auctor https://qua.name/auctor/ Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:07:12 +0200 Free Lunch https://qua.name/auctor/free-lunch <![CDATA[h1 align="center"Free Lunch/h1/br p align="center"bThis is a list of free Windows software for normal users. It will be updated from time to time./b/p/br Please note the following points: This list contains the great built-in apps in Windows. Strikethrough text is used to show that something is not recommended. These apps aren't private or reliable enough compared to similar apps, although they are cool! Some apps could possibly infringe copyright or other laws. Microsoft Store Apps may not have all the features of Desktop Apps. When you use a piece of software, please check its privacy policy. Many software privacy policies may have changed over time, and I don't have enough time to check them. In addition, some software has not been updated for a long time, which may pose a security risk. microsoft store - Microsoft Store repository - Repository open - Open Source license compliant ❤️ - My Favorites Mirrors Github: https://github.com/auctors/free-lunch Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/auctor/free-lunch Qua: https://qua.name/auctor/free-lunch Contents Artificial Intelligence Audio Audio Editors Audio Players Music Production Music Streaming Music Tag Editors Sound Equalizers Volume Control Others Backup and Sync Cloud Storage Others Books and Readers Books Ebook Readers RSS Readers Browsers and Extensions Browsers Extensions New Tab Page Privacy Extensions Bookmark Managers Others Communication Email Email Clients Email Forwarding Services Email Providers Temporary Email Services IM Social Media Development Statistical Analysis Terminal Emulators Text Editors Others Downloaders Download Managers Media Downloaders Torrent Clients Education Online Education Services Reference Management Translators Others File Management Duplicate File Finders File Archivers File Converters File Managers File Renamers File Sharing File Sharing Web Apps LAN File Sharing Others Games and Tools Game Emulators Game Launchers Game Stores Games Gaming Utilities Graphics 2D and 3D Design Tools Digital Painting Image Editors Image Optimizers Image Viewers OCR Pixel Editors Remove Image Background Screen Annotation Tools Screen Recorders Screenshot VTuber Webcam Recorders Whiteboards Others Health and Fitness Network and Admin Network Monitors Remote Desktop Screen Sharing Virtual LAN Virtualization Others Online Services App Discovery Services Privacy and Security Guides Search Engines Secret Sharing Survey Tools URL Shorteners Others Personal Finance Personalization Desktop Mascot Taskbar Tweakers Wallpaper Management Others Privacy and Security Antivirus Decentralized Networks Encryption Tools Disk Encryption Tools Steganography Tools Others Firewalls Password Managers Remove EXIF Data System Tweakers VPN Others Productivity Automation Calendars Clipboard Managers File Search Journaling Markdown Editors Mind Mapping Note Taking Office PDF Editors Task Management Time Tracking Weather Writing Tools Others Utilities Application Launchers Context Menu Managers Disk Imaging Disk Usage Analyzers File Recovery File Shredders Hardware Monitoring Fan Control RGB Lighting Control Others Mouse and Keyboard Sharing Package Managers Screen Dimmers System Administration Window Managers Others Video Media Servers Subtitles Tools Video Converters Video Editors Video Players Video Streaming Watch Videos Together Others --- Artificial Intelligence ChaiNNer - A node-based image processing GUI aimed at making chaining image processing tasks easy and customizable. repo open Clara - Your Fully Local AI Superstack — Not Just Another Chat UI. repo Fooocus - Focus on prompting and generating. open GPT4All - GPT4All runs large language models (LLMs) privately on everyday desktops & laptops. repo open Jan - An open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer. repo open KoboldCpp - An easy-to-use AI text-generation software for GGML and GGUF models, inspired by the original KoboldAI. open Stability Matrix - Multi-Platform Package Manager for Stable Diffusion. repo open Audio Audio Editors ❤️ Audacity - An easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder. repo open AudioMass - Free full-featured web-based audio & waveform editing tool. repo ❤️ Tenacity - An easy-to-use, privacy-friendly, FLOSS, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder. repo open ❤️ fre:ac - A free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. repo store open Audio Players ❤️ AIMP - A full-featured music player. store DeaDBeeF - A modular cross-platform audio player. repo Dopamine - An elegant audio player which tries to make organizing and listening to music as simple and pretty as possible. repo open ❤️ foobar2000 - An advanced freeware audio player. store Harmonoid - Elegant music app to play & manage music library. repo Moosync - A customizable desktop music player with a clean interface. repo open Museeks - A simple, clean and cross-platform music player. repo open ❤️ MusicBee - A music manager and player. store Musicpod - Music, radio, television and podcast player for Ubuntu, Windows, MacOs and Android. open Strawberry Music Player - A music player and music collection organizer. repo open Tauon Music Box - The desktop music player from the future! repo open Music Production AudioStellar - Open source data-driven musical instrument for latent sound structure discovery and music experimentation. repo open BeepBox - An online tool for sketching and sharing instrumental melodies. repo open Bespoke Synth - Bespoke is a software modular synthesizer. repo open Helio Workstation - One music sequencer for all major platforms, desktop and mobile. repo open Jamulus - A networked music performance software allowing musicians to rehearse, perform and play in real-time. repo ❤️ LMMS - Cross-platform music production software. repo open ❤️ Mixxx - Free DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes. repo ❤️ MuseScore - Create, playback, and print sheet music for free. repo store OpenMPT (ModPlug Tracker) - Sample-based music production program in the style of trackers such as Impulse Tracker and FastTracker. repo open Sonic Pi - A code-based music creation and performance tool. repo open Music Streaming Cider - An open source and community oriented Apple Music client. repo open Lofi - A mini Spotify player with WebGL visualizations. repo open muffon - Music streaming browser. repo open ❤️ nuclear - Streaming music player that finds free music for you. repo open Spotube - A lightweight free Spotify crossplatform-client which handles playback manually, streams music using Youtube & no Spotify premium account is needed. repo YouTube Music Desktop - A Desktop App for YouTube Music. YouTube Music - YouTube Music Desktop App bundled with custom plugins (and built-in ad blocker / downloader). repo open Music Tag Editors Kid3 - An open-source cross-platform audio tag editor for many audio file formats. repo open Mp3tag - A powerful and easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of audio files. store ❤️ MusicBrainz Picard - An open-source cross-platform music tagger. repo store open OneTagger - The ultimate music tagger for DJs. repo open Sound Equalizers ❤️ Equalizer APO - A system-wide equalizer. open FxSound - A digital audio program built for Windows PC's. repo open ❤️ Peace Equalizer - A Windows PC interface for Equalizer APO. open Volume Control ❤️ EarTrumpet - A powerful volume control app for Windows. repo store open SoundSwitch - SoundSwitch offers you the opportunity to switch your playback and recording devices using simple hotkeys. repo open Volumey - Volume mixer that allows you to set up global hotkeys to control your Windows audio system. store open WinMute - WinMute can automatically mute all sound devices on your PC. open Others AirConnect - Use AirPlay to stream to UPnP/Sonos & Chromecast devices. AirPodsDesktop - AirPods desktop user experience enhancement program. open Audio Band - Display and control songs from the Windows taskbar. open AudioPlaybackConnector - Bluetooth audio playback (A2DP Sink) connector for Windows 10 2004+. open Buzz - Transcribe and translate audio offline on your personal computer. open Vibe - Transcribe audio / video offline using OpenAI Whisper. repo open ebook2audiobook - Convert ebooks to audiobooks with chapters and metadata using dynamic AI models and voice cloning. Supports 1,107+ languages! Carla - A fully-featured audio plugin host, with support for many audio drivers and plugin formats. repo open Figaro - Real-time open-source voice modification program & sound board. open Friture - An application to visualize and analyze live audio data in real-time. store open Mechvibes - Adds sound feedback any keyboard. repo MicMute - Control your microphone using keyboard and mouse hotkeys. Neothesia - Flashy Synthesia Like Software For Linux, Windows and macOS. open Piano Trainer - A music practice program w/ MIDI support. repo open projectM - The most advanced open-source music visualizer. store Real-time Noise Suppression Plugin - Noise suppression plugin based on Xiph's RNNoise. open Sonic Visualiser - Visualisation, analysis, and annotation of music audio recordings. repo open SonoBus - A real-time network audio streaming collaboration tool. repo open Soundux - A cross-platform soundboard that features a simple user interface. repo open Spek - Free Acoustic Spectrum Analyser. repo open SpleeterGUI - Music source separation desktop app. open Sunamu - Show your currently playing song in a stylish way! open Audio Share - Audio Share can share Windows/Linux computer's audio to Android phone over network, so your phone becomes the speaker of computer. open swyh-rs - Stream What You Hear written in rust, inspired by SWYH. open VB-CABLE - VB-CABLE is a virtual audio device working as virtual audio cable. LRCGET - Utility for mass-downloading LRC synced lyrics for your offline music library. open Backup and Sync Cloud Storage ❤️ Ente Photos - End-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos / iCloud Photos, that makes it easy to backup and share photos and videos. repo open ❤️ Nextcloud - A suite of client-server software for creating and using file hosting services. repo ❤️ MEGA - A secure, user-controlled end-to-end encrypted cloud storage and communications service with 20 GB free storage space. repo ❤️ Proton Drive - Secure your files, documents and photos with end-to-end encryption. open ❤️ Sync - A file storage and document collaboration platform. ❤️ Tresorit - Tresorit is the ultra-secure place in the cloud to store, sync, and share files within your organization and with external partners. Internxt Drive - A zero-knowledge cloud storage service based on best-in-class privacy and security. repo Others Cyberduck - A libre FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3, Backblaze B2, Azure & OpenStack Swift browser. repo open Duplicacy - A new generation cloud backup tool. repo Duplicati - Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud! open FreeFileSync - Folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files. Kopia - A simple, cross-platform tool for managing encrypted backups in the cloud. repo open ❤️ Rclone - A command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. repo open restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program. repo open ❤️ Syncthing - A continuous file synchronization program. repo open ❤️ ChoEazyCopy - Simple and powerful RoboCopy GUI. open Ultracopier - Ultracopier acts as a replacement for files copy dialogs. open Ludusavi - A tool for backing up your PC video game save data. open Books and Readers Books Anna’s Archive - The largest truly open library in human history. Internet Archive - A non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Library Genesis - A file-sharing based shadow library website. Open Library - An open, editable library catalog. Project Gutenberg - A library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Sci-Hub - A shadow library website that provides free access to millions of research papers and books. ZLibrary - The world's largest ebook library. Books - Awesome Book Lists. Mind Expanding Books - Books everyone should read! repo Ebook Readers ❤️ Okular - A universal document viewer. store Sumatra PDF - A free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) viewer. repo Sioyek - A PDF viewer designed for reading research papers and technical books. repo open Alexandria - A minimalistic cross-platform eBook reader built with Tauri, Epub.js, and Typescript. open calibre - An e-book manager. repo open Koodo Reader - A modern ebook manager and reader. repo open Readest - An open-source ebook reader designed for immersive and deep reading experiences. repo open Thorium Reader - The best free reading application for EPUB, PDF and DAISY 3 ebooks, audiobooks and digital comics. repo store open YACReader - Yet another comic reader. repo open Libation - Audible audiobook manager. open Sigil - A multi-platform EPUB ebook editor. open Kiwix - An offline reader for online content like Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, or TED Talks. repo store open RSS Readers FeedFlow - A minimalistic RSS Reader available on Android, iOS, macOS, Windows and Linux. repo open Fluent Reader - Modern desktop RSS reader. repo store open QuiteRSS - Free news feeds reader. open RSS Guard - Feed reader which supports RSS/ATOM/JSON and many web-based feed services. open Browsers and Extensions Browsers ❤️ Brave - A fast, private and secure web browser. repo store open Chromium - The free and open-source project behind Google Chrome. repo open ❤️ Firefox - Get the browser that protects what’s important. store open ❤️ LibreWolf - A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom. repo store open ❤️ Mullvad Browser - Privacy-focused browser for Linux, macOS and Windows. repo open ❤️ Tor Browser - A web broswer that anonymizes your web traffic using the Tor network. repo Min - A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy. repo Extensions New Tab Page Bonjourr - Minimalist & lightweight startpage inspired by iOS. repo open Mue - Fast, open and free-to-use new tab page for modern browsers. repo open Tabliss - A beautiful, customisable New Tab page for Firefox and Chrome. repo open nightTab - A neutral new tab page accented with a chosen colour. repo open Privacy Extensions AdNauseam - Fight back against advertising surveillance. repo open ClearURLs - This extension will automatically remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy when browsing the Internet. repo open ❤️ FastForward - FastForward automatically skips annoying link shorteners. repo ❤️ LibRedirect - A web extension that redirects popular sites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends and backends. repo open ❤️ LocalCDN - A web browser extension that emulates Content Delivery Networks to improve your online privacy. repo open Mailvelope - Browser extension for OpenPGP encryption with Webmail. open ❤️ uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean. open uBO Lite - uBO Lite (uBOL) is a permission-less content blocker based on the MV3 API. open Bookmark Managers Floccus - Sync your bookmarks privately across browsers. repo open Sidebery - Firefox extension for managing tabs and bookmarks in sidebar. open xBrowserSync - Free and open source tool for syncing your browser data between browsers and devices whilst maintaining your privacy and anonymity. repo open Others ❤️ Automa - A chrome extension for automating your browser by connecting blocks. repo BetterViewer - A replacement for the image viewing mode built into Firefox and Chrome-based web browsers. open ❤️ Dark Reader - Dark Reader analyzes web pages and aims to reduce eyestrain while browsing the web. repo open FastStream - Stream videos without buffering in the browser. repo open Gesturefy - A customizable Firefox mouse gesture add-on with a variety of different commands. open Marinara - A time management assistant for Chrome that follows the Pomodoro Technique. open ❤️ Omni - The all-in-one tool to supercharge your productivity keyboard. open Read Aloud - A Text to Speech Voice Reader extension for your browser! repo open ❤️ Screenity - The most powerful screen recorder & annotation tool for Chrome. open Search by Image - A browser extension that makes effortless reverse image searches possible, and comes with support for more than 30 search engines. open ❤️ Translate Web Pages - Translate your page in real time using Google or Yandex. open uBlacklist - Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results. repo open Unclutter - A modern reader mode and article library for your browser. open ❤️ Violentmonkey - An open source userscript manager. repo open Web Scrobbler - Web Scrobbler helps online music listeners to scrobble their playback history. repo open Communication Email Email Clients Delta Chat - Chat over e-mail. repo store open Mailspring - A beautiful, fast and fully open source mail client. repo open ❤️ Thunderbird - A free email application that’s easy to set up and customize. store open Wino Mail - Built-in Mail & Calendars app clone for Windows. repo store open Email Forwarding Services ❤️ AnonAddy - Anonymous Email Forwarding. repo open ❤️ Firefox Relay - Keep your email safe from hackers and trackers. repo open ❤️ SimpleLogin - Receive and send emails anonymously. repo open Email Providers ❤️ Protonmail - An email provider/service that respects privacy and puts people first. repo ❤️ Tuta - A secure email service. repo open Temporary Email Services AdGuard Temp Mail - Free temporary and disposable email generator. Burner.kiwi - No bullshit temporary mail service written in Go. repo open Guerrilla Mail - A disposable email. MailDrop - A quick, disposable email. repo open IM ❤️ Element - Secure and independent communication, connected via Matrix. repo open Session - An end-to-end encrypted messenger. repo open ❤️ Signal - A messaging app with an unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all the features expected from a modern IM app. repo open ❤️ SimpleX - The first messenger without user IDs. repo open Ferdium - A desktop app that helps you organize how you use your favourite apps by combining them into one application. repo open Hamsket - Free messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one. open Jitsi Meet - Free Jitsi Meet instance, provising state-of-the-art video conferencing. repo Revolt - User-first chat platform built with modern web technologies. repo Social Media Glimesh - A next generation live streaming platform built by the community, for the community. repo LBRY - A decentralized video sharing network. repo ❤️ PeerTube - A free, decentralized and federated video platform. repo open Lemmy - A link aggregator / Reddit clone for the fediverse. repo open ❤️ Mastodon - Globally interconnected microblogging community. repo open ❤️ WriteFreely - A clean, simple publishing platform made for writers. repo open Development Statistical Analysis GNU PSPP - A program for statistical analysis of sampled data. It is a free as in freedom replacement for the proprietary program SPSS. open gretl - A cross-platform software package for econometric analysis, written in the C programming language. repo open jamovi - A free and open statistics package, which is easy to use, and designed to be familiar to users of SPSS. repo open JASP - JASP is an open-source statistics program that is free, friendly, and flexible. repo open RStudio - RStudio provides open source and enterprise-ready professional software for data science. repo open Terminal Emulators Alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. repo open Fluent Terminal - A Terminal Emulator based on UWP and web technologies. store open Nushell - A new type of shell. repo open PowerShell - A task-based command-line shell and scripting language built on .NET. repo store Rio terminal - A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator focusing to run in desktops and browsers. repo open Tabby - A highly configurable terminal emulator, SSH and serial client. repo open WezTerm - GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer made with Rust. repo open WindTerm - A professional cross-platform SSH/Sftp/Shell/Telnet/Serial terminal. repo Windows Terminal - A modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL. Oh My Posh - A prompt theme engine for any shell. repo store open Text Editors Brackets - Brackets is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser. repo GNU Emacs - An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more. repo open Helix - A post-modern modal text editor. repo open Heynote - A dedicated scratchpad for developers. repo open ❤️ Kate - A multi-document text editor. store Lapce - Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust. repo open Lite XL - A lightweight text editor written in Lua. repo open ❤️ Notepad++ - A free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. repo open ❤️ Notepads - A