Awesome

This is a list of awesome application software built with Common Lisp.

We want to keep the 'master' list curated. If you want to uncurated list, see complete list branch.

Table of Contents

• Awesome Common Lisp Application Software
  • Applications
    • Audio
    • Blogging
      • Static Blog Generator
    • Chat
      • Chat Bot
    • Development Tools
      • Databases
      • IDE
      • Others
    • Desktop Environment
    • Editors
    • Education
    • File Manager
    • Games
    • Graphics
      • Image Creation
      • Image Viewer
    • Internet
      • Browser
      • Torrent
      • RSS
    • Operating System
    • Productivity
    • Publishing
    • Social news
    • Utilities
    • Video Player
    • Wiki software
    • Window Manager
    • Other
      • Historical Purposes
  • Mobile Applications
  • Other Lists
  • Contributors
  • Guidelines to contribute
  • Unsure how to contribute?
  • Note
  • License

Applications

Audio

• ⭐ OpusModus - a comprehensive computer-aided environment for the whole work of music composition. Proprietary.
• ⭐ OpenMusic visual programming / computer-aided composition environment. [GPL3][2].
  • developped at IRCAM, France. The base of other research projects and software, such as MusiqueLab2, distributed by France's ministry of education to all music teachers.
• ⭐ OM7 - a new implementation of the OpenMusic visual programming and computer-aided composition environment including a number of improvements on graphical interface, computational mode, and connection to external software libraries. [GPL3][2].
• ⭐ ScoreCloud - A web and mobile application to automatically create music notation from music performance or recordings. Built with LispWorks.
• 👍 MusicEase - Music notation software, developed for over 35 years. Proprietary.
  • "MusicEase is a constraint-based system with a large amount of knowledge of music notation. This allows it to intelligently handle many of the details of scoring automatically."
  • a LispWorks success story.
  • includes a fully functional demo, free for 30 days (printouts are watermarked). Available on Windows and MacOS.
• Common Music - the repository of an ancient version of Common Music (version 2.12.0), the presumably last version which ran on Common Lisp dating from around 2007-09, before work on Common Music shifted to (scheme-based) cm3.
• Incudine - Music/DSP programming environment for Common Lisp. Useful to design software synthesizers or sound plugins from scratch. It is also a compositional tool that allows to produce high quality sounds controllable at the sample level, defining and redefining the digital signal processors and the musical structures on-the-fly.
• Ernestine - Ernestine is a music management application in McClim. MIT.
• CLM - Common Lisp Music is a music synthesis and signal processing package in the Music V family. It provides much the same functionality as Stk, Csound, SuperCollider, PD, CMix, cmusic, and Arctic — a collection of functions that create and manipulate sounds, aimed primarily at composers (in CLM's case anyway).
• PWGL - A Visual Programming Language for Music and Sound.

A terminal application:

• Shuffletron - a search-based music player for the terminal. MIT-style licence.

Blogging

• HSSG - the Hackable Static Site generator. AGPL3
• Cliki2 - The wiki software behind cliki.net AGPL3
• Ext-blog - blog engine. It supports custom theme and you can port a WordPress theme for it. [No License Specified].

See also:

• Klipse - written in ClojureScript, allows to include run-able code snippets, including Common Lisp.

Static Blog Generator

• Coleslaw - Flexible Lisp Blogware.

Chat

• Lisp-chat - An experimental minimal chat. MIT.
• Collen - Common Lisp IRC bot with a modular framework.
• Lichat - Lichat client for Maiden. Artistic License 2.0

See also:

• Potato - Delicious conversations platform in Common Lisp and ClojureScript.

Chat Bot

• Lisp-paste - Bots from #lisp. MIT.
• Alice - Alice Margatroid, a dollmaster that pretends not to be a doll itself. [No license Specified].
• Magitek - Whimsical robots infused with just a hint of magic. No license specified.

Development Tools

• Cepl - Code Evaluate Play Loop. 2-clause BSD.
• barf - A simple Nixpkgs and NixOS helper. CC0.
• Seed - Interactive software environment based on Common Lisp. GPL3.

Databases

• Pgloader - Migrate to PostgreSQL in a single command!. PostgreSQL License
• Pgchart - A self-contained web application that takes as input an SQL query text and outputs its data as a chart. [No License Specified]
• AllegroGraph - A modern, high-performance, persistent graph database.

