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This page contains a list of GNOME applications and whether they work with mobile devices.
Core apps
Based on the list at apps.gnome.org.
Name | Package | Purpose | GTK3/4? | Mobile | Mobile replacement | Notes |
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Calculator | gnome-calculator | Calculator | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Calendar | gnome-calendar | Calendar | GTK4+Adw | P | karlender | Mostly fits, a few pixels at the bottom cut off in portrait on 16:9 screens under Phosh, and half of the window cut off in landscape. |
Characters | gnome-characters | Character map | GTK4+Adw | Y | squeekboard's emoji selector | |
Clocks | gnome-clocks | Clocks | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Connections | gnome-connections | Remote desktop access | GTK3+Hdy | N | N | GTK4 port is discussed in issue #106, WIP port in MR !140, rejected due to library switch. The most-likely followup, the gtk4-port branch, has been inactive since January 2024. |
Console | gnome-console | Terminal | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Contacts | gnome-contacts | Contacts | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Disk Usage Analyzer | baobab | Disk usage analyzer | GTK4+Adw | N | gnome-usage | There's issue #73 for hiding the chart that takes up significant amounts of space. WIP work on adaptivity in MR !88. |
Disks | gnome-disk-utility | Disk partitioning/management | GTK3+Hdy | Y | - | GTK4+Adw port is being worked on in the main branch; remaining issues are tracked in issue #353. |
Document Scanner | simple-scan | Scanning software | GTK4+Adw | N | N | GTK4 port is done, but hasn't yet been made adaptive. Some designs are floating around, see #349 and app-mockups/document-scanner. |
Document Viewer | evince | Document viewer | GTK3+Hdy | N | papers, firefox | Evince has been forked into Papers; this fork includes GTK4+Adw support and adaptivity, and is due to replace Evince in Core (and it's already shipped by default in pmOS). |
Extensions | gnome-extensions-app | Extension manager for GNOME | GTK4+Adw | Y | extension-manager (not in Alpine) | |
Files | nautilus | File manager | GTK4+Adw | Y | portfolio | Adaptive, but list view mostly contains ellipses |
Fonts | gnome-font-viewer | Font manager | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | In my testing, the font waterfall was completely blank (black square with scrollbars). Upstream issue |
Help | yelp | Help document viewer | GTK3+Hdy[1] | N | N | Used for the "Help" option in a handful of GNOME apps. GTK4 port being worked on in MR !56, with design discussions in app-mockups#116. |
Image Viewer | loupe | Image viewer | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | Replaces eog. |
Logs | gnome-logsPMOS | Log viewer | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | Only available on pmOS systemd |
Maps | gnome-maps | Maps | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Music | gnome-music | Music player and organizer | GTK4+Adw | N | lollypop | Candidate to be replaced by Decibels in Core, although Decibels doesn't manage the music library. |
Settings | gnome-control-center | System settings | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Snapshot | snapshot | Camera | GTK4+Adw | Y | megapixels | Couldn't test it under Phosh as it requires Pipewire and will crash on startup without it. |
Software | gnome-software | Software store | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
System Monitor | gnome-system-monitor | System usage monitor | GTK4+Adw | N | gnome-usage, resources | GTK4 port is done; no word on adaptivity improvements. Some designs seem to be floating around for another usage monitor app... |
Text Editor | gnome-text-editor | Plain text editor | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Tour | gnome-tour | GNOME tour | GTK4+Adw | N | postmarketos-welcome | Useless in Phosh and mostly useless on GNOME Mobile (the pages would have to be updated to mention mobile-device-specific stuff...). |
Videos | totem | Video player | GTK3+Hdy[1] | N | Light Video, Clapper, Daikhan, Showtime | GTK4+Adw port considerations and blockers tracked in #480. Candidate to be replaced by Showtime in Core, which is GTK4+Adw and mobile-friendly. |
Weather | gnome-weather | Weather forecast | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Web | epiphany | Internet browser | GTK4+Adw | Y | firefox |
Non-core apps
These are part of the GNOME project but aren't officially considered core apps, and aren't GNOME circle apps.
