalities. Part of kde-utilities.
- Kronometer — Stopwatch application for KDE.
- KTeaTime — Handy timer for steeping tea. Part of kde-utilities.
- pystopwatch — Stopwatch written in Python with a clock and two countdown functions that can minimize to the tray.
- snore — A program like sleep, but with feedback.
- termdown — Countdown timer and stopwatch in your terminal.
Break timers
- Break Timer — Keeps track of how much you are using the computer, and it reminds you to take regular breaks. Works only in GNOME.
- RSI Break — Takes care of your health and regularly breaks your work to avoid repetitive strain injury (RSI) on Xorg.
- Safe Eyes — Tool to reduce and prevent repetitive strain injury (RSI).
- Work-break — Work and rest time balancer taking into account your current and today strain.
Pomodoro timers
See Wikipedia:Pomodoro Technique for an introduction.
- flow — Pomodoro app that blocks distractions while you work.
- Francis — App that uses the well-known pomodoro technique to help you get more productive. Part of kde-utilities.
- Gnomato — Timer for the Pomodoro Technique.
- Pilorama — Eye-candy timeboxing tool written in QML
- Pomodoro — Time management utility for GNOME based on the Pomodoro Technique.
- Pomodoro-Logger — Pomodoro timer and logger with Kanban board for task management and tracking.
- potato-c — A minimal and efficient pomodoro timer with server-client structure.
- Solanum — Pomodoro timer for the GNOME desktop.
- Tomate — Timer for the Pomodoro Technique.
- Tomighty — Desktop timer for the Pomodoro Technique.
Time trackers
- ActivityWatch — A self/local-hosted, cross-platform, client-server, privacy-focused active window tracker.
- Hamster — Time tracking application that helps you to keep track on how much time you have spent during the day on activities you choose to track.
- Kapow — Punch clock to track time spent on projects.
- KTimeTracker — Todo management and time tracking application.
- Tider — Lightweight time tracking application (GTK)
- Timenaut — Time tracker that tracks active windows and lets you sort them into categories. Based on the Electron platform.
- Timetrack — Simple time-tracking app for GNOME.
- Timewarrior — A command-line time-tracking application.
- Wakatime — Open source plugins for metrics about your programming with intuitive web-interface.
Task management
Console
- c3 — A multi-platform TUI todo manager that extends calcurse's todo format to have a tree-like dependency structure, and even more!
- Cfait — Powerful, simple, elegant, and lightweight CalDAV task manager (TUI & GUI).
- dijo — Scriptable, curses-based, digital habit tracker
- Taskbook — Tasks, boards and notes for the command-line habitat.
- Taskell — A command-line kanban board/task manager.
- Taskwarrior — Command-line To-do list application with support for lua customization and more.
- todoman — Command-line To-do list manager (supports CalDAV)
- Todo.txt — Small command-line To-do manager.
- TuDu — Ncurses-based hierarchical To-do list manager with vim-like keybindings.
Graphical
- Agenda — Simple, fast, no-nonsense to-do (task) list for elementary OS.
- Cfait — Powerful, simple, elegant, and lightweight CalDAV task manager (TUI & GUI).
- Effitask — Graphical task manager, based on the Todo.txt format.
- Endeavour — Personal task manager for GNOME. Part of gnome-extra.
- Errands — Todo application for those who prefer simplicity.
- Go For It! — Simple and stylish productivity app, featuring a to-do list, merged with a timer that keeps your focus on the current task. To-do lists are stored in the Todo.txt format.
- GTG — Personal tasks and TODO list items organizer for GNOME inspired by the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology.
- Nextcloud Tasks — Tasks app for Nextcloud.
- Planner — Task manager with Todoist support.
- ptask — GTK task manager based on Taskwarrior.
- sleek — todo.txt app with modern GUI. Based on the Electron platform.
- TickTick — Is a simple and effective to-do list and task manager app with seamless cloud synchronization across all your devices
- Zanshin — To-do management application for KDE. Part of kde-pim.
Contacts management
Console
- Abook — Text-based contacts manager designed for use with mutt.
- Khard — Command-line addressbook that is able to sync with CardDAV-servers.
Graphical
- Addresses — Address book application for GNUstep.
- Communicator — Integrated address book and dialer application features the search for and view of contacts, edit contact details, and make new contacts, favorites, and dialer pad. Part of maui.