IDE

• SLIME - The Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs.
• Sly - Sylvester the Cat's Common Lisp IDE (slime's fork)
• Judge0 IDE is an online editor which supports Common Lisp (SBCL). [MIT][200].

For more lisp development libraries, see Awesome-cl.

Others

• Regex-coach - a graphical application for Windows which can be used to experiment with (Perl-compatible) regular expressions interactively. Freeware.

Desktop Environment

• mold-desktop - a programmable, in-browser desktop. [AGPL]
• Mcclim-desktop - a clim-desktop clone. GPL3.

Editors

• Lem - Common Lisp editor/IDE with high expansibility. MIT.
  • works out of the box for many languages. Has a Language Server Protocol (LSP) client.

and also:

• Second Climacs - Version 2 of the Climacs text editor.
• MarkEdit - Markdown editor and previewer built with Ceramic. [No license specified].
• Med - Emacs-like text editor for the Mezzano operating system. MIT.
• Hemlock - Portable version of the Hemlock editor. [No Licence Specified].

Education

• Maxima - Computer Algebra System written in Common Lisp. GPL2.
• Axiom - Axiom is a free, open source computer algebra system. It is developed in its Spad language that compiles to Common Lisp.
  • FriCAS is a fork, more maintained and easier to build. «The FriCAS algebra library is the largest and most advanced free general purpose computer algebra system».
• MathB - a math pastebin.

File Manager

• Filer - Mezzano File Manager.

Games

• Kandria - a post-apocalyptic exploratory 2D platformer game and hack and slack action RPG.
  • entirely made in Common Lisp. Published on Steam.
  • to be open sourced. Uses the Trial game engine.
• Jettatura - a challenging first-person dungeon-crawler (DRPG) with round-based combat.
  • Published on Steam on October, 2022. Proprietary.
• sucle - A Minecraft clone (voxel game engine). MIT.

Those appeared in game jams (the list is not exhaustive):

• nano-towers - a simple tower defense game written in Common Lisp with the EON framework based on Raylib, submitted for the Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024.
• dmomd - a rogue-like RPG with turn based movement and combat.
• Orb - you control a spaceship and you must protect the Orb, and yourself.
• Notalone - You wake up nowhere in the night. Hungry zombies around, but your ol' pal "BOOMSTICK" is with you. GPL3
• the price of a cup of coffee
• CotD - A roguelike battle of Angels and Demons in the streets of a Human city. GPL3.
• Option-9 - A Shoot'em Up Game. No license specified.
• Asteroids - Asteroids game in Common Lisp. [No License Specified].
• Perfectstorm - Perfectstorm is a real time strategy game study. MIT.
• Starwar - Starwar. [No License Specified].
• The-invaders - A remake of the classic game Space Invader. GPL2.
• Ninja-sphere - Ninja Sphere. No license specified.

A Chrome Dinosaur robot:

• Cl-dino - A Chrome Dinosaur Robot. GPL3.

See also:

• Jak and Daxter - Jak and Daxter. Proprietary.

Graphics

• cl-pkr - a cross-platform color picker. GPL3.
  • GUI built with the Tk framework.

Image Creation

• PTC's 3d designer CAD software - 3D Design Software. Proprietary.
  • "Creo Elements/Direct is a comprehensive system for mechanical engineers and designers who create products using the direct modeling approach to 3D CAD."
  • example use: the Eterna brand usee it to develop its watches.
  • "7+ million lines of Common Lisp code" (source: ELS 2009 slides)
  • they offer a free version to download for Microsoft Windows x64.
• ⭐ Sketch -A Common Lisp framework for the creation of electronic art, visual design, game prototyping, game making, computer graphics, exploration of human-computer interaction, and more.
• ⭐ Kons-9 - A 3D content creation tool. MIT
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THMzaVDaZP8
• Snek - An experimental system for writing generative systems.
• Parasol - A Common Lisp painting application.
• Wigflip - image playground.
• Flow - Tools for the representation of graphs and flowcharts.
• McPixel - A toy Lisp program for drawing and animating pixel art. No license specified.
• Stektcheroo - 2D drawing and layout.

Image Viewer

• Halftone - A simple image viewer in Common Lisp.
• Spectacle - A CLIM application for viewing opticl images. 2-clause BSD.

Internet

Browser

• Nyxt - The fastest productivity web-browser.

