Open source desktop applications list

• Open Live Writer

  0 2,442 0.0 C#

  An open source fork of Windows Live Writer

  

  Open Live Writer was last updated two years ago, it's a desktop app not targeting developers which turned into open source.

• OpenRA

  71 13,603 9.6 C#

  Open Source real-time strategy game engine for early Westwood games such as Command & Conquer: Red Alert written in C# using SDL and OpenGL. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X.

  

  OpenRA and Ryujinx are actively developed but they're likely not what you expect when you say "desktop" app seeing they're gaming apps.

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• Ryujinx

  129 25,517 9.6 C#

  Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#

  

  OpenRA and Ryujinx are actively developed but they're likely not what you expect when you say "desktop" app seeing they're gaming apps.

• cairoshell

  1 2,376 0.0 C#

  Cairo is a customizable, intuitive desktop environment for Windows.

  

  Cairo Shell is not really a "desktop app" and more of a "desktop" in itself.

• SharpDevelop

  0 1,696 0.0 C#

  SharpDevelop and MonoDevelop are both dead and focused for devs which gives them different priority than apps targeted at non-devs, but they show how to put together seriously complex apps, and they're the ancestor of the Visual Studio for Mac.

• MonoDevelop

  2 2,681 1.7 C#

  MonoDevelop is a cross platform .NET IDE

  

  SharpDevelop and MonoDevelop are both dead and focused for devs which gives them different priority than apps targeted at non-devs, but they show how to put together seriously complex apps, and they're the ancestor of the Visual Studio for Mac.

• OpenPDN

  1 152 0.0 C#

  Paint.NET source (v3.36.7; prior to non-MIT license change)

  Paint.NET was open source, it's the most beautiful and responsive non-devs oriented .NET desktop app I have ever encountered.

• InfluxDB

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• ProtobufDecoder

  0 57 7.3 C#

  A Google Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) payload decoder/analyzer

• ScreenToGif

  30 21,583 0.0 C#

  🎬 ScreenToGif allows you to record a selected area of your screen, edit and save it as a gif or video.

  Screen To Gif. This is a great app and is open source: https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif

• Pinta

  1 1,538 0.0 C#

  Simple GTK# Paint Program

  

  Pinta is an open-source cross-platform fork of Paint.NET, now running on .NET6.

• snoopwpf

  0 1,977 8.1 C#

  Snoop - The WPF Spy Utility

  

• bitcoin-ps

  0 3 4.4 C#

  Desktop application to test Bitcoin Core using PowerShell scripts

• ShareX

  136 26,102 8.5 C#

  ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.

  

  ShareX https://getsharex.com/

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