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Radio is billed as a simple radio with a clear and concise interface. It’s written in Vala and published under an open source license.

Want to see your frame rate counter while gaming? Want to monitor your temperatures to make sure you’re not cooking your machine? Want to monitor your CPU/GPU load? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, you’ll need a monitoring program to help track this information.

LibreTranslate is a machine translation API which is entirely self-hosted. This software lets you use open source machine translation in your projects. It uses Argos Translate for its translation engine.

Linux has a fairly limited range of eBook readers, so we’re always keen to explore new entrants. Arianna is a ebook reader built for the KDE Plasma desktop but, of course, runs under other desktop environments. It uses Qt, a C++ framework for developing graphical user interfaces and cross-platform applications, and the Kirigami UI framework.

Google Password Manager is a password manager built into Chrome and Android devices. While it’s free to use it’s published under a proprietary license with little information about security used.

gpu-screen-recorder-gtk is a GTK frontend for GPU Screen Recorder. It’s billed as a screen recorder that minimizes system performance by recording using the GPU only. It also claims to be the fastest screen recording tool for Linux. That’s a bold claim indeed and piqued our senses.

Making sure your graphics card’s frames per second (FPS) output matches the refresh rate of your monitor shouldn’t be an issue. But sometimes it can be. libstrangle is a Linux utility that lets you cap the FPS of a game. It’s free and open source software written in C.

Swing Music bills itself as a cooler Spotify from both a visual and functionality perspective. That caught my attention. Unlike Spotify, it’s not a streaming service. Instead, Swing Music is a self-hosted music player where you provide the audio files. This is free and open source software.

Argos Translate is state of the art neural machine translation software. It’s written in Python and published under an open source license. Argos Translate uses OpenNMT for translations and can be used as either a Python library, command-line, or GUI application.

Raven Reader is a desktop news reader application. It’s built using Electron, a popular framework with developers, as it makes it easier to build a desktop app that works cross-platform. One code base and create an app that works on popular operating systems.

Festival is a graphical music player for local album collections. It’s cross-platform software running under Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Audiocraft is Python-based software which provides the code and models for MusicGen, a simple and controllable model for music generation.

Fluent Reader is a desktop news reader application. It’s built using Electron, a popular framework with developers, together with React and Fluent UI. Electron makes it easier to build a desktop app that works cross-platform. One code base and create an app that works on popular operating systems.

Koodo Reader is an all-in-one free and open source ebook reader that's designed to offer an easy way to read and manage your ebook collection. There are packages for Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora, as well as distro-agnostic AppImage (including ARM) and snap packages.

Voice Memos is an audio recording app. It’s designed to save recordings of sound with built-in or attached microphones for later playback. It also provides basic editing functionality.

One of the standout machine learning apps is Stable Diffusion, a latent text-to-image diffusion model capable of generating photo-realistic images given any text input. We’ve explored quite a few hugely impressive web frontends such as Easy Diffusion, InvokeAI, and Stable Diffusion web UI.

Easy Effects is GTK4 audio manipulation software which includes a range of tools. Besides an equalizer, there are many other tools incorporated including a limiter, compressor, and a reverberation tool. There’s a built-in spectrum analyzer too.

Apple Freeform is a digital whiteboarding application. The app is designed to encourage brainstorming and enable real-time collaboration between users, with support for FaceTime and iCloud syncing.

Flemozi is billed as a simple, fast and lightweight emoji picker for desktop operating systems. It’s written in Dart and published under an open source license.

cli-chess is a command-line chess program that lets you play online against human players and offline against the computer.