List of free Windows software for normal users.
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.
- Some apps could possibly infringe copyright or other laws.
- Microsoft Store Apps may not have all the features of Desktop Apps.
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- foobar2000 - An advanced freeware audio player.
- AIMP - A full-featured music player.
- MusicBee - A music manager and player.
- Museeks - A simple, clean and cross-platform music player.
- Dopamine - An elegant audio player which tries to make organizing and listening to music as simple and pretty as possible.
- Harmonoid - Elegant music app to play & manage music library.
- Strawberry Music Player - A music player and music collection organizer.
- DeaDBeeF - A modular cross-platform audio player.
- CPOD - A simple, beautiful podcast app.
- nuclear - Streaming music player that finds free music for you.
- Google Play Music™ Desktop Player - A beautiful cross platform Desktop Player for Google Play Music.
- YouTube Music Desktop App - A Desktop App for YouTube Music.
- Cider - An open source and community oriented Apple Music client.
- Spotube - A lightweight free Spotify crossplatform-client which handles playback manually, streams music using Youtube & no Spotify premium account is needed.
- Audacity - An easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder.
- 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.
- MusicBrainz Picard - An open-source cross-platform music tagger.
- MuseScore - Create, playback, and print sheet music for free.
- LMMS - Cross-platform music production software.
- Mixxx - Free DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes.
- Helio Workstation - One music sequencer for all major platforms, desktop and mobile.
- Sonic Pi - A code-based music creation and performance tool.
- AudioStellar - Open source data-driven musical instrument for latent sound structure discovery and music experimentation.
- projectM - The most advanced open-source music visualizer.
- Friture - An application to visualize and analyze live audio data in real-time.
- Jamulus - A networked music performance software allowing musicians to rehearse, perform and play in real-time.
- Figaro - Real-time open-source voice modification program & sound board.
- Soundux - A cross-platform soundboard that features a simple user interface.
- Carla - A fully-featured audio plugin host, with support for many audio drivers and plugin formats.
- Equalizer APO - A system-wide equalizer.
- Peace Equalizer - A Windows PC interface for Equalizer APO.
- Real-time Noise Suppression Plugin - Noise suppression plugin based on Xiph's RNNoise.
- SoundSwitch - SoundSwitch offers you the opportunity to switch your playback and recording devices using simple hotkeys.
- Audio Band - Display and control songs from the Windows taskbar.
- MicMute - Control your microphone using keyboard and mouse hotkeys.
- Mechvibes - Adds sound feedback any keyboard.
- AirConnect - Use AirPlay to stream to UPnP/Sonos & Chromecast devices.
- 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.
- VLC - A cross-platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project.
- MPC-BE - A free and open source audio and video player.
- MPC-HC - A free and open-source video and audio player.
- mpv - A free, open source, and cross-platform media player.
- mpv.net - A modern media player for Windows based on the popular mpv player.
- SMPlayer - Free Media Player with built-in codecs.
- Kawaii-Player - Multimedia player, media library manager and portable media server with PC-To-PC casting feature.
- Streamlink Twitch GUI - A multi platform Twitch.tv browser for Streamlink.
- FreeTube - An Open Source YouTube app for privacy.
- Piped - An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
- Invidious - An alternative front-end to YouTube.
- pogu.live - Watch any sub-only Twitch VOD for free.
- Popcorn Time - A free BitTorrent client that includes an integrated media player.
- MotionMonkey - A semantic video player designed to stream Internet videos from a single query.
- 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.
- Metastream - Watch streaming media with friends.
- OpenTogetherTube - The easy way to watch videos with your friends.
- WatchParty - A website for watching videos together.
- Pennywise - Cross-platform application to open any website or media in a floating window.
- 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.
- Shotcut - A free, open source, cross-platform video editor.
- OpenShot - An award-winning free and open-source video editor.
- Olive - Free open-source non-linear video editor.
- Kdenlive - Free and open source video editor.
- StaxRip - Video encoding GUI for 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.
- Kinovea - A video annotation tool designed for motion analysis.
Clipchamp - Free online video editor.- 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.
- MKVToolNix - A set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska files under Linux, other Unices and Windows.
- av-converter - Convert audio/video files to another format.
- Kodi - An award-winning free and open source software media player and entertainment hub for digital media for HTPCs (Home theater PCs).
- Jellyfin - A personal media server and client.
- Universal Media Server - A DLNA, UPnP and HTTP(S) Media Server.
