Awesome KDE

A curated list of awesome apps, extensions, modules, themes and tools for the KDE Desktop Environment.

KDE is a free software community dedicated to creating an open and user-friendly computing experience, offering an advanced graphical desktop, a wide variety of applications for communication, work, education and entertainment and a platform to easily build new applications upon.

Items marked with 📌 (pushpin) are projects hosted on KDE's own infrastructure and developed by the KDE community.

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ApplicationsTip: An overview of the most used KDE community apps are listed on the official website.Internet & Networking

Akregator - Enables you to follow news sites, blogs and other RSS/Atom-enabled websites 📌.

Falkon - QtWebEngine based cross-platform web browser 📌.

Firefox KDE - Standalone web browser from mozilla.org with OpenSUSE patch, integrate better with KDE.

GSConnect - A complete implementation of KDE Connect especially for GNOME Shell with Nautilus, Chrome and Firefox integration.

KDE Connect - A project to communicate across all your devices: receive your phone notifications on your desktop computer, control your desktop from your phone, etc 📌.

KGet - A versatile and user-friendly download manager 📌.

KMail - KMail is the email component of Kontact, the integrated personal information manager from KDE 📌.

KNetworkManager - A KDE client for the back end NetworkManager software 📌.

Konqueror - Uses the KHTML rendering engine (and optionally Webkit) so it supports the latest web standards such as HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, and others 📌.

Konversation - A user-friendly Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client built on the KDE Platform 📌.

KRDC - A client application that allows you to view or control a desktop session on another machine that is running a compatible server (VNC & RDP) 📌.

KTorrent - A BitTorrent application which allows you to download files using the BitTorrent protocol 📌.

NeoChat - Matrix network client for KDE 📌.

Otter Browser - Otter Browser aims to recreate the best aspects of the classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5.

Plasma-browser-integration - A suite of new features which make Firefox, Chrome and Chromium-based browsers work with your desktop 📌.

qBittorrent - An advanced BitTorrent client programmed in C++, based on Qt toolkit and libtorrent-rasterbar.

Qt WebBrowser - Qt WebBrowser is a browser for embedded devices developed using the capabilities of Qt and Qt WebEngine.

Smb4K - Advanced Network Neighborhood Browser and Samba Share Mounting Utility 📌.

Tokodon - Tokodon is a Mastodon client. It allows you to interact with the Fediverse community 📌.

Graphics & Imaging

digiKam - Professional Photo Management with the Power of Open Source 📌.

Gwenview - A fast and easy to use image viewer by KDE 📌.

KColorChooser - A simple application to select the color from the screen or from a pallete 📌.

KolourPaint - A simple painting program to quickly create raster images. It is useful as a touch-up tool and simple image editing tasks 📌.

Krita - Painting tool designed for concept artists, illustrators, matte and texture artists, and the VFX industry 📌.

Okular - A universal document viewer 📌.

Spectacle - An application for capturing desktop screenshots 📌.

Multimedia

Amarok - Amarok is a powerful music player for Linux, Unix and Windows with an intuitive interface 📌.

Elisa - A music player developed by the KDE community that strives to be simple and nice to use 📌.

Haruna - Open source video player built with Qt/QML and libmpv 📌.