This is a list of notable applications that use

GTK GTK (formerly GIMP ToolKit and GTK+) is a free and open-source cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs). It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, allowing both free and propriet ...

and/or

Clutter Clutter and its derivations may refer to any of the following: Excessive physical disorder * Clutter, a confusing, or disorderly, state or collection, and possible symptom of compulsive hoarding * Clutter (marketing), numerous advertisements, a ...

for their

GUI widget A graphical widget (also graphical control element or control) in a graphical user interface is an element of interaction, such as a button or a scroll bar. Controls are software components that a computer user interacts with through direct ...

s. Such applications blend well with

desktop environment In computing, a desktop environment (DE) is an implementation of the desktop metaphor made of a bundle of programs running on top of a computer operating system that share a common graphical user interface (GUI), sometimes described as a graphica ...

s that are GTK-based as well, such as

GNOME A gnome is a mythological creature and diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy, first introduced by Paracelsus in the 16th century and later adopted by more recent authors including those of modern fantasy literature. Its characte ...

Cinnamon Cinnamon is a spice obtained from the inner bark of several tree species from the genus ''Cinnamomum''. Cinnamon is used mainly as an aromatic condiment and flavouring additive in a wide variety of cuisines, sweet and savoury dishes, breakfa ...

LXDE LXDE (abbreviation for Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) is a free desktop environment with comparatively low resource requirements. This makes it especially suitable for use on older or resource-constrained personal computers such as netb ...

MATE Mate may refer to: Science * Mate, one of a pair of animals involved in: ** Mate choice, intersexual selection ** Mating * Multi-antimicrobial extrusion protein, or MATE, an efflux transporter family of proteins Person or title * Friendship ...

Pantheon Pantheon may refer to: * Pantheon (religion), a set of gods belonging to a particular religion or tradition, and a temple or sacred building Arts and entertainment Comics *Pantheon (Marvel Comics), a fictional organization * ''Pantheon'' (Lone St ...

Sugar Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. Simple sugars, also called monosaccharides, include glucose, fructose, and galactose. Compound sugars, also called disaccharides or double ...

, Xfce or

ROX Desktop The ROX Desktop is a graphical desktop environment for the X Window System. It is based on the ROX-Filer which is a drag and drop spatial file manager. It is free software released under the GNU General Public License. The environment was ins ...

Official GNOME applications

The GNOME Project GNOME Project is a community behind the GNOME desktop environment and the software platform upon which it is based. It consists of all the software developers, artists, writers, translators, other contributors, and active users of GNOME. It is no ...

, i.e. all the people involved with the development of the

desktop environment, is the biggest contributor to

, and the

GNOME Core Applications GNOME Core Applications is a software suite of approximately 30 application software that are packaged as part of the standard free and open-source GNOME desktop environment. GNOME Core Applications have the look and feel of the GNOME desktop, an ...

as well as the GNOME Games employ the newest GUI widgets from the cutting-edge version of GTK and demonstrates their capabilities.

Shells, user interfaces, application launchers

GNOME Shell GNOME Shell is the graphical shell of the GNOME desktop environment starting with version 3, which was released on April 6, 2011. It provides basic functions like launching applications, switching between windows and is also a widget engine. ...

– the desktop graphical

GUI The GUI ( "UI" by itself is still usually pronounced . or ), graphical user interface, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and audio indicator such as primary notation, inste ...

shell Shell may refer to: Architecture and design * Shell (structure), a thin structure ** Concrete shell, a thin shell of concrete, usually with no interior columns or exterior buttresses ** Thin-shell structure Science Biology * Seashell, a hard ou ...

introduced with GNOME version 3.0 *

fork of the GNOME Shell *

GNOME Panel GNOME Panel is a highly configurable taskbar for GNOME. It formed a core part of the desktop in GNOME 1 and GNOME 2. It has been replaced in GNOME 3 by default with GNOME Shell, which only works with the Mutter window manager. There are many ''a ...

