awesome-gtk

This is a list of native, open source GTK (4 and 3) applications.

You can find the most up-to-date info on the most well-supported GNOME apps at Apps for GNOME; this list aims to be broader and include apps from various other ecosystems in various states of maintenance.

Applications

Audio Players

Music

• Lollypop #python #libhandy
• Melody / playmymusic #vala #granite
• elementary Music #vala #granite
• GNOME Music #python #libadwaita #gnome
• Rhythmbox #c #gnome
• Amberol #rust #libadwaita
• G4Music #vala #libadwaita

Streaming Service Clients

• Spot Spotify client #rust #libadwaita
• Sublime Music Subsonic-compatible servers client #python

MPD Clients

• Sonata #python
• Mpdevil #python

Podcasts

• GNOME Podcasts (ex Hammond) #rust #gnome #libadwaita
• Vocal #vala #granite

Audiobooks

• Cozy #python

Radio

• Shortwave #rust #libadwaita
• Goodvibes #c
• radiotray-lite #c++
• Pithos for Pandora #python

Transcription

• Parlatype #c

Ambient Sounds

• Blanket #python #libadwaita

Soundboards

• Zap #gjs #libadwaita

Audio Visualizers

• Cavalier #python #libadwaita

Screen Recorders

• Kooha #rust #libadwaita
• RecApp #python

Image Viewers

• Image Roll #rust
• Loupe #rust #libadwaita
• vipsdisp technical image viewer #c
• Focus Annotator tool to annotate the focus plane of z-stacked images #rust #libadwaita

Video Players

• Celluloid (ex GNOME MPV) #c #libadwaita
• Clapper #gjs #c
• Movie Monad #haskell
• GNOME Videos (Totem) #c #gnome
• Glide #rust

Video Comparison

• Identity #rust #libadwaita

Live Stream Viewers

• GNOME Twitch #c

Table of Contents Editors

• media-toc #rust

Subtitle Editors

• Gaupol #python
• Subtitle Editor #c++

Media Servers

• Girens Plex client #python #libadwaita

Audio Workstations (DAWs)

• zrythm #c++ #libadwaita

Audio Tools

• Lyrebird voice changer based on sox #python
• Tagger #c++ #libadwaita
• EasyEffects #c++ #libadwaita
• Myxer PulseAudio volume mixer #rust
• Reco audio recorder #vala #granite
• Mousai song identifier #rust #libadwaita
• Ear Tag tag editor #python #libadwaita
• Asunder CD ripper and encoder #c

Video Editors

• Pitivi #python
• Video Trimmer #rust #libadwaita

Video Downloaders (youtube-dl)

• gydl #python
• Tube Converter #c++ #libadwaita

Media Encoders

• Selene #vala

Book Readers

• Foliate #gjs #libhandy
• Bookworm #vala #granite
• Komikku manga reader #python #libadwaita

Web Browsers

• Eolie #python
• GNOME Web (Epiphany) #c #gnome #libhandy
• luakit #c #lua

Specialized Web Browsers / Wrappers

• hackup Hacker News client #vala #granite
• Wike Wikipedia client #python
• Geopard Gemini web browser #rust #libadwaita
• Lobjur lobste.rs client #gjs #libadwaita
• Tangram Browser for your pinned tabs #gjs #libadwaita

Social Media Clients

• Cawbird (working fork of Corebird) for Twitter #vala
• Tootle for Mastodon (archived) #vala #libadwaita
• Tooth for Mastodon (Tootle fork) #vala #libadwaita
• Social for Mastodon and Pleroma #rust
• Giara for Reddit #python #libadwaita
• Headlines for Reddit #c++ #libadwaita
• Tally Plausible Analytics (Google Analytics alternative) client #vala #libadwaita

Calculators & Math

• NaSC dual pane text based calculator (like Soulver) #vala
• Qalculate! GTK+ #c++
• balistica ballistics calculator #vala
• Dippi display DPI calculator #vala #granite
• Harvey color contrast calculator #vala
• Plots #python #libadwaita #opengl
• Graphs plotting and data manipulation tool #python #libadwaita