- Macast - A menu bar application using mpv as DLNA Media Renderer.
- Webcamoid - A full featured and multiplatform webcam suite.
- Mini Video Me - A small webcam player focused on providing an easy way to add and control your webcam during recordings.
- Anime4KCPP - A high performance anime upscaler.
- DVDStyler - A cross-platform free DVD authoring application.
- Subtitle Edit - A free editor for video subtitles.
- SubSync - An automatic movie subtitle synchronization tool.
- Subliminal - A command line tool to search and download subtitles.
- Radarr - A movie collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users.
- Mediarepo - A tool for managing media files.
- Stash - An organizer for your porn, written in Go.
- IPTV - Collection of publicly available IPTV channels from all over the world.
- Flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software.
- Greenshot - A light-weight screenshot software tool.
- Snipaste - A simple but powerful snipping tool.
- Ksnip - A Qt-based cross-platform screenshot tool that provides many annotation features for your screenshots.
- 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.
- ScreenToGif - Screen, webcam, and board recorder with an integrated editor.
- 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.
- Streamlabs - Free and open source streaming software built on OBS and Electron.
- Captura - Capture Screen, Audio, Cursor, Mouse Clicks and Keystrokes.
- ScreenREC - A really simple web screen recorder.
- Inkscape - A free and open-source vector graphics editor.
- Krita - A free and open source digital painting application.
- Pinta - A free, open source program for drawing and image editing.
- Drawpile - A collaborative drawing program.
- tldraw - A tiny little drawing app.
- AutoDraw - An intuitive drawing tool for everyone.
- 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.
- ImageGlass - A lightweight, versatile image viewer.
- nomacs - A free, open source image viewer.
- IrfanView - A very fast, compact and innovative FREEWARE image viewer/converter.
- NeeView - A Free and Open Source, modern and powerful image viewer and a manga/comic reader.
- Quick Picture Viewer - Lightweight, versatile desktop image viewer.
- qView - Practical and minimal image viewer.
- GIMP - A cross-platform image editor.
- PhotoGIMP - A patch for optimizing GIMP 2.10+ for Adobe Photoshop users.
- Paint.NET - Free image and photo editing software.
- ImageMagick - A software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images.
- PhotoDemon - A portable photo editor.
- Photopea - Online photo editor.
- miniPaint - Online image editor lets you create, edit images using HTML5 technologies.
- FotoSketcher - Turn your photos into beautiful paintings, sketches or drawings in seconds.
- Polotno Studio - Free online design editor.
- Milton - A free and open-source infinite canvas paint program.
- Screenshot.rocks - An online tool which allows you to create beautiful mobile & browser mockups from screenshots.
- Rembg - A command line tool to remove images background.
- Cleanup.Picture - A free web application that lets you quickly cleanup or remove objects in any image.
- BackgroundRemover - A free web application that lets you Remove Background from images and video.
Remove.bg - Remove background from images 100% automatically in 5 seconds without a single click.- darktable - An open source photography workflow application and raw developer.
- RawTherapee - A powerful cross-platform raw photo processing program.
- Filmulator - Simplified raw editing with the power of film.
- digiKam - An advanced digital photo management application.
- Imagine - A desktop app for compression of PNG and JPEG, with a modern and friendly UI.
- Caesium - A cross-platform image compression software.
- Caesium Image Compressor - An image compression web app.
- Squoosh - An image compression web app that reduces image sizes through numerous formats.
- LibreSprite - A free and open source program for creating and animating your sprites.
- Shape Shifter - A web-app that simplifies the creation of icon animations for Android, iOS, and the web.
- Pixelorama - A free & open-source 2D sprite editor.
- PixiEditor - A lightweight pixel art editor.
- Piskel - A simple web-based tool for Spriting and Pixel art.
- Synfig Studio - A free and 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.
- Wick Editor - A free and open-source tool for creating games, animations and everything in-between!
- Blender - Free and Open Source 3D creation suite.
- FreeCAD - An open-source parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size.
- OpenSCAD - The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller.
- MeshLab - The open source mesh processing system.
- 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.
- F3D - A fast and minimalist 3D viewer.
- Graphviz - Open source graph visualization software.
- Gephi - Gephi is the leading visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks.
- gInk - An easy to use on-screen annotation software inspired by Epic Pen.
- LiveDraw - A tool allows you to draw on screen real-time.
- Storyboarder - Storyboarder makes it easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures.
