Picks from JB Shows, please feel free to make a PR to submit past picks.
Actual Budget is a super fast and privacy-focused app for managing your finances. At its heart is the well proven and much loved Envelope Budgeting methodology.
A utility app to easily install the Firefox GNOME Theme and automatically update it in the background. This theme keeps Firefox fashionable within the GNOME design ecosystem, and provides many helpful features to customize the interface to make browsing even more pleasant
Each playthrough shuffles the location of all the important items in the game. Will you find the Bow atop Death Mountain, the Fire Rod resting silently in the library, or even the Master Sword itself waiting in a chicken coop?
A launcher for Minecraft which integrates multiple different modpacks to allow you to download and install modpacks easily and quickly.
The latest version works with tvOS 15 and up. It requires Python 3 to be installed on the system to work properly.
A command line interface for audible package. With the cli you can download your Audible books, cover, chapter files.
Running Audio Sharing will automatically share the current audio playback in the form of an RTSP stream. This stream can then be played back by other devices, for example using VLC.
Simple personal server to serve audiofiles files from folders. Intended primarily for audio books, but anything with decent folder structure will do.
A passthrough FUSE filesystem that intelligently moves files between storage tiers based on the frequency of use, file age, and tier fullness.
A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks. No internet required, no servers, no phone numbers. It's the side-groupchat.
B{ook}log is a self-hosted, multi-user book tracking platform for avid readers. Each user maintains a personal library and wishlist, with per-user readings, stats, and timeline.
bpftune aims to provide lightweight, always-on auto-tuning of system behaviour.
Scripts for btrfs maintenance tasks like periodic scrub, balance, trim or defrag on selected mountpoints or directories.
BudsLink is an application that provides battery monitoring and feature control for supported Bluetooth wearable audio devices, including AirPods, Beats, Sony Audio wearables, Samsung Galaxy Buds and Nothing/CMF buds.
Complex calendar free/busy syncing across organizations for consultants who work inside multiple orgs.
Access your Home Assistant dashboard from a native companion UI, integrating better with your OS.
CDemu is a software suite designed to emulate an optical drive and disc on the Linux operating system.
Chat Gipitty (Chat Get Information, Print Information TTY) is a command line client for ChatGPT. It allows you to chat with your chosen model of ChatGPT in a terminal and even pipe output into it.
Private calorie tracking for Android and the browser. Bring your own AI key, or run Gemma 4 on-device.
OpenClaw plugin that bridges any MCP HTTP server as native tools. The missing piece between OpenClaw + Ollama and the MCP ecosystem.
A new cross-platform Apple Music experience based on Electron and Vue.js written from scratch with performance in mind.
Cliparr is a streamlined media clipper that allows you to quickly create and download clips from the media currently playing on your Plex or Jellyfin server, or from a local video file opened directly in your browser.
coppwr displays and provides control over many aspects of PipeWire as directly as possible in an organized and visual way. It can help with debugging and diagnosing a PipeWire setup or with developing software that interacts with PipeWire.
CPU Controller for Linux is a straightforward GUI application based on PyQt6, enabling users to toggle individual CPU cores on or off in a Linux system to save battery life.
Calendar from the Dank Linux Suite. Local, Google, Microsoft, CalDAV, and iCloud calendars in one standalone app.
Delfin is a native client for the Jellyfin media server. It features a fast and clean interface to stream your media in an embedded MPV-based video player.
This extension adds direnv support to Visual Studio Code by loading environment variables for the workspace root.
dn-tool is a control-plane CLI that enrolls and unenrolls Linux hosts in a defined.net Managed Nebula network. It calls the defined.net REST API to create and delete host records and obtain single-use enrollment codes, then orchestrates the proprietary dnclient daemon which it downloads and verifies at runtime. It is strictly control plane: it never reimplements Nebula and never replaces dnclient.
Docker image that includes Wine and Winetricks for running Windows applications on Linux and macOS
DockerComposeMaker (DCM) is a self-hostable website to help you pick and create a docker-compose.yml file for your home server. Discover new containers, discover and share a config in a couple of clicks!
dog is an open-source DNS client for the command-line. It has colourful output, supports the DoT and DoH protocols, and can emit JSON.
Install dotfiles easy, fast and secure. Or provide an installation application for your dotfiles.
Simple command to manage a centralised wireguard VPN. Think wg-quick but quicker: key generation + address allocation.
Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
eBPFSnitch is a Linux Application Level Firewall based on eBPF and NFQUEUE. It is inspired by OpenSnitch and Douane but utilizing modern kernel abstractions - without a kernel module.