- GNOME Contacts — Contacts manager for GNOME. Part of gnome.
- KAddressBook — Address book manager for KDE. Part of kde-pim.
- LDAP Administration Tool — Browse LDAP-based directories and add/edit/delete entries contained within.
- Merkuro Contacts — Address book using Akonadi. Part of kde-pim.
- Nextcloud Contacts — Contacts app for Nextcloud.
- phpLDAPadmin — LDAP client webapp. Its hierarchical tree-viewer and advanced search functionality make it intuitive to browse and administer your LDAP directory.
- Thunderbird with CardBook extension — address book based on the CardDAV and vCard standards.
Financial management
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of accounting software.
Console
- Beancount — A double-entry bookkeeping computer language that lets you define financial transaction records in a text file, read them in memory, generate a variety of reports from them, and provides a web interface.
- hledger — An accounting program for tracking money, time, or any other commodity, using double-entry accounting and a simple, editable file format. hledger is inspired by and largely compatible with ledger.
- Ledger — Ledger is a powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line.
Graphical
- Eqonomize! — Cross-platform personal accounting software, with focus on efficiency and ease of use for the small household economy.
- ERPNext — Free and open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).
- GnuCash — Financial application that implements a double-entry book-keeping system with features for small business accounting.
- Grisbi — Personal finance system which manages third party, expenditure and receipt categories, as well as budgetary lines, financial years, and other information that makes it suitable for associations.
- HomeBank — Easy to use finance manager that can analyse your personal finance in detail using powerful filtering tools and graphs.
- KMyMoney — Personal finance manager that operates in a similar way to Microsoft Money. It supports different account types, categorisation of expenses and incomes, reconciliation of bank accounts and import/export to the “QIF” file format.
- Kresus — Self-hosted personal finance management software. It automatically retrieves every day all your new bank transactions and lets you categorize them, study them through charts and establish a budget.
- Manager — Proprietary accounting software for small business.
- Money Manager EX — An easy-to-use personal finance suite
- Odoo — Open source ERP system purely in Python. Previously known as OpenERP.
- Skrooge — Personal finances manager for the KDE desktop.
Cryptocurrency
- Atomic Wallet — Manage your Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Litecoin, XLM, and over 300 other coins and tokens.
- Bitcoin Core — Connect to the Bitcoin P2P Network.
- Cake Wallet — Multicurrency wallet.
- Coinomi — Securely store, manage and exchange Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more than 1,770 other blockchain assets.
- Cointop — Terminal based application for tracking cryptocurrencies.
- https://cointop.sh/ || cointopAUR
- Dogecoin Core — Dogecoin Core wallet, Allows you to connect to the Dogecoin P2P Network.
- https://dogecoin.com/ || dogecoin-qtAUR, multidogeAUR
- Electrum — Lightweight Bitcoin client.
- Exodus — All-in-one proprietary application to secure, manage, and exchange blockchain assets. Based on the Electron platform.
- https://www.exodus.io/ || exodusAUR
- Feather Wallet — Lightweight Monero wallet.
- Mist — Ethereum Dapp browser.
- https://github.com/ethereum/mist || mistAUR[broken link: package not found]
- Monero — Monero wallet.
- Sparrow Wallet — Advanced Bitcoin client.
Project management
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of project management software.
- Calligra Plan — Project management application, which is intended for managing moderately large projects with multiple resources.
- GanttProject — Project scheduling application featuring gantt chart, resource management, calendaring.
- Notion-app — A note-taking software and project management software that is used for note-taking, task management, project management, knowledge management, and personal knowledge management.
- Planner — Project management application for GNOME.
- ProjectLibre — Project management software alternative to Microsoft Project.
- https://www.projectlibre.com/product/projectlibre-open-source[dead link 2025-08-15—HTTP 404] || projectlibreAUR
- TaskJuggler — Modern and powerful project management tool. Its new approach to project planning and tracking is more flexible and superior to the commonly used Gantt chart editing tools.
Bookmark management
- KEditBookmarks — Bookmark organizer and editor. Part of kde-utilities.
- Read It Later — Simple Wallabag client.
Recipe management
- Gourmand — Simple but powerful recipe-managing application.
- Recipes — Recipe management application for GNOME. Part of gnome-extra.
