Application Lists

This is mostly to lighten the burden of my browser bookmarks. I’ll move up the stuff that i actually use to the top, the rest below the lines in each section are just projects i’ve stumbled across that might be interesting.

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CLI

  • chcase - Ancient Perl script to fix filenames with regex (Original site defunct, mirror)
  • doxx - Expose the contents of .docx files without leaving your terminal. Fast, safe, and smart — no Office required!
  • detox - detox is a program that renames files to make them easier to work with under Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Spaces and various other unsafe characters (such as “$”) get replaced with “_“. The upper portion of ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) can be transcoded to UTF-8, as can CP-1252.
  • fdupes - FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories.
  • hping - A command-line oriented TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer. yay -S hping
  • imap-backup - Backup and Migrate IMAP Email Accounts
  • termdown - Countdown timer and stopwatch in your terminal yay -S termdown
  • calcurse - calcurse is a calendar and scheduling application for the command line. It helps keep track of events, appointments and everyday tasks.
  • energygraph - Graphs the energy use of a host inside a text terminal, using intel-rapl data from the /sys filesystem.
  • f3 - f3 is a simple tool that tests flash cards capacity and performance to see if they live up to claimed specifications. It fills the device with pseudorandom data and then checks if it returns the same on reading.
  • fd - fd is a program to find entries in your filesystem. It is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find. While it does not aim to support all of find’s powerful functionality, it provides sensible (opinionated) defaults for a majority of use cases.
  • go2rtc - Ultimate camera streaming application with support RTSP, RTMP, HTTP-FLV, WebRTC, MSE, HLS, MP4, MJPEG, HomeKit, FFmpeg, etc.
  • movie-thumbnailer-mtn - Movie Thumbnailer (mtn) saves thumbnails (screenshots) of movie or video files to jpeg files. It uses FFmpeg’s libavcodec as its engine, so it supports all popular codecs, e.g. h.265/hevc, h.264, mpeg1, mpeg2, mp4, vc1, wmv, xvid, divx
  • Queue4Download - Set of Scripts written by Chmura to automate push notification of completed torrent payloads for integration into a home media library while updating the torrent client on a remote server.
  • RecoverPy - Interactively find and recover deleted or 👉 overwritten 👈 files from your terminal
  • sc-im - Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised – An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal
  • ShellCheck - ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts
  • shUnit2 - shUnit2 is a xUnit based unit test framework for Bourne based shell scripts.
  • systeroid - A more powerful alternative to sysctl(8) with a terminal user interface
  • taskwarrior-tui - A Terminal User Interface (TUI) for Taskwarrior that you didn’t know you wanted
  • Timeshift - System restore tool for Linux. Creates filesystem snapshots using rsync+hardlinks, or BTRFS snapshots. Supports scheduled snapshots, multiple backup levels, and exclude filters. Snapshots can be restored while system is running or from Live CD/USB.
  • Trash-cli – A Trashcan Tool to Manage ‘Trash’ from Linux Command Line
  • turbo-linecount - Super-Fast Multi-Threaded Line Counter
Backup
  • borg - Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption
  • Duplicati - Zero-trust backup from any operating system to any destination that you can manage from anywhere.
  • restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program
Network
  • asnmap - A Golang CLI tool for speedy reconnaissance using ASN data
  • ddclient - ddclient is a Perl client used to update dynamic DNS entries for accounts on many dynamic DNS services. It uses curl for internet access.
  • dnsupdate - dnsupdate is a dynamic DNS client that has first-class support for IPv6 and aims to be easily configurable to meet the needs of any situation.
  • netdiscoverNetdiscover is a network address discovering tool, developed mainly for those wireless networks without dhcp server, it also works on hub/switched networks. Its based on arp packets, it will send arp requests and sniff for replies.
  • oui - MAC Address CLI Toolkit
  • sftdyn - sftdyn is a minimalistic dynamic DNS server that accepts update requests via http or https and forwards them to a locally running DNS server via nsupdate -l
  • Standard linux tools - Linux “builtin” tools
  • subdomain_recon - A subdomain reconnaissance scanner
  • wg-meshconf - WireGuard full mesh configuration generator.
Rescue/recovery/debug/etc
  • Archboot - Archboot is a most advanced, modular Arch Linux boot/install image creation utility to generate reproducible bootable media for UKI/CD/USB/PXE, designed for installation or rescue operation.The additional ISOs and UKIs focus on being small, fast and (power)user friendly.
  • DMDE - DMDE is a powerful tool for data searching, editing, and recovery on disks. It may recover the directory structure and files in some complicated cases through the use of special algorithms when other software can’t help.
  • Foremost - Foremost is a console program to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures. This process is commonly referred to as data carving
  • Standard linux tools
    • binwalk
    • file
    • iostat and friends
    • objdump
    • sar
    • strings
    • strace
Graphical
  • adriconf - adriconf (Advanced DRI CONFigurator) is a GUI tool used to configure open source graphics drivers. It works by setting options and writing them to the standard drirc file used by the Mesa drivers.
  • catfish - Versatile file searching tool by Xfce, can be powered by find, locate and Zeitgeist. yay -S extra/catfish
  • FeatherPad - Lightweight Qt Plain-Text Editor for Linux yay -S extra/featherpad
  • Libation - Libation: Liberate your Library yay -S aur/libation
  • regexxer - Interactive search and replace tool featuring Perl-style regular expressions. yay -S extra/regexxer
  • scantailor - Scan Tailor was an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages that was started in 2007. It performs operations such as page splitting, deskewing, adding/removing borders, and others.
  • waypipe - Waypipe is a proxy for Wayland clients. It forwards Wayland messages and serializes changes to shared memory buffers over a single socket. This makes application forwarding similar to ssh -X feasible.
  • FeatherNotes - Lightweight Qt Notes-Manager for Linux yay -S extra/feathernotes
  • FreeCAD - Your own 3D parametric modeler
AI AI AI AI
  • Nepenthes - This is a tarpit intended to catch web crawlers. Specifically, it’s targetting crawlers that scrape data for LLMs - but really, like the plants it is named after, it’ll eat just about anything that finds it’s way inside.
UEFI Applications
  • grub2-filemanager - GRUB2-based file manager
  • netboot.xyz - netboot.xyz enables you to boot into many types of operating systems using lightweight tooling to get you up and running as soon as possible.
  • RU.EXE + RU.EFI - BIOS engineering tool
  • EFI Drivers - Free Software EFI/UEFI file system drivers. The purpose of this page is to provide Free Software UEFI components, such as a read-only NTFS, XFS or exFAT EFI drivers, or more exotic ones such as Amiga FFS/SFS, BFS, UFS, ZFS, courtesy of the GRUB project, as well as other goodies.
  • OpenGEM - OpenGEM is a non-multitasking 16-bit graphical user interface (GUI) for DOS. It is an extended distribution of FreeGEM that includes features of the original Digital Research GEM.
  • VOGONS Vintage Driver Library - This is a collection of drivers for vintage hardware, as collected and contributed by the upstanding members of the VOGONS Forums.
Non-free
  • filebot - FileBot is the ultimate tool for renaming and organizing your movies, TV shows and Anime.
  • fman - mc-like Dual-pane file manager for Mac, Windows and Linux, see fman for arch packages
  • synergy - Use a single keyboard and mouse between multiple computers

