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View 152 business solutionsBrowse free open source Productivity software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Productivity software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Obsidian
Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian
The Obsidian Releases repository provides the official distribution builds and installers for Obsidian, the popular markdown-based knowledge management and personal wiki application. Obsidian itself is a powerful, offline-first note-taking tool that helps users build interconnected knowledge graphs using markdown files stored locally on their devices, with plugins and community themes for extensibility. This repository houses versioned compiled binaries and packages for multiple platforms such as Windows, macOS, and Linux, enabling users to download stable or nightly builds directly without needing to build the app from source. By maintaining clear version history and downloadable artifacts, it makes it easy for individuals and organizations to audit, rollback, or pin specific Obsidian releases for workflows that depend on stability or particular plugin compatibility. -
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Joplin Desktop Linux Package
Repo with Joplin Desktop pre-built packages for Debian/Ubuntu
This is a repository containing the deb package of a pre-built version of Joplin Desktop for Debian/Ubuntu. It should work on latest LTS releases and up. For more info and reporting issues, please visit the source repo. -
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Digital Clock 4
beautiful customizable clock with plugins
Very customizable beautiful clock. There are 2 versions exist (they may co-exist): - Digital Clock 4 - discontinued, not recommended - Digital Clock 5 - current version, replacement for Digital Clock 4 Digital Clock 4 final version is 4.7.9 Digital Clock 5 current version is 5.2.1 Nothing special is required to start using this clock. Just launch it and enjoy! When it starts, apart from the clock itself, a small tray icon appears. This tray icon can be used to call the clock configuration dialog. Also this dialog can be called using clock context menu. Sources (v5) are hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/Kolcha/DigitalClock5 You can create your own skin! See this link for details: https://sourceforge.net/p/digitalclock4/wiki/How%20to%20create%20skin/ NOTE: do NOT download any .rar or .exe files marked as my software, these files are NOT made by me and I'm not responsible for their content -
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Deskflow
Share a single keyboard and mouse between multiple computers
Deskflow is a lightweight productivity tool designed to streamline window and workspace management. It features hotkey-driven app launching, workspace switching, window snapping, search快捷启动, and minimal UI. Built with modern frameworks (likely Electron or Qt) and geared toward power users wanting efficient workflow control. -
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Notepad Next
A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++
A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++. Though the application overall is stable and usable, it should not be considered safe for critically important work. There are numerous bugs and half-working implementations. Pull requests are greatly appreciated. Windows packages are available as an installer or a stand-alone zip file on the release page. The installer provides additional components such as an auto-updater and Windows context menu integration. -
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Gnaural
Entrain your brain!
A programmable audio generator intended as an aural aid to meditation, implementing the binaural beat principle as described in Gerald Oster's Oct. 1973 Scientific American article "Auditory Beats in the Brain." -
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Xournal++
A handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support
Xournal++ (/ˌzɚnl̟ˌplʌsˈplʌs/) is an open-source and cross-platform note-taking software that is fast, flexible, and functional. A modern rewrite and a more feature-rich version of the wonderful Xournal program. Support for pressure-sensitive stylus and drawing tablets (Wacom, Huion, XP-Pen, etc.) Robust and customizable pen, highlighter and eraser tools, allowing you to write how you want to write. Use layers to make complex notes that are still pleasant to work with. Keep track of the notes by using page previews. Add images and create various shapes, from circles to splines to axis. Snap objects to rectangular grid or degrees of rotation. Create anything from differential equations to electrical circuits or the structural formula of molecules using our built-in LaTeX editor. Customize your toolbar to create a new layout, tailor-made for you. -
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Joplin
Open source note taking and to-do app with synchronization
Joplin is a free and open source note-taking and to-do application that can handle a large number of notes in Markdown format, organize them into notebooks and synchronize them with various cloud services. All notes can also be copied, tagged, searched and modified directly from the app or through your own text editor. Notes that are exported from Evernote can be imported into Joplin, be it formatted content, resources, complete metadata or plain Markdown files. When notes are synchronized with cloud services, notebooks, tags and other metadata can easily be moved, inspected or backed up as plain text files. Supported cloud services include Nextcloud, OneDrive, Dropbox and WebDAV. Joplin is available for Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android, with three types: desktop, mobile and terminal. All of them have similar user interfaces and can be synchronized with each other. -
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Open Notebook
An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility
Open Notebook is an open-source, privacy-focused alternative to Google’s Notebook LM that gives users full control over their research and AI workflows. Designed to be self-hosted, it ensures complete data sovereignty by keeping your content local or within your own infrastructure. The platform supports 16+ AI providers—including OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, Google, and LM Studio—allowing flexible model choice and cost optimization. Open Notebook enables users to organize and analyze multi-modal content such as PDFs, videos, audio files, web pages, and Office documents. It combines full-text and vector search with context-aware AI chat to deliver insights grounded in your own research materials. With advanced features like multi-speaker podcast generation, customizable content transformations, and a comprehensive REST API, Open Notebook provides a powerful and extensible research environment. -
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TagSpaces
TagSpaces is an offline, open source, document manager with tagging
TagSpaces is a free, no vendor lock-in, open source application for organizing, annotating and managing local files with the help of tags. It features advanced note taking functionalities and some capabilities of to-do apps. The application is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Android. We provide a web clipper extension for Firefox, Edge and Chrome for easy collecting of online content in the form of local files. File and folder management - TagSpaces provides a convenient user interface for browsing, viewing and man files and folders. The application supports two ways for tagging files. The default one embeds the tags directly in the name of the file, the other one uses a so called sidecar files for persisting the tags. The search functionality supports fuzzy functionality and can filter your locations for files and folders containing one or more tags. -
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Xournal is a GTK+/Gnome application for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal using a stylus on Tablet PCs and other platforms. It aims to provide superior graphical quality (subpixel resolution) and overall functionality.
