I had 27 AppImages and none of them showed up in my launcher

I use Pop!_OS with the new COSMIC desktop. I also use a lot of AppImages — Obsidian, Cursor, WezTerm, Krita, FreeTube, about 27 of them. And every single time I downloaded one, the same ritual: Make it executable ( chmod +x ) Create a .desktop file by hand Hunt for the icon (where does this AppImage keep it?) Figure out the right Categories= so it shows up in the right menu Repeat for the next app After a while my ~/apps/ directory looked like a graveyard of versioned files with no way to tell what was current: Cursor-0.47.9-x86_64.AppImage cursor-0.45.14-build-250219jnihavxsz-x86_64.AppImage Joplin-3.0.15.AppImage Joplin-3.3.13.AppImage WezTerm-nightly-Ubuntu20.04.AppImage WezTerm-20240203-110809-5046fc22-Ubuntu20.04.AppImage So I wrote a tool to fix this. One Python file, zero dependencies. What it does You point it at a directory full of AppImages, and it: Scans for .AppImage files and groups them by app name Picks the latest version (by version number, not file date — so 0.47.9 bea