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Daemon packages usually include the relevant systemd unit file to start; some packages even include different ones. After installation pacman -Qql package | grep -Fe .service -e .socket can be used to check and find the relevant one.

Note: Applications listed in "Console" sections can have graphical front-ends. Official ones are currently omitted.

Internet

Network connection

Network managers

See Network configuration#Network managers.

VPN clients

Bitmask — Secured and encrypted communication using various service providers

Libreswan — A free software implementation of the most widely supported and standarized VPN protocol based on ("IPsec") and the Internet Key Exchange ("IKE").

NetworkManager — Supports a variety of protocols (e.g. MS, Cisco, Fortinet) via a plugin system.

OpenConnect — Supports Cisco and Juniper VPNs.

Openswan — IPsec-based VPN Solution.

OpenVPN — To connect to OpenVPN VPNs.

PPTP Client — To connect to PPTP VPNs, like Microsoft VPNs (MPPE). (insecure)

strongSwan — IPsec-based VPN Solution.

tinc — tinc is a free VPN daemon.

Vpnc — To connect to Cisco 3000 VPN Concentrators.

WireGuard — Next generation secure network tunnel.

Proxy servers

Dante — SOCKS server and SOCKS client, implementing RFC 1928 and related standards.

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.

Project V — Project V is a set of tools to help you build your own privacy network over internet.

Shadowsocks — Secure socks5 proxy, designed to protect your Internet traffic.

Squid — Caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.

Stunnel — A server and client to add and remove TLS encryption to TCP data flow.

Tinyproxy — Lightweight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon.

Trojan — An unidentifiable mechanism that helps you bypass GFW.

Varnish — High-performance HTTP accelerator.

XX-Net — Easy to use web proxy tool.

Ziproxy — Forwarding (non-caching) compressing HTTP proxy server.

Anonymizing networks

Freenet — An encrypted network without censorship.

GNUnet — Framework for secure peer-to-peer networking.

I2P — Distributed anonymous network.

https://geti2p.net/ || AUR , AUR

Lantern — Peer-to-peer internet censorship circumvention software.

Tor — Anonymizing overlay network.

Web browsers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of web browsers.

Console

browsh — A fully-modern text-based browser. Runs as a frontend to headless Firefox.

ELinks — Advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web browser with mouse wheel scroll support (links fork, barely supported since 2009).

Links — Graphics and text mode web browser. Includes a console version similar to Lynx.

Lynx — Text browser for the World Wide Web.

w3m — Pager/text-based web browser. It has vim-like keybindings, and is able to display images.

Graphical

Gecko-based

See also Wikipedia:Gecko (software).

Firefox — Extensible browser from Mozilla based on Gecko with fast rendering.

SeaMonkey — Continuation of the Mozilla Internet Suite.

Firefox spin-offs

Cliqz — Firefox-based privacy aware web browser.

https://cliqz.com/ || AUR or AUR

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/ || AUR or AUR

LibreWolf — A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.

https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/ || AUR or AUR

Tor Browser Launcher — Securely and easily download, verify, install, and launch Tor Browser, a fork of Firefox ESR.

Waterfox Classic — Optimized fork of Firefox 56, without data collection and allowing unsigned extensions and NPAPI plugins.

Waterfox Current — Optimized fork of Firefox ESR, updated feature-rich branch of Waterfox.

Blink-based

See also Wikipedia:Blink (web engine).

Chromium — Web browser developed by Google, the open source project behind Google Chrome.

Privacy-focused chromium spin-offs

Brave — Web browser that blocks ads and trackers by default.

Iridium — A privacy-focused patchset for Chromium. See differences from Chromium.

Ungoogled Chromium — Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration and enhancing privacy, control, and transparency

Proprietary chromium spin-offs

browser360 — A proprietary chromium based web browser from Qihoo 360.

Google Chrome — Proprietary web browser developed by Google.

Opera — Proprietary browser developed by Opera Software.

Slimjet — Fast, smart and powerful proprietary browser based on Chromium.

Vivaldi — An advanced proprietary browser made with the power user in mind.

Yandex Browser — Proprietary browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

Browsers based on qt5-webengine

Crusta — Blazingly fast full feature web browser with unique features.

Dooble — Colorful Web browser.

Eric — QtWebEngine-based HTML browser, part of the eric6 development toolset, can be launched with the eric6_browser command.

Falkon — Web browser based on QtWebEngine, written in Qt framework.

Konqueror — Web browser based on Qt toolkit and Qt WebEngine (or KHTML layout engine), part of .

Liri Browser — A minimalistic material design web browser written for Liri.

Otter Browser — Browser aiming to recreate classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5. It can use Qt WebEngine as an alternative backend.

Qt WebBrowser — Browser for embedded devices developed using the capabilities of Qt and Qt WebEngine.

qutebrowser — A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5 and QtWebEngine.

Browsers based on electron

Beaker — Peer-to-peer web browser with tools to create and host websites. Based on the Electron platform.

Ferdi — Electron application. Messaging browser that allows you to combine your favorite messaging services into one application. It is based on Franz.

Franz — Electron application. Messaging browser for WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Telegram and many other web services.

Min — A smarter, faster web browser based on the Electron platform.

WebKit-based

See also Wikipedia:WebKit.

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

Browsers based on webkit2gtk

Most of these support ad-blocking via wyebadblock.

Ephemeral — A private-by-default, always-incognito browser for elementary OS.

Eolie — Simple web browser for GNOME.

GNOME Web — Browser which uses the WebKitGTK rendering engine, part of .

Lariza — A simple, experimental web browser using GTK 3, GLib and WebKit2GTK.

Luakit — Fast, small, webkit based browser framework extensible by Lua.

Midori — Lightweight web browser based on GTK and WebKit.

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.

surf — Lightweight WebKit-based browser, which follows the suckless philosophy (basically, the browser itself is a single C source file).

Surfer — Simple keyboard based web browser, written in C. It supports custom JS-scripts.

Tangram — Integration of web applications into the desktop, specifically GNOME.

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.

wyeb — A vim-like web browser inspired by dwb and luakit with Adblock.

Browsers based on qt5-webkit

OSPKit — Webkit based html browser for printing.

Otter Browser — Browser aiming to recreate classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5.

qutebrowser — A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5 with QtWebKit as an available backend.

smtube — Application that allows to browse, search and play YouTube videos.

WCGBrowser — A web browser for kiosk systems.

Other

Basilisk — Another Goanna-based browser from the developers of Pale Moon. It features a Firefox 52-based UI, and is a perpetual beta. It lacks support for WebExtensions, but still supports XUL-based addons.

Dillo — Small, fast graphical web browser built on FLTK. Uses its own layout engine.

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.

NetSurf — Featherweight browser written in C, notable for its slowly developing JavaScript support and fast rendering through its own layout engine.

http://www.palemoon.org/ || AUR or AUR

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.

Apache HTTP Server — A high performance Unix-based HTTP server.

Caddy — HTTP/2 web server with automatic HTTPS.

Hiawatha — Secure and advanced web server.

Lighttpd — A secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server.

nginx — Lightweight HTTP server and IMAP/POP3 proxy server.

sthttpd — Supported fork of the thttpd web server.

yaws — Web server/framework written in Erlang.

Static web servers

darkhttpd — A small and secure static web server, written in C, does not support HTTPS or Auth.

KatWeb — A lightweight static web server and reverse proxy, written in Go, designed for the modern web.

quark — An extremly small and simple http get-only web server. It only serves static pages on a single host.

serve — Static file serving and directory listing.

servy — A tiny little web server, single binary, written in Rust.

Webfs — Simple and instant web server for mostly static content.

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.

Mongoose — Embedded web server library, supports WebSocket and MQTT.

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.

VServer — GTK application, which opens an http server in the selected folder and shares your files.

webhook — Small server for creating HTTP endpoints (hooks)

Woof — An ad-hoc single file webserver; Web Offer One File.

WSGI servers

Gunicorn — A Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX.

uWSGI — A fast, self-healing and developer/sysadmin-friendly application container server written in C.

Waitress — A WSGI server for Python 3.

Apache also supports WSGI with mod_wsgi.

Performance testing

http_load — A webserver performance testing tool, runs in a single process.

httperf — Can generate various HTTP workloads, written in C.

vegeta — HTTP load testing tool, written in Go.

Web Bench — Benchmarking tool, uses fork() for simulating multiple clients.

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.

Axel — Featherweight command line download accelerator sitting at under 250kB on disk. Supports HTTP/S and FTP.

cURL — An URL retrieval utility and library. Supports HTTP, FTP and SFTP.

HTTPie — Human-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era.

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.

LFTP — Sophisticated file transfer program. Supports HTTP, FTP, SFTP, FISH, and BitTorrent.

mps-youtube — Terminal based YouTube jukebox with playlist management. Plays audio/video through mplayer/mpv.

Plowshare — A set of command-line tools designed for managing file-sharing websites (aka Hosters).

RTMPDump — Download FLV videos through RTMP (Adobe's proprietary protocol for Flash video players)

snarf — Command-line URL retrieval tool. Supports HTTP and FTP.

Streamlink — Launch streams from various streaming services in a custom video player or save them to a file.

Streamripper — Records and splits streaming mp3 into tracks.

You-Get — Download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the Web.

youtube-dl — Download videos from YouTube and many other web sites.

youtube-viewer — Command line utility for viewing YouTube videos.

Wget — A network utility to retrieve files from the Web. Supports HTTP and FTP.

Graphical

ClipGrab — Downloader and converter for YouTube, Vimeo and many other online video sites.

FatRat — Qt based download manager with support for HTTP, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

Forklift — Simple GUI for youtube-dl using PyGObject.

FreeRapid — Java-based downloader that supports downloading from file-sharing services.

gtk-youtube-viewer — GTK utility for viewing YouTube videos.

Gwget — Download manager for GNOME. Supports HTTP and FTP.

Gydl — GUI wrapper around the already existing youtube-dl program to download content from sites like YouTube.

JDownloader — Java-based downloader for one-click hosting sites.

KGet — Download manager for KDE. Supports HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. Part of .

Persepolis — Graphical front-end for aria2 download manager with lots of features. Supports HTTP and FTP.

pyLoad — Downloader written in Python and designed to be extremely lightweight, easily extensible and fully manageable via web.

Steadyflow — Simple download manager for GNOME. Supports HTTP and FTP.

