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

Linka is an open-source social network focused on decentralization. It allows anyone to host their own server and customize the platform, including algorithms and core features.

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Linthra: Open-source offline music player for local and self-hosted music.

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Lockbook is a note-taking program, available on Linux: Markdown support.

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Free YouTube Music desktop player for Windows and Linux. Open source, portable, synced lyrics, offline downloads, no ads.

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Native Home Assistant screen for ESPHome + LVGL displays, no browser. ESP32-P4: M5Stack Tab5 and Waveshare ESP32-P4 7-inch (the author's daily screen). Home Assistant pushes, the screen never polls.

Fast way to cut and merge video clips using mpc-hc player.

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Media Player Classic reimplemented with Qt and libmpv.

A media player for android built on mpv player with nice UI.

Dual-pane keyboard-driven file manager in the spirit of DOS Navigator and Far Manager: built-in console, terminals, viewer and editor, archives, SFTP/FTP/WebDAV/S3, plugins. Delphi, Windows and Linux.

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Local notes and tasks with encrypted sharing to Magnolie Organizer.

A high-performance, local-first Markdown editor and general-purpose text editor for Windows, macOS, and Linux, with WYSIWYG and Markdown source editing.

Jellyfin desktop client that plays through your real external mpv — SVP4 motion interpolation, SDR-to-HDR, shaders, and full mpv.conf, with playstate synced back to Jellyfin.

A comprehensive mental health monitoring application using modern web technologies.

Free and open-source desktop app for students: mind maps, Gantt plans, notes and presentations. Built with C++ and Qt, with an MCP server.

Dual-panel file manager for macOS — SwiftUI + Swift 6.4 concurrency. Total Commander meets Finder.

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Prayer times matching Diyanet, Kemenag & more to the minute. Quran, dua, qibla.

A minimalist file-manager with streaming capabilities.

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Back up and browse your photos.

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Run a flock of AI coding agents, each in its own git worktree, started by your ticket queue, merged by you. Work assigned to you in Jira, Linear, GitHub Issues, Shortcut or Asana becomes a seeded, already-running…

Stylus-first note-taking & STEM drafting suite for Android and Windows 11 — native .mobix notebooks, lossless Xournal++ (.xopp) interchange, PDF annotation, 2D plots, circuits, LaTeX/Typst & graphics-tablet support.

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A premium Jellyfin Client for Android Mobile, Android TV, iOS, Linux, MacOS, tvOS, Web, and Windows.

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Mousam is a weather program, available on Linux.

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A clean, fast, open-source IPTV player for macOS, Windows and Linux. Bring your own Xtream Codes or M3U subscription and watch live TV with a programme guide, movies and series.

MzDKPlayer is a media player.

Nova is a private, proactive AI assistant for Home Assistant with local and cloud LLM support.

Free, open source, globally accessible screen reader for the blind and vision impaired.

Lightweight, open-source network monitor for Windows that displays live upload/download speeds directly on the Taskbar with a native look and feel.

Terminal UI that diagnoses network connectivity and explains where the connection breaks.

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Who's on my WiFi? Find every device, its IP address & open ports. No ads.

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Native iPhone, iPad and Mac client for self-hosted NextExplorer.

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Android TV player for your self-hosted NicotinD music server.

Music/module player written in C# that can play old modules from the Amiga and PC days. You can download modules from my home page.

Native macOS reimplementation of Notepad++ built with Qt 6. Fast, lightweight code editor with 470+ syntax formats, tabbed editing, and full Indonesian & English localization.

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Pin your notes to notifications — always visible, never forgotten.

A ESP8266 devkit firmware for the Nodoshop version of the Opentherm Gateway (OTGW).

Desktop git client for GitHub, Gitea and other forges.

Explore radio, live TV, podcasts, films and public archives from 11 sources. Import M3U playlists, organize favorites, fine-tune with EQ, download and record in one portable player.

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:house: Buildroot-based, cloud-free smart-home platform for a Homematic IP CCU (CCU3/ELV-Charly). Runs on Raspberry Pi & x86/ARM or as a virtual appliance (Proxmox VE, Home Assistant, Docker/LXC/K8s)...

Dual-panel Android file manager & reverse engineering suite (MT Manager alternative). DEX/Smali & HEX editor, Apktool, AntiSplit, ARSC/AXML editor, Shizuku & Root.

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Run Claude Code, Codex and other agent CLIs as one crew across your Mac, Linux box and Raspberry Pi. Self-hosted P2P mesh, CLI and web console, no cloud relay.