Communication and News
Network application such as web browsers
AKASHA
AlterSend
Anchor
An Antelope Light Wallet with simple tools for basic activities and advanced tools for power users.
AntiBrow
Augur
Axe_Electrum
BATorrent
Backspace
BitBox
BlakeBitcoin
Blakecoin
Blurfer
Blurfer manages payload queues and sends selected files to a target host over TCP.
Brave_Browser
Breader
Cabal_Desktop_Mini
Carbonyl
Chrome_Isolation
Clearcote_Profile_Manager
Desktop manager for Clearcote browser profiles — create, save, organize, and launch coherent, persistent browser identities.
CleepDesktop
ClementineRemote
Cloud_Browser
Connectio
A local proxy manager — connect and route between local servers with optional Cloudflare tunnel exposure
CozyDrive
Save them safely in your open source personal cloud, access them anywhere, anytime with the mobile application and share them with the world or just your friends and colleagues. You can host your own Twake Workplace or use hosted services. Your freedom to chose is why you can trust us.
DNS_Hop
DNS Hop benchmarks DNS resolvers and can apply classic DNS endpoints as the system resolver.
Deployer
Discord
All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers that's free, secure, and works on both your desktop and phone.
Discrakt
Drawpile-Server
Dwyco_Phoo
Easy_NATS
EiskaltDC++
EiskaltDC++ is a cross-platform program that uses the Direct Connect and Advanced Direct Connect protocols. It is compatible with DC++, AirDC++, FlylinkDC++ and other DC clients. EiskaltDC++ also interoperates with all common DC hub software.
Currently supported systems (in order of decreasing importance): GNU/Linux, macOS, MS Windows, FreeBSD, Haiku and GNU/Hurd.
Features:
- Highly customizable user interface
- User interface is translated to many languages
- Encryption of traffic
- Multi-threaded download of files
- Support of binding to specific network interface or address
- Support of UPnP (Universal Plug and Play)
- Support of PFSR (partial file sharing)
- Support of DHT (Distributed Hash Table)
- Support of case-sensitive file lists
- Lists of downloaded and uploaded files
- Lists of public and favorite hubs
- Lists of favorite users
- List of active transfers
- Flexible search with the ability to group results
- Flexible settings for downloading files
- Indicator of free space on disk
- Support of IP filter and basic antispam
- Search spy
- ADL search
- Full-featured chat
- User commands on hub
- Flexible keyboard shortcuts settings
- Text and sound notifications for different events
- Flexible settings for files hashing
- Special tool for calculating of TTH for any file
- Support of limitations of download/upload speed
- Support of limitations by size of shared files
- Support of handling of magnet links, web magnet links and hub links
- Support of automatic replies to private messages when user is inactive
- Support of IDNA (recognition of national domain names)
- Support of URL encoded strings for hub addresses
Electorrent
ElectrumFair
Lightweight FairCoin Client
Ferdi
Ferdi is your messaging app / former Emperor of Austria and combines chat & messaging services into one application. Ferdi currently supports Slack, WhatsApp, WeChat, HipChat, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Google Hangouts, GroupMe, Skype and many more. You can download Ferdi for free for Mac & Windows.
FireDM
Firefox
Firefox_Beta
Firefox_ESR
Firefox_Nightly
Fluxer-World
Franz
FreeTube
FreeTunnel
GDownloader
GDownloader is a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) for yt-dlp, gallery-dl and spotDL written in Java.
Internet access is required to use this application.
Galacteek
Galacteek is a simple Qt5-based browser and toolbox for the IPFS peer-to-peer network. It contains tools to access and publish content over IPFS, and allows you to make search queries with the ipfs-search.com search engine.
Learn more about IPFS at ipfs.io
Gemalaya
Gemalaya is a keyboard-driven Gemini browser written in QML (PySide6). Links can be navigated from the keyboard using simple key sequences. Gemalaya can render regular websites as gemtext by using the builtin web-to-gemini proxy (levior). Visit gemalaya's website for more!
