LibreOffice
LibreOffice is the world's leading free and open-source office suite. Canada's open-source community has long championed LibreOffice adoption, and Canadian contributors actively participate in development, translation into French, and accessibility improvements.
OpenSCAD
A script-based solid modelling application for creating precise parametric 3D designs.
GnuCash
A desktop accounting application for personal and small-business finances.
HomeBank
A personal finance application for tracking accounts, budgets, and spending.
Joplin
A note-taking and to-do application with Markdown, encryption, and synchronization.
Standard Notes
A privacy-focused notes application with end-to-end encryption and cross-device synchronization.
Logseq
A local-first knowledge management and outlining application for connected notes.
Zettlr
A Markdown editor for academic writing, note-taking, and citation workflows.
ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors
A desktop office suite for editing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, and PDF files.
Collabora Online
A browser-based collaborative office suite based on LibreOffice technology.
Scribus
A desktop publishing application for professional page layout and print production.
Inkscape
A vector graphics editor for illustrations, diagrams, logos, and print design.
GIMP
An image editor for photo retouching, composition, drawing, and graphic design.
FreeCAD
A parametric 3D CAD application for engineering and product design.
KiCad
An electronic design automation suite for schematics and printed circuit boards.
QElectroTech
An application for creating electrical diagrams and technical schematics.
Sweet Home 3D
An interior design application for arranging furniture and previewing homes in 3D.
Pencil2D
A lightweight hand-drawn 2D animation application supporting bitmap and vector workflows.
Synfig Studio
A vector-based 2D animation application for producing film-quality animation.
Kdenlive
A non-linear video editor for multi-track editing, effects, and professional media workflows.
Shotcut
A cross-platform video editor supporting many formats, filters, and capture workflows.
OBS Studio
A live streaming and screen recording application for broadcasts, presentations, and content creation.
Audacity
An audio editor and recorder for podcasts, music, restoration, and sound production.
Ardour
A digital audio workstation for recording, editing, mixing, and mastering audio.
LMMS
A music production workstation for composing, sequencing, synthesizing, and mixing.
MuseScore Studio
A music notation application for composing, arranging, playing, and printing scores.
VLC media player
A versatile media player and streaming application supporting a very broad range of formats.
MPV
A lightweight command-line and graphical media player with high-quality video output.
Calibre
An ebook library manager for organizing, converting, reading, and transferring digital books.
digiKam
A professional photo management application with metadata, tagging, editing, and raw image support.
RawTherapee
A raw photo processing application with advanced colour and image adjustment tools.
Remind
Remind is a sophisticated calendar and alarm program. It includes the following features:
- A sophisticated scripting language and intelligent handling of exceptions and holidays.
- Plain-text, PDF, PostScript and HTML output.
- Timed reminders and pop-up alarms.
- A friendly graphical front-end for people who don't want to learn the scripting language.
- Facilities for both the Gregorian and Hebrew calendars.
- Support for 12 different languages.
pdfFlattener
Municipal PDF utility that makes redactions and form entries permanent by flattening documents.
Glances
Cross-platform system monitoring tool with terminal, web, and API interfaces.
btop
Resource monitor for processors, memory, disks, networks, and processes with a terminal interface.
Bottom
Cross-platform graphical process and system monitor for the terminal.
Duf
Terminal disk-usage and free-space utility designed as a user-friendly alternative to df.
Procs
Modern replacement for ps with colored, searchable process output.
Remmina
Remote desktop client supporting RDP, VNC, SSH, SPICE, and other protocols.
Unison
Bidirectional file synchronization tool for keeping replicas consistent across hosts.
LocalSend
Cross-platform local-network file and message sharing application with no central server requirement.
KDE Connect
Desktop and mobile integration software for sharing files, notifications, clipboard data, and remote commands.
Warpinator
Linux Mint file-transfer tool for sharing files between computers on a local network.
OCRmyPDF
Command-line utility that adds searchable OCR text layers to scanned PDF files.
NAPS2
Document scanning application with OCR, PDF creation, profiles, and scanner support.
Skanpage
KDE document scanning application for creating multi-page PDF and image documents.
ScanTailor Advanced
Post-processing tool for scanned pages, including splitting, deskewing, margins, and content cleanup.
KOReader
Document and e-book reader optimized for e-ink devices and Linux-based readers.
Readest
Cross-platform open-source e-book reader focused on modern reading and library features.
SiYuan
Privacy-focused personal knowledge management system with block-based editing and local-first storage.
WriteFreely CLI
Command-line client for publishing posts to Write.as and WriteFreely instances.
TiddlyWiki
Highly customizable non-linear personal web notebook and wiki.