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Shortcut vs Pin It!: catalog facts
Shortcut	Pin It!

Best for: GNOME users adding AppImages or scripts to the app menu	Best for: Adding AppImages and portable binaries to the Linux app menu
Free Free and open source under the GPLv3.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0-or-later licence.
Linux	Linux
Creates .desktop files without editing text by hand Native GTK4 and Libadawaita interface for GNOME Useful for AppImages and custom scripts	Adds AppImages and executables to the app launcher without hand-written .desktop files Edit or delete created entries from the app Actively developed with a long commit history
Does one narrow task Small project with few contributors	Linux only Only manages launcher entries, not app updates or installation
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0-or-later	License: GPL-3.0-or-later
No account needed	No account needed
Offline features available	Offline features available
Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Shortcut github.com/andreibachim/shortcut Catalog checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Pin It! github.com/ryonakano/pinit Catalog checked October 1, 2026

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