Applications: System and Utilities

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8Dock

App and file launcher

Drag icons into 8Dock. Double-click to launch them.

Android File Transfer

Reliable MTP client with userlandfs integration

Features:

  • No file size limits.
  • Automatically renames album cover to make it visible from media player.
  • No extra dependencies (e.g. libptp/libmtp).

AQEMU

A GUI for virtual machines using QEMU as the backend

AQEMU is a Qt5 graphical interface used to manage QEMU and KVM virtual machines. It has a user-friendly interface and allows one to set up the majority of QEMU and KVM options.

Arianna

EPub Reader for mobile devices

An ebook reader and library management app supporting '.epub' files. Arianna discovers your books automatically, and sorts them by categories, genres and authors.

Ark

File archiver by KDE

Ark is a graphical file compression/decompression utility with support for multiple formats, including tar, gzip, bzip2, rar and zip, as well as CD-ROM images. Ark can be used to browse, extract, create, and modify archives. Features:

  • Several formats supported: gzip, bzip2, zip, rar, 7z and more
  • Preview file contents without extracting files

ArmyKnife

The all-in-one metadata editor for audio and MPEG files

ArmyKnife is an application that lets you edit the metadata of audio and MPEG files, both Haiku file attributes and in-file tags. You can copy data to and from tags and attributes, and rename files according to attributes or fill attributes according to file name. Now also with support for cover art!

BDH Calc

Fully functional 64bit calculator

BDH Calc is a fully functional 64bit calculator, supporting common arithmetic operations like adding, subtracting, dividing and multiplying as well as bitwise operators. You can choose the word size and whether the sign is considered to simulate any integral data type. Moreover the calculator supports binary, decimal and hexadecimal conversion.

BeFAR

A two-panel filemanager

A classic Norton Commander look with modern multithreading inside.

BeScreenCapture

A screen recorder utility

BeScreenCapture is a screen recorder utility for Haiku. It allows you to record what happens on your screen, then save it to any media format supported in Haiku. BeScreenCapture can record either the entire screen, or just a section you select.

BeShare:Info

BeShare:Info attribute editor

An app to edit the BeShare:Info attribute for BeShare version 3.0+.

BeTeX

A TeX source text graphical editor

BeTeX is an easy way to run TeX and its various tools on a source document. In addition, nice little tools bar enable you to be more productive and to find easily the operators you look for.

Bookmark converter

A tool to convert browser bookmarks

This tool converts bookmarks between QupZilla and WebPositive. It can also convert WebPositive bookmarks to HTML and Chrome as intermediate formats.

Bookmarker

Bookmark maker

Bookmarker makes and stores bookmarks (system wide links to web sites) for the Haiku Operating System. Italso adds the bookmarks to the Deskbar menu.

Borg backup

Backup program with compression and authenticated encryption

BorgBackup (short: Borg) is a deduplicating backup program for the commandline. Optionally, it supports compression and authenticated encryption. The main goal of Borg is to provide an efficient and secure way to backup data. The data deduplication technique used makes Borg suitable for daily backups since only changes are stored. The authenticated encryption technique makes it suitable for backups to not fully trusted targets.

Boxedwine

Linux Emulator that runs WINE

Boxedwine is an emulator that runs Windows applications. It achieves this by running an unmodified 32-bit version of Wine, and emulating the Linux kernel and CPU. It is written in C++ with SDL and is supported on multiple platforms. Features:

  • Runs 16-bit Windows applications
  • Runs 32-bit Windows applications
  • Runs in a browser with Emscripten (wasm and asm.js)
  • Runs on Windows, Mac, Linux and Haiku
  • Currently supports running multiple Wine Version: from 1.7 to Wine 5.0

BurnItNow

An application to burn audio and data discs

BurnItNow is a GUI frontend for cdrecord and mkisofs. It burns data and ISO images, and blanks rewritable RW media (the blanking depends very much on the used hardware and its configuration). It creates Audio CDs from drag & dropped WAV files and burns pre-authored DVD-Audio and DVD-Video.