List of applications

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Internet

Network connection

Network managers

See Network configuration#Network managers.

VPN clients

GlobalProtect-openconnect — A GlobalProtect VPN client (GUI) for Linux, based on OpenConnect and built with Qt5, supports SAML auth mode.

https://github.com/yuezk/GlobalProtect-openconnect/ || globalprotect-openconnect-git^AUR

Libreswan — A free software implementation of the most widely supported and standarized VPN protocol based on ("IPsec") and the Internet Key Exchange ("IKE").

https://libreswan.org/ || libreswan^AUR

Mullvad — A GUI client for the Mullvad VPN service

https://mullvad.net/ || mullvad-vpn^AUR

Nebula — A mesh VPN network

https://nebula.defined.net/docs/ || nebula

NetworkManager — Supports a variety of protocols (e.g. MS, Cisco, Fortinet) via a plugin system.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager/VPN || networkmanager

OpenConnect — Supports Cisco and Juniper VPNs.

https://www.infradead.org/openconnect/ || openconnect

Openswan — IPsec-based VPN Solution.

https://www.openswan.org/ || openswan^AUR

OpenVPN — To connect to OpenVPN VPNs.

https://openvpn.net/ || openvpn

PPTP Client — To connect to PPTP VPNs, like Microsoft VPNs (MPPE). (insecure)

https://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ || pptpclient

RiseupVPN — A GUI client for the Riseup VPN service from riseup.net.

https://riseup.net/en/vpn/ || riseup-vpn^AUR or riseup-vpn-configurator^AUR

strongSwan — IPsec-based VPN Solution.

https://www.strongswan.org/ || strongswan

tinc — tinc is a free VPN daemon.

https://www.tinc-vpn.org/ || tinc

vopono — OpenVPN and Wireguard wrapper to launch applications with VPN tunnels in network namespaces.

https://github.com/jamesmcm/vopono || vopono^AUR

vpnc — To connect to Cisco 3000 VPN Concentrators.

https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/ || vpnc

WireGuard — Next generation secure network tunnel.

https://www.wireguard.com/ || wireguard-tools

Proxy servers

Brook — Proxy focusing on strong encryption and being undetectable.

https://txthinking.github.io/brook/ || brook

Clash — A rule-based tunnel in Go.

https://github.com/Dreamacro/clash || clash

Dante — SOCKS server and SOCKS client, implementing RFC:1928 and related standards.

https://www.inet.no/dante/ || dante

Geph — A modular Internet censorship circumvention system designed specifically to deal with national filtering.

https://geph.io/en/ || geph4-client^AUR

NaïveProxy — A Proxy using Chrome's network stack to camouflage traffic with strong censorship resistence and low detectablility.

https://github.com/klzgrad/naiveproxy || naiveproxy^AUR

Privoxy — Non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk.

https://www.privoxy.org/ || privoxy

V2Ray — V2Ray is the core of Project V, which is a set of tools to help you build your own privacy network over the internet.

https://www.v2fly.org/en_US/ || v2ray

Shadowsocks — Secure socks5 proxy, designed to protect your Internet traffic.

https://shadowsocks.org/ || Python: shadowsocks, Rust: shadowsocks-rust^AUR

Squid — Caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.

http://www.squid-cache.org/ || squid

Stunnel — A server and client to add and remove TLS encryption to TCP data flow.

https://www.stunnel.org/ || stunnel

Tinyproxy — Lightweight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon.

https://tinyproxy.github.io/ || tinyproxy

Trojan — An unidentifiable mechanism that helps you bypass GFW.

https://trojan-gfw.github.io/trojan/ || trojan

Varnish — High-performance HTTP accelerator.

https://varnish-cache.org/ || varnish

XX-Net — Easy to use web proxy tool.

https://github.com/XX-net/XX-Net/ || xx-net^AUR

Ziproxy — Forwarding (non-caching) compressing HTTP proxy server.

http://ziproxy.sourceforge.net/ || ziproxy

Anonymizing networks

Arti — Rust implementation of the Tor anonymizing overlay network.

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti || arti

Freenet — An encrypted network without censorship.

https://freenetproject.org/ || freenet^AUR

GNUnet — Framework for secure peer-to-peer networking.

https://gnunet.org/ || CLI: gnunet^AUR, GUI: gnunet-gtk^AUR

I2P — Distributed anonymous network.

https://geti2p.net/ || i2pd, i2p^AUR

Lantern — Peer-to-peer internet censorship circumvention software.

https://getlantern.org/ || lantern-bin^AUR

Lokinet — Anonymous, decentralized and IP based overlay network for the internet.

https://lokinet.org/ || lokinet^AUR

Tor — Anonymizing overlay network.

https://www.torproject.org/ || tor

Network tunnels

6tunnel — Tunnels IPv6 connections for IPv4-only applications.

https://github.com/wojtekka/6tunnel/ || 6tunnel

iodine — Tunnel IPv4 data through a DNS server.

https://code.kryo.se/iodine/ || iodine

isatapd — Creates and maintains an ISATAP tunnel (RFC:5214).

http://www.saschahlusiak.de/linux/isatap.htm || isatapd

Ping Tunnel — A tool for reliably tunneling TCP connections over ICMP echo request and reply packets.

https://www.cs.uit.no/~daniels/PingTunnel/ || ptunnel

Tuntox — Tunnel TCP connections over the Tox protocol.

https://github.com/gjedeer/tuntox/ || tuntox

Web browsers

Console

browsh — A fully-modern text-based browser. Runs as a frontend to headless Firefox.

https://www.brow.sh/ || browsh^AUR

ELinks — Advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web browser with mouse wheel scroll support, frames and tables, extensible with Lua & Guile (links fork).

http://elinks.or.cz/ || elinks

Links — Graphics and text mode web browser. Includes a console version similar to Lynx.

http://links.twibright.com/ || links

Lynx — Text browser for the World Wide Web.

https://lynx.invisible-island.net/ || lynx

w3m — Pager/text-based web browser. It has vim-like keybindings, and is able to display images.

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/w3m || w3m

Graphical

Gecko-based

Firefox spin-offs

Dot — A fork of firefox focused on privacy and a sleeker UI.

https://www.dothq.co/ || dot-bin^AUR

FireDragon — A fork of LibreWolf that includes KDE integration patches and custom branding.

https://gitlab.com/dr460nf1r3/settings/ || firedragon^AUR

Floorp — Firefox-based browser with excellent privacy protection, developed by a community of students in Japan.

https://floorp.ablaze.one || floorp^AUR

GNU IceCat — A customized build of Firefox ESR distributed by the GNU Project, stripped of non-free components and with additional privacy extensions. Release cycle may be delayed compared to Mozilla Firefox.

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ || icecat^AUR

LibreWolf — A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.

https://librewolf.net/ || librewolf^AUR

Mercury — Firefox fork with compiler optimizations and patches from Librewolf, Waterfox, and GNU IceCat.

https://thorium.rocks/mercury || mercury-browser-bin^AUR

Pulse Browser — An experimental Firefox fork that enhances focus and increases work productivity due to its Hyper minimalistic UI and built-in tools.

https://pulsebrowser.app/ || pulse-browser-bin^AUR

Tor Browser Launcher — Securely and easily download, verify, install, and launch Tor Browser, a fork of Firefox ESR.

https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher || torbrowser-launcher

Waterfox Classic — Optimized fork of Firefox 56, without data collection and allowing unsigned extensions and NPAPI plugins.

https://www.waterfox.net/ || waterfox-classic-bin^AUR

Blink-based

Privacy-focused chromium spin-offs

Brave — Web browser with builtin ad- and tracker blocking.

https://www.brave.com/ || brave^AUR

Iridium — A privacy-focused patchset for Chromium. See differences from Chromium.

https://iridiumbrowser.de/ || iridium-rpm^AUR

Ungoogled Chromium — Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration and enhancing privacy, control, and transparency

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium || ungoogled-chromium^AUR

Thorium — Thorium develops a periodically synchronized fork of the Chromium browser, expanded with additional patches to optimize performance, improve usability and enhance security. According to the developers' tests Thorium is 8-40% ahead of the regular Chromium, mainly due to the inclusion of additional optimizations during compilation.

https://thorium.rocks/ || thorium-browser-bin^AUR

Proprietary chromium spin-offs

Google Chrome — Proprietary web browser developed by Google.

https://www.google.com/chrome/ || google-chrome^AUR

Microsoft Edge — Proprietary web browser developed by Microsoft.

https://www.microsoft.com/edge/ || microsoft-edge-stable-bin^AUR

Opera — Proprietary browser developed by Opera Software.

https://opera.com || opera

Slimjet — Fast, smart and powerful proprietary browser based on Chromium.

https://www.slimjet.com/ || slimjet^AUR

Vivaldi — An advanced proprietary browser made with the power user in mind.

https://vivaldi.com/ || vivaldi

Yandex Browser — Proprietary browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

https://browser.yandex.com/ || yandex-browser-beta^AUR

Browsers based on qt5-webengine

Dooble — Colorful Web browser.

https://textbrowser.github.io/dooble/ || dooble^AUR

Eric — QtWebEngine-based HTML browser, part of the eric6 development toolset, can be launched with the eric6_browser command.

https://eric-ide.python-projects.org/ || eric^AUR

Falkon — Web browser based on QtWebEngine, written in Qt framework.

https://falkon.org/ || falkon

Konqueror — Web browser based on Qt toolkit and Qt WebEngine (or KHTML layout engine), part of kde-network.

https://apps.kde.org/konqueror/ || konqueror

Liri Browser — A minimalistic material design web browser written for Liri.

https://github.com/lirios/browser || liri-browser-git^AUR

Otter Browser — Browser aiming to recreate classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5.

https://otter-browser.org/ || otter-browser^AUR

Qt WebBrowser — Browser for embedded devices developed using the capabilities of Qt and Qt WebEngine.

https://doc.qt.io/QtWebBrowser/ || qtwebbrowser^AUR

qutebrowser — A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5 and QtWebEngine.

https://qutebrowser.org/ || qutebrowser

Browsers based on electron

Beaker — Peer-to-peer web browser with tools to create and host websites.

https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker || beaker-browser^AUR

Catalyst — A minimal FOSS web browser with no data collection.

https://getcatalyst.eu.org || catalyst-browser-bin^AUR

Franz — Messaging browser for WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Telegram and many other web services.

https://meetfranz.com/ || franz^AUR

Hamsket — A GPL-licensed alternative to Franz, forked from the last open sources of Rambox.

https://github.com/TheGoddessInari/hamsket || hamsket^AUR

Min — A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy. It includes an interface designed to minimize distractions.

https://minbrowser.org/ || min^AUR

Vieb — Minimalist Electron-based browser with Vim-inspired keybindings and a built-in ad-blocker.

https://vieb.dev || vieb-bin^AUR

WebKit-based

Browsers based on webkit2gtk

Most of these support ad-blocking via wyebadblock.

Badwolf — A minimalist privacy-focused browser.

https://hacktivis.me/projects/badwolf || badwolf^AUR

Ephemeral — A private-by-default, always-incognito browser for elementary OS.

https://github.com/cassidyjames/ephemeral || ephemeral^AUR

Eolie — Simple web browser for GNOME.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Eolie || eolie

GNOME Web — Browser which uses the WebKitGTK rendering engine. Part of gnome.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web || epiphany

Luakit — Fast, small, webkit based browser framework extensible by Lua.

https://luakit.github.io/ || luakit

Midori — Lightweight web browser based on GTK and WebKit.

https://www.midori-browser.org/ || midori

Nyxt — Keyboard-oriented, infinitely extensible browser designed for power users. It has familiar key-bindings (Emacs, VI, CUA) and features fuzzy searching between tabs, multiple selections, history as a tree and more.

https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/ || nyxt

surf — Lightweight WebKit-based browser, which follows the suckless philosophy (basically, the browser itself is a single C source file).

https://surf.suckless.org/ || surf^AUR

Surfer — Simple keyboard based web browser, written in C. It supports custom JS-scripts.

https://github.com/nihilowy/surfer || surfer-git^AUR

Tangram — Integration of web applications into the desktop, specifically GNOME.

https://github.com/sonnyp/Tangram || tangram^AUR

Vimb — A Vim-like web browser written in C that is inspired by Pentadactyl and Vimprobable. It includes a manpage and a howto for common configurations. It supports custom JS-scripts, dark mode and handles geolocation requests.

https://fanglingsu.github.io/vimb/ || vimb

wyeb — A vim-like web browser inspired by dwb and luakit with Adblock.

https://github.com/jun7/wyeb || wyeb-git^AUR

Other

Dillo — Small, fast graphical web browser built on FLTK. Uses its own layout engine.

https://www.dillo.org/ || dillo

Links — Graphics and text mode web browser. Includes a graphical X-window/framebuffer version with CSS, image rendering, pull-down menus. It can be launched with the xlinks -g command.

http://links.twibright.com/ || links

NetSurf — Featherweight browser written in C, notable for its slowly developing JavaScript support and fast rendering through its own layout engine.

https://www.netsurf-browser.org/ || netsurf

Pale Moon — A Firefox fork focussing on speed, with a pre-Firefox 29 interface. Uses Goanna layout engine, a fork of Gecko. Firefox add-ons may not be compatible. Without support for newer Firefox features such as WebExtensions, cache2, e10s, and OTMC. Many of the old 93,598 versions of 19,450 Firefox add-ons created by 14,274 developers over the past 15 years using XUL/XPCOM technology in the Classic Add-ons Archive still work.

https://www.palemoon.org/ || palemoon^AUR

Gemini browsers

Amfora — Terminal browser for the Gemini protocol.

https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/amfora || amfora

Bombabillo — Non-web client for the terminal, supporting Gopher, Gemini and much more.

https://bombadillo.colorfield.space/ || bombadillo-git^AUR

Castor — Graphical client for the Gemini, Gopher, and Finger protocols, written in Rust with GTK.

https://git.sr.ht/~julienxx/castor || castor^AUR

Geopard — A graphical gemini client written in rust, using the gtk4 toolkit.

https://github.com/ranfdev/Geopard || geopard^AUR

Kristall — Qt-based Gemini browser.

https://github.com/MasterQ32/kristall || kristall^AUR

Lagrange — Desktop GUI client for browsing Gemini space, offering modern conveniences familiar from web browsers.

https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange || lagrange^AUR

Telescope — w3m-like browser for Gemini.

https://telescope.omarpolo.com || telescope^AUR

Web servers

A web server serves HTML web pages and other files via HTTP to clients like web browsers. The major web servers can be interfaced with programs to serve dynamic content (web applications).

Apache HTTP Server — A high performance Unix-based HTTP server.

https://httpd.apache.org/ || apache

Caddy — HTTP/2 web server with automatic HTTPS.

https://caddyserver.com/ || caddy

Hiawatha — Secure and advanced web server.

https://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/ || hiawatha^AUR

Lighttpd — A secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server.

https://www.lighttpd.net/ || lighttpd

nginx — Lightweight HTTP server and IMAP/POP3 proxy server.

https://nginx.org/ || nginx

sthttpd — Supported fork of the thttpd web server.

https://github.com/blueness/sthttpd || sthttpd^AUR

Traefik — A modern reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy.

https://traefik.io/traefik/ || traefik-bin^AUR

yaws — Web server/framework written in Erlang.

http://yaws.hyber.org/^{[dead link 2023-06-17 ⓘ]} || yaws^AUR

Static web servers

darkhttpd — A small and secure static web server, written in C, does not support HTTPS or Auth.

https://unix4lyfe.org/darkhttpd/ || darkhttpd

miniserve — Rust alternative to darkhttpd with UTF-8, optional HTTP authentication, file uploading, and more.

https://github.com/svenstaro/miniserve || miniserve

quark — An extremly small and simple http get-only web server. It only serves static pages on a single host.

https://tools.suckless.org/quark/ || quark-git^AUR

serve — Static file serving and directory listing.

https://github.com/zeit/serve || nodejs-serve^AUR

Webfs — Simple and instant web server for mostly static content.

https://linux.bytesex.org/misc/webfs.html || webfs^AUR

The Python standard library module http.server can also be used from the command-line.

Specialized web servers

chezdav — WebDAV server that allows to share a particular directory.

https://wiki.gnome.org/phodav || phodav

Mongoose — Embedded web server library, supports WebSocket and MQTT.

https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose || mongoose^AUR

OnionShare — Lets you securely and anonymously send and receive files. It works by starting a web server, making it accessible as a Tor onion service, and generating an unguessable web address so others can download files from you, or upload files to you.

https://onionshare.org/ || onionshare

Transfer More — A minimalist open-source upload HTTP server to store and share files temporarily, written in Crystal, and based on Kemal.

https://up.sceptique.eu/ || transfer-more^AUR

VServer — GTK application, which opens an http server in the selected folder and shares your files.

https://github.com/bcedu/ValaSimpleHTTPServer || vserver-git^AUR

webhook — Small server for creating HTTP endpoints (hooks)

https://github.com/adnanh/webhook || webhook

Woof — An ad-hoc single file webserver; Web Offer One File.

http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/woof.html || woof^AUR

WSGI servers

Gunicorn — A Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX.

https://gunicorn.org/ || gunicorn

uWSGI — A fast, self-healing and developer/sysadmin-friendly application container server written in C.

https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/ || uwsgi

Waitress — A WSGI server for Python 3.

https://github.com/Pylons/waitress || python-waitress

Apache also supports WSGI with mod_wsgi.

Performance testing

http_load — A webserver performance testing tool, runs in a single process.

https://www.acme.com/software/http_load/ || http_load^AUR

httperf — Can generate various HTTP workloads, written in C.

https://github.com/httperf/httperf || httperf-git^AUR

httping — A "ping"-like tool for HTTP requests

https://www.vanheusden.com/httping/ || httping

siege — An HTTP regression testing and benchmarking utility.

https://www.joedog.org/siege-home/ || siege

vegeta — HTTP load testing tool, written in Go.

https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta || vegeta

Web Bench — Benchmarking tool, uses fork() for simulating multiple clients.

http://home.tiscali.cz/~cz210552/webbench.html || webbench^AUR

File sharing

Download managers

Console

aria2 — Lightweight download utility that supports HTTP/S, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. It can run as a daemon controlled via a built-in JSON-RPC or XML-RPC interface.

https://aria2.github.io/ || aria2

Axel — Featherweight command line download accelerator sitting at under 250kB on disk. Supports HTTP/S and FTP.

https://github.com/eribertomota/axel || axel

cURL — A URL retrieval utility and library. Supports HTTP, FTP and SFTP.

https://curl.haxx.se/ || curl

HTTPie — Human-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era.

https://github.com/httpie/httpie || httpie

HTTrack — An easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer.

https://www.httrack.com/ || httrack

LFTP — Sophisticated file transfer program. Supports HTTP, FTP, SFTP, FISH, and BitTorrent.

https://lftp.yar.ru/ || lftp

Plowshare — A set of command-line tools designed for managing file-sharing websites (aka Hosters).

https://github.com/mcrapet/plowshare || plowshare^AUR

quvi — A command-line-tool suite to access the flash media stream properties.

http://quvi.sourceforge.net/ || quvi^AUR

RTMPDump — Download FLV videos through RTMP (Adobe's proprietary protocol for Flash video players)

http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/ || rtmpdump

snarf — Command-line URL retrieval tool. Supports HTTP and FTP.

https://www.xach.com/snarf/ || snarf^AUR

Streamlink — Launch streams from various streaming services in a custom video player or save them to a file.

https://streamlink.github.io/ || streamlink

Streamripper — Records and splits streaming mp3 into tracks.

https://streamripper.sourceforge.net/ || streamripper^AUR

yewtube — Terminal-based YouTube player and downloader.

https://github.com/mps-youtube/yewtube || yewtube^AUR

You-Get — Download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the Web.

https://you-get.org/ || you-get

youtube-dl — Download videos from YouTube and many other web sites.

https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ || youtube-dl^AUR

youtube-viewer — Command line utility for viewing YouTube videos.

https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer || youtube-viewer^AUR

ytfzf — A POSIX script to find and watch youtube videos from the terminal.

https://github.com/pystardust/ytfzf || ytfzf

yt-dlp — A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp || yt-dlp

Wget — A network utility to retrieve files from the Web. Supports HTTP and FTP.

https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/ || wget

Graphical

ClipGrab — Downloader and converter for YouTube, Vimeo and many other online video sites.

https://clipgrab.org/ || clipgrab

FatRat — Qt based download manager with support for HTTP, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

https://github.com/LubosD/fatrat || fatrat-git^AUR

Forklift — Simple GUI for youtube-dl using PyGObject.

https://github.com/Johnn3y/Forklift || forklift-git^AUR

FreeRapid — Java-based downloader that supports downloading from file-sharing services.

https://wordrider.net/freerapid/ || freerapid^AUR

gtk-youtube-viewer — GTK utility for viewing YouTube videos. See optional dependencies for the GUI.

https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer || youtube-viewer^AUR

Gwget — Download manager for GNOME. Supports HTTP and FTP.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gwget || gwget

Gydl — GUI wrapper around the already existing youtube-dl program to download content from sites like YouTube.

https://github.com/JannikHv/gydl || gydl-git^AUR

Gyre — GTK3 downloader for videos from Coub.

https://github.com/HelpSeeker/Gyre || gyre^AUR

JDownloader — Java-based downloader for one-click hosting sites.

https://jdownloader.org/ || jdownloader2^AUR

KGet — Download manager for KDE. Supports HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. Part of kde-network.

https://apps.kde.org/kget/ || kget

MegaBasterd — Yet another unofficial MEGA downloader/uploader/streaming suite.

https://github.com/tonikelope/megabasterd || megabasterd-bin^AUR

Motrix — Full-featured download manager that supports downloading HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Magnet, etc. Based on the Electron platform.

https://motrix.app/ || motrix^AUR

Persepolis — Graphical front-end for aria2 download manager with lots of features. Supports HTTP and FTP.

https://persepolisdm.github.io/ || persepolis

pyLoad — Downloader written in Python and designed to be extremely lightweight, easily extensible and fully manageable via web.

https://pyload.net/ || pyload-ng^AUR

Steadyflow — Simple download manager for GNOME. Supports HTTP and FTP.

https://launchpad.net/steadyflow || steadyflow

Streamtuner2 — Internet radio station and video browser. It simply lists stations in categories from different directories and launches your preferred media apps for playback.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/streamtuner2/ || streamtuner2^AUR

uGet — GTK download manager featuring download classification and HTML import. Supports HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Metalink, YouTube and Mega.

https://ugetdm.com/^{[dead link 2023-09-16 ⓘ]} || uget

Video Downloader — GTK application to download videos from websites like YouTube and many others (based on youtube-dl).

https://github.com/Unrud/video-downloader || video-downloader^AUR

Xtreme Download Manager — Powerful tool to increase download speed up-to 500%. Supports HTTP and FTP. Video grabber works in a general way and is not limited to certain websites.

https://subhra74.github.io/xdm/ || xdman^AUR

youtubedl-gui — Simple-to-use graphical interface for youtube-dl.

https://github.com/JaGoLi/ytdl-gui || youtubedl-gui^AUR

LAN file transfer

Cloud storage servers

Cozy — A personal cloud you can hack, host and delete.

https://cozy.io/ || cozy-stack

Nextcloud — A cloud server to store your files centrally on a hardware controlled by you.

https://nextcloud.com || nextcloud

Pydio — Mature open source web application for file sharing and synchronization.

https://pydio.com/ || pydio^AUR

Seafile — An online file storage and collaboration tool with advanced support for file syncing, privacy protection and teamwork.

https://www.seafile.com/ || seafile-server^AUR

Cloud synchronization clients

Tip:

Some synchronization and backup programs provide direct support for some cloud-storage services.
Some FUSE filesystems provide a way to mount cloud-storage as a filesystem. Google Drive can be accessed also by gvfs-google for GVFS-based applications (like Nautilus), and by kio-gdrive for KIO-based applications (like Dolphin).
See Data-at-rest encryption#Cloud-storage optimized to achieve zero-knowledge (client-side transparent encryption) storage on any third-party cloud service.

Multi-protocol clients

CloudCross — Synchronize local files and folders with many cloud providers. Mail.ru Cloud, Yandex Disk, Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox support is available.

https://cloudcross.mastersoft24.ru/^{[dead link 2022-09-20 ⓘ]} || cloudcross^AUR

Rclone — Multi-provider sync, copy, and mount client.

https://rclone.org/ || rclone

Rclone Browser — GUI client for Rclone.

https://github.com/kapitainsky/RcloneBrowser || rclone-browser^AUR

Google Drive clients

drive — Tiny program to pull or push Google Drive files.

https://github.com/odeke-em/drive || drive^AUR

DriveSync — Command line utility that synchronizes your Google Drive files with a local folder on your machine.

https://github.com/MStadlmeier/drivesync || drivesync^AUR

gdrive — Command line utility for interacting with Google Drive.

https://github.com/prasmussen/gdrive || gdrive^AUR

Grive — Google Drive client with support for new Drive REST API and partial sync.

https://github.com/vitalif/grive2 || grive^AUR

Insync — Unofficial proprietary Google Drive desktop client.

https://www.insynchq.com/ || insync^AUR

VGrive — GTK-based GUI client (back-end and front-end) for Google Drive made in Vala.

https://github.com/bcedu/VGrive || vgrive^AUR

Other synchronization clients

aws-cli — CLI for Amazon Web Services, including efficient file transfers to and from Amazon S3.

https://aws.amazon.com/cli/ || aws-cli

Backblaze B2 — Backblaze B2 open-source command-line client.

