Awesome elementary OS

A curated list of awesome applications, tools and shiny things for elementary OS.

Explanation:

✅ means that it can be found in AppCenter. You can click on the icon to open it in AppCenter

Table of Contents

• Awesome elementary OS!
  • Table of Contents
  • Applications
    • Accessories
    • Chat
    • Customization
    • Development
    • Design
    • Email
    • Games
    • Graphics
    • Internet
    • Multimedia
    • Productivity
    • Science
    • Sharing
    • Security
    • Social
    • System Tools
    • Others
    • Theming
  • Wingpanel Indicators
  • Switchboard Plugs
  • Aplication Development
    • Official
    • Third party
    • Vala
  • Official Resources
  • Community
    • Telegram-Groups
  • Configuration Guides
  • Contribute
  • License

Applications

Accessories

• Bookworm - A simple ebook reader ✅
• Cipher - Encode and decode text ✅
• Clipped - Manage your clipboard with ease
• Coin - Track the virtual currencies in real world currency value with this handy applet ✅
• Eddy - Simple debian package installer ✅
• Eidete - A simple screencasting app
• Exchange - Convert currencies with no hassle ✅
• Hash It - A simple app for checking usual checksums ✅
• Image Burner - A simple imageburner inspired by Etcher's UI ✅
• La Nova Reta Vortaro - Modern esperanto dictionnary
• Lights-Up - Control Philips Hue lights from your elementary OS desktop
• Lottery - Who will be the winner? ✅
• MarkMyWords - A minimal markdown editor
• Meteo - Know the forecast of the next hours and days with data and maps ✅
• Neumann - Show 4 digit random numbers on button click.
• Nimbus - A minimal weather applet ✅
• Nutrition - USDA Food Composition Database searcher
• Socratest - Your new personal digital teacher!
• Screencast - A simple screencast recorder ✅
• Shopper - Track the price of your favourite products with this app
• Timer - The ultimate tea timer ✅
• Translator - Translator app ✅
• Translit - Translit is a method of encoding Cyrillic letters with Latin ones ✅
• TrimDown - A simple, feature rich, writing app for writing Novels, Short stories, Scripts and Articls
• Weather - A forecast application using OpenWeatherMap API ✅
• Writer - Word processor

Chat

• Relay - An IRC client

Customization

• AppEditor - Edit application menu ✅
• Configurator - A stylish dconf editor
• elementary tweaks - elementary OS customisation tool

Development

• Alias - Simplify your commands ✅
• Develop - A simple tool to help Elementary OS developers to develop their own apps and widgets ✅
• elementary-icons-template - A set of template icons for more quickly making third-party application icons with standard shapes that fit with the elementary HIG
• elementary IDE - An unofficial elementary OS (Vala) oriented IDE
• GraphUI - Graph Visualization ✅
• File Conflicts Finder - Helps to find file names which could have conflicts on Windows ✅
• PHP Tester - Test your PHP code easily ✅
• quickDocs - quickly read developer documentation ✅
• RegEx Tester - A simple regex tester ✅
• Sequeler - Friendly SQL Client ✅
• Snaptastic - A manager for snaps ✅
• Vanat - Dependency Manager for Vala
• Vala Lint - Check code-style of Vala code files
• URM Simulator - Unlimited programming potential ✅
• ValaCompiler - A simple GUI for valac ✅
• Web Watcher - Know when your websites are misbehaving ✅

Design

• Akira - Native Linux App for UI and UX Design built in Vala and Gtk ✅
• Color Picker - The most intiutive Color Picker to speed up your workflow ✅
• Dippi - Calculate display info like DPI and aspect ratio ✅
• Harvey - A color contrast checker ✅
• Lookbook - Browse and find system icons
• Palette - Color palette app ✅
• Principles - Remember Dieter Rams' ten principles of good design ✅
• Swatches - Colour variation tool ✅

Email

• elementary-nylas - Themes for Nylas N1 desktop email client intented to make it more friendly
• elementary Thunderbird - Thunderbird

Games

• Brutus - This is a City-Building (Caesar3-like) game
• Elememory - A simple memory game
• GameHub - Games manager/downloader/library written in Vala
• Gnonograms - Create and solve gnonogram puzzles ✅
• Mupen GUI - Mupen64plus frontend designed based on Elementary OS guidelines.
• Post Apoc RPG Tools - Post Apocalyptic RPG Tools App
• Sudoku - The number that is alone ✅

Graphics

• Ciano - A multimedia file converter ✅
• Foto - Foto is a very simple image viewer and album manager written in Vala using Gtk3, Clutter, Cairo and Granite
• Iconoscope - Simple icon visualizer ✅
• Image Optimizer - A simple image optimizer ✅
• Memories - An image viewer for managing local image files ✅
• Resizer - Quickly resize images from the context menu ✅

Internet

• Firefox elementary Theme - A theme for Firefox with elementary OS appearence
• Odysseus - A simple and performant browser yet powerful elementary OS-style window onto the open decentralized web ✅
• Pushy - Pushbullet client ✅
• Taxi - A simple to use FTP client,
• Torrential - Download torrents in style ✅
• Webby - Web app browser
• Webpin - A simple app to pin websites on the desktop ✅