Geph
Geph (迷霧通) is a modular Internet censorship circumvention system designed specifically to deal with national filtering.
Ghostlane
Gitteraqt
GreenTunnel
Haven_Desktop
Headwater
HermesMessenger
Horizon
Husi
Hyperspace
IMAP_Cleanup_Tool
IXD
Inboxer
Invisic_Client
IziProxy
IziProxy connects to a VPS over SSH, installs Xray with VLESS + REALITY and gives you ready-to-use connection links and QR codes.
It also shows the Xray service status and traffic statistics, validates the server configuration and helps replace a blocked SNI domain.
Jorvik
K
Kaidan
Kaidan is a simple, user-friendly Jabber/XMPP client providing a modern user-interface using Kirigami and QtQuick. The back-end of Kaidan is entirely written in C++ using the qxmpp XMPP client library and Qt 5.
Kaidan is not finished yet, so don’t expect it working as well as a finished client will do.
For a list of supported XEPs, have a look at the Wiki.
Katacomb_VPN
KawAnime
Kement
Kiyeovo
Kristall
Surf geminispace, gopherspace, and the web
LANShare
LBRY-GTK
Native desktop LBRY client
Lagrange
Lagrange is a desktop GUI client for browsing Geminispace. It offers modern conveniences familiar from web browsers, such as smooth scrolling, inline image viewing, multiple tabs, visual themes, Unicode fonts, bookmarks, history, and page outlines.
Like the Gemini protocol, Lagrange has been designed with minimalism in mind. It depends on a small number of essential libraries. It is written in C and uses SDL for hardware-accelerated graphics. OpenSSL is used for secure communications.
LibreWolf
LibreWolf
This project is an independent fork of Firefox, with the primary goals of privacy security and user freedom. It is the community run successor to LibreFox.
LibreWolf uses more than 500 privacy/security/performance settings, patches, LibreWolf-Addons (optional) and is designed to minimize data collection and telemetry as much as possible (updater, crashreporter and Firefox’s integrated addons that don’t respect privacy are removed).
LibreWolf is NOT associated with Mozilla or its products.
Features:
- Latest Version of Firefox: LibreWolf is compiled directly from the latest build of Firefox Stable. You will have the the latest features, and security updates.
- Completely Independent Build: LibreWolf uses a completely independent build from Firefox and has its own settings, profile folder and installation path. As a result, it can be installed alongside Firefox or any other browser.
- Settings protection: important settings are enforced/locked within librewolf.cfg and policies.json, those settings cannot be changed by addons/updates/LibreWolf itself or unwanted/accidental manipulation; To change those settings you can easily do it by editing librewolf.cfg and policies.json.
- LibreWolf-addons: set of optional LibreWolf extensions
- Statistics disabled: telemetry and similar functions are disabled
- Tested settings: settings are performance aware
- Recommended and code reviewed addons list
- Community-Driven
- And much more…
Lightning
Linphone
A libre SIP client
LiveMe_Pro_Tools
Browse, search and manage accounts, replays and more without the need of an actual account on Live.me.
Lunyr
Ethereum-based Encyclopedia
MDL
MQTTCute
An advanced desktop MQTT client, suitable for binary protocol development and monitoring
Mages
Mailove
Mailove is an IMAP mail client focused on speed and safe message viewing. It caches headers, bodies and the folder tree in SQLite for instant, offline-capable browsing and full-text search, and renders HTML mail in a sandboxed QtWebEngine view that blocks all remote content until you opt in per message.
Mattermost_Desktop
Meshtastic-Android
Messenger-Desktop-Client-Unofficial
Messenger Desktop runs Facebook Messenger in a window of its own, with native notifications, a tray icon and a few things a browser tab can't do.
