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# Awesome Linux Apps



🚀 A list of awesome applications for 🐧 Linux distributions.



## Contents



- [Audio](#audio)

- [Backup](#backup)

- [Browser](#browser)

- [Chat](#chat)

- [Cloud Storage](#cloud-storage)

- [Code Editors](#code-editors)

- [Databases](#databases)

- [Game](#game)

- [IDEs](#ides)

- [Image Editors](#image-editors)

- [Mail](#mail)

- [Markdown Editors](#markdown-editors)

- [Music](#music)

- [Notes](#notes)

- [Office](#office)

- [Terminal](#terminal)

- [Version Control](#version-control)

- [Video](#video)

- [Virtualization](#virtualization)



## Audio



- [Amarok](https://amarok.kde.org/en) - A cross-platform and opensource audio player. 👏

- [Ardour](https://github.com/Ardour/ardour) - Free, open source audio workstation for recording, editing and Mixing. 👏

- [Audacious](https://audacious-media-player.org/) Free, open souce, audio player with low resource use. 👏

- [Audacity](https://github.com/audacity/audacity) - Free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds. 👏

- [Clementine](https://www.clementine-player.org/) -  A cross-platform feature-rich music player.

- [Frinika](http://www.frinika.com/) - Free, complete music workstation software.

- [LMMS](https://github.com/LMMS/lmms) - Free cross-platform music production software. 👏

- [Ocenaudio](http://www.ocenaudio.com/) - Easy, fast and powerful audio editor.



## Backup



- [attic](https://github.com/jborg/attic) - Efficient and secure way to backup data. 👏

- [Back In Time](https://github.com/bit-team/backintime) - Simple backup solution. 👏

- [backup](https://github.com/backup/backup) - Powerful backup tool distributed using RubyGems. 👏

- [BackupPC](https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc) - High-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up to a server's disk. 👏

- [bup](https://github.com/bup/bup) - Efficient backup system, provide fast incremental saves and global deduplication. 👏

- [Déjà Dup](https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/deja-dup) - Simple backup tool, hides the complexity of backing up the right way and uses duplicity as the backend. 👏

- [duplicity](http://duplicity.nongnu.org/) - Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm.

- [restic](https://github.com/restic/restic) - Fast, secure, efficient backup program. 👏

- [Timeshift](http://www.teejeetech.in/p/timeshift.html) - Takes incremental snapshots of the file system at regular intervals. 👏



## Browser



- [Brave](https://brave.com/) - Secure, fast and private web browser with Adblocker.

- [Chrome](https://www.google.com/chrome/) - Fast, simple and secure browser by Google.

- [Chromium](https://github.com/chromium/chromium) - Open source, safer, faster and more stable way for all Internet users. 👏

- [Edge](https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/download?platform=linux-deb) - Fast and secure browser by Microsoft.

- [Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/) - Fast, lightweight and powerfully private web browser.

- [Midori](https://www.midori-browser.org/) - Lightweight, fast and free web browser.

- [Opera](https://www.opera.com) - Fast, secure, easy-to-use and free VPN.

- [Tor](https://www.torproject.org/) - Contain everything you need to safely browse the internet.

- [Vivaldi](https://vivaldi.com) - Powerful, personal and flexible browser.

- [Yandex](https://browser.yandex.com/) - Fast and secure browser.



## Chat



- [Discord](https://discord.com/) - Free voice and text chat for gamers.

- [Keybase](https://keybase.io/) - Secure messaging and file-sharing for team collaboration.

- [Microsoft Teams](https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software) - Meet, chat, call, and collaborate in just one place.

- [Pidgin](https://www.pidgin.im/) - A chat program which lets you log into accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. 👏

- [Signal](https://signal.org/) - Free communication, audio, video call and secure messaging.

- [Skype](https://www.skype.com) - Famous instant messaging application for talking, chatting and collaborating.

- [Telegram](https://telegram.org) - Cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging app with a focus on security and speed.

- [Slack](https://slack.com) - Awesome tool for team collaboration and communication.

- [Tox](https://tox.chat/) - Free, powerful and secure chat.

- [Viber](https://www.viber.com) - Free and secure calls and messages to anyone, anywhere.

