Others

Organization

Personal information managers

These applications support time, task and contacts management.

Evolution — Personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring and address book functionality. Part of gnome-extra.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution || evolution

Kontact — Integrated solution to your personal information management.

https://kontact.kde.org/ || kontact

Osmo — GTK personal organizer, which includes calendar, tasks manager and address book modules.

http://osmo-pim.sourceforge.net || osmo

SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups with Lightning — Extension to SeaMonkey that provides calendar and task support.

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ || seamonkey

Thunderbird with Lightning — Extension to Mozilla Thunderbird that provides calendar and task support.

https://www.thunderbird.net/calendar/ || thunderbird

Time management

Console

Calcurse — Text-based ncurses calendar and scheduling system (supports CalDAV)

https://calcurse.org || calcurse

ccal — A console program which writes a calendar together with Chinese calendar to standard output.

http://ccal.chinesebay.com/ccal/ccal.htm || ccalAUR

khal — Command-line (non-interactive) and ncurses (interactive) calendar system (supports CalDAV)

https://github.com/pimutils/khal || khal

mail2rem — Small script for importing .ics calendars from Maildir to Remind calendar.

https://github.com/esovetkin/mail2rem || mail2rem-gitAUR

Pal — Very lightweight calendar with both interactive and non-interactive interfaces.

http://palcal.sourceforge.net/ || palAUR

pcal — A tool to create pdf calendars from pcal input which can be exported by some calendar programs.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcal/ || pcalAUR

Remind — Highly sophisticated text-based calendaring and notification system.

https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/ || remind

When — Simple personal calendar program.

http://lightandmatter.com/when/when.html || when

Wyrd — Text-based front-end to Remind, a calendar and alarm program used on UNIX and Linux computers.

https://gitlab.com/wyrd-calendar/wyrd || wyrdAUR

Graphical

chinese-calendar — Chinese traditional calendar for Ubuntu Kylin.

https://launchpad.net/chinese-calendar/ || chinese-calendar

CoreTime — Very simple Clock/Calendar application which shows a clock, supports alarms, reminders, a stop watch and a timer. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/ || coretimeAUR

Day Planner — Program designed to help you easily plan and manage your time. It can manage appointments, birthdays and more.

https://www.day-planner.org/ || dayplannerAUR

Deepin Calendar — Calendar application for Deepin.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/dde-calendar/ || deepin-calendar

etmtk (Event and Task Manager) — Simple application with a "Getting Things Done!" approach to handling events, tasks, activities, reminders and projects.

https://people.duke.edu/~dgraham/ETMtk/ || etmtkAUR

Gahshomar — Persian (Jalali/Farsi) calendar.

https://www.gahshomar.org/gahshomar/ || gahshomarAUR

GNOME Calendar — Calendar application for GNOME.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Calendar || gnome-calendar

KAlarm — Personal alarm message, command and email scheduler, part of kde-pim.

https://apps.kde.org/kalarm/ || kalarm

KOrganizer — Calendar and scheduling program, part of kde-pim.

https://kontact.kde.org/components/korganizer || korganizer

Kalendar — A calendar application using Akonadi to sync with external services (NextCloud, GMail, ...).

https://invent.kde.org/pim/kalendar || kalendar

Nextcloud Calendar — Calendar app for Nextcloud.

https://github.com/nextcloud/calendar || nextcloud-app-calendar

Outspline — Extensible outliner with advanced time management features, supporting events with complex recurrence schemes.

https://kynikos.github.io/outspline/ || outsplineAUR

TkRemind — Sophisticated calendar and alarm program.

https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/ || remind

Timers

Countdown timers and stopwatch

GNOME Clocks — Clocks application for GNOME, including alarm, stopwatch and timer functionality.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Clocks || gnome-clocks

Hourglass — Simple time keeping application designed for elementary OS.

https://github.com/sgpthomas/hourglass || hourglass-gitAUR

Kronometer — Stopwatch application for KDE.

https://apps.kde.org/kronometer/ || kronometer

KTeaTime — Handy timer for steeping tea.

https://apps.kde.org/kteatime/ || kteatime

pystopwatch — Stopwatch written in Python with a clock and two countdown functions that can minimize to the tray.

https://xyne.dev/projects/pystopwatch/ || pystopwatchAUR

snore — A program like sleep, but with feedback.

https://github.com/clamiax/snore || snore-gitAUR

termdown — Countdown timer and stopwatch in your terminal.

