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

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Fast, precise 2D drafting.

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Bring your music library together.

Beautiful, extensible, high-performance cross-platform media player built with Tauri, Rust, React, and libmpv.

Native C++ media player built with libmpv and D3D11 hardware rendering.

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Plattenalbum is a music player, available on Linux: playlists.

A modern Android video player powered by libmpv, built with Jetpack Compose.

Cross-platform SSH/SFTP client with terminal, tabs, widgets and biometric auth for Android, Windows or Linux..

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Whisp is a note-taking program, available on Linux: Markdown support and text recognition (OCR).

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abapGit is a Git client.

Native macOS screen recorder that records data, not video: cursorless screen, separate audio tracks and click telemetry, with editable zoom, cursor and background added afterwards. Swift, ScreenCaptureKit, Core Image.

Local-first screen, camera, microphone and system audio recorder and editor.

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A multi-source music player built on a front/backend.

A native dual-pane file manager for macOS, written in pure AppKit — Total Commander's workflow, with a built-in viewer, archives, SFTP, S3, SMB and Android/MTP.

A cross-platform desktop capture and translation app with screenshot OCR, AI-powered translation, annotation tools, long screenshots, GIF/video recording, TTS playback, and local history.

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Vibe code from one app: run agents in parallel worktrees, watch their diffs live, browse, test and commit. A 14 MB git client with a file explorer and terminal built in.

GPU-accelerated file manager for Linux, built with GPUI.

Home Assistant integration for Lithe Audio speakers.

Fast, lightweight native Windows client for Immich: local + cloud photos in one gallery, duplicates, backup. Rust.

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Play local music by folder.

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Opinionated Database Deployment Kit — locally running RDS for PostgreSQL.

Record your screen while you talk. Transcribed on your Mac with whisper.cpp. Readable by AI agents over MCP.

Game Boy & Game Boy Color emulator in Rust for desktop, Android, retro handhelds, and browser (WASM).

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If Foobar2000 was made in the current year.

Snap Desk is an open-source desktop toolkit built with Tauri 2, Rust, and Vue 3, featuring screenshots, annotations, scrolling capture, image pinning, screen recording, OCR, translation, and clipboard management.

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Lightweight open-source screenshot, annotation and screen recording tool for macOS, Windows and Linux. Built with Tauri v2, Rust and React.

Steam Clips fast hardware-accelerated video renderer, tool for render and fix broken Steam Game Recording clips.

The Oracles Project - A faithful, moddable port of Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android: your own ROM runs unmodified in SameBoy or mGBA, with a widescreen Enhanced mode, European…

Native drag-and-drop shelf for Windows. Drag a file and it slides in: keep files, images, text and links at hand, or drop them on tiles to zip, convert, compress, OCR and upload. Rust + GPUI, no Electron or web engine.

Fast, lightweight Windows and Linux(KDE Plasma 6 and GNOME) screenshot tool with annotations, OCR, uploads, pinned captures, GIF recording, and MP4 screen recording.

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FingerGo is a touch typing program, available on Windows, macOS and Linux: statistics and charts.

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Host Minecraft servers.

Neo Geo Pocket / Color emulator with a full debugger and fan-translation & ROM hacking tools (.tbl tables, relative search, pointer finder, ROM diff). Save states, rewind, Windows/Linux/macOS builds.

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Pineapple Pictures is an image viewer, available on Linux.

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All-in-one Retro Gaming Platform.

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A beautiful, feature-rich music player inspired by modern design principles, powered by the unofficial JioSaavn API. Easily search for and stream your favorite songs, artists, albums, and playlists.

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Scratchmark is a Markdown editor, available on Linux: Markdown support.

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A small Nextcloud file browser without a duplicate upload cache.

MacOS menu-bar app that screenshots your iPhone over USB or Wi-Fi — straight into a folder you choose and onto your clipboard. Native Swift + AVFoundation. Install via npm.

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Open social-media links in a private native media viewer.

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Vipsdisp is an image viewer, available on Linux.