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html || backblaze-b2^AUR

Baidu Netdisk — Proprietary client for cloud storage service launched by Baidu (formerly Baidu Cloud).

https://pan.baidu.com || baidunetdisk-bin^AUR

Cozy Drive — Desktop client for Cozy.

https://cozy-labs.github.io/cozy-desktop/ || cozy-desktop

Dropbox — Proprietary desktop client for Dropbox.

https://www.dropbox.com/ || dropbox^AUR

Mega Sync Client — Proprietary desktop client to sync files with Mega.

https://mega.nz/ || megasync^AUR

Megatools — Unofficial CLI for Mega.

https://megatools.megous.com/ || megatools

Nextcloud Client — Desktop client for Nextcloud.

https://nextcloud.com/ || nextcloud-client

Nutstore — Proprietary desktop client for Nutstore.

https://www.jianguoyun.com/ || nutstore^AUR

OneDrive — Unofficial CLI for OneDrive.

https://github.com/skilion/onedrive || onedrive^AUR

OneDrive — Fork of the unofficial CLI for OneDrive.

https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive || onedrive-abraunegg^AUR

ownCloud Desktop Client — Desktop syncing client for ownCloud.

https://owncloud.com/client/ || owncloud-client

pCloud Drive — Proprietary desktop syncing client for pCloud. Based on the Electron platform.

https://www.pcloud.com/download-free-online-cloud-file-storage.html || pcloud-drive^AUR

PydioSync — Desktop client for Pydio.

https://pydio.com/ || pydio-sync^AUR

S3cmd — Unofficial CLI for Amazon S3.

https://s3tools.org/s3cmd || s3cmd

Seafile Client — GUI client for Seafile.

https://www.seafile.com/ || seafile-client^AUR

SpiderOak One — Proprietary client for SpiderOak One.

https://spideroak.com/ || spideroak-one^AUR

Synology Drive — Proprietary GUI client to sync and share files between a centralized Synology NAS and multiple client computers.

https://www.synology.com/ || synology-drive^AUR

Tresorit — Proprietary desktop syncing client for Tresorit.

https://tresorit.com/download || tresorit^AUR

Yandex Disk — Proprietary CLI for Yandex Disk.

https://disk.yandex.ru/ || yandex-disk^AUR

FTP

FTP clients

CurlFtpFS — is a filesystem for accessing FTP hosts based on FUSE and libcurl.

https://curlftpfs.sourceforge.net/ || curlftpfs

FileZilla — Fast and reliable FTP, FTPS and SFTP client.

https://filezilla-project.org/ || filezilla

ftp — Simple ftp client provided by GNU Inetutils

https://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/manual/inetutils.html#ftp-invocation || inetutils

ncftp — A set of free application programs implementing FTP.

https://www.ncftp.com/ || ncftp

tnftp — FTP client with several advanced features for NetBSD.

https://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/tnftp || tnftp

Some file managers like Dolphin, GNOME Files and Thunar also provide FTP functionality.

FTP servers

bftpd — Small, easy-to-configure FTP server

https://bftpd.sourceforge.net/ || bftpd

ftpd — Simple ftp server provided by GNU Inetutils

https://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/manual/inetutils.html#ftpd-invocation || inetutils

proFTPd — A secure and configurable FTP server

http://www.proftpd.org/ || proftpd^AUR

Pure-FTPd — Free (BSD-licensed), secure, production-quality and standard-compliant FTP server.

https://www.pureftpd.org/project/pure-ftpd/ || pure-ftpd^AUR

SSH — SFTP is a network protocol that provides file access, file transfer, and file management over any reliable data stream.

https://www.openssh.com || openssh

vsftpd — Lightweight, stable and secure FTP server for UNIX-like systems.

https://security.appspot.com/vsftpd.html || vsftpd

BitTorrent clients

Some download managers are also able to connect to the BitTorrent network: Aria2, LFTP, FatRat, KGet, MLDonkey, uGet.

Console

Ctorrent — CTorrent is a BitTorrent client implemented in C++ to be lightweight and quick.

https://www.rahul.net/dholmes/ctorrent/^{[dead link 2023-05-06 ⓘ]} || enhanced-ctorrent^AUR

Deluge — BitTorrent client with multiple user interfaces in a client/server model. This package includes a console client.

https://deluge-torrent.org/ || deluge

peerflix — Streaming torrent client for node.js.

https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix || peerflix^AUR

rTorrent — Simple and lightweight ncurses BitTorrent client.

https://rakshasa.github.io/rtorrent/ || rtorrent

Transmission CLI — Simple and easy-to-use BitTorrent client with a daemon version and multiple front-ends. This package includes backend, daemon, command-line interface, and a Web UI interface.

https://transmissionbt.com/ || transmission-cli

Graphical

Deluge (GTK interface) — User-friendly BitTorrent client written in Python using GTK.

https://deluge-torrent.org/ || deluge-gtk

Fragments — Easy to use BitTorrent client for the GNOME desktop environment.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Fragments || fragments

FrostWire — Easy to use cloud downloader, BitTorrent client and media player.

https://www.frostwire.com/ || frostwire^AUR

Ktorrent — Feature-rich BitTorrent client for KDE.

https://apps.kde.org/ktorrent/ || ktorrent

Powder Player — Hybrid between a streaming BitTorrent client and a player. Based on the Electron platform.

https://powder.media/ || powder-player-bin^AUR

qBittorrent — Open source (GPLv2) BitTorrent client with an integrated torrent search engine that strongly resembles µTorrent.

https://www.qbittorrent.org/ || qbittorrent

Tixati — Proprietary peer-to-peer file sharing program that uses the popular BitTorrent protocol.

https://tixati.com/ || tixati^AUR

Torrential — Simple torrent client for elementary OS.

https://github.com/davidmhewitt/torrential || torrential

Transmission — Simple and easy-to-use BitTorrent client with a daemon version and multiple front-ends.

https://transmissionbt.com/ || GTK: transmission-gtk, Qt: transmission-qt

Transmission Remote — GTK client for remote management of the Transmission BitTorrent client, using its HTTP RPC protocol.

https://github.com/transmission-remote-gtk/transmission-remote-gtk || transmission-remote-gtk

Tremotesf — Qt client for remote management of the Transmission BitTorrent client, using its HTTP RPC protocol.

https://github.com/equeim/tremotesf2 || tremotesf^AUR

Tribler — 4th generation file sharing system BitTorrent client.

https://www.tribler.org || tribler^AUR

Vuze — Feature-rich BitTorrent client written in Java (formerly Azureus).

https://www.vuze.com/ || vuze^AUR

WebTorrent Desktop — Streaming BitTorrent application. Based on the Electron platform.

https://webtorrent.io/desktop/ || webtorrent-desktop^AUR

Other P2P networks

aMule — Well-known eDonkey/Kad client with a daemon version and GTK, web, and CLI front-ends.

https://www.amule.org/ || amule

EiskaltDC++ — Direct Connect and ADC client.

https://github.com/eiskaltdcpp/eiskaltdcpp || GTK: eiskaltdcpp-gtk^AUR, Qt: eiskaltdcpp-qt^AUR

gtk-gnutella — GTK server/client for the Gnutella peer-to-peer network.

http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/ || gtk-gnutella^AUR

KaMule — KDE graphical front-end for aMule.

https://www.linux-apps.com/content/show.php?content=150270^{[dead link 2023-05-06 ⓘ]} || kamule^AUR

LBRY — Browser and wallet for LBRY, the decentralized, user-controlled content marketplace. Based on the Electron platform.

https://lbry.io/ || lbry-desktop^AUR

lbt — Small set of command-line tools for LBRY.

https://gitlab.com/gardenappl/lbt || lbt^AUR

MLDonkey — Multi-protocol P2P client that supports HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Direct Connect, eDonkey and FastTrack.

https://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/ || mldonkey^AUR

ncdc — Modern and lightweight Direct Connect and ADC client with a friendly ncurses interface.

https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdc || ncdc^AUR

Nicotine+ — A graphical client for the Soulseek P2P network.

https://github.com/Nicotine-Plus/nicotine-plus || nicotine+

Send Anywhere — Proprietary file sharing service where users can directly share digital content in real time. Based on the Electron platform.

https://send-anywhere.com/ || sendanywhere^AUR

IPFS — IPFS is a P2P Network capable of sharing and receiving files.

https://ipfs.io/ || kubo

Pastebin services

Without a dedicated client

Some services can be used with more general command line tool, such as cURL. For extensions, such as line numbers, one can use more command line tools. Such as cat -n.

0x0.st is a file hosting service. Usage examples are:

command | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

or upload a file:

curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st < file

Note: Read the instructions on the website for further options such as file removal tokens, expiration, and private URLs.

ix.io Usage examples are:

command | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io

or upload a file:

curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io < file

termbin.com works with nc.

Dedicated clients

Elmer — Pastebin client similar to wgetpaste and curlpaste, except written in Perl and usable with wget or curl. Servers: codepad.org, rafb.me, sprunge.us.

https://github.com/sudokode/elmer || elmer^AUR

Fb-client — Client for the paste.xinu.at pastebin.

https://paste.xinu.at || fb-client

Gist — Command-line interface for the gist.github.com pastebin service.

https://github.com/defunkt/gist || gist

imgur — A CLI client which can upload image to imgur.com image sharing service.

https://github.com/tremby/imgur.sh || imgur.sh^AUR

ix — Client for the ix.io pastebin.

http://ix.io/client || ix^AUR

Pastebinit — Really small Python script that acts as a Pastebin client. Servers: pastie.org, paste.kde.org, paste.debian.net, paste.ubuntu.com and others (for a full list see pastebinit -l).

https://launchpad.net/pastebinit || pastebinit

ruby-haste — Client for hastebin.com.

https://github.com/seejohnrun/haste-client || ruby-haste^AUR

Uppity — The pastebin client with an attitude.

https://github.com/Kiwi/Uppity || uppity-git^AUR

Wgetpaste — Bash script that automates pasting to a number of pastebin services. Servers: pastebin.ca^{[dead link 2023-05-06 ⓘ]}, codepad.org, dpaste.com and pastebin.osuosl.org.

http://wgetpaste.zlin.dk/ || wgetpaste

Communication

Email clients

Console

aerc — Work in progress asynchronous email client.

https://sr.ht/~rjarry/aerc || aerc

alot — An experimental terminal MUA based on notmuch mail. It is written in python using the urwid toolkit.

https://github.com/pazz/alot || alot

Alpine — Fast, easy-to-use and Apache-licensed email client based on Pine.

https://alpine.x10host.com/^{[dead link 2022-09-20 ⓘ]} || alpine-git^AUR

S-nail — a mail processing system with a command syntax reminiscent of ed with lines replaced by messages. Provides the functionality of mailx.

https://www.sdaoden.eu/code.html#s-mailx || s-nail

mu/mu4e — Email indexer (mu) and client for emacs (mu4e). Xapian based for fast searches.

https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html || mu^AUR

Mutt — Small but very powerful text-based mail client.

http://www.mutt.org/ || mutt

NeoMutt — Command line mail reader (or MUA). It is a fork of Mutt with added features.

https://neomutt.org/ || neomutt

nmh — A modular mail handling system.

https://www.nongnu.org/nmh/ || nmh^AUR

notmuch — A fast mail indexer built on top of xapian.

https://notmuchmail.org/ || notmuch

sendemail — A lightweight command line SMTP email client written in Perl.

http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/ || sendemail^AUR

Sup — CLI mail client with very fast searching, tagging, threading and GMail like operation.

https://sup-heliotrope.github.io/ || sup^AUR

swaks — Swiss Army Knife SMTP; Command line SMTP testing, including TLS and AUTH, can be used to send emails.

https://jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/ || swaks

Wanderlust — Email client and news reader for Emacs.

http://www.gohome.org/wl/^{[dead link 2023-05-06 ⓘ]} || wanderlust

Graphical

Balsa — Simple and light email client for GNOME.

https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ || balsa

Betterbird — Fork of thunderbird.

https://www.betterbird.eu/ || betterbird-bin^AUR

Claws Mail — Lightweight GTK-based email client and news reader.

https://www.claws-mail.org/ || claws-mail

ElectronMail — Unofficial desktop application for several end-to-end encrypted email providers (like ProtonMail, Tutanota). Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/vladimiry/ElectronMail || electronmail-bin^AUR

Evolution — Mature and feature-rich e-mail client that is part of the GNOME project. Part of gnome-extra.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution || evolution

Geary — Simple desktop mail client built in Vala. Part of gnome-extra.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary || geary

Kmail — Mature and feature-rich email client. Part of kde-pim.

https://kontact.kde.org/components/kmail/ || kmail

Kube — Modern communication and collaboration client built with QtQuick.

https://kube-project.com/ || kube^AUR

Mailspring — Fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original authors. The paid "Pro" version requires a Mailspring ID and has extra features like snooze, send later. Based on the Electron platform.

https://getmailspring.com/ || mailspring^AUR

openWMail — The missing desktop client for Gmail & Google Inbox. Based on the Electron platform.

https://openwmail.github.io/ || openwmail^AUR

SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups — Email client included in the SeaMonkey suite.

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ || seamonkey^AUR

Sylpheed — Lightweight and user-friendly GTK email client.

https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ || sylpheed^AUR

Thunderbird — Feature-rich email client from Mozilla written in GTK.

https://www.thunderbird.net/ || thunderbird

Trojitá — Qt IMAP email client. Only supports one IMAP account.

http://trojita.flaska.net/ || trojita^AUR

Tutanota — Email client for Tutanota mail service. Based on the Electron platform.

https://tutanota.com/ || tutanota-desktop^AUR

Viagee — It allows desktop mail actions, such as 'Send File as Email' or web 'mailto' links, to be handled by the Gmail web client.

https://davesteele.github.io/viagee/ || viagee^AUR

Web-based

Nextcloud Mail — An email webapp for NextCloud.

https://github.com/nextcloud/mail || nextcloud-app-mail

Roundcube — Browser-based multilingual IMAP client webapp with a native application-like user interface.

https://roundcube.net/ || roundcubemail

SquirrelMail — Webmail for Nuts!

https://squirrelmail.org/ || squirrelmail^AUR

Mail notifiers

Ayatana Webmail — Webmail notifications and actions for any desktop.

https://tari.in/www/software/ayatana-webmail/ || ayatana-webmail^AUR

Bubblemail — New and Unread mail notification service for local mailboxes, pop, imap, and gnome online accounts. A fork of Mailnag.

http://bubblemail.free.fr/ || bubblemail^AUR

Gnubiff — Mail notification program that checks for mail and displays headers when new mail has arrived.

http://gnubiff.sourceforge.net/ || gnubiff

Mailnag — Extensible mail notification daemon.

https://github.com/pulb/mailnag || mailnag

QGmailNotifier — Portable Qt5 based GMail notifier.

https://github.com/eteran/qgmailnotifier || qgmailnotifier^AUR

Mail servers

See Mail server.

DavMail — POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP exchange gateway allowing users to use any mail/calendar client with an Exchange server.

https://davmail.sourceforge.net/ || davmail^AUR

Modoboa — A modular mail hosting and management platform, written in Python.

https://modoboa.org/ || modoboa^AUR

Mail retrieval agents

fdm — Program to fetch and deliver mail.

https://github.com/nicm/fdm || fdm

Fetchmail — A remote-mail retrieval utility.

https://www.fetchmail.info/ || fetchmail

getmail — A POP3/IMAP4 mail retriever with reliable Maildir and command delivery.

http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/ || getmail^AUR

hydroxide — A third-party, open-source ProtonMail CardDAV, IMAP and SMTP bridge

https://github.com/emersion/hydroxide || hydroxide^AUR

imapsync — IMAP synchronisation, sync, copy or migration tool

https://imapsync.lamiral.info/ || imapsync

isync — IMAP and MailDir mailbox synchronizer

http://isync.sourceforge.net/ || isync

mpop — A small, fast POP3 client suitable as a fetchmail replacement

https://marlam.de/mpop/ || mpop

vomit — Rust utility to sync between Maildir mailbox and IMAP mailbox

https://git.sr.ht/~bitfehler/vomit-sync/tree/master/item/cli/README.md || vsync^AUR (sync-only part of vomit^AUR mail tookit)

OfflineIMAP — Synchronizes emails between two repositories.

https://www.offlineimap.org/ || offlineimap

Instant messaging clients

This section lists all client software with instant messaging support.

Multi-protocol clients

Note: All messengers that support several networks by means of direct connections to them belong to this section.

The number of networks supported by these clients is very large but they (like any multi-protocol clients) usually have very limited or no support for network-specific features.

Console

BarnOwl — Ncurses-based chat client with support for the Zephyr, XMPP and IRC protocols.

https://barnowl.mit.edu/ || barnowl^AUR

BitlBee — IRC gateway to popular chat networks (XMPP and ICQ).

https://bitlbee.org/ || bitlbee^AUR

EKG2 — Ncurses based XMPP, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ and IRC client.

https://github.com/ekg2/ekg2 || ekg2^AUR

Finch — Ncurses-based chat client that uses libpurple and supports all its protocols (Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, SIMPLE, XMPP, Zephyr).

https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Finch || finch

WeeChat — Modular, lightweight ncurses-based IRC client. A variety of other protocols are supported through plugins.

https://weechat.org/ || weechat

Graphical

Jitsi — Audio/video VoIP phone and instant messenger written in Java that supports protocols such as SIP, XMPP, ICQ, IRC and many other useful features.

https://jitsi.org/ || jitsi^AUR

Kopete — User-friendly IM supporting Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise, ICQ, XMPP.

https://apps.kde.org/kopete/ || kopete

Lith — WeeChat Relay client, allowing to connect to a running WeeChat instance from anywhere.

https://lith.app/ || lith-git^AUR

Pidgin — Multi-protocol instant messaging client with audio support that uses libpurple and supports all its protocols (Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, SIMPLE, XMPP, Zephyr).

https://pidgin.im/ || pidgin

qutIM — Simple and user-friendly IM supporting ICQ, XMPP, Mail.Ru, IRC and VKontakte messaging.

https://qutim.org/ || qutim^AUR

Smuxi — Cross-platform IRC client that also supports XMPP.

https://smuxi.im/ || smuxi^AUR

Thunderbird — Feature-rich email client supports instant messaging and chat using IRC and XMPP.

https://www.thunderbird.net/ || thunderbird

Volt — Proprietary native desktop client for Skype, Telegram, Slack, XMPP, Discord, IRC and more.

https://volt-app.com/ || volt^AUR

IRC clients

Console

BitchX — Console-based IRC client developed from the popular ircII.

http://www.bitchx.org/ || bitchx-git^AUR

ERC — Powerful, modular and extensible IRC client for Emacs.

https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/erc/ || included with emacs

ii — Featherweight IRC client, literally tail -f the conversation and echo back your replies to a file.

https://tools.suckless.org/ii/ || ii^AUR

ircii — Oldest maintained IRC client which lays claim to being small and fast owing to its reduced feature set.

http://www.eterna.com.au/ircii/ || ircii^AUR

Irssi — Highly-configurable ncurses-based IRC client.

https://irssi.org/ || irssi

pork — Programmable, ncurses-based IRC client that mostly looks and feels like ircII.

http://dev.ojnk.net/ || pork

ScrollZ — Advanced IRC client based on ircII.

https://www.scrollz.info/ || scrollz^AUR

senpai — An IRC client that works best with bouncers (e.g. soju-git^AUR): no logs are kept, history is fetched from the server via CHATHISTORY, networks are fetched from the server via bouncer-networks.

https://sr.ht/~taiite/senpai/ || senpai-irc-git^AUR

sic — Extremely simple IRC client, similar to ii.

https://tools.suckless.org/sic/ || sic^AUR

tiny — an IRC client written in Rust with a clutter-free interface

https://github.com/osa1/tiny || tiny-irc-client-git^AUR

Graphical

ChatZilla — Clean, easy to use and highly extensible Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client, built on the Mozilla platform using XULRunner. Included in the SeaMonkey suite.

http://chatzilla.hacksrus.com/ || seamonkey^AUR

HexChat — Fork of XChat for Linux and Windows.

https://hexchat.github.io/ || hexchat

Konversation — Qt-based IRC client for the KDE desktop.

https://konversation.kde.org/ || konversation

KVIrc — Qt-based IRC client featuring extensive themes support.

http://kvirc.net/ || kvirc

Loqui — GTK IRC client.

https://loqui.sunnyone.org/ || loqui^AUR

LostIRC — Simple GTK IRC client with tab-autocompletion, multiple server support, logging and others.

http://lostirc.sourceforge.net || lostirc^AUR

Polari — Simple IRC client by the GNOME project. Part of gnome-extra.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Polari || polari

Quassel — Modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client.

https://quassel-irc.org/ || KDE: quassel-monolithic, Qt: quassel-monolithic-qt

Srain — Modern, beautiful IRC client written in GTK 3.

https://srain.silverrainz.me || srain^AUR

XMPP clients

Console

Freetalk — Console-based XMPP client.

https://www.gnu.org/software/freetalk/ || freetalk^AUR

jabber.el — Minimal XMPP client for Emacs.

http://emacs-jabber.sourceforge.net/ || emacs-jabber^AUR

MCabber — Small XMPP console client, includes features: SSL, PGP, MUC, OTR and UTF8.

https://mcabber.com/ || mcabber

Poezio — XMPP client with IRC feeling

https://poez.io/ || poezio^AUR

Profanity — A console based XMPP client inspired by Irssi.

https://profanity-im.github.io/ || profanity

Graphical

Converse.js — Web-based XMPP chat client written in JavaScript.

https://conversejs.org/ || conversejs-git^AUR

Dino — A modern, easy to use XMPP client, with PGP and OMEMO support.

https://dino.im/ || dino

Gajim — XMPP client with audio support written in Python using GTK.

https://gajim.org/ || gajim

Kaidan — A simple, user-friendly Jabber/XMPP client providing a modern user interface using Kirigami and QtQuick.

https://www.kaidan.im/ || kaidan

Kadu — Qt-based XMPP and Gadu-Gadu client.

http://www.kadu.im/ || kadu^AUR

Libervia (Salut à Toi) — Web frontend for Salut à Toi, multi-purpose XMPP client

https://libervia.org/ || libervia-web-hg^AUR

Nextcloud JavaScript XMPP Client — Chat app for Nextcloud with XMPP, end-to-end encryption, video calls, file transfer & group chat.

https://github.com/nextcloud/jsxc.nextcloud || nextcloud-app-jsxc^AUR

Psi — Qt-based XMPP client.

https://psi-im.org/ || psi or psi-nowebengine

Spark — Cross-platform real-time XMPP collaboration client optimized for business and organizations.

https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/spark/ || spark^AUR

Swift — XMPP client written in C++ with Qt and Swiften.

https://swift.im/ || swift-im^AUR

Tkabber — Easy to hack feature-rich XMPP client by the author of the ejabberd XMPP server.

http://tkabber.jabber.ru/^{[dead link 2023-05-20 ⓘ]} || tkabber^AUR

Vacuum IM — Full-featured crossplatform XMPP client.

https://github.com/Vacuum-IM/vacuum-im || vacuum-im^AUR

SIP clients

Blink — State of the art, easy to use SIP client.

https://icanblink.com/ || blink^AUR

baresip — portable and modular SIP User-Agent with audio and video support

https://github.com/baresip/baresip || baresip

Jami — SIP-compatible softphone and instant messenger for the decentralized Jami network. Formerly known as Ring and SFLphone.

https://jami.net/ || jami-qt

Linphone — VoIP phone application (SIP client) for communicating freely with people over the internet, with voice, video, and text instant messaging.

https://www.linphone.org/ || linphone-desktop^AUR

Twinkle — Qt softphone for VoIP and IM communication using SIP.

http://twinkle.dolezel.info/ || twinkle^AUR

Zoiper — Proprietary SIP and IAX2 VoIP softphone

https://zoiper.com || zoiper^AUR

Matrix clients

Tox clients

LAN messengers

BeeBEEP — Secure LAN Messenger.

https://www.beebeep.net/ || beebeep

iptux — LAN communication software, compatible with IP Messenger.

https://github.com/iptux-src/iptux || iptux

LAN Messenger — P2P chat application for intranet communication and does not require a server. A variety of handy features are supported including notifications, personal and group messaging with encryption, file transfer and message logging.

https://lanmessenger.github.io/ || lmc^AUR

P2P messaging clients

Other IM clients

BlueJeans — Proprietary desktop application for BlueJeans video calls. Based on the Electron platform.

https://www.bluejeans.com/ || bluejeans^AUR

Caprine — Unofficial Facebook Messenger app. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine || caprine

Chatterino — Chat client for Twitch chat.

https://chatterino.com/ || chatterino2-git^AUR

Delta Chat — A privacy oriented chat application built on e-mail. Based on the Electron platform.

https://delta.chat/ || deltachat-desktop-git^AUR

Discord — Proprietary all-in-one voice and text chat application for gamers that’s free and works on both your desktop and phone. Based on the Electron platform.

https://discordapp.com/ || discord

Flare — Unofficial Signal client based on GTK.

https://gitlab.com/schmiddi-on-mobile/flare || flare^AUR

Gitter — Communication product for communities and teams on GitLab and GitHub.

https://gitter.im/ || gitter-bin^AUR

Hangups — Third-party instant messaging client for Google Hangouts with console interface.

https://github.com/tdryer/hangups || hangups^AUR

ICQ — Official ICQ client for Linux.

https://icq.com/linux/ || icq-bin^AUR

IRCCloud — Desktop client for a modern, always-connected IRC client service. Based on the Electron platform.

https://www.irccloud.com/ || irccloud^AUR

Jitsi Meet — Desktop application for Jitsi Meet. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron || jitsi-meet-desktop^AUR

Kotatogram Desktop — Experimental fork of Telegram Desktop.

https://kotatogram.github.io/ || kotatogram-desktop^AUR

Matterhorn — Console client for the Mattermost chat system.

https://github.com/matterhorn-chat/matterhorn || matterhorn^AUR

Mattermost Desktop — Desktop application for Mattermost. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/mattermost/desktop || mattermost-desktop

Microsoft Teams — Official proprietary client for Microsoft Teams. Based on the Electron platform.

https://teams.microsoft.com/downloads || teams^AUR

Mumble — Voice chat application similar to TeamSpeak.

https://www.mumble.info/ || mumble

Paper Plane — Chat over Telegram on a modern and elegant client.

https://github.com/paper-plane-developers/paper-plane || paper-plane-git^AUR

QQ — Proprietary instant messaging software developed by Tencent (imitating ICQ).

https://im.qq.com/ || linuxqq^AUR

Rocket.Chat Desktop — Desktop application for Rocket.Chat. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Electron || rocketchat-desktop^AUR

Session Desktop — Onion routing based messenger. Based on the Electron platform.

https://getsession.org/ || session-desktop^AUR

Signal Desktop — Desktop application for Signal private messenger. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop || signal-desktop

Skype — Popular but proprietary application for voice and video communication. Based on the Electron platform.

https://www.skype.com/ || skypeforlinux-stable-bin^AUR

Slack — Proprietary Slack client for desktop. Based on the Electron platform.

https://slack.com/ || slack-desktop^AUR

teams-for-linux — Unofficial Microsoft Teams for Linux client. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux || teams-for-linux^AUR

TeamSpeak — Proprietary VoIP application with gamers as its target audience.

https://www.teamspeak.com/ || teamspeak3

TeamTalk — Proprietary VoIP application with video chat, file and desktop sharing. Desktop sharing does not appear to be working in Linux though. AUR package is server only, but client is built in the make process.

https://bearware.dk || teamtalk^AUR

Telegram Desktop — Official Telegram desktop client.

https://desktop.telegram.org/ || telegram-desktop

Viber — Proprietary cross-platform IM and VoIP software.