- Notifications with the sender's picture, and incoming calls that bring the window forward
- Unread messages shown on the tray icon
- Do Not Disturb, hidden message previews, and no pop-ups during calls
- An optional PIN lock for shared computers
- Fourteen color themes for the app window
- An offline screen that reloads Messenger when the connection comes back
This is an unofficial app. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Meta.
MetaCubeXD
Mirage
Mumble
MyVPN
NCSA_Mosaic
NeRoBoT
NullChat
OSC-DreamChatbox
Olcbox
OnionHop
Onyx
OpenSCP
Open_Download_Manager
Open Download Manager is a native GTK4 download manager for Linux. Manage file transfers, torrents, media downloads and website mirrors from one window, with queues, scheduling, pause and resume.
Downloads use aria2, yt-dlp, curl and HTTrack, with FFmpeg for media processing and optional proxychains and Tor routing.
OrigRead-Desktop
Outline-Manager
Overte
Overte is an open source virtual worlds and social VR software which enables you to create and share virtual worlds as virtual reality (VR) and desktop experiences. You can create and host your own virtual world, explore other worlds, meet and connect with other users, attend or host live VR events, and much more.
The Overte software provides the following key features:
- Collaborative world creation and editing
- VR support, including body tracking
- Scalability for up to 500 users in a single world
- Scripting in JavaScript, which allows creation of games, interactables, UI elements, and custom applications
- High quality low latency spatial audio
- Powerful physics through Bullet physics engine
- Fully open-source under the permissive Apache 2.0 license
- No central authority. You can run your own server from home.
- No user account required
- Supported by a democratic non-profit organization
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PIA
PS2-Servers
PacketSender
Parallelcoin
Patchwork
Peerio
Pennywise
Pennywise – MacOS application that allows you to open URLs in a floating window that always stays on top.
Pingnoo
Postman
PostyBirb
Psi+
Psi is a powerful XMPP client designed for experienced users. It is highly portable and runs on GNU/Linux, MS Windows, macOS, FreeBSD and Haiku.
Features:
- Native look and feel on all supported systems
- Highly customizable user interface
- Secure connections and end-to-end encryption
- User interface is translated to many languages
Psi+ is a development branch of Psi with rolling release development model. Users who wants to receive new features and bug fixes very quickly may use Psi+ on daily basis. Users who do not care about new trends and prefer constancy may choose Psi as it uses classical development model and its releases are quite rare.
Pulse_DNS
QUaModbusClient
Qortal_UI
Qortal Project - decentralize the world - Data storage, communications, web hosting, decentralized trading, complete infrastructure for the future blockchain-based Internet
Qv2ray
Radmin_VPN
RatioMaster_NET_2.0
RatsSearch
Rats_on_The_Boat
Ricin
A dead-simple but powerful Tox client.
RigControl_Web
A web-based frontend for hamlib rigctld for local installation and portable backend capabilities.
Ripcord
Chat client
SSH-MITM
SafeSurfer-Desktop
Safe Surfer Desktop is an Electron based app, which sets the Safe Surfer DNS settings for you (on a device, not network).
Scatter
SchildiChat
A Matrix Client based on Element with a more traditional instant messaging experience
ScreenCloud
Take a screenshot using one of the 3 hotkeys or simply click the ScreenCloud tray icon. You can choose where you want to save your screenshot. Several cloud services as well as local storage is supported. A built-in screenshot editor lets you annotate your screenshots to highlight the important parts!
Features:
- Open Source and cross-platform(Windows, Mac & Linux)
- Fast and easy: Snap a photo, paste the link, done!
- Plugin support, save to Dropbox, Imgur, etc
- Built in screenshot editor
Seafari
Sengi
Session
Shadowsocks
Shuttle
Siderus_Orion
Siderus Orion is an easy-to-use IPFS desktop client
Signal
Private messaging from your desktop
SimplEOS
SimpleX
Security assessment was done by Trail of Bits in November 2022.
SimpleX Chat features:
- end-to-end encrypted messages, with editing, replies and deletion of messages.
