The Best Apps for elementary OS (and other distros)
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elementary OS has managed to build a small, but robust ecosystem of apps that do one thing, but do it very well. These are one of the main draws to that specific distro, but most of them are also available outside of the elementary OS AppCenter, so let's take a look at some great applications for elementary OS, and if you can run them elsewhere.
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The first one is Ciano. It's a converter for any kind of format you'd like. It allows you to take any video, picture, or music file, and turn it into another format in a pinch. It's super fast, looks good and simple, and while it's not the best solution if you want to tweak a lot of settings before converting, it generally does an awesome job, and I use it all the time. Ciano allows multiple file conversions at the same time, and lets you pick the destination folder, or use the origin folder for the converted files. It's available on the AppCenter or on Flathub.
Next is Image optimizer. If you run a blog or a website, you'll need to make sure your images are compressed enough to not use too much space and guarantee speedy page loads. Image otpimizer is designed to do just that. It actually integrates into the file manager right click menu, so you can just select an image, right click on it, and optimize it immediately. I use it to reduce the file sizes on my website, thelinuxexp.com. The app is available on the AppCenter, or on Flathub.
TO complete this tour, there's Resizer. This is the useful counterpart to image optimizer, as it allows you to resize images in a pinch, from your right click menu in your file manager. You select a max height, or width, and the image will resize to ensure you don't lose the aspect ratio. It's extremely handy for my blog as well, and I recommend you grab it from the AppCenter. If youre using another distro, you can compile it from source, it's a pretty small one :)
Productivity tools
Let's get to work! First is Planner. Most of you know I love this application, and it really deserves another highlight. Planner is a project management application that lets you create folders, projects, and tasks in that order, with a bunch of bells and whistles. It syncs with a todoist account, or you can sync the database using any other sync tool you use, and it supports tags, due dates, reminders, subtasks, notes and priorities.
Next is Outliner. A relatively new entry in the AppCenter, it allows you to quickly outline a plan for a presentation, a memo, or any long form document.
Minder is next, and it's a terrific mind map application. It allows you to quickly jot down ideas and link them together, and offers a ton of ways to present your map, with color themes and various trees.
We move on to VGrive, a Google Drive syncing client. It's a fairly simple app: you log into it using your Google account, copy the key Google gives you, and select the folder where you want to sync all files, and the client will just do the rest, monitoring for changes one way or the other, and sync your files to and from your Google Drive.
Next we have Pebbles, a fantastically complete calculator application. It will let you do scientific calculations, statistics, date calculations, and even convert from any scientific unit to any other.
To conclude, let us take a look at Color Picker. It's an extremely simple application, but it lets you grab any color on the screen, and copy its value, in any format you like: hexadecimal, RGB, or RGBA.
First is Vocal, an awesome Podcast client. It will look up for podcasts from the iTUnes library, but you can also add your own through an RSS feed. It supports downloading or streaming episodes, lets you choose from which region you want to see results from the iTUnes store, it has a dark theme, and it can handle a queue of episodes. You can get it from the AppCenter, or Flathub.
Next is Byte. It's a small music player, which will let you play your local music collection, or web radios if you prefer. It has a fantastic, minimalistic interface which you can theme a bit, and lets you create playlists.
If you prefer just listening to web radios, however, Tuner is a fantastic choice. It lets you browse any web radio, by genre.
Let's move on to Fondo, a small app to find new wallpapers. It searches through unsplash for beautiful pictures you can use as your wallpaper, you just have to browse, or enter a search term, and click on the image to apply it as a wallpaper. - Věda a technologie
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What wallpaper is it you showed at "Outliner"
You can goto myaccount.google.com - data and personalisation - delete an app or service - and delete gmail to use your own email for CZcams (I watched your video on ditching google)
you think you could actually show how to get the apps running on another system because it's not really that helpful if someone who wants to use the apps has to do everything by themselves
you might want to switch to a more tutorial based "top 10" list
I don’t love the elementary theme that much, but the consistency of app design and the fact how good they are make up for that
Same
Theme requires an uplift. Elementary has really good consistent UI
Then change the shell theme 😉, try flat remix theme.
