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A curated list of awesome apps, extensions, modules, themes and tools for the KDE Desktop Environment.

KDE is a free software community dedicated to creating an open and user-friendly computing experience, offering an advanced graphical desktop, a wide variety of applications for communication, work, education and entertainment and a platform to easily build new applications upon.

Items marked with 📌 (pushpin) are projects hosted on KDE's own infrastructure and developed by the KDE community.

Applications

Tip: An overview of the most used KDE community apps are listed on the official website.

Internet & Networking

Akregator

Enables you to follow news sites, blogs and other RSS/Atom-enabled websites 📌.

Falkon

QtWebEngine based cross-platform web browser 📌.

Firefox KDE

Standalone web browser from mozilla.org with OpenSUSE patch, integrate better with KDE.

GSConnect

A complete implementation of KDE Connect especially for GNOME Shell with Nautilus, Chrome and Firefox integration.

KDE Connect

A project to communicate across all your devices: receive your phone notifications on your desktop computer, control your desktop from your phone, etc 📌.

KGet

A versatile and user-friendly download manager 📌.

KMail

KMail is the email component of Kontact, the integrated personal information manager from KDE 📌.

KNetworkManager

A KDE client for the back end NetworkManager software 📌.

Konqueror

Uses the KHTML rendering engine (and optionally Webkit) so it supports the latest web standards such as HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, and others 📌.

Konversation

A user-friendly Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client built on the KDE Platform 📌.

KRDC

A client application that allows you to view or control a desktop session on another machine that is running a compatible server (VNC & RDP) 📌.

KTorrent

A BitTorrent application which allows you to download files using the BitTorrent protocol 📌.

NeoChat

Matrix network client for KDE 📌.

Otter Browser

Otter Browser aims to recreate the best aspects of the classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5.

Plasma-browser-integration

A suite of new features which make [Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/plasma-integration/), [Chrome](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/plasma-integration/cimiefiiaegbelhefglklhhakcgmhkai) and Chromium-based browsers work with your desktop 📌.

qBittorrent

An advanced BitTorrent client programmed in C++, based on Qt toolkit and libtorrent-rasterbar.

Qt WebBrowser

Qt WebBrowser is a browser for embedded devices developed using the capabilities of Qt and Qt WebEngine.

Smb4K

Advanced Network Neighborhood Browser and Samba Share Mounting Utility 📌.

Tokodon

Tokodon is a Mastodon client. It allows you to interact with the Fediverse community 📌.

Graphics & Imaging

digiKam

Professional Photo Management with the Power of Open Source 📌.

Gwenview

A fast and easy to use image viewer by KDE 📌.

KColorChooser

A simple application to select the color from the screen or from a pallete 📌.

KolourPaint

A simple painting program to quickly create raster images. It is useful as a touch-up tool and simple image editing tasks 📌.

Krita

Painting tool designed for concept artists, illustrators, matte and texture artists, and the VFX industry 📌.

Okular

A universal document viewer 📌.

Spectacle

An application for capturing desktop screenshots 📌.

Multimedia

Amarok

Amarok is a powerful music player for Linux, Unix and Windows with an intuitive interface 📌.

Elisa

A music player developed by the KDE community that strives to be simple and nice to use 📌.

Haruna

Open source video player built with Qt/QML and libmpv 📌.

KCast

A Plasma 6 widget to cast video files or YouTube URLs to a Chromecast device.

Kdenlive

A non-linear video editor for Linux using the MLT video framework.

KMix

A sound channel mixer and volume control 📌.

KWave

A sound editor built on the KDE Frameworks 5 📌.

SMPlayer

Media player with built-in codecs that can play virtually all video and audio formats.

VLC

A free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files, and various streaming protocols.

Office & Productivity

Calligra

Includes efficient and capable office components 📌.

GhostWriter

No distraction markdown editor 📌.

Kate

A multi-document, multi-view text editor by KDE 📌.

KWrite

A text editor by KDE, based on the KDE Frameworks editor component 📌.

RSI Break

RSIBreak can be used to remind you to take a break now and then 📌.

Kraft

Kraft simplifies to handle documents like invoices in your small business.

  • Kronometer A stopwatch application for KDE 📌.

System Administration

Discover

Intended for users and distros where the terminal isn't the optimal solution for installation of apps and add-ons or updates 📌.

