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Organization

CalDAV/CardDAV servers

  • Baïkal A lightweight CalDAV+CardDAV server.
https://sabre.io/baikal/ || baikalAUR
  • kcaldav Simple, safe, minimal CalDAV server.
https://kristaps.bsd.lv/kcaldav || kcaldavAUR
  • Radicale Free and Open-Source CalDAV and CardDAV Server.
https://radicale.org || radicale
  • xandikos A lightweight yet complete CardDAV/CalDAV server that backs onto a Git repository.
https://www.xandikos.org || xandikos-gitAUR

Personal information managers

These applications support time, task and contacts management.

  • Evolution Personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring and address book functionality. Part of gnome-extra.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/wikis/home || evolution
  • Kontact Integrated solution to your personal information management. Part of kde-pim.
https://kontact.kde.org/ || kontact
  • Merkuro Calendar and contact application that allows you to manage your tasks, events and contacts. Part of kde-pim.
https://apps.kde.org/merkuro/ || merkuro
  • Osmo GTK personal organizer, which includes calendar, tasks manager and address book modules.
https://osmo-pim.sourceforge.net || osmo
https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ || seamonkeyAUR
  • Thunderbird A fully featured E-mail client formerly developed by Mozilla.
https://www.thunderbird.net || thunderbird

Time management

Console

  • Calcurse Text-based ncurses calendar and scheduling system (supports CalDAV)
https://calcurse.org || calcurse
  • ccal A console program which writes a calendar together with Chinese calendar to standard output.
https://ccal.chinesebay.com/ccal/ccal.htm || ccalAUR
  • khal Command-line (non-interactive) and ncurses (interactive) calendar system (supports CalDAV)
https://github.com/pimutils/khal || khal
  • mail2rem Small script for importing .ics calendars from Maildir to Remind calendar.
https://github.com/esovetkin/mail2rem || mail2rem-gitAUR
  • Pal Very lightweight calendar with both interactive and non-interactive interfaces.
https://palcal.sourceforge.net/ || palAUR
  • pcal A tool to create pdf calendars from pcal input which can be exported by some calendar programs.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcal/ || pcalAUR
  • Remind Highly sophisticated text-based calendaring and notification system.
https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/ || remind
  • When Simple personal calendar program.
http://lightandmatter.com/when/when.html || when
  • Wyrd Text-based front-end to Remind, a calendar and alarm program used on UNIX and Linux computers.
https://gitlab.com/wyrd-calendar/wyrd || wyrdAUR

Graphical

  • Agenda Calendar application built with MauiKit. Part of maui.
https://mauikit.org/apps/ || maui-agenda
  • Calindori Calendar application for Plasma Mobile.
https://apps.kde.org/calindori/ || calindori
  • chinese-calendar Chinese traditional calendar for Ubuntu Kylin.
https://launchpad.net/chinese-calendar/ || chinese-calendar
  • CoreTime Very simple Clock/Calendar application which shows a clock, supports alarms, reminders, a stop watch and a timer. Part of C-Suite.
https://cubocore.gitlab.io/ || coretimeAUR
  • Deepin Calendar Calendar application for Deepin.
https://www.deepin.org/en/original/dde-calendar/ || deepin-calendar
  • etmtk (Event and Task Manager) Simple application with a "Getting Things Done!" approach to handling events, tasks, activities, reminders and projects.
https://people.duke.edu/~dgraham/ETMtk/ || etmtkAUR
  • Gahshomar Persian (Jalali/Farsi) calendar.
https://gahshomar.github.io/gahshomar/ || gahshomarAUR
  • GNOME Calendar Calendar application for GNOME. Part of gnome.
https://apps.gnome.org/Calendar/ || gnome-calendar
  • KAlarm Personal alarm message, command and email scheduler, part of kde-pim.
https://apps.kde.org/kalarm/ || kalarm
  • Kongress Companion application for conferences made by KDE. Part of kde-utilities.
https://apps.kde.org/kongress/ || kongress
https://kontact.kde.org/components/korganizer || korganizer
  • Merkuro Calendar Calendar application using Akonadi that supports both local and online calendars: Nextcloud, Google Calendar, Outlook, Caldav and more. Part of kde-pim.
https://apps.kde.org/merkuro.calendar/ || merkuro
  • Nextcloud Calendar Calendar app for Nextcloud.
https://github.com/nextcloud/calendar || nextcloud-app-calendar
  • Outspline Extensible outliner with advanced time management features, supporting events with complex recurrence schemes.
https://kynikos.github.io/outspline/ || outsplineAUR
  • TkRemind Sophisticated calendar and alarm program.
https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/ || remind

Timers

Countdown timers and stopwatch

  • arttime Clock, timer, pattern-based time manager, ASCII art viewer. Set a one-off, multiple, repeating, pattern-based timers.
https://github.com/poetaman/arttime || arttime-gitAUR
  • Chess Clock Simple application to provide time control for over-the-board chess games.
https://apps.gnome.org/Chessclock/ || chess-clock
  • GNOME Clocks Clocks application for GNOME, including alarm, stopwatch and timer functionality. Part of gnome.
https://apps.gnome.org/Clocks/ || gnome-clocks
  • Hourglass Simple time keeping application designed for elementary OS.
https://github.com/sgpthomas/hourglass || hourglass-gitAUR
  • KClock A convergent clock application for Plasma. It contains alarm, timer, stopwatch and timezone functionalities. Part of kde-utilities.
https://apps.kde.org/kclock/ || kclock
  • Kronometer Stopwatch application for KDE.
https://apps.kde.org/kronometer/ || kronometer
  • KTeaTime Handy timer for steeping tea. Part of kde-utilities.
https://apps.kde.org/kteatime/ || kteatime
  • pystopwatch Stopwatch written in Python with a clock and two countdown functions that can minimize to the tray.
https://xyne.dev/projects/pystopwatch/ || pystopwatchAUR
  • snore A program like sleep, but with feedback.
https://github.com/clamiax/snore || snore-gitAUR
  • termdown Countdown timer and stopwatch in your terminal.
https://github.com/trehn/termdown || termdown