- sending end-to-end encrypted images and files.
- single-use and long-term user addresses.
- secret chat groups - only group members know it exists and who is the member.
- end-to-end encrypted audio and video calls.
- private instant notifications.
- portable chat profile - you can transfer your chat contacts and history to another device (terminal or mobile).
- encrypted app database and files in the app storage (except videos).
- 18 interface languages.
SimpleX Chat advantages:
- Full privacy of your identity, profile, contacts and metadata: unlike any other existing messaging platform, SimpleX uses no phone numbers or any other identifiers assigned to the users - not even random numbers. This protects the privacy of who you are communicating with, hiding it from SimpleX platform servers and from any observers.
- Complete protection against spam and abuse: as you have no identifier on SimpleX platform, you cannot be contacted unless you share a one-time invitation link or an optional temporary user address.
- Full ownership, control and security of your data: SimpleX stores all user data on client devices, the messages are only held temporarily on SimpleX relay servers until they are received.
- Decentralized network: you can use SimpleX with your own servers and still communicate with people using the servers that are pre-configured in the apps or any other SimpleX servers.
You can connect to anybody you know via link or scan QR code (in the video call or in person) and start sending messages instantly - no emails, phone numbers or passwords needed.
Your profile and contacts are only stored in the app on your device - our servers do not have access to this information.
All messages are end-to-end encrypted using open-source double-ratchet protocol; the messages are routed via our servers using open-source SimpleX Messaging Protocol.
Please send us any questions via the app or submit an issue on GitHub.
Follow us on Mastodon, Twitter and Reddit for the latest updates.
Once you install SimpleX Chat, "connect to developers" for any questions, to share feedback, and to discover the groups (the link for directory service will be in response).
SkerrySSH
Skycoin
skycoin wallet
SlipStream_GUI
Slopera
Social.Manager.Tools
Spectral
Spectral is a glossy, cross-platform client for Matrix, the decentralized communication protocol for instant messaging.
Spectrum
Station
Station
StatusIm
Status Desktop
Surge
Swamp_Swap
Swift
Communicate over the Jabber/XMPP network
Syncthing_Tray
- Qt 5-based tray application for Syncthing
- Provides quick access to most frequently used features but does not intend to replace the official web UI
- Shows Syncthing notifications
- Can read the local Syncthing configuration file for quick setup when just connecting to local instance
- Can show the status of the Syncthing systemd unit and allows to start and stop it
- Provides quick access to the official web UI
- Allows quickly switching between multiple Syncthing instances
TachiWeb
A port of the Tachiyomi manga reader to PCs.
Teahouse
Thunderbird
Thunderbird_Beta
Thunderbird_Nightly
Tonnet_Browser
TorChat
TorrentDeck
A modern cross-platform remote dashboard for Transmission and Deluge BitTorrent daemons
Trojan-Qt5
Tutanota
Ultima_VLESS
UplinkIRC
VK_Desktop
Valeronoi
Vegord
Verto
Vessel
Vessel_Browser
Vidra
Vidra is an advanced video and task manager for the Linux desktop. It combines a beautiful, modern user interface built with Flutter with a robust Python backend powered by the industry-standard yt-dlp.
Whether you need to download a single video or manage a large queue of media, Vidra provides a seamless and fast experience without relying on command-line interfaces.
Key features include:
- Support for hundreds of video platforms via the embedded yt-dlp engine.
- Automatic media processing and merging using bundled FFmpeg and QuickJS.
- Clean and responsive user interface with full dark mode support.
- Localized in over 150 languages.
- Built-in Over-The-Air (OTA) updates to keep the downloader engine always up to date.
Vieb
Viper_Browser
Waterfox_Classic
Waterfox_Current
Wavebox
The next generation of web-desktop communication
Wexond
Whalebird
WhatsApp_MCP_Server
WhatsApp MCP Server - Electron app exposing WhatsApp messaging via Model Context Protocol
Wireshark
Woke
XChat
Zap_Browser
Privacy-focused sovereign browser with native Lightning, Cashu, Nostr and Tor workflows.