- gImageReader - A simple Gtk/Qt front-end to tesseract-ocr.
- Colorpicker - A mininal but complete colorpicker desktop app.
- 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.
- Firefox - Get the browser that protects what’s important.
- LibreWolf - A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.
- Brave - A fast, private and secure web browser.
- Chromium - The free and open-source project behind Google Chrome.
- Tor Browser - A web broswer that anonymizes your web traffic using the Tor network.
Min - A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy.
- uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.
- 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.
- LocalCDN - A web browser extension that emulates Content Delivery Networks to improve your online privacy.
- LibRedirect - A web extension that redirects popular sites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends and backends.
- Mailvelope - Browser extension for OpenPGP encryption with Webmail.
- Violentmonkey - An open source userscript manager.
- Automa - A chrome extension for automating your browser by connecting blocks.
- Omni - The all-in-one tool to supercharge your productivity keyboard.
- Memex - Browser Extension to full-text search your browsing history & bookmarks.
- Dark Reader - Dark Reader analyzes web pages and aims to reduce eyestrain while browsing the web.
- Bypass Paywalls - A web browser extension to help bypass paywalls for selected sites.
- Search by Image - A browser extension that makes effortless reverse image searches possible, and comes with support for more than 30 search engines.
- Read Aloud - A Text to Speech Voice Reader extension for your browser!
- Translate Web Pages - Translate your page in real time using Google or Yandex.
- Screenity - The most powerful screen recorder & annotation tool for Chrome.
- Marinara - A time management assistant for Chrome that follows the Pomodoro Technique.
- nightTab - A neutral new tab page accented with a chosen colour.
- xBrowserSync - Free and open source tool for syncing your browser data between browsers and devices whilst maintaining your privacy and anonymity.
- Floccus - Sync your bookmarks privately across browsers.
- Gesturefy - Navigate, operate, and browse faster with mouse gestures! A customizable Firefox mouse gesture add-on with a variety of different commands.
- Protonmail - An email provider/service that respects privacy and puts people first.
- Tutanota - A secure email service.
- Thunderbird - A free email application that’s easy to set up and customize.
- Delta Chat - Chat over e-mail.
- Mailspring - A beautiful, fast and fully open source mail client.
- AnonAddy - Anonymous Email Forwarding.
- SimpleLogin - Receive and send emails anonymously.
- Burner.kiwi - No bullshit temporary mail service written in Go.
- MailDrop - A quick, disposable email.
- Guerrilla Mail - A disposable email.
- Signal - A messaging app with an unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all the features expected from a modern IM app.
- Element - Secure and independent communication, connected via Matrix.
- Session - An end-to-end encrypted messenger.
- Franz - Messaging app for WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram, HipChat, Hangouts and many many more.
- 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.
- LBRY - A decentralized video sharing network.
- PeerTube - A free, decentralized and federated video platform.
- Glimesh - A next generation live streaming platform built by the community, for the community.
- Mastodon - Globally interconnected microblogging community.
- Lemmy - A link aggregator / Reddit clone for the fediverse.
- WriteFreely - A clean, simple publishing platform made for writers.
- 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.
- You-Get - A tiny command-line utility to download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the Web.
- Lux - A fast and simple video downloader built with Go.
- Tartube - A GUI front-end for youtube-dl.
- Hitomi Downloader - Desktop utility to download images/videos/music/text from various websites, and more.
- Video Downloader - A video and channel downloader that supports 110 websites.
- YoutubeDownloader - An application that lets you download videos from YouTube.
- Streamlink - A CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player.
- qBittorrent - qBittorrent aims to be a good alternative to all other bittorrent clients out there.
- Transmission - A fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client.
- PicoTorrent - A tiny and minimal BitTorrent client.
- WebTorrent - The streaming torrent app.
- Instant.io - Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent (torrents on the web).
- Free Download Manager - A powerful modern download accelerator and organizer.
- Motrix - A full-featured download manager.
- FireDM - A good open-source internet download manager.
- JDownloader - A free, open-source download management tool.
- XDM - Powerfull download accelerator and video downloader.
- Persepolis - A download manager & a GUI for Aria2.
- AriaNg-Native - A better aria2 desktop frontend than AriaNg, containing all features of AriaNg and more features for desktop.
- N_m3u8DL-CLI - A command line tool for downloading m3u8.
- Twitch Leecher - An extremely fast and easy to use Twitch VOD downloader.
