GNOME Core Applications
The GNOME Core Applications are a software suite that is packaged with GNOME, a free and open-source desktop environment. The suite provides a consistent look and feel to the GNOME desktop, utilizes the Adwaita design language and tightly integrates with the GNOME desktop. The suite is developed and maintained through GNOME's official GitLab instance.
A comprehensive list of these applications is available at
Configuration
- Settings – main interface to configure various aspects of GNOME. Diverse panels represent graphical front-ends to configure the NetworkManager daemon and other daemons.
Communication
- Contacts – the contacts book app
Files
- Document Scanner - Application for operating printer scanners.
- Image Viewer – Image viewer.
- Document Viewer – Viewer for digital documents such as PDF files.
- Files – File manager.
- Audio Player - General purpose audio player.
- Video Player – Video player.
System
- Connections - the front-end for remote desktops. Introduced in GNOME 41.
- Disks - formatting and managing partitions
- Disk Usage Analyzer - Used for representing disk usage graphically
- Extensions - extension manager for the GNOME desktop
- Fonts - the font viewer
- Logs – written in Vala, introduced with 3.12
- Help - the help documentation software
- Software - the software manager, supports native package managers, as well as Flatpaks
- System Monitor - shows CPU usage graphs
- Terminal Emulators
- * Console
- * Terminal
- * Ptyxis
- Web - the web browser
World
- GNOME Clocks - creating alarms and timers
- GNOME Maps - map application, powered by OpenStreetMap
- Weather - the weather app
Utilities
- Calculator
- Calendar
- Characters
- Camera
- GNOME Tour
- GNOME Text Editor
Development tools
- Boxes - the virtualization software
- Builder - the IDE for creating GNOME apps
- D-Spy - D-Bus analyzer
- Dconf Editor - Dconf database editor
- Devhelp - API documentation viewer
- Sysprof - debugging software
GNOME Circle
Some examples of such applications include:
- Apostrophe - a markdown editor
- Authenticator - a two-factor authentication code generator
- Eyedropper - a color picker and formatter utility
- Foliate - An ebook reader
- Fragments - a torrent manager
- Gaphor - UML and SysML modeling tool
- Health - a fitness tracker
- Pika Backup - a backup software
- Polari - messaging app
- Wike - a Wikipedia browser