Software

The following applications were developped with Mono and run on its runtime:

Applications

Commercial Applications

  • DekiWiki (http://wiki.mindtouch.com) is an advanced WYSIWYG Wiki system powered by Mono.
  • SplendidCRM (http://www.splendidcrm.com) Cross platform, CRM system.
  • Plasma (http://pnunit.codicesoftware.com/opproducts.aspx) Source Code Management system from Codice Software.
  • Chrome Compiler (http://chromesville.com/language/): a commercial Pascal compiler with many features to take advantage of .NET 2.0 (including generics and many new language features inspired by C# 2.0).
  • Electronic Arts' Sims3 (http://thesims3.ea.com/).
  • Unity3D (http://unity3d.com). Unity is is a 3D game editor with powerful cross-platform capabilities. Games built with Unity can run on the Mac, Windows, Nintendo's Wii and Apple's iPhone/iTouch. Fresh ideas can be mock-upped and tested in a few hours, then developed into commercial grade games using powerful collaboration technology. For a list of games built with Unity, visit their game list (http://unity3d.com/gallery/game-list), some of these include:
    • Cartoon Network's FusionFall (http://www.fusionfall.com) for Mac and Windows on the web.
    • Lego's Quest for R2-D2 (http://starwars.lego.com/en-US/funandgames/Clonewars.aspx).
    • iPhone's ZombieVille
    • Blurst's (http://blurst.com) Minotaur China Shop for the web.
    • My Animal Centre (http://www.myanimalcentre.com/) for the Wii.
    • SheepStacker for the iPhone
    • FEIST (http://gd08.ch/FEIST) - Independent Game Festival Nominee.
    • Global Conflict (http://globalconflicts.eu)
    • Voo Dude (http://http://www.aspyr.com/product/info/99) iPhone Voodoo app.
  • Medsphere OpenVista (http://www.medsphere.com) a cross-platform, real-time, point-of-care, patient-centric information resource for clinicians.
  • Vault (http://www.sourcegear.com/vault/index.html), from SourceGear (http://www.sourcegear.com/), relies on Mono to run on Unix systems.
  • Virtuoso Universal Server (http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/), from OpenLink Software (http://www.openlinksw.com/), is a cross-platform hosting environment for Mono/.NET/C#.
  • Völcker used Mono (http://www.novell.com/success/volcker.html), .NET and C# to re-code its Active Entry (http://www.activeentry.com/) software to run on Linux.
  • Winfessor SoapBox Framework Mono Edition (http://www.winfessor.com/portal/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=57) enables developers to build .NET-based IM solutions that run on any Mono-supported platform
  • Zamples (http://www.zamples.com) enables software developers to quickly learn new programming languages and APIs (C# and VB.NET) by playing with live code examples using Mono (http://zamples.com/news/mono.jsp).
  • GMOVIL (http://www.aspl.es/gmovil/us/index.html) is a complete tool to manage common processes for Vodaphone sales points. It includes a Gtk# (shown here) and SWF GUI (Technical details (http://www.aspl.es/fact/index.php?id=39)).
  • Novell ZENworks Linux Management (http://www.novell.com/products/zenworks/linuxmanagement/) and iFolder 3.0 (http://www.novell.com/products/ifolder/index.html) (On Linux and Mac OS X) are built using Mono.
  • DocManager (http://www.nbfactory.com/SolServizi/Software/NBFeMono/DocManager.html) from NBFactory (http://www.nbfactory.com) its a document management system.
  • Ice (http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html) from ZeroC, a middleware stack.
  • SwfDotNet (http://www.swfdotnet.com/) a library to produce flash movies.
  • imeem (http://www.imeem.com/) is a social networking software that uses Mono on its servers and in its Mac clients.
  • PNUnit (http://pnunit.codicesoftware.com/opdownloads/oppnunit.aspx) PNUnit is an extension to the NUnit framework built by CodiceSoftware
  • VistaDB (http://www.vistadb.net/) an embeddable database.
  • OpenPGP BlackBox (http://www.eldos.com/sbb/desc-pgp2.php) interfaces for managing a PGP infrastructure.
  • Artisteer 2.2 beta (http://www.artisteer.com/) a tool to quickly create appealing Web design now is now powered by Mono starting with release 2.2 Beta.

