A sharper Shadowfetch
Why I am focusing the studio on useful apps, a dependable Linux desktop, and a website that makes both easier to discover.
Independent software studio
Find the right Shadowfetch app.
Explore 572 current App Store products with real screenshots, current pricing, app-specific privacy details, and direct support. Start with the apps people are choosing most often right now.
- iPhone and iPad
- 556
- Mac
- 16
- Catalog checked
- Today
Independent coverage
Current favorites
The top 10, in action
Ranked by recent App Store downloads. Every preview uses current, unedited product screenshots.
Shadowfetch Linux 2.1.4 «Umbra»
A private, AI-ready creative workstation, built honestly on Debian. KDE Plasma 6, themed end to end in shadow and gold, with local AI, creative software, recovery tools, and a clear verification path. It is a complete desktop for people who want useful software without handing their work to a cloud account.
We don’t fork anything we don’t have to. If you’ve used Debian, you already know how to use Shadowfetch.
- Base
- Debian testing derivative
- Desktop
- KDE Plasma 6
- Requires
- 4 GB RAM · 40 GB disk
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Debian is a registered trademark of Software in the Public Interest, Inc. Shadowfetch Linux is an independent derivative and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Debian project.
LOCAL AI BY SHADOWFETCH
Run AI on your own machine.
Local models and a private chatbot — the same toolchain that ships in Shadowfetch Linux, installable on any Debian Testing box with one command. Use it for research, drafting, and coding while your focused apps handle the exact job on the device. Ollama listens only on localhost, so your models never leave the machine.
- Install
sudo apt install shadowfetch-defaults- Privacy
- Local-only — no account, no telemetry
- Measured
- Benchmarked on our own RTX 5060 Ti (16 GB)
Direct from the founder
What is changing, and why.
Robert Corbin writes plainly about product decisions, releases, and the work of building an independent software studio.
All Founder's NotesFOUNDER-LED INDEPENDENT STUDIO
Founded and built by Robert Corbin.
Shadowfetch makes software for people who want capable tools without surrendering their data or renting basic functionality forever. The work spans a full Linux desktop, focused App Store products, and practical local-AI tools that keep work on the machine.
Products ship under the Shadowfetch name. App Store releases are published by Robert Corbin, and corresponding source for Shadowfetch Linux packages is published through its signed APT repository.
Top selling apps
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Updates
- Shadowfetch Linux 2.1.4 released
- no app changes today
- Home featured apps rotated; Marginalias is in, Voxbend is out.
- Venueflux: Festival Architect, a festival crowd-flow game, is live now.
- Hexmarrow: Firmware Lab, an offline Intel HEX desk, is live now.
- Consenthush: Content Blocker is live for quieting banners and overlays.
- Pagecrisp updated
- Orbit Salvager shipped.
- Marketborough shipped.
- Last Dispatcher Night Shift shipped.
- Backyard Biome shipped.
- Aural Alibi shipped.
Principles
Local-first products. App work is designed around on-device storage, and Shadowfetch Linux runs on your hardware. Neither product line needs a Shadowfetch account.
Small and finished. Each app does one thing. It ships when it works, not when a roadmap says so.
Built on Debian, not around it. Security updates and 99% of the archive come straight from upstream.
One person, publishing in public. Every app, every release, and every mistake is on the record above - corrected in the open, on the page, with the change stated.