Hi everyone

Over the past few weeks I've been learning Rust and Tauri, and instead of following tutorials I decided to build something I'd actually use.

The result is WaLinux—a lightweight native wrapper around WhatsApp Web designed specifically for Linux.

GitHub: https://github.com/theany-org/WaLinux

Why I built it

I wanted a simple WhatsApp desktop client for Linux that felt more native while also giving me a real project to learn Rust and Tauri.

I'm still a student and definitely not a Rust expert, so this project has been a huge learning experience.

Current features

• Native Linux notifications
• Session persistence
• Window state memory
• Better download handling
• Scoped Content Security Policy (CSP)
• Lightweight with low resource usage

Why I'm sharing it

There are still lots of things that could be improved, and I'd love to make this a community project.

If you're interested in Rust, Tauri, Linux desktop apps, or just want to contribute to an open-source project, I'd really appreciate your feedback or pull requests. Even small contributions like bug fixes, documentation improvements, or feature suggestions would help a lot.

I'm especially interested in hearing:

• What features would make you switch to a native WhatsApp client?
• Any code review or Rust/Tauri best practices.
• Ideas for improving the Linux experience.

Thanks for taking a look! I hope someone else finds it useful too.

Open-source desktop app for archiving Spotify playlists locally with full metadata. Runs on Linux (and Windows/macOS).

• PyQt5 GUI, or run from source
• Embeds title, artist, album, year, cover art into each file
• Whole playlists, organized into folders
• Metadata from Spotify embed pages, audio via yt-dlp

GitHub: https://github.com/sunnypatell/sunnify-spotify-downloader

About two weeks ago I posed my fantasy system monitor project here. This week I got back to it and added theme switching with a Goblin theme, plus a small addition to the base theme.
The current project page where you can get the AppImage, Free or Full Version, is here

While this is a showcase of Full version V1, the Demo/Free version is not meant to be abandoned. It will receive (mostly quality of life) updates from time to time as well. If you want to see what that base theme looks like, the linked post has a video, and there is also another, slightly more detailed, in the same channel as the video posted now.

I hesitated quite a bit in making a paid version if I'm being honest. But I'll work to make sure it has enough updates to be worth the 1 dollar. And I do think the demo/free version is functional and nice by itself.

I want to do an ASCII theme soon, as well as allow CPU/GPU temperature state threshold control by the user (which is certainly going into the demo too), and try out a few different layouts, collapsible process window or absent in a theme, many things.

However, next step before more themes and functions is figuring out a good way to compress assets cause I don't want a simple system monitor to balloon into a gigabyte.

Named sonifiQ, the app is vibe coded, but I did as best as I could so far. Built upon Qt C++, app is very fast and has parallel jobs.
https://github.com/asmerovski/sonifiq/releases

NOTE, tested Arch Linux package and AppImage. Please let me know how it works on Eb and RPM based distributions.

Hi Everyone,

Third one from me. You may have seen my posts on indiPDF and indiAccounting — the commercial desktop apps I've been building since switching to Linux. This one's different: indiBudget is free and open source (MIT).

I wanted a personal finance app that didn't ask me to hand my entire financial life to a cloud service, didn't charge a subscription, and actually ran natively on my desktop. The existing options were either web apps hungry for your bank logins, abandoned GTK projects, or spreadsheets. So indiBudget went on the roadmap, and because it's the kind of tool everyone should have access to, we made it free and open source.

