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

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Shark – File Manager: a free, open source Mac file manager with tabs, split panes and a terminal.

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Sistema Integrado de Monitoramento Universal e Telemetria: open-source firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico W and Pico 2 W. Sixteen universal sensor slots, TFT touch panel or 16x2 LCD, embedded web UI, binary history,…

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Turn any SQLite database into a distributed data layer: live queries, offline-first device sync, multi-node replication, and coordinator-backed failover.

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Sora Digital Photo Frame - Turn any screen into a smart digital photo frame with ease.

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Family tree application. Single HTML file, no server, your data stays with you.

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Local-first AI study workbench: turn your own PDFs, scans and notes into courses, quizzes and flashcards. Desktop app or browser — your files never leave your machine.

Fast file manager that looks and works like the Windows 11 File Explorer. Single exe, written in Rust. Windows and Linux.

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Swiftly Player — a native Jellyfin client for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac, Android, Linux and Windows. It never transcodes: every file plays as Direct Play or Direct Stream.

Self-hosted Telegram media downloader with a web dashboard. Download and back up photos, videos and files from Telegram channels, groups and DMs, including private ones.

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tongyun-planner is a timer and time tracking program: offline use.

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Offline-first in-memory data grid with CRDT sync and a Rust server.

Route your entire Linux system through Tor transparently, like a VPN — with leak protection built in.

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Offline tournament management in your browser, with portable sharing, custom themes, and English/Persian support.

A terminal-based note-taking app built around the idea of buffers and blocks.

High-performance Go application bridging local storage and remote SFTP with a sleek Web GUI, dual-pane browser, and background queue manager.

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Fast, lightweight Rust media player (Slint + libmpv) inspired by Juxtopposed's VLC redesign.

Free, open-source video editor for gaming videos, video essays and documentaries. Premiere Pro shortcuts and edit rules, GPU playback, local AI captions and smart search. Windows · C++23 · Qt 6 · FFmpeg.

Self-hosted web terminal & SSH bastion for your servers: persistent tmux sessions from any browser or phone. Outbound-only signed agent (no open ports), passkeys/SSO, files, port forwarding, Docker, audit log.

Private, on-device meeting notes for macOS — records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings entirely on your Mac.

A free online weekly planner app, laid out as a mind map. Plan meaningful work, family and hobbies first, and fit the rest around them. No signup.

Backup, service-mode, BootROM dump, and fastboot/eMMC toolkit for the Sony ZV-E10.

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Transcribe voice notes and calls on-device.

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📦 Browse, install, and launch hundreds of portable apps on both Windows and Linux.

Remote-friendly GTK4/mpv app for Linux: German public-service live TV, Mediathek catch-up and M3U/IPTV playlists, with optional XMLTV Now/Next and favourites.

Game launcher for the ZX Spectrum Next emulator CSpect - Windows, Linux and macOS (experimental).

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Celluloid is a media player, available on Linux: playlists.

Windows 11 tray utility for storing and quickly copying text snippets. Single portable .exe, no installer. Built with Go + WebView2 + Svelte 5.

VPN tunneler that just works. Fetches, patches, connects. Powered by VPNGate.

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Manage SQL, NoSQL and analytical databases in one app.

Local-first AI chat, roleplay, and fanfic app for desktop, Raspberry Pi, or your own server, with any model. Unofficial fork of Marinara Engine.

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Drum Machine is a software synthesiser, available on Linux: MIDI support and keyboard shortcuts.

Pi-hole-style DNS ad blocker for the ESP32-S3 N16R8. Blocks ads and trackers network-wide, encrypts lookups with DNS-over-TLS, and relays every record type with a cache.

Open-source firmware, documentation and build guides for Elecrow hardware — CrowPanel ESP32 HMI & e-paper displays, RC070S touch monitor and Pico W5 RP2040.

Keyboard-first local scratchpad and snippet workspace for Windows. Portable PyQt6 app with Markdown, file containers, global hotkeys and offline data.

A workspace-based, multi-pane file manager for Windows and Linux.

Fumic is an open-source, offline-first, keyboard-driven media player for Windows, now built with Flutter.

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GBBox / GameBase Box: frontend for GameBase retro game databases. A Cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) modern frontend.

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A fast, local-only desktop git client for Windows and macOS, built for very large repositories. No accounts, no cloud, no telemetry, no AI.

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Dark, offline gym log. Tap the muscle, log your sets, watch your numbers move.

Local-first AI coding companion for Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode and Antigravity. Work records, Git commits, project services and Skills management.