Open Source
Like Linux itself, AppImageKit is Open Source. Use it to package your open or commercial applications.
Download an application, make it executable, and run! No need to install. No system libraries or system preferences are altered.
Distribute your desktop Linux application in the AppImage format and win users running all common Linux distributions. Package once and run everywhere. Reach users on all major desktop distributions.
Linus Torvalds
Dirk Hohndel
Here is an application packaged as an AppImage for you to try. Just download the application, website, make it executable, and run! No need to install. Runs on most 32-bit and 64-bit Linux desktops.
Try Subsurface AppImage (64-bit) Try Subsurface AppImage (32-bit)More AppImages for other applications like Atom, Arduino, Blender, Chromium, Firefox, LibreOffice, QCAD and Scribus can be downloaded here (64-bit).
The key idea of the AppImage format is one app = one file. Every AppImage contains an app and all the files the app needs to run. In other words, each AppImage has no dependencies other than what is included in the targeted base operating system(s).
AppImage format is ideal for upstream packaging, which means that you get the software directly from the original author(s) without any intermediaries, exactly in the way the author(s) intended. And quickly.
AppImages can be downloaded and run without installation or the need for root rights.
Like Linux itself, AppImageKit is Open Source. Use it to package your open or commercial applications.
AppImageKit and its predecessor, klik, have been in the making for over a decade.
Works with most reasonably recent desktop Linux distributions. Well, almost.
Learn about how you can use AppImageKit to create your own AppImages in the AppImageKit Wiki.
WIKIFeel free to provide some feedback, give suggestions, or to just say hello!