Internet
Network connection
Network managers
See Network configuration#Network managers.
VPN clients
chrootVPN — A script for creating a chrooted Linux client CheckPoint VPN middleware+agent setup for connecting via their Web Mobile Access Portal.
https://github.com/ruyrybeyro/chrootvpn || not packaged? search in AUR
GlobalProtect-openconnect — A GlobalProtect VPN client (GUI) for Linux, based on OpenConnect and built with Qt5, supports SAML auth mode.
https://github.com/yuezk/GlobalProtect-openconnect/ || globalprotect-openconnect-gitAUR
Libreswan — A free software implementation of the most widely supported and standarized VPN protocol based on ("IPsec") and the Internet Key Exchange ("IKE").
https://libreswan.org/ || libreswanAUR
Mullvad — A GUI client for the Mullvad VPN service
https://mullvad.net/ || mullvad-vpnAUR
Nebula — A mesh VPN network
https://www.defined.net/nebula/ || nebula
NetworkManager — Supports a variety of protocols (e.g. MS, Cisco, Fortinet) via a plugin system.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager/VPN || networkmanager
OpenConnect — Supports Cisco and Juniper VPNs.
https://www.infradead.org/openconnect/ || openconnect
Openswan — IPsec-based VPN Solution.
https://www.openswan.org/ || openswanAUR
OpenVPN — To connect to OpenVPN VPNs.
https://openvpn.net/ || openvpn
PPTP Client — To connect to PPTP VPNs, like Microsoft VPNs (MPPE). (insecure)
https://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ || pptpclient
RiseupVPN — A GUI client for the Riseup VPN service from riseup.net.
https://riseup.net/en/vpn/ || riseup-vpnAUR or riseup-vpn-configuratorAUR
strongSwan — IPsec-based VPN Solution.
https://www.strongswan.org/ || strongswan
tinc — tinc is a free VPN daemon.
https://www.tinc-vpn.org/ || tinc
vopono — OpenVPN and Wireguard wrapper to launch applications with VPN tunnels in network namespaces.
https://github.com/jamesmcm/vopono || voponoAUR
vpnc — To connect to Cisco 3000 VPN Concentrators.
https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/ || vpnc
WireGuard — Next generation secure network tunnel.
https://www.wireguard.com/ || wireguard-tools
Proxy servers
Brook — Proxy focusing on strong encryption and being undetectable.
https://txthinking.github.io/brook/ || brook
Clash — A rule-based tunnel in Go.
https://github.com/Dreamacro/clash || clash
Dante — SOCKS server and SOCKS client, implementing RFC:1928 and related standards.
https://www.inet.no/dante/ || dante
Geph — A modular Internet censorship circumvention system designed specifically to deal with national filtering.
https://geph.io/en/ || geph4-clientAUR
NaïveProxy — A Proxy using Chrome's network stack to camouflage traffic with strong censorship resistence and low detectablility.
https://github.com/klzgrad/naiveproxy || naiveproxyAUR
Privoxy — Non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk.
https://www.privoxy.org/ || privoxy
Project V — Project V is a set of tools to help you build your own privacy network over internet.
https://www.v2fly.org/en_US/ || v2ray
Shadowsocks — Secure socks5 proxy, designed to protect your Internet traffic.
https://www.shadowsocks.org/en/index.html[dead link 2022-09-20 ⓘ] || Python: shadowsocks, C: shadowsocks-libev, Qt: shadowsocks-qt5
Squid — Caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.
http://www.squid-cache.org/ || squid
Stunnel — A server and client to add and remove TLS encryption to TCP data flow.
https://www.stunnel.org/ || stunnel
Tinyproxy — Lightweight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon.
https://tinyproxy.github.io/ || tinyproxy
Trojan — An unidentifiable mechanism that helps you bypass GFW.
https://trojan-gfw.github.io/trojan/ || trojan
Varnish — High-performance HTTP accelerator.
https://varnish-cache.org/ || varnish
XX-Net — Easy to use web proxy tool.
https://github.com/XX-net/XX-Net/ || xx-netAUR
Ziproxy — Forwarding (non-caching) compressing HTTP proxy server.
http://ziproxy.sourceforge.net/ || ziproxy
Anonymizing networks
Arti — Rust implementation of the Tor anonymizing overlay network.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti || arti
Freenet — An encrypted network without censorship.
https://freenetproject.org/ || freenetAUR
GNUnet — Framework for secure peer-to-peer networking.
https://gnunet.org/ || CLI: gnunetAUR, GUI: gnunet-gtkAUR
I2P — Distributed anonymous network.
https://geti2p.net/ || i2pd, i2pAUR
Lantern — Peer-to-peer internet censorship circumvention software.
https://getlantern.org/ || lantern-binAUR
Lokinet — Anonymous, decentralized and IP based overlay network for the internet.
https://lokinet.org/ || lokinetAUR
Tor — Anonymizing overlay network.
https://www.torproject.org/ || tor
Network tunnels
6tunnel — Tunnels IPv6 connections for IPv4-only applications.
https://github.com/wojtekka/6tunnel/ || 6tunnel
iodine — Tunnel IPv4 data through a DNS server.
https://code.kryo.se/iodine/ || iodine
isatapd — Creates and maintains an ISATAP tunnel (RFC:5214).
http://www.saschahlusiak.de/linux/isatap.htm || isatapd
Ping Tunnel — A tool for reliably tunneling TCP connections over ICMP echo request and reply packets.
https://www.cs.uit.no/~daniels/PingTunnel/ || ptunnel
Tuntox — Tunnel TCP connections over the Tox protocol.
https://github.com/gjedeer/tuntox/ || tuntox
Web browsers
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of web browsers.
Console
browsh — A fully-modern text-based browser. Runs as a frontend to headless Firefox.
https://www.brow.sh/ || browshAUR
ELinks — Advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web browser with mouse wheel scroll support, frames and tables, extensible with Lua & Guile (links fork).
http://elinks.or.cz/ || elinks
Links — Graphics and text mode web browser. Includes a console version similar to Lynx.
http://links.twibright.com/ || links
Lynx — Text browser for the World Wide Web.
https://lynx.invisible-island.net/ || lynx
w3m — Pager/text-based web browser. It has vim-like keybindings, and is able to display images.
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/w3m || w3m
Graphical
Gecko-based
See also Wikipedia:Gecko (software).
Firefox — Extensible browser from Mozilla based on Gecko with fast rendering.
https://mozilla.com/firefox || firefox
SeaMonkey — Continuation of the Mozilla Internet Suite.
https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ || seamonkey
Firefox spin-offs
Dot — A fork of firefox focused on privacy and a sleeker UI.
https://www.dothq.co/ || dot-binAUR
FireDragon — A fork of LibreWolf that includes KDE integration patches and custom branding.
https://gitlab.com/dr460nf1r3/settings/ || firedragonAUR
GNU IceCat — A customized build of Firefox ESR distributed by the GNU Project, stripped of non-free components and with additional privacy extensions. Release cycle may be delayed compared to Mozilla Firefox.
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ || icecatAUR
LibreWolf — A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.
https://librewolf.net/ || librewolfAUR
Tor Browser Launcher — Securely and easily download, verify, install, and launch Tor Browser, a fork of Firefox ESR.
https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher || torbrowser-launcher
Waterfox Classic — Optimized fork of Firefox 56, without data collection and allowing unsigned extensions and NPAPI plugins.
https://www.waterfox.net/ || waterfox-classic-binAUR
Waterfox G5 — Updated feature-rich branch of Waterfox, a customizable privacy-conscious web browser based on Firefox 102 ESR.
https://www.waterfox.net/ || waterfox-g-binAUR
Blink-based
See also Wikipedia:Blink (web engine).
Chromium — Web browser developed by Google, the open source project behind Google Chrome.
https://www.chromium.org/ || chromium
Privacy-focused chromium spin-offs
Brave — Web browser with builtin ad- and tracker blocking.
https://www.brave.com/ || brave-binAUR
Iridium — A privacy-focused patchset for Chromium. See differences from Chromium.
https://iridiumbrowser.de/ || iridium-rpmAUR
Ungoogled Chromium — Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration and enhancing privacy, control, and transparency
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium || ungoogled-chromiumAUR
Thorium — Thorium develops a periodically synchronized fork of the Chromium browser, expanded with additional patches to optimize performance, improve usability and enhance security. According to the developers' tests Thorium is 8-40% ahead of the regular Chromium, mainly due to the inclusion of additional optimizations during compilation.
https://thorium.rocks/ || thorium-browser-binAUR
Proprietary chromium spin-offs
Google Chrome — Proprietary web browser developed by Google.
https://www.google.com/chrome/ || google-chromeAUR
Microsoft Edge — Proprietary web browser developed by Microsoft.
https://www.microsoft.com/edge/ || microsoft-edge-stable-binAUR
Opera — Proprietary browser developed by Opera Software.
