free-lunch

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.
• - Microsoft Store
• - Repository
• - Open Source license compliant
• ❤️ - My Favorites

CHANGELOG 2024-05-04:

• Added AFFiNE, FreeCommander, SimpleX, DISMTools, Proton Drive, Ente Auth, ONLYOFFICE, Gopeed, Typst, Mullvad Browser, Rnote, Pympress, Sniffnet, Winpilot, Sidebery, Xpano, Moosync, MindForger, Musicpod, Alexandria, Podman, Monkeytype, FxSound, Reor, Lan Mouse, mobslide, YouTube Music, Screenbox, PikaTorrent, Gyroflow, Anytype, Lively Weather, FluentWeather, NAPS2, Firefox Relay, Oh My Posh and Audio Share

• Replaced Universal Android Debloater GUI by Universal Android Debloater Next Generation

• Removed ThisIsWin11, Radiograph, Leaflet, FileSend, Design Editor, Abricotine, CryptoTracker, and LANDrop

Mirrors

• Github: https://github.com/auctors/free-lunch
• Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/auctor/free-lunch

Contents

Audio

Audio Editors

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

Audio Players

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

Music Production

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

Music Streaming

• Cider - An open source and community oriented Apple Music client.
• Lofi - A mini Spotify player with WebGL visualizations.
• muffon - Music streaming browser.
• ❤️ nuclear - Streaming music player that finds free music for you.
• Spotube - A lightweight free Spotify crossplatform-client which handles playback manually, streams music using Youtube & no Spotify premium account is needed.
• 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).

Music Tag Editors

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

Sound Equalizers

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

Volume Control

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

Others

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

Backup and Sync

Cloud Storage

• ❤️ Nextcloud - A suite of client-server software for creating and using file hosting services.
• ❤️ MEGA - A secure, user-controlled end-to-end encrypted cloud storage and communications service with 20 GB free storage space.
• ❤️ Proton Drive - Secure your files, documents and photos with end-to-end encryption.
• ❤️ 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.

Others

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

Browsers and Extensions

Browsers

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

Extensions

New Tab Page

• Mue - Fast, open and free-to-use new tab page for modern browsers.
• nightTab - A neutral new tab page accented with a chosen colour.
• Tabliss - A beautiful, customisable New Tab page for Firefox and Chrome.

Privacy Extensions

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

Bookmark Managers

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

Others

• ❤️ Automa - A chrome extension for automating your browser by connecting blocks.
• BetterViewer - A replacement for the image viewing mode built into Firefox and Chrome-based web browsers.
• Bypass Paywalls - A web browser extension to help bypass paywalls for selected sites.
• ❤️ Dark Reader - Dark Reader analyzes web pages and aims to reduce eyestrain while browsing the web.
• Gesturefy - A customizable Firefox mouse gesture add-on with a variety of different commands.
• Marinara - A time management assistant for Chrome that follows the Pomodoro Technique.
• ❤️ Omni - The all-in-one tool to supercharge your productivity keyboard.
• Read Aloud - A Text to Speech Voice Reader extension for your browser!
• ❤️ Screenity - The most powerful screen recorder & annotation tool for Chrome.
• Search by Image - A browser extension that makes effortless reverse image searches possible, and comes with support for more than 30 search engines.
• ❤️ Translate Web Pages - Translate your page in real time using Google or Yandex.
• uBlacklist - Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results.
• Unclutter - A modern reader mode and article library for your browser.
• ❤️ Violentmonkey - An open source userscript manager.
• Web Scrobbler - Web Scrobbler helps online music listeners to scrobble their playback history.

Communication

Email

Email Clients

• Delta Chat - Chat over e-mail.
• Mailspring - A beautiful, fast and fully open source mail client.
• ❤️ Thunderbird - A free email application that’s easy to set up and customize.

Email Forwarding Services

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

Email Providers

• ❤️ Protonmail - An email provider/service that respects privacy and puts people first.
• ❤️ Tutanota - A secure email service.

Temporary Email Services

• ❤️ Burner.kiwi - No bullshit temporary mail service written in Go.
• Guerrilla Mail - A disposable email.
• MailDrop - A quick, disposable email.

