Linux - niche software

GeoPort – Open source iPhone location simulator, supporting iOS 17, iOS 18 [Windows/macOS/Linux]

Windows linux macOS 2025/06/28 five

GeoPort is a simple and easy to use open source iPhone location simulator with Windows, macOS, and Ubuntu clients. After running, connect to the iPhone device, and the developer mode will be automatically opened to implement location simulation@

After 14 months, Listen1 has been updated!

Windows Chrome linux macOS 2025/06/23 six

Listen1 is a model that can search and play music from NetEase Cloud, QQ music, cool dog music, cool me music, Bilibili， Windows, macOS and Linux open source projects of Migu Music and thousands of music songs, using the most relaxed MIT teaching

Computer controlled Android open source tool Scrcpy v3.3 upgrade: support the use of mouse on virtual monitor 3

Computer controlled Android open source tool Scrcpy v3.3 upgrade: support the use of mouse on virtual display

Android linux macOS Windows selected 2025/06/13 twenty-eight

Scrcpy is an open source and free Android tool for computer control. Scrcpy v3.3 was updated yesterday (June 12, 2025). It supports Android>=15, and the mouse can be used on a new virtual display (need to use --

Vim replacement? Microsoft released the open source command line editor Edit, which is less than 250kB 4

Vim replacement? Microsoft released the open source command line editor Edit, which is less than 250kB in size

Windows linux 2025/05/21 forty-nine

Edit， That's the name. This is a Windows and Linux command line editor just opened by Microsoft, which will be released as part of Windows 11 in the future. It supports mouse control menu, can open multiple files at the same time, has search and replace functions, supports

Xtool - Cross platform Xcode alternatives: building and deploying iOS applications with Linux and Windows 5

Xtool – Cross platform Xcode alternative: build and deploy iOS applications with Linux and Windows

iOS linux Windows 2025/05/21 zero

Xtool is a developer tool, which is a cross platform alternative to Xcode. SwiftPM is used in Linux, Windows and macOS

Ghost Downloader 3 - Open source, cross platform, intelligent multi-threaded download tool to fully squeeze broadband. Developers are preparing for college entrance exam 6

Ghost Downloader 3 – an open source, cross platform, intelligent multi-threaded download tool to fully squeeze broadband. Developers are preparing for the college entrance examination

Windows linux macOS 2025/05/19 twenty-one

Ghost Downloader 3 is an open source, cross platform download tool that supports Windows, macOS, Linux and can take over Chrome/Firefox downloads. Intelligent multithreading algorithm is adopted to monitor the average download speed

The only maintainer of AnduinOS, a Linux system with highly imitated Windows 11 interface, is actually a full-time engineer of Microsoft

linux Windows 2025/05/10 eight

AnduinOS is a Linux system with a highly imitative Windows 11 interface: it has dominated the list of the popular operating systems of distrowatch for almost a year, and recently it has topped the list:

DupeGuru – recommend a software for finding duplicate files on computers, cross platform

Windows linux macOS 2025/05/01 five

Today, I saw a software recommended by Gu Budan on Weibo. I was impressed with dupeGuru, which is a cross platform (Linux, OS X and Windows) duplicate file search tool. It can scan file names or contents. File name scanning

NoteGen - a lightweight, open source, cross platform note taking application that costs too much AI: automatically reorganizes fragmented information into notes 9

NoteGen – a lightweight, open source, cross platform note taking application that costs too much AI: automatically collate fragmented information into notes

Windows AI linux macOS 2025/04/28 nine

NoteGen is a cross platform Markdown note taking application that supports Windows, Mac, and Linux. Its biggest feature is to separate the two steps of "recording" and "writing", and use AI assistant to help you automatically organize scattered content into structures

Caesar – open source, batch image compression tool [Win/macOS/Linux/web version]

Windows linux macOS Online application 2025/04/27 two

Caesar is a batch image compression tool for Windows, macOS and Linux systems. It supports JPG, PNG, WebP and TIFF formats. @Appinn discussed "Reverse Operation: How to Put Picture Bodies..."

Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin released, providing ARM64 images

Industry News linux 2025/04/18 zero

Canonical released Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin. Its main new features include: carrying the latest GNOME 48, Linux 6.14 kernel, and improving Intel

AlgerMusicPlayer – third-party open source music player [cross platform]

Windows linux macOS Online application 2025/03/30 twelve

AlgerMusicPlayer is an open source third-party music player that supports Netease Cloud music login. With web version, Windows, Linux and macOS clients, it can display lyrics, support downloading, and use web version on mobile phones to achieve full

The local full-text search tool AnyTXT has supported Windows, Linux and macOS 13 across platforms

The local full-text search tool AnyTXT has supported Windows, Linux and macOS across platforms

Windows linux macOS 2025/03/28 seventeen

AnyTXT Searcher is a free local full-text search tool. You can use it to directly search the specific content of PDF, Word, WPS, PPT, e-book and other documents. In the latest update, Linux and macOS systems have been added

Light of domestic products! TextSeek, a document content searcher, is limited to 20% off, only 14% off from 31.2 yuan

Light of domestic products! The document content searcher TextSeek is limited to 20% off, starting at 31.2 yuan

Windows linux macOS Group purchase 2025/02/24 nineteen

It is not easy to search for files in Windows Explorer. All my friends who have used it must know that the problem of slow speed and incomplete search is really huge, and it is impossible to search the contents of the file. If you can quickly search the file content from a large number of files, you should

Read from WeChat, and open source e-book reader Readest Android version is online: 500MB cloud synchronization+no advertising

Windows Android linux macOS 2025/02/08 one hundred and sixty

Readest is an open source e-book reader with macOS, Windows, Linux clients and Web platforms. Yesterday, Android was just released

FlyingCarpet - Take off your pants and fart? LAN, open source, cross platform file transfer tools are not required 16

FlyingCarpet – Take off your pants and fart? No need for LAN, open source, cross platform file transfer tools

Windows Android iOS iPad iPhone linux macOS 2024/12/24 twenty

FlyingCarpet is an open source, cross platform file transfer tool. Its biggest feature is that it does not need a LAN, but uses the device's own wireless network card to transfer files. It supports the transfer of files in Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android

PC Bio Unlock - use Android fingerprint to unlock and log into Windows and Linux systems 17

PC Bio Unlock – use Android fingerprint to unlock Windows and Linux systems

Windows Android linux 2024/12/18 twelve

PC Bio Unlock is a tool to unlock Windows 10, 11 and Linux systems with your Android phone (fingerprint). It supports Bluetooth and Wi Fi

MailCatcher: an ultra simple SMTP test server, which can easily capture test mail (web page/API), but does not actually send mail

linux 2024/11/20 two

MailCatcher is a super simple and easy to use SMTP mail server. It can capture all mails sent through itself, display them on the web page, and support API. It does not need an email client at all, nor will it reach any public mailbox. It is suitable for sending messages to yourself

AB Download Manager – an open source free download management tool [Windows/Linux]

Windows linux 2024/11/13 seven

AB Download Manager is an open source, free download management tool. It has Windows and Linux clients, as well as Chrome and Firefox extensions. It can well take over browser downloads and support multithreading and intermittent

Open source optical music score recognition software, use Audiveris to scan music scores and convert them to MusicXML, MIDI and other formats | not OCR recognition

Windows linux music 2024/11/13 five

Audiveris is an open source optical music recognition software, which supports Windows, Linux, and self compilation on macOS. Different from ordinary OCR recognition, it can recognize music scores in pictures, PDF music textbooks, and generate music in music software

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