Linux Apps

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   Audacious

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   Audacious is an open source audio player. A descendant of XMMS, Audacious plays your music how you want it, without stealing away your computer’s resources from other tasks. Drag and drop folders and individual song files, search for artists and albums in your entire music library, or create and edit your own custom playlists. Audacious runs on Linux, on BSD derivatives, and on Microsoft Windows.

   Alternatives: DeaDBeeF

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application types

   • Audio Player
   • Media Player

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD
   • Haiku
   • Xfce

   
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   Radiotray-NG

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   An Internet radio player for Linux.

   Alternatives: Radio Tray Lite, GNOME Shortwave, Goodvibes, odio

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Internet Radio Service

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   
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   Mp3splt

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   Mp3Splt-project is a utility to split mp3, ogg vorbis and native FLAC files selecting a begin and an end time position, without decoding. If you want to split an album, you can select split points and filenames manually or you can get them automatically from CDDB (internet or a local file) or from .cue files. Supports also automatic silence split, that can be used also to adjust cddb/cue splitpoints. Trimming using silence detection is also available.

   Alternatives: mp3DirectCut (requires Wine)

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Audio Editor

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   
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   SoundConverter

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   SoundConverter is the leading audio file converter for the GNOME Desktop. It reads anything GStreamer can read (Ogg Vorbis, AAC, MP3, FLAC, WAV, AVI, MPEG, MOV, M4A, AC3, DTS, ALAC, MPC, Shorten, APE, SID, MOD, XM, S3M, etc...), and writes to Opus, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WAV, AAC, and MP3 files, or use any GNOME Audio Profile. SoundConverter aims to be simple to use, and very fast. Thanks to its multithreaded design, it will use as many cores as possible to speed up the conversion. It can also extract the audio from videos.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Audio Converter

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   
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   VLC Media Player

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   VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

   Alternatives: GNOME Videos, Celluloid, MPV Celluloid Flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/details/io.github.celluloid_player.Celluloid

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application types

   • Media Player
   • Audio Player

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Android
   • iPhone
   • Android Tablet
   • BSD
   • HUAWEI AppGallery
   • iPad
   • AppImageHub
   • Apple Watch
   • Snapcraft
   • Google Chrome
   • Apple TV
   • Flathub
   • PortableApps.com
   • F-Droid
   • Kindle Fire
   • Haiku
   • Android TV
   • Homebrew
   • Chocolatey

   

   

   

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   MediaInfo

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   MediaInfo is a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Metadata Viewer

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • PortableApps.com
   • Flatpak
   • Snapcraft
   • Flathub
   • iPhone
   • iPad
   • Android
   • Android Tablet
   • AWS Lambda
   • Online

   

   

   

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   HandBrake

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   HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application types

   • Video Converter
   • Audio Converter

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD
   • Snapcraft
   • Flathub
   • Haiku
   • Flatpak

   

   

   
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   Avidemux

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   Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.

   Alternatives: LosslessCut, VidCutter

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application types

   • Video Editor
   • Video Converter

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD
   • PortableApps.com

   

   

   

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   FileRenamer

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   With this tool you can rename lots of files and/or folders at once using various methods such as replacing, rewriting, removing, truncating, numbering and many more.

   Alternatives: KRename, Ant Renamer (requires Wine), ReNamer (requires Wine)

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • File Renamer

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   
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    qBittorrent

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    The qBittorrent project aims to provide an open-source software alternative to µTorrent. Additionally, qBittorrent runs and provides the same features on all major platforms (FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Windows).

    Alternatives: Transmission, Deluge

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    • Torrent Client
    • Torrent Search Engine

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • AppImageHub
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Haiku
    • Cloudron

    

    

    

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    yt-dlp

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    yt-dlp is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube and a few more sites.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    • Video Downloader
    • YouTube Downloader

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Termux

    

    
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    aria2

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    aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

    Alternatives: uGet

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    • Torrent Client
    • Download Manager

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Xfce

    
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    Serviio

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    Serviio is a free media server. It allows you to stream your media files (music, video or images) to any DLNA-certified renderer device (e.g. a TV set, Bluray player, games console) on your home network.

    Alternatives: Plex

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    • Media Server
    • Video Streaming App

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    

    

    
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    LinSSID

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    LinSSID displays a table of all of the local wireless networks that your device can receive, and information about them. It also displays charts of the signal strength of each network by channel number and over time.