https://github.com/trehn/termdown || termdown

Break timers

GNOME Break Timer — Keeps track of how much you are using the computer, and it reminds you to take regular breaks.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/BreakTimer || gnome-break-timer

RSI Break — Takes care of your health and regularly breaks your work to avoid repetitive strain injury (RSI).

https://apps.kde.org/rsibreak/ || rsibreak

Safe Eyes — Tool to reduce and prevent repetitive strain injury (RSI).

https://slgobinath.github.io/SafeEyes/ || safeeyesAUR

Workrave — Program that assists in the recovery and prevention of RSI.

https://workrave.org/ || workrave

Pomodoro timers

See Wikipedia:Pomodoro Technique for an introduction.

flow — Pomodoro app that blocks distractions while you work.

https://github.com/iamsergio/flow-pomodoro || flow-pomodoroAUR

Gnomato — Timer for the Pomodoro Technique.

https://github.com/diegorubin/gnomato || gnomatoAUR

GNOME Pomodoro — Time management utility for GNOME based on the Pomodoro Technique.

https://gnomepomodoro.org/ || gnome-shell-pomodoroAUR

Pilorama — Eye-candy timeboxing tool written in QML

https://github.com/eplatonoff/pilorama || pilorama-gitAUR

Pomodoro-Logger — Pomodoro timer and logger with Kanban board for task management and tracking.

https://github.com/zxch3n/PomodoroLogger || pomodoro-loggerAUR

Solanum — A pomodoro timer for the GNOME desktop

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/solanum || solanumAUR

Tomate — Timer for the Pomodoro Technique.

https://github.com/eliostvs/tomate-gtk || tomate-gtkAUR

Tomato — Simple, usable and efficient pomodoro app designed for elementaryOS.

https://github.com/luizaugustomm/tomato || tomato-gitAUR

Tomighty — Desktop timer for the Pomodoro Technique.

https://tomighty.github.io || tomightyAUR

Time trackers

ActivityWatch — A self/local-hosted, cross-platform, client-server, privacy-focused active window tracker.

https://github.com/ActivityWatch/activitywatch || activitywatch-binAUR

Hamster — Time tracking application that helps you to keep track on how much time you have spent during the day on activities you choose to track.

http://projecthamster.org/ || hamster-time-tracker

Kapow — Punch clock to track time spent on projects.

https://gottcode.org/kapow/ || kapowAUR

KTimeTracker — Todo management and time tracking application.

https://apps.kde.org/ktimetracker/ || ktimetracker

Tider — Lightweight time tracking application (GTK)

https://github.com/naspeh/tider || tider-gitAUR

Timenaut — Time tracker that tracks active windows and lets you sort them into categories. Based on the Electron platform.

https://timenaut.app/ || timenaut-appimageAUR

Timewarrior — A command-line time-tracking application.

https://timewarrior.net/ || timew

Timetrack — Simple time-tracking app for GNOME.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/danigm/timetrack || timetrackAUR

Wakatime — Open source plugins for metrics about your programming with intuitive web-interface.

https://wakatime.com/ || wakatime

Task management

Console

DevTodo — Small command line application for maintaining lists of tasks.

https://swapoff.org/devtodo1.html || devtodoAUR

Taskbook — Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat.

https://github.com/klauscfhq/taskbook || taskbookAUR

Taskwarrior — Command-line To-do list application with support for lua customization and more.

https://taskwarrior.org/ || task

todoman — Command-line To-do list manager (supports CalDAV)

https://github.com/pimutils/todoman || todoman

Todo.txt — Small command-line To-do manager.

https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-cli/ || todotxtAUR

TuDu — Ncurses-based hierarchical To-do list manager with vim-like keybindings.

https://code.meskio.net/tudu/ || tuduAUR

Graphical

Agenda — Simple, fast, no-nonsense to-do (task) list for elementary OS.

https://github.com/dahenson/agenda || agenda-gitAUR

Effitask — Graphical task manager, based on the Todo.txt format.

https://github.com/sanpii/effitask || effitaskAUR

Getting Things GNOME! — Personal tasks and TODO list items organizer for GNOME inspired by the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology.

https://github.com/getting-things-gnome/gtg || gtgAUR

Go For It! — Simple and stylish productivity app, featuring a to-do list, merged with a timer that keeps your focus on the current task. To-do lists are stored in the Todo.txt format.