modern, lightweight text editor with a minimalist design. repo store open Pulsar - A Community-led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor, Forked from Atom, built on Electron. repo open Visual Studio Code - A free, lightweight, and extensible code editor. repo store open ❤️ VSCodium - A community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VS Code. repo open Others ❤️ adb - A programming tool used for the debugging of Android-based devices. ❤️ DevToys - A Swiss Army knife for developers. repo store open IT Tools - Collection of handy online tools for developers, with great UX. repo open GitButler - Git branch management tool, built from the ground up for modern workflows. repo open Gitnuro - A FOSS Git multiplatform client for newbies and pros. repo open massCode - A free and open source code snippets manager for developers. repo WinMerge - An Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. repo open freeCodeCamp.org - Learn to code for free with millions of other people around the world. repo The Odin Project - An open-source curriculum for learning full-stack web development. repo Downloaders Download Managers AB Download Manager - A Download Manager that speeds up your downloads. repo open AriaNg-Native - A better aria2 desktop frontend than AriaNg, containing all features of AriaNg and more features for desktop. repo open Brisk - Ultra-fast, modern download manager for desktop. open Free Download Manager - A powerful modern download accelerator and organizer. Gopeed - A modern download manager that supports all platforms. repo open JDownloader - A free, open-source download management tool. Motrix - A full-featured download manager. open Persepolis - A download manager & a GUI for Aria2. repo open Varia - Download manager that supports regular downloads, torrents and videos. repo open XDM - Powerfull download accelerator and video downloader. repo open Media Downloaders cobalt - A media downloader that doesn't piss you off. repo open Streamlink - A CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player. repo open Lux - A fast and simple video downloader built with Go. open You-Get - A tiny command-line utility to download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the Web. repo open youtube-dl - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites. repo ❤️ YT-DLP - A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes. Hitomi Downloader - Desktop utility to download images/videos/music/text from various websites, and more. Media Downloader - A Qt/C++ front end to youtube-dl. Open Video Downloader - A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js. repo store open Tartube - A GUI front-end for youtube-dl. open Video Downloader - A video and channel downloader that supports 110 websites. YoutubeDownloader - An application that lets you download videos from YouTube. open HakuNeko - A cross-platform downloader for manga and anime from various websites. repo Nm3u8DL-CLI - A command line tool for downloading m3u8. repo open SCrawler - Media downloader from any sites, including Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, PornHub, XHamster, XVIDEOS etc. open SpotiFlyer - Kotlin Multiplatform Music Downloader ,supports Spotify, Youtube, Gaana, Jio-Saavn and SoundCloud. open Twitch Leecher - An extremely fast and easy to use Twitch VOD downloader. open Ytmdl - A simple app to get songs from YouTube in mp3 format with artist name, album name etc from sources like iTunes, Spotify, LastFM, Deezer, Gaana etc. repo open gallery-dl - Command-line program to download image galleries and collections from several image hosting sites. open Torrent Clients Instant.io - Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent (torrents on the web). repo open PicoTorrent - A tiny and minimal BitTorrent client. repo PikaTorrent - A modern, simple, connected, and electric BitTorrent app. repo store open ❤️ qBittorrent - qBittorrent aims to be a good alternative to all other bittorrent clients out there. repo open ❤️ Transmission - A fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client. repo WebTorrent - The streaming torrent app. repo open Education Online Education Services Coursera - Free and paid courses on a wide variety of subjects from scholastic to technical and more. edX - Free online courses by Harvard, MIT. Khan Academy - A personalized learning resource for all ages. Reference Management JabRef - An open-source, cross-platform citation and reference management tool. repo open Qiqqa - A free research and reference manager. repo open ZoteroBib - ZoteroBib helps you build a bibliography instantly from any computer or device. ❤️ Zotero - A free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. repo open Translators Ciyue - A simple mdict dictionary with Android/Windows/Linux support. repo open Crow Translate - A simple and lightweight translator. repo open DeepL Translator - A neural machine translation service. GoldenDict-ng - The Next Generation GoldenDict. repo open GoldenDict - A feature-rich dictionary lookup program. repo open Lingva Translate - Alternative front-end for Google Translate. repo open Mozhi - Mozhi is an alternative-frontend for many translation engines. open Others Anki - Powerful, intelligent flash cards. repo open Avogadro - An advanced molecular editor designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas. repo open BOINC - Open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing. repo open Converter NOW - A flexible unit converter. repo store open GCompris - A high quality educational software suite. store GNU Octave - A programming language for scientific computing. GeoGebra - Free digital tools for class activities, graphing, geometry, collaborative whiteboard and more. repo Gramps - Research, organize and share your family tree with Gramps. LanguageTool - Checks your writing in more than 20 languages. repo open Harper - Offline, privacy-first grammar checker. repo open Monkeytype - The most customizable typing website with a minimalistic design and a ton of features. repo open LabPlot - FREE, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis software accessible to everyone and trusted by professionals. store open Orange Data Mining - A data mining and visualization toolbox for novice and expert alike. repo open Qalculate! - A multi-purpose cross-platform desktop calculator. repo open Scilab - Open source software for numerical computation. repo open Scratch - With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations. store Tabby- Simple timetable desktop app to track your school schedule. open File Management Duplicate File Finders ❤️ Czkawka - Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc. ❤️ dupeGuru - A cross-platform GUI tool to find duplicate files in a system. repo open Video Duplicate Finder - A cross-platform software to find duplicated video (and image) files on hard disk based on similiarity. File Archivers ❤️ 7-Zip - A file archiver with a high compression ratio. NanaZip - The 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience. store ❤️ PeaZip - A free file manager and file archiver. repo open File Converters Convertio - Easy tool to convert files online. ❤️ Dangerzone - Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to a safe PDF. repo open ❤️ File Converter - A very simple tool which allows you to convert and compress one or several file(s) using the context menu of windows explorer. repo open ❤️ Pandoc - Universal markup converter. repo File Managers ❤️ Double Commander - A free cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side. repo Far Manager - A program for managing files and archives in Windows operating systems. repo open ❤️ Files - A modern file manager. repo store open FreeCommander - An easy-to-use alternative to the standard windows file manager. Sigma File Manager - A free, open-source, quickly evolving, modern file manager app. store Xplorer - A customizable, modern and cross-platform File Explorer. repo open Knowledge - Knowledge is a tool for saving, searching, accessing, and exploring all of your favorite websites, documents and files. open TagSpaces - An offline, open source, document manager with tagging support. repo open TagStudio - A User-Focused Photo & File Management System. repo open File Renamers Ant Renamer - A free program that makes easier the renaming of lots of files and folders by using specified settings. File Renamer Diff - A File Renamer App featuring a difference display before and after the change for Windows. store open Szyszka - A simple but powerful and fast bulk file renamer. open File Sharing File Sharing Web Apps Lufi - Anonymous file sharing services with temporary storage. repo open ❤️ Send - Simple, private file sharing. open ❤️ Tresorit Send - Send big files up to 5 GB securely. Wormhole - Simple, private file sharing. SwissTransfer - Send files up to 50 GB free of charge. pic.infini - A free and anonymous image hosting service. Blaze - A P2P file sharing web app. repo open FilePizza - Peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser. repo PairDrop - Local file sharing in your web browser. repo open libcimbar - Optimized implementation for color-icon-matrix barcodes. repo open LAN File Sharing ❤️ OpenSSH - Windows Optional Features. OpenSSH is a complete implementation of the SSH protocol (version 2) for secure remote login, command execution and file transfer. Flying Carpet - Wireless, encrypted file transfer over automatically configured ad hoc networking. open ❤️ LocalSend - An open source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop. repo open Photon - A cross-platform file-transfer application built using flutter. repo open Quick Share - With Quick Share, quickly transfer photos, videos, documents, audio files or entire folders between your Android device and Windows desktops and laptops. SFTPGo - Fully featured and highly configurable SFTP server with optional HTTP/S, FTP/S and WebDAV support. repo open Sharik - An open-source, cross-platform solution for sharing files via Wi-Fi or Mobile Hotspot. store open ❤️ WinSCP - A popular free SFTP and FTP client for Windows. repo open ❤️ Winpinator - Send and receive files across a local network. repo open miniserve - A CLI tool to serve files and dirs over HTTP. open Others Magic Wormhole - Get things from one computer to another, safely. open ❤️ OnionShare - An open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network. repo RiftShare - Easy, Secure, and Free file sharing for everyone. repo store open ❤️ Rymdport - A GUI for the Magic Wormhole. repo open croc - A CLI file-transfer tool. repo open Games and Tools Game Emulators Dolphin - A GameCube and Wii Emulator. repo open RetroArch - A frontend for emulators, game engines and media players. repo open shadPS4 - PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS written in C++. repo open Game Launchers Heroic Games Launcher - A Native GOG and Epic Games Launcher for Linux, Windows and Mac. repo open Nostlan - Nostlan is a game launcher for emulators! repo open Pegasus - A cross platform, customizable graphical frontend for launching emulators and managing your game collection. repo open Playnite - An open source video game library manager and launcher with support for 3rd party libraries like Steam, GOG, Origin, Battle.net and Uplay. repo open Game Stores GOG GALAXY - Truly gamer friendly, DRM-free online gaming platform. Game Jolt - Game Jolt is one of the largest communities in existence for video games and the millions of people around the world who love them. repo open itch.io - An online game marketplace and community. repo open Games 0 A.D. - A free, open-source game of ancient warfare. Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world. repo Cockatrice - A cross-platform virtual tabletop for multiplayer card games. repo open Endless Sky - A space exploration and combat game similar to Escape Velocity. repo open FlightGear - An open-source flight simulator. Hurry Curry! - A cooperative 3D multiplayer game about cooking. repo open Lichess - The complete chess experience, play and compete with friends and others around the world. repo Mindustry - A sandbox tower defense game written in Java. repo open Minetest - An open source voxel game engine. repo OpenDuelyst - A digital collectible card game. open OpenTDD - OpenTTD is a business simulation game in which players try to earn money by transporting passengers and freight via road, rail, water and air. repo open Rigs of Rods - An open-source soft-body vehicle simulator. repo open SuperTuxKart - A free kart racing game. repo Thrive - A free, open-source game about the evolution of life. repo Unciv - Open-source Android/Desktop remake of Civ V. open Warzone 2100 - A ground-breaking and innovative 3D real-time strategy game. repo store Wesnoth - An open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme. repo open Widelands - A free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode. repo open Xonotic - An addictive, arena-style first person shooter with crisp movement and a wide array of weapons. repo open osu! - A free-to-win rhythm game. Rhythm is just a click away! repo open Gaming Utilities AntiMicroX - Graphical program used to map keyboard buttons and mouse controls to a gamepad. open CrossOver - A Crosshair Overlay for any screen. repo store Moonlight - An open source implementation of NVIDIA's GameStream. repo open Sunshine - Host for Moonlight Streaming Client. repo open Graphics 2D and 3D ❤️ Enve - Open-source 2D animation software. repo open ❤️ OpenToonz - An open-source full-featured 2D animation creation software. repo Pencil2D - An easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations. repo open Seamly2D - Open source patternmaking software. open ❤️ Synfig Studio - A free and open-source 2D animation software. repo open Wick Editor - A free and open-source tool for creating games, animations and everything in-between! repo open ❤️ Blender - Free and Open Source 3D creation suite. repo store open Blockbench - A low poly 3D model editor. repo open F3D - A fast and minimalist 3D viewer. repo open FreeCAD - An open-source parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size. repo open MeshLab - The open source mesh processing system. repo open OpenSCAD - The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller. repo open Sweet Home 3D - A free interior design application which helps you draw the plan of your house, arrange furniture on it and visit the results in 3D. Design Tools Motionity - The web-based motion graphics editor for everyone. repo open Penpot - The Open-Source design & prototyping platform. repo open Polotno Studio - Free online design editor. repo Screenshot.rocks - An online tool which allows you to create beautiful mobile & browser mockups from screenshots. repo open Vecto3d - A super simple tool to convert your SVG's to 3D models. repo open Digital Painting AutoDraw - An intuitive drawing tool for everyone. Drawpile - A collaborative drawing program. repo open FotoSketcher - Turn your photos into beautiful paintings, sketches or drawings in seconds. ❤️ Inkscape - A free and open-source vector graphics editor. repo store open ❤️ Krita - A free and open source digital painting application. repo Milton - A free and open-source infinite canvas paint program. repo open Pinta - A free, open source program for drawing and image editing. repo tldraw - A tiny little drawing app. repo open Image Editors Converseen - A batch image converter and resizer. repo open ❤️ GIMP - A cross-platform image editor. repo store open ❤️ PhotoGIMP - A patch for optimizing GIMP 2.10+ for Adobe Photoshop users. open ImageMagick - A software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. repo ❤️ Paint.NET - Free image and photo editing software. PhotoDemon - A portable photo editor. repo Pixelitor - A desktop image editor. repo open miniPaint - Online image editor lets you create, edit images using HTML5 technologies. repo ❤️ Photopea - Online photo editor. Siril - The Siril image processing software for amateur astronomy. repo open Xpano - openAutomated photo stiching tool. repo store open ❤️ darktable - An open source photography workflow application and raw developer. repo open ❤️ digiKam - An advanced digital photo management application. repo Filmulator - Simplified raw editing with the power of film. repo open ❤️ RawTherapee - A powerful cross-platform raw photo processing program. repo open Image Optimizers Caesium Image Compressor - An image compression web app. Caesium - A cross-platform image compression software. repo open ❤️ Imagine - A desktop app for compression of PNG and JPEG, with a modern and friendly UI. open MAZANOKE - A self-hosted local image optimizer that runs in your browser. repo open ❤️ Squoosh - An image compression web app that reduces image sizes through numerous formats. repo open Image Viewers ❤️ FastStone Image Viewer - A fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. ❤️ ImageGlass - A lightweight, versatile image viewer. repo open ❤️ IrfanView - A very fast, compact and innovative FREEWARE image viewer/converter. store JPEGView - A lean, fast and highly configurable viewer/editor for JPEG, BMP, PNG, WEBP, TGA, GIF and TIFF images with a minimal GUI. open NeeView - A Free and Open Source, modern and powerful image viewer and a manga/comic reader. store open ❤️ nomacs - A free, open source image viewer. repo open qimgv - Image viewer. Fast, easy to use. open Quick Picture Viewer - Lightweight, versatile desktop image viewer. repo store open qView - Practical and minimal image viewer. repo open OCR Capture2Text - Quickly OCR part of the screen and save resulting text to clipboard. open gImageReader - A simple Gtk/Qt front-end to tesseract-ocr. open NAPS2 - Scan documents to PDF and more, as simply as possible. repo open NormCap - OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images. repo Paperwork - Paperwork is a personal document manager. It manages scanned documents and PDFs. repo open ❤️ Text Grab - A quick app to grab any on screen text using the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) built into Windows 10. open Pixel Editors LibreSprite - A free and open source program for creating and animating your sprites. repo open Piskel - A simple web-based tool for Spriting and Pixel art. repo open Pixelorama - A free & open-source 2D sprite editor. repo open PixiEditor - A lightweight pixel art editor. repo store open Shape Shifter - A web-app that simplifies the creation of icon animations for Android, iOS, and the web. repo open Remove Image Background BackgroundRemover - A free web application that lets you Remove Background from images and video. repo open BgSub - A website that uses AI technology to automatically remove or replace image backgrounds. Cleanup.Picture - A free web application that lets you quickly cleanup or remove objects in any image. Lama Cleaner - Image inpainting tool powered by SOTA AI Model. open Rembg - A command line tool to remove images background. open Remove.bg - Remove background from images 100% automatically in 5 seconds without a single click. Screen Annotation Tools ❤️ gInk - An easy to use on-screen annotation software inspired by Epic Pen. open LiveDraw - A tool allows you to draw on screen real-time. open Pensela - The Swiss Army Knife of Screen Annotation Tools. Screen Recorders ❤️ Fluent Screen Recorder - A simple screen recorder built with UWP and featuring Fluent Design. store open ❤️ OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording. repo store open ScreenREC - A really simple web screen recorder. repo open ❤️ ScreenToGif - Screen, webcam, and board recorder with an integrated editor. repo store open ❤️ ShareX - A free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. repo store open Streamlabs - Free and open source streaming software built on OBS and Electron. repo open Screenshot ❤️ Flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software. repo open ❤️ Greenshot - A light-weight screenshot software tool. repo open Ksnip - A Qt-based cross-platform screenshot tool that provides many annotation features for your screenshots. open ❤️ Snipaste - A simple but powerful snipping tool. store gifcap - Capture your screen to a GIF in your browser. repo open LICEcap - LICEcap simple animated screen capture tool for Windows (gif recorder). repo VTuber Kalidoface 3D - A web app that brings support for 3D Vtuber avatars. repo open Kalidoface - Become a virtual character with just your webcam! repo open SysMocap - A real-time motion capture system for 3D virtual character animating. open Vignette - The open source VTuber software. open Webcam Recorders Mini Video Me - A small webcam player focused on providing an easy way to add and control your webcam during recordings. repo open Webcamoid - A full featured and multiplatform webcam suite. repo open Whiteboards ❤️ Excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams. repo open ❤️ OpenBoard - A cross-platform interactive whiteboard application intended for use in a classroom setting. repo open WBO - Online collaborative