Applications: System and Utilities

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.

Calendar

A native calendar application

• Create, modify and delete events.
• Generate notifications for events.
• Day Calendar view.
• Event categorization.
• Set 'All day' long events.
• Fetching events from Google Calendar using Google Calendar API.
• SQLite backend for storing events.
• Setting preferences like 'First day of week', 'Display week number in Calendar'.
• App localization: DateTime strings are localised and updates with locale preferences change but GUI string still needs to be localized.

Clipdinger

A tool to manage a history of the system clipboard

Clipdinger solves the problem that you often have to paste some text you've just recently copied to the clipboard, but which has been replaced by something you've copied more recently… It also saves the history so it'll appear just as you left it on the last shutdown. Clipdinger provides a history of your recent clippings, lets you filter it and create your own favorites. It also offers a clipboard monitor that can be used as a replicant on the Desktop, always showing the current contents. You access the history by pressing SHIFT + ALT + V, which opens the Clipdinger window where you can select an entry with the cursor keys and paste it by hitting RETURN. After selecting a clip, you can also paste it to the an online service by hitting ALT + P. The returned URL for the clip is put into the clipboard for you to paste into your email or IRC channel etc. ESCAPE minimizes the window without pasting.

Colors

A color picker like that in Adobe Photoshop

You can easily choose a color and then drag it to the place where you need it: for example the Haiku Desktop, Insite Constructor, any text editor (insert as HTML hex code) and much more ... The Features:

• You can collect up to 10 favorite colors which are restored the next time you start Colors.
• You get a color preview for text (text and background color).
• With an eye-dropper tool you can pick a color from anywhere on your desktop.

CommandTimer

Execute or repeat commands after a countdown

CommandTimer counts down to zero then executes a user provided command or script or launches an application etc. You can point to a location that the command will be executed in, and choose to keep repeating that countdown and also set an alarm that'll play back the system beep (set in Haiku's Sounds preferences).

Dateimeister

A filemanager

DeskbarEyes

Deskbar is watching you!

DeskbarEyes is a Desktop applet that puts a pair of eyes in your deskbar that follow your cursor.

DigiClock

A screensaver showing a binary clock

Based on BinaryClock by David Enderson. DigiClock uses filled rectangles and random colors.

DockBert

A dock-like Deskbar alternative

DockBert is a modified Deskbar. It adds a dock to your desktop where you may have shortcuts organized in "tabs", a tab of the running apps and some other general eye-candy.

Dolphin

KDE File Manager

Dolphin is a lightweight file manager. It has been designed with ease of use and simplicity in mind, while still allowing flexibility and customisation. This means that you can do your file management exactly the way you want to do it.

• Simple to use and dedicated file manager
• Focus on usability
• Breadcrumb navigation bar
• Optional panels for convenient navigation and information display
• Remote and pseudo-filesystem file management through KIO
• Tag files and folders, and find files by content, using Baloo

DOSBox

A DOS-Emulator that uses SDL library

DOSBox is a DOS-emulator that uses the SDL-library which makes DOSBox very easy to port to different platforms. DOSBox has already been ported to many different platforms, such as Windows, BeOS, Linux, MacOS X ... DOSBox also emulates CPU:286/386 realmode/protected mode, Directory FileSystem/XMS/EMS, Tandy/Hercules/CGA/EGA/VGA/VESA graphics, a SoundBlaster/Gravis Ultra Sound card for excellent sound compatibility with older games ... You can re-live the good old days with the help of DOSBox, it can run plenty of the old classics that don't run on your new computer!

Einsteinium

Monitor applications and system services

Einsteinium provides smarter monitoring of applications and system services for Haiku. It can restart applications and system services that were quit or crashed, gather statistics on application usage and provides customizable ranked lists of applications.

Fall Leaves

Fall Leaves screensaver

A lovely screensaver with falling Haiku leaves.

FeatherPad

A lightweight plain-text editor

• FeatherPad is a lightweight Qt text editor. It is independent of any desktop environment and has:
• Drag-and-drop support, including tab detachment and attachment
• An optionally permanent search-bar with a different search entry for each tab
• Instant highlighting of found matches when searching
• A docked window for text replacement
• Support for showing line numbers and jumping to a specific line
• Optional selection highlighting
• Automatic detection of text encoding as far as possible and optional saving with encoding
• Syntax highlighting for common programming languages
• Ability to open URLs with appropriate applications
• Session management
• Side-pane mode
• Auto-saving
• Spell checking with Hunspell
• Printing
• Text zooming
• Appropriate but non-interrupting prompts

A tool to truncate files of any kind

FileCropper is a GUI app which truncates files of any kind. It cuts off everything from a given offset (bytes) to the end of the file.

Filer

An automated file management and sorting system

The Filer is a powerful, flexible automatic file organizer. It is an implementation of the 'Sorting Chute' idea conceived on the Glass Elevator mailing list for Haiku. Filer takes the files it's opened with or that are dropped onto its icon or replicatable dropzone and moves, renames, copies or does all sorts of other things with them according to rules created by the user. Filer is accompanied by AutoFiler. Instead of working on a set of files provided by the user, it can be started together with Haiku to monitor certain folders and deal with new files appearing there according to the user-defined rules.

Flameshot

Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software

• Customizable appearance.
• Easy to use.
• In-app screenshot edition.
• DBus interface.
• Upload to Imgur.

Fontboy

A small application to show your installed fonts

Fontboy is a small application to show your installed fonts in Haiku. You can get additional information of the selected font and a preview of the complete Unicode charset.