DIY sensor kit for Home Assistant with ESPHome; build your own smart home devices
A secure note-taking application for linux, integrated with Etebase for encrypted synchronization.
A TUI for batch AV1 & VP9 video encoding with hardware acceleration, real-time progress monitoring, and full control over quality settings. Made to work as a viable encoding dashboard over SSH. · GitHub
An android app to compress image, video and audio files through ffmpeg before sharing them
Finamp is a music player for Jellyfin. Its main feature is the ability to download songs for offline listening.
Flatseal is a graphical utility to review and modify permissions from your Flatpak applications.
fq is like jq but for binary formats, allowing you to tool, language, and decode complex binary data into human-readable structures.
FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. Use YouTube without advertisements and prevent Google from tracking you with their cookies and JavaScript. Available for Windows, Mac & Linux thanks to Electron.
gallery-dl is a command-line program to download image-galleries and -collections from several image hosting sites. It is a cross-platform tool with many configuration options and powerful filenaming capabilities.
Download and parse data from Garmin Connect or a Garmin watch, FitBit CSV, and MS Health CSV files into and analyze data in Sqlite serverless databases with Jupyter notebooks.
An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.
This project aims to capture all the important details of glxinfo, vulkaninfo and clinfo in a GUI. The project is being developed using python 3 pygobject with GTK3.
Gradia helps you get your screenshots ready for sharing, whether quickly with friends or colleagues, or professionally with the entire world.
Simple VLC-based media player that can play multiple videos at the same time. You can play as many videos as you like, the only limit is your hardware. It supports all video formats that VLC supports (which is all of them). You can save your playlist retaining information about the position, sound volume, loops, aspect ratio, etc.
Terminal flow field screensaver with Perlin noise, Braille rendering, particles, and 24-bit ANSI color
Third party unofficial TIDAL music client. Listen to your favorite music from your desktop or mobile Linux device at the highest quality.
Home-manager configuration file to get webapps in the system menu on a NixOS system
Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules.
Linux desktop application designed to monitor various aspects of your computer's hardware.
A modern alternative to the watch command, that records the result of command execution and can display history and diffs.
ICSx⁵ is an Android app to subscribe to remote or local iCalendar files (like time tables of your school/university or event files of your sports team).
Ignition is a minimal app for editing autostart entries on Freedesktop-compliant Linux distributions.
A utility to take books which you legally purchased from Audible and move them into Audio BookShelf
A cross-platform, free and open source music player for Jellyfin, powered by React Native
Native AirPods integration for KDE Plasma 6 with real-time battery monitoring, noise control, and panel widget
A modern configuration center for KDE plasma based on the awesome kde_controlcentre by Prayag2
An intelligent privacy layer for AI APIs. Kiji automatically detects and masks personally identifiable information (PII) in requests to AI services, ensuring your sensitive data never leaves your control.
Searchable, structured, versioned markdown. Plug in an agent in 30 seconds or self-host with a single binary.
Konveyor turns Plasma into an endless, scrollable row of windows. Nothing overlaps, nothing gets buried, and the rest of your desktop stays exactly the way you like it.
Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.
LAN Orangutan is a lightweight network scanner with persistent device labeling, multi-network support, and Tailscale integration. Built by 291 Group.
Launcher Studio is a GTK4 desktop application for creating and managing .desktop files on Linux.
A terminal-based SSH manager inspired by lazydocker and k9s but built for managing your fleet of servers directly from your terminal.
Leantime is a goals focused project management system for non-project managers. Building with ADHD, Autism, and dyslexia in mind.
Reproducible recipe for running Adobe Lightroom CC on Linux via Wine 11.8 staging. Researched and verified end-to-end by Claude Opus 4.7.
Terminal Trove curates and showcases all things in the terminal such as command line interface tools (CLI), text mode interface tools (TUI), developer tools and more no matter what platform or medium.
The emulator is built as a seperate dll which is loaded by the VBA macro. The VBA macro calls the emulator in the dll and gets the output and writes it into the cells in the spreadsheet.
Every time an application on your computer opens a network connection, it does so quietly, without asking. Little Snitch for Linux makes that activity visible and gives you the option to do something about it.
