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List of applications/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-gitAUR
  • 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/ || libreswanAUR
  • Mullvad A GUI client for the Mullvad VPN service
https://mullvad.net/ || mullvad-vpnAUR
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
https://www.infradead.org/openconnect/ || openconnect
https://www.openswan.org/ || openswanAUR
  • 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-vpnAUR or riseup-vpn-configuratorAUR
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 || voponoAUR
  • 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[dead link 2024-01-13 ] || 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-clientAUR
  • hiddify-next Multiplatform chain proxy client based on sing-boxAUR.
https://github.com/hiddify/hiddify-next || hiddify-nextAUR
  • NaïveProxy A Proxy using Chrome's network stack to camouflage traffic with strong censorship resistence and low detectablility.
https://github.com/klzgrad/naiveproxy || naiveproxyAUR
  • 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
  • V2RayN A GUI client for Windows, Linux and macOS, support xrayAUR and sing-boxAUR cores and others.
https://github.com/2dust/v2rayN || v2rayNAUR
  • Nekoray Multiplatform chain proxy client based on sing-boxAUR.
https://github.com/MatsuriDayo/nekoray || nekorayAUR
  • Shadowsocks Secure socks5 proxy, designed to protect your Internet traffic.
https://shadowsocks.org/ || Python: shadowsocks, Rust: shadowsocks-rust
  • Squid Caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.
https://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
  • Wireproxy WireGuard client that exposes itself as a SOCKS5 proxy.
https://github.com/pufferffish/wireproxy || wireproxy
  • XX-Net Easy to use web proxy tool.
https://github.com/XX-net/XX-Net/ || xx-netAUR
  • Ziproxy Forwarding (non-caching) compressing HTTP proxy server.
https://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/ || freenetAUR
  • GNUnet Framework for secure peer-to-peer networking.
https://gnunet.org/ || CLI: gnunetAUR, GUI: gnunet-gtkAUR
  • I2P Distributed anonymous network.
https://geti2p.net/ || i2pd, i2pAUR
  • Lantern Peer-to-peer internet censorship circumvention software.
https://getlantern.org/ || lantern-binAUR
  • Lokinet Anonymous, decentralized and IP based overlay network for the internet.
https://lokinet.org/ || lokinetAUR
  • 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

Deep packet inspection circumvention

Tools to avoid censorship, bandwidth throttle without anonymization. See Wikipedia:Deep packet inspection, Wikipedia:Internet censorship circumvention for an introduction to the topic.

  • Bypass DPI A simple software using SOCKS5, written in C and targeted at Russian censorship.
https://github.com/hufrea/byedpi || byedpiAUR
  • Cloak A pluggable transport that works alongside traditional proxy tools like OpenVPN, written in Go.
https://github.com/cbeuw/Cloak || cloak-obfuscationAUR
  • DPI Tunnel An HTTP/transparent proxy, written in C++ and targeted at Russian censorship.
https://github.com/txtsd/DPITunnel || dpitunnelAUR
  • Green Tunnel An anti-censorship utility using SOCKS5, written in nodejs and targeted at Iranian censorship.
https://github.com/SadeghHayeri/GreenTunnel || green-tunnelAUR
  • SpoofDPI A simple and fast tool using SOCKS5, written in Go.
https://github.com/xvzc/SpoofDPI || spoofdpiAUR
  • zapret A Netfilter queue mode or SOCKS5/transparent proxy, written in C and targeted at Russian censorship.
https://github.com/bol-van/zapret || zapret-gitAUR

Web browsers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of web browsers.

Console

  • browsh A fully-modern text-based browser. Runs as a frontend to headless Firefox.
https://www.brow.sh/ || browshAUR
  • 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

See also Wikipedia:Gecko (software).

  • Firefox Extensible browser from Mozilla based on Gecko with fast rendering.
https://mozilla.com/firefox || firefox
  • SeaMonkey Continuation of the Mozilla Internet Suite.
https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ || seamonkeyAUR
Firefox spin-offs
  • FireDragon A fork of Floorp that includes KDE integration patches and custom branding for Garuda.
https://gitlab.com/garuda-linux/firedragon/settings || firedragonAUR
  • Floorp Firefox-based browser with excellent privacy protection, developed by a community of students in Japan.
https://floorp.ablaze.one || floorpAUR
  • 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/ || icecatAUR
  • LibreWolf A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.
https://librewolf.net/ || librewolfAUR
  • Mercury Firefox fork with compiler optimizations and patches from Librewolf, Waterfox, and GNU IceCat.
https://thorium.rocks/mercury || mercury-browser-binAUR
  • Midori Light, fast and secure browser.
https://github.com/goastian/midori-desktop || midoriAUR
  • Mullvad Browser Privacy-focused web browser developed by Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project.
https://mullvad.net/en/browser || mullvad-browser-binAUR
  • 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-binAUR
  • 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 Fork of Mozilla Firefox featuring some privacy, usability, and speed enhancements.
https://www.waterfox.net/ || waterfoxAUR
  • Zen Browser An experimental, privacy-focused and performance-optimized fork of Firefox with additional features, such as tab groups and a sidebar.
https://www.zen-browser.app/ || zen-browser-binAUR

See also Wikipedia:Blink (web engine).

