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Some of my favourite tools, platforms and projects
Go ahead, video chat with the whole team. In fact, invite everyone you know. Jitsi Meet is a fully encrypted, 100% open source video conferencing solution that you can use all day, every day, for free.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- Apple Watch
- F-Droid
HedgeDoc (fcommunity-driven fork of CodiMD) is an open-source collaborative markdown editor. With HedgeDoc you can easily collaborate on notes, graphs and even presentations in real-time. All you need to do is to share your note-link to your co-workers, and they’re ready to go.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- Cloudron
- Docker
Introducing Podverse! The easiest way to create and share podcast highlights of any length online. Discover new podcasts by browsing highlights in the app, and send highlights to your friends to introduce them to your favorite shows. No login necessary!
License model
- Freemium • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
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KXStudio is a collection of tools, applications and plugins, targeted at audio and video production.
Cross-platform, free media player supports multimedia files, DVDs, streaming, offers hardware acceleration, 4K, lossless audio, and more.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- BSD
- iPad
- AppImageHub
- Apple Watch
- Snapcraft
- Google Chrome
- Apple TV
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
- F-Droid
- Kindle Fire
- Haiku
- Android TV
- Homebrew
- Chocolatey
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Helm is a free, cross-platform, polyphonic synthesizer with a powerful modulation system. Helm runs on GNU/Linux, Mac, and Windows as a standalone program or LV2/VST/VST3/AU plugin.
Free e-book manager offering library management, multi-format conversion, syncing to devices, news download as e-books, built-in viewer, editor, and privacy.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Self-Hosted
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
- Homebrew
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Ksnip is a Qt based cross-platform screenshot tool that provides many annotation features for your screenshots.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
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jamovi is a free and open statistical platform which is intuitive to use, and can provide the latest developments in statistics.
Voyant Tools is a web-based text analysis, reading and visualization environment. Developed by a small team of digital humanities scholars led by Stéfan Sinclair and Geoffrey Rockwell, Voyant Tools is designed for a very wide range of applications and users, from students...
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Self-Hosted
Bash is the shell, or command language interpreter, that will appear in the GNU operating system. Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.
Free content, multilingual online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers through a model of open collaboration, using a wiki-based editing system.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- F-Droid
- Kindle Fire
- MediaWiki
- Samsung Galaxy Store
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Privacy-focused search engine offering Zero-click Info, instant answers, and more, built from open-source software for a user-friendly experience.
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Microsoft Edge
- Vivaldi
- Google Chrome
- Safari
- F-Droid
- Yandex Browser
- Tor
- Opera
- Mozilla Firefox
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Access over 85.4 million scientific articles for free, bypassing publisher paywalls with Sci-Hub's non-profit shadow library, ensuring knowledge accessibility.
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This efficient browser add-on blocks ads, trackers, and malware by default employing various filter lists, acting as a comprehensive wide-spectrum blocker.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Microsoft Edge
- Vivaldi
- Google Chrome
- Pale Moon
- Thunderbird
- Opera
- Node.JS
- Chromium
- Mozilla Firefox
Open-source browser with Gecko engine, supporting HTML add-ons and providing privacy features like Enhanced Tracking Protection and third-party cookie blocking.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- BSD
- iPad
- AppImageHub
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- Samsung Galaxy Store
- PortableApps.com
- Haiku
- Flatpak
- Homebrew
- Chocolatey
- Gecko
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Bandcamp helps artists sell their music and merch directly to their fans, and helps fans discover new music and directly support those who make it.
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
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Discover and install FOSS Android apps with ease. Privacy-focused, ad-free, and no registration required, F-Droid offers a lightweight alternative.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- Android Tablet
- F-Droid
Get outside, and observe an individual organism. Pick something wild and take a clear, full frame photo. If you already have a photo of something wild, add it now. You can also use the iNaturalist mobile apps to record observations.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Self-Hosted
ListenBrainz is an open source music website that allows users to import their listen history. One of the goals is for this data to be used for building open music recommendation systems.
MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. You can use the MusicBrainz data either by browsing this web site, or you can access the data from a client program — for example, a CD player program can use...
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- F-Droid
It's completely user driven by people like you. TMDb is currently used by millions of people every month and with our and powerful API, also used by many popular media centers like Moovida, XBMC, Plex, MythTV and MediaPortal.
OsmAnd is a map and navigation application with access to the free, worldwide, and high-quality
OpenStreetMap data.License model
- Freemium • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- OpenStreetMap
- F-Droid
- Kindle Fire
OpenStreetMap is a project aimed squarely at creating and providing free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. It is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you.
PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform developed as an alternative to other platforms that centralize our data and attention, such as YouTube, Dailymotion or Vimeo. But one organization hosting PeerTube alone may not have enough money to pay for bandwidth...
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Self-Hosted
- F-Droid
- Cloudron
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Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
License model
- Free • Open Source
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- BSD
- Linux Mobile
- Haiku
LibreELEC is ‘Just enough OS’ for Kodi, a Linux distribution built to run Kodi on current and popular mediacentre hardware. We are an evolution of the popular OpenELEC project. LibreELEC software will be familiar to OpenELEC users.
Open-source media player supporting Linux to iOS, highly customizable with plug-ins, supports 4K and diverse formats, privacy-centric and ad-free.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- BSD
- iPad
- Flathub
- Flatpak
- Raspberry Pi
- Fire TV
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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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- KDE Plasma
- Flathub
- Flatpak
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Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavor of
Ubuntu. It's built for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional.
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Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.
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Orca is an Esoteric Programming Language and live-coding environment for musical experimentation. In Orca, each letter of the alphabet is an operation, lowercase letters operate on bang, uppercase letters operate each frame.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Explore diverse software alternatives using a crowdsourced discovery service featuring apps for Windows, Mac, Linux, and mobile, with personalized lists.
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
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On-premises file sync, universal access, integrated collaboration, real-time communication with privacy and data control focus.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- F-Droid
- Cloudron
- Snapcraft
- Docker Hub
- Raspberry Pi
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The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, it provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public.
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License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
- GTK+
- GNOME
Free open-source multi-track audio editor and recorder with 32-bit float processing. Supports many formats and plugins for Windows, macOS, Linux.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- AppImageHub
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
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Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework. Target platform is GNU/Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio, and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI, are the main infrastructures for...
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
Free and open-source office suite with advanced word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, vector graphics, math formula editor, and database tools.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- BSD
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
- F-Droid
- Flatpak
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Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, share research and cite your research sources directly in your favourite word processor, with 300 MB free online storage.
License model
- Freemium • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- iPhone
- iPad
- Microsoft Edge
- Google Chrome
- Safari
- Microsoft Word
- Google Docs
- LibreOffice
- Mozilla Firefox
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OpenRefine is a power tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases like Freebase.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
A secure collaboration app with end-to-end encryption and interoperability across web, desktop, and mobile. Includes chat, voice, and video calls.
License model
- Freemium • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- Matrix.org
- Flathub
- F-Droid
- Cloudron
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Federated and open-source social network with no ads, 500-character limit, custom emojis, and content warnings, emphasizing privacy and personal interaction.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- F-Droid
- Cloudron
- Android Tablet
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A fully featured, user friendly, open source Geographic Information System (GIS) with similar power to ArcGIS and MapInfo.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- BSD
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License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
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