Streamtuner2 — Internet radio station and video browser. It simply lists stations in categories from different directories and launches your preferred media apps for playback.

uGet — GTK download manager featuring download classification and HTML import. Supports HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Metalink, YouTube and Mega.

Video Downloader — GTK application to download videos from websites like YouTube and many others (based on youtube-dl).

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.

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.

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.

Teleport — Native GTK3 app to effortlessly share files on the local network.

Warpinator — GTK app to share files across the LAN.

Cloud storage servers

Cozy — A personal cloud you can hack, host and delete.

Nextcloud — A cloud server to store your files centrally on a hardware controlled by you.

Pydio — Mature open source web application for file sharing and synchronization.

Seafile — An online file storage and collaboration tool with advanced support for file syncing, privacy protection and teamwork.

Cloud synchronization clients

Tip: Some synchronization and backup programs provide direct support for some cloud-storage services.

Some FUSE filesystems provide a way to mount cloud-storage as a filesystem. Google Drive can be accessed also by for GVFS-based applications (like Nautilus), and by for KIO-based applications (like Dolphin).

See Data-at-rest encryption#Cloud-storage optimized to achieve zero-knowledge (client-side transparent encryption) storage on any third-party cloud service.

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.

Rclone — Multi-provider sync, copy, and mount client.

Rclone Browser — GUI client for Rclone.

Google Drive clients

drive — Tiny program to pull or push Google Drive files.

https://github.com/odeke-em/drive || AUR , AUR

DriveSync — Command line utility that synchronizes your Google Drive files with a local folder on your machine.

gdrive — Command line utility for interacting with Google Drive.

Grive — Google Drive client with support for new Drive REST API and partial sync.

Insync — Unofficial proprietary Google Drive desktop client.

ODrive — Google Drive GUI based on the Electron platform.

VGrive — GTK-based GUI client (back-end and front-end) for Google Drive made in Vala.

Other synchronization clients

aws-cli — CLI for Amazon Web Services, including efficient file transfers to and from Amazon S3.

Backblaze B2 — Backblaze B2 open-source command-line client.

Baidu Netdisk — Proprietary client for cloud storage service launched by Baidu (formerly Baidu Cloud).

Cozy Drive — Desktop client for Cozy.

Dropbox — Proprietary desktop client for Dropbox.

hubiC — Proprietary synchronization client service and command line tools for hubiC.

Mega Sync Client — Proprietary desktop client to sync files with Mega.

Megatools — Unofficial CLI for Mega.

Nextcloud Client — Desktop client for Nextcloud.

Nutstore — Proprietary desktop client for Nutstore.

OneDrive — Unofficial CLI for OneDrive.

ownCloud Desktop Client — Desktop syncing client for ownCloud.

pCloud Drive — Proprietary desktop syncing client for pCloud. Based on the Electron platform.

PydioSync — Desktop client for Pydio.

S3cmd — Unofficial CLI for Amazon S3.

Seafile Client — GUI client for Seafile.

SpiderOak One — Proprietary client for SpiderOak One.

Tresorit — Proprietary desktop syncing client for Tresorit.

Yandex Disk — Proprietary CLI for Yandex Disk.

FTP

FTP clients

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of FTP client software.

FileZilla — Fast and reliable FTP, FTPS and SFTP client.

gFTP — Multithreaded FTP client for Linux.

ftp — Simple ftp client provided by GNU Inetutils

ncftp — A set of free application programs implementing FTP.

tnftp — FTP client with several advanced features for NetBSD.

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

ftpd — Simple ftp server provided by GNU Inetutils

proFTPd — A secure and configurable FTP server

Pure-FTPd — Free (BSD-licensed), secure, production-quality and standard-compliant FTP server.

SSH — SFTP is a network protocol that provides file access, file transfer, and file management over any reliable data stream.

vsftpd — Lightweight, stable and secure FTP server for UNIX-like systems.

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.

peerflix — Streaming torrent client for node.js.

rTorrent — Simple and lightweight ncurses BitTorrent client. Requires backend.

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.

Graphical

Deluge — User-friendly BitTorrent client written in Python using GTK that can run as a daemon.

Fragments — Easy to use BitTorrent client which follows the GNOME HIG and includes well thought-out features.

FrostWire — Easy to use cloud downloader, BitTorrent client and media player.

Ktorrent — Feature-rich BitTorrent client for KDE.

Powder Player — Hybrid between a streaming BitTorrent client and a player. Based on the Electron platform.

qBittorrent — Open source (GPLv2) BitTorrent client with an integrated torrent search engine that strongly resembles µtorrent.

Tixati — Proprietary peer-to-peer file sharing program that uses the popular BitTorrent protocol.

Torrential — Simple torrent client for elementary OS.

Transmission — Simple and easy-to-use BitTorrent client with a daemon version and multiple front-ends.

Transmission Remote — GTK client for remote management of the Transmission BitTorrent client, using its HTTP RPC protocol.

Tremotesf — Qt client for remote management of the Transmission BitTorrent client, using its HTTP RPC protocol.

Tribler — 4th generation file sharing system BitTorrent client.

Vuze — Feature-rich BitTorrent client written in Java (formerly Azureus).

WebTorrent Desktop — Streaming BitTorrent application. Based on the Electron platform.

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.

EiskaltDC++ — Direct Connect and ADC client.

https://github.com/eiskaltdcpp/eiskaltdcpp || GTK: AUR , Qt: AUR

gtk-gnutella — GTK server/client for the Gnutella peer-to-peer network.

KaMule — KDE graphical front-end for aMule.

LBRY — Browser and wallet for LBRY, the decentralized, user-controlled content marketplace. Based on the Electron platform.

MLDonkey — Multi-protocol P2P client that supports HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Direct Connect, eDonkey and FastTrack.

ncdc — Modern and lightweight Direct Connect and ADC client with a friendly ncurses interface.

Nicotine+ — A graphical client for the Soulseek P2P network.

Send Anywhere — Proprietary file sharing service where users can directly share digital content in real time. Based on the Electron platform.

Valknut — Direct Connect client (like DC++) with segmented downloading.

Pastebin clients

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.

Tip: You can access the command |& curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io or upload a file: curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io < file You can access the ix.io pastebin using curl. For example pipe the output of a command to ix.io:or upload a file: sprunge.us has a similar service, and also offers a plain HTML form.

Note: not use it. pastebin.com is blocked for some people and has a history of annoying issues (javascript, adverts, poor formatting, etc). Douse it.

Elmer — Pastebin client similar to wgetpaste and curlpaste, except written in Perl and usable with wget or curl. Servers: codepad.org, rafb.me, sprunge.us.

Fb-client — Client for the paste.xinu.at pastebin.

Gist — Command-line interface for the gist.github.com pastebin service.

imgur — A CLI client which can upload image to imgur.com image sharing service.

Ix — Client for the ix.io pastebin.

Pastebinit — Really small Python script that acts as a Pastebin client. Servers: pastie.org, paste.kde.org, paste.debian.net, paste.ubuntu.com and others (for a full list see pastebinit -l ).

ruby-haste — Client for hastebin.com.

Uppity — The pastebin client with an attitude.

Wgetpaste — Bash script that automates pasting to a number of pastebin services. Servers: pastebin.ca, codepad.org, dpaste.com and pastebin.osuosl.org.

Communication

Email clients

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of email clients

Console

aerc — Work in progress asynchronous email client.

alot — An experimental terminal MUA based on notmuch mail. It is written in python using the urwid toolkit.

Alpine — Fast, easy-to-use and Apache-licensed email client based on Pine.

S-nail — a mail processing system with a command syntax reminiscent of ed with lines replaced by messages. Provides the functionality of mailx.

mu/mu4e — Email indexer (mu) and client for emacs (mu4e). Xapian based for fast searches.

Mutt — Small but very powerful text-based mail client.

NeoMutt — Command line mail reader (or MUA). It's a fork of Mutt with added features.

nmh — A modular mail handling system.

notmuch — A fast mail indexer built on top of xapian.

Sup — CLI mail client with very fast searching, tagging, threading and GMail like operation.

Wanderlust — Email client and news reader for Emacs.

Graphical

Balsa — Simple and light email client for GNOME.

Claws Mail — Lightweight GTK-based email client and news reader.

ElectronMail — Unofficial desktop app for several end-to-end encrypted email providers (like ProtonMail, Tutanota). Based on the Electron platform.

Evolution — Mature and feature-rich e-mail client that is part of the GNOME project. Part of .

Geary — Simple desktop mail client built in Vala.

GNOME Gmail — It allows desktop mail actions, such as 'Send File as Email' or web 'mailto' links, to be handled by the Gmail web client.

Kmail — Mature and feature-rich email client. Part of .

Kube — Modern communication and collaboration client built with QtQuick.

Mailspring — Proprietary fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original authors.

Nylas Mail — Extensible desktop mail app. Based on the Electron platform.

openWMail — The missing desktop client for Gmail & Google Inbox. Based on the Electron platform.

Protonmail Desktop — Unofficial app that emulates a native client for the ProtonMail e-mail service. Based on the Electron platform.

SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups — Email client included in the SeaMonkey suite.

Sylpheed — Lightweight and user-friendly GTK email client.

Thunderbird — Feature-rich email client from Mozilla written in GTK.

Trojitá — Qt IMAP email client. Only supports one IMAP account.

Web-based

Mailpile — A modern, fast web-mail client with user-friendly encryption and privacy features.

Nextcloud Mail — An email webapp for NextCloud.

Roundcubemail — Browser-based multilingual IMAP client webapp with a native application-like user interface.

SquirrelMail — Webmail for Nuts!

Mail notifiers

Ayatana Webmail — Webmail notifications and actions for any desktop.

Bubblemail — New and Unread mail notification service for local mailboxes, pop, imap, and gnome online accounts. A fork of Mailnag.

CheckMails — System tray unread mail checker using IMAP protocol.

Gnubiff — Mail notification program that checks for mail and displays headers when new mail has arrived.

Mailnag — Extensible mail notification daemon.

QGmailNotifier — Portable Qt5 based GMail notifier.

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.

Modoboa — A modular mail hosting and management platform, written in Python.

Mail retrieval agents

See also Wikipedia:Mail retrieval agent.

fdm — Program to fetch and deliver mail.

