Awesome GNOME

A curated collection of resources and projects focused on GNOME.

Contents

• Applications
  • Internet and Networking
  • Office
  • Productivity and Time
  • Well Being
  • Multimedia
  • Graphics
  • Gaming
  • System and Customization
  • Utilities
  • Security and Privacy
  • Development and Design
  • Others
• Extensions
  • Docks and Panels
  • Customization and Tweaks
  • Menus
  • Applets
  • Windows
  • Visual Changes
• Look and Feel
  • Icons
  • Cursors
  • Themes for non-GTK apps
• Community
• Developer Resources
  • Libraries
  • Examples
  • Documentation

Applications

Internet and Networking

• GNOME Web - Official web browser project of GNOME.
• Fragments - BitTorrent client.
• Newsflash - RSS feeds reader.
• Font Downloader - Install fonts from online sources
• Tangram - Browser for your pinned tabs.
• Polari - Talk to people on IRC.
• Warp - Fast and secure file transfer.
• Wike - Search and read Wikipedia articles.
• Feeds - An RSS/Atom feed reader.
• Haguichi - Graphical frontend for Hamachi.
• Parabolic - yt-dlp graphical fronted.
• Geopard - Colorful Gemini client.
• Fractal - Matrix client.
• Dino - XMPP Client.
• Dissent - Third-party Discord client prioritasing speed over feature completeness (with user theming through CSS).
• Tuba - Client for federated social networks (Mastodon, GoToSocial, Akkoma).
• Pipeline - YouTube Client.
• Netsleuth - Utility for the calculation and analysis of IP subnet values.
• Turn On - Utility to send Wake On LAN (WoL) magic packets to devices in a network.

Office

• Apostrophe - Distraction-free Markdown editor.
• Citations - Manage your bibliography.
• NFO Viewer - Simple viewer for NFO files, beating text editors with preset font and encoding settings and clickable hyperlink support.
• Foliate - Simple and modern eBook reader.
• Paper Clip - PDF metadata editor.
• RNote - Sketch and take handwritten notes.
• Morphosis - Document converter (using Pandoc) supporting PDF, Markdown, RST, LaTeX, HTML, Microsoft Word, Open/Libre Office and EPUB formats.

Productivity and Time

• Solanum - Balance working time and break time.
• Khronos - Log the time it took to do tasks.
• Errands - Todo application for those who prefer simplicity.
• Endeavour - Manage your tasks.
• Timetrack - Time tracker.
• Teleprompter - Simple application to read scrolling text from your screen.
• Planify - Project and task manager with Todoist support.
• Time Tracker - Local-first project time tracker with sync option via cloud or network storage (CSV file).
• Newelle - Virtual assistant (local, based on GPT4All) that interacts with the system by running shell commands and execute Python code.

Well Being

• Blanket - Listen to different sounds.
• Health - Health tracking.

Multimedia

• Shortwave - Client for web-based radio.
• Video Trimer - Trim video quickly.
• Amberol - Plays music, and nothing else.
• Mousai - Identify any songs in seconds.
• Podcasts - Listen to your favourite podcasts.
• Decibels - Simple music player with waveform view.
• Cozy - Audiobook player.
• Celluloid - Simple frontend for mpv.
• Parlatype - Audio player specialized for transcription.
• Easy Effects - Audio effects for PipeWire applications .
• Spot - Spotify Client.
• Clapper - Simple and modern media player.
• Footage - Application to trim, flip, rotate and crop individual clips.
• Aviator - Utility for encoding with SVT-AV1 & Opus.
• Gapless - Play your music elegantly.
• Monophony - Stream music from YouTube.
• Collector - Dropover utility that allows to drag files/images/text into a collection window and drop them anywhere.
• Fotema - Photo gallery with support for iOS Live Photos and Samsung Motion Photos and with map view.
• Drum Machine - Create and play drum beats. *<<<<<<< patch-1
• Showtime - Distraction-free video player.

Graphics

• Curtail - Simple & useful image compressor.
• Identity - Compare image and video.
• Switcheroo - Image converter and manipulator (ImageMagick frontend).
• Coulr - Convert between RGB and hexadecimal codes for colours.
• ASCII Draw - Draw graphs and more using only characters.
• Mingle - Application to combine emojis using Google’s Emoji Kitchen.

Scientific Tooling

• Graphs - Plot and manipulate data.
• Plots - Simple graph plotting.

