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KSnip is a Qt-based cross-platform screenshot tool with annotation features. It supports Linux, Windows and macOS and can capture custom areas, screens, windows and the mouse cursor. Screenshots can be annotated with drawing tools, stickers, blur or pixelate effects, and watermarks, and can be uploaded to imgur or via FTP and custom scripts.
KTouch is a typewriter trainer for learning to touch type. It provides text to train on and adjusts to different levels depending on skill. It displays the keyboard, indicates the next key and correct finger, and ships with dozens of courses in many languages plus a course editor. It collects statistical information during training.
Kyun is a terminal text editor written in Rust, described by its author as the worst text editor yet. It is intended for writing cutesy text and provides syntax highlighting for Rust and Unicode art, along with colorful interface elements. It is based on another editor by Philipp Flenker and is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Labelbuddy is a desktop application for text labelling, tagging spans of text with different labels. According to its documentation page, it is an open-source, lightweight application supporting sequence labelling with predefined labels or free-form annotations. It can be installed on Linux, Windows or MacOS, and data can be imported and exported using JSON, JSONLines or plain text formats.
Laigter is a tool for generating normal maps for 2D textures, designed for sprites in 2D games. It also supports specular, parallax and ambient occlusion map generation. It is available for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Lan Mouse is cross-platform mouse and keyboard sharing software that lets multiple PCs be used with a single mouse and keyboard, described as a software KVM switch. It is written in Rust and aims to be an open-source alternative to proprietary tools. It supports GNOME, KDE Plasma, wlroots compositors, Windows and macOS.
Lanemu P2P VPN is a server-less, decentralized virtual private network offered as an open-source alternative to Hamachi, Radmin, and ZeroTier. The project is written in Java and C and lists Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, and MacOS among its supported platforms.
Lantern is a nonprofit VPN built by Brave New Software Project that bypasses censorship. Smart Routing sends blocked and unencrypted sites through the network while other traffic connects directly. It is open source, available on Android, iOS, Windows, Mac and Linux, and offers an optional Private Server mode on own hardware or cloud account.
Later is a Mac menu bar app that saves and restores a workspace. It lets users close windows and reopen them later, at a destination or after scheduled minutes or hours. The listed uses include saving battery, tidying the desktop for screensharing and preparing for Zoom meetings.
Latest is a free and open-source macOS utility app that checks whether installed apps are up to date, shows which apps changed and what changed, and allows updating them. It supports apps from the Mac App Store and those using Sparkle for updates.
LaTeX-OCR converts an image containing a formula to corresponding LaTeX code. It includes a user interface written with PyQt5 and is installed through a Python environment with PyTorch. A standalone version is planned, and an AppImage for Linux is in development.
Learn Shell is a free interactive Shell tutorial for people who want to learn Shell. It offers chapters covering basics such as variables, arrays, operators, decision making, loops and functions, plus advanced topics including special variables and regular expressions. The site states it is intended for everyone who wishes to learn programming with Unix/Linux shell interpreters.
LearnByExample is a blog covering Python, regular expressions, Linux, scripting, Vim and self-publishing, along with technical articles and book announcements. Posts include a Python regular expression cheatsheet, guides to sed substitution and awk, and tutorials on using pandoc to generate PDF and EPUB files from markdown.
LearnToCloud is a free, open-source, self-paced cloud engineering program. It provides a structured curriculum with resources, practical challenges and clear goals, automated checks and AI-assisted reviews of submitted work, and community support. The curriculum starts with Linux and networking, then builds an AI-powered API that is deployed, automated and secured on a chosen cloud.
LedFx is a real-time LED strip music visualization effect controller. It takes audio input and processes it into a realtime light show for multiple LED strips or matrices, controlling networked devices such as ESP8266, ESP32 and Raspberry Pi 4 nodes. A browser-based front end on port 8888 provides configuration, control and live visualisation. Releases are available for Windows and Mac, and pip for Linux.
Left on Read is a macOS desktop app that provides analytics and productivity tools for text messages, including revisiting messages, group chats and words of the year. It can schedule messages, send response reminders and manage an inbox. Texts are analyzed locally, and the software is open-source and runs offline. It is free to try.
LibreCAD is a free open source 2D CAD application for Windows, Apple and Linux, released under GPLv2. It is available in over 30 languages, and support and documentation come from its community of users, contributors and developers.
LinkLiar is an open-source status menu application written in Swift that helps users spoof the MAC addresses of Wi-Fi and Ethernet interfaces. A MAC address is sent out by a MacBook's Wi-Fi and can be collected by others nearby to track movement. The developer notes the address can be modified despite being hardwired into the network card, and that building from scratch with Xcode is an option for those concerned about administrator privileges.
Liquidprompt is an adaptive shell prompt for Bash and Zsh. It displays information based on the current system status and is configured by editing a text file of key/value pairs. Predefined themes are enabled through the shell configuration.
Lite XL is a lightweight text and code editor written in C and Lua, adapted from lite. It is available for Linux, Windows and macOS, comes in a bundle under 5MB, and is scriptable with Lua. It supports multiline editing, autocomplete and pane splitting by default, and can be extended with plugins.
LlamaChat is a free, open-source macOS application for chatting with LLaMA, Alpaca and GPT4All models running locally on a Mac. It can import raw PyTorch model checkpoints or pre-converted .ggml model files. The application is powered by llama.cpp and llama.swift and is not distributed with any model files.
lnav (The Logfile Navigator) is an advanced log file viewer for the terminal aimed at small-scale use. It merges, tails, searches, filters and queries log files, with no server or setup required. Log formats are detected automatically, with over 70 built-in formats, and compressed files are unpacked on the fly.
LocalSend is a free, open-source, cross-platform tool for sharing files to nearby devices over a local network without the cloud. It is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, requires no account or login, and uses end-to-end encryption. Transfers work offline at WiFi speeds.
Lockdown Privacy offers a firewall and a Secure Tunnel VPN for blocking trackers, ads and badware in apps. The firewall is described as open source and on-device. The site states the products are Openly Operated and provide transparency into data handling. The listing covers iPhone, iPad and Mac.