Slimjet — Fast, smart and powerful proprietary browser based on Chromium.
https://www.slimjet.com/ || slimjetAUR
Vivaldi — An advanced proprietary browser made with the power user in mind.
https://vivaldi.com/ || vivaldi
Yandex Browser — Proprietary browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.
https://browser.yandex.com/ || yandex-browser-betaAUR
Browsers based on qt5-webengine
Dooble — Colorful Web browser.
https://textbrowser.github.io/dooble/ || doobleAUR
Eric — QtWebEngine-based HTML browser, part of the eric6 development toolset, can be launched with the
eric6_browser
command.
https://eric-ide.python-projects.org/ || ericAUR
Falkon — Web browser based on QtWebEngine, written in Qt framework.
Konqueror — Web browser based on Qt toolkit and Qt WebEngine (or KHTML layout engine), part of kde-network.
https://apps.kde.org/konqueror/ || konqueror
Liri Browser — A minimalistic material design web browser written for Liri.
https://github.com/lirios/browser || liri-browser-gitAUR
Otter Browser — Browser aiming to recreate classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5.
https://otter-browser.org/ || otter-browserAUR
Qt WebBrowser — Browser for embedded devices developed using the capabilities of Qt and Qt WebEngine.
https://doc.qt.io/QtWebBrowser/ || qtwebbrowserAUR
qutebrowser — A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5 and QtWebEngine.
https://qutebrowser.org/ || qutebrowser
Browsers based on electron
Beaker — Peer-to-peer web browser with tools to create and host websites.
https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker || beaker-browserAUR
Franz — Messaging browser for WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Telegram and many other web services.
https://meetfranz.com/ || franzAUR
Hamsket — A GPL-licensed alternative to Franz, forked from the last open sources of Rambox.
https://github.com/TheGoddessInari/hamsket || hamsketAUR
Min — A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy. It includes an interface designed to minimize distractions.
https://minbrowser.org/ || min
WebKit-based
See also Wikipedia:WebKit.
Note: webkitgtk, webkitgtk2, qt5-webkit and qtwebkit-based browsers were removed from the list, because these are today considered insecure and outdated. More info here and here.
Browsers based on webkit2gtk
Most of these support ad-blocking via wyebadblock.
Badwolf — A minimalist privacy-focused browser.
https://hacktivis.me/projects/badwolf || badwolfAUR
Ephemeral — A private-by-default, always-incognito browser for elementary OS.
https://github.com/cassidyjames/ephemeral || ephemeralAUR
Eolie — Simple web browser for GNOME.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Eolie || eolie
GNOME Web — Browser which uses the WebKitGTK rendering engine, part of gnome.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web/ || epiphany
Lariza — A simple, experimental web browser using GTK 3, GLib and WebKit2GTK.
https://www.uninformativ.de/git/lariza/ || larizaAUR
Luakit — Fast, small, webkit based browser framework extensible by Lua.
https://luakit.github.io/ || luakit
Midori — Lightweight web browser based on GTK and WebKit.
https://www.midori-browser.org/ || midori
Nyxt — Keyboard-oriented, infinitely extensible browser designed for power users. It has familiar key-bindings (Emacs, VI, CUA) and features fuzzy searching between tabs, multiple selections, history as a tree and more.
https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/ || nyxt
surf — Lightweight WebKit-based browser, which follows the suckless philosophy (basically, the browser itself is a single C source file).
https://surf.suckless.org/ || surfAUR
Surfer — Simple keyboard based web browser, written in C. It supports custom JS-scripts.
https://github.com/nihilowy/surfer || surfer-gitAUR
Tangram — Integration of web applications into the desktop, specifically GNOME.
https://github.com/sonnyp/Tangram || tangramAUR
Vimb — A Vim-like web browser written in C that is inspired by Pentadactyl and Vimprobable. It includes a manpage and a howto for common configurations. It supports custom JS-scripts, dark mode and handles geolocation requests.
https://fanglingsu.github.io/vimb/ || vimb
wyeb — A vim-like web browser inspired by dwb and luakit with Adblock.
https://github.com/jun7/wyeb || wyeb-gitAUR
Other
https://www.dillo.org/ || dillo
Links — Graphics and text mode web browser. Includes a graphical X-window/framebuffer version with CSS, image rendering, pull-down menus. It can be launched with the
xlinks -g
command.
http://links.twibright.com/ || links
NetSurf — Featherweight browser written in C, notable for its slowly developing JavaScript support and fast rendering through its own layout engine.
https://www.netsurf-browser.org/ || netsurf
Pale Moon — A Firefox fork focussing on speed, with a pre-Firefox 29 interface. Uses Goanna layout engine, a fork of Gecko. Firefox add-ons may not be compatible. Without support for newer Firefox features such as WebExtensions, cache2, e10s, and OTMC. Many of the old 93,598 versions of 19,450 Firefox add-ons created by 14,274 developers over the past 15 years using XUL/XPCOM technology in the Classic Add-ons Archive still work.
https://www.palemoon.org/ || palemoonAUR
Gemini browsers
See also Wikipedia:Gemini (protocol)#Software.
Amfora — Terminal browser for the Gemini protocol.
https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/amfora || amfora
Bombabillo — Non-web client for the terminal, supporting Gopher, Gemini and much more.
https://bombadillo.colorfield.space/ || bombadillo-gitAUR
Castor — Graphical client for the Gemini, Gopher, and Finger protocols, written in Rust with GTK.
https://git.sr.ht/~julienxx/castor || castorAUR
Kristall — Qt-based Gemini browser.
https://github.com/MasterQ32/kristall || kristallAUR
Lagrange — Desktop GUI client for browsing Gemini space, offering modern conveniences familiar from web browsers.
https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange || lagrangeAUR
Telescope — w3m-like browser for Gemini.
https://telescope.omarpolo.com || telescopeAUR
Web servers
A web server serves HTML web pages and other files via HTTP to clients like web browsers. The major web servers can be interfaced with programs to serve dynamic content (web applications).
See also Category:Web server and Wikipedia:Comparison of web server software.
Apache HTTP Server — A high performance Unix-based HTTP server.
https://httpd.apache.org/ || apache
Caddy — HTTP/2 web server with automatic HTTPS.
https://caddyserver.com/ || caddy
Hiawatha — Secure and advanced web server.
https://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/ || hiawatha
Lighttpd — A secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server.
https://www.lighttpd.net/ || lighttpd
nginx — Lightweight HTTP server and IMAP/POP3 proxy server.
sthttpd — Supported fork of the thttpd web server.
https://github.com/blueness/sthttpd || sthttpd
Traefik — A modern reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy.
https://traefik.io/traefik/ || traefik-binAUR
yaws — Web server/framework written in Erlang.
http://yaws.hyber.org/ || yawsAUR
Static web servers
darkhttpd — A small and secure static web server, written in C, does not support HTTPS or Auth.
https://unix4lyfe.org/darkhttpd/ || darkhttpd
miniserve — Rust alternative to darkhttpd with UTF-8, optional HTTP authentication, file uploading, and more.
https://github.com/svenstaro/miniserve || miniserve
quark — An extremly small and simple http get-only web server. It only serves static pages on a single host.
https://tools.suckless.org/quark/ || quark-gitAUR
serve — Static file serving and directory listing.
https://github.com/zeit/serve || nodejs-serveAUR
servy — A tiny little web server, single binary, written in Rust.
https://github.com/zethra/servy || servyAUR
Webfs — Simple and instant web server for mostly static content.
https://linux.bytesex.org/misc/webfs.html || webfs
The Python standard library module http.server can also be used from the command-line.
Specialized web servers
chezdav — WebDAV server that allows to share a particular directory.
https://wiki.gnome.org/phodav || phodav
Mongoose — Embedded web server library, supports WebSocket and MQTT.
https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose || mongooseAUR
OnionShare — Lets you securely and anonymously send and receive files. It works by starting a web server, making it accessible as a Tor onion service, and generating an unguessable web address so others can download files from you, or upload files to you.
https://onionshare.org/ || onionshare
VServer — GTK application, which opens an http server in the selected folder and shares your files.
https://github.com/bcedu/ValaSimpleHTTPServer || vserver-gitAUR
webhook — Small server for creating HTTP endpoints (hooks)
https://github.com/adnanh/webhook || webhook
Woof — An ad-hoc single file webserver; Web Offer One File.
http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/woof.html || woofAUR
WSGI servers
Gunicorn — A Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX.
https://gunicorn.org/ || gunicorn
uWSGI — A fast, self-healing and developer/sysadmin-friendly application container server written in C.
https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/ || uwsgi
Waitress — A WSGI server for Python 3.
https://github.com/Pylons/waitress || python-waitress
Apache also supports WSGI with mod_wsgi.
