Nami

Nami - Face Recognition Photo Gallery (early preview)

⚠️ Sailjail permissions updated (0.8.0): please read "sandbox permissions" section

Please read carefully the description

Nami is a privacy-first face recognition photo gallery for Sailfish OS. It scans your photo gallery, detects faces, and lets you tag and group photos by person, entirely on your device.

⚠️ This is a preliminary, experimental release (v0.8.0). Expect rough edges.

whatsapp

i created a whatsapp app based on whatsmeow, which is written in go. unfortunately it is only possible to register as second device, like the browser. it only has minimal  saljail permissions out of the box, internet and secrets for  storing the registration. one  can add contacts permssions or meda files permissions through a command that can be copied to clipboard and  edits the desktop file to add or remove these optional permissions. i used claude "ai" to develop this app.

Twinkle Reader

Twinkle Reader is a speed reading application for Sailfish OS that helps you quickly grasp the main ideas of text content by displaying it word-by-word. If the content interests you, you can then read the full text. Includes the possibility to import summary of a provided URL.

You can follow up on the development progress in telegram.

SFOS Forum Viewer

Native viewer/browser for SFOS Forum

Icon by dseight

Source: https://github.com/szopin/harbour-sfos-forum-viewer

 

Fresh install might need 'systemctl start --user sailfish-secretsd' to load the new plugin for login support

Atlantic Browser

Atlantic Browser (Beta)

Atlantic is an alternative web browser for Sailfish OS, built on the stock Jolla browser's UI.

The stock browser renders pages with Gecko (the Firefox engine). Atlantic replaces it with WPE WebKit (the Safari engine)

Highlights:

- Latest WPE WebKit (2.52), tuned and patched for Sailfish OS
- Built-in ad blocking (using Brave rust engine)
- Frosted-glass UI that follows your ambience and Sailfish theme
- Sandboxed like any other Sailfish app (Sailjail)

Arabic keyboard layout for Sailfish OS 5.x - Jolla 2026

Arabic Keyboard for Sailfish OS

Adds full Arabic (العربية) on-screen keyboard support to Sailfish OS 5.x. Tested on Sailfish OS 5.2.

Pixel Defenders Puzzle

*NOTE* - I do not own a sailfish phone so I'm only able to test this on the i486 emulator where I know it works. Currently, the ARM version may crash so consider it a beta until I confirm the ARM version is working and can remove this note.

Pixel Defenders Puzzle is a unique game of strategic matching and RPG battling!
Place, match and thwack your way through dozens of gorgeous retro-style levels, a variety of game-modes and special hand-crafted scenarios!

SmartDNS for DNS-Alternative

SmartDNS is a local DNS server with dashboard. SmartDNS accepts DNS query requests from local clients, obtains DNS query results from multiple upstream DNS servers, and returns the fastest access results to clients. supports secure DNS protocols like DoT (DNS over TLS), DoH (DNS over HTTPS), better protect privacy, Avoiding DNS pollution and improving network access speed, supports high-performance ad filtering.

Unlike dnsmasq's all-servers, smartdns returns the fastest ip.

Strymas

Strymas is a native Sailfish OS YouTube client born from a simple wish: I just wanted a YouTube streamer that works.

Music Player Daemon (MPD)

Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music. Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound files while being controlled by its network protocol.

MPD sources on github

Warning: you will need a bit of terminal voodoo to configure stuff, so only install if you are comfortable with that.

Terminal (defaultuser or nemo) steps before installation (we choose ~/.config/mpd as mpd config location):

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