Whiteboard that is simple, free, easy to use and to deploy. repo open Others Anime4KCPP - A high performance anime upscaler. open Stable Diffusion UI - Provides a browser UI for generating images from text prompts and images. repo Upscayl - Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler. open Allusion - A free and open source desktop application for managing your visual library. open AndreaMosaic - With AndreaMosaic you can create your own photographic mosaics made with your own pictures. Celestia - Real-time 3D visualization of space. repo open Colorpicker - A mininal but complete colorpicker desktop app. repo open Gephi - Gephi is the leading visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks. repo Graphviz - Open source graph visualization software. repo open Stellarium - A free open source planetarium for your computer. repo open Storyboarder - Storyboarder makes it easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures. repo Tropy - Research photo management. repo open Avataaars generator - Simple generator React app for avataaars. repo open Personas by Draftbit - A delightful avatar generator by the folks at Draftbit. repo open macOS Big Sur - Replacements Icons - Replacement icons for popular apps in the style of macOS Big Sur. repo open Health and Fitness Ambie - The best white noise app on Windows. repo store open Flexify - The fastest Gym Tracking App. repo open UBPM - Manage your blood pressure data on Windows/Linux/macOS. open Eyes Guard - A Windows application for protecting your eyes when you are working with your PC or Laptop. repo open Pomatez - An open-source Pomodoro timer application aimed for simplicity and productivity. repo open Pomotroid - Simple and visually-pleasing Pomodoro timer. repo open Stretchly - The break time reminder app. repo open Workrave - A free program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). repo open OpenStreetMap - A collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. QMapShack - An intuitive and efficient tool for route planning and GPS recordings visualization. open Network and Admin Network Monitors Angry IP Scanner - Fast and friendly network scanner. repo open Fiddler - A Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet. GlassWire - A network security monitoring tool and analyzer. ❤️ NETworkManager - A powerful tool for managing networks and troubleshoot network problems. repo open Sniffnet - Comfortably monitor your Internet traffic. repo open Wireshark - The world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer. repo open OpenNetMeter - A simple program to monitor your network/data usage. open TrafficMonitor - A network monitoring suspension window software on Windows platform. Remote Desktop Chrome Remote Desktop - The easy way to remotely connect with your home or work computer, or share your screen with others. DWService - Remotely access your devices from a Web browser. Quick Assist - A new app in Windows 10 that enables you to receive or provide assistance over a remote connection. QtScrcpy - Android real-time display control software. open RustDesk - Yet another remote desktop software. repo open ❤️ scrcpy - Display and control your Android device. open TigerVNC - A free remote desktop software server and client application. repo open TightVNC - A free remote desktop application. mRemoteNG - An open source, multi-protocol, tabbed remote connections manager. repo open 1Remote - A modern personal remote session manager and launcher. store Veyon - Cross-platform computer monitoring and classroom management. repo open Weylus - Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on your computer. open Screen Sharing Bananas Screen Sharing - A simple and easy-to-use screen sharing tool for Mac, Windows, and Linux. repo open Deskreen - A desktop app that turns any device with a web browser into a secondary screen for your computer over WiFi. repo open Screego - Screego allows you to share your screen with good quality and low latency. repo open ❤️ ScreenTask - Share your screen across local devices without internet. repo Virtual LAN NetBird - Connect your devices into a secure WireGuard®-based overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls. repo Tailscale - A mesh VPN alternative that makes it easy to connect your devices. repo ZeroTier - A smart programmable Ethernet switch for planet Earth. repo Virtualization Docker - Enterprise-focused container platform for building, sharing, and running any application. repo Podman - A tool for managing OCI containers and pods. repo open ❤️ Hyper-V - Hyper-V is Microsoft's hardware virtualization product. ❤️ VirtualBox - A powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. ❤️ WSL - Windows Subsystem for Linux. WSA - Windows Subsystem for Android. wsapacman - A GUI package manager and package installer for Windows Subsystem for Android. open ❤️ Sandboxie - A sandbox-based isolation software for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows NT-based operating systems. repo open ❤️ Windows Sandbox - Windows Sandbox provides a lightweight desktop environment to safely run applications in isolation. Others LibreSpeed - This is a very lightweight Speedtest implemented in Javascript, using XMLHttpRequest and Web Workers. repo open SwitchHosts - An App for managing hosts file. repo open Wifinian - A Windows desktop tool to enable user to actively control Wi-Fi connections. store open XPipe - A new type of shell connection hub and remote file manager that allows you to access your entire server infrastructure from your local machine. repo store open Online Services App Discovery Services ❤️ AlternativeTo - A website which lists alternatives to web-based software, desktop computer software, and mobile apps. Product Hunt - A website that lets users share and discover new products. Privacy and Security Guides Anonymous Planet - The comprehensive guide for online anonymity and OpSec. repo Awesome Privacy - A curated list of privacy & security-focused software and services. repo Awesome Privacy - List of free, open source and privacy respecting services and alternatives to privative services. EFF - The leading nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation. Personal Security Checklist - A curated checklist of 300+ tips for protecting digital security and privacy. repo PRISM Break - Privacy/security-oriented software recommendations. repo ❤️ Privacy Guides - Protect your data against global mass surveillance programs. repo Search Engines Brave Search - The user-first and privacy-focused search engine that uses its own index making it an independent search engine. DuckDuckGo - The search engine that doesn't track you. ❤️ SearXNG - Privacy-respecting metasearch engine. repo open Whoogle Search - A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine. repo open Secret Sharing One-Time Secret - Keep sensitive info out of your email & chat logs. repo open Paaster - A secure and user-friendly pastebin application that prioritizes privacy and simplicity. repo open Password Pusher - A dead-simple application to securely communicate passwords over the web. repo open PrivateBin - A minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. repo Yopass - Secure sharing of secrets, passwords and files. repo open Survey Tools Framadate - Schedule a meeting or create an opinion poll. Framaforms - Design your online surveys easily while respecting your audience. LimeSurvey - The most popular FOSS online survey tool on the web. repo open URL Shorteners anon.to - An anonymous URL redirector and shortener. repo open ❤️ Kutt - A modern URL shortener with support for custom domains. repo open Lstu - A nice and open source url shortener. repo open MagLit - Privacy Respecting Encrypted Link Shortener with Password Protection and Torrent Magnet Links support. repo open ZWS - Shorten URLs using invisible spaces. repo open Others ❤️ Disroot - A platform providing online services based on principles of freedom, privacy, federation and decentralization. Framasoft - A not-for-profit popular educational organization. switching.software - Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software. Opensource.Builders - A website to find and request open-source alternatives to popular software you already use. repo open ❤️ Mostly Free Resources for Almost Everyone - A list of mostly free resources for almost anyone. Awesome Piracy - A curated list of awesome warez and piracy links. Piracy Index - This website is a collection of the best digital piracy resources. repo open degoogle - A huge list of alternatives to Google products. repo Awesome Fediverse - A curated, collaborative list of awesome Fediverse resources. delightful fediverse apps - A curated list of server applications with support for the ActivityPub protocol (Fediverse network) and related standards. ❤️ Awesome-Selfhosted - A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers. Personal Finance Actual - A local-first personal finance app. repo open ❤️ GnuCash - A personal and small-business finance manager. repo open HomeBank - Free personal finance software, money management for everyone. repo KMyMoney - A cross-platform personal finance manager. Money Manager Ex - A free, open-source, cross-platform, easy-to-use personal finance software. repo open Money - Personal Expense Manager. repo store open Frappe Books - Free Desktop book-keeping software for small businesses and freelancers. repo open Portfolio Performance - Track and evaluate the performance of your investment portfolio across stocks, cryptocurrencies, and other assets. repo open Wealthfolio - A Beautiful Private and Secure Desktop Investment Tracking Application. repo open grocy - A web-based self-hosted groceries & household management solution for your home. repo store open rotki - A portfolio tracking, analytics, accounting and tax reporting application that protects your privacy. repo open Personalization Desktop Mascot Desktop Pet (eSheep) - This project gives you the possibility to add a pet to your desktop. repo store Mate Engine - A free Desktop Mate alternative with a lightweight interface and custom VRM support, though with more features. RunCatforwindows - A cute running cat animation on your windows taskbar. open Spirit - A modern and hackable desktop mascot. repo open Taskbar Tweakers TaskbarXI - An application written in C++ to modify the Windows 11 Taskbar. repo open TaskbarX - TaskbarX gives you control over the position of your taskbar icons. repo open TranslucentTB - TranslucentTB offers you control over the appearance of your taskbar. store open Wallpaper Management Aerial - Apple TV screen saver for Windows. open AlbumPaper - An app for Windows that will change your desktop wallpaper to the album art of the song you are listening to. open AutoWall - Live wallpapers on Windows 10/11 using open-source wallpaper engine. open ❤️ Lively Wallpaper - Free and open-source software that allows users to set animated desktop wallpapers and screensavers. repo store open ScreenPlay - Modern, Cross Plattform, Live Wallpaper, Widgets and AppDrawer! repo open SpaceEye - Make live satellite imagery your desktop background with SpaceEye. open Superpaper - A cross-platform multi monitor wallpaper manager. open WinDynamicDesktop - WinDynamicDesktop ports the Dynamic Desktop feature from macOS Mojave to Windows 10. store open Others BeautySearch - Windows 10+ Search Window appearance tweaker. open Bibata Cursor - Opensource, compact, and material-designed cursor set. open ElevenClock - Have a customizable clock on your Windows 11 displays. repo store open ExplorerPatcher - This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows. open Mica for Everyone - A tool to enable backdrop effect on titlebar of win32 apps on Windows 11. open ModernFlyouts - A modern Fluent Design replacement for the old Metro themed flyouts present in Windows. repo store open Open-Shell-Menu - Classic Shell Reborn. open ❤️ Rainmeter - Desktop customization tool for Windows. repo open Seelen UI - The Fully Customizable Desktop Environment for Windows 10/11. store open Taskbar Groups - Lightweight utility for organizing the taskbar through groups. open TileIconifier - Creates tiles for most Windows 8.1 and 10 start menu icons. open Windows Auto Dark Mode - Switches between the dark and light theme of Windows at scheduled times. store open Privacy and Security Antivirus ❤️ VirusTotal - Free online malware detection service for analyzing suspicious files and URLs. ❤️ Windows Security - Windows 10 and 11 include Windows Security, which provides the latest antivirus protection. Decentralized Networks Freenet - A peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant and privacy-respecting publishing and communication. I2P - The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is a fully encrypted private network layer. IPFS - A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open. repo open Encryption Tools Disk Encryption Tools ❤️ Bitlocker - A Microsoft Windows security and encryption feature. ❤️ VeraCrypt - Disk encryption with strong security based on TrueCrypt. repo open Steganography Tools OpenStego - An open-source steganography tool. repo open StegCloak - Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely using passwords. repo open Others Age - A simple, modern and secure encryption tool. repo open ❤️ cppcryptfs - An implementation of the gocryptfs encrypted overlay filesystem in C++ for Windows. open ❤️ Cryptomator - Multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud. repo open ❤️ Gnupg - A complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by PGP. open FileKey - FileKey is an offline web app that lets you quickly encrypt and share files using passkeys. repo open Hat.sh - Encrypt and Decrypt files securely in your browser. repo open Horcrux - Split your file into encrypted horcruxes so that you don't need to remember a passcode. open Kryptor - A simple, modern, and secure encryption and signing tool that aims to be a better version of age and Minisign. repo open Minisign - A dead simple tool to sign files and verify digital signatures. repo ❤️ Picocrypt - A very small, very simple, yet very secure encryption tool. open ❤️ SiriKali - A Qt/C++ GUI front end to sshfs, ecryptfs-simple, cryfs, gocryptfs, securefs, fscrypt and encfs. repo open Firewalls Fort Firewall - Fort Firewall for Windows. open ❤️ Portmaster - Monitor all network activity. repo open ❤️ Simplewall - Simple tool to configure Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) which can configure network activity on your computer. open Windows Defender Firewall - A stateful host firewall. Password Managers ❤️ Bitwarden - An open source password manager. repo store open ❤️ KeePassXC - A modern, secure, and open-source password manager that stores and manages your most sensitive information. repo store open KeeWeb - This webapp is a browser and desktop password manager compatible with KeePass databases. repo open Proton Pass - Free password manager with identity protection. repo open ❤️ Ente Auth - An end-to-end encrypted, cross platform and free app for storing your 2FA codes with cloud backups. repo open Diceware Passphrase Generator - A tool for generating strong Diceware passwords, with entropy and crack time estimates. repo open LessPass - A stateless password manager. repo Remove EXIF Data ❤️ ExifCleaner - Cross-platform desktop GUI app to clean image metadata. repo open ExifTool - ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files. jExifToolGUI - Graphical frontend for the excellent command-line ExifTool by Phil Harvey. repo open System Tweakers O&O ShutUp10++ - Free antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11. Optimizer - The finest Windows Optimizer. open Privatezilla - Performs a privacy & security check of Windows 10. open Bloatynosy - Your everyday Windows companion. open RyTuneX - Your one-stop solution for enhancing Windows 10 and 11. Built with precision, designed for performance. repo open Awesome Win11 - Windows 11 Settings, Tweaks, Scripts. repo Harden Windows Security - Harden Windows Safely, Securely, Only With Official Microsoft Methods. repo VPN ProtonVPN - High-speed Swiss VPN that safeguards your privacy. repo open Windscribe - Free VPN and Ad Blocker. repo open Others Blacklight - A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector. Image Scrubber - This is a tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests. repo Productivity Automation Alpha Clicker - Windows Autoclicker with a modern ui. open Auto Screen Capture - Automated screen capture utility. repo open AutoActions - Application-based actions to change Windows settings (display, audio) or run any program or action. open ❤️ AutoHotkey - A free, open source macro-creation and automation software utility that allows users to automate repetitive tasks. repo open ❤️ Beeftext - A text snippet tool for Windows. repo open ❤️ espanso - A cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust. repo open Macro Deck - A open source software to use your smartphone, tablet or almost any touch screen device with a internet browser as a simple macro pad or even as an powerful automation solution for streaming, gaming, content creation and more. repo open Mouse Jiggler - A very simple piece of software whose sole function is to "fake" mouse input to Windows, and jiggle the mouse pointer back and forth. open Power Automate - Power Automate allows you to automate web and desktop applications on your Windows desktop by mimicking the user interface actions like clicks, and keyboard input. Shutdown Timer Classic - Pick a time and let your computer shutdown itself. store open SikuliX - SikuliX automates anything you see on the screen of your desktop computer running Windows, Mac or some Linux/Unix. repo open Calendars Proton Calendar - A calendar that respects privacy and puts people (not advertisers) first. Tuta Calendar - Tuta Calendar is the only zero-knowledge calendar with quantum-safe encryption, making sure all your events are protected from snooping and prying eyes. repo open Clipboard Managers Clipboard - A utility that lets you cut, copy, and paste text and files on any PC. repo open Clipboard Canvas - A tool that helps you be productive, preview multiple files on Infinite Canvas, save storage space with smart Reference Files, and work uninterruptibly with Autopaste. store open ❤️ CopyQ - An advanced clipboard manager with powerful editing and scripting features. repo open ❤️ Ditto - An extension to the standard windows clipboard. repo store PasteBar - Limitless, Free Clipboard Manager for Mac and Windows. repo Rememory - A powerful clipboard manager that supercharges your productivity by saving everything you copy. open XClipper - A clipboard manager for Windows & Android which helps to track clipboard activities and makes it easier to interact with them. repo open File Search ❤️ Everything - Locate files and folders by name instantly. ❤️ EverythingToolbar - Everything integration for the Windows taskbar. Orange - A cross-platform desktop application for searching local files. repo open Spyglass - A personal search engine, crawl & index websites/files you want with a simple set of rules. repo open ❤️ dnGrep - dnGrep allows you to search across files with easy-to-read results. repo open ❤️ grepWin - A powerful and fast search tool using regular expressions. repo open Journaling linked - Daily journaling without distraction. repo open RedNotebook - A modern desktop journal. repo open Markdown Editors Dillinger - A cloud-enabled, mobile-ready, offline-storage compatible. repo open ❤️ MarkText - A simple and elegant markdown editor. repo open MindForger - Thinking notebook and Markdown editor with LLM wingman. repo open ❤️ PanWriter - Markdown editor with pandoc integration and paginated preview. repo open StackEdit - In-browser Markdown editor. repo open AngularJS-powered HTML5 Markdown editor. repo open Mind Mapping ASCIIFlow - A client-side only web based application for drawing ASCII diagrams. repo open ❤️ draw.io - Free online diagram software. ❤️ drawio-desktop - An open source technology stack for building diagramming applications. repo store Gaphor - A UML and SysML modeling application written in Python. repo open Heimer - A simple cross-platform mind map, diagram, and note-taking tool written in Qt. open mindmaps - An open source, offline capable, mind mapping application leveraging HTML5 technologies. repo open My Mind - A web application for creating and managing Mind maps. repo open Wireflow - Flow chart collaboration app. repo open Note Taking AFFiNE - Affine is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. repo open Anytype - With Anytype, you can build digital spaces around your interests. repo open Cryptee - A privacy focused, encrypted and secure documents, notes, files and photos service. repo open ❤️ Joplin - A free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. repo open ❤️ Notesnook - A fully end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote. repo open SilentNotes - A simple note taking app which