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.
• - Microsoft Store
• - Repository
• - Open Source license compliant

CHANGELOG 2023-03-12:

• Added muffon, WezTerm, SCrawler, Game Jolt, Awesome Privacy, Denaro and Artemis

Mirrors

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

Contents

1. Audio

   • Audio Editors
   • Audio Players
   • Music Production
   • Music Streaming
   • Music Tag Editors
   • Sound Equalizers
   • Volume Control
   • Others
2. Backup and Sync

   • Cloud Storage
   • Others
3. Browsers and Extensions

   • Browsers
   • Extensions
     • New Tab Page
     • Privacy Extensions
     • Sync Bookmarks
     • Others
4. Communication

   • Email
     • Email Clients
     • Email Forwarding Services
     • Email Providers
     • Temporary Email Services
   • IM
   • Social Media
5. Development

   • Statistical Analysis
   • Terminal Emulators
   • Text Editors
   • Others
6. Downloaders

   • Download Managers
   • Media Downloaders
   • Torrent Clients
7. Education

   • Online Education Services
   • Reference Management
   • Translators
   • Others
8. File Management

   • Duplicate File Finders
   • File Archivers
   • File Converters
   • File Managers
   • File Renamers
9. File Sharing

   • File Sharing Web Apps
   • LAN File Sharing
   • Others
10. Games and Tools

    • Game Launchers
    • Game Stores
    • Games
    • Gaming Utilities
11. Graphics

    • 2D and 3D
    • Design Tools
    • Digital Painting
    • Image Editors
    • Image Optimizers
    • Image Viewers
    • OCR
    • Pixel Editors
    • Remove Image Background
    • Screen Recorders
    • Screenshot
    • VTuber
    • Webcam Recorders
    • Whiteboards
    • Others
12. Health and Fitness
13. Network and Admin

    • Network Monitors
    • Remote Desktop
    • Screen Sharing
    • Virtualization
    • Others
14. News and Books

    • Books
    • News
15. Online Services

    • App Discovery Services
    • Privacy and Security Guides
    • Search Engines
    • Secret Sharing
    • Survey Tools
    • URL Shorteners
    • Others
16. Personal Finance
17. Personalization

    • Desktop Mascot
    • Taskbar Tweakers
    • Wallpaper Management
    • Others
18. Privacy and Security

    • Antivirus
    • Decentralized Networks
    • Encryption Tools
      • Disk Encryption Tools
      • Steganography Tools
      • Others
    • Firewalls
    • Password Managers
    • Remove EXIF Data
    • System Tweakers
    • VPN
    • Others
19. Productivity

    • Automation
    • Clipboard Managers
    • File Search
    • Journaling
    • Markdown Editors
    • Mind Mapping
    • Note Taking
    • Office
    • Task Management
    • Time Tracking
    • Writing Tools
    • Others
20. Utilities

    • Context Menu Managers
    • Disk Imaging
    • Disk Usage Analyzers
    • File Recovery
    • File Shredders
    • Hardware Monitoring
      • Fan Control
      • RGB Lighting Control
      • Others
    • Package Managers
    • Screen Dimmers
    • System Administration
    • Window Managers
    • Others
21. Video

    • Media Servers
    • Subtitles Tools
    • Video Converters
    • Video Editors
    • Video Players
    • Video Streaming
    • Watch Videos Together
    • Others

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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.
• Museeks - A simple, clean and cross-platform music player.
• MusicBee - A music manager and player.
• 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 App - A Desktop App for YouTube Music.

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.
• 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!
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Sync Bookmarks

• Floccus - Sync your bookmarks privately across browsers.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

• FileSend - Simple, encrypted file sharing.
• 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.
• LANDrop - A cross-platform tool that you can use to conveniently transfer photos, videos, and other types of files to other devices on the same local network.
• 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

• Design Editor - An open source graphic editor.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• CryptoTracker - Simple yet powerful cryptocurrency portfolio tracker designed with simplicity and functionality in mind.
• 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.
• 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.
• ThisIsWin11 - ThisIsWin11 lets you customize Windows 11 all in one place.

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

• Abricotine - Markdown editor with inline preview.
• Dillinger - A cloud-enabled, mobile-ready, offline-storage compatible.
• MarkText - A simple and elegant markdown editor.
• 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

• 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.
• 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.
• Leaflet - POSP official notes application, written in flutter, beautiful, fast and secure.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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

• 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.
• Radiograph - Universal tool for managing your 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.
• 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 GUI - 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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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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