Break timers

  • Break Timer Keeps track of how much you are using the computer, and it reminds you to take regular breaks. Works only in GNOME.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/BreakTimer || gnome-break-timer
  • RSI Break Takes care of your health and regularly breaks your work to avoid repetitive strain injury (RSI).
https://apps.kde.org/rsibreak/ || rsibreak
  • Safe Eyes Tool to reduce and prevent repetitive strain injury (RSI).
https://slgobinath.github.io/SafeEyes/ || safeeyesAUR
  • Work-break Work and rest time balancer taking into account your current and today strain.
https://github.com/ShadoySV/work-break/ || work-breakAUR
  • Workrave Program that assists in the recovery and prevention of RSI on Xorg.
https://workrave.org/ || workrave

Pomodoro timers

See Wikipedia:Pomodoro Technique for an introduction.

  • flow Pomodoro app that blocks distractions while you work.
https://github.com/iamsergio/flow-pomodoro || flow-pomodoroAUR
  • Francis App that uses the well-known pomodoro technique to help you get more productive. Part of kde-utilities.
https://apps.kde.org/francis/ || francis
  • Gnomato Timer for the Pomodoro Technique.
https://github.com/diegorubin/gnomato || gnomatoAUR
  • Pilorama Eye-candy timeboxing tool written in QML
https://github.com/eplatonoff/pilorama || pilorama-gitAUR
  • Pomodoro Time management utility for GNOME based on the Pomodoro Technique.
https://gnomepomodoro.org/ || gnome-shell-pomodoroAUR
  • Pomodoro-Logger Pomodoro timer and logger with Kanban board for task management and tracking.
https://github.com/zxch3n/PomodoroLogger || pomodoro-loggerAUR
  • potato-c A minimal and efficient pomodoro timer with server-client structure.
https://github.com/nimaaskarian/potato-c || potato-cAUR
  • Solanum Pomodoro timer for the GNOME desktop.
https://apps.gnome.org/Solanum/ || solanum
  • Tomate Timer for the Pomodoro Technique.
https://github.com/eliostvs/tomate-gtk || tomate-gtkAUR
  • Tomighty Desktop timer for the Pomodoro Technique.
https://tomighty.github.io || tomightyAUR

Time trackers

  • ActivityWatch A self/local-hosted, cross-platform, client-server, privacy-focused active window tracker.
https://github.com/ActivityWatch/activitywatch || activitywatch-binAUR
  • Hamster Time tracking application that helps you to keep track on how much time you have spent during the day on activities you choose to track.
http://projecthamster.org/ || hamster-time-tracker
  • Kapow Punch clock to track time spent on projects.
https://gottcode.org/kapow/ || kapowAUR
  • KTimeTracker Todo management and time tracking application.
https://apps.kde.org/ktimetracker/ || ktimetracker
  • Tider Lightweight time tracking application (GTK)
https://github.com/naspeh/tider || tider-gitAUR
  • Timenaut Time tracker that tracks active windows and lets you sort them into categories. Based on the Electron platform.
https://timenaut.app/ || timenaut-appimageAUR
  • Timewarrior A command-line time-tracking application.
https://timewarrior.net/ || timew
  • Timetrack Simple time-tracking app for GNOME.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/danigm/timetrack || timetrackAUR
  • Wakatime Open source plugins for metrics about your programming with intuitive web-interface.
https://wakatime.com/ || wakatime

Task management

Console

  • c3 A multi-platform TUI todo manager that extends calcurse's todo format to have a tree-like dependency structure, and even more!
https://github.com/nimaaskarian/c3 || c3AUR
  • dijo Scriptable, curses-based, digital habit tracker
https://github.com/nerdypepper/dijo || dijoAUR
  • Taskbook Tasks, boards and notes for the command-line habitat.
https://github.com/klauscfhq/taskbook || taskbookAUR
  • Taskell A command-line kanban board/task manager.
https://github.com/smallhadroncollider/taskell || taskellAUR
  • Taskwarrior Command-line To-do list application with support for lua customization and more.
https://taskwarrior.org/ || task
  • todoman Command-line To-do list manager (supports CalDAV)
https://github.com/pimutils/todoman || todoman
  • Todo.txt Small command-line To-do manager.
https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-cli/ || todotxtAUR
  • TuDu Ncurses-based hierarchical To-do list manager with vim-like keybindings.
https://code.meskio.net/tudu/ || tuduAUR

Graphical

  • Agenda Simple, fast, no-nonsense to-do (task) list for elementary OS.
https://github.com/dahenson/agenda || agenda-gitAUR
  • Effitask Graphical task manager, based on the Todo.txt format.
https://github.com/sanpii/effitask || effitaskAUR
  • Endeavour Personal task manager for GNOME. Part of gnome-extra.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Todo || endeavour
  • Errands Todo application for those who prefer simplicity.
https://apps.gnome.org/List/ || errands
  • Go For It! Simple and stylish productivity app, featuring a to-do list, merged with a timer that keeps your focus on the current task. To-do lists are stored in the Todo.txt format.
https://manuelkehl.de/projects/go-for-it/ || go-for-it-gitAUR
https://github.com/getting-things-gnome/gtg || gtgAUR
https://github.com/nextcloud/tasks || nextcloud-app-tasks
  • Planner Task manager with Todoist support.
https://useplanner.com/ || planifyAUR
https://wpitchoune.net/ptask/ || ptaskAUR
  • sleek todo.txt app with modern GUI. Based on the Electron platform.
https://github.com/ransome1/sleek/ || sleekAUR
  • TickTick Is a simple and effective to-do list and task manager app with seamless cloud synchronization across all your devices
https://ticktick.com/ || ticktickAUR
  • Zanshin To-do management application for KDE. Part of kde-pim.
https://apps.kde.org/zanshin/ || zanshin

