Software Patreons
Open Source Projects
63_ENTRIESProjects released with an open source license.
- Albert launcher
Keyboard launcher written in C++/Qt.
- bcachefs
Linux filesystem.
- Blender
3D creation suite
- Bottles
Easily manage and run Windows apps on Linux.
- Calibre
E-books manager.
- Compiler Explorer
Online decompiler and compiler explorer.
- Deluge
BitTorrent client.
- DokuWiki
Wiki application.
- Duplicati
Backup client.
- Firezone
Self-hosted VPN server using WireGuard.
- FreeCAD
Parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size.
- Freeter
Productivity app for Developers, Designers and other professionals.
- Godot Engine
Complete 3D engine.
- HaxeFlixel
Cross-platform 2D game engine.
- Homebrew
Package manager for macOS.
- iTerm2
macOS terminal replacement.
- JabRef
Software for bibliography management
- JHipster
Open Source application platform for creating Spring Boot + Angular/React/Vue projects in seconds.
- Laigter
Automatic normal/specular/occlussion/parallax map generator for 2D game sprites.
- LogSeq
Knowledge management
- Memcode
Platform for flashcards
- MuseScore
Music notation software.
- NativeScript-Vue
Native mobile applications with NativeScript and Vue.
- Neovim
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability.
- NewPipe
FLOSS video player on Android for services like YouTube, Soundcloud etc.
- Olive
High quality video editing and compositing software.
- Open Broadcaster Software
, #2 - Video recording and live streaming software.
- Open Chemistry
Umbrella of multiple open source chemistry projects including Avogadro, cclib, DeepChem, MSDK, Open Babel, RDKit, and 3DMol.js.
- Open Source BIM Collective
Tools for building information modeling.
- openage
Real time strategy game engine.
- OpenFAAS
Serverless platform.
- OpenShot
Video editor.
- Paperwork
Personal document manager.
- Perkeep
Personal storage system.
- PHPStan
PHP static analyzer.
- PHPUnit
PHPUnit and related projects.
- Pixelorama
A free & open-source 2D sprite editor, made with the Godot Engine.
- PlantUML
UML diagram creation software.
- Project Lombok
Java editor plugin.
- Remmina
Remote desktop client.
- ShareX Team
Screen capture and screen sharing tool.
- Sonic Pi
Code-based music creation and performance tool.
- SysV init
System V init implementation.
- Termux
Android terminal emulator.
- Thirty Bees
Ecommerce software.
- Transmission
BitTorrent client.
- V Programming Language
Statically typed compiled programming language similar to Go, influenced by Oberon, Rust, Swift.
- VideoLAN
Maker of the VLC video player.
- Vim-Go
Go plugin for VIM.
- Weblate
Localization tool with tight version control integration.
- Webpack
JavaScript module bundler.
- Wireshark
Helping as many people as possible understand their networks as much as possible.
- Zrythm
A highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation.
- Kitbashery
3D kitbashing solution & CC0 model library.
Messaging and social media
14_ENTRIES- Dekko Project
Ubuntu email client.
- Flarum
Forum platform.
- Funkwhale
A free, federated and social music server.
- The Lounge
Modern web IRC client.
- MissKey
Federated microblogging platform.
- postActiv
Microblogging platform.
- Reddit Enhancement Suite
Reddit browser extension.
- Retrospring
, #2, #3 - A social network following the Q/A (question and answer) principle.
- Secure Scuttlebutt
A distributed and secure peer-to-peer protocol and social network.
Libraries
20_ENTRIESLibraries and frameworks.
- ApexCharts
JavaScript charts library.
- Asset-Importer-Lib
Loads 40+ 3D file formats into one unified and clean data structure for game-developers.
- Babel
JavaScript compiler.
- Dear ImGui
Immediate Mode Graphical User interface for C++.
- Hapi.js
Node.js framework.
- HaxeUI
User interface toolkit.
- Laravel
PHP framework.
- LibGDX
Game development framework.
- Moleculer
Progressive microservices framework for Node.js.
- Musl libc
The Musl libc project.
- OpenFL
Cross-platform application framework.
- Phalcon
Web framework delivered as a C extension for PHP.
- stdlib
Standard library for JavaScript and Node.js with an emphasis on scientific computing.
- Tabulator
JavaScript library for building interactive tables.
- Vue.js
Vue.js.
- Yii framework
PHP framework.
- Zappa
A server-less Python framework.
Operating Systems
19_ENTRIESOperating Systems and Linux distributions.
- /e/
Privacy-focused mobile OS.
- Elementary OS
Ubuntu variant.
- FreeDOS
MS-DOS compatible operating system.
- GhostBSD
Desktop-focused BSD OS.
- GrapheneOS
A privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.
