★ NATIVE GTK4 APPLICATIONS FOR LINUX ☆ NO ELECTRON WAS HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS SOFTWARE ★ 100% COMPILED — ZERO BUNDLED WEB BROWSERS ☆ DARN FINE SOFTWARE — FOR THE DISCERNING LINUX USER ★ AVAILABLE ON: LINUX (SOMETIMES PALM OS) ☆ YOUR RAM WILL THANK YOU ☆ DARK MODE THAT ACTUALLY WORKS ★ NATIVE GTK4 APPLICATIONS FOR LINUX ☆ NO ELECTRON WAS HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS SOFTWARE ★ 100% COMPILED — ZERO BUNDLED WEB BROWSERS ☆ DARN FINE SOFTWARE — FOR THE DISCERNING LINUX USER ★ AVAILABLE ON: LINUX (SOMETIMES PALM OS) ☆ YOUR RAM WILL THANK YOU ☆ DARK MODE THAT ACTUALLY WORKS

Linux Only!

GTK4 Native

Tux Approved

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DARN FINE SOFTWARE

NATIVE APPLICATIONS FOR LINUX

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Pretty fast & pretty good looking native Linux software.
No subscriptions. (Usually) no memory leaks.

VIEW CATALOG → OUR STORY

* Satisfaction guaranteed, or we'll feel genuinely bad about it.

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THE CATALOG

We sell premium software at fair prices. Pay once, own forever. We'll even give you the source code!

#DFS-006 Soon™

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OUTLINER

PRODUCTIVITY

Coming soon! An outlining app that goes as deep as you need. Customizable, fast, built with the OPML file format.

GTK4 In Development

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TIPS & TIDBITS

Free advice from people who should probably charge more for it.

TIP #1

GTK4 apps start faster than web-wrapped apps because they don't need to boot an entire browser before showing you a button. Truly revolutionary technology.

TIP #2

Your system font settings actually work with our apps. We know! Incredible! That's what "native" means and we're not going to stop being smug about it.

TIP #3

Accessibility just works. Screen readers, high-contrast mode, keyboard navigation — GTK4 handles it, and we don't fight it. Good software is software for everyone.

TIP #4

Memory usage under 50 MB per app, most of the time. We know this because we checked. With htop. Like real Linux users.

TIP #5

Dark mode is a first-class citizen. Not an afterthought. Not a CSS filter. Proper libadwaita adaptive colours that switch when you toggle your system theme at 2 am.

TIP #6

In Chinese, Pandas are called "bear cats". A XiongMao (Bear Cat) is a Panda in China. In Taiwan, reverse the words to MaoXiong to get Panda. In China, MaoXiong is also the name of a cat, thanks to the owner of Darn Fine Software.

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WHY NATIVE?

We have opinions. Strong ones. Lovingly expressed in table form.

CRITERION

NATIVE GTK4

ELECTRON *

Startup Time

FAST ★

RAM Usage

NOT MUCH ★

~300 MB

System Theme

YES ★

How about some CSS?

Accessibility

BUILT IN ★

What's that?

Bundled Browser

NOPE ★

You like Chrome right?

Feels Like Linux

ABSOLUTELY ★

Feels like a website

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OUR STORY

Darn Fine Software was founded on one simple principle: Linux users deserve software that was actually made for Linux.

We got tired of apps that looked like they'd been teleported from a web browser, refused to respect our font settings, and consumed enough RAM to run a small European nation's accounting department.

So we sat down, learned GTK4, drank a truly unreasonable amount of coffee, and started building things properly.

Every app we ship is native, compiled, and designed to feel at home on your desktop. We follow the HIG. We test with screen readers. We care about the details everyone else decided weren't worth caring about.

"If it's not darn fine, we don't ship it."
— Our motto, and also a high bar we occasionally miss and then fix in patch releases.

WE BELIEVE IN:

✦Native apps that respect your system

✦Premium, polished applications

✦Owning your data

✦Tinkering with the code

✦One time licenses, no subscriptions

✦Free as in speech