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453 apps

Full Steam Ahead

Brings games from other platforms into Steam. It scans libraries from launchers such as Heroic and Lutris and adds those games to the Steam library for unified launching and playtime tracking. It suits players whose games are spread across several platforms.

Publii

A privacy-friendly, SEO-oriented CMS for static sites. Articles are written and themes chosen in a desktop app, then the site is generated and published to your own server or hosting without an online service. It suits people who want their own blog without maintaining a database and backend.

QC: Doom Edition

A mod that brings Quake Champions weapons into Doom. It adds QC-style guns, movement and pacing while keeping the classic level design. It suits players who know Doom well and want to try a different set of weapons.

ServeMedia

A self-hosted media server for Linux. Local video and music are organised into a library and streamed or transcoded to devices on the network or remotely, with multiple users and metadata scraping. It suits people running a home media service on a Linux machine.

L8W8JWT GUI

Glitched Polygons

A graphical tool for encoding, decoding and signing JWTs. It parses a token's header and payload, verifies signatures and issues new ones with different algorithms, which helps debug authentication issues without writing a throwaway script. It suits developers working on login and auth regularly.

OpenLF2

Play Little Fighter 2 with friends. This is an open-source implementation of the classic side-scrolling fighting game, with local and online matches and several players brawling on one screen. It suits revisiting a childhood favourite or gathering friends for a match.

ShimeLinux

Little characters that wander across the desktop. It brings Shimeji-style desktop pets to the system, where small figures climb between windows, fall and interact, with several allowed at once. It suits people who like a bit of life on their desktop.

KaraFun Premium

A home karaoke app. It offers a song library, synchronised lyrics and backing tracks for singing at home with a microphone, which suits family gatherings and evenings with friends.

Mind Elixir

A light, local-first mind mapping and outliner. Ideas grow as nodes that can be dragged into shape, folded and exported, with data kept locally and no cloud account required. It suits brainstorming, breaking problems down and organising knowledge.

Haystack

Jan-Willem Harmannij

An editor for OpenQA needles. OpenQA matches screen regions to judge interface state; this tool provides a graphical way to crop the match area, set properties and save the needle, avoiding hand-edited JSON. It suits engineers maintaining automated tests for distributions such as openSUSE.

Pully

A puzzle about covering every cell of a grid in one stroke. A single continuous path fills all cells without crossing or repeating, with levels growing harder. It suits fans of route-planning puzzles looking for something to play in short sessions.

Coronet

A logic puzzle about placing crowns on a grid. Row, column and region constraints determine where each crown goes, with simple rules that demand layered elimination. It suits people who enjoy sudoku-style deduction and want a different rule set to think through.

Chuckle Express Demo

A small game about driving a train over everyday capitalism. Steer along the track and roll over the daily chores and consumer symbols in your path, with simple, direct mechanics. It suits players wanting a quick, tongue-in-cheek casual game.

Redumper GUI

A graphical disc dumping tool. It reads CDs, DVDs and similar media into image files with checksums for comparison, useful for backing up old discs or contributing to disc databases. The interface wraps a command-line tool to make the process more direct.

CalibRaw

Non-destructive RAW photo editing. Adjustments are stored as parameters so the original file is never changed and edits can be reverted or saved alongside, covering colour, exposure, curves and lens correction. It suits post-processing that involves many rounds of adjustment without duplicating files.

Kaori

An app for discovering and reading comics. It browses by category, follows ongoing series and reads online, covering manga, manhua and manhwa sources in a clean interface. It suits readers who want to follow comics in one place.

DiagNG

A client for Qualcomm Snapdragon baseband diagnostic interfaces. It reads device information, logs and network state over the diagnostic port to investigate baseband issues, with a graphical interface built on QCSuper. It suits engineers studying or repairing Qualcomm-based devices.

Omnidict

An offline dictionary covering over a hundred languages. With dictionaries installed, lookups work without a network connection, including definitions, thesaurus entries and Wiktionary content, across language pairs. It suits people who look words up often and are frequently offline or prefer not to connect.

TextShine

Trevor Williams

A capable batch text conversion tool. Find and replace, case changes, encoding conversion and blank-line removal run across many text files at once, with regular expressions and batch rules. It suits developers and editors cleaning logs or tidying text data in bulk.

Paperjungle

A tool for managing paper and electronic documents. Scans, PDFs and physical records are catalogued together and organised by category and tag for quick retrieval. It suits people with a lot of documents at home or in the office who need a filing system.