Fetchmail — A remote-mail retrieval utility.

getmail — A POP3/IMAP4 mail retriever with reliable Maildir and command delivery.

hydroxide — A third-party, open-source ProtonMail CardDAV, IMAP and SMTP bridge

imapsync — IMAP synchronisation, sync, copy or migration tool

isync — IMAP and MailDir mailbox synchronizer

mpop — A small, fast POP3 client suitable as a fetchmail replacement

OfflineIMAP — Synchronizes emails between two repositories.

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

BarnOwl — Ncurses-based chat client with support for the Zephyr, XMPP, IRC and Twitter protocols.

BitlBee — IRC gateway to popular chat networks (XMPP, ICQ and Twitter).

CenterIM — Text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface. Supports most of widely used IM protocols, including ICQ, IRC, XMPP.

EKG2 — Ncurses based XMPP, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ and IRC client.

Finch — Ncurses-based chat client that uses libpurple and supports all its protocols (Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, SIMPLE, XMPP, Zephyr).

Graphical

Jitsi — Audio/video VoIP phone and instant messenger written in Java that supports protocols such as SIP, XMPP, ICQ, IRC and many other useful features.

Kopete — User-friendly IM supporting Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise, ICQ, XMPP.

KDE Telepathy — KDE instant messaging client using the Telepathy framework. Meant as a replacement for Kopete.

Pidgin — Multi-protocol instant messaging client with audio support that uses libpurple and supports all its protocols (Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, SIMPLE, XMPP, Zephyr).

qutIM — Simple and user-friendly IM supporting ICQ, XMPP, Mail.Ru, IRC and VKontakte messaging.

Smuxi — Cross-platform IRC client that also supports Twitter and XMPP.

Thunderbird — Feature-rich email client supports instant messaging and chat using IRC, XMPP and Twitter.

Volt — Proprietary native desktop client for Skype, Telegram, Slack, XMPP, Discord, IRC and more.

IRC clients

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients.

Console

BitchX — Console-based IRC client developed from the popular ircII.

ERC — Powerful, modular and extensible IRC client for Emacs.

https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/erc/ || included with

ii — Featherweight IRC client, literally tail -f the conversation and echo back your replies to a file.

ircii — Oldest maintained IRC client which lays claim to being small and fast owing to its reduced feature set.

Irssi — Highly-configurable ncurses-based IRC client.

pork — Programmable, ncurses-based IRC client that mostly looks and feels like ircII.

ScrollZ — Advanced IRC client based on ircII.

sic — Extremely simple IRC client, similar to ii.

tiny — an IRC client written in Rust with a clutter-free interface

WeeChat — Modular, lightweight ncurses-based IRC client.

Comparison

Name Package Written in Extensible SASL BitchX AUR C ? ? ERC ELisp in ELisp via script ii AUR C stdin/stdout No Irssi C in Perl Yes pork C in Perl No ScrollZ AUR C ? No sic AUR C stdin/stdout No tiny AUR Rust No Yes WeeChat C multiple languages Yes

Graphical

HexChat — Fork of XChat for Linux and Windows.

Konversation — Qt-based IRC client for the KDE desktop.

KVIrc — Qt-based IRC client featuring extensive themes support.

Loqui — GTK IRC client.

LostIRC — Simple GTK IRC client with tab-autocompletion, multiple server support, logging and others.

Polari — Simple IRC client by the GNOME project.

Quassel — Modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client.

Srain — Modern, beautiful IRC client written in GTK 3.

XMPP clients

See also Wikipedia:XMPP and Wikipedia:Comparison of instant messaging clients#XMPP-related features.

Console

Freetalk — Console-based XMPP client.

jabber.el — Minimal XMPP client for Emacs.

jp (Salut à Toi) — CLI frontend for Salut à Toi, multi-purpose XMPP client

MCabber — Small XMPP console client, includes features: SSL, PGP, MUC, OTR and UTF8.

Poezio — XMPP client with IRC feeling

Primitivus (Salut à Toi) — Console frontend for Salut à Toi, multi-purpose XMPP client

Profanity — A console based XMPP client inspired by Irssi.

xmpp-client — A minimalist XMPP client with OTR support.

Graphical

Cagou (Salut à Toi) — Desktop/mobiles frontend for Salut à Toi, multi-purpose XMPP client

Converse.js — Web-based XMPP chat client written in JavaScript.

Dino — A modern, easy to use XMPP client, with PGP and OMEMO support.

Gajim — XMPP client with audio support written in Python using GTK.

Kaidan — A simple, user-friendly Jabber/XMPP client providing a modern user interface using Kirigami and QtQuick.

Kadu — Qt-based XMPP and Gadu-Gadu client.

Libervia (Salut à Toi) — Web frontend for Salut à Toi, multi-purpose XMPP client

Nextcloud JavaScript XMPP Client — Chat app for Nextcloud with XMPP, end-to-end encryption, video calls, file transfer & group chat.

Psi — Qt-based XMPP client.

Spark — Cross-platform real-time XMPP collaboration client optimized for business and organizations.

Swift — XMPP client written in C++ with Qt and Swiften.

Tkabber — Easy to hack feature-rich XMPP client by the author of the ejabberd XMPP server.

Vacuum IM — Full-featured crossplatform XMPP client.

SIP clients

See also Wikipedia:List of SIP software#Clients.

Blink — State of the art, easy to use SIP client.

Jami — SIP-compatible softphone and instant messenger for the decentralized Jami network. Formerly known as Ring and SFLphone.

Linphone — VoIP phone application (SIP client) for communicating freely with people over the internet, with voice, video, and text instant messaging.

Twinkle — Qt softphone for VoIP and IM communication using SIP.

Zoiper — Proprietary SIP and IAX2 VoIP softphone

Matrix clients

See also Matrix.

Element — Glossy Matrix client with an emphasis on performance and usability. Web application and desktop application based on the Electron platform.

Fractal — Matrix client for GNOME written in Rust.

Mirage — A fancy, customizable, keyboard-operable Matrix chat client for encrypted and decentralized communication. Written in Qt/QML + Python with nio, currently in alpha.

https://github.com/mirukana/mirage || AUR , AUR

nheko — Desktop client for the Matrix protocol.

https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko || AUR , AUR

Quaternion — Qt5-based IM client for the Matrix protocol.

Spectral — Qt5-based Glossy cross-platform client for Matrix.

Tox clients

See also Tox.

qTox — Powerful Tox client written in C++/Qt that follows the Tox design guidelines.

ratox — FIFO based tox client.

Toxic — ncurses-based Tox client

Toxygen — Tox client written in pure Python3.

Venom — a modern Tox client for the GNU/Linux desktop

µTox — Lightweight Tox client.

LAN messengers

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

BeeBEEP — Secure LAN Messenger.

iptux — LAN communication software, compatible with IP Messenger.

LAN Messenger — P2P chat application for intranet communication and does not require a server. A variety of handy features are supported including notifications, personal and group messaging with encryption, file transfer and message logging.

P2P messaging clients

See also Ring and Tox.

Bitmessage — Decentralized and trustless P2P communications protocol for sending encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers.

Patchwork — Decentralized messaging and sharing app built on top of Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB). Based on the Electron platform.

RetroShare — Serverless encrypted instant messenger with filesharing, chatgroups, mail.

Ricochet — Anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging system built on Tor hidden services.

Other IM clients

Caprine — Unofficial Facebook Messenger app. Based on the Electron platform.

Delta Chat — A privacy oriented chat application built on e-mail. Based on the Electron platform.

Discord — Proprietary all-in-one voice and text chat application for gamers that’s free and works on both your desktop and phone.

Esmska — Program for sending SMS over the Internet.

Gitter — Communication product for communities and teams on GitHub.

Hangups — Third-party instant messaging client for Google Hangouts with console interface.

ICQ — Official ICQ client for Linux.

Kotatogram — Experimental fork of Telegram Desktop.

Matterhorn — Console client for the Mattermost chat system.

Mattermost Desktop — Desktop application for Mattermost. Based on the Electron platform.

Mumble — Voice chat application similar to TeamSpeak.

QHangups — Alternative client for Google Hangouts written in PyQt.

QQ — Proprietary instant messaging software developed by Tencent (imitating ICQ).

Rocket.Chat Desktop — Desktop application for Rocket.Chat. Based on the Electron platform.

Signal — Signal Private Messenger for the Desktop. Based on the Electron platform.

Skype — Popular but proprietary application for voice and video communication. Based on the Electron platform.

Slack — Proprietary Slack client for desktop. Based on the Electron platform.

TeamSpeak — Proprietary VoIP application with gamers as its target audience.

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.

Telegram Desktop — Official Telegram desktop client.

Viber — Proprietary cross-platform IM and VoIP software.

Wire — Modern, private messenger. Based on the Electron platform.

YakYak — Unofficial desktop client for Google Hangouts. Based on the Electron platform.

Zoom — Proprietary video conferencing, online meetings and group messaging application.

Zulip — Desktop client for Zulip group chat. Based on the Electron platform.

Instant messaging servers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of instant messaging protocols.

IRC servers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of Internet Relay Chat daemons.

InspIRCd — A stable, modern and lightweight IRC daemon.

IRCD-Hybrid — A lightweight, high-performance internet relay chat daemon.

miniircd — A small and configuration free IRC server, suitable for private use.

ngIRCd — A free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server for small or private networks.

oragono — A modern IRC server written in Go.

UnrealIRCd — Open Source IRC Server.

XMPP servers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of XMPP server software.

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.

Ejabberd — Robust, scalable and extensible XMPP Server written in Erlang

Jabberd2 — An XMPP server written in the C language and licensed under the GNU General Public License. It was inspired by jabberd14.

Openfire — An XMPP IM multiplatform server written in Java

SIP servers

See also Wikipedia:List of SIP software#Servers.

Asterisk — A complete PBX solution.

Kamailio — Rock solid SIP server.

openSIPS — SIP proxy/server for voice, video, IM, presence and any other SIP extensions.

Repro — An open-source, free SIP server.

Yate — Advanced, mature, flexible telephony server that is used for VoIP and fixed networks, and for traditional mobile operators and MVNOs.

Other IM servers

Mattermost — Open source private cloud server, Slack-alternative.

Murmur — The voice chat application server for Mumble.

Nextcloud Talk — Video- and audio-conferencing app for Nextcloud.

Rocket.Chat — Web chat server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor fullstack framework.