– applications launcher * Maynard, a shell for Weston by

Collabora Collabora is a global private company headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, with offices in Cambridge and Montreal. It provides open-source consultancy, training and products to companies. Collabora's initial focus was instant messaging ...

originally for the

Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi () is a series of small single-board computers (SBCs) developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation in association with Broadcom. The Raspberry Pi project originally leaned towards the promotion of teaching basic ...

and forks *

Budgie Budgie may refer to: Arts * Budgie (album), ''Budgie'' (album), the debut album by the Welsh heavy metal band Budgie * Budgie (band), a Welsh heavy metal band from Cardiff * Budgie (musician) (born 1957), English drummer * Budgie (TV series), ''Bu ...

is a distro-agnostic

Education software

Tux Typing ''Tux Typing'' is a free and open source typing tutor created especially for children. It features several different types of game play, at a variety of difficulty levels. It is designed to be fun and to improve words per minute speed of typists ...

– typing tutor for children *

DrGeo GNU Dr. Geo is interactive geometry software that allows its users to design & manipulate interactive geometric sketches. It is free software (source code, translations, icons and installer are released under GNU GPL license), created by Hilaire Fe ...

– geometry software *

GCompris GCompris is a software suite comprising educational entertainment software for children aged 2 to 10. GCompris was originally written in C and Python using the GTK+ widget toolkit, but a rewrite in C++ and QML using the Qt widget toolkit has ...

– educational entertainment for children (legacy version only)

Utility software

Operating system administration

Disk Usage Analyzer Disk Usage Analyzer is a graphical disk usage analyzer for GNOME. It was part of GNOME Core Applications, but was split off for GNOME 3.4. It was originally named Baobab after the ''Adansonia'' tree. The software gives the user a menu-driven, grap ...

– Disk-usage analyzer *

GNOME Disks GNOME Disks is a graphical front-end for udisks. It can be used for partition management, S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, benchmarking, and software RAID (until v. 3.12). An introduction is included in the GNOME Documentation Project. Disks used to be ...

– utility for the hard disk; partition editor, S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, formerly known as Gnome Disk Utility or palimpsest *

GParted GParted (acronym of GNOME Partition Editor) is a GTK front-end to GNU Parted and an official GNOME partition-editing application (alongside Disks). GParted is used for creating, deleting, resizing, moving, checking, and copying disk partitions ...

– utility for the hard disk; partition editor * GDM – X display manager * GNOME Keyring Manager – Password manager *

GNOME Screensaver Up until GNOME 3.5, GNOME Screensaver was the GNOME project's official screen blanking and locking framework. With the release of GNOME 3.5.5, screen locking functionality became a function of GDM and GNOME Shell by default. History GNOME Scree ...

– Simple screensaver configuration *

Alacarte Alacarte (previously the Simple Menu Editor for GNOME or SMEG) is a menu editor for the GNOME desktop, written in Python Python may refer to: Snakes * Pythonidae, a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia, and Australia ** ''Python ...

– Menu editor

End-user utilities

Archive Manager Archive Manager (previously File Roller) is the file archiver of the GNOME desktop environment. Archive Manager can: * Create and modify archives * View the content of an archive * View a file contained in the archive * Extract files from the a ...

– archive manager *

Cheese Cheese is a dairy product produced in wide ranges of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein. It comprises proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cows, buffalo, goats, or sheep. During production, ...

–

webcam A webcam is a video camera which is designed to record or stream to a computer or computer network. They are primarily used in videotelephony, livestreaming and social media, and security. Webcams can be built-in computer hardware or peripheral d ...

application * Conduit Synchronizer – Photo/music/notes/files etc. synchronization *

Eye of GNOME Eye of GNOME is the official and default image viewer for the GNOME desktop environment, where it is also known as Image Viewer. There is also another official image viewer for GNOME called gThumb that has more advanced features like image organ ...

– official image-viewer for GNOME * Getting Things GNOME! – Personal tasks management software * gnee – A GNOME GUI and a panel applet that can be used to record and replay test cases. *

GNOME Boxes GNOME Boxes is an application of the GNOME Desktop Environment, used to access virtual systems. Boxes uses the QEMU, KVM, and libvirt virtualization technologies. GNOME Boxes requires the CPU to support some form of hardware-assisted virtuali ...

– Application to access remote or virtual systems *

GNOME Screenshot GNOME Screenshot is a desktop environment-agnostic utility for taking screenshots. It was part of the GNOME Utilities (gnome-utils) package, but was split into its own package for the 3.3.1 version in 2011. It was the default screenshot software ...

