Section: Apps

Here you can discover the latest Linux apps, software and system utilities to use on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and related distributions, from office suites and music players to dev tools and CLI scripts for getting things done.

Temps is a Beautiful Open Source Weather App

Checking on the weather isn’t hard: you just stick your head out of the window. But when the weather is unpredictable, or to keep an eye on its plans for the coming days, we turn to weather […]

9 November 2016

3 Great Linux Apps I Never Knew Existed

I’ve written about a lot of desktop Linux software in the nearly 8 years this site has been running.  Apps, utilities, tools and clients for almost everything, from bling-laden music players to java monstrosities via photo editors […]

9 November 2016

Meet Meow, a Purfect GNOME Menu Editor

If you love using GNOME Shell but wish that it was easier to create and customise folders in the App View, here's an app that might help.

1 November 2016
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Keep An Eye On Your Disks With SpaceView for Ubuntu

This site seems to have a thing for disk space menu bar apps of late. Joe even misquoted a well-known saying in a recent post, noting that “you wait ages for one disk usage indicator to arrive, and then […]

28 October 2016
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Deezer, Hype Machine Plugins Added to Harmony Music Player

Like a Spice Girls' solo career, I'll keep this post wonderfully short: a new version of the Harmony music player is available to download.

27 October 2016
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Video Call Improvements Land in Skype for Linux Alpha 1.11

Skype has released a new update to the Skype for Linux Alpha client. Skype for Linux Alpha 1.11 includes “many new features and improvement”, with support for setting an avatar in group chats; performance improvements during video call and […]

26 October 2016
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‘GNOME To Do’ App Picks Up New Features

GNOME To Do is one of those apps you’ve probably heard of, but do not use. And with a bunch of rivals task managers and to-do list apps available on Linux — from Simplenote to Remember the Milk — and online, the […]

26 October 2016

Desktop Gmail App WMail Scores a Sizeable Update

There's a new stable release of WMail, the app that describes itself as "the missing desktop client for Gmail".

26 October 2016
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A Wild Desktop Reddit App for Linux Appears

Reddit is …Well it’s Reddit: there’s little else like it on the internet. Thos of us who use Reddit probably do so a tab, in a browser, because that’s how the site works best. Many desktop Reddit apps exist, […]

25 October 2016
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Using Twitter from the Command Line is a Lot of Fun

The command line remains so incredibly popular because it’s so incredibly versatile. You can do a lot in a terminal. You can manage your OS, apps and files; you can connect to remote servers, watch […]

25 October 2016
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Wunderlist Electron App for Linux

Missing Wunderlist on Linux? You don't need to thanks to Wunderlistux, an Electron-based desktop app.

20 October 2016

Synapse or Albert — Which Is Your Favourite App Launcher for Linux?

We look at launcher apps in this post, with an intro to Synapse and word on newer alternative that you might not have heard about.

18 October 2016