  • Chromium Web browser developed by Google, the open source project behind Google Chrome.
https://www.chromium.org/ || chromium
Privacy-focused chromium spin-offs
  • Brave Web browser with builtin ad- and tracker blocking.
https://www.brave.com/ || brave-binAUR
  • Ungoogled Chromium Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration and enhancing privacy, control, and transparency
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium || ungoogled-chromiumAUR
  • 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-binAUR
  • Cromite Cromite is a Chromium fork based on Bromite (Currently unmaintained) with built-in support for ad blocking and an eye for privacy. See List of features.
https://www.cromite.org/ || cromite-binAUR
Proprietary chromium spin-offs
https://www.google.com/chrome/ || google-chromeAUR
https://www.microsoft.com/edge/ || microsoft-edge-stable-binAUR
  • Opera Proprietary browser developed by Opera Software.
https://opera.com || operaAUR
  • Slimjet Fast, smart and powerful proprietary browser based on Chromium.
https://www.slimjet.com/ || slimjetAUR
  • 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-browserAUR
Browsers based on Qt WebEngine
  • Angelfish Web browser for Plasma Mobile. Part of kde-network.
https://apps.kde.org/angelfish/ || angelfish
  • Dooble Colorful Web browser.
https://textbrowser.github.io/dooble/ || doobleAUR
  • 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/ || ericAUR
  • Falkon Web browser based on QtWebEngine, written in Qt framework. Part of kde-network.
https://falkon.org/ || falkon
  • Fiery A convergent web browser. Part of maui.
https://mauikit.org/apps/ || fiery
https://apps.kde.org/konqueror/ || konqueror
  • Liri Browser A minimalistic material design web browser written for Liri.
https://github.com/lirios/browser || liri-browser-gitAUR
  • Otter Browser Browser aiming to recreate classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5.
https://otter-browser.org/ || otter-browserAUR
  • 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-browserAUR
  • Catalyst A minimal FOSS web browser with no data collection.
https://getcatalyst.eu.org || catalyst-browser-binAUR
  • Franz Messaging browser for WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Telegram and many other web services.
https://meetfranz.com/ || franzAUR
  • Hamsket A GPL-licensed alternative to Franz, forked from the last open sources of Rambox.
https://github.com/TheGoddessInari/hamsket || hamsketAUR
  • Min A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy. It includes an interface designed to minimize distractions.
https://minbrowser.org/ || minAUR
  • Vieb Minimalist Electron-based browser with Vim-inspired keybindings and a built-in ad-blocker.
https://vieb.dev || vieb-binAUR

WebKitGTK-based

See also Wikipedia:WebKit.

Note: webkitgtk, webkitgtk2, qt5-webkit and qtwebkit–based browsers were removed from the list, because these are today considered insecure and outdated. More info here and here.

Most of these support ad-blocking via wyebadblock.

  • Badwolf A minimalist privacy-focused browser.
https://hacktivis.me/projects/badwolf || badwolfAUR
  • 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://apps.gnome.org/Epiphany/ || epiphany
  • Luakit Fast, small, webkit based browser framework extensible by Lua.
https://luakit.github.io/ || luakit
  • 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/ || surfAUR
  • Surfer Simple keyboard based web browser, written in C. It supports custom JS-scripts.
https://github.com/nihilowy/surfer || surfer-gitAUR
  • Tangram Integration of web applications into the desktop, specifically GNOME.
https://apps.gnome.org/Tangram/ || tangram
  • 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-gitAUR

Goanna-based

See also Wikipedia:Goanna (software).

https://www.palemoon.org/ || palemoonAUR
  • Basilisk A XUL-based web browser, similar in design to Firefox, aimed at providing a fully functional browsing experience with a classic interface.
https://basilisk-browser.org/ || basiliskAUR

Other

  • Dillo Small, fast graphical web browser built on FLTK. Uses its own layout engine.
https://dillo-browser.github.io/ || dillo
  • Ladybird Web browser built from scratch using the SerenityOS LibWeb engine.
https://ladybird.org/ || ladybirdAUR
  • 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

Gemini browsers

See also Wikipedia:Gemini (protocol)#Software.

  • 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-gitAUR
  • Castor Graphical client for the Gemini, Gopher, and Finger protocols, written in Rust with GTK.
https://git.sr.ht/~julienxx/castor || castorAUR
  • Geopard A graphical gemini client written in rust, using the gtk4 toolkit.
https://github.com/ranfdev/Geopard || geopardAUR
  • Kristall Qt-based Gemini browser.
https://github.com/MasterQ32/kristall || kristallAUR
  • Lagrange Desktop GUI client for browsing Gemini space, offering modern conveniences familiar from web browsers.
https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange || lagrangeAUR
  • Telescope w3m-like browser for Gemini.
https://www.telescope-browser.org/ || telescopeAUR

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).

See also Category:Web server and Wikipedia:Comparison of web server software.

https://httpd.apache.org/ || apache
  • Caddy HTTP/2 web server with automatic HTTPS.
https://caddyserver.com/ || caddy
  • Hiawatha Secure and advanced web server.
https://hiawatha.leisink.net/ || hiawathaAUR
  • 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 || sthttpdAUR
  • Traefik A modern reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy.
https://traefik.io/traefik/ || traefik
  • yaws Web server/framework written in Erlang.
https://erlyaws.github.io/ || yawsAUR

Static web servers

  • Apache Traffic Server Fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 compliant caching proxy server.
https://trafficserver.apache.org/ || trafficserverAUR
  • 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-gitAUR
  • serve Static file serving and directory listing.
https://github.com/zeit/serve || nodejs-serveAUR
  • Webfs Simple and instant web server for mostly static content.
https://linux.bytesex.org/misc/webfs.html || webfsAUR

