Applications

• Games

  • ![Open-Source Software - Play the classic Nokia snake game on the command line.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Play Pacman game in console.
  • ![Open-Source Software - linux.github.io/pokete/) - A terminal based Pokemon like game.
  •  - Play solitaire in your terminal!
  • ![Open-Source Software - A free recreation of the original Diablo game engine that runs natively on Linux. Requires the original game assets.
  • ![Open-Source Software - A source port of Cave Story that runs natively on Linux, source needs to be built.
  •  - A somewhat upgraded/refactored version of NXEngine by Caitlin Shaw.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Free (as in freedom) open source clone of the Age of Empires II engine, source needs to be built.
  • ![Open-Source Software - A recreation of the Morrowind engine, expanding upon the original. It can be used to play legitimate copies of original game.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Classic strategy games, rebuilt for the modern era. Open source.
  • ![Open-Source Software - A recreation of the Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 engine. Requires the original games assests.
  • ![Open-Source Software - A modification of Xonotic which included extended weapons, maps, vehicles, buildable buildings, mounted weapons, spell casting, monsters, player characters, textures, and game mode (such as colorwar (think liquidwar)).
  • ![Open-Source Software - Free version of the original Doom games, with newly created free-licensed assets.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Free and open-source clone of Quake III Arena, based on the realeased source code, with newly created assets.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Red Eclipse is a fun-filled new take on the first person arena shooter, which lends itself toward a balanced gameplay, with a general theme of agility in a variety of environments.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Leading the way in newschool multiplayer Doom online.
  • ![Open-Source Software - ZDoom is a source port for the modern era, supporting current hardware and operating systems and sporting a vast array of user options.
  • ![Open-Source Software - A cross-platform, open source, and super fast MUD (text-only MMORPGs) client with scripting in Lua.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Addictive ball-rolling game with many levels, avatars and an ability to record replays.
  • OhMyGiraffe - A delightful game of survival. A game about a giraffe eating fruit while being chased by lions.
  • ![Open-Source Software - A 2D platformer and game creation engine inspired by the 16-bit Sonic the Hedgehog games.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Cross-platform Classic Snake Game based on Node.js.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Clone of the popular sidescrolling Super Mario games.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Cockatrice is an open-source multiplatform supported program for playing tabletop card games over a network.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Galois is a Falling Blocks type game that isn't limited to the standard tetrominoes that most games in it's genre are limited to.
  • ![Open-Source Software - 2D puzzle game that clones the popular Lemmings. Your goal is to guide a group of penguins safely across the game map.
  • ![Open-Source Software - club) - An open-source platform for playing tabletop games in a physics-based 3D environment for Windows, macOS, and Linux! Made with the Godot Engine.
  • ![Open-Source Software - SuperTuxKart is a 3D open-source arcade racer with a variety characters, tracks, and modes to play.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Singleplayer Diablo clone with beautiful original graphics.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Sci-fi 2D top-down RPG inspired by Diablo games.
  • Ryzom - Free and open-source 3D MMORPG with unique features and deep lore. The official servers allow free accounts as well as paid subscriptions with extra features.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Tales of Maj’Eyal (ToME) is a free, open source roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust. It is inspired by games such as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft.
  • ![Open-Source Software - A tribute to Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda with additional quests, items and challenges.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Age of Empires like RTS game of ancient warfare.
  • ![Open-Source Software - The automation tower defense RTS, written in Java.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Open-source rogue-like with ASCII graphics.
  • ![Open-Source Software - game.org) - Open source grand strategy game with "Axis and Allies" game rules.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Open-source real-time strategy game that takes place after a nuclear war.
  • Nonfree - A factory building sandbox game.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Unoffical Open-source launcher for Minecraft: Bedrock edition.
  • Nonfree - Minecraft is a game about placing blocks and going on adventures. Explore randomly generated worlds and build amazing things from the simplest of homes to the grandest of castles.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Open-source Minecraft written in C++ (uses less resources) and includes modding API.
  • ![Open-Source Software - MultiMC is an alternative launcher for Minecraft. It allows you to have multiple, cleanly separated instances of Minecraft (each with their own mods, resource packs, saves, etc) and helps you manage them and their associated options with a simple and powerful interface.
  • ![Open-Source Software - A custom launcher for Minecraft that allows you to easily manage multiple installations of Minecraft at once (Fork of MultiMC and PolyMC).
  • ![Open-Source Software - Hardcore 3D space scroll-shooter with spaceship upgrade possibilities.
  •  - Classic overhead run-and-gun game in beautiful pixel-art.