- SpotiFlyer - Kotlin Multiplatform Music Downloader ,supports Spotify, Youtube, Gaana, Jio-Saavn and SoundCloud.
- HakuNeko - A cross-platform downloader for manga and anime from various websites.
- AllTube Download - Web GUI for youtube-dl.
- 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.
- QuiteRSS - Free news feeds reader.
- Raven Reader - A open source desktop news reader with flexible settings to optimize your experience.
- Fluent Reader - Modern desktop RSS reader.
- RSS Guard - Feed reader which supports RSS/ATOM/JSON and many web-based feed services.
- 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.
- Libation - Audible audiobook manager.
- AudiobookSuite - A WPF application with the goal of providing an easy to use local audiobook library and player for modern Windows systems.
- Thorium Reader - The best free reading application for EPUB, PDF and DAISY 3 ebooks, audiobooks and digital comics.
- YACReader - Yet another comic reader.
- Sigil - A multi-platform EPUB ebook editor.
- 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.
- Kiwix - An offline reader for online content like Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, or TED Talks.
- ZLibrary - The world's largest ebook library.
- Sci-Hub - A shadow library website that provides free access to millions of research papers and books.
- Library Genesis - A file-sharing based shadow library website.
- Project Gutenberg - A library of over 60,000 free eBooks.
- Open Library - An open, editable library catalog.
- Internet Archive - A non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
- Mind Expanding Books - Books everyone should read!
- Books - Awesome Book Lists.
- itch.io - An online game marketplace and community.
- GOG GALAXY - Truly gamer friendly, DRM-free online gaming platform.
- 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.
- Minetest - An open source voxel game engine.
- Warzone 2100 - A ground-breaking and innovative 3D real-time strategy game.
- 0 A.D. - A free, open-source game of ancient warfare.
- Widelands - A free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode.
- Mindustry - A sandbox tower defense game written in Java.
- Wesnoth - An open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme.
- Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
- Thrive - A free, open-source game about the evolution of life.
- Unciv - Open-source Android/Desktop remake of Civ V.
- SuperTuxKart - A free kart racing game.
- Xonotic - An addictive, arena-style first person shooter with crisp movement and a wide array of weapons.
- FlightGear - An open-source flight simulator.
- Endless Sky - A space exploration and combat game similar to Escape Velocity.
- osu! - A free-to-win rhythm game. Rhythm is just a click away!
- Lichess - The complete chess experience, play and compete with friends and others around the world.
- 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.
- Files - A modern file manager.
- Xplorer - A customizable, modern and cross-platform File Explorer.
- Double Commander - A free cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side.
- Sigma File Manager - A free, open-source, quickly evolving, modern file manager app.
- Far Manager - A program for managing files and archives in Windows operating systems.
- 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.
- 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.
- WinMerge - An Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows.
- Pandoc - Universal markup converter.
- 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.
- Dangerzone - Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to a safe PDF.
- Convertio - Easy tool to convert files online.
- 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.- Rclone - A command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers.
- Duplicati - Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!
- Kopia - A simple, cross-platform tool for managing encrypted backups in the cloud.
- restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program.
- Duplicacy - A new generation cloud backup tool.
- Syncthing - A continuous file synchronization program.
- Cyberduck - A libre FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3, Backblaze B2, Azure & OpenStack Swift browser.
- Ludusavi - A tool for backing up your PC video game save data.
- ChoEazyCopy - Simple and powerful RoboCopy GUI.
- Ultracopier - Ultracopier acts as a replacement for files copy dialogs.
- WinSCP - A popular free SFTP and FTP client for Windows.
- OpenSSH - Windows Optional Features. OpenSSH is a complete implementation of the SSH protocol (version 2) for secure remote login, command execution and file transfer.
- SFTPGo - Fully featured and highly configurable SFTP server with optional HTTP/S, FTP/S and WebDAV support.
- 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.
- Sharik - An open-source, cross-platform solution for sharing files via Wi-Fi or Mobile Hotspot.
- Winpinator - Send and receive files across a local network.
- Flying Carpet - Wireless, encrypted file transfer over automatically configured ad hoc networking.
- miniserve - A CLI tool to serve files and dirs over HTTP.
- OnionShare - An open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network.
- croc - A CLI file-transfer tool.
- Magic Wormhole - Get things from one computer to another, safely.
- Rymdport - A GUI for the Magic Wormhole.
- Tresorit Send - Send big files up to 5 GB securely.
- Send - Simple, private file sharing.