– take screenshots of desktop and windows *

GNOME Calculator GNOME Calculator, formerly known as gcalctool, is the software calculator integrated with the GNOME desktop environment. It is programmed in C and Vala and part of the GNOME Core Applications. Views * ''Basic'' – interface for basic arithmet ...

– calculator *

GNOME Commander GNOME Commander is a 'two panel' graphical file manager for GNOME. It is built using the GTK+ toolkit and GVfs. Features * GNOME MIME types * Network support through File Transfer Protocol, FTP, SSH file transfer protocol, SFTP, SAMBA and WebD ...

– Two-panel graphical file manager * GNOME Files – File manager, formerly called Nautilus * GNOME Terminal – Terminal emulator *

Gnote Gnote is a free and open-source desktop note-taking application written for Linux, cloned by Hubert Figuière from Tomboy. It uses a Wiki-like linking system to connect notes together. Gnote is part of the GNOME desktop environment, often fillin ...

– Note-taking software in C++ * – drop-down terminal emulator * Gucharmap – Character map *

Guvcview Guvcview (GTK+ UVC Viewer) is a webcam application, i.e. software to handle UVC streams, for the Linux desktop, started by Paulo Assis in 2008. The application is written in C and is free and open-source software released under GPL-2.0-or-late ...

– webcam application * Orca – Scriptable screen-reader * Scribes – Text editor * Seahorse – PGP and SSH key-manager * Sushi – File previewer *

Terminator Terminator may refer to: Science and technology Genetics * Terminator (genetics), the end of a gene for transcription * Terminator technology, proposed methods for restricting the use of genetically modified plants by causing second generation s ...

- Terminal emulator * – drop-down terminal emulator *

Tomboy A tomboy is a term for a girl or a young woman with masculine qualities. It can include wearing androgynous or unfeminine clothing and actively engage in physical sports or other activities and behaviors usually associated with boys or men. Wh ...

– Note-taking software in C# *

Vinagre Vinagre is a discontinued VNC, SSH, RDP and SPICE client for the GNOME desktop environment, it is superseded by GNOME Connections. Vinagre was included in GNOME 2.22. It has several features, like the ability to connect to multiple servers sim ...

– VNC client *

Vino Vino may refer to: Computing * Vino (operating system), an open-source operating system * Vino (VNC server), a Remote Desktop sharing library for GNOME Locations * Vino, California, a former settlement in Fresno County * Vino, Grosuplje, a ...

–

VNC Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a graphical desktop-sharing system that uses the Remote Frame Buffer protocol (RFB) to remotely control another computer. It transmits the keyboard and mouse input from one computer to another, relaying the g ...

server (deprecated)

Games

* GNOME Games – collection of games in Vala and C, now archived * Lutris - video game manager/launcher

Abstract strategy games

* GNOME Chess – new 2d graphical front-end written in Vala *

PyChess ''PyChess'' is a free software chess client developed for GNU. It allows users to play offline or online via the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS). PyChess also incorporates a built-in chess engine, which in contrast to most other chess AIs is wr ...

– Chess implementation

Puzzle games

* GNOME Mines – Minesweeper-clone *

gbrainy An open-source video game, or simply an open-source game, is a video game whose source code is open-source. They are often freely distributable and sometimes cross-platform compatible. Definition and differentiation Not all open-source games ...

– Brain teaser game

Graphics

Graphics editors

GIMP GIMP ( ; GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation (retouching) and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized task ...

– an extensive

raster graphics editor A raster graphics editor is a computer program that allows users to create and edit images interactively on the computer screen and save them in one of many raster graphics file formats (also known as bitmap images) such as JPEG, PNG, and GI ...

* Inkscape – an extensive vector graphics editor * MyPaint – an extensive

, for digital painters * Pinta – a minimalist

Image viewers

* Shotwell – Photo manager *

F-Spot F-Spot is a slowly maintained image organizer, designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME desktop environment. The name is a play on the word F-Stop. History The F-Spot project was started by Ettore Perazzoli and is maintained b ...

– Photo manager * gThumb – Image viewer

Internet software

Web browsers

Web Web most often refers to: * Spider web, a silken structure created by the animal * World Wide Web or the Web, an Internet-based hypertext system Web, WEB, or the Web may also refer to: Computing * WEB, a literate programming system created by ...