Commercial and Open Source Applications

  • MapGuide's (http://mapguide.osgeo.org/) Maestro (http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/maestro/Downloads) an map authoring tool for MapGuide Open Source.
  • Banshee (http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page) (formely known as Sonance), a great application for music management and playback on Gnome.
  • Beagle (http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle) is a desktop search tool.
  • F-spot (http://www.gnome.org/projects/f-spot/) is a convenient photo management program developed by Novell.
  • iFolder 3 (http://www.ifolder.com/) is a simple solution to sharing files and folders by using a simple peer-to-peer fashion or Novell's groupware server products.
  • Mainsoft (http://www.mainsoft.com/solutions/interoperability.html), an important contributor to Mono, bundles Mono libraries in its Visual Mainwin for J2EE (http://www.mainsoft.com/products/vmw_j2ee.html) to deploy .NET web applications on J2EE application servers.
  • MonoSim (http://www.integrazioneweb.com/monosim): A cross-platform application that for handling SIM card contacts.

Open Source applications

GUI Applications

  • Appomattox (http://www.appomattox-project.org/) Windows and Linux Desktop GIS software.
  • BareFTP (http://www.bareftp.org/) a GUI FTP client built using Gtk#.
  • Last-Exit (http://www.o-hand.com/~iain/last-exit/magic.html) A gnome-based player for Last.Fm.
  • Autopano-SIFT (http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~nowozin/autopano-sift/) is a tool for aligning images for panorama creation automatically.
  • Bless (http://home.gna.org/bless/) is a hex editor for Mono/Gtk#.
  • CDCollect (http://cdcollect.sourceforge.net/index.php) is a CD catalog application.
  • Galaxium (http://galaxium.sourceforge.net/index.html) is a MSN instant messenger (IM) client.
  • Gib (http://users.ossm.org.mk/~tome/gib/) is a tool for generating GNOME icon themes.
  • GLyrics (http://zapdos.codemonkey.cl/glyrics/) is a lyrics finder.
  • Imendio Blam! (http://www.imendio.com/projects/blam/) is a rss-news aggregator especialy good for reading planet (http://planetplanet.org/)-feeds like Planet Gnome (http://planet.gnome.org/).
  • Keepass (http://keepass.info/help/v2/setup.html#mono) is a cross-platform password manager.
  • MindFire (http://www.icebreaker.net/mindfire/) is a cross-platform ebook reader designed to facilitate speed reading.
  • Monodevelop (http://monodevelop.org/) is a port of Sharpdevelop to Mono and gtk#. The goal for monodevelop is to be en IDE for creating Mono applications.
  • MonoUML (http://www.monouml.org/) is a CASE tool. Aims to be the most advanced CASE tool for mono developers.
  • Muine (http://muine.gooeylinux.org/) is a music player with a cool and inovative user interface developed by Jorn Baayen, founder of Rhythmbox.
  • OpenVPN-Admin (http://sourceforge.net/projects/openvpn-admin) is a GUI client for OpenVPN (http://openvpn.net/) written with Gtk#.
  • SkyNET (http://sky-net.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php) is a sky chart application.
  • Smuxi (http://www.smuxi.org/) is an irssi-inspired, flexible, user-friendly and cross-platform IRC client for advanced users, targeting the GNOME desktop.
  • SQL Sharp for GTK Sharp (http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?sqlsharpgtk) is a SQL Query editor and database browser for executing SQL statements and scripts. Runs on Mono and GTK#. Works with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, and ODBC.
  • Tomboy (http://www.beatniksoftware.com/tomboy) is a desktop note-taking application which uses a wikiwike-like linking system.
  • ChronoJump (http://gnome.org/projects/chronojump/) is a method for measuring, manage and make stats of jump and run time events in sports. It also uses free hardware.
  • SportsTracker (http://www.saring.de/sportstracker) An application to track sporting activities.
  • LDAP Administration Tool (http://dev.mmgsecurity.com/projects/lat/)
  • WorldWind2 for Linux (http://ww2d.berlios.de/).
  • Sussen (http://dev.mmgsecurity.com/projects/sussen/) security scanner based on the Open Vulnerability Assessment Language (http://oval.mitre.org/)
  • Gnome Word of the Day (http://philisoft.com/projects/gnomewotd/).
  • YaneuraoGameSDK.NET (http://yanesdkdotnet.sourceforge.jp/) is a set of libraries for SDL-based game development. The dev team also ported (http://yanesdkdotnet.sourceforge.jp/download/lua4yanesdk200701242308v160.zip) LuaInterface (http://luaforge.net/projects/luainterface/) to Mono.
  • GComandos (http://gcomandos.sourceforge.net/): GnomeCommander is a Clone of TotalCommander or WinCommander for GNOME. A complete File System Manager for Linux Platform written with C#, Mono and GTK#.
  • TwitterIrcGateway (http://www.misuzilla.org/dist/net/twitterircgateway/) is a winforms application that works as an IRC gateway for Twitter (http://twitter.com/).
  • gtwitter (http://code.google.com/p/gtwitter/) is a standalone Twitter (http://twitter.com/) Gtk# application.
  • Paint.NET (http://code.google.com/p/paint-mono): a port of Paint.NET 3.0 to run on Linux/Mono.
  • MPlayerBuddy (http://penguindreams.org/page/see/MplayerBuddy) is a media bookmarking application designed to keep track of the user’s place when watching videos.
  • LongoMatch (http://www.longomatch.ylatuya.es/) is a sports video analysis tool for coaches and sports scientists, to assist them on making games video analysis.