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Alfresco Community Edition
Open Source Enterprise Content Management ECM
The open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software that handles any type of content, allowing users to easily share and collaborate on content. -
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sigma-file-manager
"Sigma File Manager" is a free, open-source, quickly evolving app
"Sigma File Manager" is a free, open-source, quickly evolving, modern file manager (explorer/finder) app for Windows and Linux. Designed, developed, and maintained by Aleksey Hoffman | Twitter | Reddit. Create the best existing intelligent file manager & productivity app that will significantly speed up your workflow, provide you with advanced tools, and keep your data safe. Find any file/directory on your computer in just a few seconds. It also implements a typo correction system, allowing you to find files even when the search query includes typos, wrong case, wrong word order, missing words, missing symbols, and missing file extension. Create separate workspaces with their own tabs and pre-defined actions, allowing you to quickly switch between them. Actions can perform different operations, e.g. open a website, run a script, open a file in a specific program, etc. -
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Stretchly
The break time reminder app
Stretchly is a cross-platform open-source app that reminds you to take breaks when working on your computer. When you run Stretchly for the first time, you are presented with a Welcome window that allows you to change the language, review the preferences, view the online tutorial or simply continue with the default preferences. Stretchly itself lives in your tray, only displaying a reminder window from time to time, which contains an idea for a break. By default, there is a 20 second Mini Break every 10 minutes and a 5 minute Long Break every 30 minutes (after 2 Mini Breaks). You'll be notified 10 seconds before a Mini Break (and 30 seconds before a Long Break) so that you can prepare to pause your work. When a break starts, you can postpone it once for 2 minutes (Mini Breaks) or 5 minutes (Long Breaks). Then, after a specific time interval passes, you can skip the break. Both actions are available by clicking on the link at the bottom of window. -
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QOwnNotes
QOwnNotes is a plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager
QOwnNotes is a fully open-source markdown-focused note-taking and personal information manager that runs natively on Linux, macOS, and Windows, with a strong emphasis on plain-text storage and cross-device synchronization. Because all notes are stored as markdown files in user-controlled directories, you avoid vendor lock-in and can sync through services like Nextcloud, ownCloud, Dropbox, or Git without proprietary cloud dependency. The application is optimized for performance and minimal footprint, so it runs smoothly even with large note libraries, and it includes features like a live markdown preview panel that lets you see rendered text alongside raw markdown as you type. QOwnNotes supports hierarchical folders and tagging, making it easy to organize, filter, and retrieve information quickly, and it also integrates to-do lists and task markers directly in your notes. -
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Install Elevate
A sport app to "Elevate" your training experience and goals
A sport app to "Elevate" your training experience and goals! Track your fitness and progressions over time. Analyze deeper your activities. And more. Download for Chrome, Chromium, Edge (from 2020), Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Yandex. Contains the Elevate App shared and loaded by both desktop and web extension projects. Appcore contains core features like fitness trends, year progressions, athlete settings. Holds the container behaviour to provide a cross-platform desktop app under Windows, Linux & MacOS. It contains desktop-specific features like connectors synchronization (to fetch athlete activities from external). Contains the web extension behavior that acts directly on strava website. This includes extended stats on activities & segment efforts, best splits, etc. The new mono-repo including the desktop app and the web extension is on develop-new branch at the moment. -
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memos
An open-source, self-hosted memo hub with knowledge management
A lightweight, self-hosted memo hub. Open Source and Free forever. memos provides the privacy security and reliability that innovators need in their moments of inspiration. Keep your own data by yourself. All data generated at runtime is saved in the SQLite database file. All content will be saved as plain text, not HTML. And lots of useful markdown syntaxes are supported. Using Go + React.js + SQLite architecture, the overall package is very lightweight. You can customize the server name, icon, description, custom system style and execution script, etc. memos believes that open source is the future, and all code is already open source in GitHub. All features are free forever and will never be charged in any form or content. -
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Notesnook
A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative
Notesnook makes it impossible for anyone to spy on your notes. Unlike Evernote and other note taking apps, your data is private, not open for everyone to see. Ditch other note taking apps that don't care about your data privacy. With app lock and private notes vault, your personal diary & journal are always safe. Worried that your friend will read your private notes? Notesnook fixes that by having an app lock built-in. Use a pin or biometrics to protect your notes. Protect your online journal or personal diary with an extra layer of security. Your notes vault is a super secure way to store your passwords, credentials & other secrets. Free or Pro, you get the same level of privacy. Making privacy a paid feature means only the privileged few deserve it but privacy is your right. And rights don't have a price tag, or do they? To verify that your notes are actually encrypted (and we aren't just lying), you can use our open source tool, Vericrypt. -
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FitTrackee
