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
- Mobile Applications
- Other Lists
- Contributors
- Guidelines to contribute
- Unsure how to contribute?
- Note
- License
- ⭐ 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.
Terminal applications:
- Benben - a fast and efficient command line audio player and audio converter for Linux and other Unix-like systems with an oldschool-inspired interface. It supports multiple formats, and is especially suited to people who organize their music in folders.
- with AppImages (for Linux x86-64)
- project goals:
- High-performance playback of the most common music formats (audio decoding written in Common Lisp, relies on as few bindings as possible)
- A TUI program designed for people who keep their music organized in folders. The overall design should be similar to tools like mpg123 or flac123, where you select the files to play from the command line, but with a much nicer interface.
- Fast rendering of multiple files to WAV and Au in parallel.
- An optional set of high-quality effects, such as an equalizer and reverb.
- project non-goal: a file browser to add files while Benben is running. This would directly contradict project goal #2.
- oscl - a minimal CLI tool that lets you send and receive OSC messages from the terminal, making it useful for scripting, testing, and quick integration with OSC-enabled systems.
stalling:
- Shuffletron - a search-based music player for the terminal. MIT-style licence. stalling
- 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.
- Coleslaw - Flexible Lisp Blogware.
- Collards - A static site generator for those who love Markdown and parens.
- markdown blog posts, custom pages, local preview with hot reloading,
- deployment via rsync, CLI app
- RSS feeds, tag and year indexes.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- ⭐ 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.
- 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.
- Regex-coach - a graphical application for Windows which can be used to experiment with (Perl-compatible) regular expressions interactively. Freeware.
- mold-desktop - a programmable, in-browser desktop. [AGPL]
- Mcclim-desktop - a clim-desktop clone. GPL3.
- Lem - Common Lisp editor/IDE with high expansibility. MIT.
- works out of the box for many languages. Has a Language Server Protocol (LSP) client.
- Neomacs - Neomacs is a computing environment based on structural editing. Neomacs aims to become the Emacs of trees. Currently, Neomacs is a usable Lisp IDE and keyboard-driven browser. GPL3.
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].
- 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.
- Filer - Mezzano File Manager.
- Kandria - a post-apocalyptic exploratory 2D platformer game and hack and slack action RPG. [zlib License]
- entirely made in Common Lisp. Published on Steam.
- 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:
See also:
- Jak and Daxter - Jak and Daxter. Proprietary.
- charapainter - Drawing & converting images with colorful characters. Export to image, HTML and terminal. Desktop application.
- LispWorks. Also available in the AppStore.
- 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
- 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.
Terminal applications:
- visp - ffmpeg wrapper CLI tool. MIT.
- It simplifies repetitive ffmpeg operations like resolution conversion, audio stripping, codec switching, and more — all while auto-generating output filenames.
- Halftone - A simple image viewer in Common Lisp.
- Spectacle - A CLIM application for viewing opticl images. 2-clause BSD.
- Nyxt - The fastest productivity web-browser.
Deprecated:
- Lispkit - A lisp web browser using WebKit
- cl-torrents - a library and app with a command line and readline interface to search for torrents on popular trackers.
- Mezzano - An operating system written in Common Lisp
- Yalo - Lisp OS running on bare metal x86-64 hardware (WIP)
- Grammarly - Grammar checking. Proprietary.
- 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.
- Screenshotbot
- Visual Testing as a service. Get notified on Pull Requests when your code changes your UI, mobile or web. Built with LispWorks.
See also:
- Turtl - a secure note taking, bookmarking and document storage app. [AGPL].
- however, while you can still find the Common Lisp components of Turtl, it was migrated to JavaScript. Read more: http://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/why-turtl-switched-from-lisp-to-js/
- ABStock - allows to publish an online catalogue of products. Primarily made for books.
- used in production since 2021.
- 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.
- Aliw - A Lisp in Wonderland (aka. ALIW) is a wiki software. 2-clause BSD.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Allegro Common Lisp Success Stories - by Franc Inc
- awesome-cl
- Awesome Lisp Company
- Cliki - CLiki the common lisp wiki
- Application - Stand-alone applications written in Common Lisp
- Common Lisp games
- Lisp Companies - by Peter Christensen.
- Lisp-lang Success Stories
- LispWorks Success Stories
- Paul Graham - Applications
- Wikipedia Common Lisp Software
Thanks to All of Github contributors and Everyone @ reddit.com/r/lisp ad r/Common_Lisp/ for many suggestions and compliments.
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- we come up with this approach since alphabetically sorted make people unnoticed which app has more active development and which app unmaintained or abandoned.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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