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

This is the second stable release in the GNOME 43 series, which fixes several bugs when updating or editing a contact.This release also updates translations in several languages.

This is the first stable release in the GNOME 43 series, with the following improvements since 42.0:<ul><li>Contacts can now import and export your contacts in the vCard format (aka VCF) to or from a file on the system</li><li>Changes under the hood to make searching for contacts faster, and fixes several issues when editing or adding a contact</li><li>On the UI front, Contacts has revamped the widgets when you're editing contacts. Several dialogs (like the "About" window) have gotten an upgrade and now look consistent with other GNOME apps</li><li>Configuring your address books has moved to a dedicated spot in the new preferences window</li><li>Our screenshots have been updated for GNOME 43</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

This is the release candidate in the GNOME 43 unstable series, with the following improvements:<ul><li>Updated screenshots for GNOME 43</li><li>A rewrite of the core internals fixes several issues when editing or adding a contact.</li><li>Several performance optimizations when searching for contacts in the app</li><li>Some strings for important and exporting contacts were not marked a translated yet.</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

This is the beta release in the GNOME 43 unstable series, with the following improvements:<ul><li>Contacts can now import and export your contacts in the vCard format (aka VCF) to or from a file on the system.</li><li>The app will now warn you if your system has a configuration issue of your primary address book</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

This is the first unstable release in the GNOME 43 series, with the following improvements:<ul><li>Some dialogs (like the "About" window) have a better UI and now look consistent with other GNOME apps</li><li>An improved UI for textual properties in the contact editor</li><li>The settings to configure your address books have moved to a preferences window</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

This is the first stable release in the GNOME 42 series, with the following improvements since 41.0:<ul><li>A fresh new look thanks to a port to GTK 4 and libadwaita, along with a new UI design</li><li>It is now possible to open up a contact's location with your default maps application (provided it supports "maps:" URIs)</li><li>It is now possible to show and add the organisational role of a contact. This is an especially useful feature for corporate address books</li><li>Contacts shows a little reminder when displaying someone's contact information if their birthday is today</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

This is the second unstable release in the GNOME 42 series, with the following improvements:<ul><li>Contact properties can be selected, which means you can also copy them to paste it elsewhere.</li><li>It is now possible to show and add the organisational role of a contact. This is mostly useful for corporate address books, as you can now see what job a colleague is performing.</li><li>Some paper cuts that got introduced when porting to GTK4 have been resolved.</li><li>Contacts shows a little reminder when displaying someone's contact information if their birthday is today</li><li>Fixed launching the Online Accounts dialog in GNOME 42.</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

This is the first unstable release in the GNOME 42 series, with the following improvements:<ul><li>A fresh new look thanks to a port to GTK 4 and libadwaita, along with a new UI design.</li><li>It is now possible to open up a contact's location with your default maps application (provided it supports "maps:" URIs)</li><li>Fixes to the birthday editor.</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

Version 41 is a stable release, with the following major improvements since version 40:<ul><li>When adding or updating a contact, Contacts will now scroll the list to the newly-made contact.</li><li>Long names are wrapped over more lines, which makes them more readable, especially in the case of a small screen.</li><li>We now have a dedicated selection mode button, which makes the UX for touchscreen devices much more intuitive.</li><li>Several small UI improvements, like extra tooltips that follow the GNOME HIG.</li><li>When opening a contact, a previously entered birthday is now shown</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages

This is the first unstable release in the GNOME 41 series, with the following improvements:<ul><li>When adding or updating a contact, Contacts will now scroll the list to the newly-made contact.</li><li>The Contacts title after cancelling selecting now correctly shows "Contacts"</li><li>When opening a contact, a previously entered birthday is now shown</li><li>We now have a dedicated selection mode button, which makes the UX for touchscreen devices much more intuitive.</li><li>Several small UI improvements, like extra tooltips that follow the GNOME HIG.</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

Version 40 is a stable release, with the following major improvements since 3.38:<ul><li>Several issues that occurred when editing or adding postal addresses are now fixed</li><li>Better accessibility when creating a new contact by adding support for mnemonics</li><li>You can now select a contact by using a long press</li><li>The avatar selector now displays properly on smaller screens</li><li>Deleting the final contact now properly clears the title bar</li><li>Contacts now also remembers if the window was fullscreened</li><li>Cancelling selection no longer hides headerbar buttons</li><li>Fixed: stop cursor from appearing when viewing a contact</li><li>Several style and typography updates</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages

This is the second unstable release in the GNOME 40 series, with the following improvements:<ul><li>Cancelling selection no longer hides headerbar buttons</li><li>Fixed: stop cursor from appearing when viewing a contact</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

This is the first unstable release in the GNOME 40 series, with the following improvements:<ul><li>Several issues that occurred when editing or adding postal addresses are now fixed</li><li>Better accessibility when creating a new contact by adding support for mnemonics</li><li>You can now select a contact by using a long press</li><li>The avatar selector now displays properly on smaller screens</li><li>Deleting the final contact now properly clears the title bar</li><li>Contacts now also remembers if the window was fullscreened</li><li>Several style and typography updates</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

Version 3.38 is a stable release, with the following major improvements since 3.36:<ul><li>Editing contacts from a Nextcloud account improved</li><li>In some setups, Contacts confused typing 'N' with Ctrl+N, creating a new contact. This should no longer be the case</li><li>Fixed: sometimes the Contacts icon is not shown properly</li><li>Virtual keyboards can adapt themselves on the "Name" field</li><li>Contacts switched to the stable libhandy release</li><li>Cheese is now an optional dependency</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages

This is the beta release in the 3.37 development series, with the following improvements:<ul><li>Fixed: cannot get past the initial setup screen</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

This is the first unstable release in the 3.37 development series, with the following improvements:<ul><li>Fix: sometimes the Contacts icon is not shown properly</li><li>Fix: sometimes typing 'n' creates a new contact</li><li>Virtual keyboard might give adapt for typing a name</li><li>Bump libhandy to 0.85</li><li>Increase the minimal version of several dependencies</li><li>Several build fixes</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

Version 3.36 is a stable release, with the following major improvements since 3.34:<ul><li>A refreshed UI when viewing, editing or creating contacts</li><li>Contacts now behaves even better on smaller screens</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

This is the next unstable release in the 3.35 development series, with the following improvements:<ul><li>When showing a contact, Contacts now provides buttons to perform relevant actions</li><li>A refreshed UI when creating or editing a contact</li><li>The address book window is now adaptive</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

This is the first unstable release in the 3.35 development series, with the following improvements:<ul><li>You can now use a "back" gesture on touch devices to go back to the contact list when viewing or editing a contact</li><li>Contacts now works on even smaller screens</li><li>Nightly now show off with a fancy new icon</li><li>Bugfix: if another app opens Contacts, this still works even if it's not running</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

Version 3.34 is a stable release, with the following major improvements since 3.32:<ul><li>Updated avatars which follow the GNOME avatar style</li><li>Better accessibility with mnemonics for the setup window</li><li>A new --search option for the command-line</li><li>Fixed issues when using the webcam to add an avatar</li><li>Fixed searching contacts in GNOME Shell returning no results</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

This is the last unstable release in the 3.33 development series, with the following improvements since 3.33.91:<ul><li>Updated the man page</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

This is the next unstable release in the 3.33 development series, some would say a beta, with the following improvements:<ul><li>Make the avatars more in line with the other apps in the GNOME ecoosystem. If possible, the initials will be used to make an avatar if none is available.</li><li>Fix searching contacts from GNOME Shell returning no results</li><li>Add a small description of the --search option</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

This is the second unstable release in the 3.33 development series, with the following improvements:<ul><li>Flatpak: Allow webcam access (and other small fixes)</li><li>Even better integration with CI</li><li>Add mnemonics to the setup window</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

This is the first unstable release in the 3.33 development series, with the following improvements:<ul><li>Added a show-contact application action, so other applications can activate Contacts to show a specific contact</li><li>Reverted an accidental change in the Appstream ID</li><li>Pass along the right printf-format to MessageDialogs</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