- Disroot Upload - Anonymous file sharing services with temporary storage.
- FileSend - Simple, encrypted file sharing.
- SwissTransfer - Send files up to 50 GB free of charge.
- pic.infini - A free and anonymous image hosting service.
- Snapdrop - A Progressive Web App for local file sharing.
- ShareDrop - Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC.
- FilePizza - Peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser.
- Blaze - A P2P file sharing web app.
- Wormhole - Simple, private file sharing.
- I2P - The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is a fully encrypted private network layer.
- Freenet - A peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant and privacy-respecting publishing and communication.
- IPFS - A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open.
- LibreOffice - A free and powerful office suite.
Google Docs - Free online document editor.Microsoft Office Online - Collaborate for free with online versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote.- CryptPad - A collaboration suite that is end-to-end-encrypted and open-source.
- Grist - A modern relational spreadsheet.
- Sozi - A presentation tool for SVG documents.
- Joplin - A free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks.
- Standard Notes - A free, open-source, and completely encrypted notes app.
- Cryptee - A privacy focused, encrypted and secure documents, notes, files and photos service.
- SilentNotes - A simple note taking app which respects your privacy.
- Simplenote - The simplest way to keep notes.
- Trilium Notes - A hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases.
- Logseq - A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration.
- Zettlr - A Markdown Editor for the 21st century.
- AppFlowy - An open-source alternative to Notion.
- Foam - A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode.
- Athens - An open-source knowledge graph that helps individuals and organizations solve complex problems by enabling them to capture, compose, and recombine ideas.
- QOwnNotes - A plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with markdown support and Nextcloud / ownCloud integration.
- Obsidian - A powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
- Mini Diary - Simple and secure journal app.
- linked - Daily journaling without distraction.
- RedNotebook - A modern desktop journal.
- 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.
- Xournal++ - A handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support.
- Microsoft Journal - A notetaking application that focuses on the inking experience.
- Manuskript - A open-source tool for writers.
- bibisco - An open source application for writing novels.
- novelWriter - An open source plain text editor designed for writing novels.
- KIT Scenarist - Simple and powerful application for writing screenplays.
- Notable - The Markdown-based note-taking app.
- MarkText - A simple and elegant markdown editor.
- Abricotine - Markdown editor with inline preview.
- PanWriter - Markdown editor with pandoc integration and paginated preview.
- StackEdit - In-browser Markdown editor.
- Dillinger - A cloud-enabled, mobile-ready, offline-storage compatible,
AngularJS-powered HTML5 Markdown editor.
- Super Productivity - To-do list & time tracker for programmers & designers.
- 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.
- Ditto - An extension to the standard windows clipboard.
- CopyQ - An advanced clipboard manager with powerful editing and scripting features.
- 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.
- XClipper - A clipboard manager for Windows & Android which helps to track clipboard activities and makes it easier to interact with them.
- 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.
- ueli - A keystroke launcher for Windows and macOS.
- Flow launcher - Quick file search & app launcher for Windows with community-made plugins.
- Cerebro - Open-source productivity booster with a brain.
- SystemTrayMenu - Browse and open your files easily.
- drawio-desktop - An open source technology stack for building diagramming applications.
- draw.io - Free online diagram software.
- Heimer - A simple cross-platform mind map, diagram, and note-taking tool written in Qt.
- My Mind - A web application for creating and managing Mind maps.
- mindmaps - An open source, offline capable, mind mapping application leveraging HTML5 technologies.
- Wireflow - Flow chart collaboration app.
- ASCIIFlow - A client-side only web based application for drawing ASCII diagrams.
- espanso - A cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust.
- Beeftext - A text snippet tool for Windows.
- AutoHotkey - A free, open source macro-creation and automation software utility that allows users to automate repetitive tasks.
- 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.
- AutoActions - Application-based actions to change Windows settings ( display, audio) or run any program or action.
- 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.
- Shutdown Timer Classic - Pick a time and let your computer shutdown itself.
- Scribus - An open source desktop publishing software.
- TeXstudio - A fully featured LaTeX editor.
- TagSpaces - An offline, open source, document manager with tagging support.
- Knowledge Canvas - With Knowledge Canvas, you can import almost any digital resource and use it to build your own personal Knowledge Base.
- Paperwork - Paperwork is a personal document manager. It manages scanned documents and PDFs.
- 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.
- Phone Link - Link your Android phone and PC to view and reply to text messages, make and receive calls, view your notifications, and more.