https://www.viber.com/products/linux/ || viber^AUR

Wire — Modern, private messenger. Based on the Electron platform.

https://wire.com/ || wire-desktop

YakYak — Unofficial desktop client for Google Hangouts. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/yakyak/yakyak || yakyak-git^AUR

Zoom — Proprietary video conferencing, online meetings and group messaging application.

https://zoom.us/ || zoom^AUR

Zulip — Desktop client for Zulip group chat. Based on the Electron platform.

https://zulipchat.com/apps/linux || zulip-desktop^AUR

Instant messaging servers

IRC servers

InspIRCd — A stable, modern and lightweight IRC daemon.

https://www.inspircd.org/ || inspircd^AUR

IRCD-Hybrid — A lightweight, high-performance internet relay chat daemon.

https://www.ircd-hybrid.org/ || ircd-hybrid^AUR

miniircd — A small and configuration free IRC server, suitable for private use.

https://github.com/jrosdahl/miniircd || miniircd-git^AUR

ngIRCd — A free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server for small or private networks.

https://ngircd.barton.de/ || ngircd^AUR

Ergo — A modern and simple to set up IRC server written in Go. Combines the features of an IRCd, a services framework, and a bouncer.

https://ergo.chat/ || ergochat^AUR

UnrealIRCd — Open Source IRC Server.

https://www.unrealircd.org/ || unrealircd

XMPP servers

Prosody — An XMPP server written in the Lua programming language. Prosody is designed to be lightweight and highly extensible. It is licensed under a permissive MIT license.

https://prosody.im/ || prosody

Ejabberd — Robust, scalable and extensible XMPP Server written in Erlang

https://www.ejabberd.im/ || ejabberd

Jabberd2 — An XMPP server written in the C language and licensed under the GNU General Public License. It was inspired by jabberd14.

https://jabberd2.org/ || jabberd2^AUR

Openfire — An XMPP IM multiplatform server written in Java

https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/ || openfire

SIP servers

Asterisk — A complete PBX solution.

https://www.asterisk.org/ || asterisk^AUR

Kamailio — Rock solid SIP server.

https://www.kamailio.org/ || kamailio^AUR

openSIPS — SIP proxy/server for voice, video, IM, presence and any other SIP extensions.

https://opensips.org/ || opensips

Repro — An open-source, free SIP server.

https://www.resiprocate.org/About_Repro || repro^AUR

Yate — Advanced, mature, flexible telephony server that is used for VoIP and fixed networks, and for traditional mobile operators and MVNOs.

http://yate.ro/ || yate

Other IM servers

Mattermost — Open source private cloud server, Slack-alternative.

https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server || mattermost

Murmur — The voice chat application server for Mumble.

https://www.mumble.info/ || mumble-server

Nextcloud Talk — Video- and audio-conferencing app for Nextcloud.

https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed || nextcloud-app-spreed

Rocket.Chat — Web chat server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor fullstack framework.

https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat || rocketchat-server^AUR

Spreed WebRTC — WebRTC audio/video call and conferencing server.

https://github.com/strukturag/spreed-webrtc || spreed-webrtc-server^AUR

Synapse — Reference homeserver for the Matrix protocol.

https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse || matrix-synapse

TeamSpeak Server — Proprietary VoIP conference server.

https://teamspeak.com/ || teamspeak3-server

uMurmur — Minimalistic Mumble server.

https://umurmur.net/ || umurmur

Collaborative software

Citadel/UX — Includes an email & mailing list server, instant messaging, address books, calendar/scheduling, bulletin boards, and wiki and blog engines.

https://www.citadel.org/ || webcit^AUR

SOGo — Groupware server built around OpenGroupware.org (OGo) and the SOPE application server.

https://sogo.nu/ || sogo^AUR

Link shortening servers

microbin — A tiny, self-contained, configurable paste bin and URL shortener written in Rust.

https://github.com/szabodanika/microbin || microbin^AUR

pb — A lightweight pastebin and url shortener built using flask.

https://github.com/ptpb/pb || pb^AUR

shlink — Self-proclaimed definitive self-hosted URL shortener.

https://shlink.io/ || shlink^AUR

YOURLS — A self-hosted link shortening service written in PHP.

https://yourls.org/ || yourls^AUR

News, RSS, and blogs

News aggregators

Web feeds aggregators. Some email clients are also able to act as news aggregator: Claws Mail RSSyl plugin, Evolution, SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups, Thunderbird.

Console

Canto — Ncurses RSS aggregator.

https://github.com/themoken/canto-curses || canto-curses

Ditch The Bell — A highly configurable Linux-based desktop notifier for RSS/Atom feeds.

https://github.com/eschermoore/ditchthebell || dtbell-git^AUR

Gnus — Email, NNTP and RSS client for Emacs.

https://www.gnus.org/ || emacs

feed2imap-go — feed2imap reimplemented in Go that aggregating RSS/Atom/jsonfeed into folders of your IMAP mailbox.

https://github.com/Necoro/feed2imap-go || feed2imap-go^AUR

Newsboat — Ncurses RSS aggregator with layout and keybinding similar to the Mutt email client.

https://newsboat.org/ || newsboat

Newsraft — Feed reader with ncurses user interface. It is greatly inspired by Newsboat and tries to be its lightweight counterpart.

https://codeberg.org/grisha/newsraft/ || newsraft^AUR

Rawdog — "RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur" that parses RSS/CDF/Atom feeds into a static HTML page of articles in chronological order.

https://offog.org/code/rawdog/ || rawdog^AUR

rss2email — Aggregating your RSS/Atom feed into your IMAP/Maildir mailbox as a cronjob.

https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email || rss2email

sfeed — Crontab oriented shell-scriptable feed aggregator setup with a RSS/Atom parser utility plus a simple ncurses reader.

https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html || sfeed^AUR

Snownews — Text mode RSS news reader.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/snownews/ || snownews^AUR

Graphical

Akregator — News aggregator for KDE, part of kde-pim.

https://apps.kde.org/akregator/ || akregator

Alligator — Kirigami-based RSS/Atom feed reader for mobile devices.

https://apps.kde.org/alligator/ || alligator

FeedReader — Modern desktop application designed to complement existing web-based RSS accounts. Discontinued.

https://jangernert.github.io/FeedReader/^{[dead link 2023-05-06 ⓘ]} || feedreader^AUR

Feeds — An RSS/Atom feed reader for GNOME.

https://gabmus.gitlab.io/gnome-feeds/ || gfeeds

Fluent Reader — Modern desktop RSS reader built with React and Fluent UI. Based on the Electron platform.

https://hyliu.me/fluent-reader/ || fluent-reader^AUR

HackUp — Read Hacker News from the desktop.

https://github.com/mdh34/hackup || hackup-git^AUR

Liferea — GTK news aggregator for online news feeds and weblogs.

https://lzone.de/liferea/ || liferea

NewsFlash — Modern feed reader designed for the GNOME desktop. The spiritual successor to FeedReader.

https://gitlab.com/news-flash/news_flash_gtk || newsflash

Nextcloud News — RSS/Atom feed reader for Nextcloud.

https://github.com/nextcloud/news || nextcloud-app-news

Raven — Simple desktop RSS reader made using VueJS. Based on the Electron platform.

https://ravenreader.app/ || raven-reader^AUR

RSS Guard — Very tiny RSS and ATOM news reader developed using Qt framework.

https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard || rssguard or rssguard-lite

selfoss — The new multipurpose RSS reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application.

https://selfoss.aditu.de/ || selfoss^AUR

Tickr — GTK-based RSS Reader that displays feeds as a smooth scrolling line on your desktop, as known from TV stations.

https://www.open-tickr.net/ || tickr^AUR

Tiny Tiny RSS — Web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) aggregator.

https://tt-rss.org/ || tt-rss

Podcast clients

Some media players are also able to act as podcast client: Amarok, Cantata, Clementine, Goggles Music Manager, Rhythmbox, VLC media player. git-annex can also function as podcatcher.

Console

castero — A TUI podcast client for the terminal.

https://github.com/xgi/castero || castero-git^AUR

castget — Simple, command-line RSS enclosure downloader, primarily intended for automatic, unattended downloading of podcasts.

https://castget.johndal.com/ || castget

gpo — Text mode interface of gPodder.

https://gpodder.github.io/ || gpodder

Greg — A command-line podcast aggregator.

https://github.com/manolomartinez/greg || greg-git^AUR

Marrie — A simple podcast client that runs on the Command Line Interface.

https://github.com/rafaelmartins/marrie/ || marrie-git^AUR

pcd — A minimal podcast client written in go

https://github.com/kvannotten/pcd || pcd^AUR

Graphical

CPod — Simple, beautiful podcast app. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/z-------------/CPod || cpod^AUR

GNOME Podcasts — Podcast client for the GNOME Desktop written in Rust.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/podcasts || gnome-podcasts

gPodder — Podcast client and media aggregator (GTK interface).

https://gpodder.github.io/ || gpodder

Vocal — Simple podcast client for the Modern Desktop (GTK).

https://vocalproject.net/ || vocal

Kasts — Kasts is a convergent podcast application that looks good on desktop and mobile.

https://apps.kde.org/kasts/ || kasts

Pocket Casts — Electron wrapper around the Pocket Casts web app with support for MPRIS (media controls).

https://pocketcasts.com/ || pocket-casts-linux^AUR

Usenet newsreaders

Some email clients are also able to act as Usenet newsreader: Claws Mail, Evolution, NeoMutt, SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups, Sylpheed, Thunderbird.

Console

nn — Alternative more user-friendly (curses-based) Usenet newsreader for UNIX.

http://www.nndev.org/ || nn^AUR

slrn — Text-based news client.

https://www.slrn.org/ || slrn^AUR

tin — A cross-platform threaded NNTP and spool based UseNet newsreader.

http://tin.org/ || tin^AUR

trn — A text-based Threaded Usenet newsreader.

http://trn.sourceforge.net/ || trn^AUR

Graphical

NZBGet — Usenet binary downloader for .nzb files with web and CLI interface.

https://nzbget.net/ || nzbget

Pan — GTK Usenet newsreader that's good at both text and binaries.

https://pan.rebelbase.com/ || pan

SABnzbd — An open-source binary newsreader webapp written in Python.

https://sabnzbd.org/ || sabnzbd^AUR

XRN — Usenet newsreader for X Window System.

http://www.mit.edu/people/jik/software/xrn.html || xrn^AUR

Microblogging clients

Choqok — Microblogging client for KDE that supports Mastodon, Pump.io and GNU social.

https://choqok.kde.org/ || choqok-git^AUR

Dianara — Pump.io client written in Qt.

https://jancoding.wordpress.com/dianara/ || dianara^AUR

Giara — Reddit app, built with Python, GTK and Handy.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/giara || giara^AUR

Lemmy-UI — Official web app for lemmy.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui || lemmy-ui^AUR

Lemoa — Native Gtk client for Lemmy.

https://github.com/lemmygtk/lemoa || lemoa-git^AUR

Mikutter — Simple, powerful Mastodon client using GTK and Ruby.

https://mikutter.hachune.net/ || mikutter^AUR

Pumpa — Pump.io client written in C++ and Qt.

https://pumpa.branchable.com/ || pumpa-git^AUR

Tokodon — Mastodon client for KDE.

https://apps.kde.org/tokodon/ || tokodon

toot — CLI and TUI tool for interacting with Mastodon instances.

https://github.com/ihabunek/toot || toot

tuba — GTK4 client for Mastodon.

https://tuba.geopjr.dev/ || tuba^AUR

Whalebird — Mastodon client application. Based on the Electron platform.

https://whalebird.social/ || whalebird^AUR

Blog engines

Note: Content managers, social networks, and blog publishers overlap in many functions.

Diaspora — A distributed privacy aware social network.

https://diasporafoundation.org || diaspora-mysql^AUR or diaspora-postgresql^AUR

Drupal — A PHP-based content management platform.

https://www.drupal.org/ || drupal

Joomla — A php Content Management System (CMS) which enables you to build websites and powerful online applications.

https://www.joomla.org/ || joomla^AUR

Wordpress — Blog tool and publishing platform.

https://wordpress.org/ || wordpress

Static site generators

Hexo — Fast, simple and powerful blog framework.

https://hexo.io/ || hexo-cli^AUR

Hugo — Hugo is a static HTML and CSS website generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, ease of use, and configurability.

https://gohugo.io/ || hugo

Jekyll — Static blog engine, written in Ruby, which supports Markdown, textile and other formats.

https://jekyllrb.com/ || jekyll^AUR

Nanoblogger — A small weblog engine written in Bash for the command line. It uses common UNIX tools such as cat, grep, and sed to create static HTML content. It is not maintained anymore.

http://nanoblogger.sourceforge.net/ || nanoblogger^AUR

Nikola — Static site generator written in Python, with incremental rebuilds and multiple markup formats.

https://getnikola.com/ || nikola

Pelican — Static site generator, powered by Python.

https://docs.getpelican.com/ || pelican

Zola — An opinionated static site generator, written in Rust.

https://www.getzola.org/ || zola

Remote desktop

See also Chrome Remote Desktop for a web browser based solution.

Remote desktop clients

AnyDesk — Proprietary remote desktop software.

https://anydesk.com/ || anydesk-bin^AUR

GNOME Connections — Remote desktop client for GNOME. Supports RDP and VNC. Part of gnome.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/connections || gnome-connections

GVncViewer — Simple VNC Client on Gtk-VNC. Run with gvncviewer.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gtk-vnc || gtk-vnc

KRDC — Remote Desktop Client for KDE. Supports RDP and VNC. Part of kde-network.

https://apps.kde.org/krdc/ || krdc

Remmina — Remote desktop client written in GTK. Supports RDP, VNC, NX, XDMCP and SSH.

https://remmina.org/ || remmina

Remote Viewer — Simple remote display client. Supports SPICE and VNC.

https://virt-manager.org/ || virt-viewer

Remotely — Simple VNC viewer for GNOME. Discontinued.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Remotely || remotely^AUR

RustDesk — A remote desktop software, open source, written in Rust.

https://rustdesk.com || rustdesk^AUR

Sunlogin Remote Control — Proprietary software that supports remote control of mobile devices, Windows, Mac, Linux and other systems. It uses its own proprietary protocol.

https://sunlogin.oray.com/en/about/about || sunloginclient^AUR

ToDesk — Proprietary remote desktop client that suits for remote teamwork. It uses its own proprietary protocol.

https://www.todesk.com/ || todesk-bin^AUR

TeamViewer — Proprietary remote desktop client. It uses its own proprietary protocol.

https://www.teamviewer.com/ || teamviewer^AUR

vncviewer (TigerVNC) — VNC viewer for X.

https://tigervnc.org/ || tigervnc

Vinagre — Remote desktop viewer for GNOME. Supports RDP, VNC, SPICE and SSH.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Vinagre || vinagre

xfreerdp — FreeRDP X11 client. Run with xfreerdp.

https://www.freerdp.com/ || freerdp

X2Go Client — A graphical client (Qt5) for the X2Go system that uses the NX technology protocol.

https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php || x2goclient^AUR

Remote desktop servers

freerdp-shadow-cli — A utility for sharing a X display via RDP.

https://www.freerdp.com/ || freerdp

kmsvnc — A VNC server for DRM/KMS capable GNU/Linux devices.

https://github.com/isjerryxiao/kmsvnc || kmsvnc^AUR

Krfb — VNC server for KDE. Part of kde-network.

https://apps.kde.org/krfb/ || krfb

NoMachine — Proprietary remote desktop server and client based on NX technology.

https://nomachine.com/ || nomachine^AUR

wayvnc — VNC server for wlroots based wayland compositors (such as sway).

https://github.com/any1/wayvnc || wayvnc

x0vncserver (TigerVNC) — VNC Server for X displays.

https://tigervnc.org/ || tigervnc

x11vnc — VNC server for real X displays.

http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/ || x11vnc

X2Go Server — An open source remote desktop software that uses the NX technology protocol.

https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php || x2goserver^AUR

Xpra — A multi-platform screen and application forwarding system.

https://xpra.org/ || xpra

Xrdp — A daemon that supports RDP. It uses Xvnc, X11rdp or xorgxrdp as a backend.

http://xrdp.org/^{[dead link 2023-05-06 ⓘ]} || xrdp^AUR

Multimedia

Codecs

See the main article: Codecs.

Image

Image viewers

Framebuffer image viewers

fbi — Image viewer for the linux framebuffer console.

https://www.kraxel.org/blog/linux/fbida/ || fbida

fbv — Very simple graphic file viewer for the framebuffer console.

http://s-tech.elsat.net.pl/fbv/ || fbv^AUR

fim — Highly customizable and scriptable framebuffer image viewer based on fbi.

https://www.nongnu.org/fbi-improved/ || fim^AUR

jfbview — Framebuffer PDF and image viewer based on Imlib2. Features include Vim-like controls, rotation and zoom, zoom-to-fit, and fast multi-threaded rendering.

https://github.com/jichu4n/jfbview || jfbview^AUR

Graphical image viewers

CoreImage — Simple lightweight easy to use image viewer based on Qt. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/^{[dead link 2023-06-17 ⓘ]} || coreimage^AUR

Deepin Image Viewer — Image viewer for Deepin desktop.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-image-viewer/ || deepin-image-viewer

Ephoto — A light image viewer based on EFL.

https://www.enlightenment.org/about-ephoto || ephoto

Eye of GNOME — Image viewer for GNOME desktop. Part of gnome-extra.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EyeOfGnome || eog

Eye of MATE — Simple graphics viewer for the MATE desktop.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/eom || eom

EyeSight — Image viewer for the Hawaii desktop environment.

https://github.com/hawaii-desktop/eyesight || eyesight^AUR

feh — Fast, lightweight image viewer that uses imlib2.

https://github.com/derf/feh https://feh.finalrewind.org || feh

GPicView — Simple and fast image viewer for X, which is part of the LXDE desktop.

http://lxde.sourceforge.net/gpicview/ || gpicview

Gwenview — Fast and easy to use image viewer for the KDE desktop with optional dependencies for additional format support.

https://apps.kde.org/gwenview/ || gwenview

ida — X11 application (Motif based) for viewing images. Install the optional dependencies as needed.

https://www.kraxel.org/blog/linux/fbida/ || fbida

image-roll — Simple and fast GTK image viewer with basic image manipulation tools.

https://github.com/weclaw1/image-roll || image-roll^AUR

imv — Lightweight image viewer with support for Wayland and animated GIFs which uses FreeImage.

https://sr.ht/~exec64/imv/ || imv

Koko — Image viewer designed for desktop and touch devices.

https://apps.kde.org/koko/ || koko

KuickShow — Fast and convenient image viewer for KDE.

https://userbase.kde.org/KuickShow || kuickshow

LxImage-Qt — The LXQt image viewer.

https://github.com/lxde/lximage-qt || lximage-qt

Loupe — Simple image viewer for GNOME desktop. Part of gnome.

https://apps.gnome.org/Loupe/ || loupe

meh — meh is a small, simple, super fast image viewer using raw XLib.

https://www.johnhawthorn.com/meh/ || meh-git^AUR

Mirage — PyGTK image viewer featuring support for crop and resize, custom actions and a thumbnail panel.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mirageiv.berlios/ || mirage^AUR

nomacs — Qt image viewer. It is feature-rich but starts fast and can be configured to show additional widgets or only the image.

https://nomacs.org/ || nomacs^AUR

nsxiv — Simple image viewer based on imlib2 that works well with tiling window managers. Community fork of sxiv.

https://codeberg.org/nsxiv/nsxiv || nsxiv

PhotoQt — Fast and highly configurable image viewer with a simple and nice interface.

https://photoqt.org/ || photoqt^AUR

pqiv — GTK 3 based command-line image viewer with a minimal UI supporting images in compressed archives, rewrite of qiv.

https://github.com/phillipberndt/pqiv/ || pqiv

qimgv — Fast and easy to use Qt5 image viewer. Supports webm/mp4 playback via mpv.

https://github.com/easymodo/qimgv/ || qimgv^AUR

qeh — Actually fast and simple image viewer. Like feh but faster and simpler, and support for more formats.

https://github.com/sandsmark/qeh/ || qeh-git^AUR

Quick Image Viewer — Very small and fast image viewer based on GTK and imlib2.

http://spiegl.de/qiv/ || qiv^AUR

qView — Qt image viewer designed with minimalism and usability in mind.

https://interversehq.com/qview/ || qview^AUR

Ristretto — Fast and lightweight image viewer for the Xfce desktop environment.

https://docs.xfce.org/apps/ristretto/start || ristretto

shufti — shufti non-destructively saves and restores the zoom level, rotation, window size, desktop location and viewing area on a per-image/file location basis

https://github.com/danboid/shufti || shufti^AUR

sxiv — Simple image viewer based on imlib2 that works well with tiling window managers.

https://github.com/muennich/sxiv || sxiv

Viewnior — Minimalistic GTK image viewer featuring support for flipping, rotating, animations and configurable mouse actions.

https://siyanpanayotov.com/project/viewnior || viewnior

Vimiv — An image viewer with vim-like keybindings. It is written in python3 using the Gtk3 toolkit.

https://karlch.github.io/vimiv/ || vimiv

Vimiv (Qt port) — An image viewer with vim-like keybindings. It is written in python3 and PyQt5.

https://karlch.github.io/vimiv-qt/ || vimiv-qt^AUR

vpv — Image viewer designed for scientific image visualization.

https://github.com/kidanger/vpv || vpv^AUR

Xloadimage — Classic X image viewer.

https://sioseis.ucsd.edu/xloadimage.html || xloadimage

Image organizers

Image processing

CairoSVG — SVG to PNG, PDF, PS converter.

https://cairosvg.org/ || python-cairosvg

Converseen — Qt-based batch image converter and resizer.

https://converseen.fasterland.net/ || converseen

CropGUI — GTK utility for lossless cropping and rotation of JPEG files.

https://github.com/jepler/cropgui || cropgui^AUR

dcraw — Converts many camera RAW formats.

https://dechifro.org/dcraw/ || dcraw

G'MIC — Full-featured open-source framework for image processing, providing several different user interfaces to convert/manipulate/filter/visualize generic image datasets, ranging from 1d scalar signals to 3d+t sequences of multi-spectral volumetric images, including 2d color images.

https://www.gmic.eu/ || gmic

GraphicsMagick — Fork of ImageMagick designed to have API and command-line stability. It also supports multi-CPU for enhanced performance and thus is used by some large commercial sites (Flickr, etsy) for its performance.

http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ || graphicsmagick

ImageMagick — Command-line image manipulation program. It is known for its accurate format conversions with support for over 100 formats. Its API enables it to be scripted and it is usually used as a backend processor.

https://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php || imagemagick

ImPPG — performs Lucy-Richardson deconvolution, unsharp masking, brightness normalization and tone curve adjustment

https://greatattractor.github.io/imppg/ || imppg^AUR

PosteRazor — Cut an image or PDF into pieces which can be printed and assembled to a poster.

https://posterazor.sourceforge.io/ || posterazor

waifu2x — Image Super-Resolution for Anime-style art using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks.

https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x || waifu2x-git^AUR

Image compression

Console

Guetzli — A perceptual JPEG encoder, aiming for excellent compression density at high visual quality.

https://github.com/google/guetzli || guetzli

jpegoptim — JPEG optimization utility providing lossless and lossy compression.

https://www.kokkonen.net/tjko/projects.html#jpegoptim || jpegoptim

optipng — Lossless PNG compressor.

https://optipng.sourceforge.net/ || optipng

oxipng — Lossless multithreaded PNG compressor.

https://github.com/shssoichiro/oxipng || oxipng

pngcrush — Tool for optimizing the compression of PNG files.

https://pmt.sourceforge.io/pngcrush/ || pngcrush

pngquant — Lossy compression of PNG images.

https://pngquant.org/ || pngquant

zopflipng — Highly efficient PNG optimisation tool using Google's zopfli library

https://github.com/google/zopfli || zopfli

Graphical

Curtail — GTK-based image compressor, supporting PNG and JPEG file types.

https://github.com/Huluti/Curtail || curtail

Image Optimizer — Simple lossless image optimizer built with Vala and Gtk for Elementary OS.

https://github.com/GijsGoudzwaard/Image-Optimizer || image-optimizer-git^AUR

Trimage — Qt-based tool for optimizing PNG and JPG files.

https://trimage.org/ || trimage^AUR

Raster graphics editors

AzPainter — Painting software for illustration drawing.

https://gitlab.com/azelpg/azpainter || azpainter^AUR

CorePaint — Simple bitmap painting tool to produce very simple graphics. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/^{[dead link 2023-06-17 ⓘ]} || corepaint^AUR

Deepin Draw — Lightweight drawing tool for Deepin desktop.

https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-draw || deepin-draw

Drawing — Drawing application for the GNOME desktop, using Cairo and GdkPixbuf for basic drawing operations.

https://github.com/maoschanz/drawing || drawing

Drawpile — Collaborative drawing program that allows multiple users to sketch on the same canvas simultaneously.

https://drawpile.net/ || drawpile^AUR

GIMP — Image editing suite in the vein of proprietary editors such as Adobe Photoshop. GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) has been started in the mid 1990s and has acquired a large number of plugins and additional tools.

https://www.gimp.org/ || gimp

Gpaint — Paintbrush clone for GNOME.

https://www.gnu.org/software/gpaint/ || gpaint^AUR

GrafX2 — Bitmap paint program specialized in 256 color drawing.

http://grafx2.chez.com/ || grafx2

ImEditor — Simple and versatile image editor.

https://imeditor.github.io/ || imeditor^AUR

KolourPaint — Free raster graphics editor for KDE, similar to Microsoft's Paint application before Windows 7, but with some additional features such as support for transparency. Part of kde-applications and kde-graphics groups.

http://kolourpaint.org/ || kolourpaint

Krita — Digital painting and illustration software included based on the KDE platform.

https://krita.org/ || krita

Milton — Infinite-canvas paint program.

https://www.miltonpaint.com/ || milton-git^AUR

mtPaint — Graphics editing program geared towards creating indexed palette images and pixel art.

https://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/ || mtpaint

MyPaint — Free software graphics application for digital painters.

http://mypaint.org || mypaint

PhotoFlare — Simple but powerful image editor originally inspired by PhotoFiltre.

https://photoflare.io/ || photoflare

Pinta — Drawing and editing program modeled after Paint.NET. Its goal is to provide a simplified alternative to GIMP for casual users.

https://pinta-project.com/ || pinta

Pixelitor — Advanced image editor with support for layers, layer masks, text layers, multiple undo, blending modes, cropping, Gaussian blurring, unsharp masking, histograms, etc.

https://pixelitor.sourceforge.io/ || pixelitor^AUR

Swappy — Wayland native snapshot editing tool.

https://github.com/jtheoof/swappy || swappy

XPaint — Color image editing tool which features most standard paint program options.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/sf-xpaint/ || xpaint^AUR

Some image viewers and organizers like digiKam, Ephoto, GNOME Photos, gThumb, ida, nomacs, Pantheon Photos, Phototonic and Shotwell also provide some basic image manipulation functionality.