Performance testing
http_load — A webserver performance testing tool, runs in a single process.
https://www.acme.com/software/http_load/ || http_loadAUR
httperf — Can generate various HTTP workloads, written in C.
https://github.com/httperf/httperf || httperfAUR
httping — A "ping"-like tool for HTTP requests
https://www.vanheusden.com/httping/ || httping
siege — An HTTP regression testing and benchmarking utility.
https://www.joedog.org/siege-home/ || siege
vegeta — HTTP load testing tool, written in Go.
https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta || vegeta
Web Bench — Benchmarking tool, uses fork() for simulating multiple clients.
http://home.tiscali.cz/~cz210552/webbench.html || webbenchAUR
File sharing
Download managers
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of download managers.
Console
aria2 — Lightweight download utility that supports HTTP/S, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. It can run as a daemon controlled via a built-in JSON-RPC or XML-RPC interface.
https://aria2.github.io/ || aria2
Axel — Featherweight command line download accelerator sitting at under 250kB on disk. Supports HTTP/S and FTP.
https://github.com/eribertomota/axel || axel
cURL — An URL retrieval utility and library. Supports HTTP, FTP and SFTP.
HTTPie — Human-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era.
https://github.com/httpie/httpie || httpie
HTTrack — An easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer.
https://www.httrack.com/ || httrack
LFTP — Sophisticated file transfer program. Supports HTTP, FTP, SFTP, FISH, and BitTorrent.
mps-youtube — Terminal based YouTube jukebox with playlist management. Plays audio/video through mplayer/mpv.
https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube || mps-youtube-gitAUR
Plowshare — A set of command-line tools designed for managing file-sharing websites (aka Hosters).
https://github.com/mcrapet/plowshare || plowshare
quvi — A command-line-tool suite to access the flash media stream properties.
http://quvi.sourceforge.net/ || quviAUR
RTMPDump — Download FLV videos through RTMP (Adobe's proprietary protocol for Flash video players)
http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/ || rtmpdump
snarf — Command-line URL retrieval tool. Supports HTTP and FTP.
https://www.xach.com/snarf/ || snarf
Streamlink — Launch streams from various streaming services in a custom video player or save them to a file.
https://streamlink.github.io/ || streamlink
Streamripper — Records and splits streaming mp3 into tracks.
https://streamripper.sourceforge.net/ || streamripperAUR
You-Get — Download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the Web.
https://you-get.org/ || you-get
youtube-dl — Download videos from YouTube and many other web sites.
https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ || youtube-dl
youtube-viewer — Command line utility for viewing YouTube videos.
https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer || youtube-viewerAUR
ytfzf — A POSIX script to find and watch youtube videos from the terminal.
https://github.com/pystardust/ytfzf || ytfzf
yt-dlp — A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes.
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp || yt-dlp
Wget — A network utility to retrieve files from the Web. Supports HTTP and FTP.
https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/ || wget
Graphical
ClipGrab — Downloader and converter for YouTube, Vimeo and many other online video sites.
https://clipgrab.org/ || clipgrab
FatRat — Qt based download manager with support for HTTP, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.
https://github.com/LubosD/fatrat || fatrat-gitAUR
Forklift — Simple GUI for youtube-dl using PyGObject.
https://github.com/Johnn3y/Forklift || forklift-gitAUR
FreeRapid — Java-based downloader that supports downloading from file-sharing services.
https://wordrider.net/freerapid/ || freerapidAUR
gtk-youtube-viewer — GTK utility for viewing YouTube videos. See optional dependencies for the GUI.
https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer || youtube-viewerAUR
Gwget — Download manager for GNOME. Supports HTTP and FTP.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gwget || gwget
Gydl — GUI wrapper around the already existing youtube-dl program to download content from sites like YouTube.
https://github.com/JannikHv/gydl || gydl-gitAUR
Gyre — GTK3 downloader for videos from Coub.
https://github.com/HelpSeeker/Gyre || gyreAUR
JDownloader — Java-based downloader for one-click hosting sites.
https://jdownloader.org/ || jdownloader2AUR
KGet — Download manager for KDE. Supports HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. Part of kde-network.
https://apps.kde.org/kget/ || kget
MegaBasterd — Yet another unofficial MEGA downloader/uploader/streaming suite.
https://github.com/tonikelope/megabasterd || megabasterd-binAUR
Motrix — Full-featured download manager that supports downloading HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Magnet, etc. Based on the Electron platform.
https://motrix.app/ || motrixAUR
Persepolis — Graphical front-end for aria2 download manager with lots of features. Supports HTTP and FTP.
https://persepolisdm.github.io/ || persepolis
pyLoad — Downloader written in Python and designed to be extremely lightweight, easily extensible and fully manageable via web.
https://pyload.net/ || pyload-ngAUR
Steadyflow — Simple download manager for GNOME. Supports HTTP and FTP.
https://launchpad.net/steadyflow || steadyflow
Streamtuner2 — Internet radio station and video browser. It simply lists stations in categories from different directories and launches your preferred media apps for playback.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/streamtuner2/ || streamtuner2AUR
uGet — GTK download manager featuring download classification and HTML import. Supports HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Metalink, YouTube and Mega.
Video Downloader — GTK application to download videos from websites like YouTube and many others (based on youtube-dl).
https://github.com/Unrud/video-downloader || video-downloaderAUR
Xtreme Download Manager — Powerful tool to increase download speed up-to 500%. Supports HTTP and FTP. Video grabber works in a general way and is not limited to certain websites.
https://subhra74.github.io/xdm/ || xdmanAUR
youtubedl-gui — Simple-to-use graphical interface for youtube-dl.
https://github.com/JaGoLi/ytdl-gui || youtubedl-guiAUR
LAN file transfer
See also #LAN messengers.
LAN Share — Cross platform local area network file transfer application, built using Qt GUI framework. It can be used to transfer a whole folder, one or more files, large or small immediately without any additional configuration.
https://github.com/abdularis/LAN-Share || lanshareAUR
NitroShare — Cross-platform network file transfer application, built using Qt GUI framework. It is designed to make transferring files from one device to another on the local network extremely simple.
https://nitroshare.net/ || nitroshare
Teleport — Native GTK3 application to effortlessly share files on the local network.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/jsparber/teleport || teleport-share-gitAUR
Warpinator — GTK application to share files across the LAN.
https://github.com/linuxmint/warpinator || warpinator
Cloud storage servers
Cozy — A personal cloud you can hack, host and delete.
https://cozy.io/ || cozy-stack
Nextcloud — A cloud server to store your files centrally on a hardware controlled by you.
https://nextcloud.com || nextcloud
Pydio — Mature open source web application for file sharing and synchronization.
https://pydio.com/[dead link 2022-09-20 ⓘ] || pydioAUR
Seafile — An online file storage and collaboration tool with advanced support for file syncing, privacy protection and teamwork.
https://www.seafile.com/ || seafile-serverAUR
Cloud synchronization clients
Tip:
Some synchronization and backup programs provide direct support for some cloud-storage services.
Some FUSE filesystems provide a way to mount cloud-storage as a filesystem. Google Drive can be accessed also by gvfs-google for GVFS-based applications (like Nautilus), and by kio-gdrive for KIO-based applications (like Dolphin).
See Data-at-rest encryption#Cloud-storage optimized to achieve zero-knowledge (client-side transparent encryption) storage on any third-party cloud service.
Multi-protocol clients
CloudCross — Synchronize local files and folders with many cloud providers. Mail.ru Cloud, Yandex Disk, Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox support is available.
https://cloudcross.mastersoft24.ru/[dead link 2022-09-20 ⓘ] || cloudcrossAUR
Rclone — Multi-provider sync, copy, and mount client.
