GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. GIMP is available for Linux, Microsoft Windows and OS X.

GNU Image Manipulation Program

A simple application to keep your disk usage and available space under control.Disk Usage Analyzer can scan specific folders, storage devices and online accounts. It provides both a tree and a graphical representation showing the size of each folder, making it easy to identify where disk space is wasted.

Disk Usage Analyzer

Check folder sizes and available disk space

The web browser for GNOME, featuring tight integration with the desktop and a simple and intuitive user interface that allows you to focus on your web pages. If you’re looking for a simple, clean, beautiful view of the web, this is the browser for you.Web is often referred to by its code name, Epiphany.

Select an operating system and let Boxes download and install it for you in a virtual machine.Features:Download freely available operating systems.Automatically install CentOS Stream, Debian, Fedora, Microsoft Windows, OpenSUSE, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Ubuntu.Create virtual machines from operating system images with a couple of clicks.Limit the resources (memory and storage) your virtual machines consume from your system.Take snapshots of virtual machines to restore to previous states.Redirect USB devices from your physical machine into virtual machines.3D acceleration for some of the supported operating systems.Automatically resize virtual machines displays to the window size.Share clipboard between your system and virtual machines.Share files to virtual machines by dropping them from your file manager into the Boxes window.Setup Shared Folders between your system and virtual machines.

Boxes

Contacts keeps and organize your contacts information. You can create, edit, delete and link together pieces of information about your contacts. Contacts aggregates the details from all your sources providing a centralized place for managing your contacts.Contacts will also integrate with online address books and automatically link contacts from different online sources.

Contacts

Logs shows events from the systemd journal, and sorts them into categories, such as hardware and applications.Using Logs you can search your logs by typing a search term, and view detailed information about each event by clicking on it.

Logs

Fonts shows you the fonts installed on your computer for your use as thumbnails. Selecting any thumbnails shows the full view of how the font would look under various sizes.Fonts also supports installing new font files downloaded in the .ttf and other formats. Fonts may be installed only for your use or made available to all users on the computer.

Fonts

Cheese uses your webcam to take photos and videos, applies fancy special effects and lets you share the fun with others.Take multiple photos in quick succession with burst mode. Use the countdown to give yourself time to strike a pose, and wait for the flash!Under the hood, Cheese uses GStreamer to apply fancy effects to photos and videos. With Cheese it is easy to take photos of you, your friends, pets or whatever you want and share them with others.

Cheese

Take photos and videos with your webcam, with fun graphical effects

Calculator is an application that solves mathematical equations. Though it at first appears to be a simple calculator with only basic arithmetic operations, you can switch into Advanced, Financial, or Programming mode to find a surprising set of capabilities.The Advanced calculator supports many operations, including: logarithms, factorials, trigonometric and hyperbolic functions, modulus division, complex numbers, random number generation, prime factorization and unit conversions.Financial mode supports several computations, including periodic interest rate, present and future value, double declining and straight line depreciation, and many others.Programming mode supports conversion between common bases (binary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal), boolean algebra, one’s and two’s complementation, character to character code conversion, and more.

Calculator

Perform arithmetic, scientific or financial calculations

Shortwave is an internet radio player that provides access to a station database with over 30,000 stations.Features:Create your own library where you can add your favorite stationsEasily search and discover new radio stationsAutomatic recognition of songs, with the possibility to save them individuallyResponsive application layout, compatible for small and large screensPlay audio on supported network devices (e.g. Google Chromecasts)Seamless integration into the GNOME desktop environment

Shortwave

Shotwell is an easy-to-use, fast photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop. It allows you to import photos from your camera or disk, organize them by date and subject matter, even ratings.  It also offers basic photo editing, like crop, red-eye correction, color adjustments, and straighten.  Shotwell’s non-destructive photo editor does not alter your master photos, making it easy to experiment and correct errors.When ready, Shotwell can upload your photos to various web services, such as Flickr, Google Photos, and more.Shotwell supports JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and a variety of RAW file formats.

Shotwell

gedit is a general-purpose text editor. It has been created in 1998, at the beginnings of GNOME.The first goal of gedit is to be easy to use, with a simple interface by default. More advanced features are available by enabling plugins.

gedit

Archive Manager (also known as File Roller) is the default GNOME application for opening, creating, and modifying archive and compressed archive files.Archive Manager supports a wide range of different archive files, including:gzip archives (.tar.gz, .tgz)bzip archives (.tar.bz, .tbz)zip archives (.zip)xz archives (.tar.xz)

File Roller

Open, modify and create compressed archive files

GNOME Text Editor is a simple text editor focused on a pleasing default experience.