Name | Package | Purpose | GTK3/4? | Mobile | Mobile replacement | Notes |
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Calls | calls | Dialer | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Feeds | gnome-feeds | RSS feed reader | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Firmware | gnome-firmware | Firmware updater | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Fractal | fractal | Matrix client | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Games | highscore | Game library | GTK3+Hdy | Y | - | There's a GTK4+Adw port on the main branch, but it hasn't landed in a release yet |
Geary | geary | Mail client | GTK3+Hdy | Y | - | |
gedit | gedit | Text editor | GTK3 | Y | gnome-text-editor | |
GHex | ghex | Hex editor | GTK3 | P | N | Opens fine, but the selection menu opened with the arrow on the bottom goes off-screen |
Passwords and Keys | seahorse | Keyring manager | GTK3+Hdy | Y | - | |
Photos | gnome-photos | Photo organizer | GTK3+Hdy | N | N | Adaptivity tweaks tracked in #131, seemingly no progress in the last 2 years; no issue for GTK4+Adw port. Dropped from Core. |
Power Statistics | gnome-power-statistics | Power information | GTK3 | N | powersupply | |
Sound Recorder | gnome-sound-recorder | Sound recorder | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Terminal | gnome-terminal | Terminal | GTK3 | Y | gnome-console |
Games
Name | Package | GTK3/4? | Mobile | Mobile replacement | Notes |
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2048 | gnome-2048 | GTK3 | Y | - | |
AisleRiot Solitare | aisleriot | GTK3 | Y | - | ...miraculously works just fine |
Chess | gnome-chess | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Five or More | - | GTK3 | Y | - | |
Hitori | - | GTK3 | Y | - | |
Mines | gnome-mines | GTK3 | N | - | |
Sudoku | gnome-sudoku | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Taquin | gnome-taquin | GTK3 | Y | - |
GNOME Circle
See circle.gnome.org.
Name | Package | Purpose | GTK3/4? | Mobile | Mobile replacement | Notes |
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Amberol | amberol | Music player | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Apostrophe | apostrophe | Markdown editor | GTK4+Adw | N | GTK4+Adw port is now released, but is still not mobile-friendly. | |
Audio Sharing | - | Device audio sharing | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Authenticator | gnome-authenticator | 2FA code generator | GTK4+Adw | Y | numberstation | |
Binary | - | Converter between number formats | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Blanket | blanket | Environment sound simulator | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Boatswain | - | Elgato Stream Deck controller | GTK4+Adw | |||
Cartridges | - | Game launcher | GTK4+Adw | Y | ||
Chess Clock | - | Chess clock | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Citations | - | Citation manager | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Clairvoyant | - | Magic 8-ball | GTK4+Adw | P | Static window size, only fits in landscape mode. Tracked upstream in #38. | |
Collision | - | Checksum/file hash checker | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Commit | - | Commit message editor | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Curtail | curtail | Image compressor | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Decibels | decibels | Music player | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Decoder | decoder | QR code scanner and generator | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Déjà Dup Backups | deja-dup | Backup software | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Dialect | dialect | Translator | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Ear Tag | eartag | Audio file tag editor | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Errands | - | To-do list | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Eyedropper | - | Eyedropper tool | GTK4+Adw | N | Could not get it to capture colors under Phosh; likely doesn't really work in a mobile environment due to the way it works. The window itself fits fine though! | |
File Shredder | - | Secure erase utility | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Forge Sparks | - | Code forge notifications receiver | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | Have yet to test the actual notifications, but the UI seems to fit fine so far |
Fragments | fragments | BitTorrent client | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Fretboard | - | Guitar chord lookup | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Gaphor | - | UML and SysML modeling tool | GTK4+Adw | N | Isn't mobile-friendly, and given its use-case, it doesn't need to be. | |
Graphs | - | Graph plotter | GTK4+Adw | P | Window is too wide to fit in portrait; fits only in landscape. | |
Health | - | Fitness tracking | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | Goes very slightly off-screen in a way that doesn't really affect usability |
Hieroglyphic | - | Drawn symbol to LaTeX | GTK4+Adw | N | Does not fit in portrait or in landscape. Sidebar can be hidden/shown with a swipe, but I'm not sure if that's intentional? | |