Rclone Browser — GUI client for Rclone.
https://github.com/kapitainsky/RcloneBrowser || rclone-browserAUR
Google Drive clients
drive — Tiny program to pull or push Google Drive files.
https://github.com/odeke-em/drive || driveAUR
DriveSync — Command line utility that synchronizes your Google Drive files with a local folder on your machine.
https://github.com/MStadlmeier/drivesync || drivesyncAUR
gdrive — Command line utility for interacting with Google Drive.
https://github.com/prasmussen/gdrive || gdriveAUR
Grive — Google Drive client with support for new Drive REST API and partial sync.
https://github.com/vitalif/grive2 || griveAUR
Insync — Unofficial proprietary Google Drive desktop client.
https://www.insynchq.com/ || insyncAUR
ODrive — Google Drive GUI based on the Electron platform.
https://github.com/liberodark/ODrive || odrive-binAUR
VGrive — GTK-based GUI client (back-end and front-end) for Google Drive made in Vala.
https://github.com/bcedu/VGrive || vgriveAUR
Other synchronization clients
aws-cli — CLI for Amazon Web Services, including efficient file transfers to and from Amazon S3.
https://aws.amazon.com/cli/ || aws-cli
Backblaze B2 — Backblaze B2 open-source command-line client.
https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html || backblaze-b2AUR
Baidu Netdisk — Proprietary client for cloud storage service launched by Baidu (formerly Baidu Cloud).
https://pan.baidu.com || baidunetdisk-binAUR
Cozy Drive — Desktop client for Cozy.
https://cozy-labs.github.io/cozy-desktop/ || cozy-desktop
Dropbox — Proprietary desktop client for Dropbox.
https://www.dropbox.com/ || dropboxAUR
hubiC — Proprietary synchronization client service and command line tools for hubiC.
https://hubic.com/en/downloads || hubicAUR
Mega Sync Client — Proprietary desktop client to sync files with Mega.
https://mega.nz/ || megasyncAUR
Megatools — Unofficial CLI for Mega.
https://megatools.megous.com/ || megatoolsAUR
Nextcloud Client — Desktop client for Nextcloud.
https://nextcloud.com/ || nextcloud-client
Nutstore — Proprietary desktop client for Nutstore.
https://www.jianguoyun.com/ || nutstoreAUR
OneDrive — Unofficial CLI for OneDrive.
https://github.com/skilion/onedrive || onedriveAUR
OneDrive — Fork of the unofficial CLI for OneDrive.
https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive || onedrive-abrauneggAUR
ownCloud Desktop Client — Desktop syncing client for ownCloud.
https://owncloud.com/client/ || owncloud-client
pCloud Drive — Proprietary desktop syncing client for pCloud. Based on the Electron platform.
https://www.pcloud.com/download-free-online-cloud-file-storage.html || pcloud-driveAUR
PydioSync — Desktop client for Pydio.
https://pydio.com/[dead link 2022-09-20 ⓘ] || pydio-syncAUR
S3cmd — Unofficial CLI for Amazon S3.
https://s3tools.org/s3cmd || s3cmd
Seafile Client — GUI client for Seafile.
https://www.seafile.com/ || seafile-clientAUR
SpiderOak One — Proprietary client for SpiderOak One.
https://spideroak.com/ || spideroak-oneAUR
Synology Drive — Proprietary GUI client to sync and share files between a centralized Synology NAS and multiple client computers.
https://www.synology.com/ || synology-driveAUR
Tresorit — Proprietary desktop syncing client for Tresorit.
https://tresorit.com/download || tresoritAUR
Yandex Disk — Proprietary CLI for Yandex Disk.
https://disk.yandex.ru/ || yandex-diskAUR
FTP
FTP clients
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of FTP client software.
FileZilla — Fast and reliable FTP, FTPS and SFTP client.
https://filezilla-project.org/ || filezilla
gFTP — Multithreaded FTP client for Linux.
ftp — Simple ftp client provided by GNU Inetutils
https://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/manual/inetutils.html#ftp-invocation || inetutils
ncftp — A set of free application programs implementing FTP.
https://www.ncftp.com/ || ncftp
https://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/tnftp || tnftp
Some file managers like Dolphin, GNOME Files and Thunar also provide FTP functionality.
FTP servers
See also Wikipedia:List of FTP server software.
bftpd — Small, easy-to-configure FTP server
https://bftpd.sourceforge.net/ || bftpd
ftpd — Simple ftp server provided by GNU Inetutils
https://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/manual/inetutils.html#ftpd-invocation || inetutils
proFTPd — A secure and configurable FTP server
http://www.proftpd.org/ || proftpdAUR
Pure-FTPd — Free (BSD-licensed), secure, production-quality and standard-compliant FTP server.
https://www.pureftpd.org/project/pure-ftpd/ || pure-ftpdAUR
SSH — SFTP is a network protocol that provides file access, file transfer, and file management over any reliable data stream.
https://www.openssh.com || openssh
vsftpd — Lightweight, stable and secure FTP server for UNIX-like systems.
https://security.appspot.com/vsftpd.html || vsftpd
BitTorrent clients
Some download managers are also able to connect to the BitTorrent network: Aria2, LFTP, FatRat, KGet, MLDonkey, uGet.
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of BitTorrent clients.
Console
Ctorrent — CTorrent is a BitTorrent client implemented in C++ to be lightweight and quick.
https://www.rahul.net/dholmes/ctorrent/ || enhanced-ctorrentAUR
Deluge — BitTorrent client with multiple user interfaces in a client/server model. This package includes a console client.
https://deluge-torrent.org/ || deluge
peerflix — Streaming torrent client for node.js.
https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix || peerflixAUR
rTorrent — Simple and lightweight ncurses BitTorrent client.
https://rakshasa.github.io/rtorrent/ || rtorrent
Transmission CLI — Simple and easy-to-use BitTorrent client with a daemon version and multiple front-ends. This package includes backend, daemon, command-line interface, and a Web UI interface.
https://transmissionbt.com/ || transmission-cli
Graphical
Deluge (GTK interface) — User-friendly BitTorrent client written in Python using GTK.
https://deluge-torrent.org/ || deluge-gtk
Fragments — Easy to use BitTorrent client for the GNOME desktop environment.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Fragments || fragments
FrostWire — Easy to use cloud downloader, BitTorrent client and media player.
https://www.frostwire.com/ || frostwireAUR
Ktorrent — Feature-rich BitTorrent client for KDE.
https://apps.kde.org/ktorrent/ || ktorrent
Powder Player — Hybrid between a streaming BitTorrent client and a player. Based on the Electron platform.
https://powder.media/ || powder-player-binAUR
qBittorrent — Open source (GPLv2) BitTorrent client with an integrated torrent search engine that strongly resembles µTorrent.
https://www.qbittorrent.org/ || qbittorrent
Tixati — Proprietary peer-to-peer file sharing program that uses the popular BitTorrent protocol.
https://tixati.com/ || tixatiAUR
Torrential — Simple torrent client for elementary OS.
https://github.com/davidmhewitt/torrential || torrential
Transmission — Simple and easy-to-use BitTorrent client with a daemon version and multiple front-ends.
https://transmissionbt.com/ || GTK: transmission-gtk, Qt: transmission-qt
Transmission Remote — GTK client for remote management of the Transmission BitTorrent client, using its HTTP RPC protocol.
https://github.com/transmission-remote-gtk/transmission-remote-gtk || transmission-remote-gtk
Tremotesf — Qt client for remote management of the Transmission BitTorrent client, using its HTTP RPC protocol.
https://github.com/equeim/tremotesf2 || tremotesfAUR
Tribler — 4th generation file sharing system BitTorrent client.
https://www.tribler.org || triblerAUR
Vuze — Feature-rich BitTorrent client written in Java (formerly Azureus).
https://www.vuze.com/ || vuzeAUR
WebTorrent Desktop — Streaming BitTorrent application. Based on the Electron platform.
https://webtorrent.io/desktop/ || webtorrent-desktopAUR
Other P2P networks
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of file-sharing applications.
aMule — Well-known eDonkey/Kad client with a daemon version and GTK, web, and CLI front-ends.
https://www.amule.org/ || amule
EiskaltDC++ — Direct Connect and ADC client.
https://github.com/eiskaltdcpp/eiskaltdcpp || GTK: eiskaltdcpp-gtkAUR, Qt: eiskaltdcpp-qtAUR
gtk-gnutella — GTK server/client for the Gnutella peer-to-peer network.
http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/ || gtk-gnutellaAUR
KaMule — KDE graphical front-end for aMule.
https://www.linux-apps.com/content/show.php?content=150270 || kamuleAUR
LBRY — Browser and wallet for LBRY, the decentralized, user-controlled content marketplace. Based on the Electron platform.
https://lbry.io/ || lbry-desktop-binAUR
lbt — Small set of command-line tools for LBRY.
https://gitlab.com/gardenappl/lbt || lbtAUR
MLDonkey — Multi-protocol P2P client that supports HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Direct Connect, eDonkey and FastTrack.
https://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/ || mldonkeyAUR
ncdc — Modern and lightweight Direct Connect and ADC client with a friendly ncurses interface.
https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdc || ncdcAUR
Nicotine+ — A graphical client for the Soulseek P2P network.
https://github.com/Nicotine-Plus/nicotine-plus || nicotine+
Send Anywhere — Proprietary file sharing service where users can directly share digital content in real time. Based on the Electron platform.
https://send-anywhere.com/ || sendanywhereAUR
IPFS — IPFS is a P2P Network capable of sharing and receiving files.
