GNFC

Read and write NFC tags Source

Description

GNFC is an NFC tag reader for GNOME. It communicates with the neard daemon over D-Bus to discover, read, and display NDEF records stored on NFC tags.

Supported record types include:

Plain text
URIs and Smart Posters
vCards — view contact details and import into GNOME Contacts
MIME payloads
Android Application Records (AAR)
Handover records

The application is designed for mobile Linux devices such as the OnePlus 6/6T, Xiaomi POCO F1, Pixel 3, Fairphone 5, but works on any Linux system with NFC hardware supported by neard.

Source

Project links:

Rating

Mobile Fit: 5

Perfect - this app fits your phone screen just fine out of the box and works nicely with touch input!

Project status: pre-release

This project has not seen a release yet. It may be in development for a short time only, or maybe longer. It should work mostly fine, but don't expect to find it packaged in your distribution.

The project repository was created on 2026-04-01.

The last known commit happened on 2026-04-02.
Please note: This information is not updated continuously. This particular listing was last updated on 2026-04-07

Features

✔ This app is (according to its appstream metadata or description) intended to be compatible with mobile devices.

Packaging

If you're lucky*, you can install this app by just hitting this button:

Install

* You need to have an appstream:// handler, e.g., GNOME Software or KDE Discover, installed and the app needs to be available in a configured software repository, more details.

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Licensing and technical details

License: GPL-3.0-or-later Metadata: CC0-1.0

Frameworks: GTK4 libadwaita

Backend: neard

Programming languages: Rust

Build system: meson

AppStream Metadata URL: https://gitlab.gnome.org/dh/gnfc/-/raw/main/data/cz.ixit.gnfc.metainfo.xml