A curated list of awesome apps, extensions, modules, themes and tools for the GNOME Desktop Environment.
GNOME is a desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like operating systems, designed to put the user in control and get things done. It uses GTK for its applications and Clutter and JavaScript for its official desktop shell.
Items marked with
are applications officially maintained and distributed by the GNOME Project as part of the core set of applications and tools, or extensions that are maintained and distributed as part of the Classic mode.
Items marked with
are applications championed by the GNOME Circle initiative that aims to showcase the best apps and libraries for GNOME.
- GNOME Web - Official web browser project of GNOME.
- Fragments - BitTorrent client.
- Newsflash - RSS feeds reader.
- Font Downloader - Install fonts from online sources
- Tangram - Browser for your pinned tabs.
- Polari - Talk to people on IRC.
- Warp - Fast and secure file transfer.
- Wike - Search and read Wikipedia articles.
- Feeds - An RSS/Atom feed reader.
- Haguichi - Graphical frontend for Hamachi.
- Parabolic -
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graphical fronted. - Geopard - Colorful Gemini client.
- Fractal - Matrix client.
- Dino - XMPP Client.
- Dissent - Third-party Discord client prioritasing speed over feature completeness (with user theming through CSS).
- Apostrophe - Distraction-free Markdown editor.
- Citations - Manage your bibliography.
- NFO Viewer - Simple viewer for NFO files, beating text editors with preset font and encoding settings and clickable hyperlink support.
- Foliate - Simple and modern eBook reader.
- Paper Clip - PDF metadata editor.
- RNote - Sketch and take handwritten notes.
- Morphosis - Document converter (using Pandoc) supporting PDF, Markdown, RST, LaTeX, HTML, Microsoft Word, Open/Libre Office and EPUB formats.
- Solanum - Balance working time and break time.
- Khronos - Log the time it took to do tasks.
- Errands - Todo application for those who prefer simplicity.
- Endeavour - Manage your tasks.
- Timetrack - Time tracker.
- Teleprompter - Simple application to read scrolling text from your screen.
- Planify - Project and task manager with Todoist support.
- Time Tracker - Local-first project time tracker with sync option via cloud or network storage (CSV file).
- Newelle - Virtual assistant (local, based on GPT4All) that interacts with the system by running shell commands and execute Python code.
- Shortwave - Client for web-based radio.
- Video Trimer - Trim video quickly.
- Amberol - Plays music, and nothing else.
- Mousai - Identify any songs in seconds.
- Podcasts - Listen to your favourite podcasts.
- Decibels - Simple music player with waveform view.
- Cozy - Audiobook player.
- Celluloid - Simple frontend for mpv.
- Parlatype - Audio player specialized for transcription.
- Easy Effects - Audio effects for PipeWire applications .
- Spot - Spotify Client.
- Clapper - Simple and modern media player.
- Footage - Application to trim, flip, rotate and crop individual clips.
- Aviator - Utility for encoding with SVT-AV1 & Opus.
- Gapless - Play your music elegantly.
- Monophony - Stream music from YouTube.
- Collector - Dropover utility that allows to drag files/images/text into a collection window and drop them anywhere.
- Fotema - Photo gallery with support for iOS Live Photos and Samsung Motion Photos and with map view.
- Curtail - Simple & useful image compressor.
- Identity - Compare image and video.
- Switcheroo - Image converter and manipulator (ImageMagick frontend).
- Coulr - Convert between RGB and hexadecimal codes for colours.
- ASCII Draw - Draw graphs and more using only characters.
- Mingle - Application to combine emojis using Google's Emoji Kitchen.
- Cartridges - Game launcher with Steam, Lutris, Heroic, Bottles and itch library import.
- Chess Clock - Timer for over-the-board chess games.
- Crosswords - Game of crosswords with squpport for shaped and colors crosswords and
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files. - Mahjongg - Solitaire (one player) version of the classic Eastern tile game, Mahjongg.
- Ultimate Tic Tac Toe - Ultimate Tic Tac Toe to play with friends or against an AI.
- Libellus - Tab-based wiki/Lexicon for DnD 5th edition.
- Pika Backup - Simple backups based on borg.
- Déjà Dup Backups - Simple backups tool.
- GNOME Tweaks - Graphical interface for advanced GNOME settings.
- HydraPaper - Set a different background for each monitor.
- Dynamic Gnome Wallpapers - Gallery of MacOS like dynamic wallpapers, and easy scripts to install them
- GDM Settings - A settings app for GDM (GNOME's Login Screen a.k.a GNOME Display Manager).
- AdwSteamGtk - Adwaita for Steam skin installer.
- Flatseal - Flatpak permission manager.
- Mission Center - Monitor your CPU, Memory, Disk, Network and GPU usage.
- Bottles - Wine environments manager to run Windows software and games.
- BoxBuddy - Graphical Distrobox manager.
- Pods - Podman containers manager.
- Ptyxis - Terminal with first-class support for containers.
- Damask - Application that automatically sets wallpaper from a variety or sources (local folder, Wallhaven, Bing Wallpaper, NASA Astronomy, etc).
- Luminance - Simple application to control brightness of displays (including external) supporting DDC/CI.
- Bustle - D-Bus activity viewer that draws diagram sequences.
- Embellish - Application to install and manage Nerd Fonts on the system.
- Dialect - Translate text.
- Audio Sharing - Share your computer audio.
- Boatswain - Control your Elgato Stream Decks.
- Decoder - Scan and Generate QR Codes.
- Junction - Junction lets you choose the application to open files and links.
- Impression - Bootable driver flasher application
- Kooha - Elegantly record your screen.
- Lan Mouse - Mouse and keyboard sharing software (software KVM switch).
- Moussam - Weather application with 7 days forecast from Open-Meteo.com.
- Snoop - Application (with Nautilus extension) to search through file contents in a given folder.
- Obfuscate - Censor private information.
- Metadata Cleaner - View and clean metadata in files.
- Secrets - Keepass-compatible password manager.
- Authenticator - Generate Two-Factor Codes.
- Collisions - Check hashes for your files.
- File Shredder - Securely delete your files.
- Key Rack - Tool that allows to view and edit keys, like passwords or tokens, stored by apps.
- GNOME Builder - Official IDE for creating GNOME applications.
- Gaphor - The simple modeling tool for UML and SysML.
- Webfont Kit Generator - Create @font-face kits easily.
- Commit - Commit message editor.
- Workbench - Learn and prototype with GNOME technologies.
- Lorem - Generate placeholder text.
- Share Preview - Test social media cards locally.
- Text Pieces - Transform text without using