- KDE Connect - Enabling communication between all your devices.
- QuickLook - Bring macOS “Quick Look” feature to Windows.
- DropPoint - Make drag-and-drop easier using DropPoint.
- Ambie - The best white noise app on Windows.
- 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.
- Eyes Guard - A Windows application for protecting your eyes when you are working with your PC or Laptop.
- Workrave - A free program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI).
- 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.
- ActivityWatch - The best free and open-source automated time tracker.
- Strategr - No-Fuss Time Management App.
- Nomie - Open-source mood and life tracking.
Habitica - A habit tracker app which treats your goals like a Role Playing Game.- QMapShack - An intuitive and efficient tool for route planning and GPS recordings visualization.
- Money - Personal Expense Manager.
- My Budget - Free, open source offline cross-platform budgeting solution built with Electron.
- Money Manager Ex - A free, open-source, cross-platform, easy-to-use personal finance software.
- GnuCash - A personal and small-business finance manager.
- KMyMoney - A cross-platform personal finance manager.
- grocy - A web-based self-hosted groceries & household management solution for your home.
- Frappe Books - Free Desktop book-keeping software for small businesses and freelancers.
- 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.
- LanguageTool - Checks your writing in more than 20 languages.
- Crow Translate - A simple and lightweight translator.
- DeepL Translator - A neural machine translation service.
- Lingva Translate - Alternative front-end for Google Translate.
- Zotero - A free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.
- JabRef - An open-source, cross-platform citation and reference management tool.
- Qiqqa - A free research and reference manager.
- GCompris - A high quality educational software suite.
- Scratch - With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations.
- Stellarium - A free open source planetarium for your computer.
- Celestia - Real-time 3D visualization of space.
- Avogadro - An advanced molecular editor designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas.
- Anki - Powerful, intelligent flash cards.
- Tabby- Simple timetable desktop app to track your school schedule.
- Qalculate! - A multi-purpose cross-platform desktop calculator.
- Orange Data Mining - A data mining and visualization toolbox for novice and expert alike.
- GeoGebra - Free digital tools for class activities, graphing, geometry, collaborative whiteboard and more.
- Gramps - Research, organize and share your family tree with Gramps.
- Scilab - Open source software for numerical computation.
- GNU Octave - A programming language for scientific computing.
- BOINC - Open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing.
- ZoteroBib - ZoteroBib helps you build a bibliography instantly from any computer or device.
- edX - Free online courses by Harvard, MIT.
- Khan Academy - A personalized learning resource for all ages.
- Coursera - Free and paid courses on a wide variety of subjects from scholastic to technical and more.
- Rainmeter - Desktop customization tool for Windows.
- Open-Shell-Menu - Classic Shell Reborn.
- 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!
- WinDynamicDesktop - WinDynamicDesktop ports the Dynamic Desktop feature from macOS Mojave to Windows 10.
- SpaceEye - Make live satellite imagery your desktop background with SpaceEye.
- Superpaper - A cross-platform multi monitor wallpaper manager.
- Windows Auto Dark Mode - Switches between the dark and light theme of Windows at scheduled times.
- TranslucentTB - TranslucentTB offers you control over the appearance of your taskbar.
- RoundedTB - Add margins, rounded corners and segments to your taskbars!
- TaskbarX - TaskbarX gives you control over the position of your taskbar icons.
- EarTrumpet - A powerful volume control app for Windows.
- TileIconifier - Creates tiles for most Windows 8.1 and 10 start menu icons.
- ModernFlyouts - A modern Fluent Design replacement for the old Metro themed flyouts present in Windows.
- ElevenClock - Have a customizable clock on your Windows 11 displays.
- Taskbar Groups - Lightweight utility for organizing the taskbar through groups.
- RunCat_for_windows - A cute running cat animation on your windows taskbar.
- Desktop Pet (eSheep) - This project gives you the possibility to add a pet to your desktop.
- Custom Context Menu - Add Custom Context Menu For Windows11.
- ContextMenuManager - A program to manage the Windows right-click context menu.
- ExplorerPatcher - This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows.
- 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.
- Magisk on WSA - Integrate Magisk root and Google Apps (OpenGApps) into WSA (Windows Subsystem for Android).
- Windows Sandbox - Windows Sandbox provides a lightweight desktop environment to safely run applications in isolation.
- Sandboxie - A sandbox-based isolation software for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows NT-based operating systems.
