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Apr 10, 2024
Development and Design
- Hieroglyphic (⭐33) - Application to search for LaTeX symbols by sketching.
Apr 05, 2024
Development and Design
- Biblioteca (⭐46) - GNOME documentation (offline) reader with fuzzy search, dark mode and mobile support.
Mar 25, 2024
System and Customization
- Ptyxis - Terminal with first-class support for containers.
Mar 02, 2024
Utilities
- Moussam (⭐64) - Weather application with 7 days forecast from Open-Meteo.com.
Feb 08, 2024
Multimedia
- Collector - Dropover utility that allows to drag files/images/text into a collection window and drop them anywhere.
Jan 20, 2024
Office
- RNote (⭐5.5k) - Sketch and take handwritten notes.
Scientific Tooling
- Graphs - Plot and manipulate data.
Security and Privacy
- Key Rack - Tool that allows to view and edit keys, like passwords or tokens, stored by apps.
Themes for non-GTK apps / Skeumorphic Icons
- Thunderbird GNOME Theme (⭐237) - Integrate Thunderbird into GNOME-based desktop using Adwaita.
Jan 09, 2024
Themes for non-GTK apps / Skeumorphic Icons
- Adwaita for Steam (⭐1k) - Skin to make Steam look more like a native GNOME app.
- Adwaita theme for VS Code (⭐130) - Dark and light themes for VS Code based on GNOME's look and GNOME Builder's syntax highlighting.
Jan 07, 2024
Themes for non-GTK apps / Skeumorphic Icons
- Obsidian Adwaita Theme (⭐94) - Obsidian theme in the style of GNOME Adwaita.
Dec 29, 2023
System and Customization
- Bottles (⭐5.8k) - Wine environments manager to run Windows software and games.
- BoxBuddy (⭐129) - Graphical Distrobox manager.
- Pods (⭐674) - Podman containers manager.
Utilities
- Lan Mouse (⭐710) - Mouse and keyboard sharing software (software KVM switch).
Dec 27, 2023
Internet and Networking
- Warp - Fast and secure file transfer.
- Geopard - Colorful Gemini client.
- Fractal - Matrix client.
- Dino - XMPP Client.
Productivity and Time
- Planify (⭐2.9k) - Project and task manager with Todoist support.
Multimedia
- Decibels (⭐55) - Simple music player with waveform view.
- Aviator (⭐129) - Utility for encoding with SVT-AV1 & Opus.
- G4Music - Play your music elegantly.
- Monophony - Stream music from YouTube.
Graphics
- Switcheroo - Image converter and manipulator (ImageMagick frontend).
Utilities
- Kooha (⭐2.1k) - Elegantly record your screen.
Oct 28, 2023
Productivity and Time
- Errands (⭐228) - Todo application for those who prefer simplicity.
Graphics
- ASCII Draw (⭐128) - Draw graphs and more using only characters.
Utilities
- Impression - Bootable driver flasher application
Development and Design
- Forge Sparks (⭐54) - Git forge (GitHub, Gitea, Forgejo) desktop notification application.
- Turtle - Tool to manage Git repositories within Nautilus by providing emblems and context menus.
Aug 03, 2023
Productivity and Time
- Teleprompter (⭐26) - Simple application to read scrolling text from your screen.
Icons / Upstream Style
- MoreWaita (⭐436) - An Adwaita-style icon theme for Gnome Shell.
Jul 14, 2023
Internet and Networking
- Parabolic (⭐610) -
yt-dlp
graphical fronted.
Office
- Paper Clip (⭐44) - PDF metadata editor.
Multimedia
- Footage - Application to trim, flip, rotate and crop individual clips.
System and Customization
- Mission Center - Monitor your CPU, Memory, Disk, Network and GPU usage.
May 28, 2023
Development and Design
- Escambo (⭐131) - HTTP-based APIs test application.
May 26, 2023
System and Customization
- Flatseal (⭐1k) - Flatpak permission manager.
Apr 27, 2023
System and Customization
- GDM Settings - A settings app for GDM (GNOME's Login Screen a.k.a GNOME Display Manager).
- AdwSteamGtk (⭐155) - Adwaita for Steam (⭐1k) skin installer.