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 || mongooseAUR
  • 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-moreAUR
  • VServer GTK application, which opens an http server in the selected folder and shares your files.
https://github.com/bcedu/ValaSimpleHTTPServer || vserver-gitAUR
  • 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 || woofAUR

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_loadAUR
  • httperf Can generate various HTTP workloads, written in C.
https://github.com/httperf/httperf || httperf-gitAUR
  • 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 || webbenchAUR

File sharing

Download managers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of 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
  • Gtuber Fetch media info from websites (bilibili, lbry, niconico, reddit, twitch, youtube). Includes a command-line downloader (gtuber-dl) and a GStreamer plugin, which is used automatically when you try playing video from website that Gtuber can handle in your GStreamer based application.
https://github.com/Rafostar/gtuber || gtuber
  • 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 || plowshareAUR
  • 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/ || snarfAUR
  • 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/ || streamripperAUR
  • yewtube Terminal-based YouTube player and downloader.
https://github.com/mps-youtube/yewtube || yewtubeAUR
  • You-Get Download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the Web.
https://you-get.org/ || you-getAUR
  • youtube-dl Download videos from YouTube and many other web sites.
https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ || youtube-dlAUR
  • youtube-viewer Command line utility for viewing YouTube videos.
https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer || youtube-viewerAUR
  • 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-gitAUR
  • Forklift Simple GUI for youtube-dl using PyGObject.
https://github.com/Johnn3y/Forklift || forklift-gitAUR
  • gtk-youtube-viewer GTK utility for viewing YouTube videos. See optional dependencies for the GUI.
https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer || youtube-viewerAUR
  • Gwget Download manager for GNOME. Supports HTTP and FTP.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gwget || gwgetAUR
  • Gydl GUI wrapper around the already existing youtube-dl program to download content from sites like YouTube.
https://github.com/JannikHv/gydl || gydl-gitAUR
  • Gyre GTK3 downloader for videos from Coub.
https://github.com/HelpSeeker/Gyre || gyreAUR
  • JDownloader Java-based downloader for one-click hosting sites.
https://jdownloader.org/ || jdownloader2AUR
  • 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-binAUR
  • Motrix Full-featured download manager that supports downloading HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Magnet, etc. Based on the Electron platform.
https://motrix.app/ || motrixAUR
  • 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-ngAUR
  • 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/ || streamtuner2AUR
  • uGet GTK download manager featuring download classification and HTML import. Supports HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Metalink, YouTube and Mega.
https://ugetdm.com/ || 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-downloaderAUR
  • 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/ || xdmanAUR
  • youtubedl-gui Simple-to-use graphical interface for youtube-dl.
https://github.com/JaGoLi/ytdl-gui || youtubedl-guiAUR

LAN file transfer

See also #LAN messengers.

  • LAN Share Cross-platform local area network file transfer application, built using Qt GUI framework. It can be used to transfer a whole folder, one or more files, large or small immediately without any additional configuration.
https://github.com/abdularis/LAN-Share || lanshareAUR
  • LocalSend Cross-platform app to securely share files and messages with nearby devices over the local network without needing an internet connection.
https://localsend.org/ || localsendAUR
  • Magic Wormhole Command-line tool wormhole to securely transfer data between computers.
https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole || magic-wormhole
  • NitroShare Cross-platform network file transfer application, built using Qt GUI framework. It is designed to make transferring files from one device to another on the local network extremely simple.
https://nitroshare.net/ || nitroshare
  • Teleport Native GTK3 application to effortlessly share files on the local network.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/jsparber/teleport || teleport-share-gitAUR
  • Warp Securely send files to each other via the internet or local network by exchanging a word-based code. It uses the Magic Wormhole protocol.
https://apps.gnome.org/Warp/ || warp
  • Warpinator GTK application to share files across the LAN.
https://github.com/linuxmint/warpinator || warpinator

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/ || pydioAUR
  • Seafile An online file storage and collaboration tool with advanced support for file syncing, privacy protection and teamwork.
https://www.seafile.com/ || seafile-serverAUR

Cloud synchronization clients

Tip:

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://github.com/MasterSoft24/CloudCross || cloudcrossAUR
  • Rclone Multi-provider sync, copy, and mount client.
https://rclone.org/ || rclone
  • Rclone Browser GUI client for Rclone.
https://github.com/kapitainsky/RcloneBrowser || rclone-browserAUR

Google Drive clients

  • DriveSync Command line utility that synchronizes your Google Drive files with a local folder on your machine.
https://github.com/MStadlmeier/drivesync || drivesyncAUR
  • gdrive Command line utility for interacting with Google Drive.
https://github.com/prasmussen/gdrive || gdriveAUR
  • Grive Google Drive client with support for new Drive REST API and partial sync.
https://github.com/vitalif/grive2 || griveAUR
  • Insync Unofficial proprietary Google Drive desktop client.
https://www.insynchq.com/ || insyncAUR
  • Google Drive OCamlFUSE A FUSE filesystem for Google Drive, written in OCaml.
https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse || google-drive-ocamlfuseAUR

