Qt6 projects on GitHub

Desktop applications and tools built with the Qt 6 framework.

As of October 17, 2026, the most-starred Qt6 projects on GitHub are NotepadNext (14.7K stars), shell (12.9K stars) and PrismLauncher (10.7K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 9 Qt6 repositories with 67.2K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was KytyPS5, with +156 stars in a day.

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67.2KStars in total

+233Stars in a day

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+156

KytyPS5

KytyPS5/KytyPS5 · ★ 8.7K

KytyPS5 is a free and open-source PlayStation 5 emulator (translation layer) written in C++ for Windows and Linux, with experimental macOS support, based on a heavily modified version of the Kyty project.

+27

Drift

CutWire-Studios/Drift · ★ 2K

Drift is a free, open-source desktop video editor from CutWire Studios, built with Qt 6 and FFmpeg, for cutting clips, adding effects, captions, stickers and music, then exporting without subscriptions, watermarks, or accounts.

+16

shell

caelestia-dots/shell · ★ 12.9K

Caelestia shell is an animated desktop shell for Linux: the visual layer of your desktop — bar, launcher, dashboard, notifications — rendered with Quickshell on top of the Hyprland window manager under Wayland.

+15

serpantinum

ilyamiro/serpantinum · ★ 7.3K

Serpantinum is a shell for Wayland compositors built with Quickshell and QML. It used to be a collection of dotfiles but has now become a standalone shell package you install and update on its own, separately from your compositor config.

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9 projects · by stars

#1 · dail8859/NotepadNext
NotepadNext
Notepad Next is a cross-platform reimplementation of the Windows text editor Notepad++, built so Linux and macOS users can get a similar editing experience.
14.7K
#2 · caelestia-dots/shell
shell
Caelestia shell is an animated desktop shell for Linux: the visual layer of your desktop — bar, launcher, dashboard, notifications — rendered with Quickshell on top of the Hyprland window manager under Wayland.
12.9K
#3 · PrismLauncher/PrismLauncher
PrismLauncher
An open-source custom launcher for Minecraft for keeping and managing several Minecraft installations side by side. It is a community fork of MultiMC, and is not endorsed by it.
10.7K

4
openscad
10.5Kopenscad/openscad · C++
OpenSCAD is a free application for creating solid 3D CAD objects, available for Linux/UNIX, MS Windows and macOS. Unlike artistic 3D tools such as Blender, it focuses on the CAD side of 3D modeling.
5
KytyPS5
8.7KKytyPS5/KytyPS5 · C++
KytyPS5 is a free and open-source PlayStation 5 emulator (translation layer) written in C++ for Windows and Linux, with experimental macOS support, based on a heavily modified version of the Kyty project.
- ps5
- sdl3
- nixos
- jit
6
serpantinum
7.3Kilyamiro/serpantinum · QML
Serpantinum is a shell for Wayland compositors built with Quickshell and QML. It used to be a collection of dotfiles but has now become a standalone shell package you install and update on its own, separately from your compositor config.
7
Drift
2KCutWire-Studios/Drift · C++
Drift is a free, open-source desktop video editor from CutWire Studios, built with Qt 6 and FFmpeg, for cutting clips, adding effects, captions, stickers and music, then exporting without subscriptions, watermarks, or accounts.
8
omarchy-pods
234thisisgm/omarchy-pods · C++
It is an Omarchy bar plugin that shows AirPods battery for each pod and the case, the active listening mode, adaptive noise level, Conversation Awareness, One-Bud ANC and ear detection, drawn in the bar's own visual style.
9
GoodmansKernel
151zer0condition/GoodmansKernel · C
GoodmansKernel is a signed Windows kernel-mode driver that embeds the wasm3 interpreter, letting you load unsigned .wasm modules and run them inside the kernel with direct FFI access to nt/hal exports. You write kernel logic in C or Rust, compile it to wasm32, load it into the driver, and iterate without re-signing each payload.