List of applications/Internet

See Network configuration#Network managers.

• chrootVPN — A script for creating a chrooted Linux client CheckPoint VPN middleware+agent setup for connecting via their Web Mobile Access Portal.

https://github.com/ruyrybeyro/chrootvpn || not packaged? search in AUR

• GlobalProtect-openconnect — A GlobalProtect VPN client (GUI) for Linux, based on OpenConnect and built with Qt5, supports SAML auth mode.

https://github.com/yuezk/GlobalProtect-openconnect/ || globalprotect-openconnect-git^AUR

• Libreswan — A free software implementation of the most widely supported and standarized VPN protocol based on ("IPsec") and the Internet Key Exchange ("IKE").

https://libreswan.org/ || libreswan^AUR

• Mullvad — A GUI client for the Mullvad VPN service

https://mullvad.net/ || mullvad-vpn^AUR

• Nebula — A mesh VPN network

https://www.defined.net/nebula/ || nebula

• NetworkManager — Supports a variety of protocols (e.g. MS, Cisco, Fortinet) via a plugin system.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager/VPN || networkmanager

• OpenConnect — Supports Cisco and Juniper VPNs.

https://www.infradead.org/openconnect/ || openconnect

• Openswan — IPsec-based VPN Solution.

https://www.openswan.org/ || openswan^AUR

• OpenVPN — To connect to OpenVPN VPNs.

https://openvpn.net/ || openvpn

• PPTP Client — To connect to PPTP VPNs, like Microsoft VPNs (MPPE). (insecure)

https://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ || pptpclient

• vpnc — To connect to Cisco 3000 VPN Concentrators.

https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/ || vpnc

• WireGuard — Next generation secure network tunnel.

https://www.wireguard.com/ || wireguard-tools

• Dante — SOCKS server and SOCKS client, implementing RFC:1928 and related standards.

https://www.inet.no/dante/ || dante

• Stunnel — A server and client to add and remove TLS encryption to TCP data flow.

https://www.stunnel.org/ || stunnel

• GNUnet — Framework for secure peer-to-peer networking.

https://gnunet.org/ || CLI: gnunet^AUR, GUI: gnunet-gtk^AUR

• Lantern — Peer-to-peer internet censorship circumvention software.

https://getlantern.org/ || lantern-bin^AUR

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of web browsers.

• ELinks — Advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web browser with mouse wheel scroll support, frames and tables, extensible with Lua & Guile (links fork).

http://elinks.or.cz/ || elinks

• Links — Graphics and text mode web browser. Includes a console version similar to Lynx.

http://links.twibright.com/ || links

See also Wikipedia:Gecko (software).

• Waterfox Classic — Optimized fork of Firefox 56, without data collection and allowing unsigned extensions and NPAPI plugins.

https://www.waterfox.net/ || waterfox-classic-bin^AUR

See also Wikipedia:Blink (web engine).

• Brave — Web browser with builtin ad- and tracker blocking.

https://www.brave.com/ || brave-bin^AUR

• Vivaldi — An advanced proprietary browser made with the power user in mind.

https://vivaldi.com/ || vivaldi

• Eric — QtWebEngine-based HTML browser, part of the eric6 development toolset, can be launched with the eric6_browser command.

https://eric-ide.python-projects.org/ || eric^AUR

• Beaker — Peer-to-peer web browser with tools to create and host websites.

https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker || beaker-browser^AUR

See also Wikipedia:WebKit.

Most of these support ad-blocking via wyebadblock.

• Badwolf — A minimalist privacy-focused browser.

https://hacktivis.me/projects/badwolf || badwolf^AUR

• Luakit — Fast, small, webkit based browser framework extensible by Lua.

https://luakit.github.io/ || luakit

• Nyxt — Keyboard-oriented, infinitely extensible browser designed for power users. It has familiar key-bindings (Emacs, VI, CUA) and features fuzzy searching between tabs, multiple selections, history as a tree and more.

https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/ || nyxt

• Tangram — Integration of web applications into the desktop, specifically GNOME.

https://github.com/sonnyp/Tangram || tangram^AUR

• NetSurf — Featherweight browser written in C, notable for its slowly developing JavaScript support and fast rendering through its own layout engine.

https://www.netsurf-browser.org/ || netsurf

See also Wikipedia:Gemini (protocol)#Software.