Version 3.32 is the next stable release, with the following major improvements since 3.30:<ul><li>A new, modern icon</li><li>A responsive UI: Contacts now works on all screen sizes!</li><li>Property types are now handled more consistently, fixing some minor issues, e.g. types mixing translations with the ones from Google.</li><li>A few minor performance optimizations</li><li>Solved a bug where the birthday did not change</li><li>Fixed a crash when right-clicking in the contact list</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

This is the next unstable release in the 3.31 development series, with the following improvements:<ul><li>The interface now adapts to the size of its window, making it possible to use on smaller screens (such as phones)</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

This is the next unstable release in the 3.31 development series, with the following improvements:<ul><li>Small improvements for the "types" of properties ("Home", "Work", …). Contacts should now also be able to more easily identify untranslated properties from Google Contacts.</li><li>Some UI tweaks for the primary menu</li><li>The appdata file and the desktop file are now validated by CI</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

This is the first unstable release in the 3.31 development series, with the following improvements:<ul><li>An updated application icon</li><li>Dropped the app menu</li><li>Added a dependency on libhandy</li><li>Fix birthday not being properly saved</li><li>Telepathy is now disabled by default</li><li>Flatpak fixes</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

Version 3.30 is the next stable release, with the following major improvements since 3.28:<ul><li>Tweaks to the avatar selector UI</li><li>Several fixes for the Flatpak build</li><li>OARS content ratings</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

This is the last unstable release in the 3.29 development series, with the following improvements:<ul><li>The avatar selector now uses the native file chooser</li><li>Added OARS content rating</li><li>Restructured the code to allow automated tests</li><li>Several flatpak fixes</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

This is the first unstable release in the 3.29 development series, with the following improvements:<ul><li>The avatar selection UI has been revamped</li><li>Use GNOME's Meson conventions: compilation options can now no longer have an auto value. Some have also been renamed to drop the "with-" prefix.</li><li>The Flatpak manifest was improved in several ways.</li><li>Extended the CI pipeline to use flatpak</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

Version 3.28 is a stable release, with the following major improvements:<ul><li>Favorite contacts, which are shown at the top of the contact list.</li><li>Sort contacts by their first name or surname.</li><li>Small tweaks to the UI, such as a more welcoming setup screen and rounded avatars.</li><li>Performance improvements to the GNOME Shell search provider.</li><li>A slightly decreased memory usage.</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

This is the fourth unstable (beta) release in the 3.27 development series, with the following improvements:<ul><li>The titlebar is now updated when a contact's name changes.</li><li>The window will now remember its size and restore it on the next start.</li><li>Postal addresses are now sorted before notes.</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

This is the third unstable release in the 3.27 development series, with the following improvements:<ul><li>Support for favorite contacts. These contacts will be shown at the top of the list.</li><li>Contacts now allows sorting by both first name and surname.</li><li>Avatars are now displayed as a circle and are better optimized for memory usage.</li><li>Selection mode can now be started by right-clicking the contact list.</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

This is the second unstable release in the 3.27 development series, with the following improvements:<ul><li>Contacts now has a shortcuts window</li><li>Small tweaks to the setup screen</li><li>Support --version as command-line argument</li><li>Telepathy is no longer a mandatory dependency</li><li>Support for maps can be disabled at compile time</li><li>Improved the Shell search provider</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

This is the first unstable release in the 3.27 development series, with the following improvements:<ul><li>Contact properties are now sorted by type</li><li>Avatars are now displayed using rounded border</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

Version 3.26 is a stable release, with the following improvements:<ul><li>Support for Flatpak</li><li>Support for faster builds using Meson</li><li>Saving notes in a contact now works again</li><li>Some contact properties are now selectable</li><li>Use our own app icon, rather than a predefined one</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

This is an unstable release in the 3.25 development series, which fixes build errors in version 3.25.92.

This is an unstable release in the 3.25 development series, with the following improvements:<ul><li>Added experimental support for Flatpak</li><li>Contacts can now be built with Meson</li><li>Contacts now provides its own proper app icon</li><li>Some labels in the contact sheet are now selectable</li></ul>The following bugs are also fixed:<ul><li>Can't save notes in a contact</li><li>Bumped minimal version of telepathy-glib, GTK+ and GLib</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

This is an unstable release in the 3.25 development series, with the following improvements:<ul><li>Contacts now provides its own application icon</li><li>Small UI improvements to the avatar chooser dialog</li></ul>The following bugs are also fixed:<ul><li>Folks now requires version 11.4 or higher</li><li>Migrated away from intltool and libgd</li><li>Got rid of a bunch of warnings and critical messages</li><li>Use the locale to translate months</li><li>Added git.mk to automagically create .gitignores</li></ul>This release also updates translations in several languages.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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.