Developer Tools

  • NAnt (http://nant.sourceforge.net/) is a free .NET build tool. For help installing NAnt, see the NAnt Installation guide.
  • Smokey (https://home.comcast.net/~jesse98/public/Smokey/) is a open source command line tool used to analyze .NET or Mono assemblies for problems. It's similar to tools like FxCop and Gendarme. This version of Smokey has 81 rules. Currently Smokey runs on Mono 1.2.5 ( 1.2.4 should also work although it isn't officially supported).
  • Moonwalker (http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~ruys/moonwalker/): is a program to automatically detect errors in CIL bytecode programs, i.e. applications written for the .NET platform. The current version of Moonwalker is able to find deadlocks and assertion violations in CIL programs, generated with Mono's C# compiler.

Server Applications

  • OpenOnPhoto (http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Openonphoto): An ASP.NET application for managing and sharing photos.
  • Landell (http://tapioca-voip.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Landell): VOIP application based on the Tapioca framework.
  • vmx-manager (http://www.snorp.net/log/2006/12/08/im-in-ur-virtual-machines-managing-them/) a tool to manage virtual machines.
  • SunUO (http://www.sunuo.org) a free server for running Ultima Online.
  • * OmniPortal (http://www.zigamorph.com/) is an object oriented website framework, written in C# for ASP.NET, it runs under Windows 2000/2003/XP or under the Mono Framework which runs on Linux and Mac OS X.
  • SharpKnocking (http://code.google.com/p/sharpknocking/) an implementation of the port knocking principles with mono (c#) and iptables.
  • OpenSim (http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page): An open source simulator for the SecondLife client written in C# and that works on both .NET and Mono.

Components & Libraries

See our separate page on Libraries for more details.

Mono Users

Companies Using Mono

Other Lists

Some external list of Mono applications: