Awesome Vala

A curated list of resources for Vala - A programming language using modern high level abstractions without imposing additional runtime requirements, by leaning on GLib and GObject.

Contents

• Apps
  • Cryptography & Security
  • Design Tools
  • Development Tools
  • Games
  • Internet Browsers
  • Music
  • Personalization
  • Productivity
  • System Tools
  • Virtualization
  • Weather
• CLI Tools
• Editor Plugins
• Language Servers
• Libraries
  • Command-line
  • Concurrency
  • Cryptography & Security
  • Data Structures & Data Types
  • Databases
  • Graphics Libraries
  • GUI Programming
  • IoC and Dependency Injection
  • Multimedia Processing
  • Numerical Computation
  • Templating
  • Text Processing
  • Web Development
  • XML & Data Serialization

Apps

Cryptography & Security

• Integrity Check - Linux application written in Vala and GTK, designed to get the verification sum of a file (MD5, SHA1, SHA256) and compare to the sum of verification provided by the file creator.

Design Tools

• Akira - Native Linux App for UI and UX Design built in Vala and GTK.
• Birdfont - A font editor for creating fonts in TTF, EOT, SVG and BIRDFONT format.

Development Tools

• GitG - A graphical user interface for git.
• Kangaroo - AI-powered SQL client and admin tool for popular databases.
• VAMM (Vinari OS Apache & MariaDB Manager) - Manages LAMP services using a GTK 3 GUI.

Games

• GameHub - A unified library for all your games.
• High Score (GNOME Games) - Retro gaming application for the GNOME desktop.
• Sage - A code breaking game made for elementary OS.
• Warble - Native Linux word-guessing game built in Vala and Gtk for elementary OS.

Internet Browsers

• Starfish - A Gemini browser for elementary OS.

Music

• g4music - A beautiful, fast, fluent, light weight music player written in GTK4.

Personalization

• Korembi - A beautiful and customizable wallpapers manager for Linux.

Productivity

• Annotator - Annotate images for better communication.
• Badger - Remind yourself to not sit and stare at the screen for too long.
• Blackbox - A beautiful GTK 4 terminal.
• Dino - A modern Jabber/XMPP Client using GTK+/Vala.
• Flowtime - GTK4 Libadwaita Pomodoro Timer.
• geary - Geary is an email application built around conversations, for the GNOME 3 desktop.
• GNOME Calculator - The calculator app for the GNOME desktop.
• graphui - Graph Visualization based on graphviz.
• Ideogram - Emoji Picker app.
• Minder - Mind-mapping application.
• Notejot - Stupidly-simple notes app.
• Notes-up - Markdown notes editor & manager.
• Outliner - Write outlines easily.
• Paper - Take notes in Markdown.
• pdfpc - A GTK presenter application with multi-monitor support for PDF files.
• Planify - Task manager with Todoist support designed for GNU/Linux.
• Spice-up - Presentations App for the modern Linux Desktop.
• TextShine - Convert and manipulate text.
• TextSnatcher - Copy text from Images with ease.