Gaming

• Cartridges - Game launcher with Steam, Lutris, Heroic, Bottles and itch library import.
• Chess Clock - Timer for over-the-board chess games.
• Crosswords - Game of crosswords with squpport for shaped and colors crosswords and .ipuz, .jpuz, .xd, and .puz files.
• Mahjongg - Solitaire (one player) version of the classic Eastern tile game, Mahjongg.
• Ultimate Tic Tac Toe - Ultimate Tic Tac Toe to play with friends or against an AI.
• Libellus - Tab-based wiki/Lexicon for DnD 5th edition.

System and Customization

• Pika Backup - Simple backups based on borg.
• Déjà Dup Backups - Simple backups tool.
• GNOME Tweaks - Graphical interface for advanced GNOME settings.
• HydraPaper - Set a different background for each monitor.
• Dynamic Gnome Wallpapers - Gallery of MacOS like dynamic wallpapers, and easy scripts to install them
• GDM Settings - A settings app for GDM (GNOME’s Login Screen a.k.a GNOME Display Manager).
• AdwSteamGtk - Adwaita for Steam skin installer.
• Flatseal - Flatpak permission manager.
• Mission Center - Monitor your CPU, Memory, Disk, Network and GPU usage.
• Bottles - Wine environments manager to run Windows software and games.
• BoxBuddy - Graphical Distrobox manager.
• Pods - Podman containers manager.
• Ptyxis - Terminal with first-class support for containers.
• Damask - Application that automatically sets wallpaper from a variety or sources (local folder, Wallhaven, Bing Wallpaper, NASA Astronomy, etc).
• Luminance - Simple application to control brightness of displays (including external) supporting DDC/CI.
• Bustle - D-Bus activity viewer that draws diagram sequences.
• Embellish - Application to install and manage Nerd Fonts on the system.
• Resources - Monitor for system resources and processes that can terminate graphical applications and processes.

Utilities

• Dialect - Translate text.
• Audio Sharing - Share your computer audio.
• Boatswain - Control your Elgato Stream Decks.
• Decoder - Scan and Generate QR Codes.
• Junction - Junction lets you choose the application to open files and links.
• Impression - Bootable driver flasher application
• Kooha - Elegantly record your screen.
• Lan Mouse - Mouse and keyboard sharing software (software KVM switch).
• Moussam - Weather application with 7 days forecast from Open-Meteo.com.
• Snoop - Application (with Nautilus extension) to search through file contents in a given folder.
• Echo - Simple utility to ping websites.

Security and Privacy

• Obfuscate - Censor private information.
• Metadata Cleaner - View and clean metadata in files.
• Secrets - Keepass-compatible password manager.
• Authenticator - Generate Two-Factor Codes.
• Collisions - Check hashes for your files.
• File Shredder - Securely delete your files.
• Key Rack - Tool that allows to view and edit keys, like passwords or tokens, stored by apps.

Development and Design

• GNOME Builder - Official IDE for creating GNOME applications.
• Gaphor - The simple modeling tool for UML and SysML.
• Webfont Kit Generator - Create @font-face kits easily.
• Commit - Commit message editor.
• Workbench - Learn and prototype with GNOME technologies.
• Lorem - Generate placeholder text.
• Share Preview - Test social media cards locally.
• Text Pieces - Transform text without using random websites.
• Forge Sparks - Git forge (GitHub, Gitea, Forgejo) desktop notification application.
• Biblioteca - GNOME documentation (offline) reader with fuzzy search, dark mode and mobile support.
• Hieroglyphic - Application to search for LaTeX symbols by sketching.
• Sysprof - Profile an application or entire system.
• DevHelp - Developer tool for browsing and searching API documentation.
• Escambo - HTTP-based APIs test application.
• Turtle - Tool to manage Git repositories within Nautilus by providing emblems and context menus.
• Aurea - Simple preview banner made to read metainfo files from Flatpak apps and represent them as they would on Flathub.
• Exhibit - 3D model previewer based on the F3D library that supports many formats.
• Cartero - Graphical HTTP client to perform HTTP requests and test web APIs.
• Dev Toolbox - Toolbox for developers providing converters, formatters, Regex/Cron testers, hash generators and more.

Design Tooling

• App Icon Preview - Simple utility to preview icons.
• Palette - Tool for viewing the GNOME colour palette.
• Contrast - Check the contrast between two colors.
• Icon Library - Symbolic icons for your apps.
• Symbolic Preview - Symbolics Made Easy.
• Emblem - Generate project avatars.

Others

• Boxes - View, access, and manage remote and virtual systems.

Extensions

Docks and Panels

• Dash-to-Dock - A fully-featured dock.
• Dash-to-Panel - Make your desktop more similar to W7/KDE.
• Dock-from-Dash - Simply transform your Dash into a Dock.