I am just waiting for elementary os 6
I'm waiting for Zorin OS 16
@@LoganT547 and i'm waiting for kde plasma 5.20
And i'm for gnome 3.38 we're all representing fragmentation here 🤣
I'm waiting for 2021 😁
@@Dequiter exactly LOL
Probably my favorite elementary OS app would be Bookworm, for managing and reading ebooks.
Yeah it's great !
Great video Nick. Love the selection of productivity focused apps.
You're welcome :)
Elementary OS runs very smooth, fast, and clean on your computer. Looks awesome and most Apps your showed up are sleek and very interface friendly (very consistent GUI) Great job!
Man this video really let me see how much elementary has improved and matured and how beautiful it and the various applications are integrated. Honestly the work in this project is astonishing!!
Yeah, it's just on an whole other level!
L'OS a l'air vraiment bien pour un débutant dans mon genre. Merci d'avoir montré tout ça.
thanks for recommending fondo, exactly the thing I was looking for
Great work. Keep it up
Thanks for staying on CZcams I’d be bereft without the Linux related content makers here
No problem :) As long as the audience is there, I'll stay.
If the audience moves to something open source, like LBRY, then I'll mainly be over there, but for now, I'm happy on CZcams :)
Wow, each and every app suggested is brilliant & practical. Got them all! Many Thanks for your recommendations.
You’re welcome :)
Brilliant. Great suggestions!
Thanks!
let me include "Eddy", it's similar to gdebi but visually looks better. Pop os also ship it by default. If you want to use it you have to compile it from source
Eddy is awesome!
I literally do not know what I would do without Eddy
@@RogueRen You can use Gdebi
I prefer Deepin App Installer
@@zeocamo stuff like Discord and Minecraft needs you to download the .deb for some updates, eddy makes its stupid easy to update that way
Outstanding video. Thank you! I would love to see you do a video on how to install Elementary OS on A Mac using Parallels.
Thanks! This should be pretty straightforward, I think!
nearly using elemantary OS for 2 years and not using most of them. thank you sir. I will exemine them.
I love Elementary OS, what grinds my gears is the lack of consistency when using a dark theme. Not all apps will load with the dark theme enabled when it is set as the default. I also find myself unlocking the use of ppa's to add to the library of programs and features I like to use on the distro. Hopefully the next 20.04 version will fix some of these issues and build on what is great about the OS.
I can’t switch from Windows (too much of the software I use isn’t on Linux), but these gorgeous Pantheon apps really make me want to use ElementaryOS.
As a arch user (funnily enough), Its a joke I believe that elementary os users are hipsters trying to be different from macOS users. These boutique distros aren’t that stable in my opinion. I would suggest trying a more stable OS, maybe try manjaro or mint for beginners. Change my mind of course. By the way, there are loads of alternatives out there on Linux that might work out even better for you. You can try Windows VM, you will stay more private after all.
@AstroClipsChannel MS Office is non-negotiable. The Affinity design suite only works on Mac and Windows, Clip Studio Paint, Adobe XD, and can't find a single PDF reader/annotator for Linux that I actually like.
Office and the PDF reader are probably the most important ones since those are for work and the others are for fun. I have tried to find a PDF reader on Linux that I like, but nothing feels as intuitive as Xodo for Windows. ANd event Xodo is a silve-medal for me. The Gold was the original Microsoft Edge, which was basic but so intuitive and smooth to use. Best PDF annotator I've found for Linux is Foxit, and it's oddly way LESS customizable than the Windows version. I can't even add keyboard shortcuts to make up for the overly-spartan user interface.
@@JohnEusebioToronto Have you tried WPS Office?
@@MarkHobbes No Mendeley support on WPS or Only Office. And I can't use LibreOffice for that because the Mendeley plug-in for that isn't compatible with Mendeley on MS Office, which my colleagues all use.
