GNOME Core Applications

Configuration

Settings

main interface to configure various aspects of GNOME. Diverse panels represent graphical front-ends to configure the NetworkManager daemon and other daemons.

Communication

Calls

initiating and answering phone calls and VoIP calls (mainly utilized on Linux phones)

Contacts

the contacts book app

Files

Document Scanner (SimpleScan) - the scanner application

Image Viewer (Loupe) – the image viewer

Evince & Papers (Document Viewers) – the document viewer

Files (Nautilus) – the file browser

Audio Player (Decibels) - music player

Videos (Totem) – the media player

System

Connections - the front-end for remote desktops. Introduced in GNOME 41.

Disks - formatting and managing partitions

Disk Usage Analyzer (Baobab) - Used for representing disk usage graphically

Extensions - extension manager for the GNOME desktop

Fonts - the font viewer

Logs – written in Vala, introduced with 3.12

Help (Yelp) - the help documentation software

Software - the software manager, supports native package managers, as well as Flatpaks

System Monitor - shows CPU usage graphs

Terminal Emulators

Console (King's Cross)

Terminal (replaced by Console)

Ptyxis (replaced Terminal starting on Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 25.04)

Web (Epiphany) - the web browser

World

Clocks - creating alarms and timers

Maps - map application, powered by OpenStreetMap

Weather - the weather app

Utilities

Calculator (gcalctool)

Calendar

Characters (Gucharmap)

Camera (Snapshot)

Tour

GNOME Text Editor

Gedit (replaced by GNOME Text Editor)

GNOME Screenshot - the screenshot utility

Development tools

Boxes - the virtualization software

Builder - the IDE for creating GNOME apps

D-Spy - D-Bus analyzer

Dconf Editor - Dconf database editor

Devhelp - API documentation viewer

Sysproof - debugging software