Awesome Linux Apps

🚀 A list of awesome applications for 🐧 Linux distributions.

Contents

• Audio
• Backup
• Browser
• Chat
• Cloud Storage
• Code Editors
• Databases
• Game
• IDEs
• Image Editors
• Mail
• Markdown Editors
• Music
• Notes
• Office
• Terminal
• Version Control
• Video
• Virtualization

Audio

• Amarok - A cross-platform and opensource audio player. 👏
• Ardour - Free, open source audio workstation for recording, editing and Mixing. 👏
• Audacious Free, open souce, audio player with low resource use. 👏
• Audacity - Free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds. 👏
• Clementine - A cross-platform feature-rich music player.
• Frinika - Free, complete music workstation software.
• LMMS - Free cross-platform music production software. 👏
• Ocenaudio - Easy, fast and powerful audio editor.

Backup

• attic - Efficient and secure way to backup data. 👏
• Back In Time - Simple backup solution. 👏
• backup - Powerful backup tool distributed using RubyGems. 👏
• BackupPC - High-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up to a server's disk. 👏
• bup - Efficient backup system, provide fast incremental saves and global deduplication. 👏
• Déjà Dup - Simple backup tool, hides the complexity of backing up the right way and uses duplicity as the backend. 👏
• duplicity - Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm.
• restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program. 👏
• Timeshift - Takes incremental snapshots of the file system at regular intervals. 👏

Browser

• Brave - Secure, fast and private web browser with Adblocker.
• Chrome - Fast, simple and secure browser by Google.
• Chromium - Open source, safer, faster and more stable way for all Internet users. 👏
• Edge - Fast and secure browser by Microsoft.
• Firefox - Fast, lightweight and powerfully private web browser.
• Midori - Lightweight, fast and free web browser.
• Opera - Fast, secure, easy-to-use and free VPN.
• Tor - Contain everything you need to safely browse the internet.
• Vivaldi - Powerful, personal and flexible browser.
• Yandex - Fast and secure browser.
• Zen - A brand new cross-platform browser with attractive UI, based on Firefox. 👏

Chat

• Discord - Free voice and text chat for gamers.
• Keybase - Secure messaging and file-sharing for team collaboration.
• Microsoft Teams - Meet, chat, call, and collaborate in just one place.
• Pidgin - A chat program which lets you log into accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. 👏
• Signal - Free communication, audio, video call and secure messaging.
• Skype - Famous instant messaging application for talking, chatting and collaborating.
• Telegram - Cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging app with a focus on security and speed.
• Slack - Awesome tool for team collaboration and communication.
• Tox - Free, powerful and secure chat.
• Viber - Free and secure calls and messages to anyone, anywhere.
• WICKR - Secure for team collaboration space.
• Wire - Open source and secure collaboration platform. 👏

Cloud Storage

• Dropbox - The best cloud services on Linux.
• Google Drive - Powerful cloud services by Google.
• Mega - Powerful and Secure Coud Storage.
• NextCloud - Free, open source cloud storage and collaboration platform.
• pCloud - Secure online storage from Switzerland.
• insync - Google Drive and OneDrive file syncing
• Terrabox - Get free cloud storage 1024GB.

Code Editors

• Atom - Hackable text editor for the 21st Century. 👏
• BlueFish - Powerful editor targeted towards programmers and web developers.
• Brackets - Modern, open source text editor that understands web design. 👏
• Kakoune - Modal editor with multi selection and fewer keystroke 👏
• neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability. 👏
• Oni - Modern Modal Editing - powered by Neovim. 👏
• Oni2 - Native, lightweight modal code editor. 👏
• Sublime Text - Sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.
• Vim - Greatly improved version of the good old UNIX editor Vi. 👏
• Visual Studio Code - Free, open source, powerful and runs everywhere. 👏
• Zed - Fast, modern & open source code editor with focus on performance. 👏

Databases

• CockroachDB - CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database built on a transactional and strongly-consistent key-value store. 👏
• DB Browser for SQLite - High quality, visual, open source tool with SQLite. 👏
• DBeaver - Free universal database tool and SQL client. 👏
• Gun - Gun is an open-source and realtime, decentralized, offline-first, graph database engine written in JavaScript. 👏
• Mongodb Compass - Nice GUI for MongoDB with dark mode included.
• Postbird - Cross-platform PostgreSQL GUI client, written in JavaScript, runs with Electron. 👏
• Postgres admin - Free Postgres admin GUI, you can export and import database and rarely fail.
• Robo 3T - Free lightweight GUI for MongoDB enthusiasts.

Game

• GameHub - GameHub provides games from multiple game sources and services (Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, Humble Trove, etc). 👏
• GOG.com - Web platform to donwload games.
• Humble - Platform to buy games bundles.
• itch.io - Platform to buy games.
• Lutris - Open Source gaming platform for Linux. 👏
• PlayOnLinux - Support install Windows app and games on Linux. 👏
• Portable Linux Games - Collection of a number of Linux games.
• Steam - Platform to buy games.

IDEs

• Android Studio - The fastest tools for building apps on every type of Android device.
• CLion - Cross-platform IDE for C and C++.
• DataGrip - Many databases, one tool.
• Eclipse - Free, open source, written by Java and plugin architecture allows Eclipse to be extended in other languages.
• GoLand - Cross-platform IDE built specially for Go developers.
• IntelliJ IDEA - Powerful IDE for JVM languages.
• NetBeans - Quickly and easily develop desktop, mobile, and web applications with Java.
• PyCharm - Powerful Python IDE for Professional Developers.
• Rider - Fast and powerful cross-platform .NET IDE.
• WebStorm - The powerful IDE for modern JavaScript development.

