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162 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 162, including free alternatives to Revit and MATLAB, each with its platforms, license and install commands.

Updated Oct 28, 2026

Other Open Source Desktop Apps

Showing 1-48 of 162 by GitHub stars. All desktop apps A to Z · JSON API

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What are the best other open-source desktop apps?

By GitHub stars, PowerShell is the most popular (56,014 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?

104 of the 162 other open-source desktop apps listed here run on Windows, 108 on macOS and 104 on Linux; on a Mac, the most starred is PowerShell. 55 can be installed with a package manager such as Flathub, Homebrew, winget or Chocolatey.

Are these other open-source desktop apps free?

Yes. All 162 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.