Note Taking

• GNOME Notes (Bijiben) #c #gnome
• Gnote Tomboy port #c++ #gnome
• Notejot sticky notes #vala #granite
• Notes-up #vala #granite
• Xournal++ handwriting notebook (with tablet pressure) #c++
• Rnote handwriting notebook (with tablet pressure) #rust #libadwaita
• Notekit hierarchical markdown notetaking application with tablet support #c++
• Zim desktop wiki editor #python
• Iridium Standard Notes client #rust
• Notes #vala #libadwaita
• Notorious Notational Velocity / nvALT style UI #python #libhandy
• Noteworthy #rust #libadwaita

Journal/Diary

• RedNotebook #python

Calendar

• GNOME Calendar #c #libadwaita #gnome

To-Do Lists

• Yishu (archived) todo.txt based #vala #granite #libhandy
• Effitask todo.txt based #rust
• Endeavour #c #libadwaita
• Agenda #vala #granite
• Getting Things GNOME (GTG) GTD #python #gnome
• Done #rust #libadwaita
• Remembrance #python #libadwaita

Mind Mapping

• Minder #vala #granite

Project Management

• Planner #vala #granite

Timers / Time Tracking

• Hourglass #vala #granite
• Tomato (pomodoro) #vala #granite
• hamster-gtk #python
• Timetrack #python
• Solanum (pomodoro) #rust
• Khronos #vala #libadwaita
• Flowtime (pomodoro) #vala #libadwaita
• Furtherance #rust #libadwaita
• Retro customizable digital clock #gjs
• Timer #python #libadwaita
• Chess Clock over-the-board chess time control #python #libadwaita

Email

• Geary #vala #gnome #libhandy
• Evolution #c #gnome
• Astroid for notmuch #c++

Chat and VoIP

Matrix

• Fractal #rust #libadwaita

Jabber/XMPP

• Dino #vala
• Gajim #python

IRC

• Polari #gjs #gnome
• Srain #c

Discord

• gtkcord4 #go
• Discover Discord overlay #python
• Mirdorph #python

Video Conference

• Meeting Point using BigBlueButton in the background #vala #libadwaita

Telegram

• Telegrand #rust #libadwaita

Signal

• Flare #rust #libadwaita

QQ

• gtk-qq #rust #libadwaita

Web Service Clients

Translation

• Dialect (Google Translate) #python #libadwaita

File Sharing

Direct ("beam") Senders/Receivers

• Transporter based on magic-wormhole #vala #granite
• Teleport based on Avahi (mDNS) #c
• Warp based on magic-wormhole #rust #libadwaita

BitTorrent Clients

• Transmission #c
• Fragments uses embedded or remote Transmission daemon #rust #libadwaita
• Torrential alternative GUI on top of Transmission #vala #granite #libunity
• Deluge #python

Soulseek Clients

• Nicotine+ #python

File Synchronization

• Syncthing-GTK UI for Syncthing #python
• Celeste GUI file synchronization client that can sync with any cloud provider #rust #libadwaita

Remote File Access

• Taxi FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, AFP #vala #granite

File Management

• Polo multi-pane & tab file manager #vala
• Organizer #python
• Portofolio file manager for mobile devices #libhandy

Backup

• Pika Backup UI for borg #rust #libadwaita
• Bups UI for bup #python (note: python2!)
• Timeshift #vala
• Déjà Dup Backups #vala #libadwaita
• Butter Btrfs snapshot manager #rust #libadwaita

Office

Spreadsheet Editors

• Gnumeric #c

Presentation Editors

• Spice-up #vala #granite

Presentation Viewers

• pdfpc #vala
• Pympress #python

OCR

• TextSnatcher An easy to use OCR app based on Tesseract engine #vala #granite
• gImageView UI for tesseract #c++

Document Viewers

• Xreader PDF, Postscript, Linux Mint #c #xapps
• Evince PDF, Postscript, etc. #c #libhandy #gnome

PDF Tools

• PDF Arranger #python
• PDF Slicer #c++

Document Managers

• Paperwork #python
• GNOME Documents #gjs

Finance

Budget and Accounting Managers

• Envelope #vala #granite
• Grisbi #c
• Denaro #c++ #libadwaita

Exchange Rate Viewers

• Markets #vala #libhandy
• Coin #vala #granite
• Crypto #c

Warning: cryptocurrency is bad

Graphics

3D

• Shady shadertoy compatible GLSL live editor #vala

Vector

• Inkscape (GTK3 since 1.0) #c++

Font

• Birdfont #vala
• Font Downloader #python #libhandy
• Webfont Kit Generator #python #libadwaita

