A sample manager that actually runs on Linux.
I use Linux myself, and I'm used to being an afterthought. Good software shows up for macOS and Windows first, and Linux gets a two-year-old build, a Wine wrapper held together with tape, or nothing at all. When I started building Curate, native Linux support wasn't a maybe-later, it was decided on day one and built alongside macOS and Windows the whole way, not bolted on after the fact.
Where everyone else stops
Waves COSMOS, ADSR Sample Manager, Sample Vault, XLN Audio XO: none of them run on Linux at all. That's most of the category. A couple of others do get it right, Sononym and Algonaut Atlas 2 both have native Linux builds, so Curate isn't the only option here, but it is one of very few. If you've made peace with Windows or macOS just to get a decent sample manager, you don't have to anymore.
Built native, not ported
Curate ships as an AppImage: download it, run it, no package manager wrangling, no missing dependencies. It works across distros, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Arch, and more. And it's not a trimmed-down build to check a box: auto-tagging, semantic search, Galaxy view, Shortlist, Crates, duplicate detection, all of it is the exact same app you'd get on macOS or Windows.
Fits a Linux workflow
Curate runs standalone alongside your DAW, drag and drop samples straight into Bitwig Studio, Reaper, Ardour, or whatever you produce in. It works fully offline, tagging included, the only thing that ever touches the network is checking your license key when you activate or verify it. No account is required to use the app, and there's no subscription pulling data or payment out of you every month. If you ended up on Linux partly because you care about that kind of thing, Curate was built with the same instinct.
Try Curate on Linux
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