- [WICKR](https://wickr.com/) - Secure for team collaboration space.

- [Wire](https://wire.com) - Open source and secure collaboration platform. 👏



## Cloud Storage



- [Dropbox](https://www.dropbox.com) - The best cloud services on Linux.

- [Google Drive](https://drive.google.com) - Powerful cloud services by Google.

- [Mega](https://mega.io/start) - Powerful and Secure Coud Storage.

- [NextCloud](https://nextcloud.com) - Free, open source cloud storage and collaboration platform.

- [pCloud](https://www.pcloud.com) - Secure online storage from Switzerland.

- [insync](https://www.insynchq.com/) - Google Drive and OneDrive file syncing

- [Terrabox](https://www.terabox.com/) - Get free cloud storage 1024GB. 



## Code Editors



- [Atom](https://github.com/atom/atom) - Hackable text editor for the 21st Century. 👏

- [BlueFish](http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html) - Powerful editor targeted towards programmers and web developers.

- [Brackets](https://github.com/adobe/brackets) - Modern, open source text editor that understands web design. 👏

- [Kakoune](https://github.com/mawww/kakoune) - Modal editor with multi selection and fewer keystroke 👏

- [neovim](https://github.com/neovim/neovim) - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability. 👏

- [Oni](https://github.com/onivim/oni) - Modern Modal Editing - powered by Neovim. 👏

- [Oni2](https://github.com/onivim/oni2) - Native, lightweight modal code editor. 👏

- [Sublime Text](https://www.sublimetext.com/) - Sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.

- [Vim](https://github.com/vim/vim) - Greatly improved version of the good old UNIX editor Vi. 👏

- [Visual Studio Code](https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode) - Free, open source, powerful and runs everywhere. 👏



## Databases



- [CockroachDB](https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach) - CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database built on a transactional and strongly-consistent key-value store. 👏

- [DB Browser for SQLite](https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser) - High quality, visual, open source tool with SQLite. 👏

- [DBeaver](https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver) - Free universal database tool and SQL client. 👏

- [Gun](https://github.com/amark/gun) - Gun is an open-source and realtime, decentralized, offline-first, graph database engine written in JavaScript. 👏

- [Mongodb Compass](https://www.mongodb.com/products/compass) - Nice GUI for MongoDB with dark mode included.

- [Postbird](https://github.com/Paxa/postbird) - Cross-platform PostgreSQL GUI client, written in JavaScript, runs with Electron. 👏

- [Postgres admin](https://www.pgadmin.org/download/) - Free Postgres admin GUI, you can export and import database and rarely fail.

- [Robo 3T](https://robomongo.org/) - Free lightweight GUI for MongoDB enthusiasts.



## Game



- [GameHub](https://github.com/tkashkin/GameHub) - GameHub provides games from multiple game sources and services (Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, Humble Trove, etc). 👏

- [GOG.com](https://www.gog.com/) - Web platform to donwload games.

- [Humble](https://www.humblebundle.com/) - Platform to buy games bundles.

- [itch.io](https://itch.io/games/platform-linux) - Platform to buy games.

- [Lutris](https://lutris.net/) - Open Source gaming platform for Linux. 👏

- [PlayOnLinux](https://www.playonlinux.com) - Support install Windows app and games on Linux. 👏

- [Portable Linux Games](https://portablelinuxgames.org/) - Collection of a number of Linux games.

- [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/) - Platform to buy games.



## IDEs



- [Android Studio](https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html) - The fastest tools for building apps on every type of Android device.

- [CLion](https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/) - Cross-platform IDE for C and C++.

- [DataGrip](https://www.jetbrains.com/datagrip/) - Many databases, one tool.

- [Eclipse](https://www.eclipse.org/) - Free, open source, written by Java and plugin architecture allows Eclipse to be extended in other languages.

- [GoLand](https://www.jetbrains.com/go/) - Cross-platform IDE built specially for Go developers.

- [IntelliJ IDEA](https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/) - Powerful IDE for JVM languages.

- [NetBeans](https://netbeans.org/) - Quickly and easily develop desktop, mobile, and web applications with Java.

