BOINC add-on software

The following programs complement or enhance BOINC. Note:

These applications are not endorsed by BOINC and you use them at your own risk.
We do not provide instructions for installing these applications. However, the author may have provided some help on installing or uninstalling the application. If this is not enough you should contact the author. Instructions for installing and running BOINC are here.
To submit an item for inclusion in this list, please email David Anderson.

Windows

Add-on click for info	Description
TThrottle	TThrottle throttles CPU usage to keep its temperature below a limit you select.
BOINC Monitor	A desktop gadget that shows the status of running tasks
BoincSpy	Views BOINC project statistics
Boinc.NET	A GUI for managing groups of BOINC clients
BOINCcalculator	Show details of CPDN jobs
SETI@home-MapView	SETI@home-Mapview creates skymaps for the BOINC projects SETI@home-II, Einstein@home and Astropulse.
SETI@BOINCWatch(.NET 2.0)	A SETI@Home/BOINC client watcher! User statistics powered by BOINCStats. But now built with the .NET environment.
SETI@BOINCWatch(.NET)	A SETI@Home/BOINC client watcher! User statistics powered by BOINCStats. But now built with the .NET environment.
CPDNSpy	Stats/Benchmarkprogram. Only for CPDN!!!
BES	Control max CPU usage and prevent overheating (not specific to BOINC)
BoincView	Advanced BOINC manager for networks
SQL Setup for BoincSpy	Stores Workunits into SQL database
ThreadMaster	Control max CPU usage and prevent overheating (not specific to BOINC)
BoincTasks	An advanced and powerful BOINC GUI
BoincLogX	BoincLogX creates detailed logfiles for all BOINC projects.
SETI@BOINCWatch	A SETI@Home/BOINC client watcher! User statistics powered by BOINCStats

Linux

Add-on click for info	Description
boincctl	Script to start boinc at boot time.
BOINCprog	A BOINC project progress monitor
Boinc bash script	Boinc state displayer
BOINCSTAT	Command line view of BOINC status
CPU limiter	Limits the CPU usage (good for laptops)
BOINCTail	BOINCTail displays the status of jobs running in the BOINC environment in a 'tail-like' way.
BoincTasks	An advanced and powerful BOINC GUI (requires Wine)
boinctop	top like view of boinc status
MultiTail	Multitail shows several simultaneous tails in different curses windows.
Boinctray	A system tray application for monitoring the BOINC client
rc.boinc (Slackware)	rc.boinc - Slackware Startup Script
KBoingMgr	A Linux/KDE replacement for the standard BOINC Manager
boinc-suse	Init script for SuSE 9.2 and 9.3
SETI@Boinc Tracker	SETI@Boinc Tracker is a GUI Client for Tracking Boinc CLI Client!

Mac

Add-on click for info	Description
CPDNSpy Linux/Mac	Stats/Benchmarkprogram. Only for CPDN!!!
BoincTasks	An advanced and powerful BOINC GUI (requires Wine)
BOINCMenubar 2	Mac GUI for BOINC
BOINC Statistics	Lets you check BOINC stats from the Mac OS X Dashboard
Seti Check Revolutions	Boinc state displayer. Only for seti@home!
SETI@Boinc Tracker	SETI@Boinc Tracker is a GUI Client for Tracking Boinc CLI Client!

Web browser toolbars and plugins

Add-on click for info	Description
SAH User Statistics	An extension for Firefox (works only with 1.0 to 1.5; may work under Mozilla) that displays your stats for SAH
SETI@home Toolbar	Toolbar for Firefox and IE (Windows); includes search, links, radio, RSS
BOINC Statistics	Shows your statistics for any BOINC project (requires the Yahoo! widget engine)
BOINC User Statistics Widget	Widget displays statistics for BOINC projects (requires the Yahoo! widget engine)
BOINC Server Status	Yahoo! widget adds the BOINC Online Scheduler image to your desktop.

Web applications

Add-on click for info	Description
GOINC	GOINC: A Google homepage module for keeping tabs on BOINC.
Progress Thru Processors	Facebook-based interface to BOINC
Forum signature showing jobs in progress	A PHP script that generates a forum signature showing jobs in progress
Boinc LCS	Shows the current state and other information from an unlimited number of BOINC clients connected to the Internet.
SETI@home/BOINC progress status	Show your SETI@home/BOINC progress on your homepage
BoincPHP5-GUI	Monitor and control Boinc from a web browser
BOINC Milestones	Facebook application that posts credit milestones in your Status

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