http://manuel-kehl.de/projects/go-for-it/ || go-for-it-gitAUR

Endeavour — Personal task manager for GNOME.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Todo || endeavour

Nextcloud Tasks — Tasks app for Nextcloud.

https://github.com/nextcloud/tasks || nextcloud-app-tasks

Planner — Task manager with Todoist support.

https://planner-todo.web.app/ || elementary-plannerAUR

ptask — GTK task manager based on Taskwarrior.

https://wpitchoune.net/ptask/ || ptaskAUR

QTodoTxt — UI client for todo.txt files.

https://github.com/mNantern/QTodoTxt || qtodotxtAUR

sleek — todo.txt app with modern GUI. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/ransome1/sleek/ || sleekAUR

Task Coach — Simple todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists.

https://www.taskcoach.org || taskcoachAUR

Tasque — Easy quick task management app written in C#.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/Tasque || tasqueAUR

Zanshin — To-do management application for KDE.

https://zanshin.kde.org/ || zanshin

Contacts management

Console

Abook — Text-based contacts manager designed for use with mutt.

http://abook.sourceforge.net/ || abookAUR

Khard — Command-line addressbook that is able to sync with CardDAV-servers.

https://github.com/scheibler/khard || khard

Graphical

Communicator — Integrated address book and dialer application features the search for and view of contacts, edit contact details, and make new contacts, favorites, and dialer pad.

https://mauikit.org/ || communicator

GNOME Contacts — Contacts manager for GNOME.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Contacts || gnome-contacts

KAddressBook — Address book manager for KDE.

https://kontact.kde.org/components/kaddressbook || kaddressbook

LDAP Administration Tool — Browse LDAP-based directories and add/edit/delete entries contained within.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ldap-at/ || latAUR

Nextcloud Contacts — Contacts app for Nextcloud.

https://github.com/nextcloud/contacts || nextcloud-app-contacts

phpLDAPadmin — LDAP client webapp. Its hierarchical tree-viewer and advanced search functionality make it intuitive to browse and administer your LDAP directory.

https://phpldapadmin.sourceforge.net/ || phpldapadmin

Thunderbird with CardBook extension — address book based on the CardDAV and vCard standards.

https://gitlab.com/CardBook/CardBook || thunderbird

Financial management

Console

Beancount — A double-entry bookkeeping computer language that lets you define financial transaction records in a text file, read them in memory, generate a variety of reports from them, and provides a web interface.

https://beancount.github.io/ || beancountAUR

esniper — Simple, lightweight tool for sniping eBay auctions.

http://esniper.sourceforge.net/ || esniperAUR

hledger — An accounting program for tracking money, time, or any other commodity, using double-entry accounting and a simple, editable file format. hledger is inspired by and largely compatible with ledger.

https://hledger.org/ || hledger

Ledger — Ledger is a powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line.

https://www.ledger-cli.org/ || ledger

Graphical

Eqonomize! — Cross-platform personal accounting software, with focus on efficiency and ease of use for the small household economy.

https://eqonomize.github.io/ || eqonomizeAUR

ERPNext — Free and open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).

https://github.com/frappe/erpnext || erpnextAUR

GnuCash — Financial application that implements a double-entry book-keeping system with features for small business accounting.

https://www.gnucash.org/ || gnucash

Grisbi — Personal finance system which manages third party, expenditure and receipt categories, as well as budgetary lines, financial years, and other information that makes it suitable for associations.

https://www.grisbi.org/ || grisbiAUR

HomeBank — Easy to use finance manager that can analyse your personal finance in detail using powerful filtering tools and graphs.

http://homebank.free.fr/ || homebank

KMyMoney — Personal finance manager that operates in a similar way to Microsoft Money. It supports different account types, categorisation of expenses and incomes, reconciliation of bank accounts and import/export to the “QIF” file format.

https://kmymoney.org/ || kmymoney

Kresus — Self-hosted personal finance management software. It automatically retrieves every day all your new bank transactions and lets you categorize them, study them through charts and establish a budget.

https://kresus.org/en/ || kresus

Manager — Proprietary accounting software for small business.

https://www.manager.io/ || manager-accountingAUR

Money Manager EX — An easy-to-use personal finance suite

https://www.moneymanagerex.org/ || moneymanagerexAUR

Odoo — Open source ERP system purely in Python. Previously known as OpenERP.

