Simple, but powerful video player with minimal GUI, can be used keyboard-only thanks to shortcuts.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- BSD
- F-Droid
- Haiku
- Xfce
- Chocolatey
Lightweight, Intuitive and Minimalistic software for UNIX-like systems
This is something sort of a personal list of desktop software that I find most appealing to me from a certain standpoint I described in the name of the list. This list mostly contains apps made with Linux/Unix-like systems in mind, but I don't plan to include stuff that rely on specific desktop environments and distros, so apps from this list are mostly multi-platform. Warning - this list contains command line-based apps and tools that not every person can find use for
TR
Tired Rabbit
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
+3
Open-source screenshot tool with cross-platform support, customizable interface, built-in editing, CLI access, and direct Imgur uploads.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
- Snapcraft
+4
imv is a minimalistic image viewer intended for use with tiling window managers. (added here unstead of feh because of wayland support and better defaults)
Newsboat is a command-line rss/atom feed reader, pretty simple, but feature-rich. Requires manual configuration by creating and editing "urls" and "config" files.
Thunar is a default modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment. It uses some of xcfe dependencies but it's one of the most lightweight graphical ones and just gets the job done
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
- Xfce
- MacPorts
- XQuartz
Make command line easier
Kitty is extensible, configurable and full-featured terminal emulator, but also it's minimalistic out of box, just that most more advanced features are activated by shortcuts, terminal commands and editing config file.
Micro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- FreeBSD
- OpenBSD
+2
The TLDR pages are a community effort to simplify the beloved man pages with practical examples.
exa is a modern replacement for the command-line program ls that ships with Unix and Linux operating systems. It shows list of files in a directory.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
Downloaders
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Termux
gallery-dl is a command-line program to download image galleries and collections from several image hosting sites (see https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/blob/master/docs/supportedsites.md for full list).
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- Python
- MacPorts
- Homebrew
- Docker
- Chocolatey
Gu
Comments
Part of my MPV description I moved it here:
You can watch online video from links with MPV, but if you want to use it to play Youtube videos I recommend installing yt-dlp (see in Downloaders) and: For Linux - create file at ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf , then add script-opts=ytdl_hook-ytdl_path=/bin/yt-dlp to it, replace end of the line after "=" to your yt-dlp installation path if needed) For Windows - rename "yt-dlp.exe" to "youtube-dl.exe" and put it in mpv folder This will replace built-in Youtube-dl, which will allow to bypass throttling