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-b2AUR
  • Baidu Netdisk Proprietary client for cloud storage service launched by Baidu (formerly Baidu Cloud).
https://pan.baidu.com || baidunetdisk-binAUR
  • 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/ || dropboxAUR
https://mega.nz/ || CLI: megacmdAUR, GUI: megasyncAUR
  • 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/ || nutstoreAUR
  • OneDrive Unofficial CLI for OneDrive.
https://github.com/skilion/onedrive || onedriveAUR
  • OneDrive Fork of the unofficial CLI for OneDrive.
https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive || onedrive-abrauneggAUR
  • 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-driveAUR
  • PydioSync Desktop client for Pydio.
https://pydio.com/ || pydio-syncAUR
  • S3cmd Unofficial CLI for Amazon S3.
https://s3tools.org/s3cmd || s3cmd
  • Seafile Client GUI client for Seafile.
https://www.seafile.com/ || seafile-clientAUR
  • Versiobit Desktop file sync client with versioning and end-to-end encryption.
https://versiobit.com || versiobitAUR
  • SpiderOak One Proprietary client for SpiderOak One.
https://spideroak.com/ || spideroak-oneAUR
  • Synology Drive Proprietary GUI client to sync and share files between a centralized Synology NAS and multiple client computers.
https://www.synology.com/ || synology-driveAUR
  • Tresorit Proprietary desktop syncing client for Tresorit.
https://tresorit.com/download || tresoritAUR
https://disk.yandex.ru/ || yandex-diskAUR

FTP

FTP clients

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of FTP client software.

  • 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
  • lftp Sophisticated command line based FTP client
https://lftp.yar.ru/ || lftp
  • 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

See also Wikipedia:List of FTP server software.

  • 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/ || proftpdAUR
  • Pure-FTPd Free (BSD-licensed), secure, production-quality and standard-compliant FTP server.
https://www.pureftpd.org/project/pure-ftpd/ || pure-ftpdAUR
  • 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.

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of BitTorrent clients.

Console

  • Ctorrent CTorrent is a BitTorrent client implemented in C++ to be lightweight and quick.
http://www.rahul.net/dholmes/ctorrent/ || enhanced-ctorrentAUR
  • 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 || peerflixAUR
  • 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://apps.gnome.org/Fragments/ || fragments
  • FrostWire Easy to use cloud downloader, BitTorrent client and media player.
https://www.frostwire.com/ || frostwireAUR
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-binAUR
  • 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/ || tixatiAUR
  • Torrential Simple torrent client for elementary OS.
https://github.com/davidmhewitt/torrential || torrentialAUR
  • 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 || tremotesfAUR
  • Tribler 4th generation file sharing system BitTorrent client.
https://www.tribler.org || triblerAUR
  • Vuze Feature-rich BitTorrent client written in Java (formerly Azureus).
https://www.vuze.com/ || vuzeAUR
  • WebTorrent Desktop Streaming BitTorrent application. Based on the Electron platform.
https://webtorrent.io/desktop/ || webtorrent-desktopAUR

Other P2P networks

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of file-sharing applications.

  • 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-gtkAUR, Qt: eiskaltdcpp-qtAUR
  • gtk-gnutella GTK server/client for the Gnutella peer-to-peer network.
https://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/ || gtk-gnutellaAUR
  • KaMule KDE graphical front-end for aMule.
https://github.com/nihui/kamule/ || kamuleAUR
  • LBRY Browser and wallet for LBRY, the decentralized, user-controlled content marketplace. Based on the Electron platform.
https://lbry.io/ || lbry-desktopAUR
  • lbt Small set of command-line tools for LBRY.
https://gitlab.com/gardenappl/lbt || lbtAUR
  • MLDonkey Multi-protocol P2P client that supports HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Direct Connect, eDonkey and FastTrack.
https://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/ || mldonkeyAUR
  • ncdc Modern and lightweight Direct Connect and ADC client with a friendly ncurses interface.
https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdc || ncdcAUR
  • 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/ || sendanywhereAUR
  • IPFS IPFS is a P2P Network capable of sharing and receiving files.
https://ipfs.io/ || kubo

Pastebin services

See also Wikipedia:Pastebin.

Pastebin services are often used to quote text or images while collaborating and troubleshooting. Pastebin clients provide a convenient way to post from the command line.

Note: An acceptable pastebin service does not require enabling JavaScript for viewing, does not display adverts, manipulate the pasted content or require a login. pastebin.com is blocked for some people because of malware found on the site and has a history of annoying issues (requires JavaScript, displays adverts, inserts CRLF line-endings and displaying CAPTCHAs at random). Do not use it.

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.

Dedicated clients

https://paste.xinu.at || fb-client
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.shAUR
  • Pastebinit Really small Python script that acts as a Pastebin client (see pastebinit -l for the list of servers).
https://launchpad.net/pastebinit || pastebinit
https://github.com/seejohnrun/haste-client || ruby-hasteAUR
  • Wgetpaste Bash script that automates pasting to a number of pastebin services.
http://wgetpaste.zlin.dk/ || wgetpaste

Communication

Email clients

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of 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://alpineapp.email/ || alpine-gitAUR
  • 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 || muAUR
  • 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/ || nmhAUR
  • 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/ || sendemailAUR
  • Sup CLI mail client with very fast searching, tagging, threading and GMail like operation.
https://sup-heliotrope.github.io/ || supAUR
  • 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.
https://github.com/wanderlust/wanderlust/ || 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-binAUR
  • 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-binAUR
  • Evolution Mature and feature-rich e-mail client that is part of the GNOME project. Part of gnome-extra.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/wikis/home || evolution
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/ || kubeAUR
  • 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/ || mailspringAUR
https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ || seamonkeyAUR
  • Sylpheed Lightweight and user-friendly GTK email client.
https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ || sylpheedAUR[broken link: package not found]
  • Thunderbird Feature-rich email client from Mozilla written in GTK.
https://www.thunderbird.net/ || thunderbird
  • Tutanota Email client for Tutanota mail service. Based on the Electron platform.
https://tutanota.com/ || tutanota-desktopAUR
  • 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/ || viageeAUR

