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Swing Music bills itself as a cooler Spotify from both a visual and functionality perspective. That caught my attention. Unlike Spotify, it’s not a streaming service. Instead, Swing Music is a self-hosted music player where you provide the audio files. This is free and open source software.

Argos Translate is state of the art neural machine translation software. It’s written in Python and published under an open source license. Argos Translate uses OpenNMT for translations and can be used as either a Python library, command-line, or GUI application.

Raven Reader is a desktop news reader application. It’s built using Electron, a popular framework with developers, as it makes it easier to build a desktop app that works cross-platform. One code base and create an app that works on popular operating systems.

Festival is a graphical music player for local album collections. It’s cross-platform software running under Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Audiocraft is Python-based software which provides the code and models for MusicGen, a simple and controllable model for music generation.

Fluent Reader is a desktop news reader application. It’s built using Electron, a popular framework with developers, together with React and Fluent UI. Electron makes it easier to build a desktop app that works cross-platform. One code base and create an app that works on popular operating systems.

Koodo Reader is an all-in-one free and open source ebook reader that's designed to offer an easy way to read and manage your ebook collection. There are packages for Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora, as well as distro-agnostic AppImage (including ARM) and snap packages.

Voice Memos is an audio recording app. It’s designed to save recordings of sound with built-in or attached microphones for later playback. It also provides basic editing functionality.

One of the standout machine learning apps is Stable Diffusion, a latent text-to-image diffusion model capable of generating photo-realistic images given any text input. We’ve explored quite a few hugely impressive web frontends such as Easy Diffusion, InvokeAI, and Stable Diffusion web UI.

Easy Effects is GTK4 audio manipulation software which includes a range of tools. Besides an equalizer, there are many other tools incorporated including a limiter, compressor, and a reverberation tool. There’s a built-in spectrum analyzer too.

Apple Freeform is a digital whiteboarding application. The app is designed to encourage brainstorming and enable real-time collaboration between users, with support for FaceTime and iCloud syncing.

Flemozi is billed as a simple, fast and lightweight emoji picker for desktop operating systems. It’s written in Dart and published under an open source license.

cli-chess is a command-line chess program that lets you play online against human players and offline against the computer.

SharePoint is a web-based collaborative platform that’s often used as a document management and storage system.

BackgroundRemover is a command line tool to remove the background from images and videos using AI. The AI is performed courtesy of U2Net, a machine learning model that allows you to crop objects in a single shot. Taking an image of a person, cat, etc. as input, it can compute an alpha value to separate the background from the panoramic view.

Resonance is an example of a project that’s in a very early stage of development. This is an intuitive music player application written in Rust (with a smattering of Python), built with a clean user interface using GTK4 / Libadwaita.

Apple Books is an e-book reading and store application. It primarily receives EPUB content from the Apple Books store, but users can also add their own EPUB and Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Apple Books is proprietary software and not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

PhotoPrism is an AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web. It uses modern technologies to tag and find pictures. The software can be run at home, on a private server, or in the cloud. It’s free and open source software.

tori is an example of a project that’s in a very early stage of development. This is a terminal-based music player and playlist manager that can play music from local files and external URLs. It’s billed as a frictionless music player, although it’s not clear what this really means.

Activity Monitor displays a variety of resources in use on a system in real time. These include processes, disk activity, memory usage, and more to provide a sort of dashboard.