Contacts management

Console

  • Abook Text-based contacts manager designed for use with mutt.
https://abook.sourceforge.net/ || abookAUR
  • Khard Command-line addressbook that is able to sync with CardDAV-servers.
https://github.com/scheibler/khard || khard

Graphical

  • Communicator Integrated address book and dialer application features the search for and view of contacts, edit contact details, and make new contacts, favorites, and dialer pad. Part of maui.
https://mauikit.org/apps/communicator/ || communicator
  • GNOME Contacts Contacts manager for GNOME. Part of gnome.
https://apps.gnome.org/Contacts/ || gnome-contacts
  • KAddressBook Address book manager for KDE. Part of kde-pim.
https://kontact.kde.org/components/kaddressbook || kaddressbook
  • LDAP Administration Tool Browse LDAP-based directories and add/edit/delete entries contained within.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ldap-at/ || latAUR
  • Merkuro Contacts Address book using Akonadi. Part of kde-pim.
https://apps.kde.org/merkuro.contact/ || merkuro
  • Nextcloud Contacts Contacts app for Nextcloud.
https://github.com/nextcloud/contacts || nextcloud-app-contacts
  • phpLDAPadmin LDAP client webapp. Its hierarchical tree-viewer and advanced search functionality make it intuitive to browse and administer your LDAP directory.
https://phpldapadmin.sourceforge.net/ || phpldapadmin
https://gitlab.com/CardBook/CardBook || thunderbird

Financial management

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of accounting software.

Console

  • Beancount A double-entry bookkeeping computer language that lets you define financial transaction records in a text file, read them in memory, generate a variety of reports from them, and provides a web interface.
https://beancount.github.io/ || beancountAUR
  • esniper Simple, lightweight tool for sniping eBay auctions.
https://esniper.sourceforge.net/ || esniperAUR
  • hledger An accounting program for tracking money, time, or any other commodity, using double-entry accounting and a simple, editable file format. hledger is inspired by and largely compatible with ledger.
https://hledger.org/ || hledger
  • Ledger Ledger is a powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line.
https://www.ledger-cli.org/ || ledger

Graphical

  • Eqonomize! Cross-platform personal accounting software, with focus on efficiency and ease of use for the small household economy.
https://eqonomize.github.io/ || eqonomizeAUR
  • ERPNext Free and open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).
https://github.com/frappe/erpnext || erpnextAUR
  • GnuCash Financial application that implements a double-entry book-keeping system with features for small business accounting.
https://www.gnucash.org/ || gnucash
  • Grisbi Personal finance system which manages third party, expenditure and receipt categories, as well as budgetary lines, financial years, and other information that makes it suitable for associations.
https://www.grisbi.org/ || grisbiAUR
  • HomeBank Easy to use finance manager that can analyse your personal finance in detail using powerful filtering tools and graphs.
http://homebank.free.fr/ || homebank
  • KMyMoney Personal finance manager that operates in a similar way to Microsoft Money. It supports different account types, categorisation of expenses and incomes, reconciliation of bank accounts and import/export to the “QIF” file format.
https://kmymoney.org/ || kmymoney
  • Kresus Self-hosted personal finance management software. It automatically retrieves every day all your new bank transactions and lets you categorize them, study them through charts and establish a budget.
https://kresus.org/en/ || kresus
  • Manager Proprietary accounting software for small business.
https://www.manager.io/ || manager-accountingAUR
  • Money Manager EX An easy-to-use personal finance suite
https://www.moneymanagerex.org/ || moneymanagerexAUR
  • Odoo Open source ERP system purely in Python. Previously known as OpenERP.
https://www.odoo.com/ || odoo-venvAUR
  • Skrooge Personal finances manager for the KDE desktop.
https://skrooge.org/ || skrooge

Cryptocurrency

  • Atomic Wallet Manage your Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Litecoin, XLM, and over 300 other coins and tokens.
https://atomicwallet.io/ || atomicwalletAUR
  • Bitcoin Core Connect to the Bitcoin P2P Network.
https://bitcoincore.org/ || bitcoin-qt
  • Cake Wallet Multicurrency wallet.
https://github.com/cake-tech/cake_wallet || cake-wallet-binAUR
  • Sparrow Wallet Advanced Bitcoin client.
https://sparrowwallet.com/ || sparrow-walletAUR
  • Coinomi Securely store, manage and exchange Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more than 1,770 other blockchain assets.
https://www.coinomi.com/ || coinomi-wallet-binAUR
  • Cointop Terminal based application for tracking cryptocurrencies.
https://cointop.sh/ || cointopAUR
  • Electrum Lightweight Bitcoin client.
https://electrum.org/ || electrum
https://www.etherwall.com/ || etherwall
  • Exodus All-in-one proprietary application to secure, manage, and exchange blockchain assets. Based on the Electron platform.
https://www.exodus.io/ || exodusAUR
https://github.com/ethereum/mist || mistAUR
  • Monero Monero wallet.
https://getmonero.org/ || monero-gui, monero
  • Feather Wallet Lightweight Monero wallet.
https://featherwallet.org/ || feather-walletAUR
  • Dogecoin Core Dogecoin Core wallet, Allows you to connect to the Dogecoin P2P Network.
https://dogecoin.com/ || dogecoin-qtAUR, multidogeAUR

Project management

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of project management software.