Self-hosted outdoor activity tracker
FitTrackee is a self-hostable fitness tracking and workout management platform designed to help individuals and small groups monitor physical activity, set goals, and review performance over time with clarity and flexibility. It provides an organized environment for logging workouts, recording metrics like sets, reps, durations, and weights, and visualizing progress through charts and summaries that detail trends in strength, endurance, and consistency. Instead of locking users into proprietary ecosystems or paid plans, FitTrackee lets you keep your own data on your server, giving full control over privacy and longevity of your fitness history. The interface is designed to be flexible enough for everyday gym routines, home workouts, and personalized training plans, supporting a variety of exercise types and custom attributes for different training styles. -
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wger
Self hosted FLOSS fitness/workout, nutrition and weight tracker
wger Workout Manager is a free and open web application that manages your exercises, routines and nutrition. It started out as a personal project to replace my growing collection of spreadsheets but has turned into something that other people may find useful. You can create and manage flexible training routines for whatever goals you have. Select exactly what exercises you are going to do and how many repetitions, time or distance you want to do. You can also combine different workouts in the same program. Create your personal diet plan by creating as many meals with as many different ingredients as you need. The application will calculate the nutritional values (total energy, proteins, carbohydrates, etc.) of the entire plan and of each of the meals. Enter the weights and reps you've done for each exercise to generate diagrams that let you see at a glance how well you're doing. Of course, the raw numbers are still accessible. -
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Lorien
Infinite canvas drawing/whiteboarding app
Lorien is a fast, lightweight infinite-canvas drawing and note-taking application designed for brainstorming, sketching, and freeform diagramming without the bloat of traditional bitmap editors. Instead of storing raster image data, Lorien saves each brush stroke as vector-like points and reconstructs drawings at runtime, resulting in extremely small save files and smooth performance even on large canvases. The app runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and it’s built using the Godot game engine, which gives it a responsive and modern user interface across platforms. Users get features like infinite zoom, undo/redo, and a grid that stretches endlessly, making it well suited to both quick scribbles and detailed conceptual layouts. Lorien supports pressure-sensitive tablets for natural drawing, and it includes a range of basic tools — from freehand brush and eraser to shapes and selection tools — so you can mix freeform sketches with structured diagrams. -
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Spacesuit
A futuristic canvas for your personal development
Spacesuit is a cross-platform personal knowledge and self-development application designed as a flexible, spatial workspace that replaces traditional note-taking hierarchies with a freeform, visual canvas. At its core, the system introduces a concept called “The Grid,” a dynamic environment where users can place, organize, and connect information without relying on folders or rigid structures, allowing ideas to evolve organically. Instead of conventional documents, Spacesuit uses modular “Cards” that act as resizable containers for thoughts, tasks, references, and media, enabling users to structure information in a highly customizable and visual way. The platform supports multiple interconnected grids, allowing users to separate contexts such as work, personal life, or long-term planning while still linking ideas across them through navigable relationships. -
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Writeopia
Write like nobody’s watching. Because they aren't
Writeopia is a modern text editor and SDK that integrates artificial intelligence capabilities while prioritizing offline functionality and user privacy. It is designed to give users full control over their data by allowing them to run AI models locally instead of relying on cloud-based services. The application supports a wide range of writing use cases, including note-taking, coding, blogging, and creative writing, all within a distraction-free environment. It is built using a multiplatform architecture, making it available across operating systems such as macOS, Linux, Windows, web, and mobile environments. Writeopia also provides a developer SDK that enables the creation of custom text editing experiences within other applications, expanding its use beyond a standalone editor. Its design emphasizes flexibility, allowing users to choose their own models and tailor the AI experience to their specific needs. -
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Serene Pub
Clean and intuitive LLM roleplay client
Serene Pub is an open-source AI chat application focused on immersive roleplay and creative storytelling experiences. It is designed to provide a clean, intuitive interface that allows users to create and interact with characters, worlds, and narratives using large language models. The platform supports multiple AI providers, including local and cloud-based models, giving users flexibility in how they run their conversations. It includes advanced features such as character and persona management, lorebooks for world-building, and group chat capabilities for multi-character interactions. The system is built with privacy in mind, offering local deployment without requiring accounts or cloud dependencies. It also supports real-time synchronization across devices, enabling users to continue conversations seamlessly. Overall, Serene Pub is a specialized AI chat platform that emphasizes creativity, storytelling, and user control. -
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notion-enhancer
Enhancer/customiser for the all-in-one productivity workspace Notion
An enhancer/customizer for the all-in-one productivity workspace notion.so. In-app tabs, color themes, extra sidebar features, right-to-left text, database customization, icon upload history, and more.