Spreed WebRTC — WebRTC audio/video call and conferencing server.

Synapse — Reference homeserver for the Matrix protocol.

TeamSpeak Server — Proprietary VoIP conference server.

uMurmur — Minimalistic Mumble server.

Collaborative software

See also Wikipedia:Collaborative software.

Citadel/UX — Includes an email & mailing list server, instant messaging, address books, calendar/scheduling, bulletin boards, and wiki and blog engines.

Kolab — Kolab Groupware solution consisting of a server and various clients.

Open-Xchange — A groupware solution providing mail facilities, calendaring, shared contacts and Google-Docs-like text editing

SOGo — Groupware server built around OpenGroupware.org (OGo) and the SOPE application server.

News, RSS, and blogs

News aggregators

RSS/Atom aggregators. Some email clients are also able to act as news aggregator: Claws Mail RSSyl plugin, Evolution RSS plugin, SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups, Thunderbird.

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of feed aggregators.

Console

Canto — Ncurses RSS aggregator.

Gnus — Email, NNTP and RSS client for Emacs.

Newsboat — Ncurses RSS aggregator with layout and keybinding similar to the Mutt email client.

Rawdog — "RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur" that parses RSS/CDF/Atom feeds into a static HTML page of articles in chronological order.

sfeed — Lightweight RSS and Atom parser.

Snownews — Text mode RSS news reader.

Graphical

Akregator — News aggregator for KDE, part of .

Alduin — RSS, Atom and JSON feed aggregator. Based on the Electron platform.

FeedReader — Modern desktop application designed to complement existing web-based RSS accounts. Discontinued.

Feeds — An RSS/Atom feed reader for GNOME.

HackUp — Read Hacker News from the desktop.

Liferea — GTK news aggregator for online news feeds and weblogs.

NewsFlash — Modern feed reader designed for the GNOME desktop. The spiritual successor to FeedReader.

Nextcloud News — RSS/Atom feed reader for Nextcloud.

QuiteRSS — RSS/Atom feed reader written on Qt/С++.

Raven — Simple desktop RSS reader made using VueJS. Based on the Electron platform.

RSS Guard — Very tiny RSS and ATOM news reader developed using Qt framework.

selfoss — The new multipurpose RSS reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application.

Tickr — GTK-based RSS Reader that displays feeds as a smooth scrolling line on your desktop, as known from TV stations.

Tiny Tiny RSS — Web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) aggregator.

Podcast clients

Some media players are also able to act as podcast client: Amarok, Banshee, 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.

castget — Simple, command-line RSS enclosure downloader, primarily intended for automatic, unattended downloading of podcasts.

gpo — Text mode interface of gPodder.

Greg — A command-line podcast aggregator.

Marrie — A simple podcast client that runs on the Command Line Interface.

pcd — A minimal podcast client written in go

Graphical

CPod — Simple, beautiful podcast app. Based on the Electron platform.

GNOME Podcasts — Podcast client for the GNOME Desktop written in Rust.

gPodder — Podcast client and media aggregator (GTK interface).

Vocal — Simple podcast client for the Modern Desktop (GTK).

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.

slrn — Text-based news client.

tin — A cross-platform threaded NNTP and spool based UseNet newsreader.

trn — A text-based Threaded Usenet newsreader.

Graphical

LottaNZB — A SABnzbd (Usenet binary downloader) GUI front-end written in PyGTK (Python 2)

NZBGet — Usenet binary downloader for .nzb files with web and CLI interface.

Pan — GTK Usenet newsreader that's good at both text and binaries.

SABnzbd — An open-source binary newsreader webapp written in Python.

XRN — Usenet newsreader for X Window System.

Microblogging clients

See also Wikipedia:List of Twitter services and applications.

Console

oysttyer — (official fork of ttytter) An interactive console text-based command-line Twitter client written in Perl.

Rainbowstream — A powerful and fully-featured console Twitter client written in Python.

toot — CLI and TUI tool for interacting with Mastodon instances

turses — Twitter client for the console based off tyrs with major improvements.

Graphical

Birdie — Beautiful Twitter client designed for elementary OS.

Cawbird — Native GTK Twitter client for the Linux desktop.

Choqok — Microblogging client for KDE that supports Twitter.com, Pump.io, GNU social and opendesktop.org services.

Mikutter — Simple, powerful Twitter client using GTK and Ruby.

Polly — Linux Twitter client designed for multiple columns of multiple accounts.

Pumpa — Pump.io client written in C++ and Qt.

Tootle — GTK3 client for Mastodon.

Turpial — Multi-interface Twitter client written in Python.

Whalebird — Mastodon client application. Based on the Electron platform.

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 || AUR or AUR

Drupal — A PHP-based content management platform.

Ghost — Blogging platform written in JavaScript and distributed under the MIT License, designed to simplify the process of online publishing for individual bloggers as well as online publications.

Joomla — A php Content Management System (CMS) which enables you to build websites and powerful online applications.

Wordpress — Blog tool and publishing platform.

Static site generators

Hexo — Fast, simple and powerful blog framework.

Hugo — Hugo is a static HTML and CSS website generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, ease of use, and configurability.

Jekyll — Static blog engine, written in Ruby, which supports Markdown, textile and other formats.

Nanoblogger — A small weblog engine written in Bash for the command line. It uses common UNIX tools such as cat, grep, and sed to create static HTML content. It is not maintained anymore.

Nikola — Static site generator written in Python, with incremental rebuilds and multiple markup formats.

Pelican — Static site generator, powered by Python.

Remote desktop

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

Remote desktop clients

AnyDesk — Proprietary remote desktop software.

GNOME Boxes — A simple GNOME 3 application to access remote or virtual systems. Supports RDP, VNC and SPICE.

GNOME Connections — Remote desktop client for GNOME. Supports RDP and VNC.

GVncViewer — Simple VNC Client on Gtk-VNC. Run with gvncviewer .

KRDC — Remote Desktop Client for KDE. Supports RDP and VNC. Part of .

Remmina — Remote desktop client written in GTK. Supports RDP, VNC, NX, XDMCP and SSH.

Remote Viewer — Simple remote display client. Supports SPICE and VNC.

Remotely — Simple VNC viewer for GNOME.

Sunlogin Remote Control — Proprietary software that supports remote control of mobile devices, Windows, Mac, Linux and other systems. It uses its own proprietary protocol.

TeamViewer — Proprietary remote desktop client. It uses its own proprietary protocol.

vncviewer (TigerVNC) — VNC viewer for X.

Vinagre — Remote desktop viewer for GNOME. Supports RDP, VNC, SPICE and SSH. Part of .

xfreerdp — FreeRDP X11 client. Run with xfreerdp .

X2Go Client — A graphical client (Qt5) for the X2Go system that uses the NX technology protocol.

Remote desktop servers

Krfb — VNC server for KDE. Part of .

wayvnc — VNC server for wlroots based wayland compositors (such as ).

x0vncserver (TigerVNC) — VNC Server for X displays.

x11vnc — VNC server for real X displays.

X2Go Server — An open source remote desktop software that uses the NX technology protocol.

Xrdp — A daemon that supports RDP. It uses Xvnc, X11rdp or xorgxrdp as a backend.

Multimedia

Codecs

See the main article: Codecs.

Image

Image viewers

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of image viewers.

Framebuffer image viewers

fbi — Image viewer for the linux framebuffer console.

fbv — Very simple graphic file viewer for the framebuffer console.

fim — Highly customizable and scriptable framebuffer image viewer based on fbi.

jfbview — Framebuffer PDF and image viewer based on Imlib2. Features include Vim-like controls, rotation and zoom, zoom-to-fit, and fast multi-threaded rendering.

Graphical image viewers

Deepin Image Viewer — Image viewer for Deepin desktop.

Ephoto — A light image viewer based on EFL.

Eye of GNOME — Image viewing and cataloging program, which is a part of the GNOME desktop environment.

Eye of MATE — Simple graphics viewer for the MATE desktop.

EyeSight — Image viewer for the Hawaii desktop environment.

feh — Fast, lightweight image viewer that uses imlib2.

GalaPix — OpenGL-based image viewer for simultaneously viewing and zooming large collections of image files,

Geeqie — Image browser and viewer (fork of GQview) that adds additional functionality such as support for RAW files.

GPicView — Simple and fast image viewer for X, which is part of the LXDE desktop.

http://lxde.sourceforge.net/gpicview/ || GTK 2: , GTK 3:

Gwenview — Fast and easy to use image viewer for the KDE desktop.

ida — X11 application (Motif based) for viewing images.

imv — Lightweight image viewer with support for Wayland and animated GIFs which uses FreeImage.

LxImage-Qt — The LXQt image viewer.

meh — meh is a small, simple, super fast image viewer using raw XLib.

Mirage — PyGTK image viewer featuring support for crop and resize, custom actions and a thumbnail panel.

nomacs — Qt image viewer. It is feature-rich but starts fast and can be configured to show additional widgets or only the image.

Phototonic — Fast and functional image viewer and browser (Qt).

PhotoQt — Fast and highly configurable image viewer with a simple and nice interface.

pqiv — GTK 3 based command-line image viewer with a minimal UI supporting images in compressed archives, rewrite of qiv.

qimgv — Fast and easy to use Qt5 image viewer. Supports webm/mp4 playback via mpv.

Quick Image Viewer — Very small and fast image viewer based on GTK and imlib2.

qView — Qt image viewer designed with minimalism and usability in mind.

Ristretto — Fast and lightweight image viewer for the Xfce desktop environment.

shufti — shufti non-destructively saves and restores the zoom level, rotation, window size, desktop location and viewing area on a per-image/file location basis

sxiv — Simple image viewer based on imlib2 that works well with tiling window managers.

Viewnior — Minimalistic GTK image viewer featuring support for flipping, rotating, animations and configurable mouse actions.

Vimiv — An image viewer with vim-like keybindings. It is written in python3 using the Gtk3 toolkit.

vpv — Image viewer designed for scientific image visualization.

Xloadimage — Classic X image viewer.

Image organizers

See also Wikipedia:Image organizer.

Deepin Album — Photo manager for viewing and organizing pictures, for Deepin desktop.

digiKam — KDE-based image organizer with built-in editing features via a plugin architecture. digiKam asserts it is more full featured than similar applications with a larger set of image manipulation features including RAW image import and manipulation.