Pastebin services
See also Wikipedia:Pastebin.
Pastebin services are often used to quote text or images while collaborating and troubleshooting. Pastebin clients provide a convenient way to post from the command line.
Note: An acceptable pastebin service does not require enabling JavaScript for viewing, does not display adverts, manipulate the pasted content or require a login. pastebin.com is blocked for some people because of malware found on the site and has a history of annoying issues (requires JavaScript, displays adverts, inserts CRLF line-endings and displaying CAPTCHAs at random). Do not use it.
Without a dedicated client
Some services can be used with more general command line tool, such as CURL. For extensions, such as line numbers, one can use more command line tools. Such as cat -n
.
0x0.st is a file hosting and URL shortening service. Usage examples are:
or upload a file:
ix.io Usage examples are:
or upload a file:
termbin.com works with nc.
Dedicated clients
Elmer — Pastebin client similar to wgetpaste and curlpaste, except written in Perl and usable with wget or curl. Servers: codepad.org, rafb.me, sprunge.us.
https://github.com/sudokode/elmer || elmerAUR
Fb-client — Client for the paste.xinu.at pastebin.
https://paste.xinu.at || fb-client
Gist — Command-line interface for the gist.github.com pastebin service.
https://github.com/defunkt/gist || gist
imgur — A CLI client which can upload image to imgur.com image sharing service.
https://github.com/tremby/imgur.sh || imgur.shAUR
ix — Client for the ix.io pastebin.
http://ix.io/client || ixAUR
Pastebinit — Really small Python script that acts as a Pastebin client. Servers: pastie.org, paste.kde.org, paste.debian.net, paste.ubuntu.com and others (for a full list see
pastebinit -l
).
https://launchpad.net/pastebinit || pastebinit
ruby-haste — Client for hastebin.com.
https://github.com/seejohnrun/haste-client || ruby-hasteAUR
Uppity — The pastebin client with an attitude.
https://github.com/Kiwi/Uppity || uppity-gitAUR
Wgetpaste — Bash script that automates pasting to a number of pastebin services. Servers: pastebin.ca, codepad.org, dpaste.com and pastebin.osuosl.org.
http://wgetpaste.zlin.dk/ || wgetpaste
Communication
Email clients
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of email clients
Console
aerc — Work in progress asynchronous email client.
https://sr.ht/~rjarry/aerc || aerc
alot — An experimental terminal MUA based on notmuch mail. It is written in python using the urwid toolkit.
https://github.com/pazz/alot || alot
Alpine — Fast, easy-to-use and Apache-licensed email client based on Pine.
https://alpine.x10host.com/[dead link 2022-09-20 ⓘ] || alpine-gitAUR
S-nail — a mail processing system with a command syntax reminiscent of ed with lines replaced by messages. Provides the functionality of mailx.
https://www.sdaoden.eu/code.html#s-mailx || s-nail
mu/mu4e — Email indexer (mu) and client for emacs (mu4e). Xapian based for fast searches.
https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html || muAUR
Mutt — Small but very powerful text-based mail client.
NeoMutt — Command line mail reader (or MUA). It is a fork of Mutt with added features.
https://neomutt.org/ || neomutt
nmh — A modular mail handling system.
https://www.nongnu.org/nmh/ || nmhAUR
notmuch — A fast mail indexer built on top of xapian.
https://notmuchmail.org/ || notmuch
sendemail — A lightweight command line SMTP email client written in Perl.
http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/ || sendemailAUR
Sup — CLI mail client with very fast searching, tagging, threading and GMail like operation.
https://sup-heliotrope.github.io/ || supAUR
swaks — Swiss Army Knife SMTP; Command line SMTP testing, including TLS and AUTH, can be used to send emails.
https://jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/ || swaks
Wanderlust — Email client and news reader for Emacs.
http://www.gohome.org/wl/ || wanderlust
Graphical
Balsa — Simple and light email client for GNOME.
https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ || balsa
Betterbird — Fork of thunderbird.
https://www.betterbird.eu/ || betterbird-binAUR
Claws Mail — Lightweight GTK-based email client and news reader.
https://www.claws-mail.org/ || claws-mail
ElectronMail — Unofficial desktop application for several end-to-end encrypted email providers (like ProtonMail, Tutanota). Based on the Electron platform.
https://github.com/vladimiry/ElectronMail || electronmail-binAUR
Evolution — Mature and feature-rich e-mail client that is part of the GNOME project. Part of gnome-extra.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution || evolution
Geary — Simple desktop mail client built in Vala.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary || geary
https://kontact.kde.org/components/kmail/ || kmail
Kube — Modern communication and collaboration client built with QtQuick.
https://kube-project.com/ || kube
Mailspring — Fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original authors. The paid "Pro" version requires a Mailspring ID and has extra features like snooze, send later. Based on the Electron platform.
https://getmailspring.com/ || mailspringAUR
openWMail — The missing desktop client for Gmail & Google Inbox. Based on the Electron platform.
https://openwmail.github.io/ || openwmailAUR
SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups — Email client included in the SeaMonkey suite.
https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ || seamonkey
Sylpheed — Lightweight and user-friendly GTK email client.
https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ || sylpheedAUR
Thunderbird — Feature-rich email client from Mozilla written in GTK.
https://www.thunderbird.net/ || thunderbird
Trojitá — Qt IMAP email client. Only supports one IMAP account.
http://trojita.flaska.net/ || trojitaAUR
Tutanota — Email client for Tutanota mail service. Based on the Electron platform.
https://tutanota.com/ || tutanota-desktopAUR
Viagee — It allows desktop mail actions, such as 'Send File as Email' or web 'mailto' links, to be handled by the Gmail web client.
https://davesteele.github.io/viagee/ || viageeAUR
Web-based
Nextcloud Mail — An email webapp for NextCloud.
https://github.com/nextcloud/mail || nextcloud-app-mail
Roundcubemail — Browser-based multilingual IMAP client webapp with a native application-like user interface.
https://roundcube.net/ || roundcubemail
SquirrelMail — Webmail for Nuts!
https://squirrelmail.org/ || squirrelmailAUR
Mail notifiers
Ayatana Webmail — Webmail notifications and actions for any desktop.
https://tari.in/www/software/ayatana-webmail/ || ayatana-webmailAUR
Bubblemail — New and Unread mail notification service for local mailboxes, pop, imap, and gnome online accounts. A fork of Mailnag.
http://bubblemail.free.fr/ || bubblemailAUR
CheckMails — System tray unread mail checker using IMAP protocol.
https://github.com/j4321/CheckMails || checkmailsAUR
Gnubiff — Mail notification program that checks for mail and displays headers when new mail has arrived.
http://gnubiff.sourceforge.net/ || gnubiff
Mailnag — Extensible mail notification daemon.
https://github.com/pulb/mailnag || mailnag
QGmailNotifier — Portable Qt5 based GMail notifier.
https://github.com/eteran/qgmailnotifier || qgmailnotifierAUR
Mail servers
See Mail server.
DavMail — POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP exchange gateway allowing users to use any mail/calendar client with an Exchange server.
https://davmail.sourceforge.net/ || davmailAUR
Modoboa — A modular mail hosting and management platform, written in Python.
https://modoboa.org/ || modoboaAUR
Mail retrieval agents
See also Wikipedia:Mail retrieval agent.
fdm — Program to fetch and deliver mail.
https://github.com/nicm/fdm || fdm
Fetchmail — A remote-mail retrieval utility.
https://www.fetchmail.info/ || fetchmail
getmail — A POP3/IMAP4 mail retriever with reliable Maildir and command delivery.
http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/[dead link 2022-09-20 ⓘ] || getmailAUR
hydroxide — A third-party, open-source ProtonMail CardDAV, IMAP and SMTP bridge
https://github.com/emersion/hydroxide || hydroxideAUR
imapsync — IMAP synchronisation, sync, copy or migration tool
https://imapsync.lamiral.info/ || imapsync
isync — IMAP and MailDir mailbox synchronizer
http://isync.sourceforge.net/ || isync
mpop — A small, fast POP3 client suitable as a fetchmail replacement
https://marlam.de/mpop/ || mpop
vomit — Rust utility to sync between Maildir mailbox and IMAP mailbox
https://git.sr.ht/~bitfehler/vomit-sync/tree/master/item/cli/README.md || vsyncAUR (sync-only part of vomitAUR mail tookit)
OfflineIMAP — Synchronizes emails between two repositories.
https://www.offlineimap.org/[dead link 2022-09-20 ⓘ] || offlineimap
Instant messaging clients
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of instant messaging clients and Wikipedia:Comparison of VoIP software.
This section lists all client software with instant messaging support.
