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emersion/mako

A lightweight Wayland notification daemon

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#cli #notifications #swaywm #wayland

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-22
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 134 open

3,247

stars

Forks: 173
Commits: 650 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Keyitdev/sddm-astronaut-theme

Series of modern looking themes for SDDM.

Stack

QML

GitHub topics

#astronaut #dotfiles #linux #login-manager #login-screen #loginscreen

Updated: 2026-07-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-01-27
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 15 open

3,246

stars

Forks: 205
Commits: 88 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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easymodo/qimgv

Image viewer. Fast, easy to use. Optional video support.

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cross-platform #image-viewer #libmpv #linux #qt

Updated: 2026-01-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-08-18
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 308 open

3,119

stars

Forks: 217
Commits: 1,822 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Aylur/ags

Scaffolding CLI for Astal+Gnim

Stack

TypeScript Cobra Vite Vue Go modules Meson npm

GitHub topics

#gtk3 #gtk4 #layer-shell #typescript #unixporn #wayland

Updated: 2026-04-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-06-24
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 29 open

3,110

stars

Forks: 149
Commits: 757 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

anandnet/Harmony-Music

A cross platform App for streaming Music

AI dev

Stack

Dart Android Flutter Shelf CMake CocoaPods Dart Pub

GitHub topics

#android-app #flutter #flutter-app #flutter-music-app #linux #music

Updated: 2025-12-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-02-05
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

3,078

stars

Forks: 362
Commits: 1,242 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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GooseMod/OpenAsar

Open-source alternative of Discord desktop's app.asar

Stack

JavaScript npm

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-12-09
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 63 open

3,025

stars

Forks: 100
Commits: 864 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

FDH2/UxPlay

AirPlay Unix mirroring server

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2026-09-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-04-15
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 20 open

3,017

stars

Forks: 202
Commits: 1,489 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mypaint/mypaint

MyPaint is a simple drawing and painting program that works well with Wacom-style graphics tablets.

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#art #brushes #creative #distraction-free #drawing #graphics-tablet

Updated: 2026-09-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2004-08-11
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 228 open

2,988

stars

Forks: 450
Commits: 6,281 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

besuper/TwitchNoSub

An extension to watch sub only VOD on Twitch

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#chrome-extension #extension #firefox-addon #stream #streaming #twitch

Updated: 2026-08-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-06-07
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 29 open

2,821

stars

Forks: 149
Commits: 133 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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authpass/authpass

AuthPass - Password Manager based on Flutter for all platforms. Keepass 2.x (KDBX 3 and KDBX 4) compatible.

AI dev

Stack

Dart Android Flutter Shelf Bundler CMake CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#android #contributions-welcome #dart #dartlang #debian #flutter

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-08-22
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 171 open

2,805

stars

Forks: 292
Commits: 1,619 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

catsout/wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin

A kde wallpaper plugin integrating wallpaper engine

Archived

Stack

QML Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#kde #live-wallpaper #video-wallpaper #wallpaper-engine

Updated: 2026-05-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-11-08
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 39 open

2,721

stars

Forks: 118
Commits: 650 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Etar-Group/Etar-Calendar

Android open source calendar

Stack

Java Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #calendar #material-design

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-10-21
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 404 open

2,597

stars

Forks: 447
Commits: 7,349 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ncmpcpp/ncmpcpp

Featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc

Stack

C++

Updated: 2026-09-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-08-04
History: 11 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 224 open

2,485

stars

Forks: 248
Commits: 2,371 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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theJayTea/WritingTools

The world's smartest system-wide grammar assistant; a better version of the Apple Intelligence Writing Tools. Works on Windows, Linux, & macOS, with the free Gemini API, local LLMs, & more.