  • Calligra Plan Project management application, which is intended for managing moderately large projects with multiple resources.
https://calligra.org/components/plan/ || calligra-plan
  • GanttProject Project scheduling application featuring gantt chart, resource management, calendaring.
https://www.ganttproject.biz/ || ganttprojectAUR
  • Notion-app A note-taking software and project management software that is used for note-taking, task management, project management, knowledge management, and personal knowledge management.
https://www.notion.so/ || notion-appAUR
  • Planner Project management application for GNOME.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Planner || planner
https://www.projectlibre.com/product/projectlibre-open-source || projectlibreAUR
  • TaskJuggler Modern and powerful project management tool. Its new approach to project planning and tracking is more flexible and superior to the commonly used Gantt chart editing tools.
https://taskjuggler.org/ || taskjugglerAUR

Bookmark management

  • KEditBookmarks Bookmark organizer and editor. Part of kde-utilities.
https://invent.kde.org/utilities/keditbookmarks || keditbookmarks
  • Read It Later Simple Wallabag client.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/read-it-later || read-it-later

Recipe management

  • Gourmand Simple but powerful recipe-managing application.
https://github.com/GourmandRecipeManager/gourmand || gourmandAUR
  • Recipes Recipe management application for GNOME. Part of gnome-extra.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Recipes || gnome-recipes

Travel management

See also List of applications/Science#Navigation and routing.

  • Itinerary Digital travel assistant with a priority on protecting your privacy. Part of kde-pim.
https://apps.kde.org/itinerary/ || itinerary

Health management

  • Health Health tracking app for the GNOME desktop.
https://apps.gnome.org/Health/ || health

Education

See also List of games#Education.

  • Artikulate Pronunciation trainer that helps improving and perfecting a learner's pronunciation skills for a foreign language. Part of kde-education.
https://apps.kde.org/artikulate/ || artikulate
  • Fretboard Look up guitar chords.
https://apps.gnome.org/Fretboard/ || fretboard
  • Kalm Teach you different breathing techniques. Part of kde-utilities.
https://apps.kde.org/kalm/ || kalm
  • Moodle Open-source software learning management system.
https://moodle.org/ || moodleAUR
  • OpenBoard Interactive whiteboard software for schools and universities.
https://openboard.ch/index.en.html || openboardAUR
  • Wike Wikipedia reader for the GNOME desktop.
https://apps.gnome.org/Wike/ || wike
  • Wildcard Provides a simple interface to test/practice regular expressions.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Wildcard || wildcard

Flashcards

See also Wikipedia:List of flashcard software.

  • Anki Intelligent spaced-repetition memory training program.
https://apps.ankiweb.net/ || ankiAUR
  • jVLT Vocabulary learning tool.
https://www.linuxlinks.com/jVLT/ || jvltAUR
  • KWordQuiz Tool that gives you a powerful way to master new vocabularies. Part of kde-education.
https://apps.kde.org/kwordquiz/ || kwordquiz
  • Mnemosyne Flash-card tool which optimizes your learning process.
https://mnemosyne-proj.org/ || mnemosyneAUR
  • Parley Program to help you memorize things. It uses the spaced repetition learning method, also known as flash cards. Part of kde-education.
https://apps.kde.org/parley/ || parley
  • Pauker Flash card based learning tool using shortterm and longterm memory training.
https://pauker.sourceforge.net/ || paukerAUR
  • StudyFlash Learn flashcards inside your terminal
https://github.com/Alone2/studyFlash || studyflashAUR

Touch typing

Console

  • Dvorak 7min Simple ncurses-based typing tutor for those trying to become fluent with the Dvorak keyboard layout.
https://github.com/yaychris/dvorak7min || dvorak7minAUR
  • GNU Typist Universal typing tutor.
https://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/ || gtypistAUR
  • psani-profi Program that will teach you touchtyping (Czech).
https://www.sallyx.org/sally/psani-vsemi-deseti/ || psani-profiAUR
  • Typespeed Test your typing speed, and get your fingers' CPS.
https://typespeed.sourceforge.net/ || typespeedAUR
  • typiskt touchtype training in the terminal (Bash).
https://github.com/budlabs/typiskt || typisktAUR

Graphical

  • Klavaro Teaching touch typing that intends to be keyboard and language independent.
https://klavaro.sourceforge.io/ || klavaro
https://apps.kde.org/ktouch/ || ktouch
  • TIPP10 Intelligent touch typing tutor.
https://www.tipp10.com/ || tipp10
  • TypingTest Typing test desktop program with a large amount of customization.
https://github.com/laelath/typingtest || typingtest-gitAUR

Accessibility

See Accessibility for tips on operating the desktop and Category:Accessibility for all available articles. See also On-screen keyboards.

Speech synthesizers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of speech synthesizers and listening comparison of the different engines.