- [PyCharm](https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/) - Powerful Python IDE for Professional Developers.

- [Rider](https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/) - Fast and powerful cross-platform .NET IDE.

- [WebStorm](https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/) - The powerful IDE for modern JavaScript development.



## Image Editors



- [DigiKam](https://www.digikam.org/) - Free & Open-source digital photo management application. 👏

- [Fotoxx](https://kornelix.net/fotoxx/fotoxx.html) - Free & Open-source photo editing and collection management tool. 👏

- [GIMP](https://github.com/GNOME/gimp) - Free & Open Source Image Editor. 👏

- [GrafX2](http://grafx2.chez.com/) - Bitmap paint program inspired by Deluxe Paint on Amiga.

- [Inkscape](https://github.com/inkscape/inkscape) - Professional vector graphics editor. 👏

- [Karbon](https://www.calligra.org/karbon/) - Vector drawing application that is easy to use, highly customizable and extensible.

- [Krita](https://github.com/KDE/krita) - Open source professional software and free digital painting. 👏

- [MyPaint](https://github.com/mypaint/mypaint) - Fast and dead-simple painting app for artists. 👏

- [Pinta](https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta) - Free, open source program for drawing and image editing. 👏

- [Shotcut](https://www.shotcut.org/) - Free, open source, cross-platform video editor. 👏

- [ShowFOTO](https://apps.kde.org/showfoto/) - Free & Lightweight image editor.

- [Vectr](https://vectr.com/) - Free graphics software used to create vector graphics easily and intuitively.



## Mail



- [Hiri](https://www.hiri.com/) - Linux email client for Exchange and Office 365.

- [Mailspring](https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring) - Free, open source, beautiful and fast mail client. 👏

- [Thunderbird](https://www.thunderbird.net) - Free email application, easy to install and customize.



## Markdown Editors



- [ghostwriter](https://github.com/wereturtle/ghostwriter) - Cross-platform, aesthetic, distraction-free Markdown editor. 👏

- [Haroopad](https://github.com/rhiokim/haroopad) - The next document processor based on Markdown. 👏

- [Marktext](https://marktext.app) - Simple and Elegant Markdown Editor, focused on speed and usability. 👏

- [Moeditor](https://github.com/Moeditor/Moeditor) - Your all-purpose Markdown editor. 👏

- [Remarkable](https://github.com/jamiemcg/remarkable) - Open source, lightweight and powerful Markdown editor. 👏

- [ReText](https://github.com/retext-project/retext) - Simple but powerful editor for Markdown and reStructuredText. 👏

- [Typora](https://typora.io) - Truly minimal Markdown editor featuring seamless live preview. 



## Music



- [Amarok](https://github.com/KDE/amarok) - Powerful music player for Linux with an intuitive interface. 👏

- [Audacious](https://audacious-media-player.org/) - Open source audio player that is low resource and has a minimal feature interface. 👏

- [Clementine](https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine) - Cross-platform music player and library organizer forked from Amarok 1.4. 👏

- [cmus](https://github.com/cmus/cmus) - Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems. 👏

- [ocp](https://github.com/mywave82/opencubicplayer) - Music visualizer for various tracked music formats, chiptunes and other formats related to demoscene. 👏

- [Lollypop](https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/lollypop/) - Modern music player for GNOME. 👏

- [Rhythmbox](https://github.com/GNOME/rhythmbox) - Music playing application for GNOME. 👏



## Notes



- [Boostnote](https://github.com/BoostIO/Boostnote) - Intuitive and stylish note taking tool for developers. 👏

- [Laverna](https://github.com/Laverna/laverna) - Keep your notes private. 👏

- [notes](https://github.com/Standard-Unix-Notes/unix-notes) - GPG Encrypted Notes/Notebook manager for BSD/Linux👏

- [Simplenote](https://github.com/Automattic/simplenote-electron) - Light, clean and free. 👏

- [Tagspaces](https://github.com/tagspaces/tagspaces) - Offline, open source and data manager. 👏

- [Turtl](https://github.com/turtl/desktop) - Secure and collaborative notebook. 👏



## Office



- [LibreOffice](https://www.libreoffice.org/) - Best free office suite in the Linux community. 👏

- [OpenOffice](https://www.openoffice.org/) - The free and open productive suite. 👏

- [WPS Office](https://www.wps.com/en-US/office/linux/) - Beautiful, faster, lightweight and offers modern slick user interface.