IM

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

Social Media

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

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

Terminal Emulators

• Fluent Terminal - A Terminal Emulator based on UWP and web technologies.
• ❤️ PowerShell - A task-based command-line shell and scripting language built on .NET.
• Tabby - A highly configurable terminal emulator, SSH and serial client.
• WezTerm - GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer made with Rust.
• WindTerm - A professional cross-platform SSH/Sftp/Shell/Telnet/Serial terminal.
• ❤️ 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.

Text Editors

• Brackets - Brackets is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser.
• GNU Emacs - An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more.
• ❤️ Kate - A multi-document text editor.
• Lapce - Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust.
• Lite XL - A lightweight text editor written in Lua.
• ❤️ Notepad++ - A free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.
• ❤️ Notepads - A modern, lightweight text editor with a minimalist design.
• Visual Studio Code - A free, lightweight, and extensible code editor.
• ❤️ VSCodium - A community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VS Code.

Others

• ❤️ adb - A programming tool used for the debugging of Android-based devices.
• ❤️ DevToys - A Swiss Army knife for developers.
• massCode - A free and open source code snippets manager for developers.
• WinMerge - An Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows.
• freeCodeCamp.org - Learn to code for free with millions of other people around the world.
• The Odin Project - An open-source curriculum for learning full-stack web development.

Downloaders

Download Managers

• AriaNg-Native - A better aria2 desktop frontend than AriaNg, containing all features of AriaNg and more features for desktop.
• ❤️ Free Download Manager - A powerful modern download accelerator and organizer.
• Gopeed - A modern download manager that supports all platforms.
• ❤️ JDownloader - A free, open-source download management tool.
• ❤️ Motrix - A full-featured download manager.
• Persepolis - A download manager & a GUI for Aria2.
• XDM - Powerfull download accelerator and video downloader.

Media Downloaders

• ❤️ Streamlink - A CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player.
• ❤️ Lux - A fast and simple video downloader built with Go.
• ❤️ You-Get - A tiny command-line utility to download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the Web.
• ❤️ youtube-dl - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites.
• ❤️ 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.
• Tartube - A GUI front-end for youtube-dl.
• Video Downloader - A video and channel downloader that supports 110 websites.
• YoutubeDownloader - An application that lets you download videos from YouTube.
• HakuNeko - A cross-platform downloader for manga and anime from various websites.
• N_m3u8DL-CLI - A command line tool for downloading m3u8.
• SCrawler - Media downloader from any sites, including Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, PornHub, XHamster, XVIDEOS etc.
• SpotiFlyer - Kotlin Multiplatform Music Downloader ,supports Spotify, Youtube, Gaana, Jio-Saavn and SoundCloud.
• Twitch Leecher - An extremely fast and easy to use Twitch VOD downloader.
• 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.
• gallery-dl - Command-line program to download image galleries and collections from several image hosting sites.

Torrent Clients

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

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.
• Qiqqa - A free research and reference manager.
• 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.

Translators

• Crow Translate - A simple and lightweight translator.
• DeepL Translator - A neural machine translation service.
• Lingva Translate - Alternative front-end for Google Translate.

Others

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

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.
• 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.
• ❤️ PeaZip - A free file manager and file archiver.

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.
• ❤️ 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.
• ❤️ Pandoc - Universal markup converter.

File Managers

• ❤️ Double Commander - A free cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side.
• Far Manager - A program for managing files and archives in Windows operating systems.
• ❤️ Files - A modern file manager.
• 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.
• Xplorer - A customizable, modern and cross-platform File Explorer.

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.
• ❤️ Szyszka - A simple but powerful and fast bulk file renamer.

File Sharing

File Sharing Web Apps

• Lufi - Anonymous file sharing services with temporary storage.
• ❤️ Send - Simple, private file sharing.
• ❤️ 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.
• FilePizza - Peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser.
• ❤️ ShareDrop - Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC.
• ❤️ Snapdrop - A Progressive Web App for local file sharing.
• libcimbar - Optimized implementation for color-icon-matrix barcodes.