Travel management
See also List of applications/Science#Navigation and routing.
- Itinerary — Digital travel assistant with a priority on protecting your privacy. Part of kde-pim.
Health management
- Health — Health tracking app for the GNOME desktop.
Education
See also List of games#Education.
- Artikulate — Pronunciation trainer that helps improving and perfecting a learner's pronunciation skills for a foreign language. Part of kde-education.
- Fretboard — Look up guitar chords.
- Kalm — Teach you different breathing techniques. Part of kde-utilities.
- Moodle — Open-source software learning management system.
- https://moodle.org/ || moodleAUR
- OpenBoard — Interactive whiteboard software for schools and universities.
- Wike — Wikipedia reader for the GNOME desktop.
- Wildcard — Provides a simple interface to test/practice regular expressions.
Flashcards
See also Wikipedia:List of flashcard software.
- Anki — Intelligent spaced-repetition memory training program.
- jVLT — Vocabulary learning tool.
- KWordQuiz — Tool that gives you a powerful way to master new vocabularies. Part of kde-education.
- Mnemosyne — Flash-card tool which optimizes your learning process.
- Parley — Program to help you memorize things. It uses the spaced repetition learning method, also known as flash cards. Part of kde-education.
- Pauker — Flash card based learning tool using shortterm and longterm memory training.
- StudyFlash — Learn flashcards inside your terminal
Touch typing
Console
- Dvorak 7min — Simple ncurses-based typing tutor for those trying to become fluent with the Dvorak keyboard layout.
- GNU Typist — Universal typing tutor.
- psani-profi — Program that will teach you touchtyping (Czech).
- Typespeed — Test your typing speed, and get your fingers' CPS.
- typiskt — touchtype training in the terminal (Bash).
Graphical
- Klavaro — Teaching touch typing that intends to be keyboard and language independent.
- KTouch — Program to learn and practice touch typing. Part of kde-education.
- TIPP10 — Intelligent touch typing tutor.
- TypingTest — Typing test desktop program with a large amount of customization.
Accessibility
See Accessibility for tips on operating the desktop and Category:Accessibility for all available articles. See also On-screen keyboards.
Speech synthesizers
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of speech synthesizers and listening comparison of the different engines.
- Ekho — Chinese text-to-speech (TTS) software for Cantonese, Mandarin, Zhaoan Hakka, Tibetan, Ngangien and Korean.
- eSpeak — Compact speech synthesizer for more than 50 languages.
- eSpeak NG — Fork of eSpeak (due to inactivity of original maintainer).
- Festival — General framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole it offers full text to speech.
- Flite — Lightweight speech synthesis engine.
- Gespeaker — GTK frontend for espeak. It allows you to play a text in many languages with settings for voice, pitch, volume and speed.
- KMouth — Speech synthesizer frontend which enables persons that cannot speak to let their computer speak. Part of kde-accessibility.
- MaryTTS — Multilingual text-to-speech synthesis platform written in Java.
- MBROLA — Proprietary phonemes-to-audio program which supports more than 70 languages. Mbrola-voices can also be used with eSpeak.
- Mimic — Text-to-speech voice synthesis from the Mycroft project (based on Flite).
- Open JTalk — Japanese text-to-speech synthesis system.
- Orca — Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired, using eSpeak (via Speech Dispatcher). Part of gnome.
- piper — A fast, local neural text to speech system.
- RHVoice — Cross-platform (including Android) text-to-speech from a blind Russian-speaking developer, based on HTS (ru, ka, uk, ky, tt, en, pt, eo)
- SOPS — Provides a simple way to write custom plugins for screen reader Orca.
- Speech dispatcher — Common interface to speech synthesis. It has backends for eSpeak, Festival, and a few other speech synthesizers.
Speech recognition
See also Wikipedia:Speech recognition software for Linux.
- Julius — Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition engine.
- Kaldi — Speech recognition toolkit.
- Kaylee — Somewhat fancy voice command recognition program that performs actions when a user speaks loosely preset sentences.
- Mycroft — Hackable voice assistant.
- nerd-dictation — Light weight manually activated dictation using the VOSK-API.
- Numen — Voice control for handsfree computing.
Screen magnifiers
- boomer — Zoomer application for Linux.