Dolphin

File manager included in the KDE desktop 📌.

KDiskFree

Displays the available file devices (hard drive partitions, drives, etc.) along with information on their capacity, free space, type and mount point 📌.

KInfoCenter

A utility that provides detailed information about a computer system 📌.

Konsole

Terminal emulator included in the KDE desktop 📌.

Krusader

An advanced twin panel (commander style) file manager for KDE 📌.

KSystemLog

A system log viewer tool 📌.

Kup

A backup scheduler for KDE's Plasma desktop 📌.

Sweeper

Sweeper helps to clean unwanted traces the user leaves on the system and to regain disk space removing unused temporary files 📌.

Yakuake

A drop-down terminal emulator based on KDE's Konsole technology 📌.

Utilities & Tools

Android File Transfer

Reliable MTP client with minimalistic UI.

Ark

Archiving Tool 📌.

dictee

Push-to-talk voice dictation with KDE Plasma 6 plasmoid, PyQt6 setup wizard, and tray icon. 4 ASR backends (Parakeet, Vosk, Whisper, Canary), post-processing pipeline, translation. 100% local, 25+ languages.

fancontrol-gui

GUI for fancontrol which is part of lm_sensors.

KDE Wallet Manager

Manage the passwords on KDE systems. The KDE wallet subsystem allows access and password management of every application that integrates with the KDE wallet 📌.

KeePassXC

Cross-platform community-driven port of Keepass password manager.

KFind

A standalone search tool, launched by KRunner or from your menu. It is also integrated into Konqueror as "Find File" in the "Tools" menu 📌.

KRename

A utility to rename multiple files 📌.

KWin-lowlatency

An attempt to reduce latency and stuttering in the popular KWin compositor used in KDE.

KWinFT

Wayland compositor and X11 window manager.

LocalTranslate

Offline translation app built with Qt Quick that makes use of Firefox's [neural translation models](https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations-models).

QOwnNotes

Note taking app with cloud integration, web and mobile support.

QtPass

A multi-platform GUI for [pass](https://www.passwordstore.org/).

Wacom GUI

Python/PyQt Wacom GUI for KDE.

Yin-Yang

Auto Night-mode for Linux.

Development & Programming

Kate

Kate is a Feature-Packed Code Editor with advanced support for LSP, Syntax Highlighting, multi-cursoe and more 📌.

KDevelop

A cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, QML/JavaScript and PHP 📌.

Kompare

A diff/patch frontend 📌.

Okteta

Hex Editor 📌.

Qt Designer

Qt tool for designing and building graphical user interfaces (GUIs) with Qt Widgets.

Umbrello

UML Modeller is a Unified Modelling Language (UML) diagram program based on KDE Technology 📌.

Education

KTurtle

An educational programming environment that aims to make learning how to program as easy as possible 📌.

LabPlot

Interactive graphing and analysis of scientific data 📌.

Customization

Note: Customizations quickly become outdated, it is recommended to look in the KDE Store or use Discover instead.

Plasma desktop

Dynamic Wallpaper Engine

A wallpaper plugin that continuously updates the desktop background based on the current time in your location.

Hoppla

KDE Plasma desktop widget to control Philips Hue lights.

Kvantum

An SVG-based theme engine for Qt4/Qt5, KDE and LXQt, with an emphasis on elegance, usability and practicality.

Places Widget

**Plasma 5** widget that gives access to user places.

Window AppMenu Applet

**Plasma 5** applet in order to show the window appmenu.

Window Title Applet

**Plasma 5** applet that shows the current window title and icon in your panels.

Karousel

KWin tiling script with scrolling. Works especially well with ultrawide screens.

KDoit

Lightweight to-do list plasmoid for KDE Plasma 6 with nested sublists, priorities, due dates, and UUID-based file sync.

Latte-Dock

Latte is a dock based on Plasma frameworks that provides an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and plasmoids for **Plasma 5** 📌. ⚠️ Unmaintained.

kcm-wacomtablet

KDE GUI for the Wacom Linux Drivers 📌.

kde-gtk-config

GTK2 and GTK3 Configurator for KDE 📌.

kded_rotation

A small, hacky KDED module for handling automatic screen rotation on tablets and hybrid laptops.