Apr 17, 2023
Gaming
- Cartridges (⭐510) - Game launcher with Steam, Lutris, Heroic, Bottles and itch library import.
Jan 24, 2023
Applets / Design Tooling
- RunCat (⭐375) — The cat tells you the CPU usage by running speed.
Jan 23, 2023
Office
- NFO Viewer - Simple viewer for NFO files, beating text editors with preset font and encoding settings and clickable hyperlink support.
Productivity and Time
- Endeavour - Manage your tasks.
Multimedia
- Easy Effects (⭐5.9k) - Audio effects for PipeWire applications .
System and Customization
- HydraPaper - Set a different background for each monitor.
Jan 21, 2023
Internet and Networking
- Polari - Talk to people on IRC.
- Wike - Search and read Wikipedia articles.
Office
- Citations - Manage your bibliography.
Productivity and Time
- Khronos - Log the time it took to do tasks.
Multimedia
- Amberol - Plays music, and nothing else.
- Mousai - Identify any songs in seconds.
- Podcasts - Listen to your favourite podcasts.
- Zap - Play sounds from a soundboard.
Scientific Tooling
- Plots - Simple graph plotting.
Utilities
- Audio Sharing - Share your computer audio.
- Boatswain - Control your Elgato Stream Decks.
- Decoder - Scan and Generate QR Codes.
- Junction - Junction lets you choose the application to open files and links.
- Metronome - Keep the tempo.
Security and Privacy
- Authenticator - Generate Two-Factor Codes.
- Collisions - Check hashes for your files.
- File Shredder - Securely delete your files.
Development and Design
- Lorem - Generate placeholder text.
- Share Preview - Test social media cards locally.
- Text Pieces - Transform text without using random websites.
Development and Design / Design Tooling
- Emblem - Generate project avatars.
Docks and Panels / Design Tooling
- Dash-to-Dock - A fully-featured dock.
- Dock-from-Dash - Simply transform your Dash into a Dock.
Customization and Tweaks / Design Tooling
- Extensions Sync - Syncs gnome shell keybindings, tweaks settings and extensions with their configuration across all gnome installations.
- Quick Settings Tweaker - Tweak your quick settings menu.
Menus / Design Tooling
- Arc Menu - Windows7-like application menu inspired by the one in Zorin OS.
- Fly-Pie - Mouse-based menu.
Applets / Design Tooling
- Clipboard Indicator - Simple clipboard applet.
- Desk Changer - Wallpaper slideshow applet.
- Emoji Selector - Emoji picker applet.
- GSConnect - KDE Connect implementation.
Visual Changes / Design Tooling
- Compiz windows effect - Adds wobbly effects to windows.
- Useless Gaps - For aesthetic purposes adds useless gaps around tiled and maximized windows.
- Desktop Cube (⭐586) - A Desktop Cube for GNOME Shell
- Burn My Windows (⭐2.5k) - Open/Close your windows with style.
Jan 20, 2023
Internet and Networking
- GNOME Web - Official web browser project of GNOME.
- Fragments - BitTorrent client.
- Newsflash - RSS feeds reader.
- Font Downloader - Install fonts from online sources.
- Tangram - Browser for your pinned tabs.
Office
- Apostrophe - Distraction-free Markdown editor.
Productivity and Time
- Solanum - Balance working time and break time.
Well Being
- Blanket - Listen to different sounds.
- Health - Health tracking.
Multimedia
- Shortwave - Client for web-based radio.
- Cozy - Audiobook player.
- Video Trimer - Trim video quickly.
Graphics
- Drawing - Responsive drawing application.
- Identity - Compare image and video.
System and Customization
- Pika Backup - Simple backups based on borg.
- Déjà Dup Backups - Simple backups tool.
Utilities
- Dialect - Translate text.
- Markets - Keep track of your investments.
Security and Privacy
- Obfuscate - Censor private information.
- Metadata Cleaner - View and clean metadata in files.
- Secrets - Keepass-compatible password manager.
Development and Design
- GNOME Builder - Official IDE for creating GNOME applications.
- Webfont Kit Generator - Create @font-face kits easily.
- Workbench - Learn and prototype with GNOME technologies.
