| 📰 Title: | Gear Lever | 🕹️ / 🛠️ Type: | Tool |
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| 🗃️ Genre: | Tool | 👁️ Visual: | 2D |
| 🏷️ Category: | Tool ➤ Content Distribution ➤ Game Launcher | 🏝️ Perspective: | First person (interface) |
| 🔖 Tags: | Tool; Installation Software; Content Distribution; Game Launcher | ⏱️ Pacing: | Real Time |
| 🐣️ Approx. start: | 2023-05-14 | 👫️ Played: | Single |
| 🐓️ Latest: | 2026-07-22 | 🚦 Status: | 04. Released (status) |
| 📍️ Version: | Latest: 💥️ 4.6.2 // Dev: a2917f2 | ❤️ Like it: | 9. ⏳️ |
| 🏛️ License type: | 🕊️ Libre | 🎀️ Quality: | 7. ⏳️ |
| 🏛️ License: | GPL-3 | ⭐ (temporary): | |
| 🎰️ ID: | 16602 | 🐛️ Created: | 2026-07-18 |
| 💡 Lights on: | 🚧️ Some work remains to be done: | ||
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| 📰 What's new?: | 💥️ New | 💭️ New version published (to be updated): | |
| 🦣️ Awaiting publication on Mastodon: | 🎨️ Significant improvement: | ||
| 🦺️ Work in progress: | 🎖️ This work: |  |
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| 📰 Previous News: | 🛜️ RSS (on RSS Guard): |  |
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| 👫️ Contrib.: | goupildb | 🛜️ Reading frequency: | 0w (well-spaced updates) |
| 🐜️ Updated: | 2026-10-03 |
| 📦️ Package name: | ..... 📦️ Arch: | |
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| 📄️ Source: | |
..... 📦️ RPM: | |
| ⚙️ Generic binary: | ..... 📦️ Deb: | ||
| 🌍️ Browser version: | ..... 📦️ AppImage: | |
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| 📱️ Mobile support: | ..... 📦️ Flatpak: | |
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| 🧹️ Not use: | ..... 📦️ Snap: |
| 📜️[en]: | A libre tool for managing AppImage containers. In particular, it allows users to make them visible to their launchers (in the Applications menu or via [Alt]+[F2]), group these binaries into a single directory, and display their shortcuts in a single management window that enables users to launch, update, and install multiple versions of the same software, as well as use drag-and-drop. | 📜️[fr]: | Un outil libre de gestion des containers AppImage. Il permet notamment de les rendre visible pour vos lanceurs (dans le menu des applications ou par [Alt]+[F2]), de rassembler ces binaires dans un même répertoire, de présenter leurs raccourcis sous une même fenêtre de gestion permettant le lancement, la mise à jour, l'installation de plusieurs versions d'un même logiciel, ainsi que le glisser-déposer. |
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🐹️ From Users: (202606),
🕯️ How To: (202408), (202404), (202504),
🏡️ Website & videos
• Website: [Homepage] [Dev site] [Features/About] [Screenshots]
• Videos: t(202xxx) gd(202xxx) gu(202606) r(202xxx) lp(202xxx) ht(202xxx) ht(202408) ht(202404) ht(202504) ht(202605) ht(202506) ht[fr](202xxx) ht[de](202xxx) ht[ru](202xxx) ht[pl](202xxx) ht[cz](202xxx) ht[sp](202310) ht[pt](202xxx) ht[it](202xxx) ht[tr](202xxx)]
• Doc: [WIKI] [FAQ]
• Updates: [RSS] / [Changelog 1(news/blog) 2(release notes)(not used/no info) 3(tags) 4(commits)]
💰 Commercial
• [Support their work (Donate)]
🍩️ Resources
• (empty, license): [Homepage] [Dev site] 🎬️ g(202xxx)
🛠️ Technical informations
[PCGamingWiki] [MobyGames]
🦣️ Social
Devs (Gearlever Team 1 2 [fr] [en]): [Site 1 2] [Chat] [mastodon] [Bluesky] [PeerTube] [YouTube] [PressKit] [Interview 1(202xxx) 2(202xxx)]
Devs (Lorenzo Paderi (mijorus) 1 2 [fr] [en]): [Site 1 2] [Chat] [mastodon] [Bluesky] [PeerTube] [YouTube] [PressKit] [Interview 1(202xxx) 2(202xxx)]
The Project: [Blog] [Chat] [Forums] [mastodon] [Bluesky] [PeerTube] [YouTube] [PressKit] [Lemmy] [reddit] [Discord]
🐝️ Related
📦️ Misc. repositories
[Repology] [pkgs.org] [Generic binary] [Arch Linux / AUR] [openSUSE] [Debian/Ubuntu] [Flatpak 1 2(author's repo)] [AppImage] [Snap] [PortableLinuxGames]
🕵️ Reviews
[HowLongToBeat] [metacritic] [OpenCritic] [iGDB]
🕊️ Source of this Entry: [PlayingTux (20260719)]
🦣️ Social Networking Update (on mastodon)
🛠️️ Title: Gear Lever
🦊️ Idea: A libre management tool for AppImage
🏡️ https://gearlever.mijorus.it