Specialized photo editors

A Photo Tool (Libre) — Photo editor with easy to use basic image editing tools.

https://www.ahola.me/aphototoollibre.html || aphototoollibre^AUR

darktable — Photography workflow and RAW development application.

https://www.darktable.org/ || darktable

Filmulator — Simple raw photo editor based on the process of developing film.

https://filmulator.org/ || filmulator^AUR

FOSStriangulator — Tool for making triangulated illustrations out of photos.

https://github.com/FOSStriangulator/FOSStriangulator || fosstriangulator^AUR

Hugin — Panorama photo stitcher.

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ || hugin

LightZone — Professional-level digital darkroom and photo editor comparable to Photoshop Lightroom.

http://lightzoneproject.org/ || lightzone^AUR

Luminance HDR — Open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging.

https://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/ || luminancehdr

nUFRaw — Utility to read and manipulate raw images from digital cameras using DCRaw.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/nufraw/ || gimp-nufraw

Oqapy — Photographic workflow application.

https://oqapy.eu/ || oqapy^AUR

Rawstudio — Raw-image converter written in GTK.

https://rawstudio.org/ || rawstudio^AUR

RawTherapee — A powerful cross-platform raw image processing program.

https://www.rawtherapee.com/ || rawtherapee

Showfoto — Photo editor with powerful image editing tools.

https://www.digikam.org/ || digikam

Photo geotagging

Geotag — Match date/time information from photos with location information from a GPS unit or from a map.

https://geotag.sourceforge.net/ || geotag

Geotagging — Photography geotagging tool to synchronize photos with gps track log (GPX).

https://github.com/jmlich/geotagging || geotagging^AUR

GottenGeography — Easy to use photo geotagging application for the GNOME desktop.

https://launchpad.net/gottengeography || gottengeography

GPicSync — Inserts location in your pictures metadata from a GPS tracklog.

https://github.com/FrancoisSchnell/GPicSync || gpicsync^AUR

GPSCorrelate — Correlate (geotagging) digital camera photos with GPS data in GPX format.

https://github.com/freefoote/gpscorrelate || gpscorrelate

Vector graphics editors

Dia — GTK-based diagram creation program.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dia || dia^AUR

diagrams.net — Diagram drawing application built on web technology. Based on the Electron platform.

https://www.diagrams.net/ || drawio-desktop^AUR

Dot Matrix — The glyph playground of creativity from simple lines.

https://github.com/lainsce/dot-matrix/ || dot-matrix^AUR

Figma — Unofficial desktop application for Figma collaborative design tool. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/Figma-Linux/figma-linux || figma-linux^AUR

Gravit Designer — Proprietary vector design application. Based on the Electron platform.

https://designer.io/^{[dead link 2023-05-06 ⓘ]} || gravit-designer-bin^AUR

Inkscape — Vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file format.

https://inkscape.org/ || inkscape

Karbon — Vector graphics editor, part of the Calligra Suite.

https://www.calligra.org/karbon/ || calligra

LazPain — Image editor, like PaintBrush or Paint.Net, written in Lazarus (Free Pascal)

https://lazpaint.github.io/ || lazpaint-bin^AUR

LibreOffice Draw — Vector graphics editor and diagramming tool included in the LibreOffice suite similar to Microsoft Visio.

https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/draw/ || libreoffice-still or libreoffice-fresh

Mockitt — Proprietary online design, prototyping, and collaboration platform. Based on the Electron platform.

https://mockitt.wondershare.com/ || mockitt^AUR

OpenOffice Draw — Vector graphics editor and diagramming tool included in the OpenOffice suite.

https://www.openoffice.org/product/draw.html || openoffice-bin^AUR

Pencil Project — GUI prototyping and mockup tool. Based on the Electron platform.

https://pencil.evolus.vn/ || pencil^AUR

sK1 — Replacement for Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw, oriented for "prepress ready" PostScript & PDF output.

https://sk1project.net/ || sk1^AUR

SvgVi — SVG viewer and editor using XML declarations.

https://gitlab.com/pwmc/svgvi || svgvi^AUR

yEd — General-purpose proprietary diagramming program for flowcharts, network diagrams, UML diagrams, BPMN diagrams, mind maps, organization charts, and Entity Relationship diagrams.

https://www.yworks.com/products/yed || yed^AUR

Xfig — Interactive drawing tool.

https://mcj.sourceforge.net/ || xfig^AUR

Font editors

Birdfont — Font editor which lets you create vector graphics and export TTF, EOT and SVG fonts.

https://birdfont.org/ || birdfont

FontForge — Outline font editor.

https://fontforge.github.io/ || fontforge

TruFont — Font-editing application.

https://trufont.github.io/ || trufont^AUR

2D animation

enve — Flexible, user expandable 2D animation software.

https://maurycyliebner.github.io/ || enve-git^AUR

Glaxnimate — Vector 2D animation software, mainly for Lottie and TGS formats, but have a good standard animated SVG export

https://glaxnimate.mattbas.org/ || glaxnimate^AUR

OpenToonz — 2D animation creation software.

https://opentoonz.github.io/e/ || opentoonz

Pencil2D — Easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations.

https://www.pencil2d.org/ || pencil2d

qStopMotion — Application for creating stop-motion animation movies. The users will be able to create stop-motions from pictures imported from a camera or from the harddrive and export the animation to different video formats such as mpeg or avi.

https://qstopmotion.org/ || qstopmotion

Scribl — Application to create simple video lectures that combine audio with hand-drawn animation.

https://www.scribl.ink/^{[dead link 2023-07-30 ⓘ]} || scribl^AUR

Stopmotion — Application to create stop-motion animations. It helps you capture and edit the frames of your animation and export them as a single file.

http://linuxstopmotion.org/ || stopmotion^AUR

Synfig Studio — 2D animation software, designed as powerful industrial-strength solution for creating film-quality animation using a vector and bitmap artwork.

https://www.synfig.org/ || synfigstudio

TupiTube Desk — Desktop application to create and share 2D animations, focused on kids and teenagers.

https://www.maefloresta.com/ || tupitube

Aseprite — Pixel art 2d animation

https://www.aseprite.org/ || aseprite^AUR

Pixelorama — Pixel art 2d animation

https://orama-interactive.itch.io/pixelorama || pixelorama^AUR

Tahoma2D — Free and powerful software for 2D and stop motion animators. Based on OpenToonz

https://tahoma2d.org/ || tahoma2d^AUR

The drawing application Krita and the 3D editor Blender (Grease Pencil mode) have both 2D animation features too.

3D computer graphics

Art of Illusion — 3D modeling and rendering studio written in Java.

http://www.artofillusion.org/ || aoi^AUR

Blender — Fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite capable of 3D modeling, texturing, and animation, among other things.

https://www.blender.org/ || blender

Blockbench — A low-poly 3D model editor

https://www.blockbench.net/ || blockbench^AUR

CloudCompare — 3D point cloud and mesh processing software.

https://cloudcompare.org/ || cloudcompare^AUR

Dust3D — 3D modeling software. It helps you create a 3D watertight base model in seconds. Use it to speed up your character modeling in game making, 3D printing, and so on.

https://dust3d.org/ || dust3d^AUR

F3D — A fast and minimalist KISS 3D viewer. Supported file formats: VTK (legacy and XML), STL, GLTF, PLY, OBJ, 3DS, …

https://f3d.app || f3d

Goxel — Open Source 3D voxel editor.

https://goxel.xyz/ || goxel

MakeHuman™ — Parametrical modeling program for creating human bodies.

http://www.makehumancommunity.org/ || makehuman^AUR

MeshLab — System for processing and editing 3D triangular meshes.

https://www.meshlab.net/ || meshlab^AUR

Sweet Home 3D — Interior design software application for the planning and development of floor plans

http://sweethome3d.com/ || sweethome3d

POV-Ray — Script-based raytracer for creating 3D graphics.

https://www.povray.org/ || povray

VoxelShop — Extremely intuitive and powerful software to modify and create voxel objects.

https://github.com/simlu/voxelshop || voxelshop^AUR

Wings 3D — Advanced subdivision modeler that is both powerful and easy to use.

http://www.wings3d.com/ || wings3d^AUR

Color pickers and palettes

Agave — Colorscheme designer tool for GNOME.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170327063642/http://home.gna.org/colorscheme/ || agave^AUR^{[broken link: package not found]}

Chameleon — Simple color picker for X11 which outputs colors to stdout.

https://github.com/seebye/chameleon || chameleon-git^AUR

ColorGrab — Cross-platform color picker.

https://github.com/nielssp/colorgrab || colorgrab^AUR

Color Palette — Tool for viewing the GNOME color palette as defined by the design guidelines.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/design/palette || palette^AUR

colorpicker — Click on a pixel on your screen and print its color value in RGB. Written for X11.

https://github.com/Jack12816/colorpicker || colorpicker^AUR

Color Picker — Simplistic color picker for the Pantheon desktop.

https://github.com/RonnyDo/ColorPicker || color-picker^AUR

Coulr — Color box to help developers and designers.

https://github.com/Huluti/Coulr || coulr^AUR

Deepin Picker — Color picker tool for Deepin desktop.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-picker/ || deepin-picker

delicolour — Lightweight GTK 3 color finder.

https://github.com/eepp/delicolour || delicolour^AUR

Gcolor3 — Simple GTK 3 color selector.

https://www.hjdskes.nl/projects/gcolor3/ || gcolor3

GPick — Advanced color picker tool.

http://www.gpick.org/ || gpick

KColorChooser — Simple application to select the color from the screen or from a pallete. Part of kde-graphics.

https://apps.kde.org/kcolorchooser/ || kcolorchooser

Kontrast — Tool to check contrast for colors that allows verifying that your colors are correctly accessible. Part of kde-accessibility.

https://apps.kde.org/kontrast/ || kontrast

MATE Color Selection — Choose colors from the palette or the screen. Run with mate-color-select.

https://mate-desktop.org/ || mate-desktop

Pick — Simple color picker tool for the Linux desktop.

https://www.kryogenix.org/code/pick || pick-colour-picker^AUR

PrestoPalette — An artist's tool for creating harmonious color palettes.

https://github.com/PrestoPalette/PrestoPalette || prestopalette^AUR

xcolor — Lightweight color picker for X11.

https://soft.github.io/xcolor/ || xcolor

Screenshot

See Screen capture#Screenshot software.

Digital camera managers

See gPhoto#Installation.

Audio

Audio systems

See also the main article Sound system and Wikipedia:Sound server.

Audio players

Many applications in the #Video players section also support audio playback.

Server

Music Player Daemon — Audio player that has a server-client architecture. In order to interface with it, a separate client is needed.

https://www.musicpd.org/ || mpd

Funkwhale — self-hosted, modern, free and open-source music server, heavily inspired by Grooveshark. Instances can be federated.

https://funkwhale.audio/ || funkwhale^AUR

Sonospy — A music server for Sonos that allows you overcome the 65,000 local track limit and also offers various customization options.

https://github.com/henkelis/sonospy/wiki/Welcome-to-Sonospy || sonospy-git^AUR

Navidrome — Open source music server and streamer with a built in Web UI. Compatible with a wide range of third-party Android and iOS apps.

https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome/ || navidrome

Console

cmus — Very feature-rich ncurses-based music player.

https://cmus.github.io/ || cmus

cplay-ng — Updated fork of cplay.

https://github.com/xi/cplay-ng || cplay-ng-git^AUR

davis — A CLI client for mpd, written in Rust.

https://github.com/SimonPersson/davis || davis^AUR

MOC — Ncurses console audio player with support for the MP3, OGG, and WAV formats.

https://moc.daper.net/ || moc-pulse^AUR

mous-ncurses — Lightweight audio player and converter for FreeBSD/Linux/macOS.

https://github.com/bsdelf/mous || not packaged? search in AUR

mpg123 — Fast free MP3 console audio player for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, HP-UX and nearly all other UNIX systems (also decodes MP1 and MP2 files).

https://www.mpg123.org/ || mpg123

musikcube — A cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server in c++.

https://github.com/clangen/musikcube || musikcube^AUR

playmidi — Playmidi is a web and curses and SDL-based MIDI file player for Linux and MacOS and Chrome (via Web MIDI and Web Audio apis).

https://github.com/nlaredo/playmidi || not packaged? search in AUR

vitunes — Curses-based music player and playlist manager with vim-like keybindings.

http://vitunes.org/ || vitunes^AUR

whistle — Curses-based commandline audio player.

https://github.com/ap0calypse/whistle/ || whistle-git^AUR

XMMS2 — Complete rewrite of the popular music player.

https://github.com/xmms2/wiki/wiki || xmms2

Graphical

GStreamer-based

Blanket — Improve focus and increase your productivity by listening to different sounds.

https://github.com/rafaelmardojai/blanket || blanket

Byte — Music player designed for elementary OS.

https://github.com/alainm23/byte || byte^AUR

Clementine — Amarok 1.4 clone, ported to Qt5. See also Strawberry (below).

https://www.clementine-player.org/ || clementine^AUR

Cozy — Modern audio book player for Linux using GTK 3.

https://cozy.geigi.de/ || cozy-audiobooks^AUR

Exaile — GTK clone of Amarok.

https://www.exaile.org/ || exaile^AUR

GNOME Music — Music player for GNOME. It aims to combine an elegant and immersive browsing experience with simple and straightforward controls. Part of gnome.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Music || gnome-music

Guayadeque — Full featured media player that can easily manage large collections and uses the GStreamer media framework.

https://www.guayadeque.org/ || guayadeque^AUR

Lollypop — A GNOME music player.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Lollypop || lollypop

Melody — Music player for listening to local music files, online radios and audio CD's.

https://anufrij.org/melody/ || playmymusic^AUR

Pantheon Music — Simple, fast, and good looking music player. The official elementary music player.

https://github.com/elementary/music || pantheon-music

Parlatype — Minimal audio player for manual speech transcription, for GNOME. It plays audio sources to transcribe them in your favorite text application.

https://www.parlatype.org/ || parlatype^AUR

Pragha — A lightweight two-panel GTK music manager written in C.

https://pragha-music-player.github.io/ || pragha

Quod Libet — Audio player written with GTK, Python and GStreamer with support for regular expressions in playlists.

https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/ || quodlibet

Rhythmbox — GTK clone of iTunes, used by default in GNOME.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Rhythmbox || rhythmbox

Sayonara — Small, clear and fast audio player for Linux written in C++, uses the Qt framework.

https://sayonara-player.com/ || sayonara-player^AUR

Strawberry — Fork of Clementine aimed at audio enthusiasts and music collectors. Uses Qt6.

https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/ || strawberry

Tauon Music Box — Modern, comfortable and streamlined music player for the playback of your music collection.

https://tauonmusicbox.rocks/ || tauon-music-box^AUR

Phonon-based

Amarok — Mature Qt-based player known for its plethora of features.

https://amarok.kde.org/ || amarok^AUR

JuK — JuK is an audio jukebox application, supporting collections of MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC audio files.

https://juk.kde.org/ || juk

Yarock — Modern looking music player, packed with features, that doesn’t depend on any specific desktop environment. Yarock is designed to provide an easy and pretty music browser based on cover art.

https://seb-apps.github.io/yarock/^{[dead link 2023-05-06 ⓘ]} || yarock^AUR

Other

Aqualung — Advanced music player, which plays audio CDs, internet radio streams and podcasts as well as soundfiles in just about any audio format and has the feature of inserting no gaps between adjacent tracks.

https://aqualung.jeremyevans.net/ || aqualung^AUR

Audacious — Winamp clone like Beep and old XMMS versions.

https://audacious-media-player.org/ || audacious

DeaDBeeF — Light and fast music player with many features, no GNOME or KDE dependencies, supports console-only, as well as a GTK GUI, comes with many plugins, and has a metadata editor.

https://deadbeef.sourceforge.io/ || deadbeef^AUR

Deepin Music — Awesome music player with brilliant and tweakful UI Deepin-UI based.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-music/ || deepin-music

Drumstick MIDI File Player — MIDI file player based on Drumstick.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/dmidiplayer/ || dmidiplayer^AUR

Elisa — Simple music player by the KDE community aiming to provide a nice experience for its users.

https://apps.kde.org/elisa/ || elisa

gmusicbrowser — Open-source jukebox for large collections of MP3/OGG/FLAC files.

https://gmusicbrowser.org/ || gmusicbrowser^AUR

Goggles Music Manager — Music collection manager and player that automatically categorizes your music, supports gapless playback, features easy tag editing, and internet radio support. Uses the Fox toolkit.

https://gogglesmm.github.io/ || gogglesmm

LXMusic — A minimalist xmms2-based music player.

https://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXMusic^{[dead link 2023-05-06 ⓘ]} || lxmusic

museeks — Minimalistic and easy to use music player. Based on the Electron platform.

https://museeks.io/ || museeks-bin^AUR

Musique — Just another music player, only better.

https://flavio.tordini.org/musique || musique^AUR

Qmmp — Qt-based multimedia player with a user interface that is similar to Winamp or XMMS.

https://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/ || qmmp

Soundux — Soundboard that features a simple user interface.

https://soundux.rocks/ || soundux^AUR

Vvave — Tiny Qt music player to keep your favorite songs at hand.

https://vvave.kde.org/ || vvave

Internet radio listeners

GNOME Radio — Easily find live radio programs based on geographical location of radio broadcasters on the Internet.

http://www.gnomeradio.org/ || gnome-radio^AUR

Goodvibes — Lightweight internet radio player.

https://gitlab.com/goodvibes/goodvibes || goodvibes^AUR

Radiotray-NG — Internet radio player systray applet.

https://github.com/ebruck/radiotray-ng || radiotray-ng^AUR

Shortwave — GTK 3 application for finding and listening to internet radio stations.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Shortwave || shortwave^AUR

Tuner — Minimalist radio station player.

https://github.com/louis77/tuner || tuner^AUR

Music streaming clients

Cider — An open source and community oriented Apple Music client for Windows, Linux, macOS, and more. Based on the Electron platform.

https://cider.sh/ || cider^AUR

Google Play Music Desktop Player — Beautiful cross platform desktop player for Google Play Music. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-/ || gpmdp^AUR

Headset — Desktop application that turns YouTube into a world class music streaming service. Based on the Electron platform.

https://headsetapp.co/ || headset^AUR

MellowPlayer — A free, open source and cross-platform Qt-based desktop application that runs web-based music streaming services in its own window and provides integration with your desktop.

https://colinduquesnoy.gitlab.io/MellowPlayer/ || mellowplayer^AUR

ncspot — Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client written in Rust, inspired by ncmpc and the likes.

https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot || ncspot-bin^AUR

Nuclear — Modern music player focused on streaming from free sources. Based on the Electron platform.

https://nuclear.js.org/ || nuclear-player-bin^AUR

pianobar — Console-based frontend for the online radio Pandora.

https://6xq.net/projects/pianobar/ || pianobar

Pithos — Python/GTK Pandora Radio desktop client.

https://pithos.github.io/ || pithos^AUR

Spotify — Proprietary music streaming service. It supports local playback and streaming from Spotify's vast library (requires a free account).

https://www.spotify.com/ || spotify^AUR

spotify-qt — Lightweight Spotify client using Qt.

https://github.com/kraxarn/spotify-qt || spotify-qt^AUR

spotify-tui — Spotify for the terminal written in Rust.

https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui || spotify-tui^AUR

Audio tag editors

Console

Beets — Music library organizer, tagger and more.

https://beets.io/ || beets

Demlo — Batch music tagger, encoder, renamer and more.

https://gitlab.com/ambrevar/demlo || demlo^AUR

id3 — Command-line utility to edit ID3 1.x and 2.x tags.

https://squell.github.io/id3/ || id3^AUR

id3v2 — Command line editor for id3v2 tags.

http://id3v2.sourceforge.net/ || id3v2

MP3Info — MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor.

https://ibiblio.org/mp3info/ || mp3info

MP3Unicode — Command line utility to convert ID3 tags in mp3 files between different encodings.

http://mp3unicode.sourceforge.net/ || mp3unicode

Taffy — Simple command-line tag editor for many audio formats.

https://github.com/jangler/taffy || taffy^AUR

Tagutil — CLI tool to edit music file's tag. It aims to provide both an easy-to-script interface and ease of use interactively.

https://github.com/kAworu/tagutil || tagutil^AUR

Graphical

Audio Tag Tool — Tool to edit tags in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files.

https://github.com/impegoraro/tagtool || tagtool^AUR

Coquillo — Metadata editor for various audio formats.

https://github.com/sjuvonen/coquillo || coquillo^AUR

EasyTag — Utility for viewing, editing and writing ID3 tags of music files, supports many audio formats.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EasyTAG || easytag

Ex Falso — Cross-platform free and open source audio tag editor and library organizer. Run with exfalso.

https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/ || quodlibet

GabTag — Audio tagging tool written in GTK.

https://github.com/lachhebo/gabtag || gabtag^AUR

Kid3 — MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV and AIFF files tag editor.

https://kid3.kde.org/ || KDE: kid3, Qt: kid3-qt

KTag Editor — ID3v tag editor developed in Qt5 framework. Supported files are mp3, wav, ogg, wma, flac, asf.

https://karoljkocmaros.blogspot.com/p/ktag-editor.html || ktageditor^AUR

MP3Info GUI — MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor. The graphical interface can be launched with the gmp3info command.

https://ibiblio.org/mp3info/ || mp3info

NickvisionTagger — GTK Music file tag editor. Can load tags from MusicBrainz database. Works with mp3, ogg, flac, wma, and wav. Convert filenames to tags and tags to filenames.

https://github.com/nlogozzo/NickvisionTagger || tagger^AUR

Picard — Cross-platform audio tag editor written in Python (the official MusicBrainz tagger).

https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ || picard

NTag — Graphical tag editor focused on everyday life use cases.

https://github.com/nrittsti/ntag || ntag^AUR

Puddletag — Replacement for the famous MP3tag for Windows.

https://docs.puddletag.net/ || puddletag^AUR

Qoobar — Universal Qt-based audio tagger (specialized for classical music).

http://qoobar.sourceforge.net/en/index.htm || qoobar^AUR

Tag Editor — A tag editor with Qt GUI and command-line interface supporting MP4/M4A/AAC (iTunes), ID3v1/ID3v2, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC and Matroska.

https://github.com/Martchus/tageditor || tageditor^AUR

Thunar Media Tags Plugin — Adds special features for media files to the Thunar File Manager, including the ability to edit tags.

https://goodies.xfce.org/projects/thunar-plugins/thunar-media-tags-plugin || thunar-media-tags-plugin

Lyrics

Lyrics players

Floodlight Presenter — Presentation and lyrics program for churches to display lyrics and media.

https://floodlight.gitlab.io/ || floodlight-presenter^AUR

Give Me Lyrics — See the lyrics of the song that is playing, from any application.

https://github.com/muriloventuroso/givemelyrics || givemelyrics^AUR

OSD Lyrics — Lyric show compatible with various media players.

https://github.com/osdlyrics/osdlyrics || osdlyrics

Lyrics downloaders

clyrics — Extensible lyrics fetcher, with daemon support for cmus and mocp.

https://github.com/trizen/clyrics || clyrics^AUR

glyrc — Command-line music related metadata searchengine, including support for downloading lyrics.

https://github.com/sahib/glyr || glyr

Lyrics editors

Karaoke Lyrics Editor — Lyrics editor and CD+G/video exporter for Karaoke.

https://www.ulduzsoft.com/linux/karaoke-lyrics-editor/ || karlyriceditor^AUR

LyricsX — Lyrics editor.

https://github.com/timxx/lyricsx || lyricsx^AUR

Audio converters

Caudec — A multiprocess command line audio converter that supports many formats (FLAC, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Windows codecs and many more)

https://caudec.cocatre.net/^{[dead link 2023-05-07 ⓘ]} || caudec^AUR

Ecasound — Command line tools designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling.

https://nosignal.fi/ecasound/ || ecasound

FFaudioConverter — Batch audio converter and effects processor. It can convert files or whole folders containing music and video files to other audio formats with FFmpeg.

https://github.com/Bleuzen/FFaudioConverter || ffaudioconverter^AUR

Flacon — Extracts individual tracks from one big audio file containing the entire album of music and saves them as separate audio files.

https://flacon.github.io/ || flacon^AUR

fre:ac — Audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders.

https://freac.org/ || freac^AUR

Gnac — Audio converter for GNOME.

http://gnac.sourceforge.net/ || gnac

SoundConverter — A graphical application to convert audio files into different formats.

https://soundconverter.org/ || soundconverter

soundKonverter — Qt-based GUI front-end to various audio converters.

https://github.com/dfaust/soundkonverter || soundkonverter

SoX — Command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files into other formats.

https://sox.sourceforge.net/ || sox

Audio editors

Audacity — Program that lets you manipulate digital audio waveforms.

https://www.audacityteam.org/ || audacity

GNOME Sound Recorder — Provides a straight-forward way to record and play audio. Part of gnome-extra.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/SoundRecorder || gnome-sound-recorder

Gnome Wave Cleaner — Digital audio editor to denoise, dehiss and amplify audio files.

http://gwc.sourceforge.net/ || gwc^AUR

Kwave — Sound editor for KDE.

http://kwave.sourceforge.net/ || kwave

mhWaveEdit — Graphical program for editing, playing and recording sound files.

https://github.com/magnush/mhwaveedit/ || mhwaveedit^AUR

Mp3splt — Utility to split mp3, ogg vorbis and native FLAC files selecting a begin and an end time position, without decoding.

https://mp3splt.sourceforge.net/ || CLI: mp3splt, GUI: mp3splt-gtk

ocenaudio — Proprietary cross-platform, easy to use, fast and functional audio editor.

https://www.ocenaudio.com/en/ || ocenaudio-bin^AUR

Play it Slowly — Play back audio files at a different speed or pitch.

https://29a.ch/playitslowly || playitslowly

Polyphone — A soundfont editor to create and edit a musical instrument based on samples, using the sf2 format.

https://www.polyphone-soundfonts.com/ || polyphone

Snd — Advanced sound editor modeled loosely after Emacs.

