mathiascode / awesome-gtk

List of awesome GTK+ (gtk3) applications

awesome-gtk

This is a list of native, open source GTK (3 and eventually 4) applications.

Applications

Audio Players

Music

• Lollypop #python
• Melody / playmymusic #vala #granite
• elementary Music #vala #granite
• GNOME Music #python #gnome
• Rhythmbox #c #gnome

Streaming Service Clients

• Spot Spotify client #rust #libhandy

MPD Clients

• Sonata #python

Podcasts

• GNOME Podcasts (ex Hammond) #rust #gnome #libhandy
• Vocal #vala #granite

Audiobooks

• Cozy #python

Radio

• Shortwave upcoming successor to Gradio #rust #libhandy
• Gradio #vala
• Goodvibes #c
• radiotray-lite #c++
• Pithos for Pandora #python

Transcription

• Parlatype #c

Video Players

• Celluloid (ex GNOME MPV) #c
• Movie Monad #haskell
• GNOME Videos (Totem) #c #gnome

Video Comparison

• Identity #rust

Live Stream Viewers

• GNOME Twitch #c

Table of Contents Editors

• media-toc #rust

Subtitle Editors

• Gaupol #python
• Subtitle Editor #c++

Audio Workstations (DAWs)

• zrythm #c++

Audio Tools

• Lyrebird voice changer based on sox #python

Video Editors

• Pitivi #python

Video Downloaders (youtube-dl)

• gydl #python

Media Encoders

• Selene #vala

Book Readers

• Foliate #gjs #libhandy
• Bookworm #vala #granite
• Komikku manga reader #python #libhandy

Web Browsers

• Eolie #python
• GNOME Web (Epiphany) #c #gnome #libhandy
• luakit #c #lua

Specialized Web Browsers / Wrappers

• hackup Hacker News client #vala #granite

Social Media Clients

• Cawbird (working fork of Corebird) for Twitter #vala
• Tootle for Mastodon #vala
• Social for Mastodon and Pleroma #rust
• Giara for Reddit #python #libhandy

Calculators

• NaSC dual pane text based calculator (like Soulver) #vala
• Qalculate! GTK+ #c++
• balistica ballistics calculator #vala
• Dippi display DPI calculator #vala #granite
• Harvey color contrast calculator #vala

Note Taking

• GNOME Notes (Bijiben) #c #gnome
• Gnote Tomboy port #c++ #gnome
• Notejot sticky notes #vala #granite
• Notes-up #vala #granite
• Xournal++ handwriting notebook (with tablet pressure) #c++
• Notekit hierarchical markdown notetaking application with tablet support #c++

Journal/Diary

• RedNotebook #python

To-Do Lists

• Yishu todo.txt based #vala #granite
• Effitask todo.txt based #rust
• GNOME To Do #c #gnome
• Agenda #vala #granite

Mind Mapping

• Minder #vala #granite

Project Management

• Planner #vala #granite

Timers / Time Tracking

• Hourglass #vala #granite
• Tomato (pomodoro) #vala #granite
• hamster-gtk #python
• Timetrack #python
• Solanum (pomodoro) #rust

Email

• Geary #vala #gnome #libhandy
• Evolution #c #gnome
• Astroid for notmuch #c++

Chat and VoIP

Matrix

• Fractal #rust #libhandy

Tox

• Venom #vala
• Konv #vala

Jabber/XMPP

• Dino #vala
• Gajim #python

IRC

• Polari #gjs #gnome
• Srain #c

Discord

• gtkcord3 #go #libhandy

Web Service Clients

Translation

• Dialect (Google Translate) #python

File Sharing

Direct ("beam") Senders/Receivers

• Transporter based on magic-wormhole #vala #granite
• Teleport based on Avahi (mDNS) #c

BitTorrent Clients

• Transmission #c
• Fragments uses libtransmission #vala
• Torrential alternative GUI on top of Transmission #vala #granite #libunity

File Synchronization

• Syncthing-GTK UI for Syncthing #python

Remote File Access

• Taxi FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, AFP #vala #granite

File Management

• Polo multi-pane & tab file manager #vala
• Organizer #python

Backup

• Pika Backup UI for borg #rust #libhandy
• Bups UI for bup #python (note: python2!)
• Timeshift #vala