- 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.
- AnyDesk - Your Remote Desktop Software for Windows.
- Quick Assist - A new app in Windows 10 that enables you to receive or provide assistance over a remote connection.
- scrcpy - Display and control your Android device.
- QtScrcpy - Android real-time display control software.
- 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.
- TightVNC - A free remote desktop application.
- TigerVNC - A free remote desktop software server and client application.
- Weylus - Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on your computer.
- Moonlight - An open source implementation of NVIDIA's GameStream.
- ZeroTier - A smart programmable Ethernet switch for planet Earth.
- Tailscale - A mesh VPN alternative that makes it easy to connect your devices.
- ScreenTask - Share your screen across local devices without internet.
- Deskreen - A desktop app that turns any device with a web browser into a secondary screen for your computer over WiFi.
- RustDesk - Yet another remote desktop software.
- Screego - Screego allows you to share your screen with good quality and low latency.
- PRemoteM - A modern personal remote session manager and launcher.
- mRemoteNG - An open source, multi-protocol, tabbed remote connections manager.
- Veyon - Cross-platform computer monitoring and classroom management.
- Wireshark - The world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer.
- GlassWire - A network security monitoring tool and analyzer.
- Fiddler - A Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet.
- NETworkManager - A powerful tool for managing networks and troubleshoot network problems.
- Angry IP Scanner - Fast and friendly network scanner.
- TrafficMonitor - A network monitoring suspension window software on Windows platform.
- OpenNetMeter - A simple program to monitor your network/data usage.
- SwitchHosts - An App for managing hosts file.
- Wifinian - A Windows desktop tool to enable user to actively control Wi-Fi connections.
- LibreSpeed - This is a very lightweight Speedtest implemented in Javascript, using XMLHttpRequest and Web Workers.
- Notepads - A modern, lightweight text editor with a minimalist design.
- Notepad++ - A free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.
- Kate - A multi-document text editor.
- Lapce - Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust.
- Visual Studio Code - A free, lightweight, and extensible code editor.
- VSCodium - A community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VS Code.
- DevToys - A Swiss Army knife for developers.
- 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.
- 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.
- adb - A programming tool used for the debugging of Android-based devices.
- 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.
- Chocolatey - The package manager for Windows.
- Chocolatey GUI - A delicious GUI for Chocolatey.
- Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows.
- 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.
- GeekUninstaller - A portable software uninstaller.
- BCUninstaller - A free program uninstaller.
- UrBackup - An easy to setup Open Source client/server backup system.
- Macrium Reflect Free - The complete backup solution for personal use.
- Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows Free & Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition - The free backup software to protect virtual, physical and cloud workloads.
- Rufus - A utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives.
- Ventoy - A Multiboot Bootable USB Creation Tool.
- Etcher - A powerful OS image flasher.
- 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.
- UUP Media Creator - An utility to convert Unified Update Platform file sets into Windows Media files.
- UUP dump - Download UUP files from Windows Update servers with ease.
- 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.
- TestDisk - A powerful free data recovery software.
- Windows File Recovery - A command-line software utility from Microsoft to recover deleted files.
- DMDE - A powerful tool for data searching, editing, and recovery on disks.
- TreeSize Free - The disk space manager TreeSize Free tells you where precious disk space has gone.
- WizTree - The fastest disk space analyzer.
- Filelight - An application to visualize the disk usage on your computer.
- CrystalDiskMark - A simple storage benchmark.
- CrystalDiskInfo - A HDD/SSD utility software which supports a part of USB, Intel RAID and NVMe.
- GSmartControl - Hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool.
- HWiNFO - Comprehensive Hardware Analysis, Monitoring and Reporting for Windows and DOS.
- Sidebar Diagnostics - A simple sidebar for Windows desktop that displays hardware diagnostic information.
- Radiograph - Universal tool for managing your computer.
- Open Hardware Monitor - A free open source software that monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds of a computer.
- Libre Hardware Monitor - A fork of Open Hardware Monitor.
- Fan Control - A focused, highly customizable fan controlling software for Windows.
- NBFC - A cross-platform fan control service for notebooks.
- Twinkle Tray - Easily manage the brightness of your monitors in Windows from the system tray.
- Monitorian - A Windows desktop tool to adjust the brightness of multiple monitors with ease.
- AirPodsDesktop - AirPods desktop user experience enhancement program.