Frogr — Small application for the GNOME desktop that allows users to manage their accounts in the Flickr image hosting website.

GNOME Photos — Access, organize, and share your photos on GNOME.

gThumb — Image viewer and browser for the GNOME desktop.

KPhotoAlbum — Digital image cataloging software that supports annotation, browsing, searching and viewing of digital images and videos.

Memories — Image viewer and manager designed for elementary OS.

Pantheon Photos — Photo organizer for Pantheon.

Pix — Image viewer and browser based on gthumb. X-Apps Project.

Rapid Photo Downloader — Download photos and videos from cameras, memory cards and portable storage devices.

Shotwell — A digital photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment

Image processing

CairoSVG — SVG to PNG, PDF, PS converter.

Converseen — Qt-based batch image converter and resizer.

CropGUI — GTK utility for lossless cropping and rotation of jpeg files

dcraw — Converts many camera RAW formats.

Fyre — Tool for producing computational artwork based on histograms of iterated chaotic functions.

G'MIC — Full-featured open-source framework for image processing, providing several different user interfaces to convert/manipulate/filter/visualize generic image datasets, ranging from 1d scalar signals to 3d+t sequences of multi-spectral volumetric images, including 2d color images.

GraphicsMagick — Fork of ImageMagick designed to have API and command-line stability. It also supports multi-CPU for enhanced performance and thus is used by some large commercial sites (Flickr, etsy) for its performance.

ImageMagick — Command-line image manipulation program. It is known for its accurate format conversions with support for over 100 formats. Its API enables it to be scripted and it is usually used as a backend processor.

PosteRazor — Cut an image or PDF into pieces which can be printed and assembled to a poster

Image compression

Console

Guetzli — A perceptual JPEG encoder, aiming for excellent compression density at high visual quality.

jpegoptim — JPEG optimization utility providing lossless and lossy compression.

optipng — Lossless PNG compressor.

pngcrush — Tool for optimizing the compression of PNG files.

pngquant — Lossy compression of PNG images.

zopflipng — Highly efficient PNG optimisation tool using Google's zopfli library

Graphical

Image Optimizer — Simple lossless image optimizer built with Vala and Gtk for Elementary OS.

ImCompressor — GTK-based image compressor, supporting PNG and JPEG file types.

Trimage — Qt-based tool for optimizing PNG and JPG files.

Raster graphics editors

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of raster graphics editors.

AzPainter — Painting software for illustration drawing.

Deepin Draw — Lightweight drawing tool for Deepin desktop.

Drawing — Drawing application for the GNOME desktop, using Cairo and GdkPixbuf for basic drawing operations.

Drawpile — Collaborative drawing program that allows multiple users to sketch on the same canvas simultaneously.

GIMP — Image editing suite in the vein of proprietary editors such as Adobe Photoshop. GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) has been started in the mid 1990s and has acquired a large number of plugins and additional tools.

Glimpse — A fork of GIMP, usability-focused free software application capable of expert level image manipulation.

Gpaint — Paintbrush clone for GNOME.

GrafX2 — Bitmap paint program specialized in 256 color drawing.

ImEditor — Simple and versatile image editor.

KolourPaint — Free raster graphics editor for KDE, similar to Microsoft's Paint application before Windows 7, but with some additional features such as support for transparency. Part of and groups.

Krita — Digital painting and illustration software included based on the KDE platform.

mtPaint — Graphics editing program geared towards creating indexed palette images and pixel art.

MyPaint — Free software graphics application for digital painters.

PhotoFlare — Simple but powerful image editor originally inspired by PhotoFiltre.

Pinta — Drawing and editing program modeled after Paint.NET. Its goal is to provide a simplified alternative to GIMP for casual users.

XPaint — Color image editing tool which features most standard paint program options.

Some image viewers and organizers like digiKam, Ephoto, GNOME Photos, gThumb, ida, nomacs, Pantheon Photos, Phototonic and Shotwell also provide some basic image manipulation functionality.

Specialized photo editors

darktable — Photography workflow and RAW development application.

Hugin — Panorama photo stitcher.

LightZone — Professional-level digital darkroom and photo editor comparable to Photoshop Lightroom.

Luminance HDR — Open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging.

nUFRaw — Utility to read and manipulate raw images from digital cameras using DCRaw.

Oqapy — Photographic workflow application.

Rawstudio — Raw-image converter written in GTK.

RawTherapee — A powerful cross-platform raw image processing program.

Vector graphics editors

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of vector graphics editors.

Dia — GTK-based diagram creation program.

diagrams.net — Diagram drawing application built on web technology. Based on the Electron platform.

Gravit Designer — Proprietary vector design application. Based on the Electron platform.

Inkscape — Vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. It's developers also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.

Karbon — Vector graphics editor, part of the Calligra Suite.

LibreOffice Draw — Vector graphics editor and diagramming tool included in the LibreOffice suite similar to Microsoft Visio.

Milton — Infinite-canvas paint program.

Mockingbot — Proprietary prototyping & collaboration design tool. Based on the Electron platform.

OpenOffice Draw — Vector graphics editor and diagramming tool included in the OpenOffice suite.

Pencil Project — GUI prototyping and mockup tool. Based on the Electron platform.

sK1 — Replacement for Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw, oriented for "prepress ready" PostScript & PDF output.

SvgVi — SVG viewer and editor using XML declarations.

yEd — General-purpose proprietary diagramming program for flowcharts, network diagrams, UML diagrams, BPMN diagrams, mind maps, organization charts, and Entity Relationship diagrams.

Xfig — Interactive drawing tool.

Font editors

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of font editors.

Birdfont — Font editor which lets you create vector graphics and export TTF, EOT and SVG fonts.

FontForge — Outline font editor.

TruFont — Font-editing application.

2D animation

OpenToonz — 2D animation creation software.

Pencil2D — Easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations.

qStopMotion — Application for creating stop-motion animation movies. The users will be able to create stop-motions from pictures imported from a camera or from the harddrive and export the animation to different video formats such as mpeg or avi.

Stopmotion — Application to create stop-motion animations. It helps you capture and edit the frames of your animation and export them as a single file.

Synfig Studio — 2D animation software, designed as powerful industrial-strength solution for creating film-quality animation using a vector and bitmap artwork.

TupiTube Desk — Desktop application to create and share 2D animations, focused on kids and teenagers.

The drawing application Krita and the 3D editor Blender (Grease Pencil mode) have both 2D animation features too.

3D computer graphics

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of 3D computer graphics software.

Art of Illusion — 3D modeling and rendering studio written in Java.

Blender — Fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite capable of 3D modeling, texturing, and animation, among other things.

Dust3D — 3D modeling software. It helps you create a 3D watertight base model in seconds. Use it to speed up your character modeling in game making, 3D printing, and so on.

F3D — A fast and minimalist KISS 3D viewer. Supported file formats: VTK (legacy and XML), STL, GLTF, PLY, OBJ, 3DS, …

Goxel — Open Source 3D voxel editor.

MakeHuman™ — Parametrical modeling program for creating human bodies.

Sweet Home 3D — Interior design software application for the planning and development of floor plans

POV-Ray — Script-based raytracer for creating 3D graphics.

VoxelShop — Extremely intuitive and powerful software to modify and create voxel objects.

Wings 3D — Advanced subdivision modeler that is both powerful and easy to use.

Color pickers and palettes

Agave — Colorscheme designer tool for GNOME.

Chameleon — Simple color picker for X11 which outputs colors to stdout.

ColorGrab — Cross-platform color picker.

Color Palette — Tool for viewing the GNOME color palette as defined by the design guidelines.

colorpicker — Click on a pixel on your screen and print its color value in RGB. Written for X11.

Color Picker — Simplistic color picker for the Pantheon desktop.

Coulr — Color box to help developers and designers.

Deepin Picker — Color picker tool for Deepin desktop.

delicolour — Lightweight GTK 3 color finder.

gcolor2 — Simple GTK 2 color selector.

Gcolor3 — Simple GTK 3 color selector.

GPick — Advanced color picker tool.

KColorChooser — Simple application to select the color from the screen or from a pallete. Part of .

MATE Color Selection — Choose colors from the palette or the screen. Run with mate-color-select .

Pick — Simple color picker tool for the Linux desktop.

PrestoPalette — An artist's tool for creating harmonious color palettes.

xcolor — Lightweight color picker for X11.

Screenshot

See Screen capture#Screenshot software.

Digital camera managers

See gPhoto#Installation.

Audio

Audio systems

See also the main article Sound system and Wikipedia:Sound server.

Audio players

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of audio player software.

Server

Music Player Daemon — Audio player that has a server-client architecture. In order to interface with it, a separate client is needed.

Console

cmus — Very feature-rich ncurses-based music player.

Cplay — Curses front-end for various audio players (ogg123, mpg123, mpg321, splay, madplay, and mikmod, xmp, and sox).

Herrie — Minimalistic console-based music player with native AudioScrobbler support.

MOC — Ncurses console audio player with support for the MP3, OGG, and WAV formats.

MPFC — Gstreamer-based audio player with curses interface.

mpg123 — Fast free MP3 console audio player for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, HP-UX and nearly all other UNIX systems (also decodes MP1 and MP2 files).

pianobar — Console-based frontend for the online radio Pandora.

vitunes — Curses-based music player and playlist manager with vim-like keybindings.

whistle — Curses-based commandline audio player.

XMMS2 — Complete rewrite of the popular music player.

Graphical

GStreamer-based

Banshee — iTunes clone, built with GTK and Mono, feature-rich.

Byte — Music player designed for elementary OS.

Clementine — Amarok 1.4 clone, ported to Qt5.

Cozy — Modern audio book player for Linux using GTK 3.

Exaile — GTK clone of Amarok.

GNOME Internet Radio Locator — Easily find live radio programs based on geographical location of radio broadcasters on the Internet.

GNOME Music — Music is the new GNOME music playing application. It aims to combine an elegant and immersive browsing experience with simple and straightforward controls.

Goodvibes — Lightweight internet radio player.

Guayadeque — Full featured media player that can easily manage large collections and uses the GStreamer media framework.

Lollypop — A GNOME music player.

Melody — Music player for listening to local music files, online radios and audio CD's.

Muine — A music player written in C Sharp.

Pantheon Music — Simple, fast, and good looking music player. The official elementary music player.

Parlatype — Minimal audio player for manual speech transcription, for GNOME. It plays audio sources to transcribe them in your favorite text application.

