Track Awesome Gnome Updates Weekly

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

🏠 Home · 🔍 Search · 🔥 Feed · 📮 Subscribe · ❤️ Sponsor · 😺 Kazhnuz/awesome-gnome · ⭐ 1.5K · 🏷️ Platforms

[ Daily / Weekly / Overview ]

Dec 29 - Jan 04, 2025

Multimedia

• Showtime - Distraction-free video player.

Jul 14 - Jul 20, 2025

Internet and Networking

• Turn On - Utility to send Wake On LAN (WoL) magic packets to devices in a network.

Utilities

• Echo - Simple utility to ping websites.

Other lists / Skeumorphic Icons

• Are we libadwaita yet - List of libadwaita-powered apps

• Awesome-GTK (⭐1.1k) - Collections of awesome native open-source GTK (4 and 3) applications.

May 12 - May 18, 2025

Productivity and Time

• Khronos - Log the time it took to do tasks.

Mar 31 - Apr 06, 2025

System and Customization

• Bustle - D-Bus activity viewer that draws diagram sequences.

Feb 17 - Feb 23, 2025

Multimedia

• Drum Machine - Create and play drum beats. *<<<<<<< patch-1

Nov 11 - Nov 17, 2024

Internet and Networking

• Pipeline - YouTube Client.

• Netsleuth (⭐48) - Utility for the calculation and analysis of IP subnet values.

Oct 28 - Nov 03, 2024

Development and Design

• Dev Toolbox - Toolbox for developers providing converters, formatters, Regex/Cron testers, hash generators and more.

Aug 26 - Sep 01, 2024

Internet and Networking

• Tuba - Client for federated social networks (Mastodon, GoToSocial, Akkoma).

Aug 19 - Aug 25, 2024

System and Customization

• Resources - Monitor for system resources and processes that can terminate graphical applications and processes.

Aug 12 - Aug 18, 2024

Multimedia

• Gapless - Play your music elegantly.

Aug 05 - Aug 11, 2024

Productivity and Time

• Newelle (⭐1.1k) - Virtual assistant (local, based on GPT4All) that interacts with the system by running shell commands and execute Python code.

Multimedia

• Fotema - Photo gallery with support for iOS Live Photos and Samsung Motion Photos and with map view.

Development and Design

• Cartero - Graphical HTTP client to perform HTTP requests and test web APIs.

Themes for non-GTK apps / Skeumorphic Icons

• Discord GNOME Theme (⭐126) - A GNOME theme for Discord, following the Adwaita style & GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.

Jul 15 - Jul 21, 2024

System and Customization

• Embellish - Application to install and manage Nerd Fonts on the system.

Development and Design

• 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.

Jul 08 - Jul 14, 2024

Applets / Design Tooling

• RunCat — The cat tells you the CPU usage by running speed.

• OpenWeather - Weather applet.

Windows / Design Tooling

• PaperWM - Tiled scrollable window management.

• Coverflow Alt-Tab - Advanced fullscreen app switcher.

Visual Changes / Design Tooling

• Blur-my-shell - Apply a blur effect to the overview and top panel background.

• Desktop Cube - A Desktop Cube for GNOME Shell

• Burn My Windows - Open/Close your windows with style.

Jul 01 - Jul 07, 2024

Productivity and Time

• Time Tracker - Local-first project time tracker with sync option via cloud or network storage (CSV file).

Jun 24 - Jun 30, 2024

Gaming

• Libellus - Tab-based wiki/Lexicon for DnD 5th edition.

System and Customization

• Luminance (⭐132) - Simple application to control brightness of displays (including external) supporting DDC/CI.

Jun 10 - Jun 16, 2024

Internet and Networking

• Dissent - Third-party Discord client prioritasing speed over feature completeness (with user theming through CSS).

Jun 03 - Jun 09, 2024

Office

• Morphosis - Document converter (using Pandoc) supporting PDF, Markdown, RST, LaTeX, HTML, Microsoft Word, Open/Libre Office and EPUB formats.

Gaming

• 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.

Utilities

• Snoop - Application (with Nautilus extension) to search through file contents in a given folder.