– default GNOME web-browser *

Midori Midori (みどり, ミドリ, , , ) is the Japanese word for "green" and may refer to: Places * Midori, Gunma * Midori-ku, Chiba * Midori-ku, Nagoya * Midori-ku, Sagamihara * Midori-ku, Saitama * Midori-ku, Yokohama People Given name * Mi ...

– default Xfce web-browser *

Uzbl Uzbl is a discontinued free and open-source minimalist web browser designed for simplicity and adherence to the Unix philosophy. Development began in early 2009 and is still considered in alpha software by the developers. The core component of Uz ...

– minimalist web-browser *

xombrero xombrero (until 2012 known as xxxterm) is a discontinued open-source web browser developed with a goal to be a lightweight and secure replacement for full featured browsers like Firefox. The browser has found a niche among minimalist browsers ...

– minimalist web-browser

Email clients

* Balsa – Email client * Claws Mail * Evolution (software) * Geary *

Modest (email client) Modest is a free, open-source, email client developed by Nokia's maemo project. Small and lightweight, it is intended for use on hardware with “modest” resources, in particular Nokia's N800 and N810 Internet Tablets running Internet Tabl ...

* Pantheon Mail *

Sylpheed Sylpheed is an open-source e-mail client and news client licensed under GNU GPL-2.0-or-later with the library part ''LibSylph'' under GNU LGPL-2.1-or-later. It provides easy configuration and an abundance of features. It stores mail in the MH M ...

Software for inter-person communication

* Empathy – instant-messaging client, VoIP and videoconferencing *

Pidgin A pidgin , or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups of people that do not have a language in common: typically, its vocabulary and grammar are limited and often drawn from s ...

– Instant messenger *

Smuxi Smuxi is a cross-platform IRC client for the GNOME desktop inspired by Irssi. It pioneered the concept of separating the frontend client from the backend engine which manages connections to IRC servers inside a single graphical application. Arch ...

– User-friendly IRC Client * HexChat – IRC client * Gajim – Instant messenger

File sharing

* Deluge — BitTorrent client *

Transmission Transmission may refer to: Medicine, science and technology * Power transmission ** Electric power transmission ** Propulsion transmission, technology allowing controlled application of power *** Automatic transmission *** Manual transmission *** ...

– BitTorrent client * Gwget – Download manager framework * Gwibber – Microblogging client *

Liferea Liferea (short for Linux Feed Reader) is a news aggregator for online news feeds and podcasts. It supports the major feed formats including RSS/ RDF and Atom and can import and export subscription lists in OPML format. Liferea is intended to be ...

– RSS feed reader * Pan – Usenet news reader

Office software

AbiWord AbiWord () is a free and open-source software word processor. It is written in C++ and since version 3 it is based on GTK+ 3. The name "AbiWord" is derived from the root of the Spanish word "'' abierto''", meaning "open".Project MascoAbi the Ant ...

– word processor * GnuCash – Personal and small business finance manager * Gnumeric – Spreadsheet * BOND – Database frontend *

Evince Evince (), also known as GNOME Document Viewer, is a free and open source document viewer supporting many document file formats including PDF, PostScript, DjVu, TIFF, XPS and DVI. It is designed for the GNOME desktop environment. The develo ...

– pdf viewer * GNOME Dictionary – Dictionary * Evolution – Integrated mail, contacts, and calendar *

OCRFeeder OCRFeeder is an optical character recognition suite for GNOME, which also supports virtually any command-line OCR engine, such as CuneiForm, GOCR, Ocrad and Tesseract. It converts paper documents to digital document files and can serve to make t ...

– a graphical front-end for the Optical character recognition engines CuneiForm,

GOCR GOCR (or JOCR) is a free optical character recognition program, initially written by Jörg Schulenburg. It can be used to convert or scan image files (portable pixmap or PCX) into text files. Features GOCR claims it can handle single-column s ...

Ocrad Ocrad is an optical character recognition program and part of the GNU Project. It is free software licensed under the GNU GPL. Based on a feature extraction method, it reads images in portable pixmap formats known as Portable anymap and produces ...

and Tesseract

Tools for programming and development

GNOME Builder GNOME Builder is a general purpose integrated development environment (IDE) for the GNOME platform, primarily designed to aid in writing GNOME-based applications. It was initially released on March 24, 2015. The application's tagline is "A toolsm ...