Simple and ultra fast cross platform tool for lossless trimming/cutting of video and audio files.
mat2 is a metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of commonly used file formats, written in python3
MAZANOKE is a simple image optimizer that runs in your browser, works offline, and keeps your images private without ever leaving your device.
mcp-beam is a MCP server (stdio transport) for casting local files and media URLs to Chromecast and DLNA/UPnP devices on your LAN.
meshSidecar provides a flexible way to integrate mesh networking capabilities with NixOS services. It allows services to participate in mesh networks without requiring direct modification of the service itself.
Modoboa is an open source email server including a modern and simplified Web User Interface.
MQTT5 Explorer is a simple yet feature-rich client to visualize data of any MQTT broker.
Combines the functionality of 'traceroute' and 'ping' in a single network diagnostic tool. License: GPL-2
Multiplex is an app to watch torrents together, providing an experience similar to Apple's SharePlay and Amazon's Prime Video Watch Party.
NASty is a NAS operating system built on NixOS and bcachefs. It turns commodity hardware into a storage appliance serving NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF managed from a single web UI, updated atomically, and rolled back when things go sideways.
NH reimplements some basic nix commands. Adding functionality on top of the existing solutions, like nixos-rebuild, home-manager cli or nix itself.
Simple and documented config templates to help you get started with NixOS + home-manager + flakes.
onetun opens a TCP port on your local system, from which traffic is forwarded to a TCP port on a peer in your WireGuard network. It requires no changes to your operating system's network interfaces: you don't need to have root access, or install any WireGuard tool on your local system for it to work.
This script automates the process of moving audiobook files from OpenAudible or Libation to an organized folder structure and updates AudioBookShelf accordingly. It handles file organization, metadata mapping, and interaction with the AudioBookShelf API.
A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust 🦀 remap buttons, DPI, and SmartShift over HID++. No account, no telemetry.
OpenMouse runs entirely in your browser over WebHID DPI, polling rate, buttons, and RGB, for dozens of gaming mice, with no accounts, no installs, and no telemetry sent anywhere.
Enjoy YouTube together. Real-time synchronized playback. Optional voting system. Dark theme. No sign up required. All Open Source. It's never been easier to watch videos together.
Android LLM chat interface for OpenRouter models or locally served models using Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, MLX LM or Hermes Agent.
Pelagica is a web, desktop, and TV client for Jellyfin built using React. It aims to provide a fast, modern, and customizable user experience for browsing and watching your media library. It's available as a self-hosted web app, a native desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and a TV app for Samsung Tizen, LG webOS and Apple TV.
pghoard is a PostgreSQL backup daemon and restore tooling that stores backup data in cloud object stores.
Playlifin Voyager is a tool to export and import playlists from and to your Jellyfin Server.
A Python socket app for letting a friend execute a command on your system without using a ssh server all, with a simple GUI It has active development and works OOTB.
Migrate your Plex library to Jellyfin and keep it clean forever. Mass rename, dedupe, consolidate, then a daemon guards new downloads.
A cross-platform Plex media downloader that seamlessly adds media from other Plex servers to your own!
This command line tool uses Linux's perf_event_open functionality to compare the performance of multiple commands with a colorful terminal user interface.
Local Rust web dashboard that auto-discovers and labels HTTP dev services running on localhost ports with live SSE updates, project-root detection, and live/error/dead classification.
Create, Burn, Mount, Edit, Compress, Encrypt, Split, Extract ISO file, ISO/BIN converter, Virtual Drive
This is an asyncio python library for interacting with Apple TV and AirPlay devices. It mainly targets Apple TVs (all generations, including tvOS 15 and later), but also supports audio streaming via AirPlay to receivers like the HomePod, AirPort Express and third-party speakers. It can act as remote control to the Music app/iTunes in macOS.
mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local. License: MIT
View your GPU utilization, both for the total activity percent and individual blocks.
A desktop application that allows you to record audio from specific applications on Linux. Built with Deno, Svelte, and WebView.
Reinschrift combines a native GNOME interface with the simplicity of plain text. Your tasks remain a normal Markdown file – easy to back up, versionable via Git, and editable on any device with your favorite editor.
Remember window positions for apps in KDE Plasma 6+. Especially useful for multi-window applications such as browsers.
Rentry.co is a markdown pastebin service with preview, custom urls and editing. Fast, simple and free.
A high-performance, cross-platform network monitoring tool built with Rust. RustNet provides real-time visibility into network connections with enhanced state display, intelligent connection lifecycle management, deep packet inspection capabilities, and a responsive terminal user interface.
A robust distributed POSIX file system meticulously designed to revolutionize your storage solutions by offering unmatched efficiency, security, and redundancy. At its core, SaunaFS is a distributed file system primarily written in C++, inspired by the pioneering concepts introduced by Google File System.