Pithos — Python/GTK Pandora Radio desktop client.

Pragha — A lightweight two-panel GTK music manager written in C.

Quod Libet — Audio player written with GTK, Python and GStreamer with support for regular expressions in playlists.

Radiotray-NG — Internet radio player systray applet.

Rhythmbox — GTK clone of iTunes, used by default in GNOME.

Sayonara — Small, clear and fast audio player for Linux written in C++, uses the Qt framework.

Shortwave — GTK 3 application for finding and listening to internet radio stations.

Strawberry — Fork of Clementine aimed at audio enthusiasts and music collectors.

Tauon Music Box — Modern, comfortable and streamlined music player for the playback of your music collection.

Phonon-based

Amarok — Mature Qt-based player known for its plethora of features.

JuK — JuK is an audio jukebox application, supporting collections of MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC audio files.

Other

Aqualung — Advanced music player, which plays audio CDs, internet radio streams and podcasts as well as soundfiles in just about any audio format and has the feature of inserting no gaps between adjacent tracks.

ArchSimian — Graphical Qt-based playlist creator that mines data from the user's MediaMonkey database.

Audacious — Winamp clone like Beep and old XMMS versions.

DeaDBeeF — Light and fast music player with many features, no GNOME or KDE dependencies, supports console-only, as well as a GTK GUI, comes with many plugins, and has a metadata editor.

Deepin Music — Awesome music player with brilliant and tweakful UI Deepin-UI based.

Elisa — Simple music player by the KDE community aiming to provide a nice experience for its users.

gmusicbrowser — Open-source jukebox for large collections of MP3/OGG/FLAC files.

Goggles Music Manager — Music collection manager and player that automatically categorizes your music, supports gapless playback, features easy tag editing, and internet radio support. Uses the Fox toolkit.

Google Play Music Desktop Player — Beautiful cross platform desktop player for Google Play Music. Based on the Electron platform.

LXMusic — A minimalist xmms2-based music player.

https://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXMusic || GTK 2: , GTK 3:

MellowPlayer — A free, open source and cross-platform Qt-based desktop application that runs web-based music streaming services in its own window and provides integration with your desktop.

https://colinduquesnoy.gitlab.io/MellowPlayer/ || AUR AUR

museeks — Minimalistic and easy to use music player. Based on the Electron platform.

Musique — Just another music player, only better.

Noson — Fast and smart controller for SONOS devices.

Nuclear — Modern music player focused on streaming from free sources. Based on the Electron platform.

Qmmp — Qt-based multimedia player with a user interface that is similar to Winamp or XMMS.

Spotify — Proprietary music streaming service. It supports local playback and streaming from Spotify's vast library (requires a free account).

Upplay — Qt-based UPnP audio control point.

Vvave — Tiny Qt music player to keep your favorite songs at hand.

Yarock — Modern looking music player, packed with features, that doesn’t depend on any specific desktop environment. Yarock is designed to provide an easy and pretty music browser based on cover art.

Audio tag editors

Console

Beets — Music library organizer, tagger and more.

Demlo — Batch music tagger, encoder, renamer and more.

id3 — Command-line utility to edit ID3 1.x and 2.x tags.

id3ted — Command line id3 tag editor.

id3v2 — Command line editor for id3v2 tags.

MP3Info — MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor.

MP3Unicode — Command line utility to convert ID3 tags in mp3 files between different encodings.

Taffy — Simple command-line tag editor for many audio formats.

Tagutil — CLI tool to edit music file's tag. It aims to provide both an easy-to-script interface and ease of use interactively.

Graphical

Audio Tag Tool — Tool to edit tags in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files.

Coquillo — Metadata editor for various audio formats.

EasyTag — Utility for viewing, editing and writing ID3 tags of music files, supports many audio formats.

Ex Falso — Cross-platform free and open source audio tag editor and library organizer. Run with exfalso .

GabTag — Audio tagging tool written in GTK.

Kid3 — MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV and AIFF files tag editor.

KTag Editor — ID3v tag editor developed in Qt5 framework. Supported files are mp3, wav, ogg, wma, flac, asf.

MP3Info GUI — MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor. The graphical interface can be launched with the gmp3info command.

Picard — Cross-platform audio tag editor written in Python (the official MusicBrainz tagger).

Puddletag — Replacement for the famous MP3tag for Windows.

Qoobar — Universal Qt-based audio tagger (specialized for classical music).

Tag Editor — A tag editor with Qt GUI and command-line interface supporting MP4/M4A/AAC (iTunes), ID3v1/ID3v2, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC and Matroska.

Thunar Media Tags Plugin — Adds special features for media files to the Thunar File Manager, including the ability to edit tags.

Lyrics

Lyrics players

Floodlight Presenter — Presentation and lyrics program for churches to display lyrics and media.

Lyrics — Display lyrics on media players with MPRIS interface.

OSD Lyrics — Lyric show compatible with various media players.

Lyrics downloaders

clyrics — Extensible lyrics fetcher, with daemon support for cmus and mocp.

glyrc — Command-line music related metadata searchengine, including support for downloading lyrics.

Lyrics editors

Karaoke Lyrics Editor — Lyrics editor and CD+G/video exporter for Karaoke.

LyricsX — Lyrics editor.

Audio converters

Caudec — A multiprocess command line audio converter that supports many formats (FLAC, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Windows codecs and many more)

Ecasound — Command line tools designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling.

FFaudioConverter — Batch audio converter and effects processor. It can convert files or whole folders containing music and video files to other audio formats with FFmpeg.

Flacon — Extracts individual tracks from one big audio file containing the entire album of music and saves them as separate audio files.

fre:ac — Audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders.

Gnac — Audio converter for GNOME.

SoundConverter — A graphical application to convert audio files into different formats.

soundKonverter — Qt-based GUI front-end to various audio converters.

SoX — Command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files into other formats.

XCFA — Tool to extract the content of audio CDs and convert files to various formats.

Audio editors

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of digital audio editors.

Audacity — Program that lets you manipulate digital audio waveforms.

GNOME Sound Recorder — The Sound Recorder application enables you to record and play .flac, .ogg (OGG audio, or .oga), and .wav sound files.

Gnome Wave Cleaner — Digital audio editor to denoise, dehiss and amplify audio files.

Kwave — Sound editor for KDE.

mhWaveEdit — Graphical program for editing, playing and recording sound files.

Mp3splt — Utility to split mp3, ogg vorbis and native FLAC files selecting a begin and an end time position, without decoding.

ocenaudio — Proprietary cross-platform, easy to use, fast and functional audio editor.

https://www.ocenaudio.com/en/ || AUR or AUR

Play it Slowly — Play back audio files at a different speed or pitch.

Polyphone — A soundfont editor to create and edit a musical instrument based on samples, using the sf2 format.

Sweep — Audio editor and live playback tool.

WaveSurfer — Tool for sound visualization and manipulation. Typical applications are speech/sound analysis and sound annotation/transcription.

Digital audio workstations

See also Professional audio.

Ardour — Multichannel hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation.

Bitwig Studio — Proprietary professional digital audio workstation.

Frinika — Digital audio workstation, features sequencer, soft-synths, realtime effects and audio recording.

LMMS — Digital audio workstation which allows you to produce music with your computer.

MusE — MIDI/Audio sequencer (digital audio workstation) with recording and editing capabilities, aims to be a complete multitrack virtual studio for Linux.

Non — Modular digital audio workstation composed of four main parts: Timeline, Sequencer, Mixer and Session Manager.

Qtractor — Qt-based hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application that aims to provide digital audio workstation software simple enough for the average home user, and yet powerful enough for the professional user.

REAPER — Proprietary digital audio workstation, offering a full multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering toolset.

Rosegarden — Digital audio workstation program developed with ALSA and Qt that acts as an audio and MIDI sequencer, scorewriter and musical composition and editing tool.

Tracktion Waveform — Proprietary digital audio workstation, specifically designed for the needs of modern music producers.

Traverso — Multitrack audio recorder and editor with a very clean and intuitive interface which supports ALSA and Jack as the sound driver.

Audio analyzers

audioprism — Spectrogram tool for PulseAudio input and WAV files.

BRP-PACU — Dual channel FFT based acoustic analysis tool to help engineers analyze live professional sound systems using the transfer function.

Baudline — Proprietary time-frequency and spectrogram analyzer

FMIT — Graphical utility for tuning your musical instruments, with error and volume history and advanced features.

Friture — Real-time audio analyzer.

rtspeccy — Real time audio spectrum analyzer.

sndpeek — Real-time audio visualization tool.

https://soundlab.cs.princeton.edu/software/sndpeek/ || ALSA: AUR , JACK: AUR

Sonic Visualiser — Viewing and analyzing the contents of music audio files.

Spek — Helps to analyse your audio files by showing their spectrogram.

Scorewriters

See also LilyPond#Front-ends and Wikipedia:Comparison of scorewriters.

Aria Maestosa — MIDI sequencer/editor. It lets you compose, edit and play MIDI files with a few clicks in a user-friendly interface offering score, keyboard, guitar, drum and controller views.

Canorus — Music score editor. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of notes, chord markings, lyrics, import/export filters to formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MusiXTeX and LilyPond.

Impro-Visor — Music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised.

LilyPond — Music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible.

MuseScore — Create, playback, and print sheet music.

TuxGuitar — Multitrack guitar tablature editor and player.

Audio synthesis environments

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of audio synthesis environments.

Blue — Music composition environment for Csound, written in Java.

Cabbage — Framework for audio software development using simple markup text and the Csound audio synthesis language.

ChucK — Strongly-timed, concurrent, and on-the-fly music programming language.

Csound — Sound and music computing system.

CsoundQt — Frontend for Csound featuring a highlighting editor with autocomplete, interactive widgets and integrated help.

FoxDot — Live Coding with Python and SuperCollider.

Pure Data — Real-time music and multimedia environment.

Sonic Pi — Code-based music creation and performance tool.

SuperCollider — Platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition, used by musicians, artists, and researchers working with sound.

VCV Rack — Virtual Eurorack DAW. Use a plugin systems to add more Eurorack emulated modules.

Sound generators

This section contains drum machines, software samplers and software synthesizers.

ams — Alsa Modular Synth. Realtime modular synthesizer and effect processor.

amsynth — Analog Modelling SYNTHesizer. Easy-to-use software synthesizer with a classic subtractive synthesizer topology.