- KMag — Small KDE utility to magnify a part of the screen. Part of kde-accessibility.
- Magnus — Very simple desktop magnifier, showing the area around the mouse pointer in a separate window magnified two, three, four, or five times.
- Virtual Magnifying Glass — Simple, customizable and easy-to-use screen magnification tool.
- xzoom — Zoom, rotate and mirror area of X display.
On-screen annotation
- Gromit-MPX — Tool to make annotations on the screen.
- Pylote — Tool to draw on the screen.
- Screenkey — Tool to display pressed keys.
- Show Me The Key — A screenkey alternative that works under Wayland via libinput
Mouse
- Easystroke — Use mouse gestures to initiate commands and hotkeys.
- KMouseTool — Clicks the mouse whenever the mouse cursor pauses briefly. It was designed to help those with repetitive strain injuries, for whom pressing buttons hurts. Part of kde-accessibility.
- Mousetweaks — Accessibility enhancements for pointing devices.
Display managers
See the main article: Display manager#List of display managers.
Desktop environments
See the main article: Desktop environment#List of desktop environments.
Window managers
Console
See also List of applications/Utilities#Terminal multiplexers, which offer some of the functions of window managers for the console.
- twin — Text-mode window manager.
- Wmutils — A set of tools for X windows manipulation.
Graphical
See the main article: Window manager#List of window managers.
Composite managers
See the main article: Xorg#List of composite managers.
Wayland compositors
See the main article: Wayland#Compositors.
Window tilers
- QuickTile — Lightweight standalone alternative to Compiz Grid plugin.
- wumwum — The Window Manager manager. It can turn emwh compliant window managers into a tiling window manager while retaining all initial functionalities.
Taskbars
See also Wikipedia:Taskbar.
For both Wayland and Xorg
- Cairo-Dock — Highly customizable dock and launcher application.
- eww — Elkowars Wacky Widgets is a standalone widget system made in Rust that allows you to implement your own, custom widgets in any window manager.
- LXQt Panel — Qt-based taskbar, part of the LXQt desktop.
- Xfce Panel — Panel included in the Xfce desktop.
- yambar — A modular and lightweight status bar for X11 and Wayland that goes to great lengths to be both CPU and battery efficient.
For Wayland only
- Dash to Panel — A fully customizable icon taskbar for gnome-shell. Moves the dash into the GNOME main panel, similar to KDE Plasma and Windows 10.
- Ironbar — A customisable and feature-rich GTK4 status bar for Wayland compositors, written in Rust.
- nwg-dock — GTK-based dock for Sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors.
- nwg-panel — GTK3-based panel for Sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors.
- SFWBar — Flexible taskbar application for Wayland compositors, designed with a stacking layout in mind.
- Waybar — A customizable status bar for wlroots-based Wayland compositors.
For Xorg only
- Bmpanel — Lightweight, NETWM compliant panel.
- DockbarX — Standalone, dock-style taskbar for X11 with window grouping.
- fbpanel — Lightweight, NETWM compliant desktop panel.
- GNOME Panel — Panel included in the GNOME Flashback desktop.
- Lemonbar — A featherweight status bar based on XCB. Provides UTF-8 support, background and foreground colors, text alignment, and not much more.
- liquidshell — Basic desktop shell implemented using QtWidgets. It provides a bottom panel, a desktop wallpaper and desktop widgets.
- LXPanel — Lightweight X11 desktop panel and part of the LXDE desktop.
- MATE Panel — Panel included in the MATE desktop.
- plainPanel — A lightweight panel written in Qt. It aims to be a desktop environment, but for now, it includes just a panel and a control center.
- Polybar — A fast and easy-to-use tool for creating status bars.
- Tint2 — Simple panel/taskbar developed specifically for Openbox.
- Vala Panel — GTK3 panel for compositing window managers.
- xmobar — A lightweight, text-based, status bar written in Haskell.
System tray
Desktop environments typically have their own system tray implementation. E.g. KDE ships with Plasma Panel and Xfce ships with xfce4-panel. For GNOME, see GNOME#AppIndicators/Top bar icons. For dwm, see systray patch.
- AllTray — Dock other applications into the system tray (notification area).
- Docker — Docking application which acts as a system tray.
- KDocker — Dock any application in the system tray (notification area).