Office

Spreadsheet Editors

• Gnumeric #c

Presentation Editors

• Spice-up #vala #granite

Presentation Viewers

• pdfpc #vala
• Pypmress #python

OCR

• gImageView UI for tesseract #c++

Document Managers

• Paperwork #python
• GNOME Documents #gjs

Finance

Budget and Accounting Managers

• Envelope #vala #granite
• Grisbi #c

Exchange Rate Viewers

• Coin #vala #granite
• Crypto #c

Graphics

3D

• Shady shadertoy compatible GLSL live editor #vala

Vector

• Inkscape (GTK3 since 1.0) #c++

Font

• Birdfont #vala

CAD/EDA

• SolveSpace #c++ #gl
• Horizon printed circuit board PCB design #c++ #gl

Diagramming

• Gaphor the simple modeling tool #python

Raster

• Drawing simple like mspaint #python
• GIMP (GTK3 in git: master) #c
• MyPaint (GTK3 in git: master) #python
• Effector GEGL filter app with a flow graph UI #vala
• Obfuscate simple redacting/censoring/blurring #rust
• Swappy quick screenshot editing for wlroots based compositors #c

Photo (non-destructive editing)

• Darktable #c
• RawTherapee #c++
• Shotwell #vala #gnome

GIF

• gifcurry #haskell
• Gifup #vala #granite

Design Utilities

• LookBook system icon browser #vala #granite
• Icon Preview #vala
• Dynamic Wallpaper Editor for gnome xml files #python

Terminals

• Galacritty (shameless plug :D) GTK version of Alacritty (not really maintained for now sorry) #rust
• Guake dropdown terminal #vte #python
• Tilix tiling and dropdown terminal #vte #d

Code

NeoVim GUIs

• gnvim #rust
• neovim-gtk #rust
• nvim-pygtk3 #python

Xi GUIs

• Tau (ex gxi) #rust
• xi-gtk #vala

Simple editors and Light IDEs

• gedit #c #gnome
• Geany #c
• Vulcan #vala
• elementary IDE not official elementary #vala #granite
• elementary Code #vala #granite
• NEd #nim

Larger IDEs

• GNOME Builder #c #gnome
• Anjuta #c #gnome
• Valama #vala
• GtkIDE.jl #julia

Version Control and Diffs

• gitg #vala #gnome
• Meld diff #python #gnome
• Gnomit Git commit message editor #gjs

Documentation

• DevDocs Desktop #python
• quickDocs #vala #granite

Markdown

• Marker #c
• Showdown #vala
• Apostrophe #python
• markdown-rs #rust
• Quilter #vala #granite

LaTeX

• Gummi #c
• GNOME LaTeX (LaTeXila) #vala #gnome
• Setzer #python

Graphviz

• xdot.py #python
• GraphUI #vala #granite

Regular Expression

• RegexTester #vala #granite

HTTP Request Testing

• GetIt #c

Hex Editors

• GHex #c #gnome

Remote Desktop

• Remmina RDP, VNC, etc (plugin system) #c
• Remotely VNC #vala
• Vinagre RDP, VNC, SPICE #c #gnome

Database Clients

• Sequeler #vala #granite
• Daty for Wikidata (which is kind of a database?) #python #libhandy

Disk Imaging

• Imageburner for SD/USB #vala #granite
• Popsicle for SD/USB #rust
• GNOME MultiWriter for SD/USB #c #gnome
• Brasero for CD/DVD #c #gnome

File Renaming

• tv-renamer #rust

Security and Privacy

• MAT (Metadata Anonymization Toolkit) #python
• GtkHash #c

Password Management

• Valawarden Bitwarden client #vala #granite
• PasswordSafe KeePass v4 format based #python #libhandy
• Passbook #python
• Gonepass 1Password vault viewer #c++

One-Time Password

• Authenticator #python
• OTPClient #c

System Cleaning

• BleachBit (GTK3 in git: modernization) #python

System Monitoring and Info

• GNOME Usage #vala #gnome
• CPU-X similar to CPU-Z #c
• sysctlview FreeBSD sysctl MIB tree explorer #c++

Disk Usage Explorers

• GNOME Disk Usage Analyzer (Baobab) DaisyDisk style circle chart #vala #gnome

System Configuration

• pulse-flow PulseAudio config tool with a flow graph UI #vala
• doppler Redshift (f.lux / night light style screen color filter thingy) UI #rust

Installation

• Parceldude batch installer for Windows MSI packages #vala

News/Feed Readers

• Feeds #python
• Liferea #c
• Coffee #vala
• News Flash #rust #libhandy

Weather Viewers

• Meteo #vala
• bitseater/Weather #vala
• GNOME Weather #gjs
• Nimbus #vala

Productivity

• Workspaces #vala #granite