DIN — Sound synthesizer and musical instrument.

Drumstick — Set of MIDI tools: drum grid, MIDI player, virtual piano.

Element — A modular LV2/VST3 audio plugin host.

Fluajho — SF2 soundfont sample player for JACK based on Fluidsynth.

FluidSynth — Real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications.

Geonkick — Synthesizer that can synthesize elements of percussion. The most basic examples are: kicks, snares, hit-hats, shakers, claps.

Gigedit — Graphical instrument editor for sample based virtual instruments, based on the GigaStudio/Gigasampler file format.

GSequencer — Provides various tools to play, create, edit and mix your own music. It features a step sequencer, piano roll, automation and wave-form editor.

Helm — Software synthesizer to create electronic music on your computer.

Hydrogen — Advanced drum machine to create drum sequences.

JSampler — Java GUI for LinuxSampler software audio sampler.

Patroneo — Easy to use pattern based midi sequencer.

PySynth — Suite of simple music synthesizers and helper scripts written in Python 3.

QMidiArp — Advanced MIDI arpeggiator, programmable step sequencer and LFO.

QMidiRoute — MIDI router and processor for ALSA.

Qsampler — Qt GUI for LinuxSampler software audio sampler.

Qsynth — Qt GUI for Fluidsynth.

Qwertone — Simple music synthesizer app (like a toy-piano), but based on usual qwerty-keyboard for input.

setBfree — DSP tonewheel organ.

SpectMorph — Analyze samples of musical instruments and combine them (morphing).

TiMidity++ — Software synthesizer, which can play MIDI files by converting them into PCM waveform data.

Vee One Suite — Old-school software instruments: synthv1, a polyphonic subtractive synthesizer; samplv1, a polyphonic sampler synthesizer; drumkv1, yet another drum-kit sampler; padthv1, a polyphonic additive synthesizer.

Vico — Minimalistic Midi sequencer that is intended to be used in parallel with other software.

VMPK — Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard. MIDI events generator and receiver. It can use midi SoundFonts to generate sound by itself, or can be used to drive a MIDI synthesizer.

Yoshimi — Software synthesizer, a fork of ZynAddSubFX.

ZynAddSubFX — Fully featured software synthesizer capable of making a countless number of instruments, from some common heard from expensive hardware to interesting sounds that you will boost to an amazing universe of sounds.

Music trackers

Buzztrax — Music studio to compose songs using only a computer with a soundcard.

klystrack — Tracker for making C64/NES/Amiga-style chiptunes on a modern platform.

MilkyTracker — Music application for creating .MOD and .XM module files.

OpenMPT — Tracker software to create and play back some great music on your computer.

Radium — Music editor with a new type of interface.

Schism Tracker — Create high quality music without the requirements of specialized, expensive equipment, and with a unique "finger feel" that is difficult to replicate in part.

DJ

Giada — Minimal, hardcore audio tool for DJs, live performers and electronic musicians.

IDJC — Powerful yet easy to use source-client for individuals interested in streaming live radio shows over the Internet using Shoutcast or Icecast servers.

Luppp — Music creation tool, intended for live use. The focus is on real time processing and a fast and intuitive workflow.

Mixxx — Integrates the tools DJs need to perform creative live mixes with digital music files.

Seq24 — Minimal loop based MIDI sequencer for a live performance with a very simple interface for editing and playing MIDI 'loops'.

xwax — Digital Vinyl System (DVS) for Linux. It allows DJs and turntablists to playback digital audio files (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC and more), controlled using a normal pair of turntables via timecoded vinyls.

Audio effects

Calf Plugin Pack for JACK — Process and produce sounds using a set of plugins with JACK interface. ( calfjackhost )

Carla — Audio plugin host, with support for many audio drivers and plugin formats.

guitarix — Virtual guitar amplifier for JACK.

PulseEffects — Apply effects to Pulseaudio applications and input sources

Rakarrack — Richly featured multi-effects processor emulating a guitar effects pedalboard.

Audio visualizers

Barva — Visualizer for PulseAudio that pulses the background of your terminal.

C.A.V.A. — Console-based audio visualizer for ALSA, MPD and PulseAudio.

Cavalcade — GTK GUI for C.A.V.A.

cli-visualizer — Highly configurable CLI-based audio visualizer.

GLava — OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer. Its primary use case is for desktop windows or backgrounds.

GLMViz — Fully configurable OpenGL music visualizer.

projectM — Music visualizer which uses 3D accelerated iterative image-based rendering.

VSXu — OpenGL-based (hardware-accelerated), modular programming environment with its main purpose to visualize music and create graphic effects in real-time.

Volume control

See also PulseAudio#Front-ends.

alsamixer — Soundcard mixer for ALSA soundcard driver, with ncurses interface.

ALSA Tray — Provides a systray icon and a command line interface for setting the volume of the ALSA Mixers.

AlsaVolume — Tray ALSA volume changer written using gtkmm.

AMixST — Volume wheel using ALSA and Qt5.

Emixer — Utility to control volume levels. Part of Enlightenment.

GNOME ALSA Mixer — ALSA mixer for GNOME.

GVolWheel — Audio mixer which lets you control the volume through a tray icon.

KMix — KDE volume control program.

MATE Volume Control — Audio mixer application and system tray applet for MATE to mix audio and adjust volume levels of various audio mixer devices.

PNMixer — A fork of Obmixer. It has many new features such as ALSA channel selection, connect/disconnect detection, shortcuts, etc.

QasTools — Collection of desktop applications for the Linux sound system ALSA. It provides QasMixer (mixer), QasHctl (HCTL mixer) and QasConfig (configuration browser).

Retrovol — Retro-looking volume setting tray applet.

Volnoti — A lightweight volume notification daemon for GNU/Linux and other POSIX operating systems.

Volti — A GTK application for controlling audio volume from system tray with an internal mixer and support for multimedia keys that uses only ALSA.

Volume Icon — Another volume control for your system tray with channel selection, themes and an external mixer.

VolWheel — A little application which lets you control the sound volume easily through a tray icon you can scroll on.

Xfce ALSA Panel Plugin — Simple ALSA volume control plugin for Xfce4 panel.

CD ripping

See Optical disc drive#Audio CD.

Video

Video players

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of video player software.

Console

FFplay — Very simple and portable media player using the FFmpeg libraries and the SDL library.

gst-play-1.0 — Simple command line playback testing tool for GStreamer.

MPlayer — Video player that supports a complete and versatile array of video and audio formats.

mpv — Movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2.

VLC media player — Command-line version of the famous video player that can play smoothly high definition videos in the TTY. The rc interface can be launched with vlc -I rc , and the ncurses interface can be launched with vlc -I ncurses .

Graphical

GStreamer-based

Cinema — Video player and manager for watching local video files.

Glide — Simple and minimalistic media player relying on GStreamer for the multimedia support and GTK+ for the user interface.

GNOME Videos — Media player (audio and video) for the GNOME desktop that uses GStreamer. Part of .

Movie Monad — Free and simple to use video player made with Haskell using GStreamer and GTK. Precompiled and no Haskell dependency in run-time.

Pantheon Videos — Video player and library app designed for elementary OS using GStreamer.

Parole — Modern media player based on the GStreamer framework.

Rage — Video and audio player written with Enlightenment Foundation Libraries with some extra bells and whistles. Uses GStreamer

Snappy — Powerful media player with a minimalistic interface that uses GStreamer.

Spivak — Karaoke player based on GStreamer and Qt5.

Xnoise — GTK and GStreamer-based media player for both audio and video with "a slick GUI, great speed and lots of features." (development ceased)

mpv-based

Baka MPlayer — Free and open source, cross-platform, mpv based multimedia player (Qt 5).

Celluloid — Simple GTK frontend for mpv, formerly GNOME MPV.

Deepin Movie — Movie player for Deepin desktop based on mpv.

Haruna Video Player — Qt/QML video player built on top of mpv.

Kawaii-Player — Audio/video manager and multimedia player (based on mpv) with PC-to-PC casting feature, along with functionalities of portable media server and torrent streaming server.

KittehPlayer — A YouTube-like video player based on Qt, QML and mpv.

Media Player Classic Qute Theater — Clone of Media Player Classic reimplimented in Qt and based on mpv.

https://gitlab.com/mpc-qt/mpc-qt || AUR , AUR

Minitube — YouTube desktop application written in C++ using mpv and Qt.

MoonPlayer — Video player for playing and downloading online videos from YouTube, Youku etc.

mpv — Very basic GUI for mpv. Can be launched with mpv --player-operation-mode=pseudo-gui .

SMPlayer — Qt multimedia player with extra features (CSS themes, YouTube integration, etc.) based on mpv. It can use MPlayer as alternative backend.

xt7-player-mpv — Qt/Gambas GUI to mpv with a rich set of configurable options including filters and drivers, ladspa plugins support as well as library/playlist managment, YouTube, online radios, podcasts, DVB-T and more.

MPlayer-based

GNOME MPlayer — Simple GTK-based GUI for MPlayer.

KPlayer — Multimedia player for KDE4 using MPlayer as a backend.

Phonon-based

Dragon Player — Simple video player for KDE based on Phonon. Part of the group.

KMPlayer — Simple Phonon-based video player for KDE and video player plugin for Konqueror. It can use MPlayer as alternative backend.

Other

FreeTube — Desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. Use YouTube without advertisements and prevent Google from tracking you with their cookies and JavaScript. Based on the Electron platform.

Kaffeine — Very versatile KDE media player that, by default, utilizes VLC as its backend and has excellent support of digital TV (DVB-T, DVB-C, DVB-S).

Kaku — Highly integrated music player supports different online platform like YouTube, SoundCloud, Vimeo and more. Based on the Electron platform.

Kodi — Media player and entertainment hub for digital media.

QMPlay2 — Qt based video player. It can play and stream all formats supported by FFmpeg and libmodplug. It has on integrated module system, which includes a YouTube browser.

QtAV Player — Simple media player based on QtAV and FFmpeg. Run with Player or QMLPlayer .

tvtime — High quality television application for use with video capture cards.

VLC media player — Middleweight video player with support for a wide variety of audio and video formats.

xine — Free multimedia player.

Xjadeo — Video player that displays a video-clip in sync with an external time source (MTC, LTC, JACK-transport).