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/ || snd

Swami — A SoundFont editor

http://www.swamiproject.org || swami^AUR

Sweep — Audio editor and live playback tool.

http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/ || sweep^AUR

WaveSurfer — Tool for sound visualization and manipulation. Typical applications are speech/sound analysis and sound annotation/transcription.

https://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/^{[dead link 2023-05-06 ⓘ]} || wavesurfer^AUR

Digital audio workstations

Audio analyzers

audioprism — Spectrogram tool for PulseAudio input and WAV files.

https://github.com/vsergeev/audioprism || audioprism^AUR

BRP-PACU — Dual channel FFT based acoustic analysis tool to help engineers analyze live professional sound systems using the transfer function.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/brp-pacu/ || brp-pacu^AUR

Baudline — Proprietary time-frequency and spectrogram analyzer

http://www.baudline.com/index.html || baudline-bin^AUR

FMIT — Graphical utility for tuning your musical instruments, with error and volume history and advanced features.

https://gillesdegottex.github.io/fmit/ || fmit^AUR

Friture — Real-time audio analyzer.

https://friture.org/ || friture^AUR

Mousai — Simple application for identifying songs using the API of audd.io.

https://github.com/SeaDve/Mousai || mousai^AUR

rtspeccy — Real time audio spectrum analyzer.

https://www.uninformativ.de/git/rtspeccy/ || rtspeccy-git^AUR

sndpeek — Real-time audio visualization tool.

https://soundlab.cs.princeton.edu/software/sndpeek/ || ALSA: sndpeek-alsa^AUR, JACK: sndpeek-jack^AUR

SongRec — Unofficial Shazam client to recognize audio from an arbitrary audio file or from the microphone, written in Rust.

https://github.com/marin-m/SongRec || songrec

Sonic Visualiser — Viewing, analyzing, and annotating the contents of music audio files.

https://www.sonicvisualiser.org/ || sonic-visualiser

Spek — A barebones interface for ffmpeg's spectogram png output, helps to analyse your audio files by showing their spectrogram.

http://spek.cc/ || spek^AUR

Scorewriters

Canorus — Music score editor. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of notes, chord markings, lyrics, import/export filters to formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MusiXTeX and LilyPond.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/canorus/ || canorus^AUR

Impro-Visor — Music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised.

https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/improvisor/ || impro-visor^AUR

LilyPond — Music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible.

https://lilypond.org/ || lilypond

MuseScore — Create, playback, and print sheet music.

https://musescore.org/ || musescore

TuxGuitar — Multitrack guitar tablature editor and player.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxguitar/ || tuxguitar^AUR

Audio synthesis environments

Blue — Music composition environment for Csound, written in Java.

https://blue.kunstmusik.com/ || csound-blue^AUR

Cabbage — Framework for audio software development using simple markup text and the Csound audio synthesis language.

https://cabbageaudio.com/ || cabbage-bin^AUR

Cardinal — Virtual modular synthesizer plugin based on the VCV Rack, includes lots of virtualized Eurorack modules.

https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal || cardinal

ChucK — Strongly-timed, concurrent, and on-the-fly music programming language.

https://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ || chuck

Csound — Sound and music computing system.

https://csound.com/ || csound

CsoundQt — Frontend for Csound featuring a highlighting editor with autocomplete, interactive widgets and integrated help.

https://csoundqt.github.io/ || csoundqt

FoxDot — Live Coding with Python and SuperCollider.

https://foxdot.org/ || foxdot

Pure Data — Real-time music and multimedia environment.

http://msp.ucsd.edu/software.html || pd

Sonic Pi — Code-based music creation and performance tool.

https://sonic-pi.net/ || sonic-pi

SuperCollider — Platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition, used by musicians, artists, and researchers working with sound.

https://supercollider.github.io/ || supercollider

VCV Rack — Virtual Eurorack DAW. Use a plugin systems to add more Eurorack emulated modules.

https://vcvrack.com/ || vcvrack^AUR

Sound generators

This section contains drum machines, software samplers and software synthesizers.

ADLMIDI — OPL3/OPN2 synthesizer using ADLMIDI.

https://github.com/jpcima/adljack || adljack

ADLplug — FM Yamaha OPL3 synthesizer for ADLMIDI.

https://github.com/jpcima/ADLplug || adlplug

Agordejo — Music and audio production session manager based on NSM.

https://www.laborejo.org/agordejo/ || agordejo

ams — Alsa Modular Synth. Realtime modular synthesizer and effect processor.

http://alsamodular.sourceforge.net/ || ams

amsynth — Analog Modelling SYNTHesizer. Easy-to-use software synthesizer with a classic subtractive synthesizer topology.

https://amsynth.github.io/ || amsynth

DIN — Sound synthesizer and musical instrument.

https://dinisnoise.org/ || din

Drumlabooh — LV2/VSTi drum machine with Hydrogen, SFZ, Drumlabooh kits support.

https://psemiletov.github.io/drumlabooh/ || drumlabooh^AUR

Drumstick — Set of MIDI tools: drum grid, MIDI player, virtual piano.

https://drumstick.sourceforge.io/ || drumstick

Element — A modular LV2/VST3 audio plugin host.

https://kushview.net/element/ || element

Fluajho — SF2 soundfont sample player for JACK based on Fluidsynth.

https://www.laborejo.org/fluajho/ || fluajho

FluidSynth — Real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications.

https://www.fluidsynth.org/ || fluidsynth

Geonkick — Synthesizer that can synthesize elements of percussion. The most basic examples are: kicks, snares, hit-hats, shakers, claps.

https://gitlab.com/iurie-sw/geonkick || geonkick

Gigedit — Graphical instrument editor for sample based virtual instruments, based on the GigaStudio/Gigasampler file format.

http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Gigedit/ || gigedit

GrandOrgue — Virtual pipe organ sample player application supporting a HW1 compatible file format.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ourorgan/ || grandorgue-git^AUR

GSequencer — Provides various tools to play, create, edit and mix your own music. It features a step sequencer, piano roll, automation and wave-form editor.

https://nongnu.org/gsequencer/ || gsequencer^AUR

Helm — Software synthesizer to create electronic music on your computer.

https://tytel.org/helm/ || helm-synth

Hydrogen — Advanced drum machine to create drum sequences.

https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen || hydrogen

JSampler — Java GUI for LinuxSampler software audio sampler.

http://jsampler.sourceforge.net/ || jsampler

OPNplug — FM Yamaha OPN2 synthesizer for OPNMIDI.

https://github.com/jpcima/ADLplug || opnplug

Patroneo — Easy to use pattern based midi sequencer.

https://www.laborejo.org/patroneo/ || patroneo

PySynth — Suite of simple music synthesizers and helper scripts written in Python 3.

https://mdoege.github.io/PySynth/ || python-pysynth-git^AUR

QMidiArp — Advanced MIDI arpeggiator, programmable step sequencer and LFO.

http://qmidiarp.sourceforge.net/ || qmidiarp

QmidiCtl — MIDI remote controller application that sends MIDI data over the network, using UDP/IP multicast.

https://qmidictl.sourceforge.io/ || qmidictl

QmidiNet — MIDI network gateway application that sends and receives MIDI data over the network, using UDP/IP multicast.

https://qmidinet.sourceforge.io/ || qmidinet

QMidiRoute — MIDI router and processor for ALSA.

http://alsamodular.sourceforge.net/ || qmidiroute

Qsampler — Qt GUI for LinuxSampler software audio sampler.

https://qsampler.sourceforge.io/ || qsampler

Qsynth — Qt GUI for Fluidsynth.

https://qsynth.sourceforge.io/ || qsynth

Qwertone — Simple music synthesizer (like a toy-piano), but based on usual qwerty-keyboard for input.

https://gitlab.com/azymohliad/qwertone || qwertone-git^AUR

QXGEdit — Qt GUI for editing MIDI System Exclusive files for XG devices (eg. Yamaha DB50XG).

https://qxgedit.sourceforge.io/ || qxgedit

setBfree — DSP tonewheel organ.

https://setbfree.org/ || setbfree

SpectMorph — Analyze samples of musical instruments and combine them (morphing).

http://spectmorph.org/ || spectmorph

Surge XT — Cross platform, subtractive hybrid synthesizer. Installs the standalone application (surge-xt-standalone), plugins (surge-xt-clap, surge-xt-lv2, surge-xt-vst3), and common files (surge-xt-common).

https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/ || surge-xt

TiMidity++ — Software synthesizer, which can play MIDI files by converting them into PCM waveform data.

https://timidity.sourceforge.net/ || timidity++

Vee One Suite — Old-school software instruments: synthv1, a polyphonic subtractive synthesizer; samplv1, a polyphonic sampler synthesizer; drumkv1, yet another drum-kit sampler; padthv1, a polyphonic additive synthesizer.

https://www.rncbc.org/ || synthv1, samplv1, drumkv1, padthv1

Vico — Minimalistic Midi sequencer that is intended to be used in parallel with other software.

https://www.laborejo.org/vico/ || vico

VMPK — Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard. MIDI events generator and receiver. It can use midi SoundFonts to generate sound by itself, or can be used to drive a MIDI synthesizer.

https://vmpk.sourceforge.io/ || vmpk

Yoshimi — Software synthesizer, a fork of ZynAddSubFX.

http://yoshimi.sourceforge.net/ || yoshimi

ZynAddSubFX — Fully featured software synthesizer capable of making a countless number of instruments, from some common heard from expensive hardware to interesting sounds that you will boost to an amazing universe of sounds.

https://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io/ || zynaddsubfx

Music trackers

Buzztrax — Music studio to compose songs using only a computer with a soundcard.

https://www.buzztrax.org/ || buzztrax^AUR

FamiStudio — Very simple music editor for the Nintendo Entertainment System or Famicom.

https://famistudio.org/ || famistudio^AUR

FastTracker II — A clone of the same tracker name using SDL2 in C.

https://16-bits.org/ft2.php || ft2-clone

Furnace — A chiptune tracker compatible with DefleMask modules. Emulates a variety of sound chips.

https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace || furnace

klystrack — Tracker for making C64/NES/Amiga-style chiptunes on a modern platform.

https://kometbomb.github.io/klystrack/ || klystrack-git^AUR

MilkyTracker — Music application for creating .MOD and .XM module files.

https://milkytracker.titandemo.org/ || milkytracker

OpenMPT — Tracker software to create and play back some great music on your computer.

https://openmpt.org/ || openmpt^AUR

ProTracker 2 — A clone of the original tracker from the amiga. Written using SDL2 in C.

https://16-bits.org/pt2.php || pt2-clone

Radium — Music editor with a new type of interface.

https://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/ || radium^AUR

Schism Tracker — Create high quality music without the requirements of specialized, expensive equipment, and with a unique "finger feel" that is difficult to replicate in part.

http://schismtracker.org/ || schismtracker

SunVox — Small, fast and powerful modular synthesizer with pattern-based sequencer (tracker).

https://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/ || sunvox^AUR

DJ

Giada — Minimal, hardcore audio tool for DJs, live performers and electronic musicians.

https://giadamusic.com/ || giada^AUR

IDJC — Powerful yet easy to use source-client for individuals interested in streaming live radio shows over the Internet using Shoutcast or Icecast servers.

http://idjc.sourceforge.net/ || idjc^AUR

Linux Show Player — Powerful and feature-rich software to arrange cue lists. Designed for theater plays and live music shows.

https://www.linux-show-player.org/ || linux-show-player^AUR

Luppp — Music creation tool, intended for live use. The focus is on real time processing and a fast and intuitive workflow.

http://openavproductions.com/luppp/ || luppp

Mixxx — Integrates the tools DJs need to perform creative live mixes with digital music files.

https://mixxx.org/ || mixxx

Seq24 — Minimal loop based MIDI sequencer for a live performance with a very simple interface for editing and playing MIDI 'loops'.

http://filter24.org/seq24/ || seq24-bzr^AUR

xwax — Digital Vinyl System (DVS) for Linux. It allows DJs and turntablists to playback digital audio files (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC and more), controlled using a normal pair of turntables via timecoded vinyls.

https://xwax.org/ || xwax

Audio effects

Calf Plugin Pack for JACK — Process and produce sounds using a set of plugins with JACK interface. (calfjackhost)

https://calf-studio-gear.org/ || calf

Carla — Audio plugin host, with support for many audio drivers and plugin formats.

https://kxstudio.linuxaudio.org/Applications:Carla || carla

guitarix — Virtual guitar amplifier for JACK.

https://guitarix.org/ || guitarix

EasyEffects — Apply effects to audio applications and input sources over PipeWire (or PulseAudio with legacy package).

https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects || easyeffects, pulseeffects-legacy-git^AUR

Rakarrack — Richly featured multi-effects processor emulating a guitar effects pedalboard.

https://rakarrack.sourceforge.net/ || rakarrack^AUR

Audio visualizers

Barva — Visualizer for PulseAudio that pulses the background of your terminal.

https://github.com/Kharacternyk/barva/ || barva-git^AUR

C.A.V.A. — Console-based audio visualizer for ALSA, MPD and PulseAudio.

https://github.com/karlstav/cava/ || cava^AUR

Cavalcade — GTK GUI for C.A.V.A.

https://github.com/worron/cavalcade/ || cavalcade-git^AUR

cli-visualizer — Highly configurable CLI-based audio visualizer.

https://github.com/dpayne/cli-visualizer || cli-visualizer^AUR

GLava — OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer. Its primary use case is for desktop windows or backgrounds.

https://github.com/wacossusca34/glava || glava

GLMViz — Fully configurable OpenGL music visualizer.

https://github.com/hannesha/GLMViz || glmviz-git^AUR

Le Biniou — User-friendly, powerful music visualization / VJing tool.

https://biniou.net/ || lebiniou^AUR

projectM — Music visualizer which uses 3D accelerated iterative image-based rendering.

https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm || projectm-pulseaudio

VSXu — OpenGL-based (hardware-accelerated), modular programming environment with its main purpose to visualize music and create graphic effects in real-time.

https://www.vsxu.com/ || vsxu^AUR

Remote audio

jammr — Play jam sessions with musicians around the world over the internet.

https://jammr.net/ || jammr^AUR

Jamulus — Enables musicians to perform real-time jam sessions over the internet.

https://jamulus.io/ || jamulus^AUR

netaudio — List, configure, and control Audinate Dante network audio devices.

https://github.com/chris-ritsen/network-audio-controller || python-netaudio^AUR

Noson — Fast and smart controller for SONOS devices.

https://janbar.github.io/noson-app/ || noson-app^AUR

SonoBus — Application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network.

https://sonobus.net/ || sonobus^AUR

Upplay — Qt-based UPnP audio control point.

https://lesbonscomptes.com/upplay/ || upplay^AUR

Volume control

alsamixer — Soundcard mixer for ALSA soundcard driver, with ncurses interface.

https://alsa-project.org/ || alsa-utils

AlsaVolume — Tray ALSA volume changer written using gtkmm.

https://github.com/Vitozz/cppAlsaVolume || cpp-alsa-volume^AUR

AMixST — Volume wheel using ALSA and Qt5.

https://github.com/FenixFyreX/amixst^{[dead link 2023-05-06 ⓘ]} || amixst^AUR

Emixer — Utility to control volume levels. Part of Enlightenment.

https://www.enlightenment.org/about-enlightenment || enlightenment

GNOME ALSA Mixer — ALSA mixer for GNOME.

https://launchpad.net/gnome-alsamixer || gnome-alsamixer^AUR

GVolWheel — Audio mixer which lets you control the volume through a tray icon.

https://github.com/Junker/gvolwheel || gvolwheel^AUR

KMix — KDE volume control program.

https://apps.kde.org/kmix/ || kmix

MATE Volume Control — Audio mixer application and system tray applet for MATE to mix audio and adjust volume levels of various audio mixer devices.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-media || mate-media

PNMixer — A fork of Obmixer. It has many new features such as ALSA channel selection, connect/disconnect detection, shortcuts, etc.

https://github.com/nicklan/pnmixer/wiki || pnmixer^AUR

QasTools — Collection of desktop applications for the Linux sound system ALSA. It provides QasMixer (mixer), QasHctl (HCTL mixer) and QasConfig (configuration browser).

https://gitlab.com/sebholt/qastools || qastools

Retrovol — Retro-looking volume setting tray applet.

https://github.com/pizzasgood/retrovol || retrovol^AUR

Volctl — Per-application system tray applet volume control and OSD for PulseAudio.

https://buzz.github.io/volctl/ || volctl^AUR

Volnoti — A lightweight volume notification daemon for GNU/Linux and other POSIX operating systems.

https://github.com/davidbrazdil/volnoti || volnoti^AUR

Volti — A GTK application for controlling audio volume from system tray with an internal mixer and support for multimedia keys that uses only ALSA.

https://github.com/gen2brain/volti || volti^AUR

Volume Icon — Another volume control for your system tray with channel selection, themes and an external mixer.

http://nullwise.com/volumeicon.html || volumeicon

VolWheel — A little application which lets you control the sound volume easily through a tray icon you can scroll on.

https://oliwer.net/b/volwheel.html || volwheel^AUR

Xfce ALSA Panel Plugin — Simple ALSA volume control plugin for Xfce4 panel.

https://github.com/equeim/xfce4-alsa-plugin || xfce4-alsa-plugin^AUR

CD ripping

See Optical disc drive#Audio CD.

Video

Video players

Console

FFplay — Very simple and portable media player using the FFmpeg libraries and the SDL library. It is mostly used as a testbed for the various FFmpeg APIs.

https://ffmpeg.org/ || ffmpeg

gst-play-1.0 — Simple command line playback testing tool for GStreamer.

https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ || gst-plugins-base-libs

MPlayer — Video player that supports a complete and versatile array of video and audio formats.

https://mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html || mplayer

mpv — Movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2.

https://mpv.io/ || mpv

VLC media player — Command-line version of the famous video player that can play smoothly high definition videos in the TTY. The rc interface can be launched with vlc -I rc, and the ncurses interface can be launched with vlc -I ncurses.

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ || vlc

Graphical

GStreamer-based

Cinema — Video player and manager for watching local video files.

https://anufrij.org/cinema/ || playmyvideos^AUR

Clapper — GNOME media player built using GJS with GTK4 toolkit and powered by GStreamer with OpenGL rendering.

https://rafostar.github.io/clapper/ || clapper^AUR

Glide — Simple and minimalistic media player relying on GStreamer for the multimedia support and GTK for the user interface.

https://github.com/philn/glide || glide

GNOME Videos — Media player (audio and video) for the GNOME desktop that uses GStreamer. Part of gnome.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Videos || totem

Identity — Program for comparing multiple versions of an image or video.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/YaLTeR/identity || identity^AUR

Movie Monad — Free and simple to use video player made with Haskell using GStreamer and GTK. Precompiled and no Haskell dependency in run-time.

https://lettier.github.io/movie-monad/ || movie-monad^AUR

Pantheon Videos — Video player and library designed for elementary OS using GStreamer.

https://github.com/elementary/videos || pantheon-videos

Parole — Modern media player based on the GStreamer framework.

https://docs.xfce.org/apps/parole/start || parole

Rage — Video and audio player written with Enlightenment Foundation Libraries with some extra bells and whistles. Uses GStreamer

https://www.enlightenment.org/about-rage || rage

Snappy — Powerful media player with a minimalistic interface that uses GStreamer.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Snappy || snappy-player

Spivak — Karaoke player based on GStreamer and Qt5.

https://github.com/gyunaev/spivak || spivak^AUR

mpv-based

Baka MPlayer — Free and open source, cross-platform, mpv based multimedia player (Qt 5).

https://github.com/u8sand/Baka-MPlayer || baka-mplayer

Bomi — bomi is a graphical user interface(GUI) player based on mpv for Linux.

https://bomi-player.github.io/ || bomi-git^AUR

Celluloid — Simple GTK frontend for mpv, formerly GNOME MPV.

https://celluloid-player.github.io/ || celluloid

Clip — Video player and collection manager utilizing mpv as the backend.

https://mauikit.org/apps/clip/ || maui-clip

Deepin Movie — Movie player for Deepin desktop based on mpv.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-movie/ || deepin-movie

Haruna Video Player — Qt/QML video player built on top of mpv.

https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/haruna || haruna

Kawaii-Player — Audio/video manager and multimedia player (based on mpv) with PC-to-PC casting feature, along with functionalities of portable media server and torrent streaming server.

https://github.com/kanishka-linux/kawaii-player || kawaii-player^AUR

Media Player Classic Qute Theater — Clone of Media Player Classic reimplimented in Qt and based on mpv.

https://github.com/mpc-qt/mpc-qt || mpc-qt^AUR

Minitube — YouTube desktop application written in C++ using mpv and Qt.

https://flavio.tordini.org/minitube || minitube

MoonPlayer — Video player for playing and downloading online videos from YouTube, Youku etc.

https://github.com/coslyk/moonplayer || moonplayer^AUR

mpv — Very basic GUI for mpv. Can be launched with mpv --player-operation-mode=pseudo-gui.

https://mpv.io/ || mpv

mpvz — Qt5/QML based GUI for libmpv. Based on the Tethys theme for Bomi.

https://github.com/Zren/mpvz || mpvz-git^AUR

ImPlay — Cross-Platform Desktop Media Player, built on top of mpv and ImGui.

https://github.com/tsl0922/ImPlay || implay^AUR

SMPlayer — Qt multimedia player with extra features (CSS themes, YouTube integration, etc.) based on mpv. It can use MPlayer as alternative backend.

https://www.smplayer.info/ || smplayer

xt7-player-mpv — Qt/Gambas GUI to mpv with a rich set of configurable options including filters and drivers, ladspa plugins support as well as library/playlist management, YouTube, online radios, podcasts, DVB-T and more.

https://github.com/kokoko3k/xt7-player-mpv || xt7-player-mpv^AUR

MPlayer-based

GNOME MPlayer — Simple GTK-based GUI for MPlayer.

https://sites.google.com/site/kdekorte2/gnomemplayer || gnome-mplayer

Phonon-based

Dragon Player — Simple video player for KDE based on Phonon. Part of the kde-multimedia group.

https://apps.kde.org/dragonplayer/ || dragon

KMPlayer — Simple Phonon-based video player for KDE and video player plugin for Konqueror. It can use MPlayer as alternative backend.

https://apps.kde.org/kmplayer/ || kmplayer^AUR

Other

Electronplayer — An application using the Electron framework. It is used for viewing Netflix, YouTube, Twitch, Floatplane, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video and more. Most notably to isolate the cookies from these websites from your main web browser.

https://github.com/oscartbeaumont/ElectronPlayer/ || electronplayer^AUR

FreeTube — Desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. Use YouTube without advertisements and prevent Google from tracking you with their cookies and JavaScript. Based on the Electron platform.

https://freetubeapp.io/ || freetube^AUR

Kaffeine — Very versatile KDE media player that, by default, utilizes VLC as its backend and has excellent support of digital TV (DVB-T, DVB-C, DVB-S).

https://apps.kde.org/kaffeine/ || kaffeine

Kaku — Highly integrated music player supports different online platform like YouTube, SoundCloud, Vimeo and more. Based on the Electron platform.

https://kaku.rocks/ || kaku-bin^AUR

Kodi — Media player and entertainment hub for digital media.

https://kodi.tv/ || kodi

QMPlay2 — Qt based video player. It can play and stream all formats supported by FFmpeg and libmodplug. It has on integrated module system, which includes a YouTube browser.

https://github.com/zaps166/QMPlay2 || qmplay2^AUR

QtAV Player — Simple media player based on QtAV and FFmpeg. Run with Player or QMLPlayer.

https://www.qtav.org/ || qtav^AUR

Stremio — Extensible media center.

https://www.stremio.com/ || stremio^AUR

tvtime — High quality television application for use with video capture cards.

https://linuxtv.org/ || tvtime

VLC media player — Middleweight video player with support for a wide variety of audio and video formats.

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ || vlc

xine — Free multimedia player.

https://www.xine-project.org/ || xine-ui

Xjadeo — Video player that displays a video-clip in sync with an external time source (MTC, LTC, JACK-transport).

https://xjadeo.sourceforge.net/ || xjadeo

YUView — Qt-based YUV player with an advanced analytic toolset.

https://github.com/IENT/YUView || yuview^AUR

Video converters

Console

Avidemux CLI — Free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.

https://www.avidemux.org/ || avidemux-cli

FFmpeg — Complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.

https://ffmpeg.org/ || ffmpeg

HandBrake CLI — Simple yet powerful video transcoder ideal for batch mkv/x264 ripping.

https://handbrake.fr/ || handbrake-cli

MEncoder — Free command line video decoding, encoding and filtering tool.

https://mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html || mencoder

Transcode — Command line tool for video stream processing.

http://www.transcoding.org/ || transcode^AUR

Graphical

Ciano — Simple multimedia file converter using FFmpeg and ImageMagick.

https://robertsanseries.github.io/ciano/ || ciano

FFmpegYAG — Advanced GUI for the popular FFmpeg audio/video encoding tool.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpegyag/ || ffmpegyag^AUR^{[broken link: package not found]}

FF Multi Converter — Simple graphical application which enables you to convert audio, video, image and document files between all popular formats, by utilizing other command-line tools.

https://sites.google.com/site/ffmulticonverter/ || ffmulticonverter^AUR

HandBrake — Simple yet powerful video transcoder ideal for batch mkv/x264 ripping. GTK version.

https://handbrake.fr/ || handbrake

QWinFF — Qt5 GUI for FFmpeg that can read audio and video files in various formats and convert them into other formats.

https://qwinff.github.io/ || qwinff^AUR

Transmageddon — Simple python application for transcoding video into formats supported by GStreamer.

http://www.linuxrising.org/ || transmageddon

WinFF — Graphical video and audio batch converter using FFmpeg.

https://www.biggmatt.com/winff/ || winff^AUR

Video editors

Avidemux — Free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.

http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ || avidemux-qt

Blender — Fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite with a built-in non-linear video editor.

https://www.blender.org/ || blender

Cinelerra (Community Version) — Advanced video editing and compositing environment.

http://cinelerra-cv.wikidot.com/ || cinelerra-cv-git^AUR

Cinelerra GG Infinity — Professional video editing and compositing environment.

https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/ || cinelerra-gg-git^AUR

DaVinci Resolve — Proprietary A/V post-production software suite.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/ || davinci-resolve^AUR

Flowblade — Multitrack non-linear video editor for Linux, designed to provide a fast, robust editing experience.

https://jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/ || flowblade

Kdenlive — Non-linear video editor designed for basic to semi-professional work.

https://kdenlive.org/ || kdenlive

Lightworks — Professional proprietary non-linear editing system for editing and mastering digital video in various formats.

https://www.lwks.com/ || lightworks^AUR

LiVES — Video editor and VJ (live performance) platform.

http://lives-video.com/ || lives^AUR

LosslessCut — GUI tool for lossless trimming/cutting of video/audio files. Based on the Electron platform.

https://mifi.no/losslesscut/ || losslesscut-bin^AUR

Natron — Open-source compositing software. Node-graph based. Similar in functionalities to Adobe After Effects and Nuke by The Foundry.

https://natrongithub.github.io/ || natron^AUR

Olive — Non-linear video editor aiming to provide a fully-featured alternative to high-end professional video editing software.

https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/ || olive^AUR

OpenShot — Non-linear video editor based on MLT framework.

https://www.openshot.org/ || openshot

Pitivi — Video editor designed to be intuitive and integrate well in the GNOME desktop.

https://www.pitivi.org/ || pitivi

Shotcut — Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor.

https://www.shotcut.org/ || shotcut

V2Mixer — free cross-platform movie editor,mixer

http://v2mixer.livev2.com/ || v2mixer-bin^AUR

VapourSynth Editor — Editor for VapourSynth scripts.

https://bitbucket.org/mystery_keeper/vapoursynth-editor || vapoursynth-editor^AUR

VidCutter — Fast lossless media cutter + joiner w/ frame-accurate SmartCut options powered by mpv, FFmpeg via a sleek Qt5 GUI.

https://vidcutter.ozmartians.com/ || vidcutter

Video Trimmer — Cut out a fragment of a video given the start and end timestamps. The video is never re-encoded, so the process is very fast and does not reduce the video quality.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/YaLTeR/video-trimmer || video-trimmer^AUR

Subtitles

Subtitle players

Penguin Subtitle Player — Standalone subtitle player that provides a translucent window which always stays on the top so subtitles can be shown on top of the video without blocking anything.

https://github.com/carsonip/Penguin-Subtitle-Player || penguin-subtitle-player

SubtitlesPrinter — Print subtitles above a X-screen, independently of the video player.

https://github.com/OlivierMarty/SubtitlesPrinter || subtitles-printer-git^AUR

Subtitle downloaders

QNapi — Qt client for downloading movie subtitles from NapiProjekt, OpenSubtitles, Napisy24.

https://qnapi.github.io/ || qnapi

subdl — Command-line tool for downloading subtitles from opensubtitles.org.

https://github.com/akexakex/subdl || subdl

SubDownloader — Automatic download/upload of subtitles using fast hashing.

https://github.com/subdownloader/subdownloader || subdownloader^AUR

Subtitle editors

Aegisub — Subtitle editor.

https://github.com/Aegisub/Aegisub || aegisub

Gaupol — Full-featured subtitle editor.

https://otsaloma.io/gaupol/ || gaupol

Gnome Subtitles — Video subtitle editor for GNOME.

http://www.gnomesubtitles.org/ || gnome-subtitles

Jubler — Open-source multiplatform subtitle editor written in Java.

https://www.jubler.org/ || jubler^AUR

Subtitle Composer — Subtitle editor for KDE supporting various formats, features different player backends, able to display wave form.

https://subtitlecomposer.kde.org/ || subtitlecomposer^AUR

Subtitle Edit — Subtitle editing program. Written in C# using mono.

https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit || subtitleedit^AUR

Subtitle Editor — GTK 3 tool to edit subtitles for GNU/Linux/*BSD.

https://kitone.github.io/subtitleeditor/ || subtitleeditor

Screencast

See Screen capture#Screencast software.

