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GitHub gems: open-source software from small creators1,155 projects

Open-source software and games found on GitHub: recent or active projects that are still little known. Every entry is checked at the source; the figures shown (stars, dates) are GitHub’s as of the last check.

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IPTVMac

Multimedia · independent developernew

IPTV player for Mac, Windows, Android and Android TV: Xtream Codes and M3U, instant search, built-in mpv player, subtitles, Picture in Picture, catch-up. Open source, GPL-3.0.

★ 15Swift · GPL-3.0-onlyGitHub ↗

Memerist

Multimedia · independent developernew

Memerist is a photo editing program, available on Linux.

★ 68C · GPL-3.0-or-laterGitHub ↗

MyGit

Development · independent developernew

Check your agent's changes, fast. A light, native git client for macOS, Windows and Linux, built with MyGo.

★ 59Go · MITGitHub ↗

NRSuite-firmware

Other independent projects · independent developernew

ESP32 firmware for the NRSuite security research toolkit. Wi-Fi/BLE attack and capture modules (deauth, beacon spam, captive portal, BLE HID, BadUSB) over USB serial.

★ 13C++ · GPL-3.0-onlyGitHub ↗

Octet-Draw

Multimedia · independent developernew

Free, open-source chemical drawing for Mac, Windows and Linux. Opens and saves ChemDraw files (CDXML, CDX). Works offline.

★ 89TypeScript · Apache-2.0GitHub ↗

OrcSDR

Other independent projects · independent developernew

Portable touchscreen SDR for M5Stack Tab5 + RTL-SDR dongles — spectrum, waterfall, FM/AM, Shortwave, ADS-B, FT8, P25, LoRa, RF tools, and Wi-Fi analysis without a PC.

★ 273C++ · AGPL-3.0-onlyGitHub ↗

Piki

Linux · independent developernew

Browse illustrations and manga.

★ 36QML · GPL-3.0-or-laterGitHub ↗

PiperOSTool-Android

Development · independent developernew

PiperOS Tool for Android: browser, media player, device utilities, notifications and an on-device terminal.

★ 3Kotlin · GPL-3.0-onlyGitHub ↗

PixelViewer

Multimedia · independent developernew

A cross-platform image viewer which supports reading raw Luminance/YUV/RGB/ARGB/Bayer pixels data from file and rendering it.

★ 416C# · MITGitHub ↗

QRPickle

Linux · independent developernew

A lightweight, opinionated, field-friendly ESP32 CYD HAM Clock.

★ 7C++ · MITGitHub ↗

Shotnix

Multimedia · independent developernew

Free, open-source screenshot tool, screen recorder, and video editor for Mac. Auto-zoom, smooth cursor, captions, OCR, scrolling capture, and annotations. Native, private, no account.

★ 133Swift · MITGitHub ↗

SquachWatch-CYD

Other independent projects · independent developernew

SquachWatch is a firmware for the Cheap Yellow Display that gamifies detecting things like Flock Cameras, Trackers, Meta Glasses and so much more!

★ 481C++ · GPL-3.0-onlyGitHub ↗

Starshot

Multimedia · independent developernew

Next-generation Windows-native HDR screenshot tool — full 16-bit HDR pipeline, region snipping / clipboard history / OCR / AVIF·JXL·PNGv3 encoding / color management, natively built on WinUI 3.

★ 67C# · MITGitHub ↗

Taqwa

Everyday life, health & organisation · independent developernew

Prayer times, Adhan notifications, Qibla and the Quran for Android and iOS. Free, offline by design, no ads, no tracking. Kotlin Multiplatform.

★ 3Kotlin · GPL-3.0-onlyGitHub ↗

Varia

Windows & utilities · independent developernew

Varia is a download manager, available on Windows and Linux: playlists.

★ 1,920Python · MPL-2.0GitHub ↗

VesevOS

Other independent projects · independent developernew

A small operating system for the ESP32-S3: easy to use, secure by default, and useful even where there is no internet.

★ 5C++ · GPL-3.0-onlyGitHub ↗

ZRename

Development · independent developernew

Bulk file renamer for Linux and Windows. Stack rules — regex, case, numbering, EXIF/ID3/video metadata — and watch a live before/after preview with collisions flagged before anything moves.

★ 11Rust · GPL-3.0-onlyGitHub ↗

Free open-source self-hosted backup software: Windows & Linux servers and PCs, Proxmox VE, VMware ESXi and Hyper-V VMs (also failover clusters), SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, NAS and Microsoft 365.

★ 15HTML · AGPL-3.0-onlyGitHub ↗

Open-source CLI to back up a Supabase project to your own S3/R2/B2 bucket (Postgres, Auth users when your role can read them, Storage files once you add the project's Storage S3 keys), then restore-drill it to prove the…

★ 10TypeScript · MITGitHub ↗