- Sysprof - Profile an application or entire system.
Development and Design / Design Tooling
- App Icon Preview - Simple utility to preview icons.
- Palette - Tool for viewing the GNOME colour palette.
- Contrast - Check the contrast between two colors.
Others / Design Tooling
- Boxes - View, access, and manage remote and virtual systems.
Dec 17, 2022
Libraries / Skeumorphic Icons
- Relm4 - Building native applications with Rust and GTK4
Sep 25, 2021
Customization and Tweaks / Design Tooling
- Just Perfection - Customize GNOME Shell.
- Custom Hot Corners - Extended - Customize hot corners.
Visual Changes / Design Tooling
- Blur-my-shell (⭐1.4k) - Apply a blur effect to the overview and top panel background.
Sep 24, 2021
Development and Design
- DevHelp - Developer tool for browsing and searching API documentation.
Development and Design / Design Tooling
- Icon Library - Symbolic icons for your apps.
- Symbolic Preview - Symbolics Made Easy.
Sep 21, 2021
Development and Design
- Commit - Commit message editor.
Sep 04, 2021
System and Customization
- Dynamic Gnome Wallpapers (⭐319) - Gallery of MacOS like dynamic wallpapers, and easy scripts to install them
Aug 27, 2021
Official Venues / Skeumorphic Icons
Aug 06, 2021
Official Venues / Skeumorphic Icons
- This Week in GNOME - Weekly news from project maintainers from the community.
- Planet GNOME - Federation of GNOME Developers' blogs.
May 05, 2021
Libraries / Skeumorphic Icons
- libadwaita - Library that contain official GNOME patterns and widgets (GTK4)
- libhandy - Building blocks for modern adaptive GNOME apps (GTK3)
Apr 03, 2021
Multimedia
- Clapper (⭐663) - Simple and modern media player.
Mar 24, 2021
Documentations / Skeumorphic Icons
- GTK Documentation - Official GTK documentation.
- GJS Guide - Guide for GJS.
Feb 25, 2021
Multimedia
- Spot (⭐2.2k) - Spotify Client.
Feb 20, 2021
Examples / Skeumorphic Icons
- Hello - Set of Hello World examples for GNOME/GTK in different languages.
Jan 31, 2021
Graphics
- Curtail - Simple & useful image compressor.
System and Customization
- GNOME Tweaks - Graphical interface for advanced GNOME settings.
Development and Design
- Gaphor - The simple modeling tool for UML and SysML.
Nov 25, 2020
Applets / Design Tooling
- Caffeine - Applet that let you deactivate the GNOME lock screen.
Nov 05, 2020
Utilities
- Sunflower - Small and highly customizable twin-panel file manager.
Oct 13, 2020
Third-party Apps Plugins / Design Tooling
- Nautilus Terminal (⭐310) - Integrates a terminal into Nautilus.
Windows / Design Tooling
- Coverflow Alt-Tab (⭐350) - Advanced fullscreen app switcher.
Audio / Design Tooling
- Application Volume Mixer (⭐97) - Control volume output per-application.
Visual Changes / Design Tooling
- Transparent Shell (⭐15) - Makes some UI elements transparent.
Sep 15, 2020
Graphics
- Color Picker - Color picker, working on both X11 and Wayland.
Jun 07, 2020
Documentations / Skeumorphic Icons
- GJS Documentation - Documentation for the JavaScript GTK bindings.
Jan 10, 2020
Utilities
- GPaste (⭐738) - Clipboard manager (composed of an application and a gnome-shell extension).
Sep 21, 2019
Internet and Networking
- Geary - Modern mail client, created originally by Yorba.
- Feeds - An RSS/Atom feed reader.
- Haguichi - Graphical frontend for Hamachi.
Office
- Foliate (⭐5k) - Simple and modern eBook reader.
- Marker (⭐821) - Markdown editor with an integrated previewer.
Productivity and Time
- GTimeLog (⭐246) - Simple app for keeping track of time.
- Gnome Pomodoro - Simple pomodoro timer.
- Timetrack - Time tracker.
Multimedia
- Celluloid (⭐1k) - Simple frontend for mpv.
Graphics
- GThumb - Powerful and advanced application to manage your photos and images.