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.
• ❤️ LocalSend - An open source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop.
• SFTPGo - Fully featured and highly configurable SFTP server with optional HTTP/S, FTP/S and WebDAV support.
• ❤️ Sharik - An open-source, cross-platform solution for sharing files via Wi-Fi or Mobile Hotspot.
• ❤️ WinSCP - A popular free SFTP and FTP client for Windows.
• ❤️ Winpinator - Send and receive files across a local network.
• miniserve - A CLI tool to serve files and dirs over HTTP.

Others

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

Games and Tools

Game Launchers

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

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.
• ❤️ itch.io - An online game marketplace and community.

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.
• Cockatrice - A cross-platform virtual tabletop for multiplayer card games.
• Endless Sky - A space exploration and combat game similar to Escape Velocity.
• FlightGear - An open-source flight simulator.
• Lichess - The complete chess experience, play and compete with friends and others around the world.
• Mindustry - A sandbox tower defense game written in Java.
• Minetest - An open source voxel game engine.
• OpenDuelyst - A digital collectible card game.
• 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.
• Rigs of Rods - An open-source soft-body vehicle simulator.
• SuperTuxKart - A free kart racing game.
• Thrive - A free, open-source game about the evolution of life.
• Unciv - Open-source Android/Desktop remake of Civ V.
• Warzone 2100 - A ground-breaking and innovative 3D real-time strategy game.
• Wesnoth - An open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme.
• Widelands - A free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode.
• Xonotic - An addictive, arena-style first person shooter with crisp movement and a wide array of weapons.
• osu! - A free-to-win rhythm game. Rhythm is just a click away!

Gaming Utilities

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

Graphics

2D and 3D

• ❤️ Enve - Open-source 2D animation software.
• ❤️ OpenToonz - An open-source full-featured 2D animation creation software.
• Pencil2D - An easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations.
• Seamly2D - Open source patternmaking software.
• ❤️ Synfig Studio - A free and open-source 2D animation software.
• Wick Editor - A free and open-source tool for creating games, animations and everything in-between!
• ❤️ Blender - Free and Open Source 3D creation suite.
• Blockbench - A low poly 3D model editor.
• F3D - A fast and minimalist 3D viewer.
• FreeCAD - An open-source parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size.
• MeshLab - The open source mesh processing system.
• OpenSCAD - The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller.
• 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.
• Penpot - The Open-Source design & prototyping platform.
• Polotno Studio - Free online design editor.
• Screenshot.rocks - An online tool which allows you to create beautiful mobile & browser mockups from screenshots.

Digital Painting

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

Image Editors

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

Image Optimizers

• Caesium Image Compressor - An image compression web app.
• Caesium - A cross-platform image compression software.
• ❤️ Imagine - A desktop app for compression of PNG and JPEG, with a modern and friendly UI.
• ❤️ Squoosh - An image compression web app that reduces image sizes through numerous formats.

Image Viewers

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

OCR

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

Pixel Editors

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

Remove Image Background

• BackgroundRemover - A free web application that lets you Remove Background from images and video.
• 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.
• Rembg - A command line tool to remove images background.
• 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.
• LiveDraw - A tool allows you to draw on screen real-time.
• Pensela - The Swiss Army Knife of Screen Annotation Tools.

Screen Recorders

• ❤️ Captura - Capture Screen, Audio, Cursor, Mouse Clicks and Keystrokes.
• ❤️ Fluent Screen Recorder - A simple screen recorder built with UWP and featuring Fluent Design.
• ❤️ OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording.
• ScreenREC - A really simple web screen recorder.
• ❤️ ScreenToGif - Screen, webcam, and board recorder with an integrated editor.
• ❤️ 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.
• Streamlabs - Free and open source streaming software built on OBS and Electron.

Screenshot

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

VTuber

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

Webcam Recorders

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

Whiteboards

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

Others

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

Health and Fitness

• Ambie - The best white noise app on Windows.
• UBPM - Manage your blood pressure data on Windows/Linux/macOS.
• Eyes Guard - A Windows application for protecting your eyes when you are working with your PC or Laptop.
• Pomatez - An open-source Pomodoro timer application aimed for simplicity and productivity.
• Pomotroid - Simple and visually-pleasing Pomodoro timer.
• Stretchly - The break time reminder app.
• Workrave - A free program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI).
• 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.