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/ || squirrelmailAUR

Mail notifiers

  • Ayatana Webmail Webmail notifications and actions for any desktop.
https://tari.in/www/software/ayatana-webmail/ || ayatana-webmailAUR
  • Bubblemail New and Unread mail notification service for local mailboxes, pop, imap, and gnome online accounts. A fork of Mailnag.
http://bubblemail.free.fr/ || bubblemailAUR
  • Gnubiff Mail notification program that checks for mail and displays headers when new mail has arrived.
https://gnubiff.sourceforge.net/ || gnubiff
  • Mailnag Extensible mail notification daemon.
https://github.com/pulb/mailnag || mailnag

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/ || davmailAUR
  • Modoboa A modular mail hosting and management platform, written in Python.
https://modoboa.org/ || modoboaAUR

Mail retrieval agents

See also Wikipedia:Mail retrieval agent.

  • 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/ || getmailAUR
  • hydroxide A third-party, open-source ProtonMail CardDAV, IMAP and SMTP bridge
https://github.com/emersion/hydroxide || hydroxideAUR
  • imapsync IMAP synchronisation, sync, copy or migration tool
https://imapsync.lamiral.info/ || imapsync
  • isync IMAP and MailDir mailbox synchronizer
https://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 || vsyncAUR (sync-only part of vomitAUR mail tookit)
  • OfflineIMAP Synchronizes emails between two repositories.
https://www.offlineimap.org/ || offlineimap

Instant messaging clients

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of instant messaging clients and Wikipedia:Comparison of VoIP software.

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
  • BitlBee IRC gateway to popular chat networks.
https://bitlbee.org/ || bitlbeeAUR
  • EKG2 Ncurses based XMPP, Gadu-Gadu and IRC client.
https://github.com/ekg2/ekg2 || ekg2AUR
  • Finch Ncurses-based chat client that uses libpurple and supports all its protocols (Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise, 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, IRC and many other useful features.
https://jitsi.org/ || jitsiAUR
  • Lith WeeChat Relay client, allowing to connect to a running WeeChat instance from anywhere.
https://lith.app/ || lith-gitAUR
  • Pidgin Multi-protocol instant messaging client with audio support that uses libpurple and supports all its protocols (Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise, IRC, SIMPLE, XMPP, Zephyr).
https://pidgin.im/ || pidgin
  • Smuxi Cross-platform IRC client that also supports XMPP.
https://smuxi.im/ || smuxiAUR
  • Thunderbird Feature-rich email client supports instant messaging and chat using IRC and XMPP.
https://www.thunderbird.net/ || thunderbird

IRC clients

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients.

Console
  • BitchX Console-based IRC client developed from the popular ircII.
https://bitchx.sourceforge.net/ || bitchx-gitAUR
  • catgirl TLS-only terminal IRC client.
https://git.causal.agency/catgirl || catgirlAUR
  • 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/ || iiAUR
  • ircii Oldest maintained IRC client which lays claim to being small and fast owing to its reduced feature set.
http://www.eterna23.net/ircii/ || irciiAUR
  • 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/ || scrollzAUR
  • senpai An IRC client that works best with bouncers (e.g. soju-gitAUR): no logs are kept, history is fetched from the server via CHATHISTORY, networks are fetched from the server via bouncer-networks.
https://sr.ht/~delthas/senpai/ || senpai
  • sic Extremely simple IRC client, similar to ii.
https://tools.suckless.org/sic/ || sicAUR
  • tiny an IRC client written in Rust with a clutter-free interface
https://github.com/osa1/tiny || tiny
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/ || seamonkeyAUR
  • Halloy An open-source IRC client written in Rust, with the iced GUI library.
https://halloy.squidowl.org/ || halloyAUR
  • HexChat Fork of XChat for Linux and Windows.
https://hexchat.github.io/ || hexchat
https://konversation.kde.org/ || konversation
  • KVIrc Qt-based IRC client featuring extensive themes support.
https://kvirc.net/ || kvirc
  • Loqui GTK IRC client.
https://loqui.sunnyone.org/ || loquiAUR
  • LostIRC Simple GTK IRC client with tab-autocompletion, multiple server support, logging and others.
https://lostirc.sourceforge.net || lostircAUR
  • Polari Simple IRC client by the GNOME project. Part of gnome-extra.
https://apps.gnome.org/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 || srainAUR
  • Thelounge Modern self-hosted web IRC client
https://thelounge.chat/ || theloungeAUR

XMPP clients

See also Wikipedia:XMPP.

Console
  • Freetalk Console-based XMPP client.
https://www.gnu.org/software/freetalk/ || freetalkAUR
  • jabber.el Minimal XMPP client for Emacs.
https://emacs-jabber.sourceforge.net/ || emacs-jabberAUR
  • 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/ || poezioAUR
  • 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-gitAUR
  • 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
  • Libervia (Salut à Toi) Web frontend for Salut à Toi, multi-purpose XMPP client
https://libervia.org/ || libervia-web-hgAUR
  • 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-jsxcAUR
  • 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/ || sparkAUR
  • Swift XMPP client written in C++ with Qt and Swiften.
https://swift.im/ || swift-imAUR
  • Tkabber Easy to hack feature-rich XMPP client by the author of the ejabberd XMPP server.
https://tkabber.jabber.ru/ || tkabberAUR
  • Vacuum IM Full-featured crossplatform XMPP client.
https://github.com/Vacuum-IM/vacuum-im || vacuum-imAUR

SIP clients

See also Wikipedia:List of SIP software#Clients.

