164 other open-source desktop apps
Other Open Source Desktop Apps
The most popular other open-source desktop apps for Windows, macOS and Linux on GitHub are PowerShell, Brew and EasySpider. appsgit lists 164, including free alternatives to Revit and MATLAB, each with its platforms, license and install commands.
Updated Oct 8, 2026
Other Open Source Desktop Apps
PowerShell
PowerShell/PowerShell
Welcome to the PowerShell GitHub Community!
OfficialOtherWindowsmacOSLinuxBrew
Homebrew/brew
The Package Manager for Everywhere.
OfficialOthermacOSEasySpider
NaiboWang/EasySpider
A visual no-code/code-free web crawler/spider易采集：一个可视化浏览器自动化测试/数据采集/网页爬虫软件，可以无代码图形化的设计和执行爬虫任务。别名：ServiceWrapper面向Web应用的智能化服务封装系统。.
OtherWindowsmacOSLinuxNushell
nushell/nushell
This project has reached a minimum-viable-product level of quality.
OtherWindowsmacOSLinuxQtScrcpy
barry-ran/QtScrcpy
Android real-time display control software.
OtherWindowsmacOSLinuxDevToys
DevToys-app/DevToys
A Swiss Army knife for developers.
OtherWindowsmacOSLinuxKazumi
Predidit/Kazumi
基于自定义规则的番剧采集APP，支持流媒体在线观看，支持弹幕，支持实时超分辨率。.
OtherWindowsmacOSLinuxWinget CLI
microsoft/winget-cli
WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).
OfficialOtherWindowsPiliPlus
bggRGjQaUbCoE/PiliPlus
此项目（PiliPlus）是个人为了兴趣而开发，仅用于学习和测试，请于下载后24小时内删除。 所用API皆从官方网站收集，不提供任何破解内容。 在此致敬原作者：guozhigq/pilipala 在此致敬上游作者：orz12/PiliPalaX 本仓库做了更激进的修改，感谢原作者的开源精神。.
OtherWindowsmacOSLinuxDearPyGui
hoffstadt/DearPyGui
Dear PyGui: A fast and powerful Graphical User Interface Toolkit for Python with minimal dependencies.
OtherWindowsmacOSLinuxPakePlus
Sjj1024/PakePlus
Turn any webpage/HTML/Vue/React and so on into desktop and mobile app under 5M with easy in few minutes.
OtherWindowsmacOSLinuxZeal
zealdocs/zeal
Offline documentation browser. Your personal reference library, searchable in an instant.
OfficialOtherWindowsLinuxGitUp
git-up/GitUp
The Git interface you've been missing all your life has finally arrived.
OthermacOSFluidVoice
altic-dev/FluidVoice
Fastest and only macOS Dictation app with on-device STT and custom trained AI enhancement model.
OthermacOSZyfun
Hiram-Wong/zyfun
English | 简体中文 | 繁體中文 | 日本語 | 한국어 | हिन्दी | ไทย | Français | Deutsch | Español | Italiano | Русский | Português | Nederlands | Polski | العربية | فارسی | Türkçe | Tiếng Việt | Bahasa Indonesia |…
OtherWindowsmacOSLinuxSloth
sveinbjornt/Sloth
Mac app that shows all open files, directories, sockets, pipes and devices in use by all running processes.
OthermacOSWWDC
insidegui/WWDC
The unofficial WWDC app for macOS.
OthermacOSGUI.for.SingBox
GUI-for-Cores/GUI.for.SingBox
Modern, lightweight desktop app built with Wails (Go) and Vue 3.
OtherWindowsmacOSLinuxTrippy
fujiapple852/trippy
Trippy combines the functionality of traceroute and ping and is designed to assist with the analysis of networking issues.
OtherWindowsmacOSLinuxFiddle
electron/fiddle
The easiest way to get started with Electron.
OfficialOtherWindowsmacOSLinuxFinal2x
EutropicAI/Final2x
a cross-platform image super-resolution tool.
OtherWindowsmacOSLinuxSerpantinum
ilyamiro/serpantinum
A shell for wayland compositors.
OtherLinuxFrpc Desktop
luckjiawei/frpc-desktop
Cross-platform desktop client for FRP, visual configuration, easily achieve intranet penetration!
OtherWindowsmacOSLinuxChsrc
RubyMetric/chsrc
chsrc 全平台通用换源工具与框架. Change Source everywhere for every software.
OtherWindowsmacOSLinuxStretchly
hovancik/stretchly
Stretchly is a cross-platform Electron app that reminds you to take breaks when working on your computer.
OtherWindowsmacOSLinuxSwiftui Introspect
siteline/swiftui-introspect
Introspect underlying UIKit/AppKit components from SwiftUI.
OthermacOSMoeKoeMusic
MoeKoeMusic/MoeKoeMusic
一款开源简洁高颜值的酷狗第三方客户端 An open-source, concise, and aesthetically pleasing third-party client for KuGou that supports Windows / macOS / Linux / Web.