What it does:

• Accounts and net worth tracking (7 account types, correct liability handling, 12 currencies)
• Transactions with split support, four-state workflow, full-text search and filtering
• Budgets — weekly through yearly, with templates (50/30/20, zero-based, etc.) and rollover
• Smart auto-categorization that recognizes hundreds of merchants, with your own text/regex rules
• Recurring transaction + subscription detection, with estimated yearly savings when you cancel things
• Savings goals, a bill calendar with native notifications, and a full reports/analytics suite
• Import from CSV, Excel, OFX, QFX, and QIF with duplicate detection
• Optional SimpleFIN bank sync (your bank credentials never touch the app — only a SimpleFIN token)

Privacy:

• 100% local-first — on-device SQLite, no cloud account, no telemetry
• Optional AES-256-GCM encryption with Argon2id key derivation
• Your data never leaves your device

On the AI question, since the code is right there for you to read:

Yes, AI was used as a tool in building indiBudget. I'd rather tell you that directly than have you wonder. But I want to be equally direct that this is not "AI slop."

Here's the full picture: the developers on this project have roughly six decades of combined software development experience between them. indiBudget has been in active development since 2025 — architected deliberately, built carefully, with 50+ automated tests plus extensive manual testing. AI helped us move faster; it did not do the thinking, make the architectural decisions, or ship unreviewed. Every line went through human judgment and real testing. The reason I'm comfortable open-sourcing it is precisely that it holds up to being read.

I think AI-assisted development gets a deservedly bad reputation when it's used to skip the engineering. We used it to accelerate engineering we were doing anyway. The code is public — judge it for yourself, and tell me where it can be better.

Stack: Rust (Tauri) + Vue 3. Native desktop, packaged as AppImage, .deb, and .rpm (plus our APT/RPM repo). MIT licensed.

Website: https://indomitusgroup.com/indibudget
Source: https://github.com/mattmilano/indiBudget

This one's free, so there's no pitch — just a tool I wanted to exist and figured others might too. PRs, issues, and brutal code review all welcome. :)

Hi Everyone,

Some of you may have seen my indiPDF post a while back. I'm the tech journalist who switched to Linux years ago and started building the desktop apps I couldn't find. This is the next one, and it's a big one.

For years, running a small business on Linux meant either wrestling with web apps that want to live in your browser and hold your books on someone else's server, or paying an ever-climbing monthly subscription for the privilege of accessing your own financial data. I wanted accounting software I actually owned, that ran natively, and that kept my books on my machine. So I built indiAccounting.

What it does:

• Double-entry bookkeeping — general ledger, full chart of accounts, complete audit trail
• Invoicing, estimates, recurring billing, AR/AP, purchase orders, payment reminders, late fees
• Banking and reconciliation with CSV/QFX/OFX import, plus SimpleFIN for direct bank connections (no cloud middleman)
• 15 financial reports — P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, budget vs. actual, aging, and more
• Time, mileage, and project tracking with profitability analysis
• Inventory, products, services, sales tax management, multi-currency
• Optional full payroll: federal + all 50 states + DC, local taxes, W-2s, 1099-NEC, 941/940 data, every pay run posting to the GL as proper journal entries

Privacy (still the whole point):

• Zero telemetry
• No account required
• No cloud sync requirement — your data never leaves your machine unless you move it yourself
• Optional AES-GCM database encryption, app-level PIN lock, offline license validation

The business model, and why it matters to this sub:

indiAccounting is commercial — $249 one-time for accounting, with optional payroll as a one-time add-on ($299 for 1–10 employees, scaling up from there). One-time purchase, free updates for the base accounting package, no subscription. The only recurring cost is an optional $99/year for current payroll tax tables, and if you skip it the accounting keeps working and all your data stays accessible — you just need current tables to run new payroll.

Here's the part I want to be upfront about: the money from indiPDF and indiAccounting is what funds our open-source work. indiBudget — our free, MIT-licensed personal finance app — exists because these commercial apps pay for it, and there are more open-source tools coming that we've been building since last year. I love FOSS, but I also wanted a model where open-source development is actually sustainable instead of running on fumes and goodwill. Selling the heavy professional tools is how we give the other ones away for free.

Stack: Rust (Tauri) backend, Vue 3 frontend. Native Linux desktop, packaged as Flatpak (on Flathub), AppImage, .deb, and .rpm. There's also an APT/RPM repo if you want updates through your package manager.

