Awesome GNOME

A curated list of awesome apps, extensions, modules, themes and tools for the GNOME Desktop Environment.

GNOME is a desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like operating systems, designed to put the user in control and get things done. It uses GTK for its applications and Clutter and JavaScript for its official desktop shell.

Items marked with are applications officially maintained and distributed by the GNOME Project as part of the core set of applications and tools, or extensions that are maintained and distributed as part of the Classic mode.

Items marked with are applications championed by the GNOME Circle initiative that aims to showcase the best apps and libraries for 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
• Third-party Apps Plugins
• Extensions
  • Docks and Panels
  • Customization and Tweaks
  • Menus
  • Applets
  • Windows
  • Visual Changes
  • Services Integration
• 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.
• Geary - Modern mail client, created originally by Yorba.
• 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.

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.
• Paperwork - Personal document manager for scanned documents and PDFs.
• Foliate - Simple and modern eBook reader.
• Marker - Markdown editor with an integrated previewer.
• Paper Clip - PDF metadata editor.
• RNote - Sketch and take handwritten notes.

Productivity and Time

• Solanum - Balance working time and break time.
• Khronos - Log the time it took to do tasks.
• Endeavour - Manage your tasks.
• GTimeLog - Simple app for keeping track of time.
• Gnome Pomodoro - Simple pomodoro timer.
• Timetrack - Time tracker.
• Teleprompter - Simple application to read scrolling text from your screen.
• Errands - Todo application for those who prefer simplicity.
• Planify - Project and task manager with Todoist support.

Well Being

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

Multimedia

• Shortwave - Client for web-based radio.
• Cozy - Audiobook player.
• Video Trimer - Trim video quickly.
• Amberol - Plays music, and nothing else.
• Mousai - Identify any songs in seconds.
• Podcasts - Listen to your favourite podcasts.
• Zap - Play sounds from a soundboard.
• Vocal - Powerful, beautiful, and simple podcast client for the modern free desktop.
• Celluloid - Simple frontend for mpv.
• Lollypop - Beautiful music application.
• Parlatype - Audio player specialized for transcription.
• Easy Effects - Audio effects for PipeWire applications .
• Pitivi - Beautiful and powerful video editor.
• Spot - Spotify Client.
• Clapper - Simple and modern media player.
• Footage - Application to trim, flip, rotate and crop individual clips.
• Decibels - Simple music player with waveform view.
• Aviator - Utility for encoding with SVT-AV1 & Opus.
• G4Music - 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.

Graphics

• Curtail - Simple & useful image compressor.
• Drawing - Responsive drawing application.
• Identity - Compare image and video.
• Coulr - Convert between RGB and hexadecimal codes for colours.
• Color Picker - Color picker, working on both X11 and Wayland.
• GThumb - Powerful and advanced application to manage your photos and images.
• ASCII Draw - Draw graphs and more using only characters.
• Switcheroo - Image converter and manipulator (ImageMagick frontend).

Scientific Tooling

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

Gaming

• Lutris - Open Source gaming platform.
• Cartridges - Game launcher with Steam, Lutris, Heroic, Bottles and itch library import.

System and Customization

• Pika Backup - Simple backups based on borg.
• Déjà Dup Backups - Simple backups tool.
• GNOME Tweaks - Graphical interface for advanced GNOME settings.
• Tilix - Tiling terminal emulator.
• Menulibre - Manage your applications categories if you use a traditional application menu like Arc or the Application Menu.
• HydraPaper - Set a different background for each monitor.
• Dynamic Wallpaper Editor - Utility for editing GNOME’s XML wallpapers
• 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.

Utilities

• Dialect - Translate text.
• Markets - Keep track of your investments.
• 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.
• Metronome - Keep the tempo.
• Kooha - Elegantly record your screen.
• GPaste - Clipboard manager (composed of an application and a gnome-shell extension).
• Catfish - Simple search application.
• Detwinner - Simple and fast tool for removing duplicate files.
• Recipes - Cooking application.
• Sunflower - Small and highly customizable twin-panel file manager.
• Impression - Bootable driver flasher application
• Lan Mouse - Mouse and keyboard sharing software (software KVM switch).
• Moussam - Weather application with 7 days forecast from Open-Meteo.com.

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.
• Sysprof - Profile an application or entire system.
• DevHelp - Developer tool for browsing and searching API documentation.
• Escambo - HTTP-based APIs test application.
• Forge Sparks - Git forge (GitHub, Gitea, Forgejo) desktop notification application.
• Turtle - Tool to manage Git repositories within Nautilus by providing emblems and context menus.
• Biblioteca - GNOME documentation (offline) reader with fuzzy search, dark mode and mobile support.
• Hieroglyphic - Application to search for LaTeX symbols by sketching.

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.

Third-party Apps Plugins

• Nautilus Terminal - Integrates a terminal into Nautilus.

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.
• Extensions Sync - Syncs gnome shell keybindings, tweaks settings and extensions with their configuration across all gnome installations.
• 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.
• Desk Changer - Wallpaper slideshow applet.
• Emoji Selector - Emoji picker applet.
• Todo.txt - Interface for todo.txt.
• Time ++ - A todo.txt manager, time tracker, timer, stopwatch, pomodoro, and alarm clock.
• GSConnect - KDE Connect implementation.
• KStatusNotifiers/AppIndicator Support - Appindicator systray.

Windows

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

Audio

• Application Volume Mixer - Control volume output per-application.

Visual Changes

• Blur-my-shell - Apply a blur effect to the overview and top panel background.
• Transparent Shell - Makes some UI elements transparent.
• 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.

Services integration

• GMail Message Tray - Integrate GMail with your desktop.

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.
• 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 Wiki
• #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

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.