YUView — Qt-based YUV player with an advanced analytic toolset.

Video converters

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of video converters and Codecs and containers#Container format tools.

Console

Avidemux CLI — Free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.

FFmpeg — Complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.

HandBrake CLI — Simple yet powerful video transcoder ideal for batch mkv/x264 ripping.

MEncoder — Free command line video decoding, encoding and filtering tool.

Transcode — Command line tool for video stream processing.

Graphical

Ciano — Simple multimedia file converter using FFmpeg and ImageMagick.

FFmpegYAG — Advanced GUI for the popular FFmpeg audio/video encoding tool.

FF Multi Converter — Simple graphical application which enables you to convert audio, video, image and document files between all popular formats, by utilizing other command-line tools.

HandBrake — Simple yet powerful video transcoder ideal for batch mkv/x264 ripping. GTK version.

QWinFF — Qt5 GUI for FFmpeg that can read audio and video files in various formats and convert them into other formats.

traGtor — Convert all your audio and video files through FFmpeg without using a terminal.

Transmageddon — Simple python application for transcoding video into formats supported by GStreamer.

WinFF — Graphical video and audio batch converter using FFmpeg.

Video editors

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of video editing software.

Avidemux — Free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.

Blender — Fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite with a built-in non-linear video editor.

Cinelerra (Heroine Virtual) — Advanced video editing and compositing environment.

Cinelerra (Community Version) — Advanced video editing and compositing environment.

Cinelerra GG Infinity — Professional video editing and compositing environment.

DaVinci Resolve — Proprietary A/V post-production software suite.

Flowblade — Multitrack non-linear video editor for Linux, designed to provide a fast, robust editing experience.

Kdenlive — Non-linear video editor designed for basic to semi-professional work.

Lightworks — Professional proprietary non-linear editing system for editing and mastering digital video in various formats.

LiVES — Video editor and VJ (live performance) platform.

LosslessCut — GUI tool for lossless trimming/cutting of video/audio files. Based on the Electron platform.

Natron — Open-source compositing software. Node-graph based. Similar in functionalities to Adobe After Effects and Nuke by The Foundry.

Olive — Non-linear video editor aiming to provide a fully-featured alternative to high-end professional video editing software.

OpenShot — Non-linear video editor based on MLT framework.

Pitivi — Video editor designed to be intuitive and integrate well in the GNOME desktop.

Shotcut — Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor.

VidCutter — Fast lossless media cutter + joiner w/ frame-accurate SmartCut options powered by mpv, FFmpeg via a sleek Qt5 GUI.

Video Trimmer — Cut out a fragment of a video given the start and end timestamps. The video is never re-encoded, so the process is very fast and does not reduce the video quality.

Subtitles

Subtitle players

Penguin Subtitle Player — Standalone subtitle player that provides a translucent window which always stays on the top so subtitles can be shown on top of the video without blocking anything.

SubtitlesPrinter — Print subtitles above a X-screen, independently of the video player.

Subtitle downloaders

QNapi — Qt client for downloading movie subtitles from NapiProjekt, OpenSubtitles, Napisy24.

subdl — Command-line tool for downloading subtitles from opensubtitles.org.

SubDownloader — Automatic download/upload of subtitles using fast hashing.

Subtitle editors

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of subtitle editors.

Aegisub — Subtitle editor.

Gaupol — Full-featured subtitle editor.

Gnome Subtitles — Video subtitle editor for GNOME.

Jubler — Open-source multiplatform subtitle editor written in Java.

Subtitle Composer — Subtitle editor for KDE supporting various formats, features different player backends, able to display wave form.

Subtitle Edit — Subtitle editing program. Written in C# using mono.

Subtitle Editor — GTK 3 tool to edit subtitles for GNU/Linux/*BSD.

Screencast

See Screen capture#Screencast software.

Screenkey — A screencast tool to display your keys.

Webcam

See also FFmpeg#Recording webcam and Wikipedia:Comparison of webcam software.

Cheese — Take photos and videos with your webcam, with fun graphical effects.

fswebcam — Small and simple command line webcam software that generates images for a webcam.

Guvcview — Simple interface for capturing and viewing video from v4l2 devices.

Kamoso — Webcam recorder from KDE community.

MJPG-streamer — Command line application which can be used to stream M-JPEG over an IP-based network from a webcam to various types of viewers.

Motion — Highly configurable program that monitors video signals from many types of cameras. It is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed; in other words, it can detect motion.

Pantheon Camera — Camera app designed for elementary OS.

QtCAM — Webcam software with more than 10 image control settings, extension settings and color space switching.

v4l2ucp — Universal control panel for V4L2 devices.

v4l-utils — Provides a series of utilities for media devices.

Webcamoid — Full featured webcam suite.

ZArt — GUI for G'MIC real-time manipulations on the output of a webcam.

DVD authoring

See also Wikipedia:List of DVD authoring applications.

Bombono DVD — DVD authoring program with nice and clean GUI.

Devede — Program to create VideoDVDs and CDs.

DVDStyler — DVD authoring application for the creation of professional-looking DVDs.

DVD ripping

See Optical disc drive#DVD-Video.

Video thumbnails

vcsi — Create video contact sheets. A video contact sheet is an image composed of video capture thumbnails arranged on a grid.

Video Contact Sheet — Bash script meant to create video contact sheets (previews) of videos. Any video supported by mplayer and ffmpeg can be used.

Collection managers

Data Crow — Media cataloger and media organizer.

GCstar — GNOME application for organizing various collections (board games, comic books, movies, stamps, etc.).

Griffith — Movie collection manager application.

MediaElch — Media manager for Kodi. Information about movies, TV shows, concerts and music are stored as nfo files.

Tellico — KDE application for organizing various collections (books, video, music, coins, etc.).

tinyMediaManager — Media management tool to provide metadata for Kodi.

vMovieDB — Movie collection manager for the Gnome desktop.

Media servers

Airsonic — Web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music. (Fork of Subsonic.)

Emby — Proprietary media server, which automatically converts and streams your media on-the-fly to play on any device.

forked-daapd — DAAP (iTunes) and MPD media server with support for AirPlay devices, Apple Remote, Chromecast, Spotify and internet radio.

Gerbera — UPnP Media Server to stream your media to devices on your home network. (Fork of MediaTomb.)

Icecast — Streaming media (audio/video) server which currently supports Ogg (Vorbis and Theora), Opus, WebM and MP3 streams.

Jellyfin — Jellyfin is a Free Software Media System that puts you in control of managing and streaming your media.

Plex — Proprietary media server, which organizes your personal video, music, and photo collections and streams them to all of your devices.

ReadyMedia — Simple media server software, with the aim of being fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients.

Rygel — UPnP AV MediaServer and MediaRenderer that allows you to easily share audio, video and pictures, and control of media player on your home network.

Serviio — Proprietary media server, which allows you to stream your media files (music, video or images) to renderer devices (e.g. a TV set, Bluray player, games console or mobile phone) on your connected home network.

Subsonic — Proprietary media server to stream from your own computer.

Tvheadend — TV streaming server and recorder supporting DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-C, DVB-T, ATSC, ISDB-T, IPTV, SAT>IP and HDHomeRun as input sources.

Universal Media Server — UPnP media server, which is capable of sharing video, audio and images between most modern devices. (Fork of PS3 Media Server.)

Metadata

ExifTool — Command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files.

Exiv2 — Command line utility to manage image metadata. It provides fast and easy read and write access to the Exif, IPTC and XMP metadata and the ICC Profile embedded within digital images in various formats.

ffprobe — Gather information from multimedia streams and print it in human- and machine-readable fashion.

jExifToolGUI — Java/Swing graphical frontend for ExifTool, which reads and writes all kind of metadata tags from/to image files.

jhead — Exif jpeg header manipulation tool.

MediaConch — Implementation checker, policy checker, reporter, and fixer.

https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch || CLI: AUR , GUI: AUR

MediaInfo — Convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.

sndfile-info — Obtaining information about the contents of an audio file.

Mobile device managers

Android File Transfer — Interactive Media Transfer Protocol client with Qt5 GUI.

gnokii — Tools and user space driver for use with mobile phones.

gMTP — Simple MP3 and media player client for Media Transfer Protocol.

GNOME Phone Manager — Control your mobile phone from your GNOME desktop.

gtkpod — GUI for Apple's iPod using GTK. It allows you to import your existing iTunes database, add songs, podcasts, videos and cover art, and to edit ID3 tags.

KDE Connect — Aims to communicate all your devices.

Modem Manager GUI — Control EDGE/3G/4G broadband modem specific functions.

Wammu — Manage data in your cell phone such as contacts, calendar or messages.

Optical disc burning

See Optical disc drive#Burning CD/DVD/BD with a GUI.

Utilities

Terminal

Command shells

See the main article: Command-line shell.

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of command shells.

Terminal emulators

Terminal emulators show a GUI Window that contains a terminal. Most emulate Xterm, which in turn emulates VT102, which emulates typewriter. For further background information, see Wikipedia:Terminal emulator.

For a comprehensive list, see Wikipedia:List of terminal emulators.

Alacritty — A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.

aterm — Xterm replacement with transparency support. It has been deprecated in favour of urxvt since 2008.

Cool Retro Term — A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display.

CuteCom — A graphical serial terminal.

Eterm — Terminal emulator intended as a replacement for xterm and designed for the Enlightenment desktop.

foot — Lightweight terminal emulator for Wayland with sixel support

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot || AUR , AUR

Hyper — A terminal with JS/CSS support. Based on the Electron platform.

Konsole — Terminal emulator included in the KDE desktop.

kitty — A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator

Liri Terminal — Material Design terminal for Liri.

mlterm — A multi-lingual terminal emulator supporting various character sets and encodings in the world.

moserial — GTK-based serial terminal for the GNOME desktop.

PuTTY — Highly configurable ssh/telnet/serial console program.

QTerminal — Lightweight Qt-based terminal emulator.

rxvt — Popular replacement for xterm.

shellinabox — A web-based SSH Terminal

st — Simple terminal implementation for X.

Terminology — Terminal emulator by the Enlightenment project team with innovative features: file thumbnails and media play like a media player.

urxvt — Highly extendable (with Perl) unicode enabled rxvt-clone terminal emulator featuring tabbing, url launching, a Quake style drop-down mode and pseudo-transparency.

xterm — Simple terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible termina