  • Ekho Chinese text-to-speech (TTS) software for Cantonese, Mandarin, Zhaoan Hakka, Tibetan, Ngangien and Korean.
https://eguidedog.net/ekho.php || ekhoAUR
  • eSpeak Compact speech synthesizer for more than 50 languages.
https://espeak.sourceforge.net/ || espeakAUR
  • eSpeak NG Fork of eSpeak (due to inactivity of original maintainer).
https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng || espeak-ng
  • Festival General framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole it offers full text to speech.
https://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ || festival
  • Flite Lightweight speech synthesis engine.
http://festvox.org/flite/ || flite
  • Gespeaker GTK frontend for espeak. It allows you to play a text in many languages with settings for voice, pitch, volume and speed.
https://muflone.com/gespeaker/english/ || gespeakerAUR
  • KMouth Speech synthesizer frontend which enables persons that cannot speak to let their computer speak. Part of kde-accessibility.
https://apps.kde.org/kmouth/ || kmouth
  • MaryTTS Multilingual text-to-speech synthesis platform written in Java.
https://marytts.github.io/ || maryttsAUR
  • MBROLA Proprietary phonemes-to-audio program which supports more than 70 languages. Mbrola-voices can also be used with eSpeak.
http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html || mbrolaAUR
  • Mimic Text-to-speech voice synthesis from the Mycroft project (based on Flite).
https://mimic.mycroft.ai/ || mimicAUR
  • Open JTalk Japanese text-to-speech synthesis system.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-jtalk/ || open-jtalkAUR
  • Orca Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired, using eSpeak (via Speech Dispatcher). Part of gnome.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca || orca
  • piper A fast, local neural text to speech system.
https://github.com/rhasspy/piper || piper-tts-binAUR
  • RHVoice Cross-platform (including Android) text-to-speech from a blind Russian-speaking developer, based on HTS (ru, ka, uk, ky, tt, en, pt, eo)
https://github.com/RHVoice/RHVoice || rhvoice
  • SOPS Provides a simple way to write custom plugins for screen reader Orca.
https://github.com/chrys87/simple-orca-plugin-system || simpleorcapluginsystemAUR
  • Speech dispatcher Common interface to speech synthesis. It has backends for eSpeak, Festival, and a few other speech synthesizers.
https://freebsoft.org/speechd || speech-dispatcher

Speech recognition

See also Wikipedia:Speech recognition software for Linux.

  • Julius Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition engine.
https://github.com/julius-speech/julius || julius
  • Kaldi Speech recognition toolkit.
https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi || kaldiAUR
  • Kalliope Modular always-on voice controlled personal assistant designed for home automation.
https://kalliope-project.github.io/ || kalliopeAUR
  • Kaylee Somewhat fancy voice command recognition program that performs actions when a user speaks loosely preset sentences.
https://github.com/Ratfink/kaylee || kayleevcAUR
  • Mycroft Hackable voice assistant.
https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core || mycroft-coreAUR
  • Numen Voice control for handsfree computing
https://sr.ht/~geb/numen/ || numenAUR
  • nerd-dictation Light weight manually activated dictation using the VOSK-API
https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation || nerd-dictation-gitAUR

Screen magnifiers

  • boomer Zoomer application for Linux.
https://github.com/tsoding/boomer || boomer-gitAUR
  • KMag Small KDE utility to magnify a part of the screen. Part of kde-accessibility.
https://apps.kde.org/kmag/ || kmag
  • Magnus Very simple desktop magnifier, showing the area around the mouse pointer in a separate window magnified two, three, four, or five times.
https://kryogenix.org/code/magnus/ || magnusAUR
  • Virtual Magnifying Glass Simple, customizable and easy-to-use screen magnification tool.
https://magnifier.sourceforge.net/ || vmgAUR
  • xzoom Zoom, rotate and mirror area of X display.
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/X11/libs/!INDEX.short.html || xzoomAUR

On-screen annotation

  • Gromit-MPX Tool to make annotations on the screen.
https://github.com/bk138/gromit-mpx || gromit-mpxAUR
  • Pylote Tool to draw on the screen.
http://pascal.peter.free.fr/pylote-en.html || pylote-gitAUR
  • Screenkey Tool to display pressed keys.
https://www.thregr.org/~wavexx/software/screenkey/ || screenkey
  • Show Me The Key A screenkey alternative that works under Wayland via libinput
https://showmethekey.alynx.one || showmethekeyAUR

Mouse

  • Easystroke Use mouse gestures to initiate commands and hotkeys.
https://github.com/thjaeger/easystroke/wiki || easystrokeAUR
  • KMouseTool Clicks the mouse whenever the mouse cursor pauses briefly. It was designed to help those with repetitive strain injuries, for whom pressing buttons hurts. Part of kde-accessibility.
https://apps.kde.org/kmousetool/ || kmousetool
  • Mousetweaks Accessibility enhancements for pointing devices.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Mousetweaks || mousetweaks

Display managers

See the main article: Display manager#List of display managers.

Desktop environments

See the main article: Desktop environment#List of desktop environments.

Window managers

Console

See also List of applications/Utilities#Terminal multiplexers, which offer some of the functions of window managers for the console.

  • twin Text-mode window manager.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/twin/ || twinAUR
  • Wmutils A set of tools for X windows manipulation.
https://github.com/wmutils/core || wmutils-gitAUR

Graphical

See the main article: Window manager#List of window managers.

Composite managers

See the main article: Xorg#List of composite managers.

Wayland Compositors

See the main article: Wayland#Compositors.

Window tilers

  • QuickTile Lightweight standalone alternative to Compiz Grid plugin.
http://ssokolow.com/quicktile/ || quicktile-gitAUR
  • wumwum The Window Manager manager. It can turn emwh compliant window managers into a tiling window manager while retaining all initial functionalities.
https://wumwum.sourceforge.net/ || wumwumAUR

Taskbars

See also Wikipedia:Taskbar.