• Kristall — Qt-based Gemini browser.

https://github.com/MasterQ32/kristall || kristall^AUR

A web server serves HTML web pages and other files via HTTP to clients like web browsers. The major web servers can be interfaced with programs to serve dynamic content (web applications).

See also Category:Web server and Wikipedia:Comparison of web server software.

• Apache HTTP Server — A high performance Unix-based HTTP server.

https://httpd.apache.org/ || apache

• miniserve — Rust alternative to darkhttpd with UTF-8, optional HTTP authentication, file uploading, and more.

https://github.com/svenstaro/miniserve || miniserve

The Python standard library module http.server can also be used from the command-line.

• Mongoose — Embedded web server library, supports WebSocket and MQTT.

https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose || mongoose^AUR

• Gunicorn — A Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX.

https://gunicorn.org/ || gunicorn

Apache also supports WSGI with mod_wsgi.

• siege — An HTTP regression testing and benchmarking utility.

https://www.joedog.org/siege-home/ || siege

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of download managers.

• HTTPie — Human-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era.

https://github.com/httpie/httpie || httpie

• quvi — A command-line-tool suite to access the flash media stream properties.

http://quvi.sourceforge.net/ || quvi^AUR

• youtube-dl — Download videos from YouTube and many other web sites.

https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ || youtube-dl

• ClipGrab — Downloader and converter for YouTube, Vimeo and many other online video sites.

https://clipgrab.org/ || clipgrab

• Gydl — GUI wrapper around the already existing youtube-dl program to download content from sites like YouTube.

https://github.com/JannikHv/gydl || gydl-git^AUR

• Motrix — Full-featured download manager that supports downloading HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Magnet, etc. Based on the Electron platform.

https://motrix.app/ || motrix^AUR

• Video Downloader — GTK application to download videos from websites like YouTube and many others (based on youtube-dl).

https://github.com/Unrud/video-downloader || video-downloader^AUR

See also #LAN messengers.

• Cozy — A personal cloud you can hack, host and delete.

https://cozy.io/ || cozy-stack

• Grive — Google Drive client with support for new Drive REST API and partial sync.

https://github.com/vitalif/grive2 || grive^AUR

• Backblaze B2 — Backblaze B2 open-source command-line client.

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html || backblaze-b2^AUR

• Megatools — Unofficial CLI for Mega.

https://megatools.megous.com/ || megatools^AUR

• pCloud Drive — Proprietary desktop syncing client for pCloud. Based on the Electron platform.

https://www.pcloud.com/download-free-online-cloud-file-storage.html || pcloud-drive^AUR

• Tresorit — Proprietary desktop syncing client for Tresorit.

https://tresorit.com/download || tresorit^AUR

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of FTP client software.

• ncftp — A set of free application programs implementing FTP.

https://www.ncftp.com/ || ncftp

Some file managers like Dolphin, GNOME Files and Thunar also provide FTP functionality.

See also Wikipedia:List of FTP server software.

• SSH — SFTP is a network protocol that provides file access, file transfer, and file management over any reliable data stream.

https://www.openssh.com || openssh

Some download managers are also able to connect to the BitTorrent network: Aria2, LFTP, FatRat, KGet, MLDonkey, uGet.

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of BitTorrent clients.

• rTorrent — Simple and lightweight ncurses BitTorrent client.

https://rakshasa.github.io/rtorrent/ || rtorrent

• Ktorrent — Feature-rich BitTorrent client for KDE.

https://apps.kde.org/ktorrent/ || ktorrent

• Transmission Remote — GTK client for remote management of the Transmission BitTorrent client, using its HTTP RPC protocol.

https://github.com/transmission-remote-gtk/transmission-remote-gtk || transmission-remote-gtk

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of file-sharing applications.

• EiskaltDC++ — Direct Connect and ADC client.

https://github.com/eiskaltdcpp/eiskaltdcpp || GTK: eiskaltdcpp-gtk^AUR, Qt: eiskaltdcpp-qt^AUR

• Nicotine+ — A graphical client for the Soulseek P2P network.

https://github.com/Nicotine-Plus/nicotine-plus || nicotine+

See also Wikipedia:Pastebin.

Pastebin services are often used to quote text or images while collaborating and troubleshooting. Pastebin clients provide a convenient way to post from the command line.

Some services can be used with more general command line tool, such as CURL. For extensions, such as line numbers, one can use more command line tools. Such as .

• 0x0.st is a file hosting and URL shortening service. Usage examples are:

''command'' | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st 

or upload a file:

• ix.io Usage examples are:

or upload a file:

• termbin.com works with nc.