It's for the best. I thinker WAY too much when I'm on Linux. I need an OS where I'm more restricted with how I can change it so I can focus more on actually working.
@John Eusebio it’s the same with all the Adobe workflow and I do understand you. I personally use my own onlyoffice cloud server which has worked flawlessly on my nextcloud instance, 10/10 compatibility. For PDF you could use something like zathura PDF which is complicated with vi-bindings for beginners but all the cool kids use it and is quite intuitive for me. This open source GNU/... is a lifestyle essentially, it’s hard and takes time but once you get used to it, works great in your favour.
For "random wallpapers off the internet" I use Variety: it has many sources - not only Unsplash but also various PotD sites, Flickr, image searches and others and will also work with local folder collections (and will mix everything together). It has great UI for selecting images and supports all desktop environments (and you can customize the support by editing the support script the app provides - I set it so it only controls wallpapers for some of my KDE's screens and activities, the rest are using some KDE's built-in wallpaper plugins).
Check the Rush application - one of the nicest for people following pomodora technique
I'll check it out thanks !
did you say the G word :O If you see a blue SUV outside, run! lol. great video as always
Cool Video! where can i find Tuner ?
Good video
Just installed elementary os today. it's great.
Great choice :)
What Browser do you use? Great video! I really love your channel!
I use Firefox :)
This video is almost making me give elementary os a second chance.
Hey Nick! Is Ciano a good tool to bypass the mp4/aac videos into a readable format on free version of Davinci Resolve? to decode and encode afterwards
Excellent article but and I’m not sure if this has been mentioned, could you please put the names of the programs in a title card.
I was interested by Pebbles but I can't find it on flathub. Are you sure it's available there ?
Thank you for the video! Let me please 2 questions:
1. Can I open Google Docs/Sheets with vGrive? Or what is the best way to working offline (in File Explorer) with Google Documents in Elementary OS? Like in Windows?
2. What cloud storage you using for file saving? If you don't use Google Drive?
I'm using InSync for Google Drive. It optionally converts Google docs/sheets to OpenDocument formats so you can edit them locally and it will sync changes back up. I'm not actually using that feature as I'm woried about fidelity loss due to frequent conversations and I am rarely offline, so InSync creates .gdoc files for me that when double clicked - open the document directly in a browser tab. InSync is a payed for app. In the past I used another for-pay app called OverGrive and I was also happy with that.
@@guss77 Thank you for your answer! Can I double click .gdoc documents and open it in browser with OverGrive? Or only Lsync can open .gdoc documents in browser?
@@miracleweb8461 I don't actually remember... Sorry.
Thank you very much; I love watching your content. - Lincoln CA, USA
Thanks for watching :)
I really love Elementary OS. Love Everything about it. ELEMENTARY == LINUX && LINUX == ELEMENTARY
I'm still waiting for elementary os 6 then I'm gonna shift back to elementary os from Pop OS
Akira seems nice for designing
Super videos! Serais-tu par hasard la doublure ou le frere de Jean Luc Dujardin?
Hahaha non mais on me le dit souvent 😅
Does Resolve work good on Elementary OS? I saw it in the dock. Maybe you can make a video about it. 😁
It works fantastically :)
@@TheLinuxEXP Unfortunately I can't use Resolve on my PC. I have AMD GPU and the driver's installation is a mess. I'm limited to continue to use W10 to edit my videos and audio in Resolve. If you have any way to help me, I will appreciate it.
For AMD you need the proprietary driver and openCL but I hear installing it is tricky!
@@TheLinuxEXP I've tried. But elementary doesn't open desktop environment after the reboot, staying in the tty screen. So, for now I will be continuing with w10 for some jobs. However, if you have a solution, will be nice to see in your channel. I love it.
I don't have one yet, but might end up buying an AMD powered machine soon, so...
Linux has come so far.
Hey! Well done! I was wondering if you have early access to the pre-release version of eOS 6. It would be awesome a video with the things the devs have implemented so far!
