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

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Errands is a task management program, available on Linux: attachments and sync across devices.

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Pick and format colors.

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Free, open-source file transfer and SSH client for Windows, macOS & Linux. Browse SFTP, FTP and S3, edit remote files, and preview directory syncs. An alternative to WinSCP, FileZilla and PuTTY.

Cross-platform, quad-paning file explorer with recursive search and folder size indexing, written in Rust.

Graphic file manager for Windows and Linux.

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FlareMo is a note-taking program, available on Android and iOS: themes and dark mode, attachments, reminders and due dates.

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Log workouts, reps, cardio, and rest timers. Track strength offline.

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Free, open-source, offline-first Point of Sale for cafes, restaurants, and food businesses.

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A modern, feature-rich YouTube and YouTube Music client with local recommendation for Desktop built with Rust and Tauri.

Home Assistant integration for the Fosi Audio S3 network streamer. Switches physical inputs (HDMI, optical, line in, Bluetooth) over the local StreamSDK API — the one thing Cast and AirPlay cannot do.

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Handy, lightweight, open-source file explorer with essential features.

No longer developed. Use YuE2 Studio: https://github.com/timoncool/YuE2-Studio. Portable AI music generator with built-in timeline editor — Stable Audio, one-click install, 100% offline, Windows.

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FM Towns emulator and debugger with embedded MCP server for macOS, Windows, Linux, BSD and RetroArch.

GitBench is a Git client, available on Windows, macOS and Linux: Markdown support, built-in terminal, themes and dark mode.

A fast file explorer for Windows: every folder's size, instant search across NTFS drives, and ripgrep search inside files.

Git client built for reviewing diffs: inline risk scan, topology graph, AI commit messages. Pure Go, GPU-rendered, zero WebView. macOS · Windows · Linux.

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Block-based note editor with PROV-DM provenance tracking — built on BlockNote.js.

Self-hosted homelab network radar: scan your LAN, keep a device inventory, map topology and racks, open SSH in the browser and monitor Linux hosts with a small agent. One container.

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A lightweight, modern desktop music player widget with a vintage disk player aesthetic. Built with Tauri, TypeScript, and Rust.

Control your children's Android devices through Google Family Link directly from Home Assistant. Monitor screen time, set daily limits, manage bedtime and school schedules, and grant bonus time - all from your dashboard.

Infrared (IR) device admin panel for Home Assistant. Learn signals, assign to devices, create triggers, all from the GUI. Built on HA 2026.6+ infrared platform.

Run Codex privately inside Home Assistant with ChatGPT login, automations, skills, plugins, MCP, and a proxy-safe Codex-style UI.

Smart Irrigation custom component for Home Assistant.

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Manage your Hamachi networks.

Turn any small computer into a private NAS. Self-hosted home cloud for any data, reachable from any device with a browser, on minimal hardware (1 core, 1 GB RAM). Simple, reliable, robust. Rust + Svelte.

Provides Home Assistant sensors for Growatt inverters that you can connect directly using modbus protocol.

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Your media. Any screen. Every perspective. Free, open source app for your photos and videos, flat and immersive (panoramas, 360°, 3D, VR180), from your device, a NAS, Plex or an Immich server, no account.

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Incus Helper-Scripts (Community Edition) - One-command installs for containers, VMs and self-hosted apps.

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Material 3 local music player and YouTube Music client.

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Free Dynamic Island for Windows 10 and 11: a notch pill with music, Claude Code and Codex status, notifications, battery, clipboard, timer and a pet cat. Open source, Electron.

A FOREVER free, opensource alternative for Bluebeam Revu, PDF-XChange Editor and Adobe Acrobat Pro on Windows and Linux. Markups, stamps, measuring, signatures, forms, OCR, redaction, page tools and editing of a PDF’s…

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Self-hosted database and stateful-service orchestration on infrastructure you run: Zerops, Dokploy or Nomad.

Open-source network scanner for Windows with device discovery, port scanning, service identification and live monitoring.

Minimalist macOS video player on libmpv with an iPhone remote over the local network.

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Kiri is a screen capture program, available on Windows, macOS and Linux: text recognition (OCR).

Backup your network device configurations with ease and keep track of changes. 4.52x faster than Oxidized!

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Kopuz is a music player, available on Linux: themes and dark mode, lyrics display.

L-MPV — Fast, modern, and lightweight portable video player GUI powered by MPV, Tauri, Rust, and React.

No longer developed. Use Speech Studio: https://github.com/timoncool/speech-studio. Portable audio enhancement for Windows — LavaSR super-resolution, one-click install, 100% offline, NVIDIA GPU.

Local-first desktop writing app for long-form fiction.