Linux Software Reviews

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.

A script-based solid modelling application for creating precise parametric 3D designs.

A web-based accounting platform for small businesses and freelancers. NOTE: Open source license allows for free usage for a single company + a single accountant only. A paid plan is required if license terms are not met.

A desktop accounting application for personal and small-business finances.

A personal finance application for tracking accounts, budgets, and spending.

A note-taking and to-do application with Markdown, encryption, and synchronization.

A privacy-focused notes application with end-to-end encryption and cross-device synchronization.

A local-first knowledge management and outlining application for connected notes.

A Markdown editor for academic writing, note-taking, and citation workflows.

A desktop office suite for editing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, and PDF files.

A browser-based collaborative office suite based on LibreOffice technology.

A desktop publishing application for professional page layout and print production.

A vector graphics editor for illustrations, diagrams, logos, and print design.

An image editor for photo retouching, composition, drawing, and graphic design.

A professional digital painting and illustration application.

A parametric 3D CAD application for engineering and product design.

An electronic design automation suite for schematics and printed circuit boards.

An application for creating electrical diagrams and technical schematics.

An interior design application for arranging furniture and previewing homes in 3D.

A lightweight hand-drawn 2D animation application supporting bitmap and vector workflows.

A vector-based 2D animation application for producing film-quality animation.

A non-linear video editor for multi-track editing, effects, and professional media workflows.

A cross-platform video editor supporting many formats, filters, and capture workflows.

A live streaming and screen recording application for broadcasts, presentations, and content creation.

An audio editor and recorder for podcasts, music, restoration, and sound production.

A music production workstation for composing, sequencing, synthesizing, and mixing.

A music notation application for composing, arranging, playing, and printing scores.

A versatile media player and streaming application supporting a very broad range of formats.

A lightweight command-line and graphical media player with high-quality video output.

An ebook library manager for organizing, converting, reading, and transferring digital books.

A digital audio workstation for recording, editing, mixing, and mastering audio. NOTE: Ardour is free and open source for its source code only. Precompiled versions of the application for various operating systems are available for a fee. Per the developer's website: If you want the convenience of using our ready-to-run version and/or for support from Ardour developers and experienced users, we ask that you pay something for this. If you don't want to pay for a ready-to-run version, then you'll need to get the source code and build it yourself. We do not provide assistance with this process and particularly on Windows and macOS this can be challenging and take a long time. Also, for Windows, there are no instructions.

A professional photo management application with metadata, tagging, editing, and raw image support.

A photography workflow and raw image development application.

A raw photo processing application with advanced colour and image adjustment tools.

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.

Municipal PDF utility that makes redactions and form entries permanent by flattening documents.

Cross-platform system monitoring tool with terminal, web, and API interfaces.

Resource monitor for processors, memory, disks, networks, and processes with a terminal interface.

Cross-platform graphical process and system monitor for the terminal.

Terminal disk-usage and free-space utility designed as a user-friendly alternative to df.

Intuitive command-line disk usage analyzer written in Rust.

Fast disk usage analyzer with an interactive terminal interface.

Modern replacement for ps with colored, searchable process output.

Remote desktop client supporting RDP, VNC, SSH, SPICE, and other protocols.

Bidirectional file synchronization tool for keeping replicas consistent across hosts.

Cross-platform local-network file and message sharing application with no central server requirement.

Desktop and mobile integration software for sharing files, notifications, clipboard data, and remote commands.

Linux Mint file-transfer tool for sharing files between computers on a local network.

Command-line utility that adds searchable OCR text layers to scanned PDF files.

Document scanning application with OCR, PDF creation, profiles, and scanner support.

KDE document scanning application for creating multi-page PDF and image documents.

Post-processing tool for scanned pages, including splitting, deskewing, margins, and content cleanup.

Modern GTK e-book reader for EPUB and related formats.

Document and e-book reader optimized for e-ink devices and Linux-based readers.

Cross-platform open-source e-book reader focused on modern reading and library features.

Privacy-focused personal knowledge management system with block-based editing and local-first storage.

Real-time Markdown editor with a clean desktop interface.

Distraction-free Markdown editor for desktop writing.

Native desktop client for the Matrix protocol.

Command-line client for publishing posts to Write.as and WriteFreely instances.