respects your privacy. repo store open ❤️ Standard Notes - A free, open-source, and completely encrypted notes app. repo Simplenote - The simplest way to keep notes. store AppFlowy - An open-source alternative to Notion. repo open Beaver Notes - A privacy-focused note-taking application for macOS, Windows and GNU/Linux. repo open Foam - A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode. repo open ❤️ Logseq - A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration. repo open Notes - An open source and cross-platform note-taking app that is both beautiful and powerful. repo open ❤️ Obsidian - A powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files. ❤️ QOwnNotes - A plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with markdown support and Nextcloud / ownCloud integration. repo open Reor - Self-organizing AI note-taking app that runs models locally. repo open ❤️ TriliumNext Notes - A hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases. open VNote - A pleasant note-taking platform in native C++. repo open ❤️ Zettlr - A Markdown Editor for the 21st century. repo open Butterfly - Powerful, minimalistic, cross-platform, opensource note-taking app. repo open Lorien - An infinite canvas drawing/note-taking app that is focused on performance, small savefiles and simplicity. open Microsoft Journal - A notetaking application that focuses on the inking experience. Rnote - Sketch and take handwritten notes. repo open Saber - The cross-platform open-source app built for handwriting. repo open ❤️ Xournal++ - A handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. repo open Office ❤️ CryptPad - A collaboration suite that is end-to-end-encrypted and open-source. repo open Grist - A modern relational spreadsheet. repo open ❤️ LibreOffice - A free and powerful office suite. repo repo open ONLYOFFICE - A powerful online editor for text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms and PDF for the platform you use. open FreeShow - A dynamic, user-friendly, and open-source presenter built for all of your presentations. repo open Pympress - A simple yet powerful PDF reader designed for dual-screen presentations. repo open Sozi - A presentation tool for SVG documents. repo open mobslide - Turn your smartphone into presentation remote controller. repo open Google Docs - Free online document editor. Microsoft Office Online - Collaborate for free with online versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. PDF Editors PDF Arranger - Small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split pdf documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. open PDF4QT - Open source PDF editor. repo store open PDFsam - A desktop application to extract pages, split, merge, mix and rotate PDF files. repo open Signature PDF - Free open-source web software for signing PDFs (alone or with others) and also organize pages, edit medata and compress pdf. repo open Stirling-PDF - Locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files. repo open Task Management Focalboard - An open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana. repo store open Kanban Tasker - A simple personal kanban board. store open sleek - A todo app based on todo.txt. store open Super Productivity - To-do list & time tracker for programmers & designers. store WeekToDo - A free minimalist weekly planner app focused on privacy. repo open Time Tracking ActivityWatch - The best free and open-source automated time tracker. repo open Lotti - Lotti helps you track habits, behavior, any data about yourself, in complete privacy. open Nomie - Open-source mood and life tracking. repo open Strategr - No-Fuss Time Management App. repo open Tockler - An application that tracks your time by monitoring your active window title and idle time. repo open ididit! - The procrastination friendly habit tracker. repo store open Habitica - A habit tracker app which treats your goals like a Role Playing Game. repo Weather FluentWeather - A beautiful & modern UWP weather app for Windows. store open Lively Weather - Windows native weather app powered by DirectX12 animations. repo store open Writing Tools KIT Scenarist - Simple and powerful application for writing screenplays. repo open Manuskript - A open-source tool for writers. repo open Writing Tools - Writing Tools is an Apple Intelligence-inspired application for Windows, Linux, and macOS that supercharges your writing with an AI LLM (cloud-based or local). bibisco - An open source application for writing novels. repo open ghostwriter - A cross-platform, aesthetic, distraction-free Markdown editor. open novelWriter - An open source plain text editor designed for writing novels. repo open Others PdfScribe - A PDF virtual printer for 64-bit Windows / .NET 4.8 or later. open Scribus - An open source desktop publishing software. repo open TeXstudio - A fully featured LaTeX editor. repo open quiver - A modern commutative diagram editor for the web. repo open Typst - A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn. repo open Datawrapper - An open source tool helping everyone to create simple, correct and embeddable charts in minutes. RAWGraphs - An open web tool to create custom vector-based visualizations on top of the amazing d3.js library. repo open Reactive Resume - A free and open source resume builder. repo open Resumake - A website for automatically generating elegant LaTeX resumes. repo open ❤️ KDE Connect - Enabling communication between all your devices. repo store open Phone Link - Link your Android phone and PC to view and reply to text messages, make and receive calls, view your notifications, and more. Sefirah - Phone Link / KDE Connect alternative with Notification Mirroring, Screen Mirroring, Clipboard Sync, File Transfer, Media Control. store open ntfy - A simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service. repo open ClickPaste - Windows 10 notification area app in C# that can paste clipboard contents as keystrokes to whatever location you click. open DropPoint - Make drag-and-drop easier using DropPoint. repo open ❤️ QuickLook - Bring macOS “Quick Look” feature to Windows. repo store open Utilities Application Launchers Cerebro - Open-source productivity booster with a brain. repo open Flow launcher - Quick file search & app launcher for Windows with community-made plugins. repo open Kando - The Cross-Platform Pie Menu. repo open LaunchyQt - LaunchyQt is a fork of the keystroke launcher program Launchy but modernized. open Pinpoint - Keystroke launcher and productivity tool. open ❤️ PowerToys - Windows system utilities to maximize productivity. store open SystemTrayMenu - Browse and open your files easily. store open ueli - A keystroke launcher for Windows and macOS. repo open Context Menu Managers ContextMenuManager - A program to manage the Windows right-click context menu. repo open Custom Context Menu - Add Custom Context Menu For Windows11. store open Shell - Powerful context menu manager for Windows File Explorer. repo open Disk Imaging DISMTools - A front-end for DISM that lets you manage your Windows Imaging (WIM) files and a whole lot more. open Macrium Reflect Free - The complete backup solution for personal use. UrBackup - An easy to setup Open Source client/server backup system. repo open ❤️ Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows Free & Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition - The free backup software to protect virtual, physical and cloud workloads. ❤️ Etcher - A powerful OS image flasher. repo open ❤️ Rufus - A utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives. repo store open UNetbootin - UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. repo USBImager - A very minimal GUI app that can write compressed disk images to USB drives. MultiOS-USB - Boot operating systems directly from ISO/WIM images. open Ventoy - A Multiboot Bootable USB Creation Tool. repo open UUP dump - Download UUP files from Windows Update servers with ease. repo open UUP Media Creator - An utility to convert Unified Update Platform file sets into Windows Media files. store open Disk Usage Analyzers Filelight - An application to visualize the disk usage on your computer. store TreeSize Free - The disk space manager TreeSize Free tells you where precious disk space has gone. store WizTree - The fastest disk space analyzer. File Recovery DMDE - A powerful tool for data searching, editing, and recovery on disks. TestDisk - A powerful free data recovery software. repo open Windows File Recovery - A command-line software utility from Microsoft to recover deleted files. File Shredders BleachBit - BleachBit cleans files to free disk space and to maintain privacy. repo open ❤️ Eraser - A secure data removal tool for Windows. Permadelete - An easy to use and beautiful app for shredding files and folders permanently. repo store open Turbo Delete - A blazing fast alternative to the default Windows delete. open Hardware Monitoring Fan Control Fan Control - A focused, highly customizable fan controlling software for Windows. repo FanCtrl - FanCtrl is a software that allows you to automatically control the fan speed on your PC. open NBFC - A cross-platform fan control service for notebooks. open RGB Lighting Control Artemis - Provides advanced unified lighting across many different brands RGB peripherals. repo open OpenRGB - Open source RGB lighting control that doesn't depend on manufacturer software. repo open Others ❤️ CrystalDiskInfo - A HDD/SSD utility software which supports a part of USB, Intel RAID and NVMe. store ❤️ CrystalDiskMark - A simple storage benchmark. GSmartControl - Hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool. repo open ❤️ HWiNFO - Comprehensive Hardware Analysis, Monitoring and Reporting for Windows and DOS. ❤️ Libre Hardware Monitor - A fork of Open Hardware Monitor. open Sidebar Diagnostics - A simple sidebar for Windows desktop that displays hardware diagnostic information. open Fastfetch - A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool. open Winfetch - A command-line system information utility written in PowerShell. open Mouse and Keyboard Sharing Barrier - Open-source KVM software. open Deskflow - A free and open source keyboard and mouse sharing app. repo open Input Leap - Open-source KVM software. open InputShare - Seamlessly share your computer's keyboard, mouse and clipboard with Android device using InputShare. repo open Lan Mouse - Mouse & keyboard sharing via LAN. open Package Managers Chocolatey GUI - A delicious GUI for Chocolatey. open ❤️ Chocolatey - The package manager for Windows. repo open ❤️ Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows. repo Fluent Store - A unifying frontend for Windows app stores and package managers. open ❤️ UniGetUI - The Graphical Interface for your package managers. repo store open ❤️ winget - Microsoft's open-source CLI packager manager for Windows. store open winstall - A web app for browsing and installing Windows Package Manager apps. repo open Topgrade - Keeping your system up to date usually involves invoking multiple package managers. open PortableApps.com - A website offering many free, commonly used Windows applications that have been specially packaged for portability. ❤️ BCUninstaller - A free program uninstaller. repo open ❤️ GeekUninstaller - A portable software uninstaller. Screen Dimmers f.lux - f.lux warms up your screen at night to help you relax and wind down before bed. store LightBulb - An application that reduces eyestrain produced by staring at a computer screen when working late hours. open Monitorian - A Windows desktop tool to adjust the brightness of multiple monitors with ease. store open Twinkle Tray - Easily manage the brightness of your monitors in Windows from the system tray. repo store open System Administration Sysinternals Suite - A bundle of the Sysinternals utilities including Process Explorer, Process Monitor, Sysmon, Autoruns, ProcDump, all of the PsTools, and many more. System Informer - A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware. repo open Window Managers AltSnap - Easily drag windows when pressing the alt key. open Amethyst Windows - Automatic tiling window manager for Windows 10/11. repo open GlazeWM - A tiling window manager for Windows inspired by i3wm. open RBTray - RBTray allows almost any program to be minimized to the system tray by right clicking its minimize button. open SmartSystemMenu - SmartSystemMenu extends system menu of all windows in the system. open Tabame - Tabame is an alternative to Windows Taskbar. open komorebi - Tiling Window Management for Windows. repo open workspacer - A tiling window manager for Windows. repo open Others AltStore - An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices. repo open CompactGUI - Visual Interface for the Windows 10 Compact Function. ❤️ Driver Store Explorer - Driver Store Explorer [RAPR] makes it easier to deal with Windows driver store. open FontForge - Free (libre) font editor for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux. repo open GestureSign - A gesture recognition software for Windows tablet. open barcodrod.io - A free, modern barcode and QR code toolkit for Windows. repo store open Html5-QRCode - A cross platform HTML5 QR code reader. repo open Key'n'Stroke - Displays Keystrokes in an overlay window and visualize mouse clicks. open Keyviz - A free and open-source tool to visualize your keystrokes keyboard in real-time. repo open NVDA - The free and open source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows. repo Nyrna - Suspend games and applications. repo open Plover - Open source stenotype engine. repo open Scanner - An all-in-one scanner app built for the Universal Windows Platform. repo store open Screen Ruler - A lightweight and configurable ruler tool for Windows Desktop. repo open Kanata - A cross-platform software keyboard remapper for Linux, macOS and Windows. open SharpKeys - A utility that manages a Registry key that allows Windows to remap one key to any other key. repo open Ten Hands - Simplest way to organize and run command-line tasks. repo open Universal Android Debloater Next Generation - Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted android devices. open WinCompose - A compose key for Windows. repo X-Mouse Controls - Windows utility to enable or disable active window tracking, raising and also the delay in milliseconds. repo open Video Media Servers FCast - Open source protocol for audio and video content streaming. open Go2TV - Cast media files to UPnP/DLNA Media Renderers and Smart TVs. open ❤️ Jellyfin - A personal media server and client. repo open ❤️ Kodi - An award-winning free and open source software media player and entertainment hub for digital media for HTPCs (Home theater PCs). repo store Macast - A menu bar application using mpv as DLNA Media Renderer. repo open Universal Media Server - A DLNA, UPnP and HTTP(S) Media Server. repo open Subtitles Tools pyTranscriber - An application that can be used to generate automatic transcription / automatic subtitles for audio/video files through a friendly graphical user interface. repo open Subliminal - A command line tool to search and download subtitles. repo open SubSync - An automatic movie subtitle synchronization tool. repo open Subtitle Edit - A free editor for video subtitles. repo open Video Converters ❤️ FFmpeg - A collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata. repo open ❤️ HandBrake - An open-source video transcoder. repo ❤️ LosslessCut - The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing. repo store open VidCoder - An open-source DVD/Blu-ray ripping and video transcoding application. repo store open Video Editors Auto-Editor - Auto-Editor is a command line application for automatically editing video and audio by analyzing a variety of methods, most notably audio loudness. repo open ❤️ DaVinci Resolve - A color grading and non-linear video editing application. Kdenlive - Free and open source video editor. repo open Olive - Free open-source non-linear video editor. repo open OpenShot - An award-winning free and open-source video editor. repo open ❤️ Shotcut - A free, open source, cross-platform video editor. repo open StaxRip - Video encoding GUI for Windows. open Kinovea - A video annotation tool designed for motion analysis. repo open MKVToolNix - A set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska files under Linux, other Unices and Windows. repo Natron - Open-source video compositing software. repo open ❤️ Astrofox - A motion graphics program that lets turn audio into amazing videos. repo open Mediabits.io - Mediabits.io lets anyone create engaging videos for their audio, perfect for sharing on social media. repo open Clipchamp - Free online video editor. Video Players ❤️ Media Player - Media Player is designed to make listening to and watching your multimedia content more enjoyable. Rise Media Player - One media player for everything you own or stream. open MPC-BE - A free and open source audio and video player. open ❤️ MPC-HC - A free and open-source video and audio player. open ❤️ mpv.net - A modern media player for Windows based on the popular mpv player. store open mpv - A free, open source, and cross-platform media player. repo open SMPlayer - Free Media Player with built-in codecs. repo store open VLC - A cross-platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project. repo store open GridPlayer - Simple VLC-based media player that can play multiple videos at the same time. open Kawaii-Player - Multimedia player, media library manager and portable media server with PC-To-PC casting feature. open LLPlayer - The media player for language learning, with dual subtitles, AI-generated subtitles, real-time translation, and more! repo open QMPlay2 - A video and audio player which can play most formats and codecs. open Screenbox - LibVLC-based media player for the Universal Windows Platform. store open IPTVnator - A video player application that provides support for the playback of IPTV playlists (m3u, m3u8). repo open Open TV - Ultra-fast, simple and powerful cross-platform IPTV app. store open Vodon Pro - A video player designed for esports coaches to review footage of players. open Pennywise - Cross-platform application to open any website or media in a floating window. open Video Streaming ❤️ FreeTube - An Open Source YouTube app for privacy. repo open Grayjay - Grayjay combines video content from multiple platforms, such as YouTube, PeerTube, Twitch, and others, into one app, removing the need to switch between different platforms. Materialious - Materialious is a privacy respecting frontend for YouTube built ontop of Invidious. repo open Invidious - An alternative front-end to YouTube. repo open ❤️ Piped - An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design. repo open Streamlink Twitch GUI - A multi platform Twitch.tv browser for Streamlink. open MotionMonkey - A semantic video player designed to stream Internet videos from a single query. store Popcorn Time - A free BitTorrent client that includes an integrated media player. Watch Videos Together ❤️ Metastream - Watch streaming media with friends. repo OpenTogetherTube - The easy way to watch videos with your friends. repo open ❤️ Syncplay - Syncplay synchronises the position and play state of multiple media players so that the viewers can watch the same thing at the same time. repo open WatchParty - A website for watching videos together. repo open Others DVDStyler - A cross-platform free DVD authoring application. Gyroflow - Video stabilization using gyroscope data. repo open IPTV - Collection of publicly available IPTV channels from all over the world. MediaInfo - MediaInfo is a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files. repo open Mediarepo - A tool for managing media files. repo open QPrompt - Personal teleprompter software for all video creators. repo Radarr - A movie collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users. repo open Stash - An organizer for your porn, written in Go. repo open Notable Non-Windows Software GParted - A free partition editor for graphically managing your disk partitions. open Rescuezilla - An open-source easy-to-use disk imaging app that's fully compatible with Clonezilla. repo open --- References & Acknowledgements ⬆️back to top⬆️ GitHub AlternativeTo Product Hunt Privacy Guides PRISM Break Awesome Privacy Personal Security Checklist switching.software Opensource.Builders Mostly Free Resources for Almost Everyone Awesome Piracy Piracy Index degoogle Awesome Web Apps - Curated list of awesome web apps that work without requesting you to create an account. Alternative frontends - This is a list of privacy-respecting frontends to popular services like social media. Awesome Humane Tech - Promoting Solutions that Improve Wellbeing, Freedom and Society. repo ethical.net - A not-for-profit project building a collaborative, online directory of ethical companies of all kinds. LICENSE This article is under the CC0-1.0 license. [open.svg]: https://auctor.sirv.com/Images/open.svg [repo.svg]: https://auctor.sirv.com/Images/repo.svg]]>

