Explore LordOS

Calculator

A simple calculator you can drive from the keyboard

• The four operations, with parentheses
• Type numbers and operators on the keyboard
• Shows the last expression above the result

Calendar

Day, week and month views of all your calendars

• Local and CalDAV calendars, each with its color
• Repeating events and alarms
• Alarms fire even with the app closed
• Accept invitations straight from Mail

Contacts

Address books, groups and contact cards

• Local and CardDAV address books
• Groups, photos and the usual vCard fields
• Import contacts from .vcf files
• Mail autocompletes addresses from it

Emoji & Symbols

Every emoji and Unicode symbol, one click away

• Emoji by category, with search and skin tones
• Search in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French
• Unicode symbols by block: arrows, math, currency…
• Quick picker in any app with ❖.

Fonts

Preview, install and remove fonts

• Sample any text from 8 to 120 px
• Character map by Unicode block
• Install .ttf, .otf and .ttc files from Files
• Collections: yours, monospaced and color

Mail

Your IMAP and SMTP accounts in one calm, safe inbox

• Any IMAP and SMTP account, with a unified inbox
• Conversations, flags and six color categories
• Offline cache and search
• Remote images blocked, deceptive links flagged
• Rich text or markdown, signatures and send later

Notes

Markdown notes that can also live on your desktop

• Markdown with checkboxes, tables and an outline
• Images, attachments and emoji
• Pin notes to the desktop as sticky notes
• Plain files in your home folder

PDF Viewer

Read, search, annotate and fill in PDFs

• Thumbnails, outline and fast search
• Highlights, notes and freehand drawing
• Fill in forms
• Saves a copy: the original is never touched
• Print and password-protected files

Reminders

To-do lists with due dates, priorities and flags

• Lists with due dates, priorities and flags
• Today, Scheduled, Flagged and Completed views
• Syncs to-dos over CalDAV
• Alerts arrive even with the app closed

Scanner

Scan from network scanners, no drivers needed

• Driverless network scanners (eSCL)
• Preview and drag to pick the area
• Choose resolution and color mode
• Save as PDF, PNG or JPEG

Text Editor

A fast code editor with projects, tabs and multiple cursors

• Project folder tree and tabs
• Multiple cursors and column selection
• Find and replace, with regular expressions
• Syntax highlighting for common languages
• Jump to any project file by typing a few letters

Camera

Take photos and videos with your webcam

• Live preview from any USB webcam
• Photos as JPEG, videos with sound
• Mirror the image and choose the camera
• Asks for permission before using the camera

Photos

Your picture library, with a viewer and simple edits

• Library of your Pictures folder, by month
• Zoom, rotate, full screen and slideshow
• Crop, brightness and contrast, saved as a copy
• Animated GIF, WebP and more

Player

Videos and music in one player

• Music library by artist and album, with covers
• Queue, shuffle and repeat
• Subtitles from .srt files or inside the video
• Full screen and picture in picture
• Media keys work everywhere

Screenshots

Capture and record your screen

• Entire screen, a window or an area
• Timer, or copy straight to the clipboard
• Annotate with arrows, boxes, text and blur
• Record the screen to MP4, with optional microphone

Voice Recorder

Record voice memos in a click

• Record from the microphone, with a live waveform
• Rename and trim recordings
• Export to Opus, MP3 or WAV

Backups

Scheduled backups of your home folder

• Back up to an external disk or a folder
• Runs on a schedule, with exclusions
• Browse backups by date and restore files
• Optional encryption

Cleaner

See what uses your disk and remove what can safely go

• New in 0.8.7
• A scan only reads; nothing changes until you confirm
• Caches, large files, a storage map, exact duplicates and similar images
• Each file is checked again right before acting

Clock

World clock, alarms, timer and stopwatch

• The time in any city of the world
• Alarms that ring even with the app closed
• Timer with presets, pause and resume
• Stopwatch with laps

Disks

Manage disks and USB sticks safely

• Usage, partitions and disk details
• Disk health (SMART)
• Mount, format and erase
• Create a bootable USB, verified after copying
• The system disk is protected from mistakes