Savr is an app for saving online content to read later. It is file-centric, offline first, future proof, and favors decentralization.
Shortwave is an internet radio player that provides access to a station database with over 30,000 stations, including Jupiter Broadcasting.
Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor for Windows, Mac and Linux
Portable, cross-platform, Free/Libre/Open-Source signal analysis software suite: logic analyzers, scopes, multimeters, and more!
CLI tool for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file (based on SingleFile)
Native TIDAL desktop client for Linux. Modern UI, custom themes, and bit-perfect lossless audio up to 24-bit/192kHz via exclusive ALSA. License: GPL-3
Fast disk-usage explorer for Linux: sunburst chart, keyboard-driven table, and text/CSV/JSON reports. Accurate like du, safe cleanup, 10 languages.
A simple utility to automatically extract text from spectacle on plasma desktops
Spodcast is a caching Spotify podcast to RSS proxy. Using Spodcast you can follow Spotify-hosted netcasts/podcasts using any player which supports RSS, thus enabling the use of older hardware which is not compatible with the Spotify (web) app.
Peer-to-peer clipboard sync over SSH. Copy anything on one machine, paste on another. Open source, and Written in Rust ackchyually.
Network-aware SSH router - routes connections to different IPs/ports/keys/jump hosts based on active VPN or network
Autogenerate subtitles using OpenAI Whisper Model via Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, Tautulli, or Bazarr.
Sylve is a lightweight, open-source management platform for FreeBSD. It combines Bhyve virtual machines, FreeBSD Jails, and ZFS storage into a modern web interface designed to deliver a streamlined, Proxmox-like experience tailored for FreeBSD environments.
Telegraph is a simple Morse translator, start typing your message to see the resulting Morse code and vice versa.
Use your phone's camera as a webcam on Linux or Windows, telephoto and wide lenses included.
🖥 A feature rich terminal UI file transfer and explorer with support for SCP/SFTP/FTP/S3/SMB
Tether aims to support all of the Apple Continuity features on Linux that are technically possible. If you've migrated away from macOS but still carry an iPhone, Tether provides the missing ecosystem integration.
Allows you to bulk download all your Kindle eBook in a more automated fashion. This tool allows you to create backup copies of the books you've already purchased.
A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more.
Trippy combines the functionality of traceroute and ping and is designed to assist with the analysis of networking issues.
Turtle is a gtk4 + libadwaita frontend for pygit2 with nautilus plugin support. The project is currently in a very early development stage.
Updo is a command-line tool for monitoring website uptime and performance. It provides real-time metrics on website status, response time, SSL certificate expiry, and more, with alert notifications.
A URL to PNG generator over HTTP with a fairly simple API accessed via query params passed to the server.
A native C++/Qt Linux launcher for Windows, Steam, GOG and retro games. 2.3 MB installed. Zero bloat. KDE-first.
vTunnel is a tool that proxies IP traffic between guest and host networks by using the VSOCK protocol.
Warehouse provides a simple UI to control complex Flatpak options, all without resorting to the command line.
Waycheck is a simple graphical application that connects to your Wayland compositor and displays the list of Wayland protocols that it supports, along with the list of protocols that it doesn't.
Wayfire is a wayland compositor based on wlroots. It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance.
Access Android camera via WebSocket client API and run AI / computer vision tasks with ease on live camera stream
Listen to your mic - with PipeWire. This app does more or less the same thing as Helvum does, but with a simple UI.
Local Area Network discovery tool with an interactive Terminal User Interface (TUI) written in Go. Discover, explore, and understand your LAN in an intuitive way. Knock Knock.. who's there? 🚪
This project replaces the usual password screen with a Gameboy emulator running a patched Pokémon game!
Every product listed here has been rigorously tested by our team to ensure a great experience with Home Assistant, all backed by a brand committed to long-term support. All these products put privacy and local control first.
Live, visual network-path diagnostic that pinpoints exactly where your Wi-Fi connection dies and how to fix it. Rust + ratatui TUI.
Youtarr is a self-hosted YouTube DVR that lets you subscribe to channels, browse their videos in a web UI, and automatically download and archive the ones you care about to your own storage.
A simple app to get songs from YouTube in mp3 format with artist name, album name etc from sources like iTunes, Spotify, LastFM, Deezer, Gaana etc.
zBridge is an online bridge club where you can learn and play bridge. It is a full bridge platform with multiple features.