## Terminal



- [Alacritty](https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty) - Cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator. 👏

- [Fzf command-line fuzzy finder](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf) - General-purpose command-line fuzzy finder that makes searching in history way easier. 👏

- [Hyper](https://github.com/zeit/hyper) - Terminal built on web technologies. 👏

- [Kitty](https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty) - Fast, feature-rich, cross-platform, GPU based terminal. 👏

- [Konsole](https://github.com/KDE/konsole) - Terminal emulator for the K Desktop Environment. 👏

- [st](https://st.suckless.org/) - Simple terminal implementation for X. 👏

- [Terminator](https://github.com/gnome-terminator/terminator) - Multiple terminals in one window. 👏

- [Termite](https://github.com/thestinger/termite) - A keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal. 👏

- [Tilda](https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda) - Easy to configure the hotkeys and change the appearance. 👏

- [Tilix](https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix/) - Tiling terminal emulator using GTK+ 3. 👏

- [Tmux](https://github.com/tmux/tmux/) - Tmux is a terminal multiplexer, like screen, but much better. 👏

- [Upterm](https://github.com/railsware/upterm) - Terminal emulator for the 21st century. 👏



## Version Control



- [Aurees](https://aurees.com/) - Easy, fast and free.

- [CodeReview](https://github.com/FabriceSalvaire/CodeReview) - Git GUI tool to perform code review. 👏

- [GitAhead](https://github.com/gitahead/gitahead) - Graphical Git client designed to help you understand and manage your source code history. 👏

- [Git Cola](https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola) - Powerful Git GUI with a slick and intuitive user interface. 👏

- [Git Extensions](https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions) - Standalone UI tool for managing git repositories. 👏

- [Git Horizon](https://www.cycligent.com/git-tool) - Cross-platform, Actionable, Graphical Git Dashboard.

- [GitKraken](https://www.gitkraken.com/) - Git client with efficiency, elegance and reliability.

- [SmartGit](https://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/) - Graphical Git client with support for SVN and Pull Requests for GitHub and Bitbucket.

- [Sublime Merge](https://www.sublimemerge.com/) - Powerful Git client from the creators of Sublime Text.

- [ungit](https://github.com/FredrikNoren/ungit) - Clean and intuitive UI, running on the web. 👏



## Video



- [Bomi](https://bomi-player.github.io/) - Powerful and Easy-to-use multimedia player. 👏

- [Kodi](https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc) - Free and open source media player application. 👏

- [Miro](https://github.com/pculture/miro) - Beautiful, open-source music and video player that lets you break free! 👏

- [mpv](https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv) - Free, open source, and cross-platform media player. 👏

- [OBS Studio](https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio) - Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. 👏

- [SimpleScreenRecorder](https://github.com/MaartenBaert/ssr) - Free and open source screen recording is easy to do. 👏

- [SMPlayer](https://www.smplayer.info/) - Free Media Player with built-in codecs.

- [VLC](https://github.com/videolan/vlc) - Free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework. 👏



## Virtualization



- [Docker](https://www.docker.com/) - Powerful, performs operating-system-level virtualization. 👏

- [Docker Machine](https://github.com/docker/machine) - Machine management for a container-centric world. 👏

- [Gnome Boxes](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-boxes) - Easy to view, access, and manage remote and virtual systems. 👏

- [QEMU](https://github.com/qemu/qemu) - Generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. 👏

- [UCS Virtual Machine Manager](https://www.univention.com/products/ucs/functions/virtualization-uvmm/) - Linux VM management tool for Linux, which specializes in working with cloud VMs, clusters, and other enterprise-level virtual systems.

- [Vagrant](https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant) - Tool for building and distributing development environments. 👏

- [Virtual Box](https://www.virtualbox.org/) - Free, feature rich, high performance and maintained by Oracle.

- [Virtual Machine Manager](https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager) - Graphical tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt. 👏



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