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files-community/Files

A modern file manager that helps users organize their files and folders.

AI dev

Stack

C# .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#alternatives #csharp #customization #developer-tools #dotnet #file-manager

Updated: 2026-09-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-05-29
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 459 open

44,901

stars

Forks: 2,857
Commits: 7,140 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mifi/lossless-cut

The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Electron Express React Vite Yarn

GitHub topics

#codec #cut #editor #ffmpeg #lossless #losslesscut

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2016-10-30
History: 22 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 329 open

44,634

stars

Forks: 2,228
Commits: 3,827 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +189 +0.4%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +19 +0.5%

Website GitHub

zen-browser/desktop

Welcome to a calmer internet

Stack

C++ Cargo CMake npm

GitHub topics

#firefox #firefox-based #firefox-browser #zen-browser

Updated: 2026-09-26
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2024-03-28
History: 9 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 711 open

44,609

stars

Forks: 1,776
Commits: 7,046 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

HeyPuter/puter

🌐 The Internet Computer! Free, Open-Source, and Self-Hostable.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Express Vite npm

GitHub topics

#cloud #cloud-os #cloud-storage #desktop #desktop-environment #dropbox

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2024-03-03
History: 8 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 35 open

43,424

stars

Forks: 4,052
Commits: 6,552 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

imputnet/cobalt

best way to save what you love

Stack

Svelte Express Svelte SvelteKit Vite npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#collaboration #downloader #instagram #javascript #music #reddit

Updated: 2026-04-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-07-08
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 270 open

42,698

stars

Forks: 3,725
Commits: 3,281 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sxyazi/yazi

💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.

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Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#android #asyncio #cli #command-line #concurrency #cross-platform

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2023-07-08
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 64 open

42,635

stars

Forks: 1,039
Commits: 1,550 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

chubin/cheat.sh

the only cheat sheet you need

Stack

Python Flask pytest pip

GitHub topics

#cheatsheet #cli #command-line #curl #documentation #examples

Updated: 2025-12-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-07
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 149 open

41,726

stars

Forks: 1,917
Commits: 923 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

LizardByte/Sunshine

Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Qt Vite Vue CMake npm uv

GitHub topics

#cpm #cpp #docker #flathub-pkg #game-stream #game-streaming

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2019-12-03
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 175 open

41,604

stars

Forks: 2,161
Commits: 3,656 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

GyulyVGC/sniffnet

Comfortably monitor your network traffic 🕵️‍♂️

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#app #application #gui #iced #ip-geolocation #ipfix

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2022-08-05
History: 48 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 60 open

41,117

stars

Forks: 1,959
Commits: 3,158 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

CorentinTh/it-tools

Collection of handy online tools for developers, with great UX.

Stack

Vue Vite Vue pnpm

GitHub topics

#converter #developer-productivity #developer-tools #frontend #javascript #productivity

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2022-03-30
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 821 open

40,606

stars

Forks: 5,417
Commits: 618 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

photoprism/photoprism

AI-Powered Photos App 🌈💎✨

AI dev

Stack

Go Gin gRPC Go Vite Vue Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#ai #golang #google-photos #machine-learning #photography #private-cloud

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2018-01-27
History: 55 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 464 open

40,311

stars

Forks: 2,333
Commits: 15,467 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +31 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +290 +1.9%

Website GitHub

qbittorrent/qBittorrent

qBittorrent BitTorrent client

AI dev

Stack

C++ pytest CMake npm uv

GitHub topics

#bittorrent #bittorrent-client #c-plus-plus #crossplatform #torrent #torrent-client

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2006-09-30
History: 14 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 2,700 open

40,279

stars

Forks: 4,883
Commits: 13,939 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ajeetdsouza/zoxide

A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#autojump #bash #cli #command-line #command-line-tool #elvish

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2020-03-05
History: 13 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 149 open

39,724

stars

Forks: 910
Commits: 636 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

searxng/searxng

SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.