Multi-protocol clients
Note: All messengers that support several networks by means of direct connections to them belong to this section.
The number of networks supported by these clients is very large but they (like any multi-protocol clients) usually have very limited or no support for network-specific features.
Console
BarnOwl — Ncurses-based chat client with support for the Zephyr, XMPP and IRC protocols.
https://barnowl.mit.edu/ || barnowlAUR
BitlBee — IRC gateway to popular chat networks (XMPP and ICQ).
https://bitlbee.org/ || bitlbeeAUR
EKG2 — Ncurses based XMPP, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ and IRC client.
https://github.com/ekg2/ekg2 || ekg2AUR
Finch — Ncurses-based chat client that uses libpurple and supports all its protocols (Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, SIMPLE, XMPP, Zephyr).
https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Finch || finch
WeeChat — Modular, lightweight ncurses-based IRC client. A variety of other protocols are supported through plugins.
https://weechat.org/ || weechat
Graphical
Jitsi — Audio/video VoIP phone and instant messenger written in Java that supports protocols such as SIP, XMPP, ICQ, IRC and many other useful features.
https://jitsi.org/ || jitsiAUR
Kopete — User-friendly IM supporting Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise, ICQ, XMPP.
https://apps.kde.org/kopete/ || kopete
KDE Telepathy — KDE instant messaging client using the Telepathy framework. Meant as a replacement for Kopete.
https://userbase.kde.org/Telepathy || telepathy-kde-meta
Lith — WeeChat Relay client, allowing to connect to a running WeeChat instance from anywhere.
https://lith.app/ || lith-gitAUR
Pidgin — Multi-protocol instant messaging client with audio support that uses libpurple and supports all its protocols (Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, SIMPLE, XMPP, Zephyr).
qutIM — Simple and user-friendly IM supporting ICQ, XMPP, Mail.Ru, IRC and VKontakte messaging.
https://qutim.org/ || qutimAUR
Smuxi — Cross-platform IRC client that also supports XMPP.
https://smuxi.im/ || smuxiAUR
Thunderbird — Feature-rich email client supports instant messaging and chat using IRC and XMPP.
https://www.thunderbird.net/ || thunderbird
Volt — Proprietary native desktop client for Skype, Telegram, Slack, XMPP, Discord, IRC and more.
https://volt-app.com/ || voltAUR
IRC clients
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients.
Console
http://www.bitchx.org/ || bitchx-gitAUR
ERC — Powerful, modular and extensible IRC client for Emacs.
https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/erc/ || included with emacs
ii — Featherweight IRC client, literally
tail -f
the conversation andecho
back your replies to a file.
https://tools.suckless.org/ii/ || iiAUR
ircii — Oldest maintained IRC client which lays claim to being small and fast owing to its reduced feature set.
http://www.eterna.com.au/ircii/ || irciiAUR
Irssi — Highly-configurable ncurses-based IRC client.
pork — Programmable, ncurses-based IRC client that mostly looks and feels like ircII.
ScrollZ — Advanced IRC client based on ircII.
https://www.scrollz.info/ || scrollzAUR
senpai — An IRC client that works best with bouncers (e.g. soju-gitAUR): no logs are kept, history is fetched from the server via CHATHISTORY, networks are fetched from the server via bouncer-networks.
https://sr.ht/~taiite/senpai/ || senpai-irc-gitAUR
sic — Extremely simple IRC client, similar to ii.
https://tools.suckless.org/sic/ || sicAUR
tiny — an IRC client written in Rust with a clutter-free interface
https://github.com/osa1/tiny || tiny-irc-client-gitAUR
Graphical
http://chatzilla.hacksrus.com/ || seamonkey
HexChat — Fork of XChat for Linux and Windows.
https://hexchat.github.io/ || hexchat
Konversation — Qt-based IRC client for the KDE desktop.
https://konversation.kde.org/ || konversation
KVIrc — Qt-based IRC client featuring extensive themes support.
Loqui — GTK IRC client.
https://loqui.sunnyone.org/ || loquiAUR
LostIRC — Simple GTK IRC client with tab-autocompletion, multiple server support, logging and others.
http://lostirc.sourceforge.net || lostircAUR
Polari — Simple IRC client by the GNOME project.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Polari || polari
Quassel — Modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client.
https://quassel-irc.org/ || KDE: quassel-monolithic, Qt: quassel-monolithic-qt
Srain — Modern, beautiful IRC client written in GTK 3.
https://srain.silverrainz.me || srainAUR
XMPP clients
See also Wikipedia:XMPP and Wikipedia:Comparison of XMPP clients.
Console
Freetalk — Console-based XMPP client.
https://www.gnu.org/software/freetalk/ || freetalkAUR
jabber.el — Minimal XMPP client for Emacs.
http://emacs-jabber.sourceforge.net/ || emacs-jabberAUR
MCabber — Small XMPP console client, includes features: SSL, PGP, MUC, OTR and UTF8.
https://mcabber.com/ || mcabber
Poezio — XMPP client with IRC feeling
https://poez.io/ || poezioAUR
Profanity — A console based XMPP client inspired by Irssi.
https://profanity-im.github.io/ || profanity
Graphical
Converse.js — Web-based XMPP chat client written in JavaScript.
https://conversejs.org/ || conversejs-gitAUR
Dino — A modern, easy to use XMPP client, with PGP and OMEMO support.
Gajim — XMPP client with audio support written in Python using GTK.
Kaidan — A simple, user-friendly Jabber/XMPP client providing a modern user interface using Kirigami and QtQuick.
https://www.kaidan.im/ || kaidanAUR
Kadu — Qt-based XMPP and Gadu-Gadu client.
http://www.kadu.im/ || kaduAUR
Libervia (Salut à Toi) — Web frontend for Salut à Toi, multi-purpose XMPP client
https://salut-a-toi.org/ || libervia-web-hgAUR
Nextcloud JavaScript XMPP Client — Chat app for Nextcloud with XMPP, end-to-end encryption, video calls, file transfer & group chat.
https://github.com/nextcloud/jsxc.nextcloud || nextcloud-app-jsxcAUR
Psi — Qt-based XMPP client.
https://psi-im.org/ || psi or psi-nowebengine
Spark — Cross-platform real-time XMPP collaboration client optimized for business and organizations.
https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/spark/ || sparkAUR
Swift — XMPP client written in C++ with Qt and Swiften.
https://swift.im/ || swift-imAUR
Tkabber — Easy to hack feature-rich XMPP client by the author of the ejabberd XMPP server.
http://tkabber.jabber.ru/ || tkabberAUR
Vacuum IM — Full-featured crossplatform XMPP client.
https://github.com/Vacuum-IM/vacuum-im || vacuum-imAUR
SIP clients
See also Wikipedia:List of SIP software#Clients.
Blink — State of the art, easy to use SIP client.
https://icanblink.com/ || blinkAUR
baresip — portable and modular SIP User-Agent with audio and video support
https://github.com/baresip/baresip || baresip
Jami — SIP-compatible softphone and instant messenger for the decentralized Jami network. Formerly known as Ring and SFLphone.
Linphone — VoIP phone application (SIP client) for communicating freely with people over the internet, with voice, video, and text instant messaging.
https://www.linphone.org/ || linphone-desktopAUR
Twinkle — Qt softphone for VoIP and IM communication using SIP.
http://twinkle.dolezel.info/ || twinkleAUR
Zoiper — Proprietary SIP and IAX2 VoIP softphone
https://zoiper.com || zoiperAUR
Matrix clients
See also Matrix and Matrix Clients.
Element — Glossy Matrix client with an emphasis on performance and usability. Web application and desktop application based on the Electron platform.
https://element.io/ || element-web, element-desktop
QuickMedia — A rofi inspired native client for web services. Supports Matrix and several other sites.
https://git.dec05eba.com/QuickMedia/about/ || quickmedia-gitAUR
FluffyChat — Multi-platform Matrix client with a simple and clean UI written in Dart/Flutter.
https://fluffychat.im/ || fluffychatAUR
Fractal — Matrix client for GNOME written in Rust.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Fractal || fractal
https://maunium.net/go/gomuks || gomuks
Mirage — A fancy, customizable, keyboard-operable Matrix chat client for encrypted and decentralized communication. Written in Qt/QML + Python with nio, currently in alpha.
https://github.com/mirukana/mirage || matrix-mirageAUR
Neochat — KDE client for the Matrix protocol.
https://apps.kde.org/neochat/ || neochat
nheko — Desktop client for the Matrix protocol.
https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko || nheko
Quaternion — Qt5-based IM client for the Matrix protocol.
https://github.com/QMatrixClient/Quaternion || quaternionAUR
SchildiChat — Matrix client based on Element with a more traditional instant messaging experience. Based on the Electron platform.
https://schildi.chat/ || schildichat-desktopAUR
Spectral — Qt5-based Glossy cross-platform client for Matrix.
https://gitlab.com/spectral-im/spectral || spectral-matrixAUR
Syphon — Privacy-centric cross-platform Matrix client with E2EE support, currently in alpha.
https://github.com/syphon-org/syphon || syphon-binAUR
Tox clients
See also Tox and comparison clients
qTox — Powerful Tox client written in C++/Qt that follows the Tox design guidelines.
https://qtox.github.io/ || qtox
ratox — FIFO based tox client.
https://git.z3bra.org/ratox/file/README.html || ratox-gitAUR
Toxic — ncurses-based Tox client
https://github.com/Jfreegman/toxic || toxic
Toxygen — Tox client written in pure Python3.
https://github.com/toxygen-project/toxygen || toxygen-gitAUR
Venom — a modern Tox client for the GNU/Linux desktop
https://github.com/naxuroqa/Venom || venomAUR
µTox — Lightweight Tox client.
https://github.com/uTox/uTox || utox
LAN messengers
See also Avahi#Link-Local (Bonjour/Zeroconf) chat and Wikipedia:Comparison of LAN messengers.