Image Editors

• DigiKam - Free & Open-source digital photo management application. 👏
• Fotoxx - Free & Open-source photo editing and collection management tool. 👏
• GIMP - Free & Open Source Image Editor. 👏
• GrafX2 - Bitmap paint program inspired by Deluxe Paint on Amiga.
• Inkscape - Professional vector graphics editor. 👏
• Karbon - Vector drawing application that is easy to use, highly customizable and extensible.
• Krita - Open source professional software and free digital painting. 👏
• MyPaint - Fast and dead-simple painting app for artists. 👏
• Pinta - Free, open source program for drawing and image editing. 👏
• Shotcut - Free, open source, cross-platform video editor. 👏
• ShowFOTO - Free & Lightweight image editor.
• Vectr - Free graphics software used to create vector graphics easily and intuitively.

Mail

• Hiri - Linux email client for Exchange and Office 365.
• Mailspring - Free, open source, beautiful and fast mail client. 👏
• Thunderbird - Free email application, easy to install and customize.

Markdown Editors

• ghostwriter - Cross-platform, aesthetic, distraction-free Markdown editor. 👏
• Haroopad - The next document processor based on Markdown. 👏
• Marktext - Simple and Elegant Markdown Editor, focused on speed and usability. 👏
• Moeditor - Your all-purpose Markdown editor. 👏
• Remarkable - Open source, lightweight and powerful Markdown editor. 👏
• ReText - Simple but powerful editor for Markdown and reStructuredText. 👏
• Typora - Truly minimal Markdown editor featuring seamless live preview.

Music

• Amarok - Powerful music player for Linux with an intuitive interface. 👏
• Audacious - Open source audio player that is low resource and has a minimal feature interface. 👏
• Clementine - Cross-platform music player and library organizer forked from Amarok 1.4. 👏
• cmus - Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems. 👏
• ocp - Music visualizer for various tracked music formats, chiptunes and other formats related to demoscene. 👏
• Lollypop - Modern music player for GNOME. 👏
• Rhythmbox - Music playing application for GNOME. 👏

Notes

• Boostnote - Intuitive and stylish note taking tool for developers. 👏
• Laverna - Keep your notes private. 👏
• notes - GPG Encrypted Notes/Notebook manager for BSD/Linux👏
• Simplenote - Light, clean and free. 👏
• Tagspaces - Offline, open source and data manager. 👏
• Turtl - Secure and collaborative notebook. 👏

Office

• LibreOffice - Best free office suite in the Linux community. 👏
• OpenOffice - The free and open productive suite. 👏
• WPS Office - Beautiful, faster, lightweight and offers modern slick user interface.

Terminal

• Alacritty - Cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator. 👏
• Fzf command-line fuzzy finder - General-purpose command-line fuzzy finder that makes searching in history way easier. 👏
• Hyper - Terminal built on web technologies. 👏
• Kitty - Fast, feature-rich, cross-platform, GPU based terminal. 👏
• Konsole - Terminal emulator for the K Desktop Environment. 👏
• st - Simple terminal implementation for X. 👏
• Terminator - Multiple terminals in one window. 👏
• Termite - A keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal. 👏
• Tilda - Easy to configure the hotkeys and change the appearance. 👏
• Tilix - Tiling terminal emulator using GTK+ 3. 👏
• Tmux - Tmux is a terminal multiplexer, like screen, but much better. 👏
• Upterm - Terminal emulator for the 21st century. 👏

Version Control

• Aurees - Easy, fast and free.
• CodeReview - Git GUI tool to perform code review. 👏
• GitAhead - Graphical Git client designed to help you understand and manage your source code history. 👏
• Git Cola - Powerful Git GUI with a slick and intuitive user interface. 👏
• Git Extensions - Standalone UI tool for managing git repositories. 👏
• Git Horizon - Cross-platform, Actionable, Graphical Git Dashboard.
• GitKraken - Git client with efficiency, elegance and reliability.
• SmartGit - Graphical Git client with support for SVN and Pull Requests for GitHub and Bitbucket.
• Sublime Merge - Powerful Git client from the creators of Sublime Text.
• ungit - Clean and intuitive UI, running on the web. 👏

Video

• Bomi - Powerful and Easy-to-use multimedia player. 👏
• Kodi - Free and open source media player application. 👏
• Miro - Beautiful, open-source music and video player that lets you break free! 👏
• mpv - Free, open source, and cross-platform media player. 👏
• OBS Studio - Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. 👏
• SimpleScreenRecorder - Free and open source screen recording is easy to do. 👏
• SMPlayer - Free Media Player with built-in codecs.
• VLC - Free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework. 👏

Virtualization

• Docker - Powerful, performs operating-system-level virtualization. 👏
• Docker Machine - Machine management for a container-centric world. 👏
• Gnome Boxes - Easy to view, access, and manage remote and virtual systems. 👏
• QEMU - Generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. 👏
• UCS Virtual Machine Manager - Linux VM management tool for Linux, which specializes in working with cloud VMs, clusters, and other enterprise-level virtual systems.
• Vagrant - Tool for building and distributing development environments. 👏
• Virtual Box - Free, feature rich, high performance and maintained by Oracle.
• Virtual Machine Manager - Graphical tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt. 👏

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