Miracast

Miracast is a standard for wireless connections from sending devices to display receivers mainly using Wi-Fi Direct. Use iw dev to check your hardware support.

GNOME Network Displays — GTK application to cast your desktop to a remote display. Not specific to the GNOME environment, depends on PipeWire.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-network-displays || gnome-network-displays^AUR

MiracleCast — Command line tools to connect external monitors to your system via Wi-Fi Display specification also known as Miracast.

https://github.com/albfan/miraclecast || miraclecast-git^AUR

Webcam

Cheese — Take photos and videos with your webcam, with fun graphical effects. Part of gnome-extra.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Cheese || cheese

Deepin Camera — Tool to view camera, take photo and video.

https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-camera || deepin-camera

fswebcam — Small and simple command line webcam software that generates images for a webcam.

https://www.sanslogic.co.uk/fswebcam/ || fswebcam^AUR

Guvcview — Simple interface for capturing and viewing video from v4l2 devices.

https://guvcview.sourceforge.net/ || GTK: guvcview, Qt: guvcview-qt

cameractrls — Command line and graphical application for configuring v4l2 devices.

https://github.com/soyersoyer/cameractrls || cameractrls

Kamoso — Webcam recorder from KDE community.

https://apps.kde.org/kamoso/ || kamoso

MJPG-streamer — Command line application which can be used to stream M-JPEG over an IP-based network from a webcam to various types of viewers.

https://github.com/jacksonliam/mjpg-streamer || mjpg-streamer-git^AUR

Motion — Highly configurable program that monitors video signals from many types of cameras. It is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed; in other words, it can detect motion.

https://motion-project.github.io/ || motion

Pantheon Camera — Camera application designed for elementary OS.

https://github.com/elementary/camera || pantheon-camera

QtCAM — Webcam software with more than 10 image control settings, extension settings and color space switching.

https://www.e-consystems.com/opensource-linux-webcam-software-application.asp || qtcam-git^AUR

v4l2loopback — Kernel module that allows to create virtual video (v4l2) devices. This can be used to create virtual webcams with video passed by programs like FFmpeg.

https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback || v4l2loopback-dkms

Snapshot — Take pictures and videos. Part of gnome.

https://apps.gnome.org/Snapshot/ || snapshot

v4l2ucp — Universal control panel for V4L2 devices.

http://v4l2ucp.sourceforge.net/ || v4l2ucp^AUR

v4l-utils — Provides a series of utilities for media devices.

https://linuxtv.org/ || v4l-utils

Webcamoid — Full featured webcam suite.

https://webcamoid.github.io/ || webcamoid^AUR

DVD authoring

Bombono DVD — DVD authoring program with nice and clean GUI.

https://bombono.com/ || bombono-dvd^AUR

Devede — Program to create VideoDVDs and CDs.

https://rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html || devede

DVDStyler — DVD authoring application for the creation of professional-looking DVDs.

https://www.dvdstyler.org/ || dvdstyler

DVD ripping

See Optical disc drive#DVD-Video.

Video thumbnails

vcsi — Create video contact sheets. A video contact sheet is an image composed of video capture thumbnails arranged on a grid.

https://github.com/amietn/vcsi || vcsi^AUR

Video Contact Sheet — Bash script meant to create video contact sheets (previews) of videos. Any video supported by mplayer and ffmpeg can be used.

https://p.outlyer.net/vcs || video-contact-sheet^AUR

Collection managers

Data Crow — Media cataloger and media organizer.

https://datacrow.net/ || datacrow^AUR

GCstar — GNOME application for organizing various collections (board games, comic books, movies, stamps, etc.).

http://www.gcstar.org/ || gcstar^AUR

Griffith — Movie collection manager application.

https://gitlab.com/Strit/griffith || griffith

MediaElch — Media manager for Kodi. Information about movies, TV shows, concerts and music are stored as nfo files.

https://www.kvibes.de/mediaelch/ || mediaelch

Tellico — KDE application for organizing various collections (books, video, music, coins, etc.).

https://tellico-project.org/ || tellico

tinyMediaManager — Media management tool to provide metadata for Kodi.

https://www.tinymediamanager.org/ || tiny-media-manager^AUR

vMovieDB — Movie collection manager for the Gnome desktop.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/vmoviedb/ || vmoviedb^AUR

Media servers

Airsonic — Web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music. (Fork of Subsonic.)

https://airsonic.github.io/ || airsonic^AUR

DMS — A UPnP DLNA Digital Media Server that includes basic video transcoding (thus with minimum dependencies).

https://github.com/anacrolix/dms || dms^AUR

Emby — Proprietary media server, which automatically converts and streams your media on-the-fly to play on any device.

https://emby.media/ || emby-server

Gerbera — UPnP Media Server to stream your media to devices on your home network. (Fork of MediaTomb.)

https://gerbera.io/ || gerbera

Icecast — Streaming media (audio/video) server which currently supports Ogg (Vorbis and Theora), Opus, WebM and MP3 streams.

https://icecast.org/ || icecast

Jellyfin — Media system that puts you in control of managing and streaming your media.

https://jellyfin.org/ || Server: jellyfin^AUR^{[broken link: package not found]}, desktop client: jellyfin-media-player^AUR, cast client: jellyfin-mpv-shim^AUR

OwnTone — DAAP (iTunes) and MPD media server with support for AirPlay devices, Apple Remote, Chromecast, Spotify and internet radio.

https://owntone.github.io/owntone-server/ || owntone-server^AUR

Plex — Proprietary media server, which organizes your personal video, music, and photo collections and streams them to all of your devices.

https://www.plex.tv/ || plex-media-server^AUR

ReadyMedia — Simple media server software, with the aim of being fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna/ || minidlna

Rygel — UPnP AV MediaServer and MediaRenderer that allows you to easily share audio, video and pictures, and control of media player on your home network. Part of gnome.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Rygel || rygel

Serviio — Proprietary media server, which allows you to stream your media files (music, video or images) to renderer devices (e.g. a TV set, Bluray player, games console or mobile phone) on your connected home network.

https://serviio.org/ || serviio^AUR

Subsonic — Proprietary media server to stream from your own computer.

http://www.subsonic.org/ || subsonic^AUR

Tvheadend — TV streaming server and recorder supporting DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-C, DVB-T, ATSC, ISDB-T, IPTV, SAT>IP and HDHomeRun as input sources.

https://tvheadend.org/ || tvheadend^AUR

Universal Media Server — UPnP media server, which is capable of sharing video, audio and images between most modern devices. (Fork of PS3 Media Server.)

https://www.universalmediaserver.com/ || ums^AUR

Metadata

CoreInfo — Simple media metadata viewer built on mediainfo library. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/^{[dead link 2023-06-17 ⓘ]} || coreinfo^AUR

DV Analyzer — Technical quality control and reporting tool that examines DV streams in order to report errors.

https://mediaarea.net/DVAnalyzer || CLI: dvanalyzer^AUR, GUI: dvanalyzer-gui^AUR

ExifTool — Command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files.

https://sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ || perl-image-exiftool

ExifCleaner — Desktop app to clean metadata from images, videos, PDFs, and other files.

https://exifcleaner.com || exifcleaner-bin^AUR

Exiv2 — Command line utility to manage image metadata. It provides fast and easy read and write access to the Exif, IPTC and XMP metadata and the ICC Profile embedded within digital images in various formats.

https://exiv2.org/ || exiv2

ffprobe — Gather information from multimedia streams and print it in human- and machine-readable fashion.

https://ffmpeg.org/ffprobe.html || ffmpeg

jExifToolGUI — Java/Swing graphical frontend for ExifTool, which reads and writes all kind of metadata tags from/to image files.

https://hvdwolf.github.io/jExifToolGUI/ || jexiftoolgui^AUR

jhead — Exif jpeg header manipulation tool.

https://sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/ || jhead

mat2 — Metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of commonly used file formats.

https://0xacab.org/jvoisin/mat2 || mat2

MediaConch — Implementation checker, policy checker, reporter, and fixer.

https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch || CLI: mediaconch^AUR, GUI: mediaconch-gui^AUR

MediaInfo — Convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.

https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo || CLI: mediainfo, GUI: mediainfo-gui

sndfile-info — Obtaining information about the contents of an audio file.

http://mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/ || libsndfile

Mobile device managers

Android 2 Linux Notifications — Display your Android phone notifications on your desktop using a LAN connection.

https://www.patri9ck.dev/a2ln/ || a2ln^AUR

Android File Transfer — Interactive Media Transfer Protocol client with Qt5 GUI.

https://whoozle.github.io/android-file-transfer-linux/ || android-file-transfer

gMTP — Simple MP3 and media player client for Media Transfer Protocol.

https://gmtp.sourceforge.io/ || gmtp

gnokii — Tools and user space driver for use with mobile phones.

https://www.gnokii.org/ || gnokii^AUR

GNOME Phone Manager — Control your mobile phone from your GNOME desktop.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/PhoneManager || gnome-phone-manager^AUR

gtkpod — GUI for Apple's iPod using GTK. It allows you to import your existing iTunes database, add songs, podcasts, videos and cover art, and to edit ID3 tags.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gtkpod/ || gtkpod^AUR

KDE Connect — Provides integration between devices.

https://kdeconnect.kde.org/ || kdeconnect

Modem Manager GUI — Control EDGE/3G/4G broadband modem specific functions.

https://linuxonly.ru/page/modem-manager-gui || modem-manager-gui

Ttwatch — Linux TomTom GPS Watch Utilities.

https://github.com/ryanbinns/ttwatch || ttwatch-git^AUR

Wammu — Manage data in your cell phone such as contacts, calendar or messages.

https://wammu.eu/ || wammu^AUR

Optical disc burning

See Optical disc drive#Burning CD/DVD/BD with a GUI.

Personal video recorders

MythTV — A homebrew PVR project.

https://www.mythtv.org/ || mythtv-git^AUR

XMLTV — Set of utilities to download tv listings and format them in xml.

http://xmltv.org/wiki/ || xmltv^AUR

Utilities

Terminal

Command shells

See the main article: Command-line shell.

Terminal emulators

Terminal emulators show a GUI Window that contains a terminal. Most emulate Xterm, which in turn emulates VT102, which emulates typewriter. For further background information, see Wikipedia:Terminal emulator.

For a comprehensive list, see Wikipedia:List of terminal emulators.

Alacritty — A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty || alacritty

aterm — Xterm replacement with transparency support. It has been deprecated in favour of urxvt since 2008.

http://www.afterstep.org/aterm.php || aterm^AUR

Contour — A modern and fast terminal emulator with truly full Unicode support including ZJW (unlike 99% of TE).

https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour || contour^AUR

cool-retro-term — A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display.

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term || cool-retro-term

CoreTerminal — Terminal emulator based on qtermwidget. Part of C-Suite.

https://gitlab.com/cubocore/coreapps/coreterminal || coreterminal^AUR

CuteCom — A graphical serial terminal.

https://gitlab.com/cutecom/cutecom || cutecom^AUR

Darktile — GPU rendered terminal emulator designed for tiling window managers.

https://github.com/liamg/darktile || darktile^AUR

Deepin Terminal — Terminal emulation application for Deepin desktop.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-terminal/ || deepin-terminal

Eterm — Terminal emulator intended as a replacement for xterm and designed for the Enlightenment desktop.

https://github.com/mej/Eterm || eterm^AUR

Extraterm — A terminal emulator with support for images in terminal, Unicode, font ligature, text zoom, etc.

https://github.com/sedwards2009/extraterm || extraterm-bin^AUR

foot — Lightweight terminal emulator for Wayland with sixel support

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot || foot

Hyper — A terminal with JS/CSS support. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/vercel/hyper || hyper^AUR

Konsole — Terminal emulator included in the KDE desktop.

https://konsole.kde.org/ || konsole

kitty — A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty || kitty

Liri Terminal — Material Design terminal for Liri.

https://github.com/lirios/terminal || liri-terminal

mlterm — A multi-lingual terminal emulator supporting various character sets and encodings, variable-width fonts and bidi rendering.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mlterm/ || mlterm-git^AUR

moserial — GTK-based serial terminal for the GNOME desktop.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Moserial || moserial

PuTTY — Highly configurable ssh/telnet/serial console program.

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ || putty

QTerminal — Lightweight Qt-based terminal emulator.

https://github.com/qterminal/qterminal || qterminal

shellinabox — A web-based SSH Terminal

https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox || shellinabox-git^AUR

st — Simple terminal implementation for X.

https://st.suckless.org || st^AUR

Station — Terminal emulation features different view modes such as split vertically and horizontally, a tabbed interface, and copy and paste commands.

https://mauikit.org/ || maui-station

Tabby — A terminal for a more modern age with Unicode support.

https://tabby.sh/ || tabby^AUR

Terminology — Terminal emulator by the Enlightenment project team with innovative features: file thumbnails and media play like a media player.

https://www.enlightenment.org/about-terminology || terminology

urxvt — Highly extendable (with Perl) unicode enabled rxvt-clone terminal emulator featuring tabbing, url launching, a Quake style drop-down mode and pseudo-transparency.

http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html || rxvt-unicode

wayst — Simple terminal emulator for Wayland and X11 with OpenGL rendering and minimal dependencies.

https://github.com/91861/wayst || wayst-git^AUR

xterm — Simple terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that cannot use the window system directly.

https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ || xterm

Yakuake — Drop-down terminal (Quake style) emulator based on Konsole.

https://apps.kde.org/yakuake/ || yakuake

zutty — A high-end terminal for low-end systems.

https://tomscii.sig7.se/zutty/ || zutty

Tip: wezterm, listed in terminal multiplexer is also a terminal emulator.

VTE-based

VTE (Virtual Terminal Emulator) is a widget developed during early GNOME days for use in the GNOME Terminal. It has since given birth to many terminals with similar capabilities.

Deepin Terminal (GTK version) — Old terminal emulation application for Deepin desktop.

https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-terminal-gtk || deepin-terminal-gtk

EasySSH — SSH Connection Manager.

https://github.com/muriloventuroso/easyssh || easyssh^AUR

Germinal — Minimalist terminal emulator which provides a borderless maximized terminal, attached to a tmux session by default, hence providing tabs and panels.

https://www.imagination-land.org/tags/germinal.html || germinal^AUR

GNOME Console — Formerly known as King’s Cross, a simple user-friendly terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop. Part of gnome.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/console || gnome-console

GNOME Terminal — A terminal emulator included in the GNOME desktop with support for Unicode. Part of gnome-extra.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Terminal || gnome-terminal

Black Box Terminal — An elegant and customizable terminal for GNOME.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/raggesilver/blackbox || blackbox-terminal^AUR

Guake — Drop-down terminal for the GNOME desktop.

http://guake-project.org/^{[dead link 2023-10-29 ⓘ]} || guake

kermit — A VTE-based terminal emulator that aims to be simple, fast and effective.

https://github.com/orhun/kermit || kermit^AUR

LXTerminal — Desktop independent terminal emulator for LXDE.

https://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXTerminal^{[dead link 2022-09-20 ⓘ]} || lxterminal

MATE terminal — A fork of Wikipedia:GNOME terminal for the MATE desktop.

https://www.mate-desktop.org/ || mate-terminal

Pantheon Terminal — A super lightweight, beautiful, and simple terminal emulator. It is designed to be setup with sane defaults and little to no configuration.

https://github.com/elementary/terminal || pantheon-terminal

ROXTerm — Tabbed terminal emulator with a small footprint.

https://roxterm.sourceforge.net/ || roxterm^AUR

sakura — Terminal emulator based on GTK and VTE.

https://www.pleyades.net/david/projects/sakura || sakura^AUR

Terminator — Terminal emulator supporting multiple resizable terminal panels.

https://gnome-terminator.org/ || terminator

Termite — Keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support. Unmaintained - the developers recommend switching to Alacritty.

https://github.com/thestinger/termite || termite^AUR

Termit — Simple VTE-based terminal emulator with Lua scripting support

https://github.com/nonstop/termit || termit-git^AUR

Tilda — Configurable drop down terminal emulator.

https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda/ || tilda

Tilix — Tiling terminal emulator for GNOME.

https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/ || tilix

tym — Lua-configurable terminal emulator

https://github.com/endaaman/tym/ || tym^AUR

Xfce Terminal — Terminal emulator included in the Xfce desktop with support for a colorized prompt and a tabbed interface.

https://docs.xfce.org/apps/terminal/start || xfce4-terminal

KMS-based

The following terminal emulators are based on the kernel mode setting that could be invoked without X.

KMSCON — A KMS/DRM-based system console(getty) with an integrated terminal emulator for Linux operating systems.

https://github.com/dvdhrm/kmscon || kmscon^AUR

framebuffer-based

In the GNU/Linux world, the framebuffer can refer to a virtual device in the Linux kernel (fbdev) or the virtual framebuffer system for X (xvfb). This section mainly lists the terminal emulators based on the in-kernel virtual device, i.e. fbdev.

yaft — A simple terminal emulator for living without X, with UCS2 glyphs, wallpaper and 256color support.

https://github.com/uobikiemukot/yaft || yaft^AUR

Fbterm — a fast FrameBuffer based TERMinal emulator for linux

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/fbterm || fbterm^AUR

Terminal pagers

Terminal multiplexers

abduco — Tool for session attach and detach support which allows a process to run independently from its controlling terminal.

https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/abduco/ || abduco

byobu — An GPLv3 licensed addon for tmux or screen. It requires a terminal multiplexer installed.

https://byobu.org/ || byobu

dtach — Program that emulates the detach feature of GNU Screen.

http://dtach.sourceforge.net/ || dtach^AUR

dvtm — dwm-style window manager in the console.

https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/ || dvtm

GNU Screen — Full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal.

https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ || screen

mtm — Simple terminal multiplexer with just four commands: change focus, split, close, and screen redraw.

https://github.com/deadpixi/mtm || mtm-git^AUR

tmate — A fork of tmux aiming to help with remote access and pair programming.

https://tmate.io/ || tmate

tmux — BSD licensed terminal multiplexer.

https://tmux.github.io/ || tmux

zellij — Terminal multiplexer on steroids written in Rust

https://zellij.dev/ || zellij

wezterm — GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer implemented in Rust.

https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/ || wezterm

Tip: Kitty, a terminal emulator, offers similar functions.

Files

File managers

Console

Clex — File manager with full-screen user interface

http://www.clex.sk/ || clex^AUR

CliFM — The command line file manager: full-featured, fast, extensible, and lightweight as hell.

https://github.com/leo-arch/clifm || clifm^AUR

ded — directory editor, file manager similar to Emacs dired

https://invisible-island.net/ded/ded.html || ded^AUR

Dired — Directory editor integrated with Emacs.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Dired.html || emacs

fff — A simple file manager written in Bash.

https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff || fff

fm — A terminal based file manager.

https://github.com/knipferrc/fm || fm-git^AUR

joshuto — ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust.

https://github.com/kamiyaa/joshuto || joshuto-git^AUR

Last File Manager — Powerful file manager written in Python 3 with a curses interface.

https://inigo.katxi.org/devel/lfm/ || lfm^AUR

lf — Terminal file manager written in Go using server/client architecture.

https://github.com/gokcehan/lf || lf

Midnight Commander — Console-based, dual-paneled file manager.

https://midnight-commander.org || mc

nffm — "Nothing Fancy File Manager", a mouseless ncurses file manager written in C.

https://github.com/mariostg/nffm || nffm-git^AUR

nnn — Tiny, lightning fast, feature-packed file manager.

https://github.com/jarun/nnn || nnn

Pilot — File manager that comes with the Alpine email client.

https://alpine.x10host.com/^{[dead link 2022-09-20 ⓘ]} || alpine-git^AUR

Ranger — Console-based file manager with vi bindings, customizability, and lots of features.

https://ranger.github.io/ || ranger

sfm — simple file manager for unix-like systems.

https://github.com/afify/sfm || sfm^AUR

TUIFI Manager — A cross-platform terminal-based termux-oriented file manager (and component), meant to be used with a Uni-Curses project or as is.

https://github.com/GiorgosXou/TUIFIManager || tuifimanager^AUR

Vifm — Ncurses-based two-panel file manager with vi-like keybindings.

https://vifm.info || vifm

xplr — A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer.

https://xplr.dev || xplr

Graphical

Caja — The file manager for the MATE desktop.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/caja || caja

CoreFM — Simple lightweight easy to use file manager with many features like image previews, mime-icon support, split view, auto-mounting of removable media, drag-n-drop support etc. Part of C-Suite.

https://gitlab.com/cubocore/coreapps/corefm || corefm^AUR

Deepin File Manager — File manager developed for Deepin.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/dde-file-manager/ || deepin-file-manager

Dolphin — File manager included in the KDE desktop.

https://apps.kde.org/dolphin/ || dolphin

fm — Small, general purpose file manager built with GTK4.

https://github.com/euclio/fm ||

Gentoo — A lightweight file manager for GTK.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gentoo/ || gentoo^AUR

GNOME Files — Extensible, heavyweight file manager used by default in GNOME with support for custom scripts. Part of gnome.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Files || nautilus

Index — File manager that lets you browse your system files and applications and preview your music, text, image and video files and share them with external applications.

https://apps.kde.org/index-fm/ || index-fm

Konqueror — File manager and web browser for the KDE desktop.

https://apps.kde.org/konqueror/ || konqueror

Liri Files — The file manager for Liri.

https://github.com/lirios/files || liri-files

Nemo — Nemo is the file manager of the Cinnamon desktop. A fork of Nautilus.

https://projects.linuxmint.com/cinnamon/ || nemo

Pantheon Files — File browser designed for elementary OS.

https://github.com/elementary/files || pantheon-files

PathFinder — File browser that comes with the FOX toolkit.

http://fox-toolkit.org/ || fox

PCManFM — Very fast and lightweight file manager which can also optionally manage the desktop icons and background.

https://wiki.lxde.org/en/PCManFM^{[dead link 2022-09-20 ⓘ]} || pcmanfm, pcmanfm-gtk3

PCManFM-Qt — Qt port of PCManFM file manager.

https://github.com/lxqt/pcmanfm-qt || pcmanfm-qt

Peony — File manager for the UKUI desktop.

https://github.com/ukui/peony || peony

qtFM — Small, lightweight filemanager for Linux desktops based on pure Qt.

https://qtfm.eu/ || qtfm^AUR

ROX Filer — Small and fast file manager which can optionally manage the desktop background and panels.

https://rox.sourceforge.net/ || rox^AUR

Thunar — File manager that can be run as a daemon with excellent start up and directory load times.

https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/start || thunar

Twin-panel

Note that some of these twin-panel file managers can also be set to have only one pane.

Double Commander — File manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander and features some new ideas.

https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/ || GTK: doublecmd-gtk2, Qt5: doublecmd-qt5

GNOME Commander — A dual-paned file manager for the GNOME Desktop.

https://gcmd.github.io/ || gnome-commander^AUR

Krusader — Advanced twin panel (Midnight Commander style) file manager for the KDE desktop.

https://krusader.org/ || krusader

muCommander — A lightweight, cross-platform file manager with a dual-pane interface written in Java.

https://www.mucommander.com/ || mucommander^AUR

SpaceFM — GTK multi-panel tabbed file manager.

https://ignorantguru.github.io/spacefm/ || spacefm^AUR

Sunflower — Small and highly customizable twin-panel file manager for Linux with support for plugins.

https://sunflower-fm.org/ || sunflower^AUR

trolCommander — Lightweight, dual-pane file manager written in Java. Fork of muCommander.

https://github.com/trol73/mucommander || trolcommander^AUR

Tux Commander — Windowed file manager with two panels side by side similar to popular Total Commander or Midnight Commander file managers.

http://tuxcmd.sourceforge.net/description.php || tuxcmd^AUR

Worker — Fast, lightweight and feature-rich file manager for the X Window System.

http://www.boomerangsworld.de/cms/worker/ || worker^AUR

Xfe — Microsoft Explorer-like file manager for X (X File Explorer).

http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/ || xfe^AUR

Trash management

See Trash management#Trash creation.