• Gist — Command-line interface for the gist.github.com pastebin service.

https://github.com/defunkt/gist || gist

• Uppity — The pastebin client with an attitude.

https://github.com/Kiwi/Uppity || uppity-git^AUR

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of email clients

• mu/mu4e — Email indexer (mu) and client for emacs (mu4e). Xapian based for fast searches.

https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html || mu^AUR

• Sup — CLI mail client with very fast searching, tagging, threading and GMail like operation.

https://sup-heliotrope.github.io/ || sup^AUR

• ElectronMail — Unofficial desktop application for several end-to-end encrypted email providers (like ProtonMail, Tutanota). Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/vladimiry/ElectronMail || electronmail-bin^AUR

• openWMail — The missing desktop client for Gmail & Google Inbox. Based on the Electron platform.

https://openwmail.github.io/ || openwmail^AUR

• Trojitá — Qt IMAP email client. Only supports one IMAP account.

http://trojita.flaska.net/ || trojita^AUR

• Bubblemail — New and Unread mail notification service for local mailboxes, pop, imap, and gnome online accounts. A fork of Mailnag.

http://bubblemail.free.fr/ || bubblemail^AUR

• QGmailNotifier — Portable Qt5 based GMail notifier.

https://github.com/eteran/qgmailnotifier || qgmailnotifier^AUR

See Mail server.

See also Wikipedia:Mail retrieval agent.

• hydroxide — A third-party, open-source ProtonMail CardDAV, IMAP and SMTP bridge

https://github.com/emersion/hydroxide || hydroxide^AUR

• vomit — Rust utility to sync between Maildir mailbox and IMAP mailbox

https://git.sr.ht/~bitfehler/vomit-sync/tree/master/item/cli/README.md || vsync^AUR (sync-only part of vomit^AUR mail tookit)

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of instant messaging clients and Wikipedia:Comparison of VoIP software.

This section lists all client software with instant messaging support.

The number of networks supported by these clients is very large but they (like any multi-protocol clients) usually have very limited or no support for network-specific features.

• Finch — Ncurses-based chat client that uses libpurple and supports all its protocols (Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, SIMPLE, XMPP, Zephyr).

https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Finch || finch

• Lith — WeeChat Relay client, allowing to connect to a running WeeChat instance from anywhere.

https://lith.app/ || lith-git^AUR

• Volt — Proprietary native desktop client for Skype, Telegram, Slack, XMPP, Discord, IRC and more.

https://volt-app.com/ || volt^AUR

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients.

• pork — Programmable, ncurses-based IRC client that mostly looks and feels like ircII.

http://dev.ojnk.net/ || pork

• tiny — an IRC client written in Rust with a clutter-free interface

https://github.com/osa1/tiny || tiny-irc-client-git^AUR

• Quassel — Modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client.

https://quassel-irc.org/ || KDE: quassel-monolithic, Qt: quassel-monolithic-qt

See also Wikipedia:XMPP and Wikipedia:Comparison of XMPP clients.

• Poezio — XMPP client with IRC feeling

https://poez.io/ || poezio^AUR

• Kadu — Qt-based XMPP and Gadu-Gadu client.

http://www.kadu.im/ || kadu^AUR

• Tkabber — Easy to hack feature-rich XMPP client by the author of the ejabberd XMPP server.

http://tkabber.jabber.ru/ || tkabber^AUR

See also Wikipedia:List of SIP software#Clients.

• Jami — SIP-compatible softphone and instant messenger for the decentralized Jami network. Formerly known as Ring and SFLphone.

https://jami.net/ || jami-qt

See also Matrix and Matrix Clients.

• FluffyChat — Multi-platform Matrix client with a simple and clean UI written in Dart/Flutter.

https://fluffychat.im/ || fluffychat^AUR

• nheko — Desktop client for the Matrix protocol.

https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko || nheko^AUR

See also Tox and comparison clients

• Toxic — ncurses-based Tox client

https://github.com/Jfreegman/toxic || toxic

See also Avahi#Link-Local (Bonjour/Zeroconf) chat and Wikipedia:Comparison of LAN messengers.

• BeeBEEP — Secure LAN Messenger.

https://www.beebeep.net/ || beebeep

See also Ring and Tox.

