mednafen, the multiplatform emulator. classic gaming is so easy with mednafen's graphical interface

snac: a simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance.

Guake, drop down terminal.

SMplayer, one of the best multimedia player, fast, capable to stream YouTube and almost everything, all codecs.

Windows (all), Linux, Mac

https://www.smplayer.info/

https://github.com/smplayer-dev/smplayer

Newsboat: an RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console.

candle, an android app that turns your display into a flashlight-like utility. very useful on tablets without an actual flashlight. I have a shortcut to it on my lock screen on my phone, and I use a red background to see when my wife is sleeping.

Ferdium - Allows to run multiple online chat/mail accounts in a single interface, without cluttering our browser. It's an electron-based software that takes a lot of ram, but it's a nice way to organize stuff and avoid getting overwhelmed.

Toot: a CLI and TUI tool for interacting with Mastodon instances from the command line.

readest.

good play books alternative. upload your own pdfs and read them across devices. syncs progress, so pick up wherever you left off.

Photoshop (almost) right in your browser, desktop or mobile, also as PWA or even selfhosted

https://viliusle.github.io/miniPaint/

https://github.com/viliusle/miniPaint?tab=readme-ov-file

ZOOD location, a location sharing app that actually works

Hexchat, irc client

Trillium Next: The last note taking software you will ever need. It works as a standalone, or in a client/server configuration across almost all platforms.

podget: a simple podcast aggregator optimized for running as a scheduled background job (i.e. cron).

weechat, a multiprotocol chat client with many user scripts and a remote interface.

mblaze: a set of Unix utilities for processing and interacting with mail messages which are stored in maildir folders.