  • Bmpanel Lightweight, NETWM compliant panel.
https://github.com/nsf/bmpanel2 || bmpanel2AUR
  • Cairo-Dock Highly customizable dock and launcher application.
https://www.glx-dock.org/ || cairo-dock
  • CoreAction Side bar with some handy gadgets like system loads, calendar, calculator, notes etc. Part of C-Suite.
https://gitlab.com/cubocore || coreactionAUR
  • Dash to Panel A fully customizable icon taskbar for gnome-shell. Moves the dash into the GNOME main panel, similar to KDE Plasma and Windows 10.
https://github.com/home-sweet-gnome/dash-to-panel || gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-panel
  • eww Elkowars Wacky Widgets is a standalone widget system made in Rust that allows you to implement your own, custom widgets in any window manager.
https://github.com/elkowar/eww || ewwAUR
  • fbpanel Lightweight, NETWM compliant desktop panel.
https://aanatoly.github.io/fbpanel/ || fbpanelAUR
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomePanel || gnome-panel
  • Latte Dock based on Plasma frameworks that provides an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and plasmoids.
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/latte-dock || latte-dock-gitAUR
  • Lemonbar A featherweight bar based on XCB. Provides UTF-8 support, background and foreground colors, text alignment, and not much more.
https://github.com/LemonBoy/bar || lemonbar-gitAUR
  • LXPanel Lightweight X11 desktop panel and part of the LXDE desktop.
https://lxde.org/ || lxpanel
  • MATE Panel Panel included in the MATE desktop.
https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-panel/ || mate-panel
  • nwg-dock GTK-based dock designed for the Sway window manager.
https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-dock || nwg-dock
  • nwg-panel GTK3-based panel for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors.
https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-panel || nwg-panel
  • PerlPanel The ideal accompaniment to a light-weight Window Manager such as OpenBox, or a desktop-drawing program like iDesk.
https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/perlpanel || perlpanel-gitAUR[broken link: package not found]
  • Plank Elegant, simple, clean dock from pantheon desktop environment.
https://launchpad.net/plank || plank
  • Polybar a fast and easy-to-use tool for creating status bars.
https://github.com/jaagr/polybar || polybar
  • Tint2 Simple panel/taskbar developed specifically for Openbox.
https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2 || tint2
  • Vala Panel Gtk3 panel for compositing window managers
https://gitlab.com/vala-panel-project/vala-panel || vala-panel-gitAUR
  • Xfce Panel Panel included in the Xfce desktop.
https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/start || xfce4-panel
  • xmobar A lightweight, text-based, status bar written in Haskell.
https://archives.haskell.org/projects.haskell.org/xmobar/ || xmobar
  • Waybar A customizable taskbar for Wlroots-based Wayland compositors.
https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/ || waybar
  • yambar A modular and lightweight status panel for X11 and Wayland that goes to great lengths to be both CPU and battery efficient.
https://codeberg.org/dnkl/yambar || yambarAUR

System tray

Desktop environments typically have their own system tray implementation. E.g. KDE ships with Plasma Panel and Xfce ships with xfce4-panel. For GNOME, see GNOME#AppIndicators/Top bar icons. For dwm, see systray patch.

  • AllTray Dock other applications into the system tray (notification area).
https://github.com/mbt/alltray || alltray
  • Docker Docking application which acts as a system tray.
https://icculus.org/openbox/2/docker/ || docker-trayAUR
  • KDocker Dock any application in the system tray (notification area).
https://github.com/user-none/KDocker || kdockerAUR
  • Stalonetray Stand-alone freedesktop.org and KDE system tray (notification area) for Xorg. It has full XEMBED support and minimal dependencies: an X11 lib only. Stalonetray works with virtually any EWMH-compliant window manager.
https://stalonetray.sourceforge.net/ || stalonetray
  • Trayer Lightweight GTK-based system tray (notification area).
https://github.com/sargon/trayer-srg/ || trayer

Tray indicators

Desktop-independent tray indicators. Useful for window managers without built-in tray widgets:

Application launchers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of desktop application launchers.

  • Albert Sophisticated, plugin based standalone keyboard launcher.
https://albertlauncher.github.io/ || albertAUR
  • Application Finder Easy-to-use application launcher from Xfce.
https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-appfinder/start || xfce4-appfinder
  • Bashrun2 Provides a different, barebones approach to a run dialog, using a specialized Bash session within a small xterm window.
http://henning-bekel.de/bashrun2/ || bashrun2AUR
  • bemenu Lightweight dynamic menu inspired by dmenu. Works natively on Wayland.
https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu || bemenu
  • Cartridges Simple game launcher written in Python using GTK4 and Libadwaita.
https://apps.gnome.org/Cartridges/ || cartridges
  • dmenu Fast and lightweight dynamic menu for X which is also useful as an application launcher.
https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/ || dmenu
  • dmenu-extended Extension to dmenu for quickly opening files and folders.
https://github.com/markjones112358/dmenu-extended || dmenu-extended-gitAUR
  • dswitcher dmenu-based window switcher that works regardless of workspace or minimization.
https://github.com/Antithesisx/dswitcher || dswitcher-gitAUR
  • fuzzel Application launcher for wlroots based Wayland compositors, similar to rofi's `drun` mode.
https://codeberg.org/dnkl/fuzzel || fuzzel
  • Gmrun Lightweight GTK-based application launcher, with the ability to run programs inside a terminal and other handy features.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gmrun/ || gmrun
  • GNOME Games GNOME application to browse your local video games library and to easily pick and play a game from it. Part of gnome-extra.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Games || gnome-games
  • Gnome-Pie Circular application launcher (pie menu) for Linux. It is made of several pies, each consisting of multiple slices.
https://simmesimme.github.io/gnome-pie.html || gnome-pie
  • higgins Desktop agnostic application launcher, file finder, calculator and more. Plugin based and freely and easily extendable via user-written plugins
https://github.com/kokoko3k/higgins || higgins-gitAUR
  • j4-dmenu-desktop Very fast dmenu application launcher.
https://github.com/enkore/j4-dmenu-desktop || j4-dmenu-desktop
  • jgmenu Simple, independent, contemporary-looking X11 menu, designed for scripting, ricing and tweaking.
https://github.com/johanmalm/jgmenu || jgmenu
  • Junction Application chooser to open files and links.
https://apps.gnome.org/Junction/ || junction
  • Kupfer Convenient command and access tool for the GNOME desktop that can launch applications, open documents and access different types of objects and act on them.
https://kupferlauncher.github.io/ || kupfer
  • launch Simple command for launching applications from a terminal emulator.
https://github.com/silverhammermba/launch || launch-cmdAUR
  • Launchy Very popular cross-platform application launcher with a plugin-based system used to provide extra functionality.
https://www.launchy.net/ || launchy
  • Lighthouse Simple scriptable popup dialog to run on X.
https://github.com/emgram769/lighthouse || lighthouse-gitAUR
  • nwg-drawer GTK-based application drawer designed for the Sway compositor.
https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-drawer || nwg-drawer
  • nwg-menu GTK-based application menu designed for the Sway compositor.
https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-menu || nwg-menu
  • rofi Popup window switcher roughly based on superswitcher, requiring only xlib and pango.
https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/ || rofi
  • rlaunch An extremely fast and light-weight dmenu-like application launcher written in Rust
https://github.com/PonasKovas/rlaunch || rlaunchAUR
  • Synapse Semantic launcher written in Vala that you can use to start applications as well as find and access relevant documents and files by making use of the Zeitgeist engine.
https://launchpad.net/synapse-project || synapse
  • Ulauncher Modern and shiny launcher that provides fuzzy search, extensions, and themes
https://ulauncher.io/ || ulauncherAUR
  • vonal Modern customizable global menu with unlimiting plugin system written in Rust
https://github.com/fxdave/vonal-rust || vonal-binAUR
  • wofi GTK-based popup window switcher for Wayland compositors such as sway. Inspired by rofi.
https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wofi || wofi
  • wmenu Dynamic menu for Sway and wlroots based Wayland compositors. Provides a Wayland-native dmenu replacement which maintains the look and feel of dmenu
https://git.sr.ht/~adnano/wmenu || wmenu
  • yofi Minimalistic menu for Wayland-based compositors.
https://github.com/l4l/yofi || yofiAUR
  • tofi Tiny dynamic menu, fast and simple dmenu/rofi replacement for Wayland compositors such as sway.
https://github.com/philj56/tofi || tofiAUR

Application menu editors

  • Alacarte Add or remove applications from the main menu.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/alacarte || alacarte
  • AppEditor Edit application entries in the application menu.
https://github.com/donadigo/appeditor || appeditor-gitAUR
  • Ezame Desktop and menu file editor.
https://github.com/linux-man/ezame || ezameAUR
  • KMenuEdit Edit one of the KDE application launchers. Part of plasma.
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kmenuedit || kmenuedit
  • lxmed Application menu editor written in Java.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxmed/ || lxmedAUR
  • MenuLibre Advanced menu editor that provides modern features in a clean, easy-to-use interface.
https://launchpad.net/menulibre || menulibreAUR
  • Meow Application menu editor written in Java.
https://pnmougel.github.io/meow/ || meow-binAUR
  • Mozo Change which applications are shown on the main menu.
https://github.com/mate-desktop/mozo || mozo

Wallpaper setters

See also Wikipedia:Wallpaper (computing).

  • bgs An extremely fast and small background setter for X based on imlib2.
https://github.com/Gottox/bgs/ || bgs-gitAUR
  • feh A lightweight and powerful image viewer that can also be used to manage the desktop wallpaper.
https://feh.finalrewind.org/ || feh
  • Fondo Find a variety of the most beautiful wallpapers from Unsplash.com.
https://github.com/calo001/fondo || fondoAUR
  • habak A background changing app.
https://fvwm-crystal.sourceforge.io/ || habakAUR[broken link: package not found]
  • Hanabi Live Wallpaper for GNOME.
https://github.com/jeffshee/gnome-ext-hanabi || gnome-shell-extension-hanabi-gitAUR
  • Hidamari Video wallpaper for Linux. Written in Python.
https://github.com/jeffshee/hidamari || hidamariAUR
  • hsetroot A tool to create compose wallpapers.
https://packages.debian.org/sid/hsetroot || hsetroot
  • HydraPaper GTK utility to set two different backgrounds for each monitor on GNOME.
https://gabmus.gitlab.io/HydraPaper/ || hydrapaper-gitAUR
  • Hyprpaper Hyprpaper is a blazing fast wayland wallpaper utility with IPC controls.
https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprpaper || hyprpaper-gitAUR
  • LiveWallpaper Animated 3D wallpapers.
https://launchpad.net/livewallpaper || livewallpaperAUR
  • mpvpaper A video wallpaper program for wlroots based wayland compositors.
https://github.com/GhostNaN/mpvpaper || mpvpaperAUR
  • Nitrogen A fast and lightweight desktop background browser and setter for X windows.
https://github.com/l3ib/nitrogen || nitrogen
  • oguri An animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland compositors.
https://github.com/vilhalmer/oguri || oguri-gitAUR
  • pacwall A live wallpaper that shows the dependency graph and status of installed packages.
https://github.com/Kharacternyk/pacwall || pacwall-gitAUR
  • pybgsetter Multi-backend (hsetroot, Esetroot, habak, feh) to set desktop wallpaper.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88997 || pybgsetterAUR
  • pywal Changes the wallpaper and creates matching colorschemes for various applications (rofi, i3, terminals)
https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal || python-pywal
  • swaybg Wallpaper tool for Wayland compositors.
https://github.com/swaywm/swaybg || swaybg
  • swww Efficient animated wallpaper daemon for wayland, controlled at runtime.
https://github.com/Horus645/swww || swww
  • Variety Changes the wallpaper on a regular interval using user-specified or automatically downloaded images.
https://peterlevi.com/variety/ || variety
  • Xlivebg A live wallpaper framework and collection of live wallpapers for the X window system.
http://nuclear.mutantstargoat.com/sw/xlivebg/ || xlivebgAUR
  • xwallpaper Minimalistic wallpaper setting utility for X.
https://github.com/stoeckmann/xwallpaper || xwallpaper
Tip: In order to avoid installing one more package, you may find convenient to use the display utility from imagemagick or gm display from graphicsmagick. E.g.: display -backdrop -background '#3f3f3f' -flatten -window root image.

Virtual desktop pagers

See also Wikipedia:Pager (GUI).

  • bbpager Dockable pager for blackbox and other window managers.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/bbtools/ || bbpager
  • fbpager Virtual desktop pager for fluxbox.
http://www.fluxbox.org/fbpager[dead link 2025-01-22 ] || fbpager-gitAUR
  • IPager A configurable pager with transparency, originally developed for Fluxbox.
http://useperl.ru/ipager/index.en.html || ipagerAUR
  • Netwmpager A NetWM/EWMH compatible pager.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sf-xpaint/files/netwmpager/ || netwmpagerAUR

Desktop widgets

  • gDesklets System for bringing mini programs (desklets) onto your desktop.
https://launchpad.net/gdesklets || gdeskletsAUR
  • KRuler Displays on screen a ruler measuring pixels. Part of kde-graphics.
https://apps.kde.org/kruler/ || kruler

Desktop notifications

See: Notification servers.

Clipboard managers

See Clipboard#Managers.

Logout UI

  • clearine Beautiful Logout UI for X11 window manager
https://github.com/okitavera/clearine || clearine-gitAUR
  • nwg-bar Configurable button bar for wlroots-based compositors.
https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-bar || nwg-bar
https://launchpad.net/oblogout || oblogout-py3-gitAUR
  • wlogout Logout menu for wayland
https://github.com/ArtsyMacaw/wlogout || wlogoutAUR


Artificial intelligence

Text-to-image models

  • Stable Diffusion Web UI (AUTOMATIC1111) A web interface for Stable Diffusion, implemented using Gradio library.
https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui || stable-diffusion-webui-gitAUR
  • stable-diffusion.cpp Inference of Stable Diffusion in pure C/C++
https://github.com/leejet/stable-diffusion.cpp || stable-diffusion.cpp-gitAUR
  • StabilityMatrix Multi-Platform Package Manager for Stable Diffusion
https://github.com/LykosAI/StabilityMatrix || stabilitymatrixAUR
  • krita-ai-diffusion Streamlined interface for generating images with AI in Krita. Inpaint and outpaint with optional text prompt, no tweaking required.
https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion || krita-ai-diffusionAUR, krita-ai-toolsAUR
  • Upscayl Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler
https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl || upscayl-binAUR

AI assistance tools

  • AIChat All-in-one AI CLI tool featuring Chat-REPL, ChatGPT, Shell Assistant, RAG, AI tools & agents, with access to OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, Groq, and more.
https://github.com/sigoden/aichat || aichat
  • AnythingLLM The all-in-one AI application, tool suite, and API for RAG & Agents for Docker & Desktop.
https://anythingllm.com/ || anythingllm-desktop-binAUR
  • chatbox Chatbox is a desktop app for GPT-4 / GPT-3.5 (OpenAI API) that supports Windows, Mac & Linux.
https://chatboxai.app || chatbox-binAUR
  • ChatGPT Desktop Application ChatGPT Desktop Application
https://github.com/lencx/ChatGPT || chatgpt-desktop-binAUR
  • chatGPT-shell-cli Use OpenAI's ChatGPT and DALL-E from the terminal.
https://github.com/0xacx/chatGPT-shell-cli.git || chatgpt-shell-cliAUR
  • codai AI code assistant that helps developers through a session CLI
https://github.com/meysamhadeli/codai || codaiAUR
  • shellChatGPT Wrapper for ChatGPT, DALL-E, Whisper, and TTS. Features LocalAI, Ollama, and more
https://gitlab.com/fenixdragao/shellchatgpt || chatgpt.shAUR

Local LLM deployment and usage

  • GPT4All Chat with Local LLMs on Any Device
https://gpt4all.io/ || gpt4all-chatAUR
  • Jan Run AI on your own PC
https://jan.ai/ || jan-binAUR
  • koboldcpp A simple one-file way to run various GGML and GGUF models with a KoboldAI UI
https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp || koboldcppAUR, koboldcpp-cudaAUR, koboldcpp-hipblasAUR
  • llama.cpp Port of Facebook's LLaMA model in C/C++
https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp || llama.cpp-gitAUR
  • llamafile Distribute and run LLMs with a single file.
https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile || llamafileAUR
  • LM Studio Discover, download, and run local LLMs
https://lmstudio.ai/ || lmstudioAUR
  • msty The easiest way to use local and online AI models.
https://msty.app || msty-binAUR

Multi-model and advanced frameworks

  • Lobe Chat An open-source, modern-design LLMs/AI chat framework. Supports Multi AI Providers( OpenAI / Claude 3 / Gemini / Ollama / Bedrock / Azure / Mistral / Perplexity ), Multi-Modals (Vision/TTS) and plugin system
https://github.com/lobehub/lobe-chat || lobe-chatAUR
  • ollama Create, run and share large language models (LLMs)
https://github.com/ollama/ollama || ollama, ollama-cuda
  • ShellGPT A command-line productivity tool powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT (GPT-3.5)
https://github.com/TheR1D/shell_gpt || shellgpt-gitAUR
  • whisper.cpp Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++
https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp || whisper.cppAUR
  • whisper General-purpose speech-recognition model by OpenAI
https://github.com/openai/whisper || whisper-gitAUR[broken link: package not found]
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