CAD/EDA

• SolveSpace #c++ #gl
• Horizon printed circuit board PCB design #c++ #gl
• Design 2D CAD application #gjs #libadwaita

Diagramming

• Gaphor UML/SysML modeling application #python

Raster

• Drawing simple like mspaint #python
• GIMP (GTK3 in git: master) #c
• MyPaint #python
• Effector GEGL filter app with a flow graph UI #vala
• Obfuscate simple redacting/censoring/blurring #rust #libadwaita
• Swappy quick screenshot editing for wlroots based compositors #c
• Pizzara digital chalkboard #rust
• Conjure image enhancer based on ImageMagic #python #libadwaita

Photo (non-destructive editing)

• Darktable #c
• RawTherapee #c++
• Shotwell #vala #gnome

GIF

• gifcurry #haskell
• Gifup #vala #granite

Optimizers/Compressors

• Curtail with optipng, pngquant, jpegoptim #python
• Refract guided optimization for WebP, AVIF and JPEG XL #rust

Upscaling

• Upscaler Real-ESRGAN ncnn Vulkan front-end #python #libadwaita

Converters

• Converter ImageMagick frontend #python #libadwaita

Design Utilities

• LookBook system icon browser #vala #granite
• Icon Preview #vala
• Dynamic Wallpaper Editor for gnome xml files #python
• Symbolic Preview #rust #libadwaita
• Icon Library #rust libadwaita
• Emulsion color palettes #vala #libadwaita
• Eyedropper color picker and formatter #rust #libadwaita
• Emblem project avatars generator #rust #libadwaita
• Schemes GtkSourceView style-schemes editor #c #libadwaita
• Paleta image dominant color extractor #python #libadwaita

Terminals

• Galacritty (shameless plug :D) GTK version of Alacritty (not really maintained for now sorry) #rust
• Guake dropdown terminal #python #vte
• Tilix tiling and dropdown terminal #d #vte
• GNOME Console #c #vte #gnome
• GNOME Terminal #c #vte #gnome
• Black Box #vala #libdwaita #vte

Code

NeoVim GUIs

• gnvim #rust
• neovim-gtk #rust
  • maintained fork
• nvim-pygtk3 #python

Xi GUIs

• Tau (ex gxi) #rust
• xi-gtk #vala

Simple editors and Light IDEs

• gedit #c #gnome
• Geany #c
• Vulcan #vala
• elementary IDE not official elementary #vala #granite
• elementary Code #vala #granite
• NEd #nim
• Xed #c #xapps
• GNOME Text Editor #c #gnome
• Norka #python #granite

Larger IDEs

• GNOME Builder #c #gnome
• Anjuta #c #gnome
• Valama #vala
• GtkIDE.jl #julia
• Workbench #gjs #libadwaita
• Playhouse Playground for HTML/CSS/JavaScript #gjs #libadwaita

UI Design

• Glade #c #gnome
• Cambalache Glade's successor #python
• Gradience Libadwaita apps customizer #python #libadwaita

Version Control and Diffs

• gitg Git GUI client #vala #gnome
• Meld visual diff and merge tool #python #gnome
• Gnomit Git commit message editor #gjs
• Commit Commit message editor for Git and Mercurial #gjs #libadwaita
• Diffuse text file comparing/merging tool #python

Documentation

• DevDocs Desktop #python
• quickDocs #vala #granite

Markdown

• Marker #c
• Showdown #vala
• Apostrophe #python #libhandy
• markdown-rs #rust
• Quilter #vala #libhandy
• Paper #vala #libadwaita

LaTeX

• Gummi #c
• GNOME LaTeX (LaTeXila) #vala #gnome
• Setzer #python
• Citations BibTex bibliography manager #rust #libadwaita

Graphviz

• xdot.py #python
• GraphUI #vala #granite

Regular Expression

• RegexTester #vala #granite

Text Processing

• Text Pieces #vala #libadwaita
• KonbuCase case converting app #vala #granite
• Black Fennec visual semi-structured data (JSON) editor #python #libadwaita
• Lorem Lorem Ipsum placeholder text generator #rust #libadwaita
• Dev Toolbox with JSON to YAML converter, CRON expression parser, regex tester and more #python #libadwaita