- Linux Lite
Linux distribution.
- Mobian
Debian for mobile.
- Parrot
Security-related Debian distribution.
- PostmarketOS
A real Linux distribution for phones.
- Qubes OS
A reasonably secure operating system.
- ReactOS
A free Windows-compatible Operating System
- Redox OS
OS written in Rust.
- Serenity OS
#2 - A graphical Unix-like OS for x86, with 90s aesthetics.
- Slackware Linux
Linux distribution.
- Solus
Linux distibution.
- Ubuntu Mate
Ubuntu variant.
- Ubuntu Studio
, #2 - Ubuntu variant for creating audio, video, graphics etc.
- Ubuntu Touch
, #2 - Touch-friendly mobile version of Ubuntu.
Games
18_ENTRIESGames and game-related projects.
- Battle for Wesnoth
Turn-based strategy game.
- Cemu
Nintendo Wii U emulator.
- Citra
Nintendo 3DS emulator.
- Citybound
City building game.
- Cxbx-reloaded
Xbox emulator for Windows.
- Eigengrau's Generator
TTRPG/Dungeons and Dragons Town and NPC Generator.
- Fheroes2
Free Heroes of Might and Magic II engine.
- Improved Initiative
D&D tabletop role-playing game combat tracker.
- Libretro Team
Libretro, RetroArch and Lakka.
- MelonDS
Nintendo DS emulator.
- Play!
PS2 emulator.
- Rpcs3
PS3 emulator.
- Ryujinx
Nintendo Switch emulator.
- Xemu
Xbox emulator.
- Xenia
Xbox 360 emulator.
- yuzu
Nintendo Switch emulator.
Open Source Art
13_ENTRIESDevelopers creating art projects and contributing to art-related open source tools and libraries.
- Alexandre Prokoudine
, #2 - GIMP contributor, editor of Libre Graphics World online magazine.
- Andrea Ferrero
Developer of PhotoFlow image editor, maintains various Appimage packages.
- Duduf
Tools for animations and motion pictures production.
- GIMP
GNU Image Manipulation Program.
- Inochi2D
Opensource editor and libraries for realtime 2D puppet animation and rendering, e.g. VTubers.
- Marc Jeanmougin
Inkscape contributor.
- Morevna Project
Various contributions to open source animation tools and animated shorts sources released under CC.
- MyPaint
Painting and drawing program that works nicely with pressure-sensitive tablets, and its dynamic brush engine library.
- Øyvind Kolås
, #2 - Lead developer of babl & GEGL libraries used in the graphics editor GIMP.
- Pablo Dobarro
Sculpting improvements for Blender.
- Tavmjong Bah
Working on Inkscape vector graphics editor.
People Doing Open Source Work
75_ENTRIESDevelopers contributing to multiple projects that ask to support their work.
- Adam King
RLTrader, Tensortrade and other trading related projects.
- Andreas Heinisch
LibreOffice developer.
- Andreas Kainz
LibreOffice designer.
- Andreas Pardeike
Programming tutorials, games and mods.
- Andrius Štikonas
KDE contributor, mainly KDE Partition Manager.
- Attogram Project
Shared Media Tagger, Open Translation Engine, and many more projects.
- Bailey Burnsed
FOSS Nerd developing open source games in Godot and Rust
- Daniel Gultsch
Conversations Jabber client.
- Daniël Klabbers
Contributor to Flarum and other PHP projects.
- Dave Täht
Working on improving the Internet.
- David Hewitt
ElementaryOS contributor, Torrential, Clipped.
- Dimitri Fontaine
Various contributions to the PostgreSQL ecosystem (pgloader, pg_auto_failover), Emacs libraries (el-get), author.
- Dominik Honnef
, #2 - Working on tooling for the Go programming language.
- Dragan Djuric
Creator of Uncomplicate, a family of Clojure libraries for AI, ML, and GPU high performance computing.
- Eevee
Games, applications and articles.
- Egoist
Various JavaScript libraries and tools.
- Erik Moqvist
Moblin, iOS app for IRL streaming and many other libraries.
- Eric S. Raymond
Nethack, GPSd, author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar".
- Ethan Lee
Contributions to FNA, SDL2 C# and other projects.
- Fabio Zadrozny
Working on PyDev and related projects.
- Felipe Lima
Various projects and libraries like OkReplay, AirMapView, AsymmetricGridView, GifImageView, Wombat.
- Feross Aboukhadijeh
WebTorrent, StandardJS, and other JavaScript projects.
- Franck Nijhof
Creates Home Assistant add-ons and helps out on the main project.
- Gabriel Gonzalez
Dhall language, Nix and Haskell educational projects and Haskell libraries and tool.
- Gilbert Pellegrom
Raneto, Vue.js libraries and more.