  • ![Open-Source Software - The Battle for Wesnoth is an open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme. It features both singleplayer and online/hotseat multiplayer combat.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Freeciv is a Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization.
  • HedgeWars - 2D game where teams compete in the style of the popular Worms games.
  • Tanks of Freedom - Pixel-art military strategy implemented in Godot game engine.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Easily manage wine prefixes in a new way. Run Windows software and games on Linux.
  • ![Open-Source Software - A GTK4 + Libadwaita game launcher.
  • ![Open-Source Software - GameHub is a unified library for all your games. It allows you to store your games from different platforms into one program to make it easier for you to manage your games.
  • ![Open-Source Software - A Native GOG and Epic Games Launcher for Linux, Windows and Mac.
  • ![Open-Source Software - The itch.io app. All of your downloads are kept in a single place and are automatically updated. Plenty of free games.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Lutris is an open gaming platform for Linux. It helps you install and manage your games in a unified interface.
  • ![Open-Source Software - A simple GOG client for Linux.
  • ![Open-Source Software - A front-end for Wine.
  • Steam - Gaming store, which opens the gates to many games.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Synchronize games from other platforms into your Steam library.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Steam Play compatibility tool to run DOS games using native Linux DOSBox. It is a sister project of Luxtorpeda and DOSBox Staging.
  • ![Open-Source Software - deck-utilities) - A utility to improve performance and help manage storage on Steam Deck.
  • ![Open-Source Software - A plugin loader for the Steam Deck.
  • ![Open-Source Software - staging.github.io/) - DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and current development practices.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Optimise Linux system performance on demand.
  • ![Open-Source Software - GOverlay is an open source project that aims to create a Graphical UI to help manage Linux overlays.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Suite of Steam Play compatibility tools to run games using native Linux engines.
  • ![Open-Source Software - A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Suspend games and applications.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Steam Play compatibility tool to run adventure games using native Linux ScummVM. It is a sister project of Luxtorpeda.
  • ![Open-Source Software - controller) - User-mode driver, mapper and GTK3 based GUI for Steam Controller, DualShock 4, and similar controllers.
  • ![Open-Source Software - ScummVM allows you to play classic graphic point-and-click adventure games, text adventure games, and RPGs, as long as you already have the game data files. ScummVM replaces the executable files shipped with the games, which means you can now play your favorite games on all your favorite devices.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Install boot videos to your Steam Deck using Steam Deck Repo website API.
  • ![Open-Source Software - rom-manager/) - An app for managing ROMs in Steam.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Linux wrapper tool for use with the Steam client for custom launch options and 3rd party programs.
  •  - Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Builds) - Custom Wine builds and build scripts for Vanilla, Wine Staging, Wine-tkg and Proton.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components, primarily developed by Valve and CodeWeavers.
  • ![Open-Source Software - A simple Wine and Proton manager for GNOME.
  • ![Open-Source Software - This is a wrapper script that allows you to easily run Winetricks commands for Steam Play/Proton games among other common Wine features, such as launching external Windows executables.
  • ![Open-Source Software - CLI program and API to automate the installation and update of GE-Proton.
  •  - Install and manage GE-Proton and Luxtorpeda for Steam and Wine-GE for Lutris with this graphical user interface.
  •  - Custom build of wine, made to use with lutris. Built with lutris's buildbot.
  •  - The wine-tkg build systems, to create custom Wine and Proton builds.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Winetricks is an easy way to work around problems in Wine.
  •  - Wine-wayland allows playing DX9/DX11 and Vulkan games using pure wayland and Wine/DXVK.
  • ![Open-Source Software - emu.net/) - A multi-system console emulation suite.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Emulator configurator for Steam Deck.
  • ![Open-Source Software - GNOME Video Arcade is a simple Mame frontend for any freedesktop.org compliant desktop environment.
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  • ![Open-Source Software - MAME is an Arcade Cabinet emulator that strives for accuracy, and can play a huge number of different arcade games.
  • ![Open-Source Software - mame-fe) - QMC2 is the successor to QMamecat, it is a gui for MAME and a ROM manager.
  • ![Open-Source Software - A front-end for a lot of game emulators.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Everything you need for emulation on Steam Deck.
  • ![Open-Source Software - emu.github.io/) - Is an Atari 2600 Emulator that is multiplatform.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Original Xbox Emulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Active Development).
  • ![Open-Source Software - Software to emulate Wii U games and applications on PC.
  • ![Open-Source Software - DeSmuME is a Nintendo DS emulator.
  • ![Open-Source Software - emu.org/) - Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.
  • ![Open-Source Software - melonDS aims at providing fast and accurate Nintendo DS emulation.