Stack

Swift pip

GitHub topics

#ai #artificial-intelligence #gemini #grammar-checker #largelanguagemodel #llm

Updated: 2026-08-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2024-10-13
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 78 open

2,445

stars

Forks: 159
Commits: 372 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ossappscollective/OSS-DocumentScanner

Document scanning app

AI dev

Stack

C++ Android React Bundler CMake CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#android #document #document-scan #document-scan-to-text #document-scanner #document-scanner-app

Updated: 2026-08-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-07-29
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 89 open

2,404

stars

Forks: 120
Commits: 4,378 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

fooyin/fooyin

A customisable music player

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#alsa #audio #audio-player #chiptune #cpp23 #customizable

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-06-20
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 317 open

2,346

stars

Forks: 100
Commits: 5,578 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

digimezzo/dopamine

The audio player that keeps it simple

Stack

TypeScript Angular Electron npm

GitHub topics

#electron #linux #mac #music #music-player #windows

Updated: 2026-09-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-04-04
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 399 open

2,340

stars

Forks: 153
Commits: 2,139 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Achno/gowall

A tool to convert a Wallpaper's color scheme / palette, OCR with VLM's Traditional & Hybrid, Image Compression ,color palette extraction, image upsacling with Adversarial Networks and more image processing features.

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#background-removal #cli #color-extractor #color-palette #color-scheme #compression

Updated: 2026-06-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2024-07-22
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

2,307

stars

Forks: 36
Commits: 195 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

synfig/synfig

This is the Official source code repository of Synfig Studio animation software

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake pip vcpkg

GitHub topics

#2d #animation #c-plus-plus #gtkmm #hacktoberfest #synfig

Updated: 2026-09-20
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2005-03-21
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 724 open

2,301

stars

Forks: 434
Commits: 12,540 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Everduin94/better-commits

A CLI for creating better commits following the conventional commits specification

Stack

TypeScript npm

GitHub topics

#clack #cli #commit-message #git #typescript #zod

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-03-09
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

2,287

stars

Forks: 81
Commits: 153 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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crackededed/Xtra

Third-party Twitch client for Android

Stack

Kotlin Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #f-droid #kotlin

Updated: 2026-09-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-09-30
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 190 open

2,247

stars

Forks: 89
Commits: 1,389 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

an-anime-team/an-anime-game-launcher

An Anime Game launcher for Linux with telemetry disabling

Stack

Fluent Cargo

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-06-28
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 110 open

2,237

stars

Forks: 89
Commits: 1,235 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Jas-SinghFSU/HyprPanel

A Bar/Panel for Hyprland with extensive customizability.

Archived

Stack

TypeScript Meson npm

GitHub topics

#ags #astal #catppuccin #dracula #everforest #gjs

Updated: 2026-04-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-06-09
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 226 open

2,196

stars

Forks: 207
Commits: 630 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

emersion/hydroxide

A third-party, open-source ProtonMail CardDAV, IMAP and SMTP bridge

Archived

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#carddav #imap #mail #protonmail #smtp

Updated: 2026-08-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-08-21
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 96 open

2,174

stars

Forks: 185
Commits: 299 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc

Hardened allocator designed for modern systems. It has integration into Android's Bionic libc and can be used externally with musl and glibc as a dynamic library for use on other Linux-based platforms. It will gain more portability/integration over time.

Stack

GitHub topics

#grapheneos #hardening #malloc #malloc-library #memory #memory-allocation

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-08-21
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 52 open

2,018

stars

Forks: 165
Commits: 829 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

DeaDBeeF-Player/deadbeef

DeaDBeeF Player

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#audio-player #c #cross-platform #customizable-ui #linux-app #mac-app

Updated: 2026-08-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-07-03
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 378 open

1,962

stars

Forks: 208
Commits: 12,100 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

itsjunetime/tdf

A tui-based PDF viewer

Stack

Rust Axum Cargo

Updated: 2026-08-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2024-05-17
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 42 open

1,956

stars

Forks: 67
Commits: 155 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ponchio/untrunc

Restore a damaged (truncated) mp4, m4v, mov, 3gp video. Provided you have a similar not broken video.

Stack

C++

Updated: 2024-05-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-05-16
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 193 open

1,950

stars

Forks: 259
Commits: 192 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

joehillen/sysz

An fzf terminal UI for systemctl

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#bash #bash-script #cli #fzf #systemctl #systemd

Updated: 2024-04-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2021-01-11
History: 7 history points
License: Unlicense
Issues: 5 open

1,882

stars

Forks: 32
Commits: 137 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

download-directory/download-directory.github.io

Web App: Download just a sub directory from a GitHub repo.

Stack

TypeScript Vite npm

GitHub topics

#downloader #git #github #javacript #tool #webapp

Updated: 2026-05-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-01-05
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

1,860

stars

Forks: 173
Commits: 113 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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