Files

Browse your home folder, every disk and the whole system

• Tabs and four views: icons, list, columns, gallery
• Quick Preview with the Space bar
• Color tags, search and Recents
• This computer: the whole system, read-only, as your user
• Every disk in the sidebar, mounted with a click; trash and archives
• New in 0.8.7: Network, what is on your local network, Connect to Server, and folders that remember their view
• New in 0.8.8: the system file dialog now looks and works like Files

Help

Help and tips for every part of LordOS

• Articles for every app and feature
• Search across titles and text
• Links that open the right app or setting
• A welcome tour for your first steps

Logs

Read system, app and LordOS logs

• Your logs, system, kernel and LordOS
• Filter by level, time, process or text
• Follow new entries live
• Export the filtered view as text

LordOS Imager

Write LordOS to an SD card or a USB stick, ready for its first boot

• For the Raspberry Pi 5, or a PC from a USB stick
• Official images checked against the release signature before anything is erased
• Only SD cards and USB drives: internal disks are never shown
• Set up the first boot: name, language, account, Wi-Fi, SSH, look and cooling
• Every card is read back and compared after writing

Monitor

See what your computer is doing, and who it talks to

• Live CPU, memory, network and disk charts
• Processes you can sort and search
• Each app's sites, addresses and ports as a tree, and on a world map
• Allow or block an app, or one destination, with a switch
• Temperatures and fans in the Cooling tab
• New in 0.8.7: a Voltage view on machines that report voltages

Remote Desk

Another computer's screen over RDP or VNC, drawn by LordOS itself

• New in 0.8.7
• RDP and VNC in one app
• Saved computers on cards
• Shared folders over RDP, read-only if you choose; not yet verified in a real session
• Full screen with its own bar
• No client window, X11 or toolkit

Settings

Every setting of your desktop in one place

• Network, Wi-Fi, VPN and Bluetooth
• Displays (numbered, with Identify), Night Light, sound and notifications
• Appearance: desktop style (Lord Flow or Lord Classic), wallpaper and the Dock
• Privacy, app permissions, network access and blocklists
• Users, remote desktop and updates
• New in 0.8.7: moving wallpapers, session restore and an on-screen keyboard
• New in 0.8.8: your own wallpaper picture on the desktop and the login screen, Desktops in Desktop & Dock, Mouse & Trackpad, app switcher options and French

Store

Find, install and update LordOS and Debian apps

• Debian apps by category, as cards in a grid, with search
• Artificial Intelligence and Commercial apps from their makers' signed repositories
• See exactly what changes before you install
• Install LordOS apps (.lpk) without root, or a .deb or .lpk from Files
• All updates in one click, over HTTPS from https:// sources
• New in 0.8.7: Disk Formats, one item for disks from other systems
• New in 0.8.8: a Remote access section, shown once the catalog has an app in it

System Information

Every piece of hardware, and what LordOS makes of it

• Opens from About LordOS → System Report…
• The graphics card layer by layer, with the reason when the screen is composed on the CPU
• Compatibility: what works, what works with limits and what wasn't checked
• Checks of LordOS's claims on this computer, with a Sandbox Probe that tries what an isolated app must not do
• Performance: LordBench, quick and full tests of the processor, memory, graphics, video and disk, shown against reference machines, never as one score
• Reports in Markdown or JSON, shown before you copy or save them; nothing is sent
• New in 0.8.7: computer, motherboard, firmware and peripherals, serial numbers only on request, and sharing a hardware report on GitHub

Terminal

A fast native terminal with its own emulator

• Tabs, split panes and a drop-down window
• Profiles with 16 color schemes
• Search with regular expressions
• Inline images and font ligatures
• Sessions survive a restart; tmux integration
• New in 0.8.8: ❖+click or Ctrl+click opens a web address in the default browser

Passwords

Passwords, 2FA codes and secrets in an encrypted vault

• Logins, 2FA codes, Wi-Fi, cards and secure notes
• Unlock with a password, a FIDO2 key or a key file
• Security report and password generator
• Import from KDBX and CSV files
• Runs isolated; hidden from screenshots

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• New in 0.8.8.1, in Store → Third-party suites
• The launcher installs, updates and opens each app of the suite
• Word processing, slides, spreadsheets, PDF, photos, design, video, sound and CAD
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