Online tools

DNS
  • dnschecker.org - changed your DNS records, switched web host, or started a new website - checking whether the DNS records are propagated globally is essential.
  • dnsdumpster.com - dns recon & research, find & lookup dns records
  • dnsperf.com - DNS Performance Analytics and Comparison
  • libredns.gr - The goal is to offer a public encrypted DNS service that people can use to maintain the secrecy of their DNS traffic, but also circumvent censorship.
SSL/Certificates
Network/Security
  • viz.greynoise.io - GreyNoise tags are a signature-based detection method used to identify actors, tools, and CVEs in our data
  • haveibeenpwned.com - Check if your email address is in a data breach
  • shodan.io - the world’s first search engine for Internet-connected devices. Discover how Internet intelligence can help you make better decisions.
  • Sucuri SiteCheck - the Sucuri SiteCheck scanner will check the website for known malware, viruses, blacklisting status, website errors, out-of-date software, and malicious code.
  • virustotal - Analyse suspicious files, domains, IPs and URLs to detect malware and other breaches, automatically share them with the security community.
Selfhosted

This will move to it’s own page eventually.

Actual software:

  • bitmagnet - A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, content classifier and torrent search engine with web UI, GraphQL API and Servarr stack integration.
  • booksonic - The selfhosted audiobook server
  • bookstack - BookStack is a simple, self-hosted, easy-to-use platform for organising and storing information.
  • LazyLibrarian - LazyLibrarian is a SickBeard, CouchPotato, Headphones-like application for ebooks, audiobooks and magazines
  • LibreTranslate - Free and Open Source Machine Translation API. Self-hosted, offline capable and easy to setup.
  • papterless-ngx - A community-supported supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents
  • puter - Puter is an advanced, open-source internet operating system designed to be feature-rich, exceptionally fast, and highly extensible.
  • seedsync - SeedSync is a tool to sync the files on a remote Linux server (like your seedbox, for example). It uses LFTP to transfer files fast!
  • Tautulli - Tautulli is a 3rd party application that you can run alongside your Plex Media Server to monitor activity and track various statistics.
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Last modified: Thu Dec 11 23:09:44 2025