- Sysinternals Suite - A bundle of the Sysinternals utilities including Process Explorer, Process Monitor, Sysmon, Autoruns, ProcDump, all of the PsTools, and many more.
- Process Hacker - A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware.
- NSudo - A system management tool for advanced users to launch programs with full privileges.
- 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.
- Barrier - Open-source KVM software.
- X-Mouse Controls - Windows utility to enable or disable active window tracking, raising and also the delay in milliseconds.
- SharpKeys - A utility that manages a Registry key that allows Windows to remap one key to any other key.
- OpenRGB - Open source RGB lighting control that doesn't depend on manufacturer software.
- NVDA - The free and open source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows.
- Scanner - An all-in-one scanner app built for the Universal Windows Platform.
- WinCompose - A compose key for Windows.
- PowerToys - Windows system utilities to maximize productivity.
- AltSnap - Easily drag windows when pressing the alt key.
- CompactGUI - Visual Interface for the Windows 10 Compact Function.
- AltStore - An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices.
- Universal Android Debloater GUI - Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted android devices.
- Bitlocker - A Microsoft Windows security and encryption feature.
- VeraCrypt - Disk encryption with strong security based on TrueCrypt.
- Hat.sh - Encrypt and Decrypt files securely in your browser.
- Cryptomator - Multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud.
- Boxcryptor - An easy-to-use encryption software optimized for the cloud.
- Gnupg - A complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by PGP.
- Age - A simple, modern and secure encryption tool.
- Picocrypt - A very small, very simple, yet very secure encryption tool.
- cppcryptfs - An implementation of the gocryptfs encrypted overlay filesystem in C++ for Windows.
- SiriKali - A Qt/C++ GUI front end to sshfs, ecryptfs-simple, cryfs, gocryptfs, securefs, fscrypt and encfs.
- 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.
- Horcrux - Split your file into encrypted horcruxes so that you don't need to remember a passcode.
- OpenStego - An open-source steganography tool.
- StegCloak - Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely using passwords.
- 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.
LessPass - A stateless password manager.- Diceware Passphrase Generator - A tool for generating strong Diceware passwords, with entropy and crack time estimates.
- O&O ShutUp10++ - Free antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11.
- Privatezilla - Performs a privacy & security check of Windows 10.
- ThisIsWin11 - ThisIsWin11 lets you customize Windows 11 all in one place.
- Optimizer - The finest Windows Optimizer.
- Windows Defender Firewall - A stateful host firewall.
- Simplewall - Simple tool to configure Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) which can configure network activity on your computer.
- Portmaster - Monitor all network activity.
- Windows Security - Windows 10 and 11 include Windows Security, which provides the latest antivirus protection.
- VirusTotal - Free online malware detection service for analyzing suspicious files and URLs.
- ProtonVPN - High-speed Swiss VPN that safeguards your privacy.
- Windscribe - Free VPN and Ad Blocker.
- ExifCleaner - Cross-platform desktop GUI app to clean image metadata.
- Image Scrubber - This is a tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests.
- Blacklight - A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector.
- Privacy Guides - Protect your data against global mass surveillance programs.
- PRISM Break - Privacy/security-oriented software recommendations.
- EFF - The leading nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation.
- Awesome Privacy - List of free, open source and privacy respecting services and alternatives to privative services.
- Personal Security Checklist - A curated checklist of 300+ tips for protecting digital security and privacy.
- Anonymous Planet - This is a maintained guide with the aim of providing an introduction to various online tracking techniques, online ID verification techniques, and detailed guidance to creating and maintaining (truly) anonymous online identities.
- PrivateBin - A minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data.
- Password Pusher - A dead-simple application to securely communicate passwords over the web.
- One-Time Secret - Keep sensitive info out of your email & chat logs.
- Yopass - Secure sharing of secrets, passwords and files.
- Kutt - A modern URL shortener with support for custom domains.
- anon.to - An anonymous URL redirector and shortener.
- Lstu - A nice and open source url shortener.
- ZWS - Shorten URLs using invisible spaces.
- LimeSurvey - The most popular FOSS online survey tool on the web.
- Framaforms - Design your online surveys easily while respecting your audience.
- Framadate - Schedule a meeting or create an opinion poll.
- DuckDuckGo - The search engine that doesn't track you.
- Searx - Privacy-respecting metasearch engine.
- Whoogle search - A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine.
- fediverse.party - A quick look into Fediverse networks.
- 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.
- 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-Selfhosted - A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers.
- 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.
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