I do, but I don't really want to showcase the pre releases since they're not done yet :) we'll see after I come back from my holidays :)
damn its way cooler indeed
My use albert or synapse. Very good if you are looking for a certain file.
Nice
I wonder how many of these are in the Pop!_Shop since I use Pop!_OS and its appcenter is literally just Elementary's with a slightly different skin
the old school shaded color icons in the header-bars are unfortunate.
By watching this video I think I should really consider elementary os as daily driver. Will wait untill Elementary OS 6 :)
Yes, hopefully it gets a more beautiful and modern design, until now it always looked very outdated.
elementary 6 is coming in november
@@fred-youtube As of now using Ubuntu 20.04 😀
Typora, a simple markdown editor.
I like the concept of these apps, but they're not consistent with the Manjaro gtk theme (with a few exceptions), the buttons are in the ElementaryOS style, and they look out of place, so I don't really use them even though I want to ^
is there a vgrive equivalent for other cloud storages?
Woow very nice apps indeed. I fcking hate it that i love windows and linux so much that i have dualboot ..
Whipe ActivityWatch is in alpha it is very useful to me. So a review would be appreciated!
It'd help if you actually linked to these programs somewhere, I only found Pebbles because DuckDuckGo had the AUR site in the results below some completly irrelevant results and Color Picker obviously won't show up there easily either.
I did have probem with that sync program Vdrive with Google drive it mess up all my files on my Google drive good thing I had other back up. Other then that only program I had bad test with.
Libreoffice 7's Tabbed looks horrible on my elementary os . How to fix this ?
It looks great on my machine??
@@TheLinuxEXP ohh. I installed it via tar.gz package. Should i switch to somthing else like flatpak?
I use the flatpak, and it looks pretty good, it uses the elementary OS theme well (even if you can see it's not native)
4:58 yeah, and bad and good that CZcams haven't competitiors. Good that all videos in one place, bad that if you not in CZcams, you in shadow.
What is the name of music player with radio. Please put name also in ticker
Byte
Hey i also listen Lore the Podcast.
I don't know but elementary os doesn't work well on my hp probook 640 g1. It's old, but i3, ssd and 8gb of ram should support it. Also some themes I have tried, also doesn't work verry well. Apparently I will wait for elementary os 6. That would be nice os to try
Akira alpha is great
Oh yeah!
I use elementary OS on a daily basis, and although I've run into some problems, I love it. The one thing that I'm missing is native customization
Pebbles isn't available on Flathub :(
I love elementaryOS.
2 Girls 1 Cup Song, huh?
I thought I only noticed it :)
Hahaha was wondering if that would go unnoticed 😅
Gotta check out Jon Lajoie on CZcams
came here to comment on that, haha :D
Where is NaSC?
Pebbles is not available from flathub.
4:55 Why do you stay away from Google products as possible?
I don't like the idea of a single company having that much power over the web. They control the biggest browser, basically all internet searches, and the engine powering most browsers as well. Combined with all the data they gather just by using their services, I'm very afraid they'll eventually control how people can use the web
@@TheLinuxEXP I understand your point. That is true, they have a lot of information that could be misused and lead to some really bad problems but I trust them anyway, it's Google they will probably be the most affected if they do such thing.
I don't trust them anymore, there have been too many shady things and no consequences.
They took ages to respect the GDPR in Europe, and they have been hacked from time to time, so I don't feel that them being a big company makes my data more secure.
They misuse and resell that data already and use their hold over the web to force new standards that make them more profitable.
I won't fight anyone who uses Google, but I will not give then more than I have to (and as of now, I just use CZcams )
elementary compared to zorin os, your thoughts
elementary OS is my favorite :)
Vocal podcasts app literally crashes on me every single time I use it. I've never been more frustrated with an app. I want to like it, I really do, but it's so unstable and the dev barely bothers to support it.
I tried it on manjaro, and had similar experience.
Now I use pocketcasts on android
GNOME Podcasts is good for that purpose.
Is this elementary 5.1?
