Comprehensive photo management software for viewing, batch converting, editing and resizing images and creating thumbnail sheets.
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Advanced text editor with multiple modes, syntax highlighting, word completion, plugin support, built-in help, command-line tools, cross-platform and open source.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- Haiku
- Flatpak
- AmigaOS
- OpenSolaris
- MorphOS
The Kate project develops two main products: KatePart, the advanced editor component which is used in numerous KDE applications requiring a text editing component, and Kate, a MDI text editor application.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- KDE Plasma
- Flathub
- Flatpak
- Snapcraft
Processing is an open source programming environment and library built to handle images, animation, and interactivity. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning to code, prototyping, and producing full applications.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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Cura aims to be a end solution for personal 3D printing with RepRap based machines. It is tuned toward the Ultimaker, but can be used on any RepRap based design.
Electric Sheep is a collaborative abstract artwork founded by Scott Draves. It's run by thousands of people all over the world, and can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers "sleep", the Electric Sheep comes on and the computers communicate...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- Flatpak
- Flathub
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MyPaint is a fast, distraction-free, and easy painting tool for digital artists. It supports graphics tablets made by Wacom, and many similar devices.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- PortableApps.com
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PikoPixel is a free, open-source Mac application for drawing & editing pixel-art images. PikoPixel also runs on other Unix-like platforms (Linux, BSD), using the GNUstep framework.
Olive is a free non-linear video editor aiming to provide a fully-featured alternative to high-end professional video editing software.
OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) is a scene-oriented, flexible 3D engine written in C++ designed to make it easier and more intuitive for developers to produce applications utilizing hardware-accelerated 3D graphics.
Open source non-destructive RAW photo editor and image database with lighttable and darkroom views, real-time editing, HDR and scientific image support.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
+3
UFRaw (which stands for Unidentified Flying Raw) is an application which can read and manipulate photographs in raw image formats, as created by many digital cameras. UFRaw is available both as a stand-alone utility and as a GIMP plugin.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- GIMP
AMD Radeon™ ProRender is a powerful physically-based path traced rendering engine that enables creative professionals to produce stunningly photorealistic images.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
appleseed is a modern, open source, physically-based rendering engine designed to produce photorealistic images, animations and visual effects.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
+10
PhotoRealistic RenderMan, or PRMan for short, is a proprietary photorealistic RenderMan-compliant renderer.
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Matplotlib is a comprehensive library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations in Python. Matplotlib makes easy things easy and hard things possible.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Python
- BSD
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The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a high-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. It is available in official versions for Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux. The source code is available for those wanting to do their own ports.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
LightZone is a digital photo editor software application. Its main purpose is to handle the workflow when handling images in various RAW formats.
Fusion is the world’s most advanced compositing software for visual effects artists, broadcast and motion graphic designers and 3D animators.
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Luminance HDR is a graphical user interface (based on the Qt5 toolkit) that provides a complete workflow for HDR imaging.
AwesomeBump is an open source program designed to generate normal, height, specular or ambient occlusion textures from a single image. Since the image processing is done in 99% on GPU the program runs very fast and all the parameters can be changed in real time.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
World Machine is a powerful terrain generation software used by game developers, visual effects artists, and independent creators to create realistic 3D landscapes and terrains.
GTK is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application suites.
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The most powerful game development platform is now available to everyone. Full engine source code. All features. No royalties. No obligations. No license fee.
Free cross-platform DAW supporting VST plugins, MIDI, and lossless audio. Offers music loopers and sequencers with privacy, no ads, and offline capability.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
- Haiku
- Flatpak
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Free video editing software, offering features to realize semi-professional quality movies, but with the aim to stay simple and user-friendly.
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MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file. Supports many audio and video formats, with different methods of viewing information.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
- AWS Lambda
- Flatpak
+1
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- FFmpeg
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
Real-time 3D engine enabling collaboration to create immersive, interactive experiences on Windows, Mac, and Linux, with extensive platform support.
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Free and open-source 2D animation software for vector and bitmap artwork, featuring tweening, bone rigging, timeline editing, and advanced layer types across all major platforms.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
+2
Mandelbulber is an experimental application that helps to make rendering 3D Mandelbrot fractals much more accessible. A few of the supported 3D fractals: Mandelbulb, Mandelbox, BulbBox, JuliaBulb, Menger Sponge, Quaternion, Trigonometric, Hypercomplex, and Iterated Function...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Task Coach is a simple open source todo manager to keep track of personal tasks and todo lists. It is designed for composite tasks, and also offers effort tracking, categories, notes and more.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- PortableApps.com
+5
Unreal Engine is a professional suite of tools and technologies used for building high-quality games across a range of platforms. Unreal Engine’s rendering architecture enables developers to achieve stunning visuals and also scale elegantly to lower-end systems.
+10
Advanced video editing and color correction with integrated visual effects, motion graphics, and audio post-production tools, used by professionals.
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Create, notate, and playback music with free, open-source software for Windows, Mac, and Linux supporting MIDI, MusicXML, PDF export, and community sharing.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- BSD
- iPad
- PortableApps.com
- Haiku
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Vulkan is a new generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in a wide variety of devices from PCs and consoles to mobile phones and embedded platforms.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- Chrome OS
- Tizen OS
- SteamOS
- HarmonyOS
- Nintendo Switch
OpenGL is the premier environment for developing portable, interactive 2D and 3D graphics applications. Since its introduction in 1992, OpenGL has become the industry's most widely used and supported 2D and 3D graphics application programming interface (API), bringing...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- BSD
- Haiku
The Open Hardware Monitor is a free open source software that monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds of a computer.
SpeedCrunch is a free, fast, high precision open source algebraic calculator with an intuitive interface and many features, such as variables, syntax highlighting, functions, persistent input history & more.
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Free, open-source video editing with multi-format timelines, frame accurate seeking, and robust capture support up to 4k for diverse projects.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- AppImageHub
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
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Qt is a cross-platform application framework that is widely used for developing application software that can be run on various software and hardware platforms with little or no change in the underlying codebase, while having the power and speed of native applications.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
Godot Engine is a feature-packed, cross-platform game engine to create 2D and 3D games from a unified interface. It provides a comprehensive set of common tools, so that users can focus on making games without having to reinvent the wheel.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- Epic Games Store
- Flathub
- F-Droid
- Haiku
- Steam
- FreeBSD
- Flatpak
- itch.io
- Meta Quest
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Intuitive multi-track video editor with robust hardware-accelerated support; offers chroma key, color grading, and extensive audio/video format compatibility.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- KDE Plasma
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- Flatpak
+2
Free and open-source office suite with advanced word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, vector graphics, math formula editor, and database tools.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- BSD
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
- F-Droid
- Flatpak
+11
Linear video editor for basic cutting, filtering, encoding, scripting, and batch processing; supports many formats but not for non-linear or montage editing.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- PortableApps.com
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An open-source multithreaded video transcoder, HandBrake compresses and converts digital media, supporting MP4, MKV formats, and offers hardware-accelerated conversion.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- Haiku
- Flatpak
With Hugin you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more.
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