- Stalonetray — Stand-alone freedesktop.org and KDE system tray (notification area) for Xorg. It has full XEMBED support and minimal dependencies: an X11 lib only. Stalonetray works with virtually any EWMH-compliant window manager.
- Trayer — Lightweight GTK-based system tray (notification area).
Tray indicators
Desktop-independent tray indicators. Useful for window managers without built-in tray widgets:
- cbatticon: battery
- volumeicon: volume
- pasystray: pulseaudio
- sbxkbAUR: keyboard layout
- python-pystray: Python library for creating tray entries.
- tktrayAUR: Tk extension to create system tray icons following XDG specifications.
Application launchers
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of desktop application launchers.
- Albert — Sophisticated, plugin based standalone keyboard launcher.
- Application Finder — Easy-to-use application launcher from Xfce.
- Bashrun2 — Provides a different, barebones approach to a run dialog, using a specialized Bash session within a small xterm window.
- bemenu — Lightweight dynamic menu inspired by dmenu. Works natively on Wayland.
- Cartridges — Simple game launcher written in Python using GTK4 and Libadwaita.
- dmenu — Fast and lightweight dynamic menu for X which is also useful as an application launcher.
- dmenu-extended — Extension to dmenu for quickly opening files and folders.
- dswitcher — dmenu-based window switcher that works regardless of workspace or minimization.
- fuzzel — Application launcher for wlroots based Wayland compositors, similar to rofi's `drun` mode.
- Gmrun — Lightweight GTK-based application launcher, with the ability to run programs inside a terminal and other handy features.
- GNOME Games — GNOME application to browse your local video games library and to easily pick and play a game from it. Part of gnome-extra.
- Gnome-Pie — Circular application launcher (pie menu) for Linux. It is made of several pies, each consisting of multiple slices.
- higgins — Desktop agnostic application launcher, file finder, calculator and more. Plugin based and freely and easily extendable via user-written plugins.
- j4-dmenu-desktop — Very fast dmenu application launcher.
- jgmenu — Simple, independent, contemporary-looking X11 menu, designed for scripting, ricing and tweaking.
- Junction — Application chooser to open files and links.
- Kupfer — Convenient command and access tool for the GNOME desktop that can launch applications, open documents and access different types of objects and act on them.
- launch — Simple command for launching applications from a terminal emulator.
- Launchy — Very popular cross-platform application launcher with a plugin-based system used to provide extra functionality.
- Lighthouse — Simple scriptable popup dialog to run on X.
- LXLauncher — Clone of the Asus launcher for EeePC.
- nwg-drawer — GTK-based application drawer designed for the Sway compositor.
- nwg-menu — GTK-based application menu designed for the Sway compositor.
- rlaunch — An extremely fast and light-weight dmenu-like application launcher written in Rust.
- rofi — Popup window switcher roughly based on superswitcher, requiring only xlib and pango.
- Synapse — Semantic launcher written in Vala that you can use to start applications as well as find and access relevant documents and files by making use of the Zeitgeist engine.
- tofi — Tiny dynamic menu, fast and simple dmenu/rofi replacement for Wayland compositors such as sway.
- Ulauncher — Modern and shiny launcher that provides fuzzy search, extensions, and themes.
- vonal — Modern customizable global menu with unlimiting plugin system written in Rust.
- wmenu — Dynamic menu for Sway and wlroots based Wayland compositors. Provides a Wayland-native dmenu replacement which maintains the look and feel of dmenu.
- yofi — Minimalistic menu for Wayland-based compositors.
Application menu editors
- Alacarte — Add or remove applications from the main menu.
- AppEditor — Edit application entries in the application menu.
- Ezame — Desktop and menu file editor.
- KMenuEdit — Edit one of the KDE application launchers. Part of plasma.
- lxmed — Application menu editor written in Java.
- MenuLibre — Advanced menu editor that provides modern features in a clean, easy-to-use interface.
- Meow — Application menu editor written in Java.
- Mozo — Change which applications are shown on the main menu.
Application menu generators
- MenuGenerator — Simple application menu generator following XDG menu spec for Fluxbox, Openbox and JWM.
- MenuMaker — Heuristics-driven menu generator for Blackbox, Fluxbox, IceWM, Openbox, PekWM and WindowMaker.