File synchronization and backup

This article or section is a candidate for merging with Synchronization and backup programs#Data synchronization.

Notes: There is a dedicated article. (Discuss in Talk:List of applications)

borg — Deduplicating backup program with compression and authenticated encryption that supports backing up over ssh

https://www.borgbackup.org || borg

Déjà Dup — Simple GTK backup program. It hides the complexity of doing backups the 'right way' (encrypted, off-site, and regular) and uses duplicity as the backend.

https://launchpad.net/deja-dup || deja-dup

DirSync Pro — Small, but powerful utility for file and folder synchronization.

https://dirsyncpro.org/ || dirsyncpro^AUR

Duplicati — Backup client that securely stores encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on cloud storage services and remote file servers.

https://www.duplicati.com/ || duplicati-canary-bin^AUR

duplicity — Simple command-line utility which allows encrypted compressed incremental backup to nearly any storage.

https://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/ || duplicity

Duply — Command-line front-end for duplicity which simplifies running it. It manages backup job settings in profiles and allows to batch execute commands.

https://www.duply.net/ || duply^AUR

FreeFileSync — Folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files.

https://www.freefilesync.org/ || freefilesync^AUR

git-annex — Manage files with git, without checking the file contents into git.

https://git-annex.branchable.com/ || git-annex

grsync — GTK+ GUI for rsync to synchronize folders, files and make backups

https://www.opbyte.it/grsync/ || grsync

hsync — Command line program to sync only those files that have been renamed/moved but otherwise unchanged. It works by issuing simple move operations at the destination without actually transferring the files, and is meant to be used in conjunction with other synchronization programs that lack this capability.

https://ambrevar.bitbucket.io/hsync/ || hsync^AUR

rclone — Command line program to sync files and directories to and from Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Yandex Disk and many other cloud storage services as well as between local paths.

https://rclone.org/ || rclone

restic — Fast, secure, efficient backup program that supports backing up to many cloud services.

https://restic.net/ || restic

rsync — File transfer program that uses the "rsync algorithm" which provides a very fast method for bringing remote files into sync. It does this by sending just the differences in the files across the link, without requiring that both sets of files are present at one of the ends of the link beforehand. Has multiple frontends available.

https://rsync.samba.org/ || rsync

SparkleShare — File sharing and collaboration application written in C#. It can sync with any Git server over SSH.

https://www.sparkleshare.org/ || sparkleshare

Syncthing — Continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in a simple way without advanced configuration.

https://syncthing.net/ || syncthing

Syncany — Cloud storage and filesharing application with a focus on security and abstraction of storage.

https://www.syncany.org/ || syncany^AUR

Synkron — Application that helps you keep your files and folders always updated. You can easily sync your documents, music or pictures to have their latest versions everywhere.

https://synkron.sourceforge.net/ || synkron^AUR

Tarsnap — Secure, efficient proprietary online backup service.

https://www.tarsnap.com/ || tarsnap

Timeshift — A system restore tool for Linux.

https://github.com/linuxmint/timeshift || timeshift

Unison — File synchronization tool that allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.

https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ || unison

YARsync — A Python wrapper around rsync, providing file synchronization and backup with an interface similar to git.

https://github.com/ynikitenko/yarsync || yarsync^AUR

Archiving and compression tools

For archiving and compression command-line tools, see Archiving and compression.

Archive managers

360zip — A proprietary archiving tool.

https://yasuo.360.cn/ || 360zip^AUR

Ark — Archiving tool included in the KDE desktop.

https://apps.kde.org/ark/ || ark

Arqiver — Simple Qt archive manager based on libarchive.

https://github.com/tsujan/Arqiver || arqiver-git^AUR

CoreArchiver — Simple file compressing/extracting utility based on Qt and libarchive-qt. Part of C-Suite.

https://gitlab.com/cubocore/coreapps/corearchiver || corearchiver^AUR

Deepin Archive Manager — Fast and lightweight application for creating and extracting archives.

https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-compressor || deepin-compressor

Engrampa — Archive manager for MATE

https://github.com/mate-desktop/engrampa || engrampa

GNOME Archive Manager — Archive manager included in the GNOME desktop (previously File Roller). Part of gnome-extra.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller || file-roller

LXQt File Archiver — Simple and lightweight desktop-agnostic Qt file archiver.

https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-archiver || lxqt-archiver

p7zip-gui — The GUI belonging to the p7zip software.

https://github.com/p7zip-project/p7zip || p7zip-gui^AUR

PeaZip — Open source file and archive manager.

https://peazip.github.io/peazip-linux.html || GTK: peazip-gtk2-bin^AUR, Qt: peazip-qt-bin^AUR

Xarchiver — Lightweight desktop independent archive manager built with GTK.

https://github.com/ib/xarchiver || GTK 3: xarchiver, GTK 2: xarchiver-gtk2

Comparison, diff, merge

For managing pacnew/pacsave files, specialised tools exist. See Pacnew and Pacsave files#Managing .pac* files.

Console

See diff(1) from diffutils and its alternatives.

colordiff — A Perl script wrapper for 'diff' that produces the same output but with pretty 'syntax' highlighting.

https://www.colordiff.org/ || colordiff

diff-highlight — Perl script to highlight changed parts within pairable lines of diff -u output

https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/diff-highlight || git

diffr — A Rust utility to pretty-print diff with highlighting at word-level for ease of review.

https://github.com/mookid/diffr || diffr^AUR

ydiff — A Python wrapper to get highlighted diff output from stdin or VCS-tracked file/dirs, in either unfied or side-by-side view.

https://github.com/ymattw/ydiff || ydiff^AUR

delta — A diff viewer written in Rust with syntax highlighting.

https://github.com/dandavison/delta || git-delta

diff-so-fancy — A diff output decorator. It does not calculate the diff, it only decorates it.

https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy || diff-so-fancy

difftastic — Compares files using their syntax trees

https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk || difftastic

Graphical

DiffPDF — Compare the text or the visual appearance of each page in two PDF files.

https://gitlab.com/eang/diffpdf || diffpdf

Diffuse — Small and simple text merge tool written in Python.

https://diffuse.sourceforge.net/ || diffuse

KDiff3 — File and directory diff and merge tool for the KDE desktop.

https://apps.kde.org/kdiff3/ || kdiff3

Kompare — GUI front-end program for viewing and merging differences between source files. It supports a variety of diff formats and provides many options to customize the information level displayed.

https://apps.kde.org/kompare/ || kompare

Meld — Visual diff and merge tool that can compare files, directories, and version controlled projects.

https://meldmerge.org/ || meld

xxdiff — A graphical browser for file and directory differences.

https://furius.ca/xxdiff/ || xxdiff^AUR

Vim and Emacs provide merge functionality with vimdiff and ediff.

Batch renamers

Console

See rename(1) from util-linux.

brn2 — fast bulk renamer with swapping.

https://github.com/lucas-mior/brn2 || brn2-git^AUR

edir — Rename, delete, and copy files and directories using your editor (enhanced vidir).

https://github.com/bulletmark/edir || edir^AUR

f2 — Cross-platform command-line tool for batch renaming files and directories quickly and safely, can also rename files based on audio tags.

https://github.com/ayoisaiah/f2 || f2^AUR

nomino — A batch rename utility for developers.

https://github.com/yaa110/nomino || nomino^AUR

rename.pl — Batch renamer based on perl regex.

https://search.cpan.org/~pederst/rename/ || perl-rename

vidir — Rename and delete files and directories using your editor.

https://linux.die.net/man/1/vidir || vidir^AUR

Graphical

Caja-Rename — Batch renaming extension for Caja.

https://tari.in/www/software/caja-rename || caja-rename^AUR

CoreRenamer — Simple lightweight batch file renamer application. Part of C-Suite.

https://gitlab.com/cubocore/coreapps/corerenamer || corerenamer^AUR

GPRename — GTK batch renamer for files and directories.

http://gprename.sourceforge.net || gprename

KRename — Very powerful batch file renamer for the KDE desktop.

https://apps.kde.org/krename/ || krename

metamorphose2 — wxPython based batch renamer with support for regular expressions, renaming multimedia files according to their metadata, etc.

http://file-folder-ren.sourceforge.net || metamorphose2^AUR^{[broken link: package not found]}

Thunar Bulk Rename — Change the name of multiple files at once using some criterion that applies to at least one of the files. Run with thunar -B.

https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/bulk-renamer/start || thunar

File searching

This section lists utilities for file searching based on filename, file path or metadata. For full-text searching, see the next section.

Console

See find(1) from findutils and its alternatives.

Graphical

Catfish — Versatile file searching tool by Xfce, can be powered by find, locate and Zeitgeist.

https://launchpad.net/catfish-search || catfish

CoreHunt — Easy to use fast file searching tool with categorized search and search history. Part of C-Suite.

https://gitlab.com/cubocore/coreapps/corehunt || corehunt^AUR

Czkawka — GTK file searching utility with advanced features, it can also find similar images and videos.

https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka || czkawka-gui^AUR

GNOME Search Tool — GNOME utility to search for files, depends on GNOME/Files.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-search-tool || gnome-search-tool^AUR

KFind — Search tool for KDE to find files by name, type or content. Has internal search and supports locate.

https://apps.kde.org/kfind/ || kfind

MATE Search Tool — MATE utility to search for files.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-utils || mate-utils

regexxer — Interactive search and replace tool featuring Perl-style regular expressions.

http://regexxer.sourceforge.net/ || regexxer

Searchmonkey — Powerful GUI search utility for matching regex patterns.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/searchmonkey/ || searchmonkey-gtk^AUR

File indexers

These programs index your files to allow for quick searching.

Basenji — Volume indexing tool designed for easy and fast indexing of CD/DVD and other type of volume collections.

https://github.com/pulb/basenji || basenji^AUR

fsearch — A fast file search utility for Unix-like systems based on GTK 3.

https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch || fsearch-git^AUR

angrysearch — Linux file search tool with instant results as you type.

https://github.com/DoTheEvo/ANGRYsearch || angrysearch^AUR

Full-text searching

See grep(1) from grep and its alternatives, which provide non-indexed full-text search.

Full-text indexers

Baloo — KDE's file indexing and search solution, has a CLI and is used by KRunner.

https://community.kde.org/Baloo || baloo

DocFetcher — Graphical Java desktop search application.

https://docfetcher.sourceforge.net || docfetcher^AUR

MeiliSearch — Lightning Fast, Ultra Relevant, and Typo-Tolerant Search Engine.

https://www.meilisearch.com/ || meilisearch

Namazu — A Full-Text Search Engine

http://www.namazu.org/ || namazu

Recoll — Full text search tool based on Xapian, has CLI and GUI.

https://lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/ || recoll

Tracker — All-in-one indexer, search tool and metadata database, used by GNOME Documents, Music, Photos and Videos.

https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/tracker/ || tracker3

Zeitgeist — Event aggregation framework for the user's activities and notifications (files opened, websites visited, conversations had, etc.), has several third-party front-ends.

https://launchpad.net/zeitgeist-project || zeitgeist

Development

Code forges

GitLab — Project management and code hosting application.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss || gitlab

Gitea — Painless self-hosted Git service. Fork of Gogs.

https://gitea.io || gitea

Forgejo — A lightweight software forge. Community project built on top of Gitea.

https://forgejo.org || forgejo

Code forge clients

git-open — Open a repository website (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket) in your browser

https://github.com/paulirish/git-open || git-open^AUR

github-cli — GitHub's official command line tool

https://github.com/cli/cli || github-cli

hub — Command line interface for GitHub

https://hub.github.com || hub

hut — Command line interface for Sourcehut

https://sr.ht/~emersion/hut/ || hut

lab — A hub-like tool for GitLab

https://zaquestion.github.io/lab/ || lab^AUR

snippet — A terminal based interface to create a new GitLab snippet

https://gitlab.com/zj/snippet || snippet^AUR

Version control systems

Bazaar — Distributed version control system that helps you track project history over time and to collaborate easily with others.

https://bazaar.canonical.com/ || bzr^AUR

CVS — Concurrent Versions System, a client-server revision control system.

http://cvs.nongnu.org/ || cvs

Darcs — Distributed revision control system that was designed to replace traditional, centralized source control systems such as CVS and Subversion.

http://darcs.net/ || darcs

Fossil — Distributed VCS with bug tracking, wiki, forum, and technotes.

https://www.fossil-scm.org/ || fossil

Git — Distributed revision control and source code management system with an emphasis on speed.

https://git-scm.com/ || git

Mercurial — Distributed version control system written in Python and similar in many ways to Git.

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/ || mercurial

Subversion — Full-featured centralized version control system originally designed to be a better CVS.

https://subversion.apache.org/ || subversion

Build automation

Apache Ant — Java library and command-line tool whose mission is to drive processes described in build files as targets and extension points dependent upon each other.

https://ant.apache.org/ || ant

Apache Maven — Build automation tool used primarily for Java.

https://maven.apache.org/ || maven

Bazel — An open-source tool that allows for the automated building and testing of software.

https://bazel.build/ || bazel

CMake — Family of tools designed to build, test and package software.

https://cmake.org/ || cmake

GNU make — GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs.

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/ || make (dependency of base-devel)

Meson — Extremely fast and user friendly build system.

https://mesonbuild.com/ || meson

Gradle — Powerful build system for the JVM.

https://gradle.org/ || gradle

Phing — PHP program designed to automate tasks of all kinds.

https://www.phing.info/ || phing^AUR

Integrated development environments

For PHP specific list, see PHP#Development tools.

Android Studio — The official Android development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA.

https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html || android-studio^AUR

Anjuta — Versatile IDE with project management, an application wizard, an interactive debugger, a source editor, version control support and many more tools.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Anjuta || anjuta^AUR

Aptana Studio — IDE based on Eclipse, but geared towards web development, with support for HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Adobe AIR and others.

http://www.aptana.com/ || aptana-studio^AUR

Bluefish — Powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdevelopers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. It supports many programming and markup languages.

https://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ || bluefish

Code::Blocks — C, C++ and Fortran IDE built to meet the most demanding needs of its users. It is designed to be very extensible and fully configurable.

https://codeblocks.org/ || codeblocks

CLion — A cross-platform IDE for C and C++.

https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/ || clion^AUR

CodeLite — Open source and cross-platform C/C++/PHP and Node.js IDE written in C++ .

https://codelite.org/ || codelite^AUR

Eclipse — IDE for Java, C/C++, PHP, Perl and Python with subversion support and task management.

https://www.eclipse.org/ || Java EE: eclipse-jee^AUR, Java: eclipse-java^AUR, RCP: eclipse-rcp^AUR, C/C++: eclipse-cpp^AUR, PHP: eclipse-php^AUR, JavaScript and Web: eclipse-dltk-javascript^AUR

Eric — Full-featured Python and Ruby IDE written in PyQt5.

https://eric-ide.python-projects.org/ || eric^AUR

Gambas — IDE based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions.

https://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html || gambas3-ide

Geany — Small and lightweight IDE with many supported many programming and markup languages including C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal.

https://geany.org/ || geany

GNOME Builder — Tool to write and contribute to great GNOME-based applications. Part of gnome-extra.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Builder || gnome-builder

KDevelop — Feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and other programming languages.

https://www.kdevelop.org/ || kdevelop

Komodo Edit — A free, multi-language editor.

https://www.activestate.com/products/komodo-edit/ || komodo-edit^AUR

Lapce — Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust.

https://lapce.dev/ || lapce

Lazarus — Delphi (Object Pascal) compatible IDE for Rapid Application Development. It has variety of components ready for use and a graphical form designer to easily create complex graphical user interfaces.

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ || lazarus

LiteIDE — Simple Go IDE.

https://github.com/visualfc/liteide || liteide

Lite XL — A lightweight, simple, fast, feature-filled, and extremely extensible text editor written in C, and Lua, adapted from lite.

https://lite-xl.com/ || lite-xl^AUR

MPLAB — IDE for Microchip PIC and dsPIC development.

https://www.microchip.com/mplabx || microchip-mplabx-bin^AUR

Netbeans — IDE for developing with Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Groovy, C, C++, Scala, Clojure, and other languages.

https://netbeans.org/ || netbeans

PhpStorm — JetBrains PhpStorm is a commercial, cross-platform IDE for PHP built on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA platform, providing an editor for PHP, HTML and JavaScript with on-the-fly code analysis, error prevention and automated refactorings for PHP and JavaScript code.

https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/ || phpstorm^AUR, phpstorm-eap^AUR

Qt Creator — Lightweight, cross-platform C++ integrated development environment with a focus on Qt.

https://www.qt.io/ide/ || qtcreator

Theia — Eclipse Theia is a free and open-source IDE for desktop and web applications. It is implemented in TypeScript, is based on Visual Studio Code, and emphasizes extensibility. It can be run as a web or a desktop application.

https://theia-ide.org/ || theia-electron^AUR

Visual Studio Code — Visual Studio Code is a cross-platform, free and open-source text editor developed by Microsoft, written in JavaScript and TypeScript. It supports a variety of languages thanks to its extensions.

https://code.visualstudio.com/ || code

VSCodium — Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VSCode.

https://vscodium.com/ || vscodium^AUR

ZeroBrane Studio — IDE with debugging support for Lua 5.1, Lua 5.2, Lua 5.3, LuaJIT, and other Lua engines.

https://studio.zerobrane.com/ || zerobrane-studio^AUR

Java IDEs

BlueJ — Fully featured Java IDE used mainly for educational and beginner purposes.

https://bluej.org/ || bluej^AUR

IntelliJ IDEA — IDE for Java, Groovy and other programming languages with advanced refactoring features.

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ || intellij-idea-community-edition

Python IDEs

Ninja-IDE — IDE for Python development.

https://ninja-ide.org/ || ninja-ide^AUR

PyCharm — Python IDE with support for code analysis, debugging, unit testing, version control and web development with Django.

https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/ || community edition: pycharm-community-edition, professional edition: pycharm-professional^AUR, edu edition: pycharm-edu^AUR^{[broken link: package not found]}

Spyder — Scientific Python Development Environment providing MATLAB-like features.

https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder || spyder

Thonny — Python IDE for beginners.

https://thonny.org/ || thonny^AUR

WingIDE — Proprietary Python development environment. It is fully featured and meant for professional use.

https://wingware.com/ || wingide^AUR

Educational IDEs

KTurtle — Educational programming environment that aims to make learning how to program as easily as possible. Part of kde-education.

https://apps.kde.org/kturtle/ || kturtle

Processing — Playground for teaching non-programmers the fundamentals of computer programming in a visual context.

https://processing.org/ || processing^AUR

Scratch — Programming system and content development tool for educational and entertainment purposes, such as creating interactive projects and simple sprite-based games. It is used primarly by unskilled users (such as children) as an entry to event-driven programming.

https://scratch.mit.edu/ || scratch

Debuggers

Accerciser — Interactive Python accessibility explorer. It uses the AT-SPI library to inspect, examine, and interact with widgets, allowing you to check if an application is providing correct information to assistive technologies and automated testing frameworks. Part of gnome-extra.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Accerciser || accerciser

Bustle — Draws sequence diagrams of D-Bus activity. It shows signal emissions, method calls and their corresponding returns, with time stamps for each individual event and the duration of each method call.

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Bustle/ || bustle-git^AUR

Data Display Debugger — Graphical front-end for command-line debuggers such as GDB.

https://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/ || ddd^AUR

Desed — TUI-based debugger for sed. Features variable and regex preview, setting breakpoints and stepping back and forth.

https://github.com/SoptikHa2/desed || desed^AUR

D-Feet — Easy to use D-Bus debugger to inspect D-Bus interfaces of running programs and invoke methods on those interfaces.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DFeet || d-feet

D-Spy — Easy to use D-Bus debugger. It's like d-feet, but written in C and blisteringly fast. Part of gnome-extra.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/d-spy || d-spy

GammaRay — Qt-application inspection and manipulation tool.

https://www.kdab.com/development-resources/qt-tools/gammaray/ || gammaray

GDBFrontend — Easy, flexible and extensible graphical debugger.

https://github.com/rohanrhu/gdb-frontend || gdb-frontend-bin^AUR

KCachegrind — Profile data visualization tool, used to determine the most time consuming execution parts of program.

https://apps.kde.org/kcachegrind/ || KDE: kcachegrind, Qt: qcachegrind

KDbg — Graphical user interface to GDB, the GNU debugger. It provides an intuitive interface for setting breakpoints, inspecting variables, and stepping through code.

https://www.kdbg.org/ || kdbg

Massif-Visualizer — Visualizer for Valgrind Massif data files.

https://apps.kde.org/massif-visualizer/ || massif-visualizer

Nemiver — Easy to use standalone C/C++ debugger (GDB front-end) that integrates well in the GNOME environment.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Nemiver || nemiver^AUR

Qt QDbusViewer — Tool to introspect D-Bus objects and messages.

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qdbusviewer.html || qt5-tools

scanmem — Debugging utility designed to isolate the address of an arbitrary variable in an executing process.

https://github.com/scanmem/scanmem || CLI: scanmem, GUI: gameconqueror

Sysprof — Profiling tool that helps in finding the functions in which a program uses most of its time. Part of gnome-extra.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Sysprof || sysprof

Lexing and parsing

Lex and Yacc are part of POSIX.

flex — A tool for generating text-scanning programs, alternative to Lex.

https://github.com/westes/flex || flex

Berkeley Yacc — Berkeley reimplementation of the Unix parser generator Yacc.

https://invisible-island.net/byacc/ || byacc

GNU Bison — The GNU general-purpose parser generator, alternative to byacc.

https://www.gnu.org/software/bison/ || bison

And then there are also:

ANTLR — Parser generator, written in Java, for parsing structured text or binary files.

https://www.antlr.org/ || antlr4

LPeg — Pattern-matching library, based on PEGs, for Lua.

http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/ || lua-lpeg, lua52-lpeg, lua51-lpeg

peg/leg — Recursive-descent parser generators for C.

https://www.piumarta.com/software/peg/ || peg

Ragel — Compiles finite state machines from regular languages into executable C, C++, Objective-C, or D code.

https://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/ || ragel

GUI builders

FLUID — FLTK GUI designer.

https://www.fltk.org/ || fltk

Glade — Create or open user interface designs for GTK applications. Part of gnome-extra.

https://glade.gnome.org/ || glade

KUIViewer — Quick viewer for Qt Designer UI File.

https://apps.kde.org/kuiviewer/ || kde-dev-utils

Qt Designer — Tool for designing and building graphical user interfaces (GUIs) with Qt Widgets.

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtdesigner-manual.html || qt5-tools

Hex editors

Bless — High quality, full featured hex editor.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170503150524/http://home.gna.org/bless/ || bless

GHex — Hex editor for GNOME, which allows the user to load data from any file, view and edit it in either hex or ascii. Part of gnome-extra.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Ghex || ghex

hyx — A minimalistic (< 2300 lines of C) but powerful (hex/ASCII, insert/replace/delete, copy/paste, undo/redo, search, colors, vim-inspired controls) Linux terminal hex editor.

https://yx7.cc/code/ || hyx^AUR

ImHex — A hex editor for reverse engineers, programmers, and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.

https://imhex.werwolv.net/ || imhex^AUR

Okteta — KDE hex editor for viewing and editing the raw data of files.

https://apps.kde.org/okteta/ || okteta

Reverse Engineer's Hex Editor — Hex editor with features for analyzing and annotating binary file formats

https://github.com/solemnwarning/rehex || rehex^AUR

wxHexEditor — Hex editor for large files with advanced features such as raw memory and disk editing capabilities.

https://www.wxhexeditor.org/ || wxhexeditor^AUR

JSON tools

gron — gron transforms JSON into discrete assignments to make it easier to grep.

https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron || gron

jid — JSON incremental digger

https://github.com/simeji/jid || jid^AUR

jo — A command to create JSON.

https://github.com/jpmens/jo || jo-git^AUR

jq — Command-line JSON processor

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ || jq

jshon — A JSON parser for the shell.

http://kmkeen.com/jshon/ || jshon

the Elvish shell has built-in support for JSON

Literate programming

Noweb — A Simple, Extensible Tool for Literate Programming build against ICON libs and texlive

https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/noweb/ || noweb^AUR

nuweb — A Simple Literate Programming Tool

http://nuweb.sourceforge.net/ || nuweb^AUR

UML modelers

ArgoUML — UML modeling tool with support for all standard UML 1.4 diagrams.

https://argouml-tigris-org.github.io/ || argouml^AUR

Eclipse Modeling Tools — Tools and runtimes for building model-based applications.

https://www.eclipse.org/ || eclipse-modeling-tools^AUR

Gaphor — Simple modeling tool for UML.

https://github.com/gaphor/gaphor || python-gaphor^AUR

Modelio — Modeling environment supporting the main standards: UML, BPMN, MDA, SysML.

https://www.modelio.org/ || modelio-bin^AUR

Papyrus — Model-based engineering tool based on Eclipse.

https://www.eclipse.org/papyrus/ || papyrus^AUR

PlantUML — Tool to create UML diagrams from a plain text language.

https://plantuml.com || plantuml

PlantUML QEditor — PlantUML editor written in Qt.

https://github.com/borco/plantumlqeditor || plantumlqeditor-git^AUR

Umbrello — Unified Modelling Language (UML) diagram program based on KDE Technology.

https://apps.kde.org/umbrello || umbrello

UML Designer — Graphical tool based on Eclipse to edit and visualize UML models.

https://www.umldesigner.org/ || umldesigner^AUR

UMLet — UML tool with a simple user interface: draw UML diagrams fast, build sequence and activity diagrams from plain text, export diagrams to eps, pdf, jpg, svg, and clipboard, share diagrams using Eclipse, and create new, custom UML elements.

https://umlet.com/ || umlet^AUR

UML/INTERLIS-editor — Facilitate the application of the model driven approach to a greater number of users.

http://www.umleditor.org/ || umleditor^AUR

Violet — Very easy to learn and use UML editor that draws nice-looking diagrams.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/violet/ || violetumleditor^AUR

API documentation browsers

Devhelp — Developer tool for browsing and searching API documentation. Part of gnome-extra.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Devhelp || devhelp

Doc Browser — API documentation browser with support for DevDocs and Hoogle.

https://github.com/qwfy/doc-browser || doc-browser-git^AUR

Qt Assistant — Tool for viewing on-line documentation in Qt help file format.