Network and Admin

Network Monitors

• Angry IP Scanner - Fast and friendly network scanner.
• 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.
• Sniffnet - Comfortably monitor your Internet traffic.
• Wireshark - The world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer.
• OpenNetMeter - A simple program to monitor your network/data usage.
• 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.
• Microsoft Remote Desktop - Use the Microsoft Remote Desktop app to connect to a remote PC or virtual apps and desktops made available by your admin.
• QtScrcpy - Android real-time display control software.
• RustDesk - Yet another remote desktop software.
• ❤️ scrcpy - Display and control your Android device.
• TigerVNC - A free remote desktop software server and client application.
• TightVNC - A free remote desktop application.
• Quick Assist - A new app in Windows 10 that enables you to receive or provide assistance over a remote connection.
• Tailscale - A mesh VPN alternative that makes it easy to connect your devices.
• ZeroTier - A smart programmable Ethernet switch for planet Earth.
• mRemoteNG - An open source, multi-protocol, tabbed remote connections manager.
• PRemoteM - A modern personal remote session manager and launcher.
• Veyon - Cross-platform computer monitoring and classroom management.
• Weylus - Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on your computer.

Screen Sharing

• Deskreen - A desktop app that turns any device with a web browser into a secondary screen for your computer over WiFi.
• Screego - Screego allows you to share your screen with good quality and low latency.
• ❤️ ScreenTask - Share your screen across local devices without internet.

Virtualization

• Docker - Enterprise-focused container platform for building, sharing, and running any application.
• Podman - A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
• ❤️ 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.
• ❤️ Sandboxie - A sandbox-based isolation software for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows NT-based operating systems.
• ❤️ 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.
• SwitchHosts - An App for managing hosts file.
• Wifinian - A Windows desktop tool to enable user to actively control Wi-Fi connections.

News and Books

Books

• ❤️ Okular - A universal document viewer.
• Sumatra PDF - A free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) viewer.
• Sioyek - A PDF viewer designed for reading research papers and technical books.
• Alexandria - A minimalistic cross-platform eBook reader built with Tauri, Epub.js, and Typescript.
• ❤️ calibre - An e-book manager.
• ❤️ Koodo Reader - A modern ebook manager and reader.
• Thorium Reader - The best free reading application for EPUB, PDF and DAISY 3 ebooks, audiobooks and digital comics.
• YACReader - Yet another comic reader.
• AudiobookSuite - A WPF application with the goal of providing an easy to use local audiobook library and player for modern Windows systems.
• Libation - Audible audiobook manager.
• Sigil - A multi-platform EPUB ebook editor.
• Kiwix - An offline reader for online content like Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, or TED Talks.
• 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!

News

• ❤️ Fluent Reader - Modern desktop RSS reader.
• QuiteRSS - Free news feeds reader.
• ❤️ Raven Reader - A open source desktop news reader with flexible settings to optimize your experience.
• RSS Guard - Feed reader which supports RSS/ATOM/JSON and many web-based feed services.

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.
• Slant - A product recommendation community with the goal of making it effortless to find the best product, app or game for you.

Privacy and Security Guides

• Anonymous Planet - The comprehensive guide for online anonymity and OpSec.
• Awesome Privacy - A curated list of privacy & security-focused software and services.
• 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.
• PRISM Break - Privacy/security-oriented software recommendations.
• ❤️ Privacy Guides - Protect your data against global mass surveillance programs.

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.
• ❤️ Whoogle Search - A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine.

Secret Sharing

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

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.

URL Shorteners

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

Others

• ❤️ Disroot - A platform providing online services based on principles of freedom, privacy, federation and decentralization.
• Framasoft - A not-for-profit popular educational organization.
• Awesome Windows - An awesome & curated list of best applications and tools for Windows.
• 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.
• ❤️ 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.
• degoogle - A huge list of alternatives to Google products.
• Awesome Fediverse - A curated, collaborative list of awesome Fediverse resources.
• ❤️ Awesome-Selfhosted - A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers.