Text Editor

Maps gives you quick access to maps all across the world. It allows you to quickly find the place you’re looking for by searching for a city or street, or locate a place to meet a friend.Maps uses the collaborative OpenStreetMap database, made by hundreds of thousands of people across the globe.

Maps

A small application that allows you to monitor the current weather conditions for your city, or anywhere in the world.It provides access to detailed forecasts, up to 7 days, with hourly details for the current and next day, using various internet services.It also optionally integrates with the GNOME Shell, allowing you to see the current conditions of the most recently searched cities by just typing the name in the Activities Overview.

Weather

A document viewer for the GNOME desktop. You can view, search or annotate documents in many different formats.Evince supports documents in: PDF, PS, EPS, XPS, DjVu, TIFF, DVI (with SyncTeX), and Comic Books archives (CBR, CBT, CBZ, CB7).

Document Viewer

Document viewer for popular document formats

GNOME Calendar is a simple and beautiful calendar application designed to perfectly fit the GNOME desktop. By reusing the components which the GNOME desktop is built on, Calendar nicely integrates with the GNOME ecosystem.We aim to find the perfect balance between nicely crafted features and user-centred usability. No excess, nothing missing. You’ll feel comfortable using Calendar, like you’ve been using it for ages!

Calendar

Amberol is a music player with no delusions of grandeur. If you just want to play music available on your local system then Amberol is the music player you are looking for.Current features:adaptive UIUI recoloring using the album artdrag and drop support to queue songsshuffle and repeatMPRIS integration

Amberol

A simple and elegant clock application. It includes world clocks, alarms, a stopwatch, and timers.Show the time in different cities around the worldSet alarms to wake you upMeasure elapsed time with an accurate stopwatchSet timers to properly cook your food

Clocks

Image Viewer is the official image viewer for the GNOME desktop. It integrates with the GTK look and feel of GNOME, and supports many image formats for viewing single images or images in a collection.Image Viewer also allows to view the images in a fullscreen slideshow mode or set an image as the desktop wallpaper. It reads the camera tags to automatically rotate your images in the correct portrait or landscape orientation.

Image Viewer

Connections allows you to connect to and use other desktops. This can be a great way to access content or software on a different desktop operating system. It can also be used as a way to provide support to users who might need help.A range of different operating systems can be connected to, including Linux and Windows desktops. You can also connect to virtual machines.Connections uses the widely supported VNC and RDP protocols, and one of these must be enabled on the desktop that you want to connect to.

Connections

Black Box is a native terminal emulator for GNOME that offers superb theming options.With Black Box you can:Set colors schemes and integrate them with the rest of the windowCustomize font and sizeCustomize keyboard shortcutsRender Sixel escape sequencesFully hide the window headerbarQuickly open links and files by ctrl+clicking file paths and URLsEasily paste file paths by dragging them into the windowThis app is written in Vala and uses GTK 4, libadwaita, and VTE.

Black Box

Characters is a simple utility application to find and insert unusual characters.  It allows you to quickly find the character you are looking for by searching for keywords.You can also browse characters by categories, such as Punctuation, Pictures, etc.

Characters

Rhythmbox is a music management application, designed to work well under the GNOME desktop. In addition to music stored on your computer, it supports network shares, podcasts, radio streams, portable music devices (including phones), and internet music services such as Last.fm and Magnatune.Rhythmbox is Free software, based on GTK+ and GStreamer, and is extensible via plugins written in Python or C.

Rhythmbox

Déjà Dup is a simple backup tool. It hides the complexity of backing up the Right Way (encrypted, off-site, and regular) and uses duplicity as the backend.Support for local, remote, or cloud backup locations such as Google DriveSecurely encrypts and compresses your dataIncrementally backs up, letting you restore from any particular backupSchedules regular backupsIntegrates well into your GNOME desktopDéjà Dup focuses on ease of use and recovering from personal, accidental data loss. If you need a full system backup or an archival program, you may prefer other backup apps.

Déjà Dup Backups

GNOME Extensions handles updating extensions, configuring extension preferences and removing or disabling unwanted extensions.The application requires GNOME 3.36 or newer to work.

Extensions

GNOME Network Displays allows you to cast your desktop to a remote display. Currently implemented is support for casting to Wi-Fi Display capable devices (a.k.a. Miracast).This software requires PipeWire version 0.3.8 or higher on the host.

GNOME Network Displays

Stream the desktop to Wi-Fi Display capable devices

Take pictures and videos on your computer, tablet, or phone.

Snapshot

Evolution is a personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring and address book functionality.Evolution supports a wide range of industry standard data formats and network protocols for information exchange, with an emphasis on standards compliance and security. Evolution can also integrate smoothly with Microsoft Exchange by way of the “Exchange Web Services” (EWS) extension.

Apps in the GNOME group