  • Blink State of the art, easy to use SIP client.
https://icanblink.com/ || blinkAUR
  • baresip portable and modular SIP User-Agent with audio and video support.
https://github.com/baresip/baresip || baresip
  • Calls Simple, elegant phone dialer and call handler for GNOME. It can be used with a cellular modem for plain old telephone calls as well as VoIP calls using the SIP protocol.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/calls || gnome-calls
  • 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-desktopAUR
  • Twinkle Qt softphone for VoIP and IM communication using SIP.
http://twinkle.dolezel.info/ || twinkleAUR
  • Zoiper Proprietary SIP and IAX2 VoIP softphone
https://zoiper.com || zoiper-binAUR

Matrix clients

See also Matrix and Matrix Clients.

  • Chatty Simple to use SMS and Matrix messaging application.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Chatty || chatty
  • Cinny Cinny is a matrix client focusing primarily on simple, elegant and secure interface. The desktop app is made with Tauri.
https://github.com/cinnyapp/cinny-desktop || cinny-desktopAUR
  • Element Glossy Matrix client with an emphasis on performance and usability. Web application and desktop application based on the Electron platform.
https://element.io/ || element-web, element-desktop
  • FluffyChat Multi-platform Matrix client with a simple and clean UI written in Dart/Flutter.
https://fluffychat.im/ || fluffychatAUR
  • Fractal Matrix client for GNOME written in Rust.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Fractal || fractal
  • Gomuks Terminal Matrix client written in Go using mautrix and mauview.
https://maunium.net/go/gomuks || gomuks
  • iamb A terminal-based Matrix client with Vim keybindings written in Rust.
https://github.com/ulyssa/iamb || iambAUR
  • Moment A fancy, customizable, keyboard-operable Matrix chat client for encrypted and decentralized communication. Written in Qt/QML + Python with nio, fork of the now-abandoned Mirage.
https://mx-moment.xyz/ || momentAUR
  • Neochat KDE client for the Matrix protocol. Part of kde-network.
https://apps.kde.org/neochat/ || neochat
  • nheko Desktop client for the Matrix protocol.
https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko || nheko
  • Quaternion Qt5-based IM client for the Matrix protocol.
https://github.com/QMatrixClient/Quaternion || quaternionAUR
  • QuickMedia A rofi inspired native client for web services. Supports Matrix and several other sites.
https://git.dec05eba.com/QuickMedia/about/ || quickmediaAUR
  • SchildiChat Matrix client based on Element with a more traditional instant messaging experience. Based on the Electron platform.
https://schildi.chat/ || schildichat-desktopAUR
  • Spectral Qt5-based Glossy cross-platform client for Matrix.
https://gitlab.com/spectral-im/spectral || spectral-matrixAUR
  • Syphon Privacy-centric cross-platform Matrix client with E2EE support, currently in alpha.
https://github.com/syphon-org/syphon || syphon-binAUR

Tox clients

See also Tox and comparison clients

  • ratox FIFO based tox client.
https://git.z3bra.org/ratox/file/README.html || ratox-gitAUR
  • Toxic ncurses-based Tox client
https://github.com/Jfreegman/toxic || toxic
  • Toxygen Tox client written in pure Python3.
https://github.com/toxygen-project/toxygen || toxygen-gitAUR
  • Venom a modern Tox client for the GNU/Linux desktop
https://github.com/naxuroqa/Venom || venomAUR
  • µTox Lightweight Tox client.
https://github.com/uTox/uTox || utox

LAN messengers

See also Avahi#Link-Local (Bonjour/Zeroconf) chat and Wikipedia:Comparison of 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

P2P messaging clients

See also Ring and Tox.

  • Briar Briar is a messaging application designed for activists, journalists, and anyone else who needs a safe, easy and robust way to communicate.
https://briarproject.org/ || briar-desktopAUR, briar-headlessAUR
  • Patchwork Decentralized messaging and sharing application built on top of Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB). Based on the Electron platform.
https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork || ssb-patchworkAUR
  • Manyverse Modern decentralized messaging and sharing application built on top of Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB).
https://gitlab.com/staltz/manyverse || manyverse-binAUR
  • RetroShare Serverless encrypted instant messenger with filesharing, chatgroups, mail.
https://retroshare.cc/ || retroshareAUR
  • Ricochet Anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging system built on Tor hidden services.
https://www.ricochetrefresh.net/ || ricochet-refreshAUR