  • ![Open-Source Software - mGBA is an open-source Game Boy Advance emulator.
  • ![Open-Source Software - nestopia is a Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicon emulator.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Ryujinx is an open-source Nintendo Switch emulator created by gdkchan and written in C#.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Is a multiplatform Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator that has gone through many incarnations, but is still being actively developed.
  •  - A Gameboy and Gameboy Advance Emulator that is still undergoing active development and can even emulate a system link between two gameboys.
  • ![Open-Source Software - emu.org/) - yuzu is an experimental open-source emulator for the Nintendo Switch from the creators of Citra.
  • ![Open-Source Software - A capable and commonly used Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom emulator, many consider it the gold standard in SNES/Super Famicom emulation.
  • ![Open-Source Software - PCSX2 is a free and open-source PlayStation 2 (PS2) emulator.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Play! is a PlayStation2 emulator for Windows, macOS, UNIX, Android, iOS and web browser platforms.
  • ![Open-Source Software - PPSSPP is a PSP emulator that can run games full HD resolution. It can even upscale textures that would otherwise be too blurry as they were made for the small screen of the original PSP.
  • ![Open-Source Software - RPCS3 is a multi-platform open-source Sony PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger written in C++ for Windows, Linux, macOS and FreeBSD.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Vita3K is an experimental PlayStation Vita emulator for Windows and Linux.
  • ![Open-Source Software - emulator.sourceforge.net/) - Fuse (the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator) is a ZX Spectrum emulator for Unix.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Professional quality 3D flight simulator.
  • ![Open-Source Software - 2D motocross physics-based game requiring a lot of skill to master, with a built-in replay-recording and sharing system.
  • Urban Terror - A "Hollywood" tactical shooter - realism based, but the motto is "fun over realism".
  • ![Open-Source Software - Gbrainy is a brain teaser game with logic puzzles and memory trainers.
  • ![Open-Source Software - 2D top-viewed game where you drive a MotoGP bike.
  • ![Open-Source Software - games.org) - A direct sequel to The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on the SNES, using the same graphics and game mechanisms.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Widelands is a open source RTS game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode inspired by Settlers II.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Wine ("Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on Linux, quality depends from game to game.

• Graphics

  • ![Open-Source Software - A free and open source complete 3D creation pipeline for artists and small teams.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Open source deep paint software.
  • ![Open-Source Software - This free basic raster image editor is similar to Microsoft Paint, but aiming at the GNOME desktop.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Your open source video to GIF maker built with Haskell.
  • Heron Animation - A free stop animation making program.
  • ![Open-Source Software - A powerful, free design tool for you , whether you are an illustrator, designer, web designer or just someone who needs to create some vector imagery.
  • ![Open-Source Software - An open source vector drawing program.
  • ![Open-Source Software - KolourPaint is a simple painting program to quickly create raster images.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Open Source Software for Concept Artists, Digital Painters, and Illustrators.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Mypaint is a paint program for use with graphics tablets.
  • ![Open-Source Software - A modern, open source cross platform software to produce DVD images.
  • ![Open-Source Software - interactive.itch.io/pixelorama) - A free & open-source 2D sprite editor, made with the Godot Engine!
  • ![Open-Source Software - Linux Stopmotion is a Free Open Source application to create stop-motion animations. It helps you capture and edit the frames of your animation and export them as a single file.
  • ![Open-Source Software - House interior and exterior designer with 3D preview, free model database, virtual visits and useful repository of plugins.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Open-source 2D animation software.
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  • ![Open-Source Software - Simple multi-page document scanning application.
  • Vectr - Vectr is a free graphics software used to create vector graphics easily and intuitively. It's a simple yet powerful web and desktop cross-platform tool to bring your designs into reality.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Xara Xtreme for Linux is a powerful, general purpose graphics program for Unix platforms including Linux, FreeBSD.
  • yEd Graph Editor - yEd is a powerful desktop application that can be used to quickly and effectively generate high-quality diagrams. Create diagrams manually, or import your external data for analysis. Our automatic layout algorithms arrange even large data sets with just the press of a button.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer.
  • ![Open-Source Software - GIMP is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
  • ![Open-Source Software - GraphicsMagick is the swiss army knife of image processing.
  • ![Open-Source Software - An easy to use cross-platform panoramic imaging toolchain based on Panorama Tools.