- xdg-menu — Generate XDG application menus for various window managers.
- xdgmenumaker — Command line tool that generates XDG menus for several window managers.
Wallpaper setters
See also Wikipedia:Wallpaper (computing).
- bgs — An extremely fast and small background setter for X based on imlib2.
- feh — A lightweight and powerful image viewer that can also be used to manage the desktop wallpaper.
- Fondo — Find a variety of the most beautiful wallpapers from Unsplash.com.
- Hanabi — Live Wallpaper for GNOME.
- Hidamari — Video wallpaper for Linux. Written in Python.
- hsetroot — A tool to create compose wallpapers.
- HydraPaper — GTK utility to set two different backgrounds for each monitor on GNOME.
- Hyprpaper — Hyprpaper is a blazing fast wayland wallpaper utility with IPC controls.
- LiveWallpaper — Animated 3D wallpapers.
- mpvpaper — A video wallpaper program for wlroots based wayland compositors.
- Nitrogen — A fast and lightweight desktop background browser and setter for X windows.
- oguri — An animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland compositors.
- pacwall — A live wallpaper that shows the dependency graph and status of installed packages.
- pywal — Changes the wallpaper and creates matching colorschemes for various applications (rofi, i3, terminals)
- swaybg — Wallpaper tool for Wayland compositors.
- swww — Efficient animated wallpaper daemon for wayland, controlled at runtime.
- Variety — Changes the wallpaper on a regular interval using user-specified or automatically downloaded images.
- Xlivebg — A live wallpaper framework and collection of live wallpapers for the X window system.
- xwallpaper — Minimalistic wallpaper setting utility for X.
Tip In order to avoid installing one more package, you may find convenient to use the
display utility from imagemagick or gm display from graphicsmagick. E.g.: display -backdrop -background '#3f3f3f' -flatten -window root image.Virtual desktop pagers
See also Wikipedia:Pager (GUI).
- bbpager — Dockable pager for blackbox and other window managers.
- fbpager — Virtual desktop pager for fluxbox.
- http://www.fluxbox.org/fbpager[dead link 2025-01-22—HTTP 404] || fbpager-gitAUR
- IPager — A configurable pager with transparency, originally developed for Fluxbox.
- http://useperl.ru/ipager/index.en.html[dead link 2025-03-15—HTTP 404] || ipagerAUR
- Netwmpager — A NetWM/EWMH compatible pager.
Desktop widgets
- CoreAction — Side bar with some handy gadgets like system loads, calendar, calculator, notes etc. Part of C-Suite.
- gDesklets — System for bringing mini programs (desklets) onto your desktop.
- KRuler — Displays on screen a ruler measuring pixels. Part of kde-graphics.
Desktop notifications
See: Notification servers.
Clipboard managers
See Clipboard#Managers.
Logout UI
- clearine — Beautiful Logout UI for X11 window manager
- https://github.com/okitavera/clearine[dead link 2025-11-17—HTTP 404] || clearine-gitAUR
- nwg-bar — Configurable button bar for wlroots-based compositors.
- oblogout — Openbox logout script
- wlogout — Logout menu for wayland
Artificial intelligence
See also Wikipedia:Open-source artificial intelligence, Wikipedia:Lists of open-source artificial intelligence software, Wikipedia:Comparison of deep learning software
Machine learning frameworks
- cuDNN — NVIDIA CUDA Deep Neural Network library for high-performance GPU acceleration.
- Fast Artificial Neural Network — Library for developing feedforward Artificial Neural Networks.
- ggml — Lightweight tensor library for on-device LLM inference.
- https://github.com/ggml-org/ggml || ggml-gitAUR, libggml-gitAUR, libggml-cuda-gitAUR
- Orange — Visual programming toolkit for data mining, ML and interactive visualization.
- Prolog — Logic-programming language for symbolic AI and computational linguistics.
- PyTorch — Dynamic neural-network framework with strong GPU acceleration.
- https://pytorch.org/ || python-pytorch, python-pytorch-cuda, python-pytorch-opt, python-pytorch-opt-cuda, python-pytorch-rocm, python-pytorch-opt-rocm
- libtorch — C++ frontend for PyTorch.