Customization and Tweaks

• Just Perfection - Customize GNOME Shell.
• Custom Hot Corners - Extended - Customize hot corners.
• Quick Settings Tweaker - Tweak your quick settings menu.

Menus

• Application Menu - Category-based menu for applications.
• Places Indicator - Menu that provides fast access to your folders.
• Arc Menu - Windows7-like application menu inspired by the one in Zorin OS.
• Fly-Pie - Mouse-based menu.

Applets

• RunCat — The cat tells you the CPU usage by running speed.
• Caffeine - Applet that let you deactivate the GNOME lock screen.
• Removable Drive Menu - Status menu to show your removable drives.
• OpenWeather - Weather applet.
• Clipboard Indicator - Simple clipboard applet.
• Todo.txt - Interface for todo.txt.
• GSConnect - KDE Connect implementation.
• KStatusNotifiers/AppIndicator Support - Appindicator systray.

Windows

• PaperWM - Tiled scrollable window management.
• Coverflow Alt-Tab - Advanced fullscreen app switcher.

Visual Changes

• Blur-my-shell - Apply a blur effect to the overview and top panel background.
• Compiz windows effect - Adds wobbly effects to windows.
• Useless Gaps - For aesthetic purposes adds useless gaps around tiled and maximized windows.
• Desktop Cube - A Desktop Cube for GNOME Shell
• Burn My Windows - Open/Close your windows with style.

Look and Feel

Icons

Upstream Style

• MoreWaita - An Adwaita-style icon theme for Gnome Shell.
• GNOME++ - Third-party application icons compatible with GNOME’s current guidelines.
• Pop! - Official icon theme of Pop!_OS by System76.

Material Icons

• Paper - Material icon theme.
• Papirus - Material icon theme, initially based on Paper.

Flat Icons

• La Capitaine - Icon inspired by macOS and Material Design guidelines.

Homogeneous Icons

• Obsidian - Continuation of the famous Faenza theme.
• Numix Circle - Flat rounded icon theme.
• Numix Square - Flat square icon theme.

Skeumorphic Icons

• Elementary XFCE - Desktop-agnostic version of the icons of elementary OS.

Cursors

• ComixCursors - X11 mouse theme with a comics feeling.
• Bibata - Silm material-based cursor theme.
• Capitaine Cursors - An x-cursor theme inspired by macOS and based on KDE Breeze. Designed to be paired with La Capitaine icons.

Themes for non-GTK apps

• Adwaita for Steam - Skin to make Steam look more like a native GNOME app.
• Adwaita theme for VS Code - Dark and light themes for VS Code based on GNOME’s look and GNOME Builder’s syntax highlighting.
• Discord GNOME Theme - A GNOME theme for Discord, following the Adwaita style & GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.
• Firefox GNOME Theme - Integrate Firefox into GNOME-based desktop using Adwaita.
• Thunderbird GNOME Theme - Integrate Thunderbird into GNOME-based desktop using Adwaita.
• Obsidian Adwaita Theme - Obsidian theme in the style of GNOME Adwaita.

Community

Official Venues

• GNOME News Feed - Official news posts.
• This Week in GNOME - Weekly news from project maintainers from the community.
• Apps for GNOME
• Planet GNOME - Federation of GNOME Developers’ blogs.
• GNOME’s Discourse
• GNOME Project Handbook
• GNOME Wiki (depreciated)
• #gnome on GIMPNet - General-purpose GNOME IRC channel (complete list of channels)

GNOME Communities

• Reddit
• Stack Overflow

GNOME on Social Networks

• @gnome on Twitter
• @gnome on floss.social
• @GNOMEDesktop on Facebook
• GNOMEDesktop on Youtube
• GNOMEDesktop on Peertube

Other lists

• Are we libadwaita yet - List of libadwaita-powered apps
• Awesome-GTK - Collections of awesome native open-source GTK (4 and 3) applications.

Developer Resources

Libraries

• libadwaita - Library that contain official GNOME patterns and widgets (GTK4)
• libhandy - Building blocks for modern adaptive GNOME apps (GTK3)
• Relm4 - Building native applications with Rust and GTK4

Examples

• Hello - Set of Hello World examples for GNOME/GTK in different languages.

Documentations

• GNOME Newcomers Wiki - Perfect place to start contributing to GNOME.
• GNOME Developer Center - Contains all the official GNOME documentations.
• GTK Documentation - Official GTK documentation.
• Valadoc - Documentation about Vala.
• GJS Documentation - Documentation for the JavaScript GTK bindings.
• GJS Guide - Guide for GJS.
• The Python GTK+ 3 Tutorial - Introduction to writing GTK+ 3 applications in Python.