Deprecated:

• Lispkit - A lisp web browser using WebKit

Torrent

• cl-torrents - a library and app with a command line and readline interface to search for torrents on popular trackers.

Operating System

• Mezzano - An operating system written in Common Lisp
• Yalo - Lisp OS running on bare metal x86-64 hardware (WIP)

Productivity

• Grammarly - Grammar checking. Proprietary.
• Turtl - a secure note taking, bookmarking and document storage app. [AGPL].
• Deftask - Painless task management for teams. [Partly Open Source].
• Ichiran - Linguistic tools for texts in Japanese language. MIT.
• Projectured - ProjecturEd is a generic purpose projectional editor. [No License Specified].
• Ballish - A pretty fast code search tool. GPL2.

Publishing

• ABStock - allows to publish an online catalogue of products. Primarily made for books.

Social news

• Reddit v1 source code (reddit). Proprietary.

Utilities

• cl-ledger - a port of the double-entry accounting system. 3-clause BSD.
• Mediaimport - Import media files (jpgs/movies) from cameras. [No License Specified].
• Hju - Simple command line (CLI) controller for Hue lights. MIT.

Video Player

• Terentino - Mezzano Video Player. MIT.

Wiki software

• Aliw - A Lisp in Wonderland (aka. ALIW) is a wiki software. 2-clause BSD.

Window Manager

• Stumpwm - The Stump Window Manager.
• Paulownia - A modern re-write of stumpwm. GPL2.

Other

• Pocket Change - Converts leftover coins and bills to electronic money, gift codes, and coupons of your choice. Proprietary.
• Kindista - A social network for local sharing. AGPL3
• Cyc - Build a database of heuristics. Proprietary.
• Denso - A controller package suite for robots from Densowave based on open-industrial-ros-controllers. [No License Specified].
• Zen - The zen X server in Common Lisp. GPL3.

Historical Purposes

• DART - Application to optimize and schedule the transportation of supplies or personnel and solve other logistical problems.
• ICAD - A knowledge-based CAD system.
• Interleaf Publisher - A document processor.
• Itasca database - Database.
• Metal - Siemens machine translation system.
• Mirai - A venerable 3D editor built on the winged-edge data structure. Proprietary.
• Sk8 - A multimedia authoring environment.
• Action! - Expertelligence' Interface Designer.
• PRISM - The Prism project is a long term project to build software tools for radiation therapy planning, including artificial intelligence tools as well as manual simulation systems.
• Endless list. See complete list branch.

Mobile Applications

• ScoreCloud Express - An iPhone and iPad application that automatically creates music notation from music performance or recordings.
• CL REPLay - A REPL with simple editor. No license specified.
• Sokoban - Sokoban game. No license specified.
• Maxima on Android, built with ECL.

• CodePlayground - an iPhone and iPad app with Lisp support via CCL.

Other Lists

• Allegro Common Lisp Success Stories - by Franc Inc
  • Customer Application List
• awesome-cl
• Awesome Lisp Company
• Cliki - CLiki the common lisp wiki
  • Application - Stand-alone applications written in Common Lisp
• Common Lisp games
  • Lisp Game Jams
• Lisp Companies - by Peter Christensen.
• Lisp-lang Success Stories
• LispWorks Success Stories
• Paul Graham - Applications
• Wikipedia Common Lisp Software

Contributors

Thanks to All of Github contributors and Everyone @ reddit.com/r/lisp ad r/Common_Lisp/ for many suggestions and compliments.

Guidelines to contribute

Please follow this format of the list [Appname](#link) - description. [License]. if you want to make a contribution.

• Put the name of the application and link to its homepage in the list.
• Write a short description for the application.
• Add a license in the end of the list. see the list format above
• Make sure it is put under the appropriate topic.
• If the application doesn't fit in any existing topic, make a new one for it.
• Sort the item by its popularity.
  • we come up with this approach since alphabetically sorted make people unnoticed which app has more active development and which app unmaintained or abandoned.

Unsure how to contribute?

• How to Use Github
• How to Git from the Command Line
• What is Markdown? - Markdown is the writing method used to create this list, if you want to know how to format properly, it's best that you learn how to use Github Markdown.
• Alternative Markdown Guide:

Note

• You can learn about licenses in tl;drLegal
• There are so many Applications buit with Lisp, but most of them are more than 20 years old, this list will be endless as Rainer Joswig said, so here I wil only include the relevant application.

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.