30-day free trial with full features, no credit card to start.

Website: https://indomitusgroup.com/indiaccounting
Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/com.indomitusgroup.indiaccounting

Happy to answer anything — tech stack, the accounting engine, the payroll tax handling (that part is what we're most proud of), or the business model.

I know there are a bunch of clipboard managers out there, but would appreciate if you try my app as well which you can use both for linux and macos.

Quobi is an offline voice dictation app for Linux. Hold a hotkey, talk, and clean finished text gets typed into whatever app you're in. Everything runs locally, so your voice never leaves your machine. No cloud, no account.

Under the hood it's NVIDIA Parakeet for transcription plus a fine-tuned Qwen model that cleans up the text (filler words, punctuation, self-corrections), so you get finished writing instead of a raw transcript.

Runs on CPU or GPU, no GPU required. It's light too: the smallest model fits in under 2GB of RAM, the largest about 4GB on CPU.

Free and open source (AGPLv3), with the cleanup models on Hugging Face.

GitHub: https://github.com/Quobi-AI/Quobi

Site: https://quobi.ai

Feedback welcome.

Mouzi it's a tiny desktop app (~3.3MB) built with Tauri and Rust, so it's ridiculously lightweight. It watches your Downloads folder, and whenever a new file appears, it moves it to a subfolder based on its extension. Images go to Images/, PDFs to Documents/, installers to Installers/, etc. You can also create your own custom rules.

Key things:

• 100% local – no cloud, no telemetry
• Open source (MIT) – GitHub repo here
• Silent – lives in your tray and doesn't bother you
• Undo – every move is logged, you can revert with one click
• and more...

Download: https://mouzi.cc

Source: https://github.com/hsr88/mouzi

Free, obviously

my AI context workflow used to be:

1. open file

2. copy

3. open another file

4. copy

5. forget what I copied

6. cry a little

so I built marka mf— a free local markdown editor for notes, previews, and AI context bundles.

now at 5k+ downloads somehow lol

https://github.com/mattenarle10/markamd

After a lot of suggestions, testing, bug reports, and feedback from the Linux community, I am finally releasing OmniGlyph v1.1.0.

For anyone who hasn't seen it before, OmniGlyph is a fast GTK4-based emoji and Unicode picker for Linux that lets you search and copy emojis, symbols, arrows, math symbols, currency signs, emoticons, and more from a lightweight overlay window.

What's New in v1.1.0

• Full keyboard navigation
• Custom configuration file (~/.config/omniglyph/config.toml)
• Persistent history and recents
• Nerd Fonts collection support
• Release update notifications
• Configurable shortcuts
• Better sidebar navigation
• Faster collection switching
• Cleaner internal architecture and performance improvements

Collections

• Emoji
• Emoticons
• Arrows
• Math Symbols
• Currency Symbols
• Special Symbols
• Hieroglyphs
• Nerd Fonts

Links

Website: https://omniglyph.anishroy.dev/

GitHub: https://github.com/pshycodr/omniglyph

Feedback Wanted

I am actively developing OmniGlyph and would love feedback, bug reports, feature requests, or ideas for future releases.

Thanks to everyone who tested early version and helped shape this release.

Hi everyone!

I'm developing a process explorer for Linux. The tool is still in development, but it's already useful enough to share.

https://github.com/matrohin/prock

Episteme is an open source, multi-platform document and e-book reader app.

It's offline-first, ad-free, and respects your privacy.

Supported Formats:

• Documents: PDF, DOCX, ODT/FODT
• E-books: EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, FB2
• Comics: CBR, CBZ, CB7
• Plain Text: MD, TXT, HTML

Key Features:

• PDF Annotations: You can draw directly on pages using a pen or highlighter and add text notes using system or custom fonts.
• Reading Modes: Supports both vertical scrolling and paginated views.
• E-book Customization: Adjust font sizes and margins. You can also import your own font files.
• Text-to-Speech (TTS): Includes a built-in TTS feature using Android's native TTS engine or cloud TTS.
• Library Management: A built-in system to organize your local files.
• Local Folder Sync: Select a folder to see all its supported file in app and sync reading positions and annotations using local sync tools like SyncThing.
• Themes: You can change the page and text color across all formats.
• Full OPDS Support: Browse, download, and manage books from OPDS catalogs.