Stack

Python Flask Vite Go modules npm pip

GitHub topics

#bing #brave #degoogle #duckduckgo #google #metasearch

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-10-14
History: 178 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 199 open

38,488

stars

Forks: 3,506
Commits: 9,833 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +281 +0.7%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +12 +0.1%

Website GitHub

hyprwm/Hyprland

Hyprland is an independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#compositor #cpp26 #wayland #wayland-compositor

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-03-16
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 197 open

38,432

stars

Forks: 1,976
Commits: 7,800 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

glanceapp/glance

A self-hosted dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#aggregator #dashboard #docker #feed-reader #go #homelab

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2024-04-27
History: 9 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 319 open

37,063

stars

Forks: 1,458
Commits: 977 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mpv-player/mpv

🎥 Command line media player

Stack

C Meson PEP 517

GitHub topics

#audio #c #ffmpeg #mplayer #mpv #multimedia

Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2001-02-24
History: 13 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,158 open

37,033

stars

Forks: 3,532
Commits: 55,496 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

nextcloud/server

☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data

AI dev

Stack

PHP Symfony Vite Vue Composer npm

GitHub topics

#cloud #collaboration #decentralized #design #distributed #enterprise

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2010-03-10
History: 9 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 3,723 open

37,013

stars

Forks: 5,259
Commits: 91,296 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

GorvGoyl/Clone-Wars

100+ open-source clones of popular sites like Airbnb, Amazon, Instagram, Netflix, Tiktok, Spotify, Whatsapp, Youtube etc. See source code, demo links, tech stack, github stars.

GitHub topics

#airbnb #clone #instagram #netflix #reddit #spotify

Updated: 2024-08-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-12-02
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 40 open

36,719

stars

Forks: 3,320
Commits: 364 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

utmapp/UTM

Virtual machines for iOS and macOS

AI dev

Stack

Swift Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#apple #emulation #ios #jailbreak #macos #qemu

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2019-04-12
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,122 open

35,523

stars

Forks: 1,822
Commits: 3,810 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

kovidgoyal/kitty

If you live in the terminal, kitty is made for you! Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based.

AI dev

Stack

Python Go modules PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#c #go #golang #golang-application #kitty #kitty-terminal

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-10-14
History: 13 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 16 open

35,033

stars

Forks: 1,519
Commits: 19,299 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

aristocratos/btop

A monitor of resources

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2021-05-06
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 574 open

34,930

stars

Forks: 1,203
Commits: 1,668 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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FreeCAD/FreeCAD

Official source code of FreeCAD, a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler.

Stack

C++ Qt CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#3d #3d-printing #architecture #bim #cad #cam

Updated: 2026-10-10
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2011-10-10
History: 12 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 3,985 open

34,132

stars

Forks: 6,171
Commits: 49,167 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

VSCodium/vscodium

binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

Stack

Shell npm

GitHub topics

#editor #floss #ide #open-source-licensing #vscode

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2018-08-13
History: 13 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 151 open

33,412

stars

Forks: 1,873
Commits: 1,919 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ibraheemdev/modern-unix

A collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives to common unix commands.

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line #lists #shell #terminal #tools

Updated: 2024-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-01-12
History: 7 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 69 open

33,026

stars

Forks: 828
Commits: 86 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

DevToys-app/DevToys

A Swiss Army knife for developers.

Stack

C# ASP.NET Core .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#blazor #cross-platform #csharp #desktop #desktop-app #desktop-application

Updated: 2026-02-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-09-05
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 341 open

31,931

stars

Forks: 1,750
Commits: 1,081 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

flameshot-org/flameshot

Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#capture #cross-platform #free-software #gnu-linux #gui #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 7 list mentions
First commit: 2017-05-10
History: 16 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 738 open

31,051

stars

Forks: 2,042
Commits: 2,371 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

asmvik/yabai

A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning

Stack

Updated: 2026-06-14
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2019-05-04
History: 15 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 259 open

29,685

stars

Forks: 774
Commits: 1,706 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus

Notepad++ official repository

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#editor #notepad #notepad-official #windows

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-08-07
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 2,923 open

29,572

stars

Forks: 5,392
Commits: 7,137 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

keepassxreboot/keepassxc

KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “KeePass Password Safe”.

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake Go modules vcpkg

GitHub topics

#cross-platform #hacktoberfest #keepass #keepassxc #linux #macos

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2010-08-07
History: 14 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 892 open

28,925

stars

Forks: 1,917
Commits: 5,018 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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