80+ Essential Ubuntu Applications

This is the comprehensive list of most essential Ubuntu applications.

60+ Most Used Essential Ubuntu Applications

Audio Players

• SMPlayer: SMPlayer is a free media player for Linux with built-in codecs.
• Audacious
• Lollypop
• Museek
• Musique

Antivirus

• ClamAV:
• ClamTk
• ChkrootKit
• RootKit Hunter
• Comodo

Backup Tools

• Rsync
• Kbackup
• backupninja
• sbackup
• Back In Time
• Fwbackups
• Box Backup
• Bacula
• BackupPC
• Amanda
• Luckybackup
• Borg Backup
• Restic

Boot Loaders

 

• Syslinux
• LILO
• BURG
• GRUB

Desktop Customizing Tools

• Unity Tweak
• GNOME Tweak

Download Managers

• uGet
• Flareget
• XDM
• Steadyflow
• MultiGet
• DownThemAll
• Persepolis

Email Clients

• Thunderbird
• KMail
• Evolution
• Sylpheed
• Geary
• Claws

Accounting Softwares

• GnuCash
• KMyMoney
• Skrooge

FTP

• Filezilla
• CrossFTP
• Konqueror
• Nautilus

Filemanagers

• Dolphin
• SpaceFM
• Nautilus
• Caja
• Ranger
• Konqueror
• Nemo

Graphics

• GIMP
• Blender
• digiKam
• Inkscape
• Openshot
• Shotcut
• Kdenlive

Google Drive

• GoSync
• google-drive-ocamlfuse
• Rclone

IDE

• Atom
• Netbeans
• Sublime
• Eclipse
• Code::Blocks
• CodeLite
• Bluefish
• Bracket
• JetBrains

Office

• LibreOffice
• Apache OpenOffice
• WPS
• Calligra
• Softmaker
• Oxygen Office
• Google Docs
• Zoho Docs

PDF Readers

• Foxit
• MuPDF
• Okular
• Evince
• PDF JS
• llpp
• GNU GV

Screen Recording Tools

• SimpleScreenRecorder
• Kazam Screencaster
• recordMyDesktop
• OBS
• Vokoscreen

Screenshot Tools

• Gnome Screenshot
• Shutter
• Deepin Scrot
• ScreenCloud
• Flameshot

USB Image Writer

• Rufus
• Etcher
• Gnome Multi-Writer
• UNetbootin

Video Players

• SMPlayer
• VLC Media Player
• Kodi
• Xine
• Banshee
• Gnome Videos

We are regularly updating this list of essential Ubuntu applications.