🐣️ https://github.com/mijorus/gearlever
🔖 #LinuxTool #ContentDistrib
📦️ #Libre #Arch #RPM #Flatpak #AppIm
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html
🥁️ Update: 4.6.2
⚗️ Signific. vers. 🦍️
📌️ Changes: https://gearlever.mijorus.it/changelog/
🦣️ From: https://mastodon.social/@playingtux/116943446594319262
🛜️ https://github.com/mijorus/gearlever/tags.atom
🐹️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/VCHTeQavCWI
🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/lOyZpGxE0Kk
🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/wT9ux2l-g0U
🕯️https://www.youtube.com/embed/8_2X1YhAtTc
🕶️ A view of its UI (v. 4.5.5, on my Linux PC) showing the general settings menu (the game icons are in the launch menu, not in this screenshot), with one section dedicated to the AppImage installation directory, another to updating them (detection options), another for file management, and a final one for naming conventions.
📚️ Gear Lever is a libre tool for managing AppImage containers. In particular, it allows users to make them visible to their launchers (in the Applications menu or via [Alt]+[F2]), group these binaries into a single directory, and display their shortcuts in a single management window that enables users to launch, update, and install multiple versions of the same software, as well as use drag-and-drop.
🕵 xxx: (🧪️Not_tested)
📜️ "A libre management tool for AppImage" 📜️
What is Gear Lever
Gear Lever is a free and open-source AppImage manager for Linux that makes it easy to install, organize, and manage AppImages.
While AppImages offer a convenient, portable way to run applications across different Linux distributions without installation, managing multiple AppImage files can quickly become cumbersome. Each AppImage must be manually executed, lacks automatic integration with your application menu, and updates must be tracked manually.
Gear Lever addresses these issues by providing a centralized hub for all your AppImages.
Features
✅️ Integrate AppImages into your app menu with just one click
✅️ Drag and drop files directly from your file manager
✅️ Keep all the AppImages organized in a custom folder
✅️ Open new AppImages directly with Gear lever
✅️ Manage updates: keep older versions installed or replace them with the latest release
✅️ Save CLI apps with their executable name automatically
✅️ Modern and Fresh UI
Un outil libre de gestion des containers AppImage, par la Gearlever Team, initié par Lorenzo Paderi (mijorus).
En Python.
Gear Lever est un outil libre de gestion des containers AppImage. Il permet notamment de les rendre visible pour vos lanceurs (dans le menu des applications ou par [Alt]+[F2]), de rassembler ces binaires dans un même répertoire, de présenter leurs raccourcis sous une même fenêtre de gestion permettant le lancement, la mise à jour, l'installation de plusieurs versions d'un même logiciel, ainsi que le glisser-déposer.
Qu'est-ce que Gear Lever ?
Gear Lever est un gestionnaire d'AppImages libre pour Linux qui facilite l'installation, l'organisation et la gestion des AppImages.
Si les AppImages offrent un moyen pratique et portable d'exécuter des applications sur différentes distributions Linux sans installation, la gestion de plusieurs fichiers AppImage peut rapidement devenir fastidieuse. Chaque AppImage doit être lancée manuellement, ne s'intègre pas automatiquement à votre menu d'applications et les mises à jour doivent être suivies manuellement.
Gear Lever résout ces problèmes en fournissant une plateforme centralisée pour tous vos fichiers AppImage.
Fonctionnalités
✅️ Intégrez les fichiers AppImage dans votre menu d'applications en un seul clic
✅️ Glissez-déposez des fichiers directement depuis votre gestionnaire de fichiers
✅️ Organisez toutes vos AppImages dans un dossier personnalisé
✅️ Ouvrez de nouvelles AppImages directement avec Gear Lever
✅️ Gérez les mises à jour : conservez les anciennes versions installées ou remplacez-les par la dernière version disponible
✅️ Enregistrez automatiquement les applications CLI sous leur nom d'exécutable
✅️ Interface utilisateur moderne et épurée