Other IM clients

  • Caprine Unofficial Facebook Messenger app. Based on the Electron platform.
https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine || caprineAUR
  • Chatterino Chat client for Twitch chat.
https://chatterino.com/ || chatterino2-gitAUR
  • Delta Chat A privacy oriented chat application built on e-mail. Based on the Electron platform.
https://delta.chat/ || deltachat-desktop
  • 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 || flareAUR
  • Gitter Communication product for communities and teams on GitLab and GitHub.
https://gitter.im/ || gitter-binAUR
  • Jitsi Meet Desktop application for Jitsi Meet. Based on the Electron platform.
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron || jitsi-meet-desktopAUR
  • Kotatogram Desktop Experimental fork of Telegram Desktop.
https://kotatogram.github.io/ || kotatogram-desktopAUR
  • Matterhorn Console client for the Mattermost chat system.
https://github.com/matterhorn-chat/matterhorn || matterhornAUR
  • Mattermost Desktop Desktop application for Mattermost. Based on the Electron platform.
https://github.com/mattermost/desktop || mattermost-desktop
https://teams.microsoft.com/downloads || teamsAUR
  • 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-gitAUR
  • QQ Proprietary instant messaging software developed by Tencent (imitating ICQ).
https://im.qq.com/ || linuxqqAUR
  • Rocket.Chat Desktop Desktop application for Rocket.Chat. Based on the Electron platform.
https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Electron || rocketchat-desktopAUR
  • Ruqola Rocket.Chat client for the KDE desktop.
https://apps.kde.org/ruqola/ || ruqolaAUR
  • Session Desktop Onion routing based messenger. Based on the Electron platform.
https://getsession.org/ || session-desktopAUR
  • 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-binAUR
  • Slack Proprietary Slack client for desktop. Based on the Electron platform.
https://slack.com/ || slack-desktopAUR
  • teams-for-linux Unofficial Microsoft Teams for Linux client. Based on the Electron platform.
https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux || teams-for-linuxAUR
  • 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 || teamtalkAUR
  • 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/ || viberAUR
  • Wire Modern, private messenger. Based on the Electron platform.
https://wire.com/ || wire-desktop
  • Zoom Proprietary video conferencing, online meetings and group messaging application.
https://zoom.us/ || zoomAUR
  • Zulip Desktop client for Zulip group chat. Based on the Electron platform.
https://zulipchat.com/apps/linux || zulip-desktopAUR

Instant messaging servers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of instant messaging protocols.

IRC servers

  • InspIRCd A stable, modern and lightweight IRC daemon.
https://www.inspircd.org/ || inspircdAUR
  • IRCD-Hybrid A lightweight, high-performance internet relay chat daemon.
https://www.ircd-hybrid.org/ || ircd-hybridAUR
  • miniircd A small and configuration free IRC server, suitable for private use.
https://github.com/jrosdahl/miniircd || miniircd-gitAUR
  • ngIRCd A free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server for small or private networks.
https://ngircd.barton.de/ || ngircdAUR
  • 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/ || ergochatAUR
https://www.unrealircd.org/ || unrealircd
  • Solanum Solanum is the upcoming IRCd for unified networks that is being worked on by a collaboration of Libera Chat and OFTC staff.
https://solanum.chat/ || solanum-ircd-gitAUR

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/ || jabberd2AUR
  • Openfire An XMPP IM multiplatform server written in Java
https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/ || openfire

SIP servers

See also Wikipedia:List of SIP software#Servers.

https://www.asterisk.org/ || asteriskAUR
  • Kamailio SIP server for large VoIP and real-time communication platforms.
https://www.kamailio.org/ || kamailioAUR
  • 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 || reproAUR
  • Yate Advanced, mature, flexible telephony server that is used for VoIP and fixed networks, and for traditional mobile operators and MVNOs.
https://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-serverAUR
  • 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

See also Wikipedia:Collaborative software.

  • SOGo Groupware server built around OpenGroupware.org (OGo) and the SOPE application server.
https://sogo.nu/ || sogoAUR
  • microbin A tiny, self-contained, configurable paste bin and URL shortener written in Rust.
https://github.com/szabodanika/microbin || microbinAUR
  • shlink Self-proclaimed definitive self-hosted URL shortener.
https://shlink.io/ || shlinkAUR
  • YOURLS A self-hosted link shortening service written in PHP.
https://yourls.org/ || yourlsAUR

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.

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of feed aggregators.

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-gitAUR
  • 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-goAUR
  • 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/ || newsraftAUR
  • 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/ || rawdogAUR
  • 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 || sfeedAUR
  • Snownews Text mode RSS news reader.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/snownews/ || snownewsAUR

Graphical

https://apps.kde.org/akregator/ || akregator
  • Alligator Kirigami-based RSS/Atom feed reader for mobile devices. Part of kde-network.
https://apps.kde.org/alligator/ || alligator
  • Feeds An RSS/Atom feed reader for GNOME.
https://gfeeds.gabmus.org/ || gfeeds
  • Fluent Reader Modern desktop RSS reader built with React and Fluent UI. Based on the Electron platform.
https://hyliu.me/fluent-reader/ || fluent-readerAUR
  • HackUp Read Hacker News from the desktop.
https://github.com/mdh34/hackup || hackup-gitAUR
  • 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://apps.gnome.org/NewsFlash/ || 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-readerAUR
  • 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/ || selfossAUR
  • 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/ || tickrAUR
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.

See also Wikipedia:List of podcatchers.

Console

  • castero A TUI podcast client for the terminal.
https://github.com/xgi/castero || castero-gitAUR
  • 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-gitAUR
  • pcd A minimal podcast client written in go
https://github.com/kvannotten/pcd || pcdAUR

Graphical

  • CPod Simple, beautiful podcast app. Based on the Electron platform.
https://github.com/z-------------/CPod || cpodAUR
  • gPodder Podcast client and media aggregator (GTK interface).
https://gpodder.github.io/ || gpodder
  • Kasts Convergent podcast application that looks good on desktop and mobile. Part of kde-multimedia.
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-linuxAUR
  • Podcasts Podcast client for the GNOME desktop written in Rust.
https://apps.gnome.org/Podcasts/ || gnome-podcasts
  • Vocal Simple podcast client for the Modern Desktop (GTK).
https://vocalproject.net/ || vocalAUR

Usenet newsreaders

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

See also: Wikipedia:List of Usenet newsreaders, Wikipedia:Comparison of Usenet newsreaders.

Console

  • nn Alternative more user-friendly (curses-based) Usenet newsreader for UNIX.
http://www.nndev.org/ || nnAUR
  • slrn Text-based news client.
https://www.slrn.org/ || slrnAUR
  • tin A cross-platform threaded NNTP and spool based UseNet newsreader.
http://tin.org/ || tinAUR
  • trn A text-based Threaded Usenet newsreader.
https://trn.sourceforge.net/ || trnAUR

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://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan || pan
  • SABnzbd An open-source binary newsreader webapp written in Python.
https://sabnzbd.org/ || sabnzbdAUR
  • XRN Usenet newsreader for X Window System.
http://www.mit.edu/people/jik/software/xrn.html || xrnAUR

Microblogging clients

  • Choqok Microblogging client for KDE that supports Mastodon, Pump.io and GNU social.
https://choqok.kde.org/ || choqok-gitAUR
  • Dianara Pump.io client written in Qt.
https://jancoding.wordpress.com/dianara/ || dianaraAUR
  • Lemmy-UI Official web app for lemmy.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui || lemmy-uiAUR
  • Lemoa Native Gtk client for Lemmy.
https://github.com/lemmygtk/lemoa || lemoa-gitAUR
  • Liftoff A mobile and desktop lemmy client written in flutter.
https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff || liftoff-binAUR
  • Mikutter Simple, powerful Mastodon client using GTK and Ruby.
https://mikutter.hachune.net/ || mikutterAUR
  • Pumpa Pump.io client written in C++ and Qt.
https://pumpa.branchable.com/ || pumpa-gitAUR
  • Tokodon Mastodon client for KDE. Part of kde-network.
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://apps.gnome.org/Tuba/ || tuba
  • Whalebird Mastodon client application. Based on the Electron platform.
https://whalebird.social/ || whalebirdAUR

Blog engines

See also Wikipedia:Blog software and Wikipedia:List of content management systems.

Note: Content managers, social networks, and blog publishers overlap in many functions.
  • Diaspora A distributed privacy aware social network.
https://diasporafoundation.org || diaspora-mysqlAUR or diaspora-postgresqlAUR
  • 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/ || joomlaAUR
  • Wordpress Blog tool and publishing platform.
https://wordpress.org/ || wordpress

Static site generators

  • Hexo Fast, simple and powerful blog framework.
https://hexo.io/ || hexo-cliAUR
  • 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/ || jekyllAUR
  • 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
  • fgallery A static photo gallery generator with no frills that has a stylish, minimalist look.
https://www.thregr.org/wavexx/software/fgallery/ || fgalleryAUR
  • jAlbum A freeware cross-platform software for managing and creating digital photo albums or galleries.
https://jalbum.net/en/ || jalbumAUR
  • jolly A tool for statically generating galleries from images.
https://gitlab.com/prior99/jolly || jollyAUR
  • llgal An easy and fast on-line gallery generator based on iGal.
http://bgoglin.free.fr/llgal/ || llgalAUR
  • thumbsup A static web galleries for all your photos and videos.
https://thumbsup.github.io/ || nodejs-thumbsupAUR
  • Photoview A photo gallery for self-hosted personal servers.
https://photoview.github.io/ || photoviewAUR
  • Piwigo A web application to manage your collection of photos, and other medias..
https://piwigo.org/ || piwigoAUR
  • revela A static web image gallery generator..
https://sr.ht/~yaroslav/revela/ || revelaAUR
  • Sigal A simple static gallery generator.
http://sigal.saimon.org/en/latest/ || sigal
  • ZenphotoCMS A CMS for selfhosted, gallery focused websites.
https://www.zenphoto.org/ || zenphotoAUR

Remote desktop

See also Wikipedia:Remote desktop software and Wikipedia:Comparison of remote desktop software.

See also Chrome Remote Desktop for a web browser based solution.

Remote desktop clients

  • AnyDesk Proprietary remote desktop software.
https://anydesk.com/ || anydesk-binAUR
  • GNOME Connections Remote desktop client for GNOME. Supports RDP and VNC. Part of gnome.
https://apps.gnome.org/Connections/ || gnome-connections
  • GVncViewer Simple VNC Client on Gtk-VNC. Run with gvncviewer.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gtk(2d)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
  • RustDesk A remote desktop software, open source, written in Rust.
https://rustdesk.com || rustdeskAUR
  • 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 || sunloginclientAUR
  • ToDesk Proprietary remote desktop client that suits for remote teamwork. It uses its own proprietary protocol.
https://www.todesk.com/ || todesk-binAUR
  • TeamViewer Proprietary remote desktop client. It uses its own proprietary protocol.
https://www.teamviewer.com/ || teamviewerAUR
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 || x2goclientAUR

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 || kmsvncAUR
  • KRdp A limited RDP server for KDE.
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/krdp || krdp
https://apps.kde.org/krfb/ || krfb
  • MeshCentral Device management server for files, terminal access and remote desktop into Linux (X11), macOS and Windows.
https://meshcentral.com/ || meshcentralAUR
https://nomachine.com/ || nomachineAUR
  • wayvnc VNC server for wlroots based wayland compositors (such as sway).
https://github.com/any1/wayvnc || wayvnc
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 || x2goserverAUR
  • 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.
https://www.xrdp.org/ || xrdpAUR
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