Sound Recorder provides a simple and modern interface that provides a straight-forward way to record and play audio. It allows you to do basic editing, and create voice memos.Sound Recorder automatically handles the saving process so that you do not need to worry about accidentally discarding the previous recording.Supported audio formats:Ogg Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, MP3 and MOV

Sound Recorder

A simple, modern sound recorder for GNOME

A really easy way to scan both text and images. You can crop out the bad parts of an image and rotate it if it is the wrong way round. You can print your scans, export them to pdf, or save them in a range of image formats.This app uses the SANE framework to support most existing scanners.

Document Scanner

Make a digital copy of your photos and documents

Dconf Editor is a tool to allow direct editing of the dconf configuration database. This is useful when developing applications that use these settings.Editing your configuration directly is an advanced feature and may cause applications to not work correctly.

Dconf Editor

A graphical tool for editing the dconf database

Games is a GNOME 3 application to browse your video games library and to easily pick and play a game from it. It aims to do for games what Music already does for your music library.You want to install Games if you just want a very simple and comfortable way to play your games and you don’t need advanced features such as speedrunning tools or video game development tools.Features:List your installed games, your Steam games, your game ROMs…Search in your games collectionPlay your gamesResume your game to where you left it

Games

Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers. Meld helps you compare files, directories, and version controlled projects. It provides two- and three-way comparison of both files and directories, and supports many version control systems including Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and Subversion.Meld helps you review code changes, understand patches, and makes enormous merge conflicts slightly less painful.

Meld

Access, organize and share your photos on GNOME. A simple and elegant replacement for using a file manager to deal with photos. Enhance, crop and edit in a snap. Seamless cloud integration is offered through GNOME Online Accounts.You can:Automatically find all your picturesView recent local and online photosAccess your Facebook or Flickr picturesView photos on TVs, laptops or other DLNA renderers on your local networkSet pictures as your desktop backgroundPrint photosSelect favoritesEasily edit your pictures in the app, or send to a full featured editor for more advanced changes

Photos

Access, organize and share your photos on GNOME

GNOME Chess is a simple chess game. You can play against your computer at three different difficulty levels, or against a friend at your computer.Computer chess enthusiasts will appreciate GNOME Chess’s compatibility with nearly all modern computer chess engines, and its ability to detect several popular engines automatically if installed.

GNOME Chess

Play the classic two-player board game of chess

A solitaire version of the classic Eastern tile game. Tiles are stacked on the board at the start of the game. The goal is to remove all the tiles in as little time as possible. Select two matching tiles and they will disappear from the board, but you can only select a tile if there is an empty space to its left or right at the same level. Be careful: tiles that look alike may actually be slightly different.GNOME Mahjongg features a variety of starting layouts, some easy and some difficult. If you get stuck, you can ask for a hint, but this adds a large time penalty.

GNOME Mahjongg

Passwords and Keys is a GNOME application for managing encryption keys.With Passwords and Keys you can create and manage PGP keys, create and manage SSH keys, publish and retrieve keys from key servers, cache your passphrase so you don’t have to keep typing it and backup your keys and keyring.

Passwords and Keys

Manage your passwords and encryption keys

gitg is a graphical user interface for git. It aims at being a small, fast and convenient tool to visualize the history of git repositories. Besides visualization, gitg also provides several utilities to manage your repository and commit your work.Goals:Browse local git repositoriesClone local and remote git repositoriesCommit filesRetrieve patch from a commit

gitg

Play the popular Japanese logic game. GNOME Sudoku is a must-install for Sudoku lovers, with a simple, unobtrusive interface that makes playing Sudoku fun for players of any skill level.Each game is assigned a difficulty similar to those given by newspapers and websites, so your game will be as easy or as difficult as you want it to be.If you like to play on paper, you can print games out. You can choose how many games you want to print per page and what difficulty of games you want to print: as a result, GNOME Sudoku can act a renewable Sudoku book for you.