- https://pytorch.org || libtorch-cudaAUR, libtorch-cxx11abi-cpuAUR, libtorch-cxx11abi-cudaAUR, libtorch-cxx11abi-rocmAUR
- mlpack — Fast, scalable C++ ML library with Python / R / Julia / Go bindings.
- https://mlpack.org || mlpackAUR
- SentencePiece — Unsupervised text tokenizer for neural text generation.
- https://github.com/google/sentencepiece || sentencepieceAUR / sentencepiece-binAUR (C++), python-sentencepieceAUR / python-sentencepiece-binAUR (Python)
- Sentence Transformers — Python framework for state-of-the-art sentence / text / image embeddings.
- TensorFlow — End-to-end platform for scalable machine learning.
- https://www.tensorflow.org/ || python-tensorflow, python-tensorflow-cuda, python-tensorflow-opt, python-tensorflow-opt-cuda
- Theano — Python library for efficient multi-dimensional array math and deep learning.
- Torch — Scientific computing & ML framework for LuaJIT.
- http://torch.ch/ || torch7-gitAUR
Local AI model deployment
Inference engines
- CTranslate2 — A C++ and Python library for efficient inference with Transformer models.
- describeimage — Describe images using Ollama.
- llama.cpp — A high-performance C/C++ port of Facebook's LLaMA model, optimized for local execution.
- ik-llama.cpp — A fork of llama.cpp with additional state-of-the-art quantized models and improved performance.
- https://github.com/ikawrakow/ik_llama.cpp || ik-llama.cppAUR, ik-llama.cpp-cudaAUR, ik-llama.cpp-vulkanAUR
- ONNX Runtime — High-performance scoring engine for ML models with cross-platform support.
- https://onnxruntime.ai/ || onnxruntime-cpu, onnxruntime-cuda, onnxruntime-opt-cuda, onnxruntime-rocm, onnxruntime-opt-rocm
- Ollama — A streamlined tool for creating, running, and sharing large language models locally.
- ollama-amd-igpu — A specialized version of Ollama optimized for AMD iGPUs, supporting Llama 3.3, DeepSeek-R1, Phi-4 and other models.
- https://github.com/Crandel/ollama-amd-igpu || ollama-amd-igpuAUR, ollama-amd-igpu-cudaAUR, ollama-amd-igpu-rocmAUR
Translation
- Argos Translate — Open-source offline translation library with GUI support.
- TranslateLocally — Fast and secure local translation using Bergamot (Mozilla).
AI applications
Desktop clients
- AIOne — An all-in-one AI desktop application that provides access to ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude (uses system-wide Electron).
- Alpaca AI — A flexible client for Ollama, enabling local AI model usage and integration with third-party services like ChatGPT and Gemini.
- AnythingLLM — An all-in-one AI application suite supporting Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and multi-agent workflows for Docker and desktop environments.
- BrowserOS — An open-source agentic browser that runs AI agents locally.
- Cherry Studio — Desktop client for multiple LLM providers (OpenAI, Claude, LocalAI, etc.).
- Chatbox — A cross-platform desktop application for interacting with GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 models via the OpenAI API.
- ChatWise — Fast AI chatbot desktop application.
- clara-verse — Privacy-first, client-side AI assistant WebUI for LLMs with ComfyUI integration.
- GPT4All — A lightweight solution for running large language models locally on any device.
- Jan — An easy-to-use platform for deploying and managing AI models directly on your PC.
- https://jan.ai/ || janAUR
- Lobe Chat — A modern, extensible chat framework for LLMs, supporting multiple AI providers, multi-modal interactions, and plugins.
- LocalAI — Free, Open Source OpenAI alternative with CPU optimizations.
- RisuAI — User-friendly software for LLM roleplaying with local AI models.
- https://risuai.xyz || risuai-binAUR
- NextChat — A cross-platform ChatGPT client.
- noi-desktop — AI-powered desktop assistant for exploration and task automation.
- Open-GPT — A ChatGPT client using the OpenAI API.
- SillyTavern — A feature-rich local interface for interacting with large language models (LLMs), generating images, and synthesizing speech.
- Mycroft — Intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator with speech recognition.
Terminal clients
- AICommits — CLI that writes your git commit messages with AI.
- AIChat — A versatile CLI tool for interacting with AI models, featuring REPL-like functionality, shell assistance, and support for multiple AI providers.