Personal Finance

• ❤️ Budget Badger - A simple Personal Budgeting cross-platform app built on top of Xamarin.Forms.
• Denaro - A personal finance manager.
• ❤️ GnuCash - A personal and small-business finance manager.
• HomeBank - Free personal finance software, money management for everyone.
• KMyMoney - A cross-platform personal finance manager.
• Money Manager Ex - A free, open-source, cross-platform, easy-to-use personal finance software.
• Money - Personal Expense Manager.
• My Budget - Free, open source offline cross-platform budgeting solution built with Electron.
• Frappe Books - Free Desktop book-keeping software for small businesses and freelancers.
• grocy - A web-based self-hosted groceries & household management solution for your home.
• rotki - A portfolio tracking, analytics, accounting and tax reporting application that protects your privacy.

Personalization

Desktop Mascot

• Desktop Pet (eSheep) - This project gives you the possibility to add a pet to your desktop.
• RunCat_for_windows - A cute running cat animation on your windows taskbar.
• Spirit - A modern and hackable desktop mascot.

Taskbar Tweakers

• RoundedTB - Add margins, rounded corners and segments to your taskbars!
• TaskbarXI - An application written in C++ to modify the Windows 11 Taskbar.
• TaskbarX - TaskbarX gives you control over the position of your taskbar icons.
• TranslucentTB - TranslucentTB offers you control over the appearance of your taskbar.

Wallpaper Management

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

Others

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

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.

Encryption Tools

Disk Encryption Tools

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

Steganography Tools

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

Others

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

Firewalls

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

Password Managers

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

Remove EXIF Data

• ❤️ ExifCleaner - Cross-platform desktop GUI app to clean image metadata.
• 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.

System Tweakers

• ❤️ O&O ShutUp10++ - Free antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11.
• Optimizer - The finest Windows Optimizer.
• Privatezilla - Performs a privacy & security check of Windows 10.
• Winpilot - Your everyday Windows companion.

VPN

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

Others

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

Productivity

Automation

• Alpha Clicker - Windows Autoclicker with a modern ui.
• Auto Screen Capture - Automated screen capture utility.
• AutoActions - Application-based actions to change Windows settings (display, audio) or run any program or action.
• ❤️ AutoHotkey - A free, open source macro-creation and automation software utility that allows users to automate repetitive tasks.
• ❤️ Beeftext - A text snippet tool for Windows.
• ❤️ espanso - A cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• SikuliX - SikuliX automates anything you see on the screen of your desktop computer running Windows, Mac or some Linux/Unix.

Clipboard Managers

• 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.
• ❤️ CopyQ - An advanced clipboard manager with powerful editing and scripting features.
• ❤️ Ditto - An extension to the standard windows clipboard.
• XClipper - A clipboard manager for Windows & Android which helps to track clipboard activities and makes it easier to interact with them.

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.
• Spyglass - A personal search engine, crawl & index websites/files you want with a simple set of rules.
• Cerebro - Open-source productivity booster with a brain.
• ❤️ Flow launcher - Quick file search & app launcher for Windows with community-made plugins.
• LaunchyQt - LaunchyQt is a fork of the keystroke launcher program Launchy but modernized.
• Pinpoint - Keystroke launcher and productivity tool.
• SystemTrayMenu - Browse and open your files easily.
• Tabame - Tabame is an alternative to Windows Taskbar.
• ❤️ ueli - A keystroke launcher for Windows and macOS.
• ❤️ dnGrep - dnGrep allows you to search across files with easy-to-read results.
• ❤️ grepWin - A powerful and fast search tool using regular expressions.

Journaling

• linked - Daily journaling without distraction.
• ❤️ Mini Diary - Simple and secure journal app.
• RedNotebook - A modern desktop journal.

Markdown Editors

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

Mind Mapping

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

Note Taking

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

Office

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

Task Management

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

Time Tracking

• ActivityWatch - The best free and open-source automated time tracker.
• Nomie - Open-source mood and life tracking.
• Strategr - No-Fuss Time Management App.
• Tockler - An application that tracks your time by monitoring your active window title and idle time.
• ididit! - The procrastination friendly habit tracker.
• Habitica - A habit tracker app which treats your goals like a Role Playing Game.