May 27 - Jun 02, 2024

Productivity and Time

• Errands - Todo application for those who prefer simplicity.

Multimedia

• Decibels - Simple music player with waveform view.

• Cozy - Audiobook player.

Graphics

• Switcheroo - Image converter and manipulator (ImageMagick frontend).

Scientific Tooling

• Plots - Simple graph plotting.

Utilities

• Impression - Bootable driver flasher application

Development and Design

• 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.

May 20 - May 26, 2024

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.

• Haguichi - Graphical frontend for Hamachi.

• Parabolic - yt-dlp graphical fronted.

• Geopard - Colorful Gemini client.

• Dino - XMPP Client.

Office

• Apostrophe - Distraction-free Markdown editor.

• Citations - Manage your bibliography.

• Foliate - Simple and modern eBook reader.

• Paper Clip - PDF metadata editor.

• RNote - Sketch and take handwritten notes.

Productivity and Time

• Solanum - Balance working time and break time.

• Timetrack - Time tracker.

• Teleprompter - Simple application to read scrolling text from your screen.

• 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.

• Video Trimer - Trim video quickly.

• Amberol - Plays music, and nothing else.

• Mousai - Identify any songs in seconds.

• Podcasts - Listen to your favourite podcasts.

• 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.

• Aviator - Utility for encoding with SVT-AV1 & Opus.

• Collector - Dropover utility that allows to drag files/images/text into a collection window and drop them anywhere.

Graphics

• Curtail - Simple & useful image compressor.

• Identity - Compare image and video.

• 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.

Gaming

• 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.

• HydraPaper - Set a different background for each monitor.

• AdwSteamGtk - Adwaita for Steam (⭐1.5k) 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.

• 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.

• Kooha - Elegantly record your screen.

• 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.

• 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.

Development and Design / 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 / Design Tooling

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

Docks and Panels / Design Tooling

• 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 / Design Tooling

• Just Perfection - Customize GNOME Shell.

• Custom Hot Corners - Extended - Customize hot corners.

• Quick Settings Tweaker - Tweak your quick settings menu.

Menus / Design Tooling

• 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 / Design Tooling

• Caffeine - Applet that let you deactivate the GNOME lock screen.

• Removable Drive Menu - Status menu to show your removable drives.

• Clipboard Indicator - Simple clipboard applet.

• Todo.txt - Interface for todo.txt.

• GSConnect - KDE Connect implementation.

• KStatusNotifiers/AppIndicator Support - Appindicator systray.

Visual Changes / Design Tooling

• Compiz windows effect - Adds wobbly effects to windows.

• Useless Gaps - For aesthetic purposes adds useless gaps around tiled and maximized windows.

Icons / Homogeneous Icons

• Obsidian (⭐214) - Continuation of the famous Faenza theme.

Cursors / Skeumorphic Icons

• ComixCursors - X11 mouse theme with a comics feeling.

• Bibata (⭐3k) - Silm material-based cursor theme.

• Capitaine Cursors (⭐1.2k) - An x-cursor theme inspired by macOS and based on KDE Breeze. Designed to be paired with La Capitaine icons.

Official Venues / Skeumorphic Icons

• 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 Project Handbook

• GNOME Wiki (depreciated)

Libraries / Skeumorphic Icons

• libadwaita - Library that contain official GNOME patterns and widgets (GTK4)

• Relm4 - Building native applications with Rust and GTK4

Documentations / Skeumorphic Icons

• GNOME Newcomers Wiki - Perfect place to start contributing to GNOME.

• GNOME Developer Center - Contains all the official GNOME documentations.

• 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.

Apr 29 - May 05, 2024

System and Customization

• Damask - Application that automatically sets wallpaper from a variety or sources (local folder, Wallhaven, Bing Wallpaper, NASA Astronomy, etc).

Feb 05 - Feb 11, 2024

Utilities

• Lan Mouse (⭐4.2k) - Mouse and keyboard sharing software (software KVM switch).