Free Lunch


This is a list of free Windows software for normal users. It will be updated from time to time.


Please note the following points:

  • This list contains the great built-in apps in Windows.
  • Strikethrough text is used to show that something is not recommended. These apps aren't private or reliable enough compared to similar apps, although they are cool!
  • Some apps could possibly infringe copyright or other laws.
  • Microsoft Store Apps may not have all the features of Desktop Apps.
  • When you use a piece of software, please check its privacy policy. Many software privacy policies may have changed over time, and I don't have enough time to check them. In addition, some software has not been updated for a long time, which may pose a security risk.
  • microsoft store – Microsoft Store
  • repository – Repository
  • open – Open Source license compliant
  • ❤️ – My Favorites

Mirrors

Contents

Artificial Intelligence

  • ChaiNNer – A node-based image processing GUI aimed at making chaining image processing tasks easy and customizable. repo open
  • Clara – Your Fully Local AI Superstack — Not Just Another Chat UI. repo
  • Fooocus – Focus on prompting and generating. open
  • GPT4All – GPT4All runs large language models (LLMs) privately on everyday desktops & laptops. repo open
  • Jan – An open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer. repo open
  • KoboldCpp – An easy-to-use AI text-generation software for GGML and GGUF models, inspired by the original KoboldAI. open
  • Stability Matrix – Multi-Platform Package Manager for Stable Diffusion. repo open

Audio

Audio Editors

  • ❤️ Audacity – An easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder. repo open
  • AudioMass – Free full-featured web-based audio & waveform editing tool. repo
  • ❤️ Tenacity – An easy-to-use, privacy-friendly, FLOSS, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder. repo open
  • ❤️ fre:ac – A free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. repo store open

Audio Players

  • ❤️ AIMP – A full-featured music player. store
  • DeaDBeeF – A modular cross-platform audio player. repo
  • Dopamine – An elegant audio player which tries to make organizing and listening to music as simple and pretty as possible. repo open
  • ❤️ foobar2000 – An advanced freeware audio player. store
  • Harmonoid – Elegant music app to play & manage music library. repo
  • Moosync – A customizable desktop music player with a clean interface. repo open
  • Museeks – A simple, clean and cross-platform music player. repo open
  • ❤️ MusicBee – A music manager and player. store
  • Musicpod – Music, radio, television and podcast player for Ubuntu, Windows, MacOs and Android. open
  • Strawberry Music Player – A music player and music collection organizer. repo open
  • Tauon Music Box – The desktop music player from the future! repo open

Music Production

  • AudioStellar – Open source data-driven musical instrument for latent sound structure discovery and music experimentation. repo open
  • BeepBox – An online tool for sketching and sharing instrumental melodies. repo open
  • Bespoke Synth – Bespoke is a software modular synthesizer. repo open
  • Helio Workstation – One music sequencer for all major platforms, desktop and mobile. repo open
  • Jamulus – A networked music performance software allowing musicians to rehearse, perform and play in real-time. repo
  • ❤️ LMMS – Cross-platform music production software. repo open
  • ❤️ Mixxx – Free DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes. repo
  • ❤️ MuseScore – Create, playback, and print sheet music for free. repo store
  • OpenMPT (ModPlug Tracker) – Sample-based music production program in the style of trackers such as Impulse Tracker and FastTracker. repo open
  • Sonic Pi – A code-based music creation and performance tool. repo open

Music Streaming

  • Cider – An open source and community oriented Apple Music client. repo open
  • Lofi – A mini Spotify player with WebGL visualizations. repo open
  • muffon – Music streaming browser. repo open
  • ❤️ nuclear – Streaming music player that finds free music for you. repo open
  • Spotube – A lightweight free Spotify crossplatform-client which handles playback manually, streams music using Youtube & no Spotify premium account is needed. repo
  • YouTube Music Desktop – A Desktop App for YouTube Music.
  • YouTube Music – YouTube Music Desktop App bundled with custom plugins (and built-in ad blocker / downloader). repo open

Music Tag Editors

  • Kid3 – An open-source cross-platform audio tag editor for many audio file formats. repo open
  • Mp3tag – A powerful and easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of audio files. store
  • ❤️ MusicBrainz Picard – An open-source cross-platform music tagger. repo store open
  • OneTagger – The ultimate music tagger for DJs. repo open

Sound Equalizers

  • ❤️ Equalizer APO – A system-wide equalizer. open
  • FxSound – A digital audio program built for Windows PC's. repo open
  • ❤️ Peace Equalizer – A Windows PC interface for Equalizer APO. open

Volume Control

  • ❤️ EarTrumpet – A powerful volume control app for Windows. repo store open
  • SoundSwitch – SoundSwitch offers you the opportunity to switch your playback and recording devices using simple hotkeys. repo open
  • Volumey – Volume mixer that allows you to set up global hotkeys to control your Windows audio system. store open
  • WinMute – WinMute can automatically mute all sound devices on your PC. open

Others

  • AirConnect – Use AirPlay to stream to UPnP/Sonos & Chromecast devices.
  • AirPodsDesktop – AirPods desktop user experience enhancement program. open
  • Audio Band – Display and control songs from the Windows taskbar. open
  • AudioPlaybackConnector – Bluetooth audio playback (A2DP Sink) connector for Windows 10 2004+. open
  • Buzz – Transcribe and translate audio offline on your personal computer. open
  • Vibe – Transcribe audio / video offline using OpenAI Whisper. repo open
  • ebook2audiobook – Convert ebooks to audiobooks with chapters and metadata using dynamic AI models and voice cloning. Supports 1,107+ languages!
  • Carla – A fully-featured audio plugin host, with support for many audio drivers and plugin formats. repo open
  • Figaro – Real-time open-source voice modification program & sound board. open
  • Friture – An application to visualize and analyze live audio data in real-time. store open
  • Mechvibes – Adds sound feedback any keyboard. repo
  • MicMute – Control your microphone using keyboard and mouse hotkeys.
  • Neothesia – Flashy Synthesia Like Software For Linux, Windows and macOS. open
  • Piano Trainer – A music practice program w/ MIDI support. repo open
  • projectM – The most advanced open-source music visualizer. store
  • Real-time Noise Suppression Plugin – Noise suppression plugin based on Xiph's RNNoise. open
  • Sonic Visualiser – Visualisation, analysis, and annotation of music audio recordings. repo open
  • SonoBus – A real-time network audio streaming collaboration tool. repo open
  • Soundux – A cross-platform soundboard that features a simple user interface. repo open
  • Spek – Free Acoustic Spectrum Analyser. repo open
  • SpleeterGUI – Music source separation desktop app. open
  • Sunamu – Show your currently playing song in a stylish way! open
  • Audio Share – Audio Share can share Windows/Linux computer's audio to Android phone over network, so your phone becomes the speaker of computer. open
  • swyh-rs – Stream What You Hear written in rust, inspired by SWYH. open
  • VB-CABLE – VB-CABLE is a virtual audio device working as virtual audio cable.
  • LRCGET – Utility for mass-downloading LRC synced lyrics for your offline music library. open

Backup and Sync

Cloud Storage

  • ❤️ Ente Photos – End-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos / iCloud Photos, that makes it easy to backup and share photos and videos. repo open
  • ❤️ Nextcloud – A suite of client-server software for creating and using file hosting services. repo
  • ❤️ MEGA – A secure, user-controlled end-to-end encrypted cloud storage and communications service with 20 GB free storage space. repo
  • ❤️ Proton Drive – Secure your files, documents and photos with end-to-end encryption. open
  • ❤️ Sync – A file storage and document collaboration platform.
  • ❤️ Tresorit – Tresorit is the ultra-secure place in the cloud to store, sync, and share files within your organization and with external partners.
  • Internxt Drive – A zero-knowledge cloud storage service based on best-in-class privacy and security. repo

Others

  • Cyberduck – A libre FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3, Backblaze B2, Azure & OpenStack Swift browser. repo open
  • Duplicacy – A new generation cloud backup tool. repo
  • Duplicati – Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud! open
  • FreeFileSync – Folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files.
  • Kopia – A simple, cross-platform tool for managing encrypted backups in the cloud. repo open
  • ❤️ Rclone – A command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. repo open
  • restic – Fast, secure, efficient backup program. repo open
  • ❤️ Syncthing – A continuous file synchronization program. repo open
  • ❤️ ChoEazyCopy – Simple and powerful RoboCopy GUI. open
  • Ultracopier – Ultracopier acts as a replacement for files copy dialogs. open
  • Ludusavi – A tool for backing up your PC video game save data. open

Books and Readers

Books

  • Anna’s Archive – The largest truly open library in human history.
  • Internet Archive – A non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
  • Library Genesis – A file-sharing based shadow library website.
  • Open Library – An open, editable library catalog.
  • Project Gutenberg – A library of over 60,000 free eBooks.
  • Sci-Hub – A shadow library website that provides free access to millions of research papers and books.
  • ZLibrary – The world's largest ebook library.
  • Books – Awesome Book Lists.
  • Mind Expanding Books – Books everyone should read! repo

Ebook Readers

  • ❤️ Okular – A universal document viewer. store
  • Sumatra PDF – A free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) viewer. repo
  • Sioyek – A PDF viewer designed for reading research papers and technical books. repo open
  • Alexandria – A minimalistic cross-platform eBook reader built with Tauri, Epub.js, and Typescript. open
  • calibre – An e-book manager. repo open
  • Koodo Reader – A modern ebook manager and reader. repo open
  • Readest – An open-source ebook reader designed for immersive and deep reading experiences. repo open
  • Thorium Reader – The best free reading application for EPUB, PDF and DAISY 3 ebooks, audiobooks and digital comics. repo store open
  • YACReader – Yet another comic reader. repo open
  • Libation – Audible audiobook manager. open
  • Sigil – A multi-platform EPUB ebook editor. open
  • Kiwix – An offline reader for online content like Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, or TED Talks. repo store open

RSS Readers

  • FeedFlow – A minimalistic RSS Reader available on Android, iOS, macOS, Windows and Linux. repo open
  • Fluent Reader – Modern desktop RSS reader. repo store open
  • QuiteRSS – Free news feeds reader. open
  • RSS Guard – Feed reader which supports RSS/ATOM/JSON and many web-based feed services. open

Browsers and Extensions

Browsers

  • ❤️ Brave – A fast, private and secure web browser. repo store open
  • Chromium – The free and open-source project behind Google Chrome. repo open
  • ❤️ Firefox – Get the browser that protects what’s important. store open
  • ❤️ LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom. repo store open
  • ❤️ Mullvad Browser – Privacy-focused browser for Linux, macOS and Windows. repo open
  • ❤️ Tor Browser – A web broswer that anonymizes your web traffic using the Tor network. repo
  • Min – A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy. repo

Extensions

New Tab Page

  • Bonjourr – Minimalist & lightweight startpage inspired by iOS. repo open
  • Mue – Fast, open and free-to-use new tab page for modern browsers. repo open
  • Tabliss – A beautiful, customisable New Tab page for Firefox and Chrome. repo open
  • nightTab – A neutral new tab page accented with a chosen colour. repo open

Privacy Extensions

  • AdNauseam – Fight back against advertising surveillance. repo open
  • ClearURLs – This extension will automatically remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy when browsing the Internet. repo open
  • ❤️ FastForward – FastForward automatically skips annoying link shorteners. repo
  • ❤️ LibRedirect – A web extension that redirects popular sites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends and backends. repo open
  • ❤️ LocalCDN – A web browser extension that emulates Content Delivery Networks to improve your online privacy. repo open
  • Mailvelope – Browser extension for OpenPGP encryption with Webmail. open
  • ❤️ uBlock Origin – An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean. open
  • uBO Lite – uBO Lite (uBOL) is a permission-less content blocker based on the MV3 API. open

Bookmark Managers

  • Floccus – Sync your bookmarks privately across browsers. repo open
  • Sidebery – Firefox extension for managing tabs and bookmarks in sidebar. open
  • xBrowserSync – Free and open source tool for syncing your browser data between browsers and devices whilst maintaining your privacy and anonymity. repo open

Others

  • ❤️ Automa – A chrome extension for automating your browser by connecting blocks. repo
  • BetterViewer – A replacement for the image viewing mode built into Firefox and Chrome-based web browsers. open
  • ❤️ Dark Reader – Dark Reader analyzes web pages and aims to reduce eyestrain while browsing the web. repo open
  • FastStream – Stream videos without buffering in the browser. repo open
  • Gesturefy – A customizable Firefox mouse gesture add-on with a variety of different commands. open
  • Marinara – A time management assistant for Chrome that follows the Pomodoro Technique. open
  • ❤️ Omni – The all-in-one tool to supercharge your productivity keyboard. open
  • Read Aloud – A Text to Speech Voice Reader extension for your browser! repo open
  • ❤️ Screenity – The most powerful screen recorder & annotation tool for Chrome. open
  • Search by Image – A browser extension that makes effortless reverse image searches possible, and comes with support for more than 30 search engines. open
  • ❤️ Translate Web Pages – Translate your page in real time using Google or Yandex. open
  • uBlacklist – Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results. repo open
  • Unclutter – A modern reader mode and article library for your browser. open
  • ❤️ Violentmonkey – An open source userscript manager. repo open
  • Web Scrobbler – Web Scrobbler helps online music listeners to scrobble their playback history. repo open

Communication

Email

Email Clients

  • Delta Chat – Chat over e-mail. repo store open
  • Mailspring – A beautiful, fast and fully open source mail client. repo open
  • ❤️ Thunderbird – A free email application that’s easy to set up and customize. store open
  • Wino Mail – Built-in Mail & Calendars app clone for Windows. repo store open

Email Forwarding Services

  • ❤️ AnonAddy – Anonymous Email Forwarding. repo open
  • ❤️ Firefox Relay – Keep your email safe from hackers and trackers. repo open
  • ❤️ SimpleLogin – Receive and send emails anonymously. repo open

Email Providers

  • ❤️ Protonmail – An email provider/service that respects privacy and puts people first. repo
  • ❤️ Tuta – A secure email service. repo open

Temporary Email Services

IM

  • ❤️ Element – Secure and independent communication, connected via Matrix. repo open
  • Session – An end-to-end encrypted messenger. repo open
  • ❤️ Signal – A messaging app with an unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all the features expected from a modern IM app. repo open
  • ❤️ SimpleX – The first messenger without user IDs. repo open
  • Ferdium – A desktop app that helps you organize how you use your favourite apps by combining them into one application. repo open
  • Hamsket – Free messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one. open
  • Jitsi Meet – Free Jitsi Meet instance, provising state-of-the-art video conferencing. repo
  • Revolt – User-first chat platform built with modern web technologies. repo

Social Media

  • Glimesh – A next generation live streaming platform built by the community, for the community. repo
  • LBRY – A decentralized video sharing network. repo
  • ❤️ PeerTube – A free, decentralized and federated video platform. repo open
  • Lemmy – A link aggregator / Reddit clone for the fediverse. repo open
  • ❤️ Mastodon – Globally interconnected microblogging community. repo open
  • ❤️ WriteFreely – A clean, simple publishing platform made for writers. repo open

Development

Statistical Analysis

  • GNU PSPP – A program for statistical analysis of sampled data. It is a free as in freedom replacement for the proprietary program SPSS. open
  • gretl – A cross-platform software package for econometric analysis, written in the C programming language. repo open
  • jamovi – A free and open statistics package, which is easy to use, and designed to be familiar to users of SPSS. repo open
  • JASP – JASP is an open-source statistics program that is free, friendly, and flexible. repo open
  • RStudio – RStudio provides open source and enterprise-ready professional software for data science. repo open

Terminal Emulators

  • Alacritty – A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. repo open
  • Fluent Terminal – A Terminal Emulator based on UWP and web technologies. store open
  • Nushell – A new type of shell. repo open
  • PowerShell – A task-based command-line shell and scripting language built on .NET. repo store
  • Rio terminal – A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator focusing to run in desktops and browsers. repo open
  • Tabby – A highly configurable terminal emulator, SSH and serial client. repo open
  • WezTerm – GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer made with Rust. repo open
  • WindTerm – A professional cross-platform SSH/Sftp/Shell/Telnet/Serial terminal. repo
  • Windows Terminal – A modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL.
  • Oh My Posh – A prompt theme engine for any shell. repo store open

Text Editors

  • Brackets – Brackets is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser. repo
  • GNU Emacs – An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more. repo open
  • Helix – A post-modern modal text editor. repo open
  • Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers. repo open
  • ❤️ Kate – A multi-document text editor. store
  • Lapce – Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust. repo open
  • Lite XL – A lightweight text editor written in Lua. repo open
  • ❤️ Notepad++ – A free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. repo open
  • ❤️ Notepads – A modern, lightweight text editor with a minimalist design. repo store open
  • Pulsar – A Community-led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor, Forked from Atom, built on Electron. repo open
  • Visual Studio Code – A free, lightweight, and extensible code editor. repo store open
  • ❤️ VSCodium – A community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VS Code. repo open

Others

  • ❤️ adb – A programming tool used for the debugging of Android-based devices.
  • ❤️ DevToys – A Swiss Army knife for developers. repo store open
  • IT Tools – Collection of handy online tools for developers, with great UX. repo open
  • GitButler – Git branch management tool, built from the ground up for modern workflows. repo open
  • Gitnuro – A FOSS Git multiplatform client for newbies and pros. repo open
  • massCode – A free and open source code snippets manager for developers. repo
  • WinMerge – An Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. repo open
  • freeCodeCamp.org – Learn to code for free with millions of other people around the world. repo
  • The Odin Project – An open-source curriculum for learning full-stack web development. repo

Downloaders

Download Managers

  • AB Download Manager – A Download Manager that speeds up your downloads. repo open
  • AriaNg-Native – A better aria2 desktop frontend than AriaNg, containing all features of AriaNg and more features for desktop. repo open
  • Brisk – Ultra-fast, modern download manager for desktop. open
  • Free Download Manager – A powerful modern download accelerator and organizer.
  • Gopeed – A modern download manager that supports all platforms. repo open
  • JDownloader – A free, open-source download management tool.
  • Motrix – A full-featured download manager. open
  • Persepolis – A download manager & a GUI for Aria2. repo open
  • Varia – Download manager that supports regular downloads, torrents and videos. repo open
  • XDM – Powerfull download accelerator and video downloader. repo open

Media Downloaders

  • cobalt – A media downloader that doesn't piss you off. repo open
  • Streamlink – A CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player. repo open
  • Lux – A fast and simple video downloader built with Go. open
  • You-Get – A tiny command-line utility to download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the Web. repo open
  • youtube-dl – Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites. repo
  • ❤️ YT-DLP – A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes.
  • Hitomi Downloader – Desktop utility to download images/videos/music/text from various websites, and more.
  • Media Downloader – A Qt/C++ front end to youtube-dl.
  • Open Video Downloader – A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js. repo store open
  • Tartube – A GUI front-end for youtube-dl. open
  • Video Downloader – A video and channel downloader that supports 110 websites.
  • YoutubeDownloader – An application that lets you download videos from YouTube. open
  • HakuNeko – A cross-platform downloader for manga and anime from various websites. repo
  • N_m3u8DL-CLI – A command line tool for downloading m3u8. repo open
  • SCrawler – Media downloader from any sites, including Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, PornHub, XHamster, XVIDEOS etc. open
  • SpotiFlyer – Kotlin Multiplatform Music Downloader ,supports Spotify, Youtube, Gaana, Jio-Saavn and SoundCloud. open
  • Twitch Leecher – An extremely fast and easy to use Twitch VOD downloader. open
  • Ytmdl – A simple app to get songs from YouTube in mp3 format with artist name, album name etc from sources like iTunes, Spotify, LastFM, Deezer, Gaana etc. repo open
  • gallery-dl – Command-line program to download image galleries and collections from several image hosting sites. open

Torrent Clients

  • Instant.io – Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent (torrents on the web). repo open
  • PicoTorrent – A tiny and minimal BitTorrent client. repo
  • PikaTorrent – A modern, simple, connected, and electric BitTorrent app. repo store open
  • ❤️ qBittorrent – qBittorrent aims to be a good alternative to all other bittorrent clients out there. repo open
  • ❤️ Transmission – A fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client. repo
  • WebTorrent – The streaming torrent app. repo open

Education

Online Education Services

  • Coursera – Free and paid courses on a wide variety of subjects from scholastic to technical and more.
  • edX – Free online courses by Harvard, MIT.
  • Khan Academy – A personalized learning resource for all ages.