• BlueJeans — Proprietary desktop application for BlueJeans video calls. Based on the Electron platform.

https://www.bluejeans.com/ || bluejeans^AUR

• Discord — Proprietary all-in-one voice and text chat application for gamers that’s free and works on both your desktop and phone. Based on the Electron platform.

https://discordapp.com/ || discord

• Kotatogram Desktop — Experimental fork of Telegram Desktop.

https://kotatogram.github.io/ || kotatogram-desktop^AUR

• Session Desktop — Onion routing based messenger. Based on the Electron platform.

https://getsession.org/ || session-desktop^AUR

• teams-for-linux — Unofficial Microsoft Teams for Linux client. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux || teams-for-linux^AUR

• Wire — Modern, private messenger. Based on the Electron platform.

https://wire.com/ || wire-desktop

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of instant messaging protocols.

• InspIRCd — A stable, modern and lightweight IRC daemon.

https://www.inspircd.org/ || inspircd^AUR

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of XMPP server software.

• Jabberd2 — An XMPP server written in the C language and licensed under the GNU General Public License. It was inspired by jabberd14.

https://jabberd2.org/ || jabberd2^AUR

See also Wikipedia:List of SIP software#Servers.

• openSIPS — SIP proxy/server for voice, video, IM, presence and any other SIP extensions.

https://opensips.org/ || opensips

• Spreed WebRTC — WebRTC audio/video call and conferencing server.

https://github.com/strukturag/spreed-webrtc || spreed-webrtc-server^AUR

See also Wikipedia:Collaborative software.

• microbin — A tiny, self-contained, configurable paste bin and URL shortener written in Rust.

https://github.com/szabodanika/microbin || microbin^AUR

RSS/Atom aggregators. Some email clients are also able to act as news aggregator: Claws Mail RSSyl plugin, Evolution, SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups, Thunderbird.

See also Wikipedia:Comparison of feed aggregators.

• Canto — Ncurses RSS aggregator.

https://github.com/themoken/canto-curses || canto-curses

• sfeed — Crontab oriented shell-scriptable feed aggregator setup with a RSS/Atom parser utility plus a simple ncurses reader.

https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html || sfeed^AUR

• FeedReader — Modern desktop application designed to complement existing web-based RSS accounts. Discontinued.

https://jangernert.github.io/FeedReader/ || feedreader^AUR

• Nextcloud News — RSS/Atom feed reader for Nextcloud.

https://github.com/nextcloud/news || nextcloud-app-news

Some media players are also able to act as podcast client: Amarok, Cantata, Clementine, Goggles Music Manager, Rhythmbox, VLC media player. git-annex can also function as podcatcher.

See also Wikipedia:List of podcatchers.

• castero — A TUI podcast client for the terminal.

https://github.com/xgi/castero || castero-git^AUR

• GNOME Podcasts — Podcast client for the GNOME Desktop written in Rust.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/podcasts || gnome-podcasts

Some email clients are also able to act as Usenet newsreader: Claws Mail, Evolution, NeoMutt, SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups, Sylpheed, Thunderbird.

See also: Wikipedia:List of Usenet newsreaders, Wikipedia:Comparison of Usenet newsreaders.

• trn — A text-based Threaded Usenet newsreader.

http://trn.sourceforge.net/ || trn^AUR

See also Wikipedia:List of Twitter services and applications.

• bti — Simple command line client for twitter/identi.ca

https://gregkh.github.io/bti/ || bti

• Giara — Reddit app, built with Python, GTK and Handy.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/giara || giara^AUR

See also Wikipedia:Blog software and Wikipedia:List of content management systems.

• Diaspora — A distributed privacy aware social network.

https://diasporafoundation.org || diaspora-mysql^AUR or diaspora-postgresql^AUR

• Jekyll — Static blog engine, written in Ruby, which supports Markdown, textile and other formats.

https://jekyllrb.com/ || jekyll^AUR

See also Wikipedia:Remote desktop software and Wikipedia:Comparison of remote desktop software.

See also Chrome Remote Desktop for a web browser based solution.

• GNOME Connections — Remote desktop client for GNOME. Supports RDP and VNC.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/connections || gnome-connections

• Remotely — Simple VNC viewer for GNOME. Discontinued.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Remotely || remotely^AUR

• Vinagre — Remote desktop viewer for GNOME. Supports RDP, VNC, SPICE and SSH. Part of gnome-extra.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Vinagre || vinagre

• x0vncserver (TigerVNC) — VNC Server for X displays.

https://tigervnc.org/ || tigervnc