https://www.odoo.com/ || odooAUR

Skrooge — Personal finances manager for the KDE desktop.

https://skrooge.org/ || skrooge

Cryptocurrency

ARK Desktop Wallet — Wallet for ARK.

https://github.com/ArkEcosystem/desktop-wallet || ark-desktopAUR

Atomic Wallet — Manage your Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Litecoin, XLM, and over 300 other coins and tokens.

https://atomicwallet.io/ || atomicwalletAUR

Bitcoin Core — Connect to the Bitcoin P2P Network.

https://bitcoincore.org/ || bitcoin-qt

Coinomi — Securely store, manage and exchange Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more than 1,770 other blockchain assets.

https://www.coinomi.com/ || coinomi-wallet-binAUR

Cointop — Terminal based application for tracking cryptocurrencies.

https://cointop.sh/ || cointopAUR

Electrum — Lightweight Bitcoin client.

https://electrum.org/ || electrum

Etherwall — Ethereum wallet.

https://www.etherwall.com/ || etherwall

Exodus — All-in-one proprietary application to secure, manage, and exchange blockchain assets. Based on the Electron platform.

https://www.exodus.io/ || exodusAUR

Mist — Ethereum Dapp browser.

https://github.com/ethereum/mist || mistAUR

Monero — Monero wallet.

https://getmonero.org/ || monero-gui, monero

Dogecoin Core — Dogecoin Core wallet, Allows you to connect to the Dogecoin P2P Network.

https://dogecoin.com/ || dogecoin-qtAUR, multidogeAUR

Project management

Calligra Plan — Project management application, which is intended for managing moderately large projects with multiple resources.

https://www.calligra.org/plan/ || calligra-plan

GanttProject — Project scheduling application featuring gantt chart, resource management, calendaring.

https://www.ganttproject.biz/ || ganttprojectAUR

Notion-app — A note-taking software and project management software that is used for note-taking, task management, project management, knowledge management, and personal knowledge management.

https://www.notion.so/ || notion-appAUR

Planner — Project management application for GNOME.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Planner || plannerAUR

ProjectLibre — Project management software alternative to Microsoft Project.

https://www.projectlibre.com/product/projectlibre-open-source || projectlibreAUR

TaskJuggler — Modern and powerful project management tool. Its new approach to project planning and tracking is more flexible and superior to the commonly used Gantt chart editing tools.

https://taskjuggler.org/ || taskjugglerAUR

Recipe management

GNOME Recipes — Recipe management application for GNOME.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Recipes || gnome-recipes

Gourmand — Simple but powerful recipe-managing application.

https://github.com/GourmandRecipeManager/gourmand || gourmandAUR

KRecipes — KDE application designed to make organizing your personal recipes collection fast and easy.

https://apps.kde.org/krecipes/ || krecipesAUR

Education

Accessibility

See Accessibility for tips on operating the desktop and Category:Accessibility for all available articles. See also On-screen keyboards.

Speech synthesizers

Ekho — Chinese text-to-speech (TTS) software for Cantonese, Mandarin, Zhaoan Hakka, Tibetan, Ngangien and Korean.

https://eguidedog.net/ekho.php || ekhoAUR

eSpeak — Compact speech synthesizer for more than 50 languages.

https://espeak.sourceforge.net/ || espeakAUR

eSpeak NG — Fork of eSpeak (due to inactivity of original maintainer).

https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng || espeak-ng

Festival — General framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole it offers full text to speech.

https://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ || festival

Flite — Lightweight speech synthesis engine.

http://festvox.org/flite/ || flite

Gespeaker — GTK frontend for espeak. It allows you to play a text in many languages with settings for voice, pitch, volume and speed.

https://muflone.com/gespeaker/english/ || gespeakerAUR

KMouth — Speech synthesizer frontend which enables persons that cannot speak to let their computer speak.

https://apps.kde.org/kmouth/ || kmouth

MaryTTS — Multilingual text-to-speech synthesis platform written in Java.

http://mary.dfki.de/ || maryttsAUR

MBROLA — Proprietary phonemes-to-audio program which supports more than 70 languages. Mbrola-voices can also be used with eSpeak.

http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html || mbrolaAUR

Mimic — Text-to-speech voice synthesis from the Mycroft project (based on Flite).

https://mimic.mycroft.ai/ || mimicAUR

Open JTalk — Japanese text-to-speech synthesis system.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-jtalk/ || open-jtalkAUR

Orca — Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired, using eSpeak (via Speech Dispatcher).