Reference Management

  • JabRef – An open-source, cross-platform citation and reference management tool. repo open
  • Qiqqa – A free research and reference manager. repo open
  • ZoteroBib – ZoteroBib helps you build a bibliography instantly from any computer or device.
  • ❤️ Zotero – A free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. repo open

Translators

  • Ciyue – A simple mdict dictionary with Android/Windows/Linux support. repo open
  • Crow Translate – A simple and lightweight translator. repo open
  • DeepL Translator – A neural machine translation service.
  • GoldenDict-ng – The Next Generation GoldenDict. repo open
  • GoldenDict – A feature-rich dictionary lookup program. repo open
  • Lingva Translate – Alternative front-end for Google Translate. repo open
  • Mozhi – Mozhi is an alternative-frontend for many translation engines. open

Others

  • Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards. repo open
  • Avogadro – An advanced molecular editor designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas. repo open
  • BOINC – Open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing. repo open
  • Converter NOW – A flexible unit converter. repo store open
  • GCompris – A high quality educational software suite. store
  • GNU Octave – A programming language for scientific computing.
  • GeoGebra – Free digital tools for class activities, graphing, geometry, collaborative whiteboard and more. repo
  • Gramps – Research, organize and share your family tree with Gramps.
  • LanguageTool – Checks your writing in more than 20 languages. repo open
  • Harper – Offline, privacy-first grammar checker. repo open
  • Monkeytype – The most customizable typing website with a minimalistic design and a ton of features. repo open
  • LabPlot – FREE, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis software accessible to everyone and trusted by professionals. store open
  • Orange Data Mining – A data mining and visualization toolbox for novice and expert alike. repo open
  • Qalculate! – A multi-purpose cross-platform desktop calculator. repo open
  • Scilab – Open source software for numerical computation. repo open
  • Scratch – With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations. store
  • Tabby– Simple timetable desktop app to track your school schedule. open

File Management

Duplicate File Finders

  • ❤️ Czkawka – Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.
  • ❤️ dupeGuru – A cross-platform GUI tool to find duplicate files in a system. repo open
  • Video Duplicate Finder – A cross-platform software to find duplicated video (and image) files on hard disk based on similiarity.

File Archivers

  • ❤️ 7-Zip – A file archiver with a high compression ratio.
  • NanaZip – The 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience. store
  • ❤️ PeaZip – A free file manager and file archiver. repo open

File Converters

  • Convertio – Easy tool to convert files online.
  • ❤️ Dangerzone – Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to a safe PDF. repo open
  • ❤️ File Converter – A very simple tool which allows you to convert and compress one or several file(s) using the context menu of windows explorer. repo open
  • ❤️ Pandoc – Universal markup converter. repo

File Managers

  • ❤️ Double Commander – A free cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side. repo
  • Far Manager – A program for managing files and archives in Windows operating systems. repo open
  • ❤️ Files – A modern file manager. repo store open
  • FreeCommander – An easy-to-use alternative to the standard windows file manager.
  • Sigma File Manager – A free, open-source, quickly evolving, modern file manager app. store
  • Xplorer – A customizable, modern and cross-platform File Explorer. repo open
  • Knowledge – Knowledge is a tool for saving, searching, accessing, and exploring all of your favorite websites, documents and files. open
  • TagSpaces – An offline, open source, document manager with tagging support. repo open
  • TagStudio – A User-Focused Photo & File Management System. repo open

File Renamers

  • Ant Renamer – A free program that makes easier the renaming of lots of files and folders by using specified settings.
  • File Renamer Diff – A File Renamer App featuring a difference display before and after the change for Windows. store open
  • Szyszka – A simple but powerful and fast bulk file renamer. open

File Sharing

File Sharing Web Apps

  • Lufi – Anonymous file sharing services with temporary storage. repo open
  • ❤️ Send – Simple, private file sharing. open
  • ❤️ Tresorit Send – Send big files up to 5 GB securely.
  • Wormhole – Simple, private file sharing.
  • SwissTransfer – Send files up to 50 GB free of charge.
  • pic.infini – A free and anonymous image hosting service.
  • Blaze – A P2P file sharing web app. repo open
  • FilePizza – Peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser. repo
  • PairDrop – Local file sharing in your web browser. repo open
  • libcimbar – Optimized implementation for color-icon-matrix barcodes. repo open

LAN File Sharing

  • ❤️ OpenSSH – Windows Optional Features. OpenSSH is a complete implementation of the SSH protocol (version 2) for secure remote login, command execution and file transfer.
  • Flying Carpet – Wireless, encrypted file transfer over automatically configured ad hoc networking. open
  • ❤️ LocalSend – An open source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop. repo open
  • Photon – A cross-platform file-transfer application built using flutter. repo open
  • Quick Share – With Quick Share, quickly transfer photos, videos, documents, audio files or entire folders between your Android device and Windows desktops and laptops.
  • SFTPGo – Fully featured and highly configurable SFTP server with optional HTTP/S, FTP/S and WebDAV support. repo open
  • Sharik – An open-source, cross-platform solution for sharing files via Wi-Fi or Mobile Hotspot. store open
  • ❤️ WinSCP – A popular free SFTP and FTP client for Windows. repo open
  • ❤️ Winpinator – Send and receive files across a local network. repo open
  • miniserve – A CLI tool to serve files and dirs over HTTP. open

Others

  • Magic Wormhole – Get things from one computer to another, safely. open
  • ❤️ OnionShare – An open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network. repo
  • RiftShare – Easy, Secure, and Free file sharing for everyone. repo store open
  • ❤️ Rymdport – A GUI for the Magic Wormhole. repo open
  • croc – A CLI file-transfer tool. repo open

Games and Tools

Game Emulators

  • Dolphin – A GameCube and Wii Emulator. repo open
  • RetroArch – A frontend for emulators, game engines and media players. repo open
  • shadPS4 – PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS written in C++. repo open

Game Launchers

  • Heroic Games Launcher – A Native GOG and Epic Games Launcher for Linux, Windows and Mac. repo open
  • Nostlan – Nostlan is a game launcher for emulators! repo open
  • Pegasus – A cross platform, customizable graphical frontend for launching emulators and managing your game collection. repo open
  • Playnite – An open source video game library manager and launcher with support for 3rd party libraries like Steam, GOG, Origin, Battle.net and Uplay. repo open

Game Stores

  • GOG GALAXY – Truly gamer friendly, DRM-free online gaming platform.
  • Game Jolt – Game Jolt is one of the largest communities in existence for video games and the millions of people around the world who love them. repo open
  • itch.io – An online game marketplace and community. repo open

Games

  • 0 A.D. – A free, open-source game of ancient warfare.
  • Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead – A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world. repo
  • Cockatrice – A cross-platform virtual tabletop for multiplayer card games. repo open
  • Endless Sky – A space exploration and combat game similar to Escape Velocity. repo open
  • FlightGear – An open-source flight simulator.
  • Hurry Curry! – A cooperative 3D multiplayer game about cooking. repo open
  • Lichess – The complete chess experience, play and compete with friends and others around the world. repo
  • Mindustry – A sandbox tower defense game written in Java. repo open
  • Minetest – An open source voxel game engine. repo
  • OpenDuelyst – A digital collectible card game. open
  • OpenTDD – OpenTTD is a business simulation game in which players try to earn money by transporting passengers and freight via road, rail, water and air. repo open
  • Rigs of Rods – An open-source soft-body vehicle simulator. repo open
  • SuperTuxKart – A free kart racing game. repo
  • Thrive – A free, open-source game about the evolution of life. repo
  • Unciv – Open-source Android/Desktop remake of Civ V. open
  • Warzone 2100 – A ground-breaking and innovative 3D real-time strategy game. repo store
  • Wesnoth – An open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme. repo open
  • Widelands – A free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode. repo open
  • Xonotic – An addictive, arena-style first person shooter with crisp movement and a wide array of weapons. repo open
  • osu! – A free-to-win rhythm game. Rhythm is just a click away! repo open

Gaming Utilities

  • AntiMicroX – Graphical program used to map keyboard buttons and mouse controls to a gamepad. open
  • CrossOver – A Crosshair Overlay for any screen. repo store
  • Moonlight – An open source implementation of NVIDIA's GameStream. repo open
  • Sunshine – Host for Moonlight Streaming Client. repo open

Graphics

2D and 3D

  • ❤️ Enve – Open-source 2D animation software. repo open
  • ❤️ OpenToonz – An open-source full-featured 2D animation creation software. repo
  • Pencil2D – An easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations. repo open
  • Seamly2D – Open source patternmaking software. open
  • ❤️ Synfig Studio – A free and open-source 2D animation software. repo open
  • Wick Editor – A free and open-source tool for creating games, animations and everything in-between! repo open
  • ❤️ Blender – Free and Open Source 3D creation suite. repo store open
  • Blockbench – A low poly 3D model editor. repo open
  • F3D – A fast and minimalist 3D viewer. repo open
  • FreeCAD – An open-source parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size. repo open
  • MeshLab – The open source mesh processing system. repo open
  • OpenSCAD – The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller. repo open
  • Sweet Home 3D – A free interior design application which helps you draw the plan of your house, arrange furniture on it and visit the results in 3D.

Design Tools

  • Motionity – The web-based motion graphics editor for everyone. repo open
  • Penpot – The Open-Source design & prototyping platform. repo open
  • Polotno Studio – Free online design editor. repo
  • Screenshot.rocks – An online tool which allows you to create beautiful mobile & browser mockups from screenshots. repo open
  • Vecto3d – A super simple tool to convert your SVG's to 3D models. repo open

Digital Painting

  • AutoDraw – An intuitive drawing tool for everyone.
  • Drawpile – A collaborative drawing program. repo open
  • FotoSketcher – Turn your photos into beautiful paintings, sketches or drawings in seconds.
  • ❤️ Inkscape – A free and open-source vector graphics editor. repo store open
  • ❤️ Krita – A free and open source digital painting application. repo
  • Milton – A free and open-source infinite canvas paint program. repo open
  • Pinta – A free, open source program for drawing and image editing. repo
  • tldraw – A tiny little drawing app. repo open

Image Editors

  • Converseen – A batch image converter and resizer. repo open
  • ❤️ GIMP – A cross-platform image editor. repo store open
  • ❤️ PhotoGIMP – A patch for optimizing GIMP 2.10+ for Adobe Photoshop users. open
  • ImageMagick – A software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. repo
  • ❤️ Paint.NET – Free image and photo editing software.
  • PhotoDemon – A portable photo editor. repo
  • Pixelitor – A desktop image editor. repo open
  • miniPaint – Online image editor lets you create, edit images using HTML5 technologies. repo
  • ❤️ Photopea – Online photo editor.
  • Siril – The Siril image processing software for amateur astronomy. repo open
  • Xpano – openAutomated photo stiching tool. repo store open
  • ❤️ darktable – An open source photography workflow application and raw developer. repo open
  • ❤️ digiKam – An advanced digital photo management application. repo
  • Filmulator – Simplified raw editing with the power of film. repo open
  • ❤️ RawTherapee – A powerful cross-platform raw photo processing program. repo open

Image Optimizers

  • Caesium Image Compressor – An image compression web app.
  • Caesium – A cross-platform image compression software. repo open
  • ❤️ Imagine – A desktop app for compression of PNG and JPEG, with a modern and friendly UI. open
  • MAZANOKE – A self-hosted local image optimizer that runs in your browser. repo open
  • ❤️ Squoosh – An image compression web app that reduces image sizes through numerous formats. repo open

Image Viewers

  • ❤️ FastStone Image Viewer – A fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor.
  • ❤️ ImageGlass – A lightweight, versatile image viewer. repo open
  • ❤️ IrfanView – A very fast, compact and innovative FREEWARE image viewer/converter. store
  • JPEGView – A lean, fast and highly configurable viewer/editor for JPEG, BMP, PNG, WEBP, TGA, GIF and TIFF images with a minimal GUI. open
  • NeeView – A Free and Open Source, modern and powerful image viewer and a manga/comic reader. store open
  • ❤️ nomacs – A free, open source image viewer. repo open
  • qimgv – Image viewer. Fast, easy to use. open
  • Quick Picture Viewer – Lightweight, versatile desktop image viewer. repo store open
  • qView – Practical and minimal image viewer. repo open

OCR

  • Capture2Text – Quickly OCR part of the screen and save resulting text to clipboard. open
  • gImageReader – A simple Gtk/Qt front-end to tesseract-ocr. open
  • NAPS2 – Scan documents to PDF and more, as simply as possible. repo open
  • NormCap – OCR powered screen-capture tool to capture information instead of images. repo
  • Paperwork – Paperwork is a personal document manager. It manages scanned documents and PDFs. repo open
  • ❤️ Text Grab – A quick app to grab any on screen text using the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) built into Windows 10. open

Pixel Editors

  • LibreSprite – A free and open source program for creating and animating your sprites. repo open
  • Piskel – A simple web-based tool for Spriting and Pixel art. repo open
  • Pixelorama – A free & open-source 2D sprite editor. repo open
  • PixiEditor – A lightweight pixel art editor. repo store open
  • Shape Shifter – A web-app that simplifies the creation of icon animations for Android, iOS, and the web. repo open

Remove Image Background

  • BackgroundRemover – A free web application that lets you Remove Background from images and video. repo open
  • BgSub – A website that uses AI technology to automatically remove or replace image backgrounds.
  • Cleanup.Picture – A free web application that lets you quickly cleanup or remove objects in any image.
  • Lama Cleaner – Image inpainting tool powered by SOTA AI Model. open
  • Rembg – A command line tool to remove images background. open
  • Remove.bg – Remove background from images 100% automatically in 5 seconds without a single click.

Screen Annotation Tools

  • ❤️ gInk – An easy to use on-screen annotation software inspired by Epic Pen. open
  • LiveDraw – A tool allows you to draw on screen real-time. open
  • Pensela – The Swiss Army Knife of Screen Annotation Tools.

Screen Recorders

  • ❤️ Fluent Screen Recorder – A simple screen recorder built with UWP and featuring Fluent Design. store open
  • ❤️ OBS Studio – Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording. repo store open
  • ScreenREC – A really simple web screen recorder. repo open
  • ❤️ ScreenToGif – Screen, webcam, and board recorder with an integrated editor. repo store open
  • ❤️ ShareX – A free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. repo store open
  • Streamlabs – Free and open source streaming software built on OBS and Electron. repo open

Screenshot

  • ❤️ Flameshot – Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software. repo open
  • ❤️ Greenshot – A light-weight screenshot software tool. repo open
  • Ksnip – A Qt-based cross-platform screenshot tool that provides many annotation features for your screenshots. open
  • ❤️ Snipaste – A simple but powerful snipping tool. store
  • gifcap – Capture your screen to a GIF in your browser. repo open
  • LICEcap – LICEcap simple animated screen capture tool for Windows (gif recorder). repo

VTuber

  • Kalidoface 3D – A web app that brings support for 3D Vtuber avatars. repo open
  • Kalidoface – Become a virtual character with just your webcam! repo open
  • SysMocap – A real-time motion capture system for 3D virtual character animating. open
  • Vignette – The open source VTuber software. open

Webcam Recorders

  • Mini Video Me – A small webcam player focused on providing an easy way to add and control your webcam during recordings. repo open
  • Webcamoid – A full featured and multiplatform webcam suite. repo open

Whiteboards

  • ❤️ Excalidraw – Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams. repo open
  • ❤️ OpenBoard – A cross-platform interactive whiteboard application intended for use in a classroom setting. repo open
  • WBO – Online collaborative Whiteboard that is simple, free, easy to use and to deploy. repo open

Others

  • Anime4KCPP – A high performance anime upscaler. open
  • Stable Diffusion UI – Provides a browser UI for generating images from text prompts and images. repo
  • Upscayl – Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler. open
  • Allusion – A free and open source desktop application for managing your visual library. open
  • AndreaMosaic – With AndreaMosaic you can create your own photographic mosaics made with your own pictures.
  • Celestia – Real-time 3D visualization of space. repo open
  • Colorpicker – A mininal but complete colorpicker desktop app. repo open
  • Gephi – Gephi is the leading visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks. repo
  • Graphviz – Open source graph visualization software. repo open
  • Stellarium – A free open source planetarium for your computer. repo open
  • Storyboarder – Storyboarder makes it easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures. repo
  • Tropy – Research photo management. repo open
  • Avataaars generator – Simple generator React app for avataaars. repo open
  • Personas by Draftbit – A delightful avatar generator by the folks at Draftbit. repo open
  • macOS Big Sur – Replacements Icons – Replacement icons for popular apps in the style of macOS Big Sur. repo open

Health and Fitness

  • Ambie – The best white noise app on Windows. repo store open
  • Flexify – The fastest Gym Tracking App. repo open
  • UBPM – Manage your blood pressure data on Windows/Linux/macOS. open
  • Eyes Guard – A Windows application for protecting your eyes when you are working with your PC or Laptop. repo open
  • Pomatez – An open-source Pomodoro timer application aimed for simplicity and productivity. repo open
  • Pomotroid – Simple and visually-pleasing Pomodoro timer. repo open
  • Stretchly – The break time reminder app. repo open
  • Workrave – A free program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). repo open
  • OpenStreetMap – A collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world.
  • QMapShack – An intuitive and efficient tool for route planning and GPS recordings visualization. open

Network and Admin

Network Monitors

  • Angry IP Scanner – Fast and friendly network scanner. repo open
  • Fiddler – A Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet.
  • GlassWire – A network security monitoring tool and analyzer.
  • ❤️ NETworkManager – A powerful tool for managing networks and troubleshoot network problems. repo open
  • Sniffnet – Comfortably monitor your Internet traffic. repo open
  • Wireshark – The world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer. repo open
  • OpenNetMeter – A simple program to monitor your network/data usage. open
  • TrafficMonitor – A network monitoring suspension window software on Windows platform.