Jan 08 - Jan 14, 2024

Themes for non-GTK apps / Skeumorphic Icons

• Thunderbird GNOME Theme (⭐368) - Integrate Thunderbird into GNOME-based desktop using Adwaita.

Jan 01 - Jan 07, 2024

Themes for non-GTK apps / Skeumorphic Icons

• Adwaita for Steam (⭐1.5k) - Skin to make Steam look more like a native GNOME app.

• Adwaita theme for VS Code (⭐176) - Dark and light themes for VS Code based on GNOME's look and GNOME Builder's syntax highlighting.

• Firefox GNOME Theme (⭐3.8k) - Integrate Firefox into GNOME-based desktop using Adwaita.

• Obsidian Adwaita Theme (⭐151) - Obsidian theme in the style of GNOME Adwaita.

Dec 11 - Dec 17, 2023

Internet and Networking

• Fractal - Matrix client.

Multimedia

• Monophony - Stream music from YouTube.

Aug 14 - Aug 20, 2023

Development and Design

• Turtle - Tool to manage Git repositories within Nautilus by providing emblems and context menus.

Jul 17 - Jul 23, 2023

Icons / Upstream Style

• MoreWaita (⭐904) - An Adwaita-style icon theme for Gnome Shell.

Jun 12 - Jun 18, 2023

Multimedia

• Footage - Application to trim, flip, rotate and crop individual clips.

May 08 - May 14, 2023

Development and Design

• Escambo (⭐144) - HTTP-based APIs test application.

Apr 17 - Apr 23, 2023

System and Customization

• GDM Settings - A settings app for GDM (GNOME's Login Screen a.k.a GNOME Display Manager).

Jan 23 - Jan 29, 2023

Office

• NFO Viewer - Simple viewer for NFO files, beating text editors with preset font and encoding settings and clickable hyperlink support.

Productivity and Time

• Endeavour - Manage your tasks.

Aug 30 - Sep 05, 2021

System and Customization

• Dynamic Gnome Wallpapers (⭐473) - Gallery of MacOS like dynamic wallpapers, and easy scripts to install them

May 03 - May 09, 2021

Libraries / Skeumorphic Icons

• libhandy - Building blocks for modern adaptive GNOME apps (GTK3)

Mar 22 - Mar 28, 2021

Documentations / Skeumorphic Icons

• GTK Documentation - Official GTK documentation.

Feb 15 - Feb 21, 2021

Examples / Skeumorphic Icons

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

Jan 25 - Jan 31, 2021

Development and Design

• Gaphor - The simple modeling tool for UML and SysML.

Sep 23 - Sep 29, 2019

Internet and Networking

• Feeds - An RSS/Atom feed reader.

Icons / Upstream Style

• GNOME++ (⭐169) - Third-party application icons compatible with GNOME's current guidelines.

• Pop! (⭐208) - Official icon theme of Pop!_OS by System76.

Apr 01 - Apr 07, 2019

Official Venues / Skeumorphic Icons

• GNOME's Discourse

• #gnome on GIMPNet - General-purpose GNOME IRC channel (complete list of channels)

GNOME on Social Networks / Skeumorphic Icons

• @gnome on floss.social

• @GNOMEDesktop on Facebook

• GNOMEDesktop on Peertube

Sep 25 - Oct 01, 2017

GNOME Communities / Skeumorphic Icons

• Reddit

• Stack Overflow

GNOME on Social Networks / Skeumorphic Icons

• @gnome on Twitter

• GNOMEDesktop on Youtube

Sep 11 - Sep 17, 2017

Icons / Homogeneous Icons

• Numix Circle (⭐920) - Flat rounded icon theme.

• Numix Square (⭐164) - Flat square icon theme.

Aug 14 - Aug 20, 2017

Icons / Material Icons

• Paper - Material icon theme.

• Papirus (⭐7.5k) - Material icon theme, initially based on Paper.

Icons / Flat Icons

• La Capitaine (⭐2k) - Icon inspired by macOS and Material Design guidelines.

Icons / Skeumorphic Icons

• Elementary XFCE (⭐285) - Desktop-agnostic version of the icons of elementary OS.