GNOME Software is a utility for installing applications and updates on Linux.

[3] It is the GNOME front-end to the PackageKit, in turn a front-end to several package management systems, which include systems based on both RPM and DEB.

The program is used to add and manage software repositories as well as Ubuntu Personal Package Archives (PPA).

Users can control whether Flatpak updates are automatically downloaded and installed[7] GNOME Software removed Snap support in July 2019, due to code quality issues, lack of integration (specifically, the user can't tell what snap is doing after they click "install" and that it generally ignores GNOME's settings), and the fact that it competes with the GNOME-supported Flatpak standard.

[8] The goals and use cases that GNOME Software targets as of November 2020:[9]