Remote Desktop

  • Chrome Remote Desktop – The easy way to remotely connect with your home or work computer, or share your screen with others.
  • DWService – Remotely access your devices from a Web browser.
  • Quick Assist – A new app in Windows 10 that enables you to receive or provide assistance over a remote connection.
  • QtScrcpy – Android real-time display control software. open
  • RustDesk – Yet another remote desktop software. repo open
  • ❤️ scrcpy – Display and control your Android device. open
  • TigerVNC – A free remote desktop software server and client application. repo open
  • TightVNC – A free remote desktop application.
  • mRemoteNG – An open source, multi-protocol, tabbed remote connections manager. repo open
  • 1Remote – A modern personal remote session manager and launcher. store
  • Veyon – Cross-platform computer monitoring and classroom management. repo open
  • Weylus – Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on your computer. open

Screen Sharing

  • Bananas Screen Sharing – A simple and easy-to-use screen sharing tool for Mac, Windows, and Linux. repo open
  • Deskreen – A desktop app that turns any device with a web browser into a secondary screen for your computer over WiFi. repo open
  • Screego – Screego allows you to share your screen with good quality and low latency. repo open
  • ❤️ ScreenTask – Share your screen across local devices without internet. repo

Virtual LAN

  • NetBird – Connect your devices into a secure WireGuard®-based overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls. repo
  • Tailscale – A mesh VPN alternative that makes it easy to connect your devices. repo
  • ZeroTier – A smart programmable Ethernet switch for planet Earth. repo

Virtualization

  • Docker – Enterprise-focused container platform for building, sharing, and running any application. repo
  • Podman – A tool for managing OCI containers and pods. repo open
  • ❤️ Hyper-V – Hyper-V is Microsoft's hardware virtualization product.
  • ❤️ VirtualBox – A powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use.
  • ❤️ WSL – Windows Subsystem for Linux.
  • WSA – Windows Subsystem for Android.
  • wsa_pacman – A GUI package manager and package installer for Windows Subsystem for Android. open
  • ❤️ Sandboxie – A sandbox-based isolation software for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows NT-based operating systems. repo open
  • ❤️ Windows Sandbox – Windows Sandbox provides a lightweight desktop environment to safely run applications in isolation.

Others

  • LibreSpeed – This is a very lightweight Speedtest implemented in Javascript, using XMLHttpRequest and Web Workers. repo open
  • SwitchHosts – An App for managing hosts file. repo open
  • Wifinian – A Windows desktop tool to enable user to actively control Wi-Fi connections. store open
  • XPipe – A new type of shell connection hub and remote file manager that allows you to access your entire server infrastructure from your local machine. repo store open

Online Services

App Discovery Services

  • ❤️ AlternativeTo – A website which lists alternatives to web-based software, desktop computer software, and mobile apps.
  • Product Hunt – A website that lets users share and discover new products.

Privacy and Security Guides

  • Anonymous Planet – The comprehensive guide for online anonymity and OpSec. repo
  • Awesome Privacy – A curated list of privacy & security-focused software and services. repo
  • Awesome Privacy – List of free, open source and privacy respecting services and alternatives to privative services.
  • EFF – The leading nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation.
  • Personal Security Checklist – A curated checklist of 300+ tips for protecting digital security and privacy. repo
  • PRISM Break – Privacy/security-oriented software recommendations. repo
  • ❤️ Privacy Guides – Protect your data against global mass surveillance programs. repo

Search Engines

  • Brave Search – The user-first and privacy-focused search engine that uses its own index making it an independent search engine.
  • DuckDuckGo – The search engine that doesn't track you.
  • ❤️ SearXNG – Privacy-respecting metasearch engine. repo open
  • Whoogle Search – A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine. repo open

Secret Sharing

  • One-Time Secret – Keep sensitive info out of your email & chat logs. repo open
  • Paaster – A secure and user-friendly pastebin application that prioritizes privacy and simplicity. repo open
  • Password Pusher – A dead-simple application to securely communicate passwords over the web. repo open
  • PrivateBin – A minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. repo
  • Yopass – Secure sharing of secrets, passwords and files. repo open

Survey Tools

  • Framadate – Schedule a meeting or create an opinion poll.
  • Framaforms – Design your online surveys easily while respecting your audience.
  • LimeSurvey – The most popular FOSS online survey tool on the web. repo open

URL Shorteners

  • anon.to – An anonymous URL redirector and shortener. repo open
  • ❤️ Kutt – A modern URL shortener with support for custom domains. repo open
  • Lstu – A nice and open source url shortener. repo open
  • MagLit – Privacy Respecting Encrypted Link Shortener with Password Protection and Torrent Magnet Links support. repo open
  • ZWS – Shorten URLs using invisible spaces. repo open

Others

  • ❤️ Disroot – A platform providing online services based on principles of freedom, privacy, federation and decentralization.
  • Framasoft – A not-for-profit popular educational organization.
  • switching.software – Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software.
  • Opensource.Builders – A website to find and request open-source alternatives to popular software you already use. repo open
  • ❤️ Mostly Free Resources for Almost Everyone – A list of mostly free resources for almost anyone.
  • Awesome Piracy – A curated list of awesome warez and piracy links.
  • Piracy Index – This website is a collection of the best digital piracy resources. repo open
  • degoogle – A huge list of alternatives to Google products. repo
  • Awesome Fediverse – A curated, collaborative list of awesome Fediverse resources.
  • delightful fediverse apps – A curated list of server applications with support for the ActivityPub protocol (Fediverse network) and related standards.
  • ❤️ Awesome-Selfhosted – A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers.

Personal Finance

  • Actual – A local-first personal finance app. repo open
  • ❤️ GnuCash – A personal and small-business finance manager. repo open
  • HomeBank – Free personal finance software, money management for everyone. repo
  • KMyMoney – A cross-platform personal finance manager.
  • Money Manager Ex – A free, open-source, cross-platform, easy-to-use personal finance software. repo open
  • Money – Personal Expense Manager. repo store open
  • Frappe Books – Free Desktop book-keeping software for small businesses and freelancers. repo open
  • Portfolio Performance – Track and evaluate the performance of your investment portfolio across stocks, cryptocurrencies, and other assets. repo open
  • Wealthfolio – A Beautiful Private and Secure Desktop Investment Tracking Application. repo open
  • grocy – A web-based self-hosted groceries & household management solution for your home. repo store open
  • rotki – A portfolio tracking, analytics, accounting and tax reporting application that protects your privacy. repo open

Personalization

Desktop Mascot

  • Desktop Pet (eSheep) – This project gives you the possibility to add a pet to your desktop. repo store
  • Mate Engine – A free Desktop Mate alternative with a lightweight interface and custom VRM support, though with more features.
  • RunCatforwindows – A cute running cat animation on your windows taskbar. open
  • Spirit – A modern and hackable desktop mascot. repo open

Taskbar Tweakers

  • TaskbarXI – An application written in C++ to modify the Windows 11 Taskbar. repo open
  • TaskbarX – TaskbarX gives you control over the position of your taskbar icons. repo open
  • TranslucentTB – TranslucentTB offers you control over the appearance of your taskbar. store open

Wallpaper Management

  • Aerial – Apple TV screen saver for Windows. open
  • AlbumPaper – An app for Windows that will change your desktop wallpaper to the album art of the song you are listening to. open
  • AutoWall – Live wallpapers on Windows 10/11 using open-source wallpaper engine. open
  • ❤️ Lively Wallpaper – Free and open-source software that allows users to set animated desktop wallpapers and screensavers. repo store open
  • ScreenPlay – Modern, Cross Plattform, Live Wallpaper, Widgets and AppDrawer! repo open
  • SpaceEye – Make live satellite imagery your desktop background with SpaceEye. open
  • Superpaper – A cross-platform multi monitor wallpaper manager. open
  • WinDynamicDesktop – WinDynamicDesktop ports the Dynamic Desktop feature from macOS Mojave to Windows 10. store open

Others

  • BeautySearch – Windows 10+ Search Window appearance tweaker. open
  • Bibata Cursor – Opensource, compact, and material-designed cursor set. open
  • ElevenClock – Have a customizable clock on your Windows 11 displays. repo store open
  • ExplorerPatcher – This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows. open
  • Mica for Everyone – A tool to enable backdrop effect on titlebar of win32 apps on Windows 11. open
  • ModernFlyouts – A modern Fluent Design replacement for the old Metro themed flyouts present in Windows. repo store open
  • Open-Shell-Menu – Classic Shell Reborn. open
  • ❤️ Rainmeter – Desktop customization tool for Windows. repo open
  • Seelen UI – The Fully Customizable Desktop Environment for Windows 10/11. store open
  • Taskbar Groups – Lightweight utility for organizing the taskbar through groups. open
  • TileIconifier – Creates tiles for most Windows 8.1 and 10 start menu icons. open
  • Windows Auto Dark Mode – Switches between the dark and light theme of Windows at scheduled times. store open

Privacy and Security

Antivirus

  • ❤️ VirusTotal – Free online malware detection service for analyzing suspicious files and URLs.
  • ❤️ Windows Security – Windows 10 and 11 include Windows Security, which provides the latest antivirus protection.

Decentralized Networks

  • Freenet – A peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant and privacy-respecting publishing and communication.
  • I2P – The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is a fully encrypted private network layer.
  • IPFS – A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open. repo open

Encryption Tools

Disk Encryption Tools

  • ❤️ Bitlocker – A Microsoft Windows security and encryption feature.
  • ❤️ VeraCrypt – Disk encryption with strong security based on TrueCrypt. repo open

Steganography Tools

  • OpenStego – An open-source steganography tool. repo open
  • StegCloak – Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely using passwords. repo open

Others

  • Age – A simple, modern and secure encryption tool. repo open
  • ❤️ cppcryptfs – An implementation of the gocryptfs encrypted overlay filesystem in C++ for Windows. open
  • ❤️ Cryptomator – Multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud. repo open
  • ❤️ Gnupg – A complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by PGP. open
  • FileKey – FileKey is an offline web app that lets you quickly encrypt and share files using passkeys. repo open
  • Hat.sh – Encrypt and Decrypt files securely in your browser. repo open
  • Horcrux – Split your file into encrypted horcruxes so that you don't need to remember a passcode. open
  • Kryptor – A simple, modern, and secure encryption and signing tool that aims to be a better version of age and Minisign. repo open
  • Minisign – A dead simple tool to sign files and verify digital signatures. repo
  • ❤️ Picocrypt – A very small, very simple, yet very secure encryption tool. open
  • ❤️ SiriKali – A Qt/C++ GUI front end to sshfs, ecryptfs-simple, cryfs, gocryptfs, securefs, fscrypt and encfs. repo open

Firewalls

  • Fort Firewall – Fort Firewall for Windows. open
  • ❤️ Portmaster – Monitor all network activity. repo open
  • ❤️ Simplewall – Simple tool to configure Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) which can configure network activity on your computer. open
  • Windows Defender Firewall – A stateful host firewall.

Password Managers

  • ❤️ Bitwarden – An open source password manager. repo store open
  • ❤️ KeePassXC – A modern, secure, and open-source password manager that stores and manages your most sensitive information. repo store open
  • KeeWeb – This webapp is a browser and desktop password manager compatible with KeePass databases. repo open
  • Proton Pass – Free password manager with identity protection. repo open
  • ❤️ Ente Auth – An end-to-end encrypted, cross platform and free app for storing your 2FA codes with cloud backups. repo open
  • Diceware Passphrase Generator – A tool for generating strong Diceware passwords, with entropy and crack time estimates. repo open
  • LessPass – A stateless password manager. repo

Remove EXIF Data

  • ❤️ ExifCleaner – Cross-platform desktop GUI app to clean image metadata. repo open
  • ExifTool – ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files.
  • jExifToolGUI – Graphical frontend for the excellent command-line ExifTool by Phil Harvey. repo open

System Tweakers

  • O&O ShutUp10++ – Free antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11.
  • Optimizer – The finest Windows Optimizer. open
  • Privatezilla – Performs a privacy & security check of Windows 10. open
  • Bloatynosy – Your everyday Windows companion. open
  • RyTuneX – Your one-stop solution for enhancing Windows 10 and 11. Built with precision, designed for performance. repo open
  • Awesome Win11 – Windows 11 Settings, Tweaks, Scripts. repo
  • Harden Windows Security – Harden Windows Safely, Securely, Only With Official Microsoft Methods. repo

VPN

  • ProtonVPN – High-speed Swiss VPN that safeguards your privacy. repo open
  • Windscribe – Free VPN and Ad Blocker. repo open

Others

  • Blacklight – A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector.
  • Image Scrubber – This is a tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests. repo

Productivity

Automation

  • Alpha Clicker – Windows Autoclicker with a modern ui. open
  • Auto Screen Capture – Automated screen capture utility. repo open
  • AutoActions – Application-based actions to change Windows settings (display, audio) or run any program or action. open
  • ❤️ AutoHotkey – A free, open source macro-creation and automation software utility that allows users to automate repetitive tasks. repo open
  • ❤️ Beeftext – A text snippet tool for Windows. repo open
  • ❤️ espanso – A cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust. repo open
  • Macro Deck – A open source software to use your smartphone, tablet or almost any touch screen device with a internet browser as a simple macro pad or even as an powerful automation solution for streaming, gaming, content creation and more. repo open
  • Mouse Jiggler – A very simple piece of software whose sole function is to “fake” mouse input to Windows, and jiggle the mouse pointer back and forth. open
  • Power Automate – Power Automate allows you to automate web and desktop applications on your Windows desktop by mimicking the user interface actions like clicks, and keyboard input.
  • Shutdown Timer Classic – Pick a time and let your computer shutdown itself. store open
  • SikuliX – SikuliX automates anything you see on the screen of your desktop computer running Windows, Mac or some Linux/Unix. repo open

Calendars

  • Proton Calendar – A calendar that respects privacy and puts people (not advertisers) first.
  • Tuta Calendar – Tuta Calendar is the only zero-knowledge calendar with quantum-safe encryption, making sure all your events are protected from snooping and prying eyes. repo open

Clipboard Managers

  • Clipboard – A utility that lets you cut, copy, and paste text and files on any PC. repo open
  • Clipboard Canvas – A tool that helps you be productive, preview multiple files on Infinite Canvas, save storage space with smart Reference Files, and work uninterruptibly with Autopaste. store open
  • ❤️ CopyQ – An advanced clipboard manager with powerful editing and scripting features. repo open
  • ❤️ Ditto – An extension to the standard windows clipboard. repo store
  • PasteBar – Limitless, Free Clipboard Manager for Mac and Windows. repo
  • Rememory – A powerful clipboard manager that supercharges your productivity by saving everything you copy. open
  • XClipper – A clipboard manager for Windows & Android which helps to track clipboard activities and makes it easier to interact with them. repo open
  • ❤️ Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly.
  • ❤️ EverythingToolbar – Everything integration for the Windows taskbar.
  • Orange – A cross-platform desktop application for searching local files. repo open
  • Spyglass – A personal search engine, crawl & index websites/files you want with a simple set of rules. repo open
  • ❤️ dnGrep – dnGrep allows you to search across files with easy-to-read results. repo open
  • ❤️ grepWin – A powerful and fast search tool using regular expressions. repo open

Journaling

  • linked – Daily journaling without distraction. repo open
  • RedNotebook – A modern desktop journal. repo open

Markdown Editors

  • Dillinger – A cloud-enabled, mobile-ready, offline-storage compatible. repo open
  • ❤️ MarkText – A simple and elegant markdown editor. repo open
  • MindForger – Thinking notebook and Markdown editor with LLM wingman. repo open
  • ❤️ PanWriter – Markdown editor with pandoc integration and paginated preview. repo open
  • StackEdit – In-browser Markdown editor. repo open AngularJS-powered HTML5 Markdown editor. repo open

Mind Mapping

  • ASCIIFlow – A client-side only web based application for drawing ASCII diagrams. repo open
  • ❤️ draw.io – Free online diagram software.
  • ❤️ drawio-desktop – An open source technology stack for building diagramming applications. repo store
  • Gaphor – A UML and SysML modeling application written in Python. repo open
  • Heimer – A simple cross-platform mind map, diagram, and note-taking tool written in Qt. open
  • mindmaps – An open source, offline capable, mind mapping application leveraging HTML5 technologies. repo open
  • My Mind – A web application for creating and managing Mind maps. repo open
  • Wireflow – Flow chart collaboration app. repo open

Note Taking

  • AFFiNE – Affine is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. repo open
  • Anytype – With Anytype, you can build digital spaces around your interests. repo open
  • Cryptee – A privacy focused, encrypted and secure documents, notes, files and photos service. repo open
  • ❤️ Joplin – A free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. repo open
  • ❤️ Notesnook – A fully end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote. repo open
  • SilentNotes – A simple note taking app which respects your privacy. repo store open
  • ❤️ Standard Notes – A free, open-source, and completely encrypted notes app. repo
  • Simplenote – The simplest way to keep notes. store
  • AppFlowy – An open-source alternative to Notion. repo open
  • Beaver Notes – A privacy-focused note-taking application for macOS, Windows and GNU/Linux. repo open
  • Foam – A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode. repo open
  • ❤️ Logseq – A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration. repo open
  • Notes – An open source and cross-platform note-taking app that is both beautiful and powerful. repo open
  • ❤️ Obsidian – A powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
  • ❤️ QOwnNotes – A plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with markdown support and Nextcloud / ownCloud integration. repo open
  • Reor – Self-organizing AI note-taking app that runs models locally. repo open
  • ❤️ TriliumNext Notes – A hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases. open
  • VNote – A pleasant note-taking platform in native C++. repo open
  • ❤️ Zettlr – A Markdown Editor for the 21st century. repo open
  • Butterfly – Powerful, minimalistic, cross-platform, opensource note-taking app. repo open
  • Lorien – An infinite canvas drawing/note-taking app that is focused on performance, small savefiles and simplicity. open
  • Microsoft Journal – A notetaking application that focuses on the inking experience.
  • Rnote – Sketch and take handwritten notes. repo open
  • Saber – The cross-platform open-source app built for handwriting. repo open
  • ❤️ Xournal++ – A handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. repo open

Office

  • ❤️ CryptPad – A collaboration suite that is end-to-end-encrypted and open-source. repo open
  • Grist – A modern relational spreadsheet. repo open
  • ❤️ LibreOffice – A free and powerful office suite. repo repo open
  • ONLYOFFICE – A powerful online editor for text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms and PDF for the platform you use. open
  • FreeShow – A dynamic, user-friendly, and open-source presenter built for all of your presentations. repo open
  • Pympress – A simple yet powerful PDF reader designed for dual-screen presentations. repo open
  • Sozi – A presentation tool for SVG documents. repo open
  • mobslide – Turn your smartphone into presentation remote controller. repo open
  • Google Docs – Free online document editor.
  • Microsoft Office Online – Collaborate for free with online versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote.