Identity | - | Image/video compare | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Impression | - | Image flasher | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Junction | - | Application chooser for opening files/links | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Khronos | khronos | Time tracker | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Komikku | komikku | Comic/manga reader | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Letterpress | - | ASCII art generator | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Metadata Cleaner | - | Metadata cleaner | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Mousai | - | Music identificator | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Newsflash | newsflash | News feed reader | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Obfuscate | obfuscate | Blur/obfuscation tool for images | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Paper Clip | - | PDF metadata editor | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | Goes slightly off-screen, but the window is programmed to have a horizontal scroll, so no functionality is lost. |
Pika Backup | - | Backup utility | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Podcasts | gnome-podcasts | Podcast player | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Polari | polari | IRC client | GTK4+Adw | Y | "Add network" screen goes slightly off-screen but it doesn't affect usability | |
Railway | railway | Public transport schedules | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Resources | resources | Resource monitor | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Secrets | gnome-passwordsafe | Password manager | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Shortwave | gnome-shortwave | Internet radio player | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Solanum | solanum | Work/break time manager/timer | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Switcheroo | - | Image resizer and converter | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Tangram | tangram | Web app browser | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Text Pieces | - | Text transformation utility | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Tuba | tuba | Fediverse client | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Valuta | - | Currency converter | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Video Trimmer | video-trimmer | Video trimmer | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | The ends of the length selector are a bit hard to grab, but otherwise it works fine |
Warp | warp | File transfer tool | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Wike | wike | Wikipedia reader | GTK4+Adw | Y | - |
Development tools
Name | Package | Purpose | GTK3/4? | Mobile | Mobile replacement | Notes |
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Biblioteca | - | GTK/GObject documentation reader | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | Part of GNOME Circle |
Elastic | - | Spring animation test tool | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | Part of GNOME Circle |
Emblem | - | Project avatar generator | GTK4+Adw | P | Part of GNOME Circle; static window size, only fits in landscape | |
Lorem | - | Placeholder text generator | GTK4+Adw | P | Part of GNOME Circle; goes veeeery slightly off-screen in portrait, in a way that doesn't really impact usability, but I still consider it "partial". | |
Share Preview | - | Local tester for social media card previews | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | Has a fixed maximum window size, so sometimes trails off, but fits fine due to sane minimums |
Webfont Kit Generator | - | Webfont @font-face generator | GTK4+Adw | P | Part of GNOME Circle; slightly off-screen | |
Workbench | - | GNOME app prototyping tool | GTK4+Adw |
Removed from Circle
Mostly GTK3 apps that still need a GTK4 port.
Name | Package | Purpose | GTK3/4? | Mobile | Mobile replacement | Notes |
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Cozy | cozy | Audiobook player | GTK3+Hdy | Y | - | GTK4+Adw is done and released recently, still needs to be re-added to Circle |
Drawing | drawing | Paint program | GTK3 | Y | - | GTK4+Adw port is on the roadmap, discussed in #610 |
Font Downloader | - | Font downloader | GTK3+Hdy | Y | - | GTK4 conversion is being considered in #106; looks like the maintainer doesn't mind the app being GTK3 for now |
Metronome | gnome-metronome | Metronome | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | |
Plots | plots | Graph plotter | GTK4+Adw | N | Requires GLSL 3.30, doesn't seem to be supported at least on the Samsung Galaxy A5 2015 (samsung-a5). Dropped from Circle for not being updated to the latest runtime. | |
Telegraph | - | Morse code encoder/decoder | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | Dropped due to being unmaintained upstream. |
Zap | - | Soundboard app | GTK4+Adw | Y | - | Unmaintained (ref) |
References
See also
- The older User:Knuxfanwin8/Phosh Apps and User:MartijnBraam/Phosh Apps pages.