OtherWindowsmacOSLinuxTts Vue
LokerL/tts-vue
微软语音合成工具，使用 Electron + Vue + ElementPlus + Vite 构建。.
OtherWindowsmacOSPanel
holoviz/panel
Panel: The powerful data exploration & web app framework for Python.
OtherWindowsmacOSLinuxAngular Electron
belnadris/angular-electron
Ultra-fast bootstrapping with Angular and Electron.
OtherWindowsmacOSLinuxCleanMyWechat
blackboxo/CleanMyWechat
自动删除 Windows 和 Mac 电脑端微信缓存数据，包括从所有聊天中自动下载的大量文件、视频、图片等数据内容，解放你的空间。.
OtherWindowsmacOSCefFlashBrowser
Mzying2001/CefFlashBrowser
CefFlashBrowser 是一个自带 Flash Player 插件的浏览器，可以正常显示网页上的 Flash 内容，此外还支持打开本地 SWF 文件，管理 Flash 游戏存档等。 在 Release 下载最新的软件压缩包，解压后双击 CefFlashBrowser.exe 即可使用。.
OtherWindowsToga
beeware/toga
A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit.
OtherWindowsMdp
visit1985/mdp
A command-line based markdown presentation tool.
OthermacOSLinuxSimplenote Electron
Automattic/simplenote-electron
Simplenote for Web, Windows, and Linux.
OfficialOtherWindowsmacOSLinuxTeams For Linux
IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux
Unofficial Microsoft Teams for Linux client.
OtherWindowsmacOSLinuxMQTTX
emqx/MQTTX
A Powerful and All-in-One MQTT 5.0 client toolbox for Desktop, CLI and WebSocket.
OtherWindowsmacOSLinuxQgroundcontrol
mavlink/qgroundcontrol
Cross-platform ground control station for drones (Android, iOS, Mac OS, Linux, Windows).
OtherWindowsmacOSLinuxModernWpf
Kinnara/ModernWpf
Modern styles and controls for your WPF applications.
OtherWindowsQttabbar
indiff/qttabbar
QTTabBar is a small tool that allows you to use tab multi label function in Windows Explorer.
OtherWindowsTopgrade
topgrade-rs/topgrade
Keeping your system up-to-date usually involves invoking multiple package managers.
OtherWindowsmacOSLinuxFselect
jhspetersson/fselect
Find files with SQL-like queries.
OtherWindowsmacOSLinuxLinux Wifi Hotspot
lakinduakash/linux-wifi-hotspot
Feature-rich wifi hotspot creator for Linux which provides both GUI and command-line interface.
OtherLinuxFsearch
cboxdoerfer/fsearch
A fast file search utility for Unix-like systems based on GTK3.
OtherLinuxFlox
flox/flox
The Deterministic Foundation for your SDLC.
OfficialOtherWindowsmacOSLinuxTextream
f/textream
Textream is a free macOS teleprompter app for streamers, interviewers, and presenters.
OthermacOSAirgorah
martin-olivier/airgorah
A WiFi security auditing software.
OtherLinuxDdev
ddev/ddev
Docker-based local PHP+Node.js web development environments.
OfficialOtherWindowsmacOSLinux
Showing the top 48 of 164 by GitHub stars. Every entry is listed in the sitemap and the JSON API.
What are the best other open-source desktop apps?
By GitHub stars, PowerShell is the most popular (55,628 stars), followed by Brew and EasySpider. People often use these instead of Revit and MATLAB. Each page lists the platforms, license and last commit.
Which of these run on Windows, Mac and Linux?
107 of the 164 other open-source desktop apps listed here run on Windows, 111 on macOS and 108 on Linux; on a Mac, the most starred is PowerShell. 57 can be installed with a package manager such as Flathub, Homebrew, winget or Chocolatey.
Are these other open-source desktop apps free?
Yes. All 164 use an open-source license (OSI-approved or FSF-free), so you can use, copy and change them for free.
How are these other open-source desktop apps chosen?
Apps come from desktop awesome lists (Awesome Linux Software, awesome-mac, awesome-windows, awesome-electron and the media and file sections of awesome-cli-apps), more than 70 GitHub topics such as desktop-app, electron-app, tauri-app, gtk, qt, macos-app, pdf-editor, cad and remote-desktop, and a hand-picked list of flagship apps. An app is listed only if it has a license (one GitHub detects, or one appsgit checked by hand), a README and a commit in the last six months, is not archived or a fork, and has 1000+ GitHub stars (topics), 500+ (awesome lists) or 100+ (hand-picked). It must also be an end-user application with a desktop signal: installers in its releases, install instructions for Windows, macOS or Linux, or a Flathub, Homebrew, winget, Chocolatey, Snap or AUR package. Libraries, frameworks, themes, plugins and servers are left out, and source-available apps are labelled as such.