Elementary os is very good and stable but, the Pantheon desktop is little bit heavy
On machines it's really pretty lightweight :)
Deepin is more stable since it's based on Debian Stable and it also looks beautiful and still lightweight
@@TheLinuxEXP yeah, but if used it on a normal laptop it will slow down after some browsing and downloading fikes, but it is still of my favorite distros
Honestly I have never tried deepin linux but I tried debian itself
Try arch i love it
what app do I use everyday: Terminator
I'll look it up!
While there is so much Elementary does right I really don't like their theme, they just changed gnome enough to make it uglier. Personally I think if they focussed more on the applications and suporting gnome itself it would be more productive.
They didn't use GNOME at all :) its far more beautiful than GNOME IMO
FF multi converter> Ciano
3:03 These future videos will raise a lot of controversy, just saying...
@F99 Crafter Ubuntu and GNOME.
I meed an elementary rpm
sucks that most of these devs only make their apps for either eOS or flathub,even a .deb would be much better
The apps are all open source and can be packaged up for any distro if there's a package maintainer who wants to do it.
If there's no .deb it doesn't exist to me. I tried some of these apps from flathub (when available) on Debian. Byte can't open mounted drives, Minder's tool bar does nothing (couldn't even open or save a file), Ciano (from .deb) doesn't even run... Anyway, all these apps seems to be great on Elementary OS, but I won't try Elementary OS. 🤷
Elementary os is good but for me it needs a few tweaks . The Gray UI format is really not for me in my opinion it looks flat , i hope someday they will give me the option to adjust the transparency a system wide dark theme ( true blacked out dark theme ) .
They will bring theme changes in the next release :)
@@TheLinuxEXP i really hope they bring that feature . I want to use elementary for my laptop but the Gray UI is holding me back . Currently i am using KDE and not gonna lie options to do whatever I want, kinda spoiled me 😂
Man, wiped out Elementary OS this morning :(
I couldn't download WeChat (Chinese app that I use for work)
I think you can run WeChat through Rambox Pro (available as a snap). You have to create an account but it's free.
@@dan79600 thanks man, I'll try it on VirtualBox
@@zeocamo thanks :) I'll try it!
Sadly my performance is trash with eOS right now I am expecting eOS 6 to make that better and just migrate I love the whole distro and its vision
Figma and Notion. 😅
roblox on linux 2020
@AstroClipsChannel yes but roblox on linux is a right not a privilege
@@evertonsapporo Fun fact: Roblox CEO said "No Linux port." at Roblox Developer Conference 2020 but an engineer at Roblox said that "there isn't a big enough market share for us to support it" which is funny because they support macOS very frequently yet they can't even at least support Ubuntu.
Ironically, the Roblox servers currently runs on Ubuntu...
J’arrive pas toujours à faire le switch final vers linux c’est à cause du manque d’un bon éditeur vidéo. Meme davinci est un casse tête avec les formats de video et le support des gpu.
Thank you, Nick. Uh... Programs that extract a few functions from larger more useful programs presented as... Okay. I get it. Not a single one is for me at all, though.
The best app for a Linux pc is Brasero to burn a windows ISO to a DVD and install windows on it to make the computer actually usable
You made your tag «brest» and not «best»
Normal, it's the name of the city where I live :)
How low is the bar for Linux software when an app for finding wallpapers is considered worthy of being mentioned in a best software video?
Just because this one exist doesn’t mean there is nothing else available...
Speak for yourself. I found this video really informative of small pieces of software that I wasn't aware of. I dig it.
You really need to learn to speak more clearly. It's very hard to hear what you are saying.
I'm french so English isn't my native language, but you're the first one telling me that in 2 and a half years, so I'm going to assume the problem must be with your audio setup instead :)
@@TheLinuxEXP Not My Audio. But saying your french makes a lot of sense. I can understand Indian accent, Asian Accent etc. But have always struggled very hard to understand French accent. My brain just does not want to understand that accent.
Might be that, although most people seem to not really hear my accent generally!
@@TheLinuxEXP your English is great! Love the channel!
Thanks :)