- AIChat NG — An enhanced fork of AIChat with advanced features for terminal-based AI interactions.
- Gemini CLI — Open-source AI agent that brings the power of Google Gemini directly into your terminal.
- GitHub Copilot CLI — Official CLI interface for GitHub Copilot coding assistant.
- OpenCommit — Auto-generate meaningful git commit messages with AI.
- TLM — Local CLI Copilot powered by Ollama.
- ShellGPT — A productivity-focused CLI tool powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT, designed for efficient command-line workflows.
Development tools
- hfdownloader — Utility to download HuggingFace Models and Datasets.
- Rivet — IDE for creating complex AI agents and prompt chaining.
- Kiro — AI-powered IDE for rapid prototyping to production.
- https://kiro.dev/ || kiro-binAUR[broken link: package not found]
- koboldcpp — A simple one-file way to run various GGML and GGUF models with a KoboldAI UI.
- llamafile — Distribute and run LLMs with a single file.
- LM Studio — A user-friendly interface for discovering, downloading, and running local LLMs.
- https://lmstudio.ai/ || lmstudioAUR
- Msty — A simple and intuitive interface for accessing both local and online AI models.
- https://msty.app || msty-binAUR
- netron — Visualizer for neural network, deep learning and machine learning models.
- https://netron.app/ || netronAUR
- open-webui — Extensible self-hosted AI platform with WebUI and OpenAI API support for LLM runners.
Coding assistants
- Crush — A powerful terminal-based AI assistant for developers, providing intelligent coding assistance directly in your terminal.
- https://charm.sh/crush || crushAUR, crush-binAUR
- Codename Goose — An extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - can install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM.
- Claude Code — An agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal.
- codai — AI code assistant with session-based CLI for intelligent suggestions and refactoring.
- CodeGPT — A CLI written in Go language that writes git commit messages or does a code review brief for you using ChatGPT AI (gpt-4, gpt-3.5-turbo model) and automatically installs a git prepare-commit-msg hook.
- Cursor — Write, edit, and chat about your code with GPT.
- https://cursor.so || cursor-binAUR
- opencode — AI coding agent built for the terminal.
- Kiro — An AI-powered IDE for rapid prototyping to production.
- https://kiro.dev/ || kiro-ideAUR
- qwen-code — CLI coding agent (fork of gemini-cli) with AI-powered code generation and assistance.
Multimedia processing
Image generation
- RapidOCR — A cross platform OCR Library based on OnnxRuntime.
- Krita AI Diffusion — An intuitive AI-powered plugin for Krita, enabling seamless image inpainting and outpainting with optional text prompts.
- StabilityMatrix — A versatile package manager for Stable Diffusion, simplifying model management and integration.
- Stable Diffusion C++ — Pure C/C++ implementation of Stable Diffusion for efficient inference on local machines.
- Stable Diffusion Web UI — Powerful web-based interface for Stable Diffusion, enabling high-quality image generation with customizable parameters.
- Upscayl — A free and open-source AI-based image upscaler, enhancing image resolution while preserving quality.
Speech processing
- Coqui TTS — Deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech with support for 20+ languages.
- faster-whisper — Faster Whisper transcription implementation using CTranslate2.
- MaryTTS — Multilingual TTS synthesis platform written in Java.
- Piper — A fast, local neural text-to-speech system.
- Sherpa-ONNX — Speech-to-text, text-to-speech, speaker diarization, and VAD using next-gen Kaldi with onnxruntime.
- shisper — Script to generate subtitles and transcriptions using whisper.cpp.
- vibe — Transcribe audio/video offline using OpenAI Whisper with GUI interface.
- VOICEVOX — Japanese TTS engine with anime-style character voices.
- whisper.cpp — A C/C++ port of OpenAI's Whisper model for efficient speech recognition.
- https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp || whisper.cppAUR, whisper.cpp-cudaAUR, whisper.cpp-openvinoAUR
- whisper.cpp-models — Pre-trained models for whisper.cpp in various sizes.
- https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp || whisper.cpp-model-large-v3AUR, whisper.cpp-model-mediumAUR, whisper.cpp-model-smallAUR, whisper.cpp-model-tinyAUR
- whispering — Open-source transcription application with global speech-to-text functionality.
- wiggly-stt — Local speech-to-text with whisper.cpp and clipboard integration.