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca || orca

RHVoice — Cross-platform (including Android) text-to-speech from a blind Russian-speaking developer, based on HTS (ru, ka, uk, ky, tt, en, pt, eo)

https://github.com/RHVoice/RHVoice || rhvoice

SOPS — Provides a simple way to write custom plugins for screen reader Orca.

https://github.com/chrys87/simple-orca-plugin-system || simpleorcapluginsystemAUR

Speech Dispatcher — Common interface to speech synthesis. It has backends for eSpeak, Festival, and a few other speech synthesizers.

https://freebsoft.org/speechd || speech-dispatcher

SVOX Pico — The text-to-speech engine used on Android phones. (en-US, en-GB, de-DE, es-ES, fr-FR, it-IT)

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/svox/+/master || svox-pico-binAUR

Speech recognition

Julius — Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition engine.

https://github.com/julius-speech/julius || juliusAUR

Kaldi — Speech recognition toolkit.

https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi || kaldiAUR

Kalliope — Modular always-on voice controlled personal assistant designed for home automation.

https://kalliope-project.github.io/ || kalliopeAUR

Kaylee — Somewhat fancy voice command recognition program that performs actions when a user speaks loosely preset sentences.

https://github.com/Ratfink/kaylee || kayleevcAUR

Mycroft — Hackable voice assistant.

https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core || mycroft-coreAUR

Numen — Voice control for handsfree computing

https://sr.ht/~geb/numen/ || numenAUR

Simon — Speech recognition program that can replace your mouse and keyboard.

https://simon.kde.org/ || simonAUR

nerd-dictation — Light weight manually activated dictation using the VOSK-API

https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation || nerd-dictation-gitAUR

Screen magnifiers

KMag — Small KDE utility to magnify a part of the screen.

https://apps.kde.org/kmag/ || kmag

Magnus — Very simple desktop magnifier, showing the area around the mouse pointer in a separate window magnified two, three, four, or five times.

https://kryogenix.org/code/magnus/ || magnusAUR

Virtual Magnifying Glass — Simple, customizable and easy-to-use screen magnification tool.

https://magnifier.sourceforge.net/ || vmgAUR

xzoom — Zoom, rotate and mirror area of X display.

https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/X11/libs/!INDEX.short.html || xzoomAUR

On-screen annotation

Gromit-MPX — Tool to make annotations on the screen.

https://github.com/bk138/gromit-mpx || gromit-mpxAUR

Pylote — Tool to draw on the screen.

http://pascal.peter.free.fr/pylote-en.html || pylote-gitAUR

Screenkey — Tool to display pressed keys.

https://www.thregr.org/~wavexx/software/screenkey/ || screenkey

Show Me The Key — A screenkey alternative that works under Wayland via libinput

https://showmethekey.alynx.one || showmethekeyAUR

Mouse

Easystroke — Use mouse gestures to initiate commands and hotkeys.

https://github.com/thjaeger/easystroke/wiki || easystrokeAUR

KMouseTool — Clicks the mouse whenever the mouse cursor pauses briefly. It was designed to help those with repetitive strain injuries, for whom pressing buttons hurts.

https://apps.kde.org/kmousetool/ || kmousetool

Mousetweaks — Accessibility enhancements for pointing devices.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Mousetweaks || mousetweaks

Display managers

See the main article: Display manager#List of display managers.

Desktop environments

See the main article: Desktop environment#List of desktop environments.

Window managers

Console

See also List of applications/Utilities#Terminal multiplexers, which offer some of the functions of window managers for the console.

twin — Text-mode window manager.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/twin/ || twin

Wmutils — A set of tools for X windows manipulation.

https://github.com/wmutils/core || wmutils-gitAUR

Graphical

See the main article: Window manager#List of window managers.

Composite managers

See the main article: Xorg#List of composite managers.

Wayland Compositors

See the main article: Wayland#Compositors.

Window tilers

QuickTile — Lightweight standalone alternative to Compiz Grid plugin.

http://ssokolow.com/quicktile/ || quicktile-gitAUR

wumwum — The Window Manager manager. It can turn emwh compliant window managers into a tiling window manager while retaining all initial functionalities.

http://wumwum.sourceforge.net/ || wumwumAUR

Taskbars

Text art

See ASCII art#Software.

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