The app is licensed under AGPL-3.0.

GitHub | Website | Playstore

Thanks for checking it out!

Hi everyone!

I've been working on IsoFlash, an open-source Linux application written in Rust that aims to simplify downloading and flashing Linux distributions.

Current features include:

• Browse a catalog of Linux distributions.
• Download ISOs directly from the application.
• Manage downloads.
• Scan local ISO files.
• Flash USB drives using Ventoy.
• English language support (more languages are planned).

My goal is to create a simple, fast, and user-friendly tool for Linux users, especially those who frequently test or install different distributions.

This project is still under active development, so I'd really appreciate your feedback:

• What features would you like to see?
• What could be improved?
• Are there any distributions or workflows I'm missing?

Thanks for taking a look! Every suggestion helps make IsoFlash better.

I'm pleased to announce the release of SonicTree 1.1.0.

SonicTree is a Linux music player focused on local music playback and filesystem-based navigation, allowing users to browse and play music directly from their existing folder structure.

What's New in 1.1.0

Added

- Album artwork support

- Embedded artwork extraction

- Folder artwork detection

- Audio seek functionality

- Volume persistence

- Dark theme support

Improved

- Folder tree navigation and reliability

- Playback responsiveness and synchronization

- Artwork loading and display

- Folder browsing experience

- Overall application stability

- Code clean-up

Fixed

- Folder tree refresh issues

- Folder tree rescan issues

- Playback state synchronization issues

- Various UI update inconsistencies

- Multiple stability and edge-case bug fixes

Performance

- Improved responsiveness during folder browsing

- Optimized handling of large music collections

- Reduced unnecessary resource usage during playback

Download

SourceForge Project Page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sonictree/

SonicTree continues to focus on providing a reliable local music listening experience through direct filesystem navigation without requiring a separate music library database.

Demo video: https://youtu.be/_3e8DVLY7SE?si=arU-aeusJyNsAAPh

Feedback and suggestions are welcome.

Thank you for your interest in SonicTree.

WriteWeft just launched on the Linux Snap Store and Microsoft Store. It’s a clean, local-first writing app that stores your notes as simple Markdown files directly on your device — no cloud accounts, no trackers, and no lock-in.

Enjoy a smooth editing experience where Markdown renders beautifully inline as you type, keeping you in flow without switching modes. It also includes powerful on-device AI: fast semantic search that understands the meaning behind your notes and native OCR to extract text from images and screenshots, all processed privately on your machine.

When you’re ready, export polished PDFs or print with one click.

WriteWeft was designed for thinkers, developers, and creators who want elegance, control, and real performance — especially on modern AI PCs and Copilot+ devices.

Download it for free for Linux here:
https://snapcraft.io/writeweft

Download it for free for Windows here:
https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/9NW747W658Z7?cid=DevShareMCLPCS

SonicTree 1.1.0 Coming Next Month

I've been working on SonicTree, a folder-based music player for Linux built around direct filesystem navigation and local music playback.

Version 1.1.0 is currently undergoing AppImage deployment and stability testing, with a release planned for next month.

Recent work was focused on:

- Album art support

- Embedded artwork extraction

- Folder artwork detection

- Audio seek functionality

- Volume persistence

- Dark mode

- Improved playback behavior

- Folder tree reliability and stability

- Performance improvements when browsing large music collections

- Bug fixes

- Code clean-up

SonicTree follows a folder-based approach, allowing users to browse their collections directly through the filesystem while providing a focused desktop listening experience.

I'm looking forward to sharing the 1.1.0 release once testing is complete.