Multimedia

• Cinema - A video player for watching local video files ✅
• Cozy - A modern audio book player ✅
• ellyrics - Song lyrics search application
• eRadio - A minimalist and powerful radio player
• Gradio - A app for finding and listening to internet radio stations
• Karim - Graphical interface for command-line tool youtube-dl
• Metronome - A simple click ✅
• Melody - A music player for listening local music files, online radios and Audio CD's ✅
• Reco - Audio recording app
• Tranqil - Relax to soothing sounds of nature ✅
• Vocal - Podcast Client for the Modern Desktop ✅

Productivity

• Agenda - A simple, fast, no-nonsense to-do (task) list.
• Agenda Tasks - A simple, slick, speedy, no-nonsense task manager ✅
• Coffee - Keep up-to-date with current news and weather with Coffee
• Date Countdown - A date countdown applet ✅
• Envelope - Personal finance manager ✅
• FeedReader - Modern desktop application designed to complement existing web-based RSS accounts
• Footnote - A beautiful, fast, and simple note taking app in the style of elementary
• Go For It - A stylish to-do list with built-in productivity timer
• Hackup - Read Hacker News from the desktop
• Hourglass - A simple clock application that is designed to fit perfectly into elementary's design scheme ✅
• Luna - An amazing calendar widget ✅
• Minder - Mind-mapping application ✅
• Notes Up - Markdown notes editor & manager ✅
• OfficeWorks-Author - The modern text editor
• Palaura - Find any word's definition with this handy dictionary ✅
• Planner - The most intuitive project and task management tool ✅
• Quilter - Focus on your writing ✅
• Spice-up - Create simple and beautiful presentations on the Linux desktop ✅
• Spreadsheet - A spreadsheet app
• Stickies - Neat sticky notes app
• Timetable - Plot out your own timetable for the week and organize it
• Tomato - A simple pomodoro app ✅
• Yishu - A bespoke and simple Todo.txt client ✅
• Workspaces - Workspaces lets you configure and quickly launch all you need to work on a project ✅

Science

• Elements - A periodic table ✅
• NaSC - Its an app where you do maths like a normal person ✅

Sharing

• Dropbox for elementary OS

Security

• Locksmith - A simple password generator applet ✅
• Valawarden - Unofficial native Bitwarden client

Social

• Birdie - Birdie is a beautiful & fast Twitter client

System Tools

• Bookmark Manager - Manager for your ssh configs ✅
• Configurator - Stylish dconf editor
• Desktop Folder - Bring your desktop back to life ✅
• Dimmer Switch - Brightness Adjustment for Linux ✅
• Formatter - A simple formatter tool ✅
• Monitor - Manage processes and monitor system resources ✅
• Nutty - A simple application to provide essential information on network related aspects ✅
• Repo - Manage your system's Personal Package Archives (PPA) repository sources ✅
• Repositories Manager - Manage your repositories
• Timeshift - System restore tool for Linux
• Wammer - Jamming your WiFi network ✅

Others

• Wallpaperize - Beautify your oddly-sized wallpapers ✅

Theming

• elementaryPlus - elementaryPlus is a community maintained addition to elementary OS's default icon theme
• elementary X - Original elementary theme with some tweaks and OS X window controls
• Uratau Icons - The most complete icon package for third-party applications with elementary OS design

Wingpanel Indicators

• GamePing - Ping indicator for elementary
• Hottoe - Hottoe is an application which can control sound devices.
• Namarupa - Unofficial Ayatana compatibility layer for wingpanel
• Periods - Life indicator for elementary
• Synapse - Finds apps, files and directories via an intuitive fluent indicator
• Sys-Monitor - System monitor indicator for Wingpanel
• Weather - Weather app indicator for elementary OS

Switchboard Plugs

• Bing Wallpaper Plug - A plug to get wallpapers from bing

Aplication Development

Official

• Code Style
• elementary Developer Guide
• Human Interface Guidelines

Third party

• Create an elementary OS app with GTK & Vala
• elementary OS devbook - A guide to design and build your app for elementary OS

Vala

• The Vala tutorial
• Valadoc - Official Vala documentation
• Vala tutorial
• Vala for C# Programmers
• Vala for Java Programmers
• Playlist: Learn Vala and Gtk+ from Scratch

Official Resources

• Official Site
• Official Medium
• Official Twitter
• Official Facebook

Community

• #elementaryos - hashtag on Twitter
• elementary OS on Google+
• elementary OS on stackexchange
• elementary OS subreddit
• elementary OS forum
• elementary OS on DeviantArt
• elementary OS on slack - Slack community

Telegram Groups

• Brazil

Configuration Guides

• elementary-script - With this script, you can easily install your favorite third-party applications after installing eOS
• elementary-os-first-steps - First steps for configuring a fresh installed eOS
• Ultimate-elementary-os - Easy installation of software after clean install

Contribute

Contributions are most welcome.

⬆ back to top

License

The MIT License (MIT)