PDF Editors

  • PDF Arranger – Small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split pdf documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. open
  • PDF4QT – Open source PDF editor. repo store open
  • PDFsam – A desktop application to extract pages, split, merge, mix and rotate PDF files. repo open
  • Signature PDF – Free open-source web software for signing PDFs (alone or with others) and also organize pages, edit medata and compress pdf. repo open
  • Stirling-PDF – Locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files. repo open

Task Management

  • Focalboard – An open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana. repo store open
  • Kanban Tasker – A simple personal kanban board. store open
  • sleek – A todo app based on todo.txt. store open
  • Super Productivity – To-do list & time tracker for programmers & designers. store
  • WeekToDo – A free minimalist weekly planner app focused on privacy. repo open

Time Tracking

  • ActivityWatch – The best free and open-source automated time tracker. repo open
  • Lotti – Lotti helps you track habits, behavior, any data about yourself, in complete privacy. open
  • Nomie – Open-source mood and life tracking. repo open
  • Strategr – No-Fuss Time Management App. repo open
  • Tockler – An application that tracks your time by monitoring your active window title and idle time. repo open
  • ididit! – The procrastination friendly habit tracker. repo store open
  • Habitica – A habit tracker app which treats your goals like a Role Playing Game. repo

Weather

  • FluentWeather – A beautiful & modern UWP weather app for Windows. store open
  • Lively Weather – Windows native weather app powered by DirectX12 animations. repo store open

Writing Tools

  • KIT Scenarist – Simple and powerful application for writing screenplays. repo open
  • Manuskript – A open-source tool for writers. repo open
  • Writing Tools – Writing Tools is an Apple Intelligence-inspired application for Windows, Linux, and macOS that supercharges your writing with an AI LLM (cloud-based or local).
  • bibisco – An open source application for writing novels. repo open
  • ghostwriter – A cross-platform, aesthetic, distraction-free Markdown editor. open
  • novelWriter – An open source plain text editor designed for writing novels. repo open

Others

  • PdfScribe – A PDF virtual printer for 64-bit Windows / .NET 4.8 or later. open
  • Scribus – An open source desktop publishing software. repo open
  • TeXstudio – A fully featured LaTeX editor. repo open
  • quiver – A modern commutative diagram editor for the web. repo open
  • Typst – A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn. repo open
  • Datawrapper – An open source tool helping everyone to create simple, correct and embeddable charts in minutes.
  • RAWGraphs – An open web tool to create custom vector-based visualizations on top of the amazing d3.js library. repo open
  • Reactive Resume – A free and open source resume builder. repo open
  • Resumake – A website for automatically generating elegant LaTeX resumes. repo open
  • ❤️ KDE Connect – Enabling communication between all your devices. repo store open
  • Phone Link – Link your Android phone and PC to view and reply to text messages, make and receive calls, view your notifications, and more.
  • Sefirah – Phone Link / KDE Connect alternative with Notification Mirroring, Screen Mirroring, Clipboard Sync, File Transfer, Media Control. store open
  • ntfy – A simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service. repo open
  • ClickPaste – Windows 10 notification area app in C# that can paste clipboard contents as keystrokes to whatever location you click. open
  • DropPoint – Make drag-and-drop easier using DropPoint. repo open
  • ❤️ QuickLook – Bring macOS “Quick Look” feature to Windows. repo store open

Utilities

Application Launchers

  • Cerebro – Open-source productivity booster with a brain. repo open
  • Flow launcher – Quick file search & app launcher for Windows with community-made plugins. repo open
  • Kando – The Cross-Platform Pie Menu. repo open
  • LaunchyQt – LaunchyQt is a fork of the keystroke launcher program Launchy but modernized. open
  • Pinpoint – Keystroke launcher and productivity tool. open
  • ❤️ PowerToys – Windows system utilities to maximize productivity. store open
  • SystemTrayMenu – Browse and open your files easily. store open
  • ueli – A keystroke launcher for Windows and macOS. repo open

Context Menu Managers

  • ContextMenuManager – A program to manage the Windows right-click context menu. repo open
  • Custom Context Menu – Add Custom Context Menu For Windows11. store open
  • Shell – Powerful context menu manager for Windows File Explorer. repo open

Disk Imaging

  • DISMTools – A front-end for DISM that lets you manage your Windows Imaging (WIM) files and a whole lot more. open
  • Macrium Reflect Free – The complete backup solution for personal use.
  • UrBackup – An easy to setup Open Source client/server backup system. repo open
  • ❤️ Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows Free & Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition – The free backup software to protect virtual, physical and cloud workloads.
  • ❤️ Etcher – A powerful OS image flasher. repo open
  • ❤️ Rufus – A utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives. repo store open
  • UNetbootin – UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. repo
  • USBImager – A very minimal GUI app that can write compressed disk images to USB drives.
  • MultiOS-USB – Boot operating systems directly from ISO/WIM images. open
  • Ventoy – A Multiboot Bootable USB Creation Tool. repo open
  • UUP dump – Download UUP files from Windows Update servers with ease. repo open
  • UUP Media Creator – An utility to convert Unified Update Platform file sets into Windows Media files. store open

Disk Usage Analyzers

  • Filelight – An application to visualize the disk usage on your computer. store
  • TreeSize Free – The disk space manager TreeSize Free tells you where precious disk space has gone. store
  • WizTree – The fastest disk space analyzer.

File Recovery

  • DMDE – A powerful tool for data searching, editing, and recovery on disks.
  • TestDisk – A powerful free data recovery software. repo open
  • Windows File Recovery – A command-line software utility from Microsoft to recover deleted files.

File Shredders

  • BleachBit – BleachBit cleans files to free disk space and to maintain privacy. repo open
  • ❤️ Eraser – A secure data removal tool for Windows.
  • Permadelete – An easy to use and beautiful app for shredding files and folders permanently. repo store open
  • Turbo Delete – A blazing fast alternative to the default Windows delete. open

Hardware Monitoring

Fan Control

  • Fan Control – A focused, highly customizable fan controlling software for Windows. repo
  • FanCtrl – FanCtrl is a software that allows you to automatically control the fan speed on your PC. open
  • NBFC – A cross-platform fan control service for notebooks. open

RGB Lighting Control

  • Artemis – Provides advanced unified lighting across many different brands RGB peripherals. repo open
  • OpenRGB – Open source RGB lighting control that doesn't depend on manufacturer software. repo open

Others

  • ❤️ CrystalDiskInfo – A HDD/SSD utility software which supports a part of USB, Intel RAID and NVMe. store
  • ❤️ CrystalDiskMark – A simple storage benchmark.
  • GSmartControl – Hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool. repo open
  • ❤️ HWiNFO – Comprehensive Hardware Analysis, Monitoring and Reporting for Windows and DOS.
  • ❤️ Libre Hardware Monitor – A fork of Open Hardware Monitor. open
  • Sidebar Diagnostics – A simple sidebar for Windows desktop that displays hardware diagnostic information. open
  • Fastfetch – A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool. open
  • Winfetch – A command-line system information utility written in PowerShell. open

Mouse and Keyboard Sharing

  • Barrier – Open-source KVM software. open
  • Deskflow – A free and open source keyboard and mouse sharing app. repo open
  • Input Leap – Open-source KVM software. open
  • InputShare – Seamlessly share your computer's keyboard, mouse and clipboard with Android device using InputShare. repo open
  • Lan Mouse – Mouse & keyboard sharing via LAN. open

Package Managers

  • Chocolatey GUI – A delicious GUI for Chocolatey. open
  • ❤️ Chocolatey – The package manager for Windows. repo open
  • ❤️ Scoop – A command-line installer for Windows. repo
  • Fluent Store – A unifying frontend for Windows app stores and package managers. open
  • ❤️ UniGetUI – The Graphical Interface for your package managers. repo store open
  • ❤️ winget – Microsoft's open-source CLI packager manager for Windows. store open
  • winstall – A web app for browsing and installing Windows Package Manager apps. repo open
  • Topgrade – Keeping your system up to date usually involves invoking multiple package managers. open
  • PortableApps.com – A website offering many free, commonly used Windows applications that have been specially packaged for portability.
  • ❤️ BCUninstaller – A free program uninstaller. repo open
  • ❤️ GeekUninstaller – A portable software uninstaller.

Screen Dimmers

  • f.lux – f.lux warms up your screen at night to help you relax and wind down before bed. store
  • LightBulb – An application that reduces eyestrain produced by staring at a computer screen when working late hours. open
  • Monitorian – A Windows desktop tool to adjust the brightness of multiple monitors with ease. store open
  • Twinkle Tray – Easily manage the brightness of your monitors in Windows from the system tray. repo store open

System Administration

  • Sysinternals Suite – A bundle of the Sysinternals utilities including Process Explorer, Process Monitor, Sysmon, Autoruns, ProcDump, all of the PsTools, and many more.
  • System Informer – A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware. repo open

Window Managers

  • AltSnap – Easily drag windows when pressing the alt key. open
  • Amethyst Windows – Automatic tiling window manager for Windows 10/11. repo open
  • GlazeWM – A tiling window manager for Windows inspired by i3wm. open
  • RBTray – RBTray allows almost any program to be minimized to the system tray by right clicking its minimize button. open
  • SmartSystemMenu – SmartSystemMenu extends system menu of all windows in the system. open
  • Tabame – Tabame is an alternative to Windows Taskbar. open
  • komorebi – Tiling Window Management for Windows. repo open
  • workspacer – A tiling window manager for Windows. repo open

Others

  • AltStore – An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices. repo open
  • CompactGUI – Visual Interface for the Windows 10 Compact Function.
  • ❤️ Driver Store Explorer – Driver Store Explorer [RAPR] makes it easier to deal with Windows driver store. open
  • FontForge – Free (libre) font editor for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux. repo open
  • GestureSign – A gesture recognition software for Windows tablet. open
  • barcodrod.io – A free, modern barcode and QR code toolkit for Windows. repo store open
  • Html5-QRCode – A cross platform HTML5 QR code reader. repo open
  • Key'n'Stroke – Displays Keystrokes in an overlay window and visualize mouse clicks. open
  • Keyviz – A free and open-source tool to visualize your keystrokes keyboard in real-time. repo open
  • NVDA – The free and open source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows. repo
  • Nyrna – Suspend games and applications. repo open
  • Plover – Open source stenotype engine. repo open
  • Scanner – An all-in-one scanner app built for the Universal Windows Platform. repo store open
  • Screen Ruler – A lightweight and configurable ruler tool for Windows Desktop. repo open
  • Kanata – A cross-platform software keyboard remapper for Linux, macOS and Windows. open
  • SharpKeys – A utility that manages a Registry key that allows Windows to remap one key to any other key. repo open
  • Ten Hands – Simplest way to organize and run command-line tasks. repo open
  • Universal Android Debloater Next Generation – Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted android devices. open
  • WinCompose – A compose key for Windows. repo
  • X-Mouse Controls – Windows utility to enable or disable active window tracking, raising and also the delay in milliseconds. repo open

Video

Media Servers

  • FCast – Open source protocol for audio and video content streaming. open
  • Go2TV – Cast media files to UPnP/DLNA Media Renderers and Smart TVs. open
  • ❤️ Jellyfin – A personal media server and client. repo open
  • ❤️ Kodi – An award-winning free and open source software media player and entertainment hub for digital media for HTPCs (Home theater PCs). repo store
  • Macast – A menu bar application using mpv as DLNA Media Renderer. repo open
  • Universal Media Server – A DLNA, UPnP and HTTP(S) Media Server. repo open

Subtitles Tools

  • pyTranscriber – An application that can be used to generate automatic transcription / automatic subtitles for audio/video files through a friendly graphical user interface. repo open
  • Subliminal – A command line tool to search and download subtitles. repo open
  • SubSync – An automatic movie subtitle synchronization tool. repo open
  • Subtitle Edit – A free editor for video subtitles. repo open

Video Converters

  • ❤️ FFmpeg – A collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata. repo open
  • ❤️ HandBrake – An open-source video transcoder. repo
  • ❤️ LosslessCut – The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing. repo store open
  • VidCoder – An open-source DVD/Blu-ray ripping and video transcoding application. repo store open

Video Editors

  • Auto-Editor – Auto-Editor is a command line application for automatically editing video and audio by analyzing a variety of methods, most notably audio loudness. repo open
  • ❤️ DaVinci Resolve – A color grading and non-linear video editing application.
  • Kdenlive – Free and open source video editor. repo open
  • Olive – Free open-source non-linear video editor. repo open
  • OpenShot – An award-winning free and open-source video editor. repo open
  • ❤️ Shotcut – A free, open source, cross-platform video editor. repo open
  • StaxRip – Video encoding GUI for Windows. open
  • Kinovea – A video annotation tool designed for motion analysis. repo open
  • MKVToolNix – A set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska files under Linux, other Unices and Windows. repo
  • Natron – Open-source video compositing software. repo open
  • ❤️ Astrofox – A motion graphics program that lets turn audio into amazing videos. repo open
  • Mediabits.io – Mediabits.io lets anyone create engaging videos for their audio, perfect for sharing on social media. repo open
  • Clipchamp – Free online video editor.

Video Players

  • ❤️ Media Player – Media Player is designed to make listening to and watching your multimedia content more enjoyable.
  • Rise Media Player – One media player for everything you own or stream. open
  • MPC-BE – A free and open source audio and video player. open
  • ❤️ MPC-HC – A free and open-source video and audio player. open
  • ❤️ mpv.net – A modern media player for Windows based on the popular mpv player. store open
  • mpv – A free, open source, and cross-platform media player. repo open
  • SMPlayer – Free Media Player with built-in codecs. repo store open
  • VLC – A cross-platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project. repo store open
  • GridPlayer – Simple VLC-based media player that can play multiple videos at the same time. open
  • Kawaii-Player – Multimedia player, media library manager and portable media server with PC-To-PC casting feature. open
  • LLPlayer – The media player for language learning, with dual subtitles, AI-generated subtitles, real-time translation, and more! repo open
  • QMPlay2 – A video and audio player which can play most formats and codecs. open
  • Screenbox – LibVLC-based media player for the Universal Windows Platform. store open
  • IPTVnator – A video player application that provides support for the playback of IPTV playlists (m3u, m3u8). repo open
  • Open TV – Ultra-fast, simple and powerful cross-platform IPTV app. store open
  • Vodon Pro – A video player designed for esports coaches to review footage of players. open
  • Pennywise – Cross-platform application to open any website or media in a floating window. open

Video Streaming

  • ❤️ FreeTube – An Open Source YouTube app for privacy. repo open
  • Grayjay – Grayjay combines video content from multiple platforms, such as YouTube, PeerTube, Twitch, and others, into one app, removing the need to switch between different platforms.
  • Materialious – Materialious is a privacy respecting frontend for YouTube built ontop of Invidious. repo open
  • Invidious – An alternative front-end to YouTube. repo open
  • ❤️ Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design. repo open
  • Streamlink Twitch GUI – A multi platform Twitch.tv browser for Streamlink. open
  • MotionMonkey – A semantic video player designed to stream Internet videos from a single query. store
  • Popcorn Time – A free BitTorrent client that includes an integrated media player.

Watch Videos Together

  • ❤️ Metastream – Watch streaming media with friends. repo
  • OpenTogetherTube – The easy way to watch videos with your friends. repo open
  • ❤️ Syncplay – Syncplay synchronises the position and play state of multiple media players so that the viewers can watch the same thing at the same time. repo open
  • WatchParty – A website for watching videos together. repo open

Others

  • DVDStyler – A cross-platform free DVD authoring application.
  • Gyroflow – Video stabilization using gyroscope data. repo open
  • IPTV – Collection of publicly available IPTV channels from all over the world.
  • MediaInfo – MediaInfo is a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files. repo open
  • Mediarepo – A tool for managing media files. repo open
  • QPrompt – Personal teleprompter software for all video creators. repo
  • Radarr – A movie collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users. repo open
  • Stash – An organizer for your porn, written in Go. repo open

Notable Non-Windows Software

  • GParted – A free partition editor for graphically managing your disk partitions. open
  • Rescuezilla – An open-source easy-to-use disk imaging app that's fully compatible with Clonezilla. repo open

References & Acknowledgements

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