GNOME Sudoku

Test your logic skills in this number grid puzzle

GNOME Mines is a puzzle game where you search for hidden mines. Flag the spaces with mines as quickly as possible to make the board a safer place. You win the game when you’ve flagged every mine on the board. Be careful not to trigger one, or the game is over!You can select the size of the field you want to play on at the start of the game. If you get stuck, you can ask for a hint: there’s a time penalty, but that’s better than hitting a mine!

GNOME Mines

A simple Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client that is designed to integrate seamlessly with GNOME; it features a simple and beautiful interface which allows you to focus on your conversations.You can use Polari to publicly chat with people in a channel, and to have private one-to-one conversations. Notifications make sure that you never miss an important message.

Polari

Sound Juicer is a simple and clean CD ripping tool. It allows you to extract the audio from audio compact discs and convert them into audio files that your computer can understand and play. Sound Juicer can also play the audio tracks directly from the CD, allowing you to preview the CD before ripping it.Sound Juicer is designed to be easy to use, and to work with little user intervention. When you start Sound Juicer, it will examine the CD in the drive and try to locate information about the audio tracks using the freely-available MusicBrainz service.

Sound Juicer

CD ripper with a clean interface and simple preferences

Play the highly addictive 2048 game. GNOME 2048 is a clone of the popular single-player puzzle game. Gameplay consists of joining numbers in a grid and obtain the 2048 tile.Use your keyboard's arrow keys to slide all tiles in the desired direction. Be careful: all tiles slide to their farthest possible positions, you cannot slide just one tile or one row or column. Tiles with the same value are joined when slided one over the other.With every new tile obtained you increase your score. If you think you can easily get the 2048 tile, do not let it stop you, the game does not end there, you can continue joining tiles and improving your score.Originally created by Gabriele Cirulli, 2048 has gained much popularity due to it being highly addictive. Cirulli's 2048 is in turn a clone of the 1024 game and includes ideas from other clones.

GNOME 2048

GNOME Dictionary is a simple dictionary application that looks up definitions of words online. Though it looks up English definitions by default, you can easily switch to Spanish or add other online dictionaries using the DICT protocol to suit your needs.

GNOME Dictionary

Check word definitions and spellings in an online dictionary

Quadrapassel is a derivative of a classic Russian falling-block game. Reposition and rotate the blocks as they fall, and attempt to fit them together. When you form a complete horizontal row of blocks, the row will disappear and you score points. The game is over when the blocks get stacked too high. As your score gets higher, you level up and the blocks fall faster.If you’re looking for a challenge, Quadrapassel allows you to increase the initial speed of the blocks, or begin the game with partial blocks on some of the rows. Or, instead of allowing the blocks to fall randomly, it can select blocks that will be hard for you to place.

Quadrapassel

Reversi is a two-player strategy game, played on an 8 by 8 board. Players use tiles that are dark on one side and light on the other.The object of reversi is to flip your opponent’s tiles to your color, while your opponent is trying to flip your tiles to his own color. Opponent’s tiles are flipped when trapped between an already placed tile of your color and the tile you add. Who finishes with more tiles wins!GNOME Reversi allows you to play both a classic reversi game, and the reversed variant, where the goal is to finish with less tile than your opponent.

GNOME Reversi

Dominate the board in a classic reversi game, or play the reversed variant

Each square piece has a number on each side. Position the pieces on the left side of the board so that the same numbers are next to each other. If the numbers don’t match, you can’t put the piece there. Move quickly: you’re being timed!You can make the game easier or harder by changing the size of the board.

GNOME Tetravex

Control a worm in its quest to eat bonuses and become longer. Outmaneuver enemy worms while eating doughnuts and ice cream to increase your length. Each worm has ten lives and loses one by running into a wall, another worm, or itself. The enemy worms are after the same bonuses that you are, so be careful: if they become too large, you won’t have much room for movement.The adventure progresses through 26 maps of increasing difficulty. The early levels are mostly open with a few walls, but later on, cramped spaces and teleporters make things more interesting.Play on your own against up to five enemy worms, or share your keyboard to play with a friend.