Fortuna

A small GUI for showing the well known fortunes

Fortuna is a nice-looking graphical program which displays a fortune when you open it. Yeah, sure, there is already a fortune program, but it only shows from the command line, you'll get a lot of repeats, it's quite a bit of work to install more, and you have to muck around with your UserBootScript. Lots of messing around. Then again, you can use Fortuna, which has none of this.

Genesis Commander

A traditional two pane filemanager

Genesis Commander is a full featured file manager in the tradition of the Norton Commander for DOS or the GNU Midnight Commander.

Gwenview

Image viewer for KDE

Gwenview is able to load and save to a variety of image formats supported by KDE applications, such as PNG, JPEG, and even the Gimp's XCF! Gwenview also sports a beautiful thumbnail toolbar when viewing images in fullscreen. Gwenview's simple interface doesn't get in the way and lets you view your images quickly and easily.

• Supports simple image manipulations: rotate, mirror, flip, and resize
• Supports basic file management actions such as copy, move, delete, and others
• Functions both as a standalone application and an embedded viewer in the Konqueror web browser
• Can be extended using KIPI plugins.

HelpViewer

A help file viewer

An application for viewing help files that use a simple html like mark-up.Unlike html, .hlp is directed at help files not a rich web experience.

HPKG Package Creator

A tool to create HPKG packages

The HPKGCreator creates stand alone packages for Haiku.

Kate

Advanced text editor

Kate is a multi-document editor part of KDE since release 2.2. Being a KDE application, Kate ships with network transparency, as well as integration with the outstanding features of KDE. Choose it for viewing HTML sources from konqueror, editing configuration files, writing new applications or any other text editing task. You still need just one running instance of Kate. With a multi-view editor like Kate you get a lot of advantages. You can view several instances of the same document and all instances are synchronized. Or you can view more files at the same time for easy reference or simultaneous editing.

• window splitting (horizontal & vertical)
• multi-document interface (MDI)
• plugin: embedded terminal, SQL plugin, build plugin, GDB plugin, Replace in Files, and more
• session support

KeymapSwitcher

An easy to use Keymap Switcher

This is a keymap switcher for Haiku. It is very similar to what you used to have in Windows to change the keymap with hotkeys, but has some additional features (and lacks some, for sure)

Konsole

KDE's Terminal Emulator

Konsole is a terminal to run a command shell. It provides a command line interface for directly controlling your computer.

Kottan

A viewer and editor for flattened BMessages

Kottan lets you view and edit the contents of files that contain flattened BMessages, a common technique for applications to archive their settings and other data.

Krusader

Advanced twin-panel (commander-style) file-manager with many extras

Krusader is an advanced twin panel (commander style) file manager for KDE Plasma and other desktops in the *nix world, similar to Midnight or Total Commander. It provides all the file management features you could possibly want. Plus:

• Extensive archive handling
• Mounted filesystem support
• File transfers with (S)FTP
• Advanced search module
• An internal viewer and editor
• Directory synchronisation
• File content comparisons
• Powerful batch renaming

KWrite

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

KWrite is a simple text editor application, allowing you to edit one file at the time per window. As Kate, KWrite uses the editor component KatePart.KWrite simply provides the selected editor component with a window frame, and lets you open and save documents.

• window splitting (horizontal & vertical)
• multi-document interface (MDI)
• plugin: embedded terminal, SQL plugin, build plugin, GDB plugin, Replace in Files, and more
• session support

LnLauncher

A tool to launch applications

LnLauncher is yet another launcher app. This one docks to the screen edge, and has a neat drag'n'drop interface. When minimized, the app shouldn't get in your way, the only thing you see is the tiny handle. The latest version, 1.1.2, was adapted for Haiku by Daniel Weber - thank you!

LuckyBackup

A powerful, fast and reliable backup & sync tool

An application that backs-up and/or synchronizes any directories with the power of rsync. It is simple to use, fast (transfers over only changes made and not all data), safe (keeps your data safe by checking all declared directories before proceeding in any data manipulation), reliable and fully customizable.

Maps

A map application

"Maps" is a minimalistic map viewer app that is simple and easy to use. Search for places by typing the name or the coordinates of the place in the search box and get results by pressing enter. Zoom in and out by scrolling your mouse. Drag with your mouse to move around.

Midnight Commander

A powerful file manager

GNU Midnight Commander is a text-mode full-screen file manager. It uses a two panel interface and a subshell for command execution. It includes an internal editor with syntax highlighting and an internal viewer with support for binary files. Also included is Virtual Filesystem (VFS), that allows files on remote systems (e.g. FTP, SSH servers) and files inside archives to be manipulated like real files.

MinimizeAll

Minimize all your apps with the press of a button!

MinimizeAll is a small app that minimizes all your apps with the press of a button on the Deskbar, or with a keypress. The app contains two parts: A standalone app that minimizes the whole app, and a replicant for your Deskbar. Both do the same: Minimize all your apps!

Moe

A cute mascot on the active window

Moe is a program that displays a cute mascot on the active window. You can have your own 'window sitter' by drag and dropping an image (best a transparancy preserving PNG) onto the Moe binary. Do read the accompanying documentation to learn about all options and how to set up animated mascots.

Night and Day

Automatic desktop color changer

This program was inspired by the 'TaveDesktop' program by the Tave Software Group. I think that 'TaveDesktop' was a good idea, but I wanted to be able to choose my own colors, since the 'TaveDesktop' colors looks bad on an 8bpp display. This program should be self-explanatory. You'll find a small Popup menu when clicking the small screen at the top-right corner of the window.