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

SharePoint is a web-based collaborative platform that’s often used as a document management and storage system.

BackgroundRemover is a command line tool to remove the background from images and videos using AI. The AI is performed courtesy of U2Net, a machine learning model that allows you to crop objects in a single shot. Taking an image of a person, cat, etc. as input, it can compute an alpha value to separate the background from the panoramic view.

Resonance is an example of a project that’s in a very early stage of development. This is an intuitive music player application written in Rust (with a smattering of Python), built with a clean user interface using GTK4 / Libadwaita.

Apple Books is an e-book reading and store application. It primarily receives EPUB content from the Apple Books store, but users can also add their own EPUB and Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Apple Books is proprietary software and not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

PhotoPrism is an AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web. It uses modern technologies to tag and find pictures. The software can be run at home, on a private server, or in the cloud. It’s free and open source software.

tori is an example of a project that’s in a very early stage of development. This is a terminal-based music player and playlist manager that can play music from local files and external URLs. It’s billed as a frictionless music player, although it’s not clear what this really means.

Activity Monitor displays a variety of resources in use on a system in real time. These include processes, disk activity, memory usage, and more to provide a sort of dashboard.

Spleeter is a source separation library with pre-trained models. It's written in Python and uses Tensorflow for its computation.

MusicPod is an example of a project that’s in a very early stage of development. It’s a music, radio player and podcast player wrapped up in a graphical user interface.

Imaginer is GTK4 software which lets you generate pictures using AI. You supply a text prompt, consisting of a collection of words to describe an image, and an AI model creates an image based on the words. Imaginer uses Stable Diffusion and other deep learning, text-to-image models to generate the images.

Microsoft Calculator is a simple yet powerful calculator that includes standard, scientific, programmer, and graphing calculator functionality, as well as a set of converters between various units of measurement and currencies.

Distrobox is software which creates and manages container-based development environments without root privileges. It lets you run a wide range of Linux distributions on a single host system.

Apple Font Book is a font manager which lets you organise fonts into collections and libraries to quickly access those fonts you use all the time.

Bavarder is a GTK4/libadwaita based app that offers an easy way to experiment with ChatGPT. Given that a flatpak is available for Bavarder, it’s an obvious candidate for us to investigate.

Quod Libet is a mature music player with music management functionality. It offers a variety of ways to access your media library and combines streaming audio and podcast feeds. There’s metadata editing and searching functionality on offer.

cbonsai is a bonsai tree generator, written in C using ncurses. It intelligently creates, colors, and positions a bonsai tree in your terminal.

System Monitoring Center is a multi-featured system monitor. It's free and open source software written in the Python programming language. Essential System Utilities is a series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems.

This article looks at Tera, an interactive music radio player sporting a terminal user interface. Play your radio stations, CRUD your favorite lists, and explore stations from your terminal.

Windows Terminal is billed as “a modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL”.