    Alternatives: sparrow-wifi, wavemon

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Network Analyzer

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

    
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    DNS Benchmark

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    A unique, comprehensive, accurate & free Windows (and Linux/Wine) utility to determine the exact performance of local and remote DNS nameservers . . . Requires Wine to run.

    Alternatives: namebench

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    • Benchmark Tool

    Platforms

    • Windows

    
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    inxi

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    inxi is a Perl tool that lets you get all kinds of system information, either in your console/terminal/shell, or in your IRC client.

    Alternatives: Hardinfo, lshw, hwinfo, CPU-X (by X0rg)

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • System Information Utility

    Platforms

    • Linux

    
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    GNOME Disks

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    A GNOME utility for dealing with storage devices.

    • Create and restore disk images. Perform low-level copies and attach disk images as virtual loop devices.
    • Partitionize and format disks. Common filesystems and encryption (LUKS) are supported.
    • Inspect drive speed and health status. GNOME notifies you if disks fail with critical SMART values. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T ArchWiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/S.M.A.R.T

    Alternatives: GSmartControl

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    • Partition Manager
    • Disk Imaging Tool

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME

    
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    Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer

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    Disk Usage Analyzer is a graphical application to analyse disk usage in any GNOME environment. Disk Usage Analyzer can easily scan device volumes or a specific user-requested directory branch (local or remote). Once the scan is complete Disk Usage Analyzer provides a graphical representation of each selected folder.

    Alternatives: QDirStat, ncdu

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Disk Usage Analyzer

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • FreeBSD
    • GNOME
    • Homebrew

    

    

    

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    BleachBit

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    With BleachBit you can free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn't know was there. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean thousands of applications including Firefox, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    • System Cleaner
    • File Shredder

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Blackberry
    • PortableApps.com
    • Flathub

    

    

    
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    GtkHash

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    GtkHash is a desktop utility for computing message digests or checksums. Most well-known hash functions are supported, including MD5, SHA1, SHA2 (SHA256/SHA512), SHA3 and BLAKE2.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cinnamon
    • GNOME
    • MATE
    • Xfce
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft

    

    

    
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    Redshift

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    Redshift adjusts the color temperature of your screen according to your surroundings. This may help your eyes hurt less if you are working in front of the screen at night. This program is inspired by f.lux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    • Color Temperature Tool
    • Screen Dimmer

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    
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    Caffeine for Linux

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    A status bar application able to temporarily prevent the activation of both the screensaver and the "sleep" powersaving mode.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Prevent Sleep Mode App

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

    

    
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    QtQR

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    A Qt GUI (front-end) for python-qrtools that makes easy creating and decoding the codes.

    Alternatives: Decoder, Zint Barcode Generator

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    
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    NFO Viewer

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    NFO Viewer is a simple viewer for NFO files, which are “ASCII” art in the CP437 codepage. The advantages of using NFO Viewer instead of a text editor are preset font and encoding settings, automatic window size and clickable hyperlinks.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    
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    CDemu

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    CDemu is a software suite designed to emulate an optical drive and disc (including CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs) on the Linux operating system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • ISO Mounting Tool

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    

    
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    TeamViewer

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    TeamViewer is a comprehensive, remote access, remote control and remote support solution that works with almost every desktop and mobile platform, including Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    • Remote Desktop Tool
    • Web Conferencing Tool

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Kindle Fire
    • Raspberry Pi

    

    

    

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    VirtualBox

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    VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use.

    Alternatives: Boxes

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Virtualization Tool

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Oracle Solaris

    

    

    

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    UNetbootin

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    UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. You can either let UNetbootin download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .iso file.

    Alternatives: balenaEtcher

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Bootable USB Creator

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PortableApps.com

    

    

    
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    WoeUSB

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    A Linux program to create a Windows USB stick installer from a real Windows DVD or image.

    Alternative: https://github.com/ValdikSS/windows2usb

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Bootable USB Creator

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

    
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    SystemRescue

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    SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the hard disk partitions. It comes with a lot of Linux system utilities such as GParted, fsarchiver, filesystem tools and basic tools (editors, midnight commander, network tools).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    • File Recovery Tool
    • Hard Disk Recovery Tool

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted

    

    

    

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