Gaming
- Lutris (⭐7.3k) - Open Source gaming platform.
System and Customization
- Tilix (⭐5.3k) - Tiling terminal emulator.
Utilities
- Catfish - Simple search application.
- Detwinner - Simple and fast tool for removing duplicate files.
- Recipes - Cooking application.
Docks and Panels / Design Tooling
- Dash-to-Panel - Make your desktop more similar to W7/KDE.
Menus / Design Tooling
- Application Menu - Category-based menu for applications.
- Places Indicator - Menu that provides fast access to your folders.
Applets / Design Tooling
- Todo.txt - Interface for todo.txt.
- KStatusNotifiers/AppIndicator Support - Appindicator systray.
Windows / Design Tooling
- PaperWM (⭐2.6k) - Tiled scrollable window management.
Services integration / Design Tooling
- GMail Message Tray (⭐83) - Integrate GMail with your desktop.
Icons / Upstream Style
- GNOME++ (⭐159) - Third-party application icons compatible with GNOME's current guidelines.
- Pop! (⭐193) - Official icon theme of Pop!_OS by System76.
Cursors / Skeumorphic Icons
- ComixCursors - X11 mouse theme with a comics feeling.
Official Venues / Skeumorphic Icons
- GNOME News Feed - Official news posts.
Sep 17, 2019
Multimedia
- Pitivi - Beautiful and powerful video editor.
Jul 10, 2019
Themes for non-GTK apps / Skeumorphic Icons
- Firefox GNOME Theme (⭐3.2k) - Integrate Firefox into GNOME-based desktop using Adwaita.
Mar 31, 2019
Official Venues / Skeumorphic Icons
#gnome
on GIMPNet - General-purpose GNOME IRC channel (complete list of channels)
GNOME on Social Networks / Skeumorphic Icons
Aug 29, 2018
System and Customization
- Dynamic Wallpaper Editor (⭐205) - Utility for editing GNOME's XML wallpapers
Jun 25, 2018
Office
- Paperwork - Personal document manager for scanned documents and PDFs.
Multimedia
- Lollypop - Beautiful music application.
Jan 23, 2018
Applets / Design Tooling
- Time ++ - A todo.txt manager, time tracker, timer, stopwatch, pomodoro, and alarm clock.
Cursors / Skeumorphic Icons
- Bibata (⭐1.6k) - Silm material-based cursor theme.
- Capitaine Cursors (⭐1k) - An x-cursor theme inspired by macOS and based on KDE Breeze. Designed to be paired with La Capitaine icons.
Sep 25, 2017
GNOME Communities / Skeumorphic Icons
GNOME on Social Networks / Skeumorphic Icons
Sep 13, 2017
Icons / Homogeneous Icons
- Numix Circle (⭐854) - Flat rounded icon theme.
- Numix Square (⭐158) - Flat square icon theme.
Aug 16, 2017
Multimedia
- Vocal (⭐347) - Powerful, beautiful, and simple podcast client for the modern free desktop.
- Parlatype - Audio player specialized for transcription.
Graphics
- Coulr (⭐35) - Convert between RGB and hexadecimal codes for colours.
System and Customization
- Menulibre - Manage your applications categories if you use a traditional application menu like Arc or the Application Menu.
Applets / Design Tooling
- Removable Drive Menu - Status menu to show your removable drives.
- OpenWeather - Weather applet.
Icons / Material Icons
- Paper - Material icon theme.
- Papirus (⭐6.3k) - Material icon theme, initially based on Paper.
Icons / Flat Icons
- La Capitaine (⭐1.9k) - Icon inspired by macOS and Material Design guidelines.
Icons / Homogeneous Icons
- Obsidian (⭐180) - Continuation of the famous Faenza theme.
Icons / Skeumorphic Icons
- Elementary XFCE (⭐266) - Desktop-agnostic version of the icons of elementary OS.
Documentations / Skeumorphic Icons
- GNOME Newcomers Wiki - Perfect place to start contributing to GNOME.
- GNOME Developer Center - Contains all the official GNOME documentations.
- Valadoc - Documentation about Vala.
- The Python GTK+ 3 Tutorial - Introduction to writing GTK+ 3 applications in Python.