GNOME Nibbles

A family classic, the objective of Four-in-a-row is to build a line of four of your marbles while trying to stop your opponent (human or computer) from building a line of his or her own. A line can be horizontal, vertical or diagonal. The first player to connect four in a row is the winner!Four-in-a-row features multiple difficulty levels. If you’re having trouble, you can always ask for a hint.

Four-in-a-row

Five or More is the GNOME port of a once-popular computer game. Align five or more objects of the same color into a line to cause them to disappear and score points. Earn many more points by lining up as many objects as possible before clearing them.More objects appear after every turn. Play for as long as possible, until the board is completely full!

Five or More

Remove colored balls from the board by forming lines

Remove as many squares as possible from the board. Click on a group of squares of the same color to make them all disappear in one fell swoop, causing other squares to fall into place. It is not possible to remove a single square at a time. You get far more points for clearing a larger group of squares, and also for clearing the entire board.Swell Foop is always very quick to play, but you can make it somewhat longer by changing the board size.

Swell Foop

Clear the screen by removing groups of colored and shaped tiles

GNOME Klotski is a set of block sliding puzzles. The objective is to move the patterned block to the area bordered by green markers. To do so, you’ll need to slide other blocks out of the way. Complete each puzzle in as few moves as possible!GNOME Klotski comes with nearly thirty different puzzle layouts of varying difficulty. Some of the layouts are similar and only the size of one or more blocks differ. Other layouts have more variety.

GNOME Klotski

Taquin is a computer version of the 15-puzzle and other sliding puzzles.The object of Taquin is to move tiles so that they reach their places, either indicated with numbers, or with parts of a great image.

GNOME Taquin

Lights Off is a collection of light switch puzzles. Clicking on a light toggles it either on or off, but also toggles all the surrounding lights, too. Your objective is simple: turn off all the lights!Players who delight in turning off lights will enjoy the huge number of levels.

Lights Off

Hitori is a logic game similar to the popular game of Sudoku.You play the game against the clock, aiming to eliminate all the duplicate numbers in each row and column in the fastest time. Multiple sizes of game board are supported, and you can place markers on cells to help work out the solution. If you get stuck, the game can give you a hint.

GNOME Hitori

It is the distant future: the year 2000. Evil robots are trying to kill you. Avoid the robots or face certain death.Fortunately, the robots are extremely stupid and will always move directly towards you. Trick them into colliding into each other, resulting in their destruction, or into the junk piles that result. You can defend yourself by moving the junk piles, or escape to safety with your handy teleportation device.Your supply of safe teleports is limited, and once you run out, teleportation could land you right next to a robot, who will kill you. Survive for as long as possible!

GNOME Robots

Avoid the robots and make them crash into each other

A variation on poker with dice and less money, this game is a family classic. Throw the dice three times in a row, holding back the ones you like, in order to make the best possible hand. You can also play a lesser-known variant with colored dice.Play between one and five opponents at three difficulty levels.

Tali

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

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 sites, such as Facebook, Flickr, Google Photos, and more.Shotwell supports JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and a variety of RAW file formats.

Shotwell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fragments is an easy to use BitTorrent client. It can be used to transfer files via the BitTorrent protocol, such as videos, music or installation images for Linux distributions.

Fragments

Videos is the official movie player of the GNOME desktop environment. It features a searchable list of local videos, and DVDs, as well as local network video shares (using UPnP/DLNA) and video highlights from a number of web sites.Videos comes with added functionality such as a subtitle downloader, the ability to speed up or down playback, create screenshot galleries, and support for recording DVDs.

Videos

Doing backups the easy way. Plugin your USB drive and let the Pika do the rest for you.Create backups locally and remotelySet a schedule for regular backupsSave time and disk space because Pika Backup does not need to copy known data againEncrypt your backupsList created archives and browse through their contentsRecover files or folders via your file browserPika Backup is designed to save your personal data and does not support complete system recovery. Pika Backup is powered by the well-tested BorgBackup software.

Pika Backup

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.