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtassistant-index.html || qt5-tools

quickDocs — Fast developer docs reader for reading Valadoc and DevDocs.

https://github.com/mdh34/quickDocs || quickdocs^AUR

Zeal — Offline API documentation browser for software developers.

https://zealdocs.org/ || zeal

Issue tracking systems

Bugzilla — Bug tracker from Mozilla.

https://www.bugzilla.org || bugzilla

Flyspray — Lightweight, web-based bug tracking system written in PHP

https://www.flyspray.org/ || flyspray^AUR

MantisBT — Web-based issue tracking system

https://www.mantisbt.org/ || mantisbt^AUR

Redmine — A flexible project management web application. Written using the Ruby on Rails, it is cross-platform and cross-database.

https://www.redmine.org || redmine

Trac — Trac Integrated SCM and Project Management using Apache and Subversion.

https://trac.edgewall.org/ || trac^AUR

Code review

Gerrit — A web-based code review tool built on top of the Git version control system

https://www.gerritcodereview.com/ || gerrit^AUR

GitLab also supports code reviews.

Game development

Allegro — A cross-platform library mainly aimed at video game and multimedia programming.

https://liballeg.org/ || allegro

GDevelop — Game creator designed to be used by everyone - no programming skills required.

https://gdevelop-app.com/ || gdevelop^AUR

Godot — Advanced, feature-packed, multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine. Create games with ease, using Godot's unique approach to game development.

https://godotengine.org/ || godot

LibreSprite — Animated sprite editor and pixel art tool lets you create 2D animations for videogames.

https://github.com/LibreSprite/LibreSprite || libresprite^AUR

LÖVE — Lua based game development environment.

https://love2d.org/ || love

Pixelorama — 2D sprite editor with animation support, made by Orama Interactive in the Godot Engine using GDScript.

https://orama-interactive.itch.io/pixelorama || pixelorama^AUR

TIC-80 — Fantasy computer/console.

https://tic80.com/ || tic-80-git^AUR

Tiled — General purpose 2D level editor with powerful tile map editing features. It is built to be easy to use and is suitable for many type of games.

https://www.mapeditor.org/ || tiled

Unity — Unity is a flexible and powerful development platform for creating multi-platform 3D and 2D games. Proprietary, but a free version is available for certain use-cases (see here for more details).

https://unity3d.com/unity || unityhub^AUR

Repository managers

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Nexus 2 — Nexus 2 Repository Manager (OSS)

https://www.sonatype.com/nexus-repository-oss || nexus^AUR

Nexus 3 — Nexus 3 Repository OSS

https://www.sonatype.com/nexus-repository-oss || nexus-oss^AUR

Artifactory — Artifactory is an advanced Binary Repository Manager for use by build tools, dependency management tools and build servers

https://bintray.com/jfrog/product/JFrog-Artifactory-Oss/view || artifactory-oss^AUR

Text input

Character selectors

emote — A modern emoji picker written in GTK3.

https://github.com/tom-james-watson/Emote || emote^AUR

GNOME Characters — Character map application for GNOME. Part of gnome.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-characters || gnome-characters

gucharmap — GTK 3 character selector for GNOME.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gucharmap || gucharmap

KCharSelect — Tool to select special characters from all installed fonts and copy them into the clipboard. Part of kde-utilities.

https://apps.kde.org/kcharselect/ || kcharselect

On-screen keyboards

CellWriter — Grid-entry handwriting recognition input panel.

https://github.com/risujin/cellwriter || cellwriter^AUR

CoreKeyboard — Simple X11 based Qt virtual keyboard with word suggestions. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/^{[dead link 2023-06-17 ⓘ]} || corekeyboard^AUR

eekboard — Easy to use virtual keyboard toolkit.

https://github.com/ueno/eekboard || eekboard^AUR

Florence — Extensible scalable on-screen virtual keyboard for GNOME that stays out of your way when not needed.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/florence/ || florence^AUR

Maliit Keyboard — Virtual keyboard useful for KDE Plasma-Wayland

https://maliit.github.io/ || maliit-keyboard

Onboard — Onscreen keyboard useful for tablet PC users and for mobility impaired users.

https://launchpad.net/onboard || onboard

qtvkbd — Virtual keyboard written in Qt, a fork of kvkbd.

https://github.com/Alexander-r/qtvkbd || qtvkbd^AUR

QVKbd — Virtual keyboard written in Qt.

https://github.com/KivApple/qvkbd || qvkbd

Squeekboard — GTK 3 virtual keyboard for Wayland, written in Rust/C.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/squeekboard || squeekboard

theShell On Screen Keyboard — Touchscreen keyboard for theShell.

https://github.com/vicr123/ts-kbd || ts-kbd^AUR

xvkbd — Virtual keyboard for X window system.

http://t-sato.in.coocan.jp/xvkbd/ || xvkbd^AUR

wvkbd — Virtual keyboard for Wayland and wlroots.

https://github.com/jjsullivan5196/wvkbd/ || wvkbd^AUR

Keyboard layout switchers

fbxkb — A NETWM compliant keyboard indicator and switcher. It shows a flag of current keyboard in a systray area and allows you to switch to another one.

http://fbxkb.sourceforge.net/ || fbxkb^AUR

xxkb — A lightweight keyboard layout indicator and switcher.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/xxkb/ || xxkb

gxkb — X11 keyboard layout indicator and switcher.

https://github.com/zen-tools/gxkb || gxkb

qxkb — A keyboard switcher written in Qt.

https://github.com/disels/qxkb || qxkb^AUR

X Neural Switcher — A text analyser, it detects the language of the input and corrects the keyboard layout if needed.

https://xneur.ru/ || gxneur^AUR

Keybinding managers

See Keyboard shortcuts#Xorg.

Input methods

See the main article: Input method.

Disks

Mount tools

Disk usage display

Console

duc — A library and suite of tools for inspecting disk usage.

https://duc.zevv.nl/ || duc^AUR

dust — A more intuitive version of du in rust.

https://github.com/bootandy/dust || dust

gdu — Disk usage analyzer with console interface written in Go.

https://github.com/Dundee/gdu || gdu

gt5 — Diff-capable "du-browser".

http://gt5.sourceforge.net || gt5^AUR

ncdu — Simple ncurses disk usage analyzer.

https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu || ncdu

Graphical

Filelight — Disk usage analyzer that creates an interactive map of concentric, segmented rings that help visualise disk usage on your computer.

https://apps.kde.org/filelight/ || filelight

GNOME Disk Usage Analyzer — Disk usage analyzer for the GNOME desktop to check folder sizes and available disk space. Part of gnome.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer || baobab

Graphical Disk Map — Disk usage analyzer that draws a map of rectangles sized according to file or dir sizes.

http://gdmap.sourceforge.net/ || gdmap^AUR

fsview (part of Konqueror) — KDE based disk usage analyzer that draws a map of rectangles sized according to file or dir sizes.

https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/konqueror/konqueror/view-extensions.html || konqueror

MATE Disk Usage Analyzer — Disk usage analyzing tool for MATE Desktop.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-utils || mate-utils

qdirstat — Qt-based directory statistics (KDirStat/K4DirStat without any KDE - from the original KDirStat author).

https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat || qdirstat^AUR

Disk health status

See S.M.A.R.T.#GUI applications.

File recovery tools

See File recovery#List of utilities.

Disk cleaning

Console

Czkawka CLI — Simple, fast and free app to remove unnecessary files from your computer.

https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka || czkawka-cli^AUR

duff — A command-line utility for quickly finding duplicates in a given set of files.

https://github.com/elmindreda/duff || duff^AUR

fclones — Very fast duplicate file Finder written in rust.

https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones || fclones^AUR

fdupes — Program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories.

https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes || fdupes

jdupes — Identify and take actions upon duplicate files.

https://github.com/jbruchon/jdupes || jdupes^AUR

rdfind — Command line tool that finds duplicate files. It compares files based on their content.

https://github.com/pauldreik/rdfind || rdfind

rmlint — Tool to quickly find (and optionally remove) duplicate files and other lint.

https://github.com/sahib/rmlint || rmlint

Graphical

BleachBit — Frees disk space and guards your privacy; frees cache, deletes cookies, clears Internet history, shreds temporary files, deletes logs, and discards junk you did not know was there.

https://www.bleachbit.org/ || bleachbit

Czkawka GUI — Simple, fast and free app to remove unnecessary files from your computer. Looks similar to FSlint.

https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka || czkawka-gui^AUR

dupeGuru — GUI tool to find duplicate files in a system.

https://dupeguru.voltaicideas.net/ || dupeguru^AUR

FSlint — A utility to find and clean various forms of lint on a filesystem.

https://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/ || fslint^AUR

GConf Cleaner — cleans up the unknown/invalid GConf keys that still sitting down on your GConf database.

https://code.google.com/archive/p/gconf-cleaner/ || gconf-cleaner^AUR

Shredder — Graphical user interface for rmlint.

https://github.com/sahib/rmlint || rmlint-shredder

Sweeper — System cleaning utility for KDE.

https://apps.kde.org/sweeper/ || sweeper

Disk image writing

Warning: Some disk image writing tools are known to be adware, for example etcher.

Bytewalk — Bytewalk is a firmware extraction tool and binwalk fork.

https://gitlab.com/bytesweep/bytewalk || bytewalk^AUR

Deepin Boot Maker — Tool to make boot disk for Deepin OS.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-boot-maker/ || deepin-boot-maker

Fedora Media Writer — Tool that helps users put Fedora images on their portable drives such as flash disks.

https://github.com/FedoraQt/MediaWriter || mediawriter^AUR

GNOME MultiWriter — Write an ISO file to multiple USB devices at once. Part of gnome-extra.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/MultiWriter || gnome-multi-writer

Image Burner — Simple imageburner designed for elementary OS.

https://github.com/artemanufrij/imageburner || imageburner^AUR

ISOImageWriter — Tool to write a .iso file to a USB disk.

https://community.kde.org/ISOImageWriter || isoimagewriter

LiveUSB Install — Install various Linux distributions and operating systems on removable flash drive or external disk drive.

http://live.learnfree.eu/ || live-usb-install^AUR

MultiBootUSB — Install multiple live distributions on a USB disk non-destructively and has an option to uninstall them.

https://github.com/mbusb/multibootusb/ || multibootusb^AUR

Popsicle — Utility for flashing multiple USB devices in parallel, written in Rust.

https://github.com/pop-os/popsicle || popsicle^AUR

SUSE Studio ImageWriter — Utility for writing raw disk images and hybrid ISOs to USB keys.

https://github.com/openSUSE/imagewriter || imagewriter^AUR

UNetbootin — Installs Linux/BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive.

https://unetbootin.github.io/ || unetbootin^AUR

Usbimager — Minimal GUI application to write compressed disk images to USB drives.

https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/usbimager || usbimager^AUR

WoeUSB — Simple tool to create USB stick windows installer from an ISO image or a real DVD. (Fork of WinUSB).

https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB || woeusb^AUR, woeusb-ng^AUR

windows2usb — Windows ISO to Flash Drive burning utility for Linux with MBR/GPT, BIOS/UEFI, FAT32/NTFS support

https://github.com/ValdikSS/windows2usb || windows2usb-git^AUR

System

Task managers

CoreStats — Simple lightweight system resource viewer to monitor the CPU, RAM, Network and Disk IO statistics. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/^{[dead link 2023-06-17 ⓘ]} || corestats^AUR

Deepin System Monitor — Monitor system process status for Deepin desktop.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-system-monitor/ || deepin-system-monitor

GNOME System Monitor — System monitor for GNOME to view and manage system resources. Part of gnome.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/SystemMonitor || gnome-system-monitor

GNOME Usage — View information about use of system resources, like memory and disk space.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Usage || gnome-usage

htop — Simple, ncurses interactive process viewer.

https://htop.dev/ || htop

bashtop — A Linux resource monitor written in bash.

https://github.com/aristocratos/bashtop || bashtop

bpytop — Htop but more lightweight with more features.

https://github.com/aristocratos/bpytop || bpytop

btop — Rewrite of bpytop in C++

https://github.com/aristocratos/btop || btop

bottom — A cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.

https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom || bottom

gtop — A system monitoring dashboard for the terminal.

https://github.com/aksakalli/gtop || gtop

KSysGuard — System monitor for KDE to monitor running processes and system performance.

https://apps.kde.org/ksysguard/ || ksysguard

Linux Process Explorer — Graphical process explorer for Linux.

https://github.com/wolfc01/procexp || procexp^AUR

LXTask — Lightweight task manager for LXDE.

https://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXTask^{[dead link 2022-09-20 ⓘ]} || lxtask

qps — Lightweight task manager for LXQt.

https://github.com/lxqt/qps || qps^AUR

MATE System Monitor — System monitor for MATE.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-system-monitor || mate-system-monitor

Plasma System Monitor — Advanced and customizable system monitor for KDE.

https://apps.kde.org/plasma-systemmonitor/ || plasma-systemmonitor

Stacer — System optimizer and application monitor that helps users to manage entire system with different aspects, its an all in one system utility.

https://oguzhaninan.github.io/Stacer-Web/ || stacer^AUR

Task Manager — GTK2/GTK3 based process manager with basic system resource monitor for Xfce.

https://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-taskmanager || xfce4-taskmanager

System monitors

Hardware sensor monitoring

See lm_sensors#Graphical front-ends.

System information viewers

Console

alsi — A system information tool for Arch Linux. It can be configured for every other system without even touching the source code of the script.

https://trizenx.blogspot.com/2012/08/alsi.html || alsi^AUR

archey3 — Python script to display system infomation alongside the Arch Linux logo.

https://lclarkmichalek.github.io/archey3 || archey3

dmidecode — It reports information about your system's hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard.

https://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/ || dmidecode

hwdetect — Simple script to list modules that are exported in /sys/.

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/hwdetect/-/blob/main/hwdetect || hwdetect

hwinfo — Powerful hardware detection tool come from openSUSE.

https://github.com/openSUSE/hwinfo || hwinfo

hw-probe — Tool to probe for hardware, check operability and find drivers with the help of Linux Hardware Database.

https://github.com/linuxhw/hw-probe || hw-probe^AUR

inxi — A script to get system information.

https://github.com/smxi/inxi || inxi

neofetch — A fast, highly customizable system info script that supports displaying images with w3m.

https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch || neofetch

nmon — Console based application for monitoring various system components.

https://nmon.sourceforge.net/ || nmon

pfetch — A pretty system information tool written in POSIX sh.

https://github.com/dylanaraps/pfetch || pfetch^AUR

screenfetch — Similar to archey but has an option to take a screenshot. Written in bash.

https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch || screenfetch

Graphical

GPU-Viewer — GUI to glxinfo, vulkaninfo, clinfo and es2_info; written in Python with GTK.

https://github.com/arunsivaramanneo/GPU-Viewer || gpu-viewer^AUR

hardinfo — A small application that displays information about your hardware and operating system, it looks like the Device Manager in Windows.

https://www.berlios.de/software/hardinfo/ || hardinfo^AUR

i-Nex — An application that gathers information for hardware components available on your system and displays it using an user interface similar to the popular Windows tool CPU-Z.

http://i-nex.linux.pl/ || i-nex-git^AUR

lshw — A small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine with CLI and GTK interfaces.

https://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter || lshw

KInfoCenter — Centralized and convenient overview of system information for KDE.

https://userbase.kde.org/KInfoCenter || kinfocenter

USBView — Display the topology of devices on the USB bus.

http://www.kroah.com/linux/usb/ || usbview

System log viewers

GNOME Logs — Viewer for the systemd journal. Part of gnome.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Logs || gnome-logs

KSystemLog — System log viewer tool for KDE.

https://apps.kde.org/ksystemlog/ || ksystemlog

MATE System Log — System log viewer for MATE.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-utils || mate-utils

Pacman Log Viewer — Tool used to inspect pacman log file, in particular it lists installed, removed and upgraded packages letting you to filter by package's name and/or date.

https://www.opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=150484^{[dead link 2023-05-06 ⓘ]} || pacmanlogviewer

QJournalctl — Qt-based graphical user interface for systemd's journalctl command.

https://github.com/pentix/qjournalctl || qjournalctl

Font viewers

Deepin Font Manager — A font management tool for Deepin desktop.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-font-manager/ || deepin-font-manager

Font Manager — Simple font management for GTK desktop environments.

https://fontmanager.github.io/ || font-manager

Fonty Python — Manage, view and find your fonts.

https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fontypython || fontypython^AUR

GNOME Fonts — Font viewer for GNOME. Part of gnome.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-font-viewer || gnome-font-viewer

KFontview — KDE application to view and install different types of fonts.

https://kde.org/ || plasma-desktop

MATE Font Viewer — Font viewer for MATE.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-control-center || mate-utils

Help viewers

See man page#Installation.

Command schedulers

Shutdown timers

GShutdown — Advanced shutdown utility which allows you to schedule the shutdown or the restart of your computer, or logout your actual session.

https://gshutdown.tuxfamily.org/ || gshutdown^AUR

Hsiu-Ming's Timer — Graphical shutdown timer, which enables you to shutdown, turn off monitor, reboot or play sound after a period of time.

https://cges30901.github.io/hmtimer-website/ || hmtimer^AUR

KShutdown — Graphical shutdown utility, which allows you to turn off or suspend a computer at a specified time. It features various time and delay options, command-line support, and notifications.

https://kshutdown.sourceforge.io/ || kshutdown

Clock synchronization

See Time synchronization.

Screen management

See Xrandr#Graphical front-ends.

Backlight management

See Backlight#Backlight utilities.

Color management

See ICC profiles#Utilities and Backlight#Color correction.

Printer management

See CUPS#GUI applications.

Bluetooth management

See Bluetooth#Front-ends.

Power management

See Power management#Userspace tools.

System management

See Systemd#GUI configuration tools.

Boot management

See GRUB/Tips and tricks#GUI configuration tools.

Package management

See pacman tips#Utilities.

Configuration management

aconfmgr — Package to track, manage, and restore the configuration of an Arch Linux system.

https://github.com/CyberShadow/aconfmgr || aconfmgr-git^AUR

Ansible — IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs.

https://www.ansible.com/ || ansible

cdist — Simple configuration management system with Arch Linux support.

https://www.cdi.st/ || cdist^AUR

Chef — Automation Software for Continuous Delivery of Secure Applications and Infrastructure.

https://www.chef.io/ || chef-workstation^AUR, chef-client^AUR

etckeeper — Collection of tools to let /etc be stored in a VCS repository.

https://etckeeper.branchable.com/ || etckeeper

Puppet — IT automation software that helps system administrators manage infrastructure throughout its lifecycle, from provisioning and configuration to patch management and compliance.

https://puppet.com/ || puppet

Saltstack — A Python-based, open-source software for event-driven IT automation, remote task execution, and configuration management.

https://saltproject.io/ || salt

Virtualization

See Libvirt#Client and VirtualBox.

Compatibility layers

See Wine (Windows) and Darling (MacOS).

Documents and texts

Text editors

Some of the lighter-weight Integrated development environments can also serve as text editors.

Vi-style text editors

Amp — Text editor written in Rust, that aims to take the core interaction model of Vim, simplify it, and bundle in the essential features required for a modern text editor.

https://amp.rs/ || amp^AUR

Aretext — Minimalist text editor with vim-compatible key bindings.

https://aretext.org/ || aretext^AUR

BusyBox vi — Provides "a small 'vi' clone". Can be invoked with busybox vi.

https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/editors/vi.c || busybox

Kakoune — Modal editor. Fewer keystrokes. Selection based, multi-cursor editing. Orthogonal design.

https://github.com/mawww/kakoune || kakoune

Helix — A post-modern modal text editor.

https://helix-editor.com/ || helix

Neovim — Vim's rebirth for the 21st century.

https://neovim.io/ || neovim

Neovim-Qt — Qt GUI for Neovim.

https://github.com/equalsraf/neovim-qt || neovim-qt

vi — The original ex/vi text editor.

https://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/ || vi

Vim — Advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'vi', with a more complete feature set.

https://www.vim.org/ || with GUI: gvim, without GUI: vim

Vis — Modern, legacy free, simple yet efficient vim-like editor.

https://github.com/martanne/vis || vis

Emacs-style text editors

Emacs — The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor by GNU.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html || with GUI: emacs, without GUI: emacs-nox

mg — Small, fast, and portable Emacs-like editor.

https://github.com/hboetes/mg || mg

vile — Lightweight Emacs clone with vi-like key bindings.

https://invisible-island.net/vile/vile.html || vile^AUR

Zile — Lightweight Emacs clone.

https://www.gnu.org/software/zile/ || zile^AUR

Console

dte — Small, easy to use editor with multi-tabbed interface, syntax highlighting, ctags navigation, etc.

https://craigbarnes.gitlab.io/dte/ || dte^AUR

e3 — Tiny editor without dependencies, written in assembly.

https://sites.google.com/site/e3editor/ || e3

ee — Classic curse-based text editor. Born in HP-UX, used in FreeBSD.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160719002816/http://www.users.qwest.net/~hmahon/ || ee-editor^AUR

JED — Text editor that makes extensive use of the S-Lang library. Includes a console version (jed) and an X-window version (xjed).

http://jedsoft.org/jed/ || jed^AUR

JOE (Joe's Own Editor) — Terminal-based text editor designed to be easy to use.

https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/ || joe^AUR

mcedit — Useful text editor that comes with Midnight Commander file manager.

https://www.ibiblio.org/mc/ || mc

micro — Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor, written in go and extensible through plugins.

https://micro-editor.github.io/ || micro

Minimum Profit — Text editor for programmers.

https://triptico.com/software/mp.html || mp^AUR

nano — Console text editor based on pico with on-screen key bindings help.

https://nano-editor.org/ || nano

ne — Minimalist text editor with Windows-like key-bindings.

http://ne.di.unimi.it/ || ne^AUR

slap — Sublime-like terminal-based text editor.

https://github.com/slap-editor/slap || slap^AUR

Tilde — Intuitive text editor with Windows-like key bindings.

https://os.ghalkes.nl/tilde/ || tilde^AUR

jove — Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs is an Emacs-like editor without Lisp.

https://github.com/jonmacs/jove || jove^AUR

Graphical

Acme — Minimalist and flexible programming environment developed by Rob Pike for the Plan 9 operating system.

http://acme.cat-v.org/ || plan9port

Adie — Fast and convenient programming text editor.

http://fox-toolkit.org/ || fox

Atom — Promising text editor developed by GitHub. With support for plug-ins written in Node.js and embedded Git Control.

https://atom.io/ || atom^AUR

Beaver — GTK editor designed to be modular, lightweight and stylish.

http://beaver-editor.sourceforge.net/ || beaver^AUR

Brackets — Code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

https://brackets.io/ || brackets-extract^AUR

CorePad — Simple lightweight but powerful text editor with syntax-highlighting support for a dozen or more languages. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/^{[dead link 2023-06-17 ⓘ]} || corepad^AUR

Deepin Text Editor — Simple text editor for Deepin desktop.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-editor/ || deepin-editor

Ecrire — Simple text editor based on EFL.

https://git.enlightenment.org/apps/ecrire.git/^{[dead link 2022-09-20 ⓘ]} || ecrire-git^AUR

Enki — Text editor for programmers.

http://enki-editor.org/ || enki-editor^AUR

FeatherPad — Minimal Qt5 plain text editor featuring a native dark theme and support for tabs, printing and syntax highlighting.

https://github.com/tsujan/FeatherPad || featherpad

FLTK Editor — Simple text editor application for FLTK.

https://www.fltk.org/ || fltk-editor^AUR

gCSVedit — Simple text editor for CSV, TSV and other kinds of delimiter-separated values (DSV) files.

https://github.com/swilmet/gCSVedit^{[dead link 2022-09-20 ⓘ]} || gcsvedit^AUR

gedit — GTK editor for the GNOME desktop with syntax highlighting, automatic indentation, matching brackets, etc., and a number of add-ons to increase functionality. Part of gnome-extra.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit || gedit

GNOME Text Editor — Simple text editor for GNOME focused on a pleasing default experience. Part of gnome.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-text-editor || gnome-text-editor

Gobby — Collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat.

https://gobby.github.io/ || gobby

Howl — General purpose, fast and lightweight editor with a keyboard-centric minimalistic user interface.

https://howl.io/ || howl

jEdit — Text editor for programmers, written in Java.

https://www.jedit.org/ || jedit^AUR

JuffEd — Simple tabbed text editor with syntax highlighting, written in Qt.

http://juffed.com/en/index.html || juffed^AUR

Kate — Full-featured programmer's editor for the KDE desktop with MDI and a filesystem browser.

https://kate-editor.org/ || kate

KWrite — Lightweight text editor for the KDE desktop that uses the same editor widget as Kate, now provided by the kate package.

https://apps.kde.org/kwrite/ || kate

L3afpad — Simple text editor forked from Leafpad, supports GTK 3.

https://github.com/stevenhoneyman/l3afpad || l3afpad

Lapce — Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust.

https://lapce.dev/ || lapce

Leafpad — Notepad clone for GTK that emphasizes simplicity.

http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/ || leafpad

Light Table — Next generation code editor that connects you to your creation with instant feedback.

http://lighttable.com/ || lighttable-bin^AUR^{[broken link: package not found]}

Liri Text — Text editor for Liri.

https://github.com/lirios/text || liri-text

Lite XL — A lightweight, simple, fast, feature-filled, and extremely extensible text editor written in C, and Lua, adapted from lite.

https://lite-xl.com/ || lite-xl^AUR

medit — Programming and around-programming text editor.

http://mooedit.sourceforge.net || medit^AUR

Mousepad — Fast text editor for the Xfce Desktop Environment.

https://www.xfce.org || mousepad

NEdit — Text editor for the Motif environment.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/nedit/ || nedit^AUR

Notepadqq — Qt-based, Notepad++-like text editor with support for syntax highlighting for more than 100 languages.

https://notepadqq.com/s/ || notepadqq

Nota — Easy to use text editor with a simple interface with support for tabbed documents, syntax highlighting for various languages, Focus mode, annotations, configurable fonts, and colors, a side panel with an integrated file browser, and more.

https://mauikit.org/ || maui-nota

Pantheon Code — Code editor for elementaryOS. It auto-saves your files, meaning they are always up-to-date. Plus it remembers your tabs so you never lose your spot, even in between sessions.

https://github.com/elementary/code || pantheon-code

Pluma — Powerful text editor for MATE.

https://mate-desktop.org/ || pluma

QSciTE — Qt clone of the SciTE text and code editor.

https://code.google.com/archive/p/qscite/ || qscite^AUR

Sam — Minimalist text editor with a graphical user interface, a very powerful command language and remote editing capabilities, developed by Rob Pike.

http://sam.cat-v.org || plan9port or 9base