Hex Editors

• GHex #c #libadwaita #gnome

Remote Desktop

• Connections RDP, VNC #vala #gnome
• Remmina RDP, VNC, etc (plugin system) #c
• Vinagre RDP, VNC, SPICE #c #gnome

SSH

• EasySSH connection manager #vala

Database Clients

• Sequeler #vala #granite
• Daty for Wikidata (which is kind of a database?) #python #libhandy

Disk Imaging

• Imageburner for SD/USB #vala #granite
• Popsicle for SD/USB #rust
• GNOME MultiWriter for SD/USB #c #gnome
• Brasero for CD/DVD #c #gnome

File Renaming

• Szyszka #rust
• tv-renamer #rust

Security and Privacy

• Metadata Cleaner based on MAT2 #python #libadwaita
• MAT (Metadata Anonymization Toolkit) #python
• Collision #crystal #libadwaita
• GtkHash #c
• Malcontent parental controls client #c #libadwaita
• Raider file shredder #c #libadwaita
• krb5-auth-dialog Kerberos tickets monitoring #c #libadwaita

Password Management

• Secrets KeePass v4 format based #python #libadwaita
• Passbook #python
• Gonepass 1Password vault viewer #c++
• Obliviate password manager that does not store passwords #vala

One-Time Password

• Authenticator #rust #libdawaita
• OTPClient #c

System and File Cleaning

• BleachBit #python
• Czkawka #rust

System Monitoring and Info

• GNOME Usage #vala #gnome
• CPU-X similar to CPU-Z #c
• sysctlview FreeBSD sysctl MIB tree explorer #c++
• GreenWithEnvy NVIDIA card monitoring and fan/OC controlling #python
• GNOME Logs systemd logs viewer #gnome #c #libadwaita

Network Monitoring / Traffic Analysis

• Hotwire high level view of tcpdump for specific protocols #rust

Disk Usage Explorers

• GNOME Disk Usage Analyzer (Baobab) DaisyDisk style circle chart #vala #gnome

System Configuration

• pulse-flow PulseAudio config tool with a flow graph UI #vala
• doppler Redshift (f.lux / night light style screen color filter thingy) UI #rust
• Flatseal Flatpak permission manager #gjs #libandy
• Login Manager Settings GDM settings manager #python #libadwaita
• Shell Configurator GNOME Shell configuration utility #gjs #libadwaita
• NixOS Configuration Editor #rust #libadwaita
• Dynamic Wallpaper #libadwaita #python
• ReGreet - GTK-based greetd greeter #rust #relm4

Installation

• Parceldude batch installer for Windows MSI packages #vala
• Turtle .deskop files creation tool #python #granite
• mlinstall Magic Lantern installer #python
• Pin It! portable apps shortcut creator #vala #libadwaita
• Extension Manager for GNOME Shell #c #libadwaita
• Nix Software Center #rust #libadwaita
• ProtonPlus Proton version manager #vala #libadwaita
• AdwSteamGtk Adwaita for Steam skin installer #python #libadwaita

News/Feed Readers

• Feeds #python
• Liferea #c
• Coffee #vala
• News Flash #rust #libhandy

Weather Viewers

• Meteo #vala
• bitseater/Weather #vala
• GNOME Weather #gjs #gnome
• Nimbus #vala

Productivity

• Workspaces #vala #granite
• Random #vala #libadwaita
• Frog text extractor #python #granite
• Cigale activities timesheet #rust
• GNOME Characters emoji picker #gnome #c #libadwaita
• Boatswain Elgato Stream Deck controller #c #libadwaita

Health & Fitness

• Health currently supports Google Fit #rust #libadwaita

Containers

• Pods Podman GUI #rust #libadwaita
• Atoms chroot environments manager #python #libadwaita
• Bottles wineprefix environments manager #python #libadwaita
• Toolbx Tuner toolbx containers manager #rust #libadwaita

Task scheduling

• Time Switch computer shutdown timer #python #libadwaita

Map Viewers

• Atlas #vala #libhandy #granite

Game Launchers

• Lutris launcher covering most gaming systems #python
• Cartridges launcher with Steam library import #python #libadwaita

Dictionaries

• Wordbook english dictionary #python #libadwaita
• Diccionario de la Lengua spanish dictionary #gjs #libadwaita