ZedSecure
Zoom
bfx-report-electron
cabal-desktop
converse_desktop
crocson
crocson is a cross-platform GUI and CLI for croc, allowing secure file transfer, WebDAV sharing, encrypted chat with video calls, and more on Android, Windows, Linux, and macOS.
File transfer from sender to receiver
- Via relay without port forwarding
- Desktop: drag-and-drop, command line, stdin pipe
- Android: "Share" and "Open with" from file managers
WebDAV — two-way file transfer
- Built-in HTTP/HTTPS server
- File browsing via browser, streaming audio/video
- Tunneling through encrypted tunnel
Chat
- Web chat with session history
- Video calls, video messages, desktop screen sharing
- Server-side recording of webcam/microphone/screenshots
Security
- End-to-end encryption (PAKE), one-time passwords (TOTP)
- QR code generation/scanning, Deep Links
CLI mode: pipes, text sending, transfer resuming, quiet mode
cumora-releases
Where agent teams gather. Cross-platform team chat with AI agents as first-class participants.
electron-wechat
element
elzabrowser
ftm
genet
gjoa
hiddify
ipfs-desktop
irccloud-desktop
keqdroid
levior
levior is a web-to-Gemini proxy written in Python3 with asyncio and aiogemini. It converts web pages on-the-fly to the gemtext format, allowing you to browse regular web pages with any Gemini browser without having to suffer the heavyness associated with certain technologies of the modern web.
media-dupes
melia-app
mikutter
Mastodon Client
myNetwork
nexus
ngPost
nheko
nmap
Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source utility for network discovery and security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts. Nmap runs on all major computer operating systems, and official binary packages are available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. In addition to the classic command-line Nmap executable, the Nmap suite includes an advanced GUI and results viewer (Zenmap), a flexible data transfer, redirection, and debugging tool (Ncat), a utility for comparing scan results (Ndiff), and a packet generation and response analysis tool (Nping). This **package** (not nmap !) is maintained at https://github.com/iTrooz/nmap-appimage/
ocsstore
olcvpn-client
p2p-chat
pairux.com
patchbay
pocketnet.gui
Revolutionary anti-censorship decentralized publishing and social platform. Based on blockchain technology, running on computers worldwide without central control. Self-policed by users with good reputation, protecting your privacy.
qBittorrent_Enhanced_Edition
The qBittorrent project aims to provide an open-source software alternative to µTorrent. Additionally, qBittorrent runs and provides the same features on all major platforms (FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, OS/2, Windows). qBittorrent is based on the Qt toolkit and libtorrent-rasterbar library.
- Polished µTorrent-like User Interface
- Well-integrated and extensible Search Engine Simultaneous search in many Torrent search sitesCategory-specific search requests (e.g. Books, Music, Software)
- RSS feed support with advanced download filters (incl. regex)
- Many Bittorrent extensions supported: Magnet linksDistributed hash table (DHT), peer exchange protocol (PEX), local peer discovery (LSD)Private torrentsEncrypted connectionsand many more...
- Remote control through Web user interface, written with AJAX
- Sequential downloading (Download in order)
- Advanced control over torrents, trackers and peers Torrents queueing and prioritizingTorrent content selection and prioritizing
- Bandwidth scheduler
- Torrent creation tool
- IP Filtering (eMule & PeerGuardian format compatible)
- IPv6 compliant
- UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support
- Available on all platforms: Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OS/2
- Available in ~70 languages
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qTox
qeth
qtchan
4chan browser in qt5
quick-share
Share files easily with Quick Share
selkies
simplechroot
Setup a chroot without having to mount and bind partitions manually.
talk-electron
theWeb
ttth
ttth (talk to the hand) is an electron based desktop app for online services like WhatsApp, Threema, Telegram, Twitter, Google and several others.
