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A list of GUI applications for postmarketOS, divided into funny categories. Most of these applications work reasonably well for convergence and mobile use. Note that you might like to read the application's wiki page to be informed about known issues and workarounds. Strongly inspired by Arch Linux Wiki's list of applications. If Alpine's package has a fork in pmaports, it is listed here.
Contents
Internet
Web browsers
- Firefox — Extensible desktop browser, tweaked for phones in postmarketOS.
- Chromium — Open-source browser, core of Google Chrome.
- GNOME Web — GNOME's web browser, built-in webapp support.
- Midori — Lightweight browser.
- Angelfish — Web-browser for Plasma Mobile.
- Falkon — KDE's lightweight web browser, using QtWebEngine.
🚩 This app doesn't work out of the box well on mobile.
Communication
Email clients
- Geary — Email client of the GNOME project, convergent fork available.
Instant messenger clients
IRC
- Polari — GTK client from GNOME.
XMPP / Jabber
- Dino — Modern Client using GTK+/Vala.
- Gajim — Fully-featured GTK+-based Client.
🚩 This app needs to be installed from a third-party Flatpak repository.
🚩 This app doesn't work out of the box well on mobile.
Matrix
- Fractal — GTK+ Client from the GNOME project.
- Neochat — Client from the KDE project based upon Kirigami.
- Mirage — Glossy, convergent Qt-based client.
Other protocols
- Telegram Desktop — Official desktop client for Telegram, unofficially convergent: requires a minor patch and has some issues, plus upstream only officially supports desktop use.
🚩 This app promotes non-free network services.
Clients for various web services
- Giara — Reddit client.
🚩 This app promotes non-free network services.
News and RSS
Feed aggregators
- Feeds — Feed reader for GNOME.
Multimedia
Audio
Players
- Lollypop — Modern music player for GNOME.
- Vvave — MauiKit-based multi-platform media player.
- Spot — GTK Spotify client for GNOME (proprietary backend and requires Spotify Premium)
🚩 This app promotes non-free network services.
🚩 This app needs to be installed from a third-party Flatpak repository.
Podcast apps
- GNOME Podcasts — Simple, basic podcast app.
- gPodder — Podcast aggregator, convergent fork available.
Recorders
- GNOME Sound Recorder — Simple & modern application.
Other
- Shortwave — Internet radio player from GNOME.
Images
Viewers / Management
- Eye of GNOME — Image viewer.
- CoreImage — Simple image viewer.
- Shotwell — Personal photo manager from GNOME.
🚩 This app doesn't work out of the box well on mobile.
Camera Apps
- Megapixels — Simple GTK-based camera app using the Linux media request API.
- Plasma Camera — Official camera app for Plasma Mobile.
Video players
- GNOME Videos — Movie player with online video channels support.
🚩 This app doesn't work out of the box well on mobile.
Games
Game Hubs
- GNOME Games — Game aggregator, supports emulators and various game engines.
Runs on software rendering
- GNOME 2048 — The famous 2048 game.
- Animatch — Cute match-three game.
- GNOME Chess — Pairs well with GNUChess.
🚩 This app doesn't work out of the box well on mobile.
- chocolate-doom — Open source implementation of the first doom engine, needs a nonfree doom.wad or can use the opensource freedoom.wad.
- OpenTTD — Open source implementation of Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
- OpenRCT2 — Open source implementation of Rollercoaster Tycoon 2, needs nonfree gamedata to work.
- Snes9x — Open source Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator.
🚩 This app doesn't work out of the box well on mobile.
- OpenMW — Open source implementation of Morrowind game engine, needs Morrowind game files to work.
Needs 3D Acceleration
- Xonotic — First person shooter, used to be called Nexuiz.
- SuperTuxKart — 3D arcade racer featuring FOSS mascots.
🚩 This app doesn't work out of the box well on mobile.
Not tested
- MAME — Multi-purpose emulation framework for (mostly vintage) computers, arcade machines, game consoles and calculators.
- QuakeSpasm — Modern engine for id software's Quake.
- RetroArch — Frontend for emulators, game engines and media players.
Utilities
Terminal emulators
- King's Cross — A minimal terminal for GNOME/Phosh.
Files
File managers
- GNOME Files — Simple file manager for GNOME.
- Index — Convergent, MauiKit-based file manager.
- Portfolio — GTK-based minimalist file manager.
Archiving and compression
- File Roller — Archive management utility from GNOME, supports plentiful formats.
🚩 This app doesn't work out of the box well on mobile.
- CoreArchiver — Simple archiver.
Other
- CoreHunt — Simple file search utility.
- CoreRenamer — Rename files in batches.
🚩 This app doesn't work out of the box well on mobile.
- CoreInfo — View file informations.
🚩 This app doesn't work out of the box well on mobile.
- CorePins — Bookmarking app to pin files.
🚩 This app doesn't work out of the box well on mobile.
Time
Clocks
- GNOME Clocks — Simple clocks app including global clocks, timers, alarms and a stopwatch.
Task management / Calendars
- GNOME Calendar — Calendar application with sync support.
🚩 This app doesn't work out of the box well on mobile.
Contacts Management
- GNOME Contacts — Contact management app with sync support.
System
Usage statistics / monitoring
- GNOME Usage — Convergent system monitor.
- CoreStats — Simple, minimalist system monitor.
- Powersupply — Simple GTK app to view your power status.
- GNOME System Monitor — Feature-rich tool to manage processes and monitor resources.
🚩 This app doesn't work out of the box well on mobile.
Package managers
- GNOME Software — Package installation and update center.
Disks
- GNOME Disks — Disk utility for partitioning and inspecting.
🚩 This app doesn't work out of the box well on mobile.
Onscreen Keyboards
- Squeekboard — Phosh's official keyboard.
- CoreKeyboard — X11 digital keyboard app.
Documents and text
Text editors
- gedit — GNOME's text editor.
- CorePad — Simple text editor.
Viewers
- Evince — GNOME's Document Viewer.
- CorePDF — A PDF Viewer.
Notes
- Gnote — GNOME's simple notetaking application, C++ port of Tomboy.
🚩 This app doesn't work out of the box well on mobile.
Security
2FA Apps
- GNOME Authenticator — Generate 2 Factor Authentication Codes.
Science
Math
- GNOME Calculator — Simple calculator with some scientific functionality.
Other
Public transportation
- KTrip — Query public transportation information from a vast number of providers.
Maps
- Pure Maps — Maps application originally intended for Sailfish OS.
- GNOME Maps — GNOME's Maps app.
🚩 This app promotes non-free network services. → Uses Mapbox's Tiling Service