  • ![Open-Source Software - ImageMagick is a suite of command-line utilities for modifying and working with images.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Blazing fast terminal image resizer and rotator.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Luminance HDR is an open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Photivo is a free and open source (GPL3) photo processor, handles your RAW and bitmap files (TIFF, JPEG, BMP, PNG and many more) in a non-destructive 16 bit processing pipe with gimp workflow integration and batch mode. It is intended to be used in a workflow together with digiKam/F-Spot/Shotwell and Gimp.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Browser-based editor for animated sprites and pixel art. Available as offline application.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Pixelitor is a free and open source image editing software that supports layers, layer masks, text layers, filters, multiple undo etc.
  • ![Open-Source Software - A good looking but lesser known photo editing app.
  • ![Open-Source Software - DigiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for Linux.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Remove image metadata with drag and drop. Supports multi-core batch processing.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Fotoxx is a free open source Linux program for image editing and collection management.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Image viewer / photo collection browser. Successor of GQview.
  • ![Open-Source Software - gThumb is an image viewer and browser (it also includes an importer tool for transferring photos from cameras).
  • ![Open-Source Software - Simple yet powerful image viewer and management for KDE desktops.
  • ![Open-Source Software - An open source image optimizer that can shrink the size of images with a minimal loss of quality.
  • ![Open-Source Software - nomacs is an image viewer that is able to view nearly any image format, and has powerful renaming and sorting tools.
  • ![Open-Source Software - A fast and pretty image viewer.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Command line sorting tool to organize photos and videos from your camera in folders by year, month and day.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Phototonic is image viewer and organizer.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Very fast image/comic viewer by using OpenGL.
  • ![Open-Source Software - AI-Powered Command-Line Photo Search Tool.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Shotwell is a photo manager for GNOME.
  • ![Open-Source Software - FreeCAD is a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler.
  • ![Open-Source Software - HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.
  • ![Open-Source Software - A patch for optimizing GIMP 2.10+ for Adobe Photoshop users.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Photoshop CC v19 installer for Gnu/Linux.
  •  - Installer for Photoshop CC 2022 on linux with a GUI.
  • ![Open-Source Software - online.org/) - Radiance - A Validated Lighting Simulation Tool.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Rapid Photo Downloader makes it easy to import photos from a camera or smartphone.
  • Nonfree - Avocode - Share and inspect Photoshop and Sketch designs in a heart beat.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Terminal session recorder.
  • ![Open-Source Software - recorder) - A simple desktop recorder for Linux systems, supports recording audio and video on almost all Linux interfaces and Wayland display server on GNOME session.
  • ![Open-Source Software - An easy to use and very intuitive screen recording program that will capture the content of your screen and record a video file that can be played by any video player that supports VP8/WebM video format.
  • ![Open-Source Software - A simple screen recorder written with GTK. It allows you to record your screen and also audio from your microphone or desktop.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Screen{shot,cast} and perform ImageOps on the command line.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Download and start streaming quickly and easily on Windows, Mac or Linux. Share your gaming, art and entertainment with the world.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Simple animated GIF screen recorder with an easy to use interface.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Silentcast can create MKV screencasts and also output to an animated GIF.
  • ![Open-Source Software - SimpleScreenRecorder is a feature-rich screen recorder that supports X11 and OpenGL. It has a Qt-based graphical user interface.
  • ![Open-Source Software - A free, multilingual and easy to use screencast recorder with audio for Linux. It has many features.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Ksnip is a Qt-based cross-platform screenshot tool that provides many annotation features for your screenshots.
  • ![Open-Source Software - ScreenCloud is an easy to use screenshot sharing tool consisting of a cross-platform client and a sharing website.
  • ![Open-Source Software - project.org/) - Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program for Linux based operating systems such as Ubuntu.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Spectacle is a simple application for capturing desktop screenshots.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Control your Elgato Stream Deck devices.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Formerly known as **MiniDLNA**, ReadyMedia is a is a simple, lightweight media server software, with the aim of being fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients. The MiniDNLA daemon serves media files (music, pictures, and video) to clients on a network such as smartphones, portable media players, televisions, other computers and some gaming systems.
  • ![Open-Source Software - puppet-project/vpuppr) - VTuber application made with Godot 3.4.
  •  - Professional video editing and compositing environment.
  • ![Open-Source Software - A multitrack non-linear video editor for Linux.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Kdenlive is a Non-Linear Video Editor, which is much more powerful than beginners’ (linear) editors.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Olive is a free non-linear video editor aiming to provide a fully-featured alternative to high-end professional video editing software.
  • ![Open-Source Software - OpenShot is a free, simple-to-use, feature-rich video editor for Linux.
  • ![Open-Source Software - A free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive user interface, a clean codebase and a fantastic community.
  • ![Open-Source Software - Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor with support for hundreds of audio and video formats and codecs and a sleek, intuitive interface.