Weather

• FluentWeather - A beautiful & modern UWP weather app for Windows.
• Lively Weather - Windows native weather app powered by DirectX12 animations.

Writing Tools

• bibisco - An open source application for writing novels.
• ghostwriter - A cross-platform, aesthetic, distraction-free Markdown editor.
• KIT Scenarist - Simple and powerful application for writing screenplays.
• Manuskript - A open-source tool for writers.
• novelWriter - An open source plain text editor designed for writing novels.

Others

• 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.
• PDFsam - A desktop application to extract pages, split, merge, mix and rotate PDF files.
• PdfScribe - A PDF virtual printer for 64-bit Windows / .NET 4.8 or later.
• Scribus - An open source desktop publishing software.
• ❤️ TeXstudio - A fully featured LaTeX editor.
• Typst - A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.
• Knowledge - Knowledge is a tool for saving, searching, accessing, and exploring all of your favorite websites, documents and files.
• TagSpaces - An offline, open source, document manager with tagging support.
• 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.
• Reactive Resume - A free and open source resume builder.
• Resumake - A website for automatically generating elegant LaTeX resumes.
• ❤️ KDE Connect - Enabling communication between all your devices.
• Phone Link - Link your Android phone and PC to view and reply to text messages, make and receive calls, view your notifications, and more.
• ClickPaste - Windows 10 notification area app in C# that can paste clipboard contents as keystrokes to whatever location you click.
• DropPoint - Make drag-and-drop easier using DropPoint.
• ❤️ QuickLook - Bring macOS “Quick Look” feature to Windows.

Utilities

Context Menu Managers

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

Disk Imaging

• DISMTools - A front-end for DISM that lets you manage your Windows Imaging (WIM) files and a whole lot more.
• ❤️ Macrium Reflect Free - The complete backup solution for personal use.
• UrBackup - An easy to setup Open Source client/server backup system.
• ❤️ 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.
• ❤️ Rufus - A utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives.
• UNetbootin - UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions without burning a CD.
• USBImager - A very minimal GUI app that can write compressed disk images to USB drives.
• ❤️ Ventoy - A Multiboot Bootable USB Creation Tool.
• ❤️ UUP dump - Download UUP files from Windows Update servers with ease.
• UUP Media Creator - An utility to convert Unified Update Platform file sets into Windows Media files.

Disk Usage Analyzers

• Filelight - An application to visualize the disk usage on your computer.
• ❤️ TreeSize Free - The disk space manager TreeSize Free tells you where precious disk space has gone.
• ❤️ 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.
• 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.
• ❤️ Eraser - A secure data removal tool for Windows.
• Permadelete - An easy to use and beautiful app for shredding files and folders permanently.
• Turbo Delete - A blazing fast alternative to the default Windows delete.

Hardware Monitoring

Fan Control

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

RGB Lighting Control

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

Others

• ❤️ CrystalDiskInfo - A HDD/SSD utility software which supports a part of USB, Intel RAID and NVMe.
• ❤️ CrystalDiskMark - A simple storage benchmark.
• GSmartControl - Hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool.
• ❤️ HWiNFO - Comprehensive Hardware Analysis, Monitoring and Reporting for Windows and DOS.
• ❤️ Libre Hardware Monitor - A fork of Open Hardware Monitor.
• Open Hardware Monitor - A free open source software that monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds of a computer.
• Sidebar Diagnostics - A simple sidebar for Windows desktop that displays hardware diagnostic information.
• Winfetch - A command-line system information utility written in PowerShell.

Package Managers

• Chocolatey GUI - A delicious GUI for Chocolatey.
• ❤️ Chocolatey - The package manager for Windows.
• ❤️ Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows.
• Fluent Store - A unifying frontend for Windows app stores and package managers.
• ❤️ WingetUI - A graphical user interface for Winget and Scoop.
• ❤️ winget - Microsoft's open-source CLI packager manager for Windows.
• winstall - A web app for browsing and installing Windows Package Manager apps.
• PortableApps.com - A website offering many free, commonly used Windows applications that have been specially packaged for portability.
• ❤️ BCUninstaller - A free program uninstaller.
• ❤️ 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.
• LightBulb - An application that reduces eyestrain produced by staring at a computer screen when working late hours.
• ❤️ Monitorian - A Windows desktop tool to adjust the brightness of multiple monitors with ease.
• Twinkle Tray - Easily manage the brightness of your monitors in Windows from the system tray.