BeeBEEP — Secure LAN Messenger.
https://www.beebeep.net/ || beebeep
iptux — LAN communication software, compatible with IP Messenger.
https://github.com/iptux-src/iptux || iptux
LAN Messenger — P2P chat application for intranet communication and does not require a server. A variety of handy features are supported including notifications, personal and group messaging with encryption, file transfer and message logging.
https://lanmessenger.github.io/ || lmcAUR
P2P messaging clients
See also Ring and Tox.
Bitmessage — Decentralized and trustless P2P communications protocol for sending encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers.
https://bitmessage.org/ || pybitmessageAUR
Briar — Briar is a messaging application designed for activists, journalists, and anyone else who needs a safe, easy and robust way to communicate.
https://briarproject.org/ || briar-desktopAUR, briar-headlessAUR
Patchwork — Decentralized messaging and sharing application built on top of Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB). Based on the Electron platform.
https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork || ssb-patchworkAUR
RetroShare — Serverless encrypted instant messenger with filesharing, chatgroups, mail.
https://retroshare.cc/ || retroshareAUR
Ricochet — Anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging system built on Tor hidden services.
https://www.ricochetrefresh.net/ || ricochet-refreshAUR
Other IM clients
BlueJeans — Proprietary desktop application for BlueJeans video calls. Based on the Electron platform.
https://www.bluejeans.com/ || bluejeansAUR
Caprine — Unofficial Facebook Messenger app. Based on the Electron platform.
https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine || caprine
Chatterino — Chat client for Twitch chat.
https://chatterino.com/ || chatterino2-gitAUR
Delta Chat — A privacy oriented chat application built on e-mail. Based on the Electron platform.
https://delta.chat/ || deltachat-desktop-gitAUR
Discord — Proprietary all-in-one voice and text chat application for gamers that’s free and works on both your desktop and phone. Based on the Electron platform.
https://discordapp.com/ || discord
Gitter — Communication product for communities and teams on GitLab and GitHub.
https://gitter.im/ || gitter-binAUR
Hangups — Third-party instant messaging client for Google Hangouts with console interface.
https://github.com/tdryer/hangups || hangupsAUR
ICQ — Official ICQ client for Linux.
https://icq.com/linux/ || icq-binAUR
IRCCloud — Desktop client for a modern, always-connected IRC client service. Based on the Electron platform.
https://www.irccloud.com/ || irccloudAUR
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron || jitsi-meet-desktopAUR
Kotatogram Desktop — Experimental fork of Telegram Desktop.
https://kotatogram.github.io/ || kotatogram-desktopAUR
Matterhorn — Console client for the Mattermost chat system.
https://github.com/matterhorn-chat/matterhorn || matterhornAUR
Mattermost Desktop — Desktop application for Mattermost. Based on the Electron platform.
https://github.com/mattermost/desktop || mattermost-desktop
Microsoft Teams — Official proprietary client for Microsoft Teams. Based on the Electron platform.
https://teams.microsoft.com/downloads || teamsAUR
Mumble — Voice chat application similar to TeamSpeak.
https://www.mumble.info/ || mumble
QQ — Proprietary instant messaging software developed by Tencent (imitating ICQ).
https://im.qq.com/ || linuxqqAUR
Rocket.Chat Desktop — Desktop application for Rocket.Chat. Based on the Electron platform.
https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Electron || rocketchat-desktopAUR
Session Desktop — Onion routing based messenger. Based on the Electron platform.
https://getsession.org/ || session-desktopAUR
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop || signal-desktop
https://www.skype.com/ || skypeforlinux-stable-binAUR
https://slack.com/downloads/linux || slack-desktopAUR
teams-for-linux — Unofficial Microsoft Teams for Linux client. Based on the Electron platform.
https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux || teams-for-linuxAUR
TeamSpeak — Proprietary VoIP application with gamers as its target audience.
https://www.teamspeak.com/ || teamspeak3
TeamTalk — Proprietary VoIP application with video chat, file and desktop sharing. Desktop sharing does not appear to be working in Linux though. AUR package is server only, but client is built in the make process.
https://bearware.dk || teamtalkAUR
Telegram Desktop — Official Telegram desktop client.
https://desktop.telegram.org/ || telegram-desktop
Telegrand — GTK4 telegram client for GNOME.
https://github.com/melix99/telegrand || telegrand-gitAUR
ThreemaQT — Unofficial Threema Web desktop client.
https://gitlab.com/bit3/threemaqt || threemaqtAUR
Viber — Proprietary cross-platform IM and VoIP software.
https://www.viber.com/products/linux/ || viberAUR
https://wire.com/ || wire-desktop
YakYak — Unofficial desktop client for Google Hangouts. Based on the Electron platform.
https://github.com/yakyak/yakyak || yakyak-gitAUR
Zoom — Proprietary video conferencing, online meetings and group messaging application.
https://zoom.us/ || zoomAUR
https://zulipchat.com/apps/linux || zulip-desktopAUR
Instant messaging servers
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of instant messaging protocols.
IRC servers
InspIRCd — A stable, modern and lightweight IRC daemon.
https://www.inspircd.org/ || inspircdAUR
IRCD-Hybrid — A lightweight, high-performance internet relay chat daemon.
https://www.ircd-hybrid.org/ || ircd-hybridAUR
miniircd — A small and configuration free IRC server, suitable for private use.
https://github.com/jrosdahl/miniircd || miniircd-gitAUR
ngIRCd — A free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server for small or private networks.
https://ngircd.barton.de/ || ngircd
Ergo — A modern and simple to set up IRC server written in Go. Combines the features of an IRCd, a services framework, and a bouncer.
https://ergo.chat/ || ergochatAUR
UnrealIRCd — Open Source IRC Server.
https://www.unrealircd.org/ || unrealircd
XMPP servers
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of XMPP server software.
Prosody — An XMPP server written in the Lua programming language. Prosody is designed to be lightweight and highly extensible. It is licensed under a permissive MIT license.
https://prosody.im/ || prosody
Ejabberd — Robust, scalable and extensible XMPP Server written in Erlang
https://www.ejabberd.im/ || ejabberd
Jabberd2 — An XMPP server written in the C language and licensed under the GNU General Public License. It was inspired by jabberd14.
https://jabberd2.org/ || jabberd2AUR
Openfire — An XMPP IM multiplatform server written in Java
https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/ || openfire
SIP servers
See also Wikipedia:List of SIP software#Servers.
Asterisk — A complete PBX solution.
https://www.asterisk.org/ || asteriskAUR
Kamailio — Rock solid SIP server.
https://www.kamailio.org/ || kamailioAUR
openSIPS — SIP proxy/server for voice, video, IM, presence and any other SIP extensions.
https://opensips.org/ || opensips
Repro — An open-source, free SIP server.
https://www.resiprocate.org/About_Repro || reproAUR
Yate — Advanced, mature, flexible telephony server that is used for VoIP and fixed networks, and for traditional mobile operators and MVNOs.
Other IM servers
Mattermost — Open source private cloud server, Slack-alternative.
https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server || mattermost
Murmur — The voice chat application server for Mumble.
https://www.mumble.info/ || mumble-server
Nextcloud Talk — Video- and audio-conferencing app for Nextcloud.
https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed || nextcloud-app-spreed
Rocket.Chat — Web chat server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor fullstack framework.
https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat || rocketchat-serverAUR
Spreed WebRTC — WebRTC audio/video call and conferencing server.
https://github.com/strukturag/spreed-webrtc || spreed-webrtc-serverAUR
Synapse — Reference homeserver for the Matrix protocol.
https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse || matrix-synapse
TeamSpeak Server — Proprietary VoIP conference server.
https://teamspeak.com/ || teamspeak3-server
uMurmur — Minimalistic Mumble server.
https://umurmur.net/ || umurmur
Collaborative software
See also Wikipedia:Collaborative software.