Adapta KDE

A port of the popular GTK theme Adapta for **Plasma 5** desktop with a few additions and extras.

Arc KDE

A port of the popular GTK theme Arc for **Plasma 5** desktop with a few additions and extras.

Breath

Breath Theme for Manjaro Linux (**Plasma 5**).

Canta

A flat design theme for KDE Plasma desktop.

ChromeOS

A materia Design theme for KDE Plasma desktop.

Darkine KDE

Theme for KDE **Plasma 5** desktop, SDDM and more.

Fluent

A Microsoft inspired fluent Design theme for the KDE Plasma desktop.

Helium

A translucent theme for **Plasma 5**.

Hello

A compilation of various color-schemes, themes, icons and more for the KDE Plasma desktop. It is unopinionated, putting you in charge.

Layan

A flat design theme for KDE Plasma desktop.

Materia KDE

A port of the popular GTK theme Materia for **Plasma 5** desktop with a few additions and extras.

McMojave

A MacOSX Mojave like theme for KDE Plasma desktop.

Orchis

A materia Design theme for KDE Plasma desktop.

Qogir

A flat design theme for KDE Plasma desktop.

WhiteSur

A MacOS Big Sur theme for KDE Plasma.

Akava-Kv

User oriented Kvantum theme for KDE.

breeze-gtk

A GTK Theme Built to Match KDE's Breeze 📌.

Breeze10

A Windows 10 style windows decoration for KDE Plasma.

BreezeBlurred

A fork of KDE Breeze window decoration written in Qt C++.

BreezeEnhanced

A fork of KDE Breeze decoration with additional options.

Chrome-KDE5BreezeDark

A theme for Chrome on KDE5 when using the Breeze Dark window decoration.

KDE-Rounded-Corners

Rounds the corners of your windows.

SierraBreeze

OSX-like window decoration for KDE Plasma written in C++.

Sweet KDE

A dark and modern theme for KDE plasma.

XBoomer

XP Window Decorations for KDE Plasma.

Antu

A smooth icon theme designed for Plasma Desktop.

Candy

Sweet gradient icons.

Flatery

Icon theme for Linux in flat style.

La Capitaine

Icon pack with inspiration taken from the latest iterations of macOS and Google's Material Design.

Papirus

Material icon theme, initially based on Paper.

Tela

A flat colorful Design icon theme.

Zafiro

Minimalist icons created with the flat-desing technique, utilizing washed out colors and always accompanied by white. The priority is simplicity.

Bibata

Material Based Cursor Theme.

Capitaine

An x-cursor theme inspired by macOS and based on KDE Breeze.

Fluid tile

Simple auto tiling with UI for KWin that works natively.

Grid-Tiling-Kwin

A kwin script that automatically tiles windows.

Kröhnkite

A dynamic tiling extension for KWin.

kwin-tiling

Tiling script for kwin.

Chili

The hottest login theme around for KDE **Plasma 5**.

Delicious

A delicious SDDM theme for DE collectors/addicts.

Sugar Candy

The sweetest login theme available for the SDDM display manager.

Extensions

  • Latte Dock NG is a Wayland-first dock for KDE Plasma 6.5+ that provides an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and widgets.

KCM Modules and Systems

Themes

Qt and GTK+ Applications Appearance

Icons

Cursors

Scripts

Display Manager

Documentation and Resources

KDE Wikis

The KDE wikis are a source of information and documentation for the KDE desktop, applications, teams, events and more 📌.

KDE Invent

Discover KDE projects, groups and snippets 📌.

KDE Bugtracker

KDE's official Bugtracker 📌.

ArchWiki

Arch Linux KDE Wiki.

Gentoo Wiki

Gentoo KDE Wiki.

KDE Configs

List of KDE configuration files and more.

Articles

KDE.news

The official KDE news website 📌.

Planet KDE

Blogs of KDE contributors 📌.

Phoronix

Phoronix KDE News Archives.

Nate Graham's Blog

Adventures in Linux and KDE.

Nico's Blog

Programmer from Germany that is working on KDE.

Kai Uwe's Blog

Stories of a Plasma developer.

Communities

Kreddit

KDE Community on Reddit.

KDE Store

Official KDE Store for developers to share Plasma customizations 📌.

Stack Overflow

Questions tagged with `kde`.