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.

Window Managers

• AltSnap - Easily drag windows when pressing the alt key.
• Amethyst Windows - Automatic tiling window manager for Windows 10/11.
• ❤️ PowerToys - Windows system utilities to maximize productivity.
• RBTray - RBTray allows almost any program to be minimized to the system tray by right clicking its minimize button.
• SmartSystemMenu - SmartSystemMenu extends system menu of all windows in the system.
• workspacer - A tiling window manager for Windows.

Others

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

Video

Media Servers

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

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.
• Subliminal - A command line tool to search and download subtitles.
• SubSync - An automatic movie subtitle synchronization tool.
• ❤️ Subtitle Edit - A free editor for video subtitles.

Video Converters

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

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.
• ❤️ DaVinci Resolve - A color grading and non-linear video editing application.
• Hitfilm Express - Free video editing software with professional-grade VFX tools and everything you need to make awesome content, films or gaming videos.
• Kdenlive - Free and open source video editor.
• Olive - Free open-source non-linear video editor.
• OpenShot - An award-winning free and open-source video editor.
• ❤️ Shotcut - A free, open source, cross-platform video editor.
• StaxRip - Video encoding GUI for Windows.
• Kinovea - A video annotation tool designed for motion analysis.
• MKVToolNix - A set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska files under Linux, other Unices and Windows.
• Natron - Open-source video compositing software.
• ❤️ Astrofox - A motion graphics program that lets turn audio into amazing videos.
• Mediabits.io - Mediabits.io lets anyone create engaging videos for their audio, perfect for sharing on social media.
• 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.
• MPC-BE - A free and open source audio and video player.
• ❤️ MPC-HC - A free and open-source video and audio player.
• ❤️ mpv.net - A modern media player for Windows based on the popular mpv player.
• mpv - A free, open source, and cross-platform media player.
• SMPlayer - Free Media Player with built-in codecs.
• VLC - A cross-platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project.
• GridPlayer - Simple VLC-based media player that can play multiple videos at the same time.
• Kawaii-Player - Multimedia player, media library manager and portable media server with PC-To-PC casting feature.
• Screenbox - LibVLC-based media player for the Universal Windows Platform.
• QMPlay2 - A video and audio player which can play most formats and codecs.
• IPTVnator - A video player application that provides support for the playback of IPTV playlists (m3u, m3u8).
• Vodon Pro - A video player designed for esports coaches to review footage of players.
• Pennywise - Cross-platform application to open any website or media in a floating window.

Video Streaming

• ❤️ FreeTube - An Open Source YouTube app for privacy.
• Invidious - An alternative front-end to YouTube.
• ❤️ Piped - An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
• Streamlink Twitch GUI - A multi platform Twitch.tv browser for Streamlink.
• MotionMonkey - A semantic video player designed to stream Internet videos from a single query.
• Popcorn Time - A free BitTorrent client that includes an integrated media player.

Watch Videos Together

• ❤️ Metastream - Watch streaming media with friends.
• OpenTogetherTube - The easy way to watch videos with your friends.
• ❤️ 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.
• WatchParty - A website for watching videos together.

Others

• DVDStyler - A cross-platform free DVD authoring application.
• Gyroflow - Video stabilization using gyroscope data.
• 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.
• Mediarepo - A tool for managing media files.
• QPrompt - Personal teleprompter software for all video creators.
• Radarr - A movie collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users.
• Stash - An organizer for your porn, written in Go.

References & Acknowledgements

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• GitHub
• AlternativeTo
• Product Hunt
• Privacy Guides
• PRISM Break
• Awesome Privacy
• Personal Security Checklist
• Awesome Windows
• 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.
• ethical.net - A not-for-profit project building a collaborative, online directory of ethical companies of all kinds.

LICENSE

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