– Integrated development environment *

Anjuta Anjuta is an integrated development environment written for the GNOME project. It has support for C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python and Vala programming language. Anjuta DevStudio The goal of Anjuta DevStudio is to provide a customizable and ...

– Integrated development environment * Glade Interface Designer – a Graphical user interface builder * Gedit – Text editor *

Leafpad Leafpad is a free and open-source graphical text editor for Linux, BSD, and Maemo that is similar to the Microsoft Windows program Notepad. Created with the focus of being a lightweight text editor with minimal dependencies, it is designe ...

– Lightweight text editor * Lazarus - cross-platform visual IDE for RAD using the Free Pascal compiler *

Devhelp Devhelp is a GTK/GNOME browser for API documentation; it works natively with gtk-doc (which is the API reference format for GTK/GNOME documentation). It is integrated in GNOME development tools such as GNOME Builder, Glade and Anjuta, and is an ...

– API documentation browser *

Nemiver Nemiver is computer software, a graphical standalone debugger for the programming languages C and C++, which integrates in the GNOME desktop environment. It currently features a backend which uses the well known GNU Debugger (GDB). The creator ...

– C and C++ debugger *

Geany Geany (IPA:dʒiːni ) is a free and open-source lightweight GUI text editor using Scintilla and GTK, including basic IDE features. It is designed to have short load times, with limited dependency on separate packages or external libraries o ...

– text editor suitable for programming *

Meld MELD may refer to: * Model for End-Stage Liver Disease, a prognostic model * A variant of the declarative language CycL * Molecular orbital diagram, Molecular energy-level diagram, a type of one-dimensional plot with a significant qualitative aspec ...

– diff-viewer * PIDA – IDE * Xojo – IDE *

Zenity Zenity is free software and a cross-platform program that allows the execution of GTK dialog boxes in command-line and shell scripts. Description Like tools such as whiptail and dialog, Zenity allows easy creation of GUIs, though it has few ...

– execute GTK dialog boxes from shell scripts * Bluefish – Web design editor * MonoDevelop – Integrated development environment *

ActiveState Komodo Komodo Edit is a free and open source text editor for dynamic programming languages. It was introduced in January 2007 to complement ActiveState's commercial Komodo IDE. As of version 4.3, Komodo Edit is built atop the Open Komodo project. Komodo ...

– Integrated development environment * Gtranslator – uses gettext * poedit – gettext * Scala (software)

Optical disc software

Optical disc authoring software

* Brasero – optical disc authoring software, graphical front-end to burn CDs/DVDs

Optical disc ripping software

Grip Grip(s) or The Grip may refer to: Common uses * Grip (job), a job in the film industry * Grip strength, a measure of hand strength Music * Grip (percussion), a method for holding a drum stick or mallet * ''The Grip'', a 1977 album by Arthur Bl ...

– CD ripper and player *

Thoggen Thoggen is a DVD ripper for Linux within the GNOME project. It is based on GStreamer and GTK+. Thoggen can back up DVDs by re-encoding them using the Ogg Theora video codec. Thoggen is designed to be easy and straightforward to use. It attempts ...

– DVD backup utility

Audio

* Software audio players (free and open-source) * SoundConverter (software) * GNOME Sound Juicer

Video

* Veejay – Live video, Vjing

Video players

* GNOME Videos – the GNOME default video player

Video editors

* Gnome Subtitles – Video subtitling * Pitivi – Video editor * Cinelerra - Video editor

Science software

Chemistry

Despite the immense popularity of Qt, there continues to be science software using the GUI widgets of version 2 of GTK toolkit. Whether this is going to remain that way, or whether the software will be ported to some current version of GTK (maybe GTK 4) remains to be seen. *

Ghemical Ghemical is a computational chemistry software package written in C++ and released under the GNU General Public License. The program has graphical user interface based on GTK+, GTK+2 and supports quantum mechanics, quantum mechanical and molecular ...

– computational chemistry software package

Statistics

* gretl — an open-source statistical package, mainly for econometrics

Various

* Beagle – search tool * Gramps – Genealogy software

References

External links

* http://gnomefiles.org/ – GNOME/GTK software repository
GTK Application Repository
at ibiblio * https://circle.gnome.org/ - A list of GNOME Circle applications {{GTK Software that uses Cairo (graphics) Software that uses GStreamer GTK applications