- Jacky Alcine
Projects in the IndieWeb sphere, Koype and contributions to other open source projects.
- James 'Purpleidea'
mgmt config, articles and more.
- JeanHeyd Meneide
Creates C++ libraries and standards proposals.
- Joey Hess
git-annex, keysafe, other Linux software.
- Johann-S
Bootstrap JavaScript developer and various plugins and projects.
- Jorge Bucaran
Hyperapp and many other JavaScript projects.
- Jonathan Müller
Various C++ libraries, tools, articles.
- Kevin Cozens
Contributor to projects such as GIMP, OpenSimulator, KiCad and TinyScheme.
- Kévin Dunglas
API Platform, Vulcain, Mercure and Symfony contributions.
- Khoa Pham
A multitude of libraries, applications and articles about iOS/Cocoa,
- Kozec
Syncthing-GTK and SC-Controller.
- Kurt Kremitzki
, #2 - FreeCAD contributor and Debian packager.
- Lars Moelleken
Various PHP libraries and OSS contributions.
- Luke Dashjr
Author of bfgminer and other substantial contributions to Bitcoin.
- Matt Lewis
Angular-calendar and other angular components.
- Matthieu Napoli
Bref, PHP-DI and other PHP libraries.
- Max Bridgland
Various pentesting frameworks and tools.
- Max Howell
Creator of Homebrew, maintainer of PromiseKit and a multitude of other project for Apple platforms.
- Michal Čihař
Contributor to Weblate and phpMyAdmin.
- Nate Graham
KDE contributor.
- Nick Sweeting
ArchiveBox and OSS contributions but also articles and documentation.
- Nicolas Hafner
Various Common Lisp libraries.
- Nils Maier
Download Them All! Firefox and Chrome extension.
- Oleh Krehel
GNU Emacs plugins, maintainer of Ivy/Swiper/Counsel, Hydra, Avy, Lispy, and more.
- Ondřej Surý
Debian packager.
- Patrick Wardle
Owner of Objective-See, various macOS security tools and articles.
- Pedro Piñera
Tuist and XcodeProj libraries, articles.
- Pedro Carrasco
Various iOS libraries and projects.
- Povilas Kanapickas
X server, Buildbot CI, Barrier and many others.
- Raph Levien
druid and other Rust projects.
- Reini Urban
Maintaining and developing software such as cperl, parrot, a lot of perl5 modules, safeclib and libredwg.
- René Rebe
T2 System Development Environment.
- Rekka Bellum & Devine Lu Linvega
Open source tools and games.
- Rob Landley
Working on Toybox, mkroot and various other projects.
- Ryan C. Gordon
, #2 - Linux ports of games, game-related utilities.
- Sanjay Madan
, #2 - Mowglii apps, author of Itsycal and Snk.
- Scarlett Moore
KDE contributor.
- Scott Lahteine
Contributor to Marlin Firmware for 3D printers.
- Sindre Sorhus
Countless open source projects.
- skypjack
C++ libraries such as uvw and EnTT.
- Stéphane Peter
AudioKit contributor, Makeself and other libraries and projects.
- Steve Purcell
MELPA lisp package archive and other software tooling.
- Steven Troughton-Smith
Various iOS/macOS software.
- Thomas M. Edwards
Gaming related projects.
- Tim Oliver
Multitude of iOS libraries and various contribution to the iOS ecosystem.
- Timothée Giet
GCompris contributor.
- Tobias Koppers
Founder and maintainer of Webpack.
- Yorik van Havre
, #2 - FreeCAD contributor.
Articles and Tutorials
9_ENTRIES- Alecaddd
Various programming tutorials.
- Boiling Steam
, #2 - Linux gaming news, reviews, guides.
- Chris Bradfield
Programming tutorials for kids.
- DistroWatch
Reviews and tutorials for Linux/BSD.
- Fluent C++
C++ articles.
- GamingOnLinux
articles and videos about Linux, Steam Deck, SteamOS gaming.
- Kyle Simpson
Author of the "You Don't Know JS" book series. Doing articles, podcasts and OSS contributions.
- Meeting C++
C++ articles.
- Modernes C++
C++ articles.
Videos
6_ENTRIES- Corey Schafer
Python tutorials.
- Fun Fun Function
JavaScript and general programming videos.
- LiveOverflow
IT security videos.
- The Coding Train
Programming tutorials.
- ThreatWire
Hak5 security show.
Podcasts
5_ENTRIES- Destination Linux
Linux discussion and news related podcast.
- Late Night Linux
Linux and news.
- More Than Just Code
Podcast for iOS developers.
- The Debug Log
Game development.
- This Week in Linux
Linux News Podcast, 2-3 times more topics per episode than other podcasts.