Evolution

Geary is an email application built around conversations, for the GNOME 3 desktop. It allows you to read, find and send email with a straightforward, modern interface.Conversations allow you to read a complete discussion without having to find and click from message to message.Geary’s features include:Quick email account setupShows related messages together in conversationsFast, full text and keyword searchFull-featured HTML and plain text message composerDesktop notification of new mailCompatible with GMail, Yahoo! Mail, Outlook.com and other IMAP servers

Geary

Video Trimmer cuts out a fragment of a video given the start and end timestamps. The video is never re-encoded, so the process is very fast and does not reduce the video quality.

Video Trimmer

Builder is an actively developed Integrated Development Environment for GNOME. It combines integrated support for essential GNOME technologies such as GTK+, GLib, and GNOME APIs with features that any developer will appreciate, like syntax highlighting and snippets.You can rely on predictable releases of Builder with each new release of GNOME every six months.Features:Built in syntax highlighting for many languagesSide-by-side code editorsMulti-monitor supportCode overview mini-mapIntegration with GitIntegration with Autotools, Cargo, CMake, Gradle, Meson, Maven, Make, PHPize, and WafClang based auto-completion, semantic highlighting, and diagnosticsPython based auto-completion, semantic highlighting, and diagnosticsVala based auto-completion and diagnosticsAuto indentation support for C, Python, Vala, and XMLHTML, Markdown, and reStructuredText, and Sphinx live previewOptional Vim, Emacs, and SublimeText style editingAn integrated software profiler for native applicationsAn integrated debugger for native applicationsSupport for building with jhbuild and flatpak runtimesSupport for viewing TODOs found within your code baseFast fuzzy text search across files and symbols

Builder

Simple application for generating Two-Factor Authentication Codes.Features:Time-based/Counter-based/Steam methods supportSHA-1/SHA-256/SHA-512 algorithms supportQR code scanner using a camera or from a screenshotLock the application with a passwordBeautiful UIGNOME Shell search providerBackup/Restore from/into known applications like FreeOTP+, Aegis (encrypted / plain-text), andOTP, Google Authenticator

Authenticator

Focus on your writing with a clean, distraction-free markdown editor.Features:An UI tailored to comfortable writingA distraction-free modeDark, light and sepia themesEverything you expect from a text editor, such as spellchecking or document statisticsLive preview of what you writeExport to all kind of formats: PDF, Word/Libreoffice, LaTeX, or even HTML slideshows

Apostrophe

Warp allows you to securely send files to each other via the internet or local network by exchanging a word-based code.The best transfer method will be determined using the “Magic Wormhole” protocol which includes local network transfer if possible.FeaturesSend files between multiple devicesEvery file transfer is encryptedDirectly transfer files on the local network if possibleAn internet connection is requiredQR Code supportCompatibility with the Magic Wormhole command line client and all other compatible apps

Warp

Lollypop is a lightweight modern music player designed to work excellently on the GNOME desktop environment. It also features a party mode which will auto-select party-related playlists; allows access the player from your couch thanks to it fullscreen mode; fetches lyrics, artwork and biography online; and provides native support for ReplayGain.

Lollypop

Fancy yet simple QR Codes scanner and generator.Features:QR Code generationScanning with a cameraScanning from a screenshotParses and displays QR code content when possible

Decoder

Update, reinstall and downgrade firmware on devices supported by fwupd.

Firmware

Solanum is a time tracking app that uses the pomodoro technique. Work in 4 sessions, with breaks in between each session and one long break after all 4.

Solanum

Pitivi is a video editor that aims to appeal to hobbyists and professionals alike, with a strong focus on efficiency, quality and usability. It integrates well with other applications and sports a beautiful user interface designed to be powerful yet easy to learn.With a non-modal editing workflow, a framerate-independent and playhead-centric timeline, Pitivi allows you quickly and accurately trim, split and review your scenes. Pitivi's ripple and roll editing features allow spending more time on storytelling and less time on "pushing clips around".Some other features include:Accepts any file formats supported by the GStreamer multimedia frameworkCan animate hundreds of special effects and filters with keyframable propertiesAbility to set custom aspect ratios, framerates and rendering presetsEasy to use crossfades and SMPTE transitionsMultihead-friendly with detachable user interface components

Contacts

A contacts manager for GNOME

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