Citadel/UX — Includes an email & mailing list server, instant messaging, address books, calendar/scheduling, bulletin boards, and wiki and blog engines.
https://www.citadel.org/ || webcitAUR
SOGo — Groupware server built around OpenGroupware.org (OGo) and the SOPE application server.
https://sogo.nu/ || sogoAUR
Link shortening servers
microbin — A tiny, self-contained, configurable paste bin and URL shortener written in Rust.
https://github.com/szabodanika/microbin || microbinAUR
pb — A lightweight pastebin and url shortener built using flask.
https://github.com/ptpb/pb || pbAUR
shlink — Self-proclaimed definitive self-hosted URL shortener.
https://shlink.io/ || shlinkAUR
YOURLS — A self-hosted link shortening service written in PHP.
https://yourls.org/ || yourlsAUR
News, RSS, and blogs
News aggregators
Web feeds aggregators. Some email clients are also able to act as news aggregator: Claws Mail RSSyl plugin, Evolution, SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups, Thunderbird.
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of feed aggregators.
Console
Canto — Ncurses RSS aggregator.
https://github.com/themoken/canto-curses || canto-curses
Gnus — Email, NNTP and RSS client for Emacs.
https://www.gnus.org/ || emacs
feed2imap-go — feed2imap reimplemented in Go that aggregating RSS/Atom/jsonfeed into folders of your IMAP mailbox.
https://github.com/Necoro/feed2imap-go || feed2imap-goAUR
Newsboat — Ncurses RSS aggregator with layout and keybinding similar to the Mutt email client.
https://newsboat.org/ || newsboat
Rawdog — "RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur" that parses RSS/CDF/Atom feeds into a static HTML page of articles in chronological order.
https://offog.org/code/rawdog/ || rawdogAUR
rss2email — Aggregating your RSS/Atom feed into your IMAP/Maildir mailbox as a cronjob.
https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email || rss2email
sfeed — Crontab oriented shell-scriptable feed aggregator setup with a RSS/Atom parser utility plus a simple ncurses reader.
https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html || sfeedAUR
Snownews — Text mode RSS news reader.
https://github.com/kouya/snownews || snownewsAUR
Graphical
https://apps.kde.org/akregator/ || akregator
Alligator — Kirigami-based RSS/Atom feed reader for mobile devices.
https://apps.kde.org/alligator/ || alligatorAUR
FeedReader — Modern desktop application designed to complement existing web-based RSS accounts. Discontinued.
https://jangernert.github.io/FeedReader/ || feedreaderAUR
Feeds — An RSS/Atom feed reader for GNOME.
https://gabmus.gitlab.io/gnome-feeds/ || gfeeds
Fluent Reader — Modern desktop RSS reader built with React and Fluent UI. Based on the Electron platform.
https://hyliu.me/fluent-reader/ || fluent-readerAUR
HackUp — Read Hacker News from the desktop.
https://github.com/mdh34/hackup || hackup-gitAUR
Liferea — GTK news aggregator for online news feeds and weblogs.
https://lzone.de/liferea/ || liferea
NewsFlash — Modern feed reader designed for the GNOME desktop. The spiritual successor to FeedReader.
https://gitlab.com/news-flash/news_flash_gtk || newsflash
Nextcloud News — RSS/Atom feed reader for Nextcloud.
https://github.com/nextcloud/news || nextcloud-app-news
Raven — Simple desktop RSS reader made using VueJS. Based on the Electron platform.
https://ravenreader.app/ || raven-readerAUR
RSS Guard — Very tiny RSS and ATOM news reader developed using Qt framework.
https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard || rssguard or rssguard-lite
selfoss — The new multipurpose RSS reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application.
https://selfoss.aditu.de/ || selfossAUR
Tickr — GTK-based RSS Reader that displays feeds as a smooth scrolling line on your desktop, as known from TV stations.
https://www.open-tickr.net/ || tickrAUR
Tiny Tiny RSS — Web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) aggregator.
Podcast clients
Some media players are also able to act as podcast client: Amarok, Cantata, Clementine, Goggles Music Manager, Rhythmbox, VLC media player. git-annex can also function as podcatcher.
See also Wikipedia:List of podcatchers.
Console
castero — A TUI podcast client for the terminal.
https://github.com/xgi/castero || castero-gitAUR
castget — Simple, command-line RSS enclosure downloader, primarily intended for automatic, unattended downloading of podcasts.
https://castget.johndal.com/ || castget
gpo — Text mode interface of gPodder.
https://gpodder.github.io/ || gpodder
Greg — A command-line podcast aggregator.
https://github.com/manolomartinez/greg || greg-gitAUR
Marrie — A simple podcast client that runs on the Command Line Interface.
https://github.com/rafaelmartins/marrie/ || marrie-gitAUR
pcd — A minimal podcast client written in go
https://github.com/kvannotten/pcd || pcdAUR
Graphical
CPod — Simple, beautiful podcast app. Based on the Electron platform.
https://github.com/z-------------/CPod || cpodAUR
GNOME Podcasts — Podcast client for the GNOME Desktop written in Rust.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/podcasts || gnome-podcasts
gPodder — Podcast client and media aggregator (GTK interface).
https://gpodder.github.io/ || gpodder
Vocal — Simple podcast client for the Modern Desktop (GTK).
https://vocalproject.net/ || vocal
Usenet newsreaders
Some email clients are also able to act as Usenet newsreader: Claws Mail, Evolution, NeoMutt, SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups, Sylpheed, Thunderbird.
See also: Wikipedia:List of Usenet newsreaders, Wikipedia:Comparison of Usenet newsreaders.
Console
nn — Alternative more user-friendly (curses-based) Usenet newsreader for UNIX.
http://www.nndev.org/ || nnAUR
slrn — Text-based news client.
https://www.slrn.org/ || slrnAUR
tin — A cross-platform threaded NNTP and spool based UseNet newsreader.
http://tin.org/ || tinAUR
trn — A text-based Threaded Usenet newsreader.
http://trn.sourceforge.net/ || trnAUR
Graphical
NZBGet — Usenet binary downloader for .nzb files with web and CLI interface.
Pan — GTK Usenet newsreader that's good at both text and binaries.
http://pan.rebelbase.com/ || pan
SABnzbd — An open-source binary newsreader webapp written in Python.
https://sabnzbd.org/ || sabnzbdAUR
XRN — Usenet newsreader for X Window System.
http://www.mit.edu/people/jik/software/xrn.html || xrnAUR
Microblogging clients
Choqok — Microblogging client for KDE that supports Mastodon, Pump.io and GNU social.
https://choqok.kde.org/ || choqok
Dianara — Pump.io client written in Qt.
https://jancoding.wordpress.com/dianara/ || dianaraAUR
Giara — Reddit app, built with Python, GTK and Handy.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/giara || giaraAUR
Mikutter — Simple, powerful Mastodon client using GTK and Ruby.
https://mikutter.hachune.net/ || mikutterAUR
Pumpa — Pump.io client written in C++ and Qt.
https://pumpa.branchable.com/ || pumpa-gitAUR
Tokodon — Mastodon client for KDE.
https://apps.kde.org/tokodon/ || tokodon
toot — CLI and TUI tool for interacting with Mastodon instances.
https://github.com/ihabunek/toot || tootAUR
Tootle — GTK3 client for Mastodon.
https://github.com/bleakgrey/tootle || tootleAUR
Whalebird — Mastodon client application. Based on the Electron platform.
https://whalebird.social/ || whalebirdAUR
Blog engines
See also Wikipedia:Blog software and Wikipedia:List of content management systems.
Note: Content managers, social networks, and blog publishers overlap in many functions.
Diaspora — A distributed privacy aware social network.
https://diasporafoundation.org || diaspora-mysqlAUR or diaspora-postgresqlAUR
Drupal — A PHP-based content management platform.
https://www.drupal.org/ || drupal
Joomla — A php Content Management System (CMS) which enables you to build websites and powerful online applications.
https://www.joomla.org/ || joomlaAUR
Wordpress — Blog tool and publishing platform.
https://wordpress.org/ || wordpress
Static site generators
Hexo — Fast, simple and powerful blog framework.
https://hexo.io/ || hexo-cliAUR
Hugo — Hugo is a static HTML and CSS website generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, ease of use, and configurability.
Jekyll — Static blog engine, written in Ruby, which supports Markdown, textile and other formats.
https://jekyllrb.com/ || jekyllAUR