stuff i use
on windows
Audio
- editing/DAW
Software for creating musical ideas, turning them into songs, and performing them, featuring Arrangement and Session Views for fast music-making.
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
+5
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
- LAME
+4
Spleeter is a audio source separation library written in Python (uses Tensorflow). An easy to train source separation model providing already trained state of the art model for performing various flavor of separation.
License model
- Freemium • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Python
- TensorFlow
- playback
Advanced audio player supporting MP3, FLAC, and more. Features gapless playback, customizable UI, audio CD ripping, ReplayGain, and plugin support.
License model
- Free Personal • Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
+3
Equalizer APO is a parametric / graphic equalizer for Windows. It is implemented as an Audio Processing Object (APO) for the system effect infrastructure introduced with Windows Vista.
Peace equalizer is a Windows PC interface for
Equalizer APO . Besides an system-wide equalizer on your Windows PC, Peace has an effects panel for balance, crossfeeding, delay, etc., a graph window and much more.
+3
Stream millions of tracks online with genre, playlist, artist, and album browsing. Get offline listening and ad-free experience with Premium.
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- Kindle Fire
- Playstation
- Fire TV
- Xbox
- Android Auto
- Apple Car Play
+9
Image
- editing
Advanced image manipulation tool offering comprehensive tools for photo retouching, composition, and batch processing in a free package.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
- Haiku
- Flatpak
- AmigaOS
+5
- viewers
A feature-rich, simple-to-use app seamlessly integrated with a clean, minimal and modern user interface.
+1
ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (about 100) including GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, TIFF, and DPX.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- iPhone
- iPad
- Xfce
Video
- editing
Avisynth is a scripting language and a collection of filters for simple (and not so simple!) non-linear video editing tasks. It frameserves video to applications.
Advanced video editing and color correction with integrated visual effects, motion graphics, and audio post-production tools, used by professionals.
+9
Flowframes is a simple but powerful app that utilizes AI frameworks to interpolate videos in order to increase their framerate with little to no noticeable quality loss.
G'MIC is a full-featured open-source framework for image processing, distributed under the CeCILL free software licenses (LGPL-like and/or GPL-compatible). It provides several different user interfaces to convert / manipulate / filter / visualize generic image datasets...
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Krita
- GIMP
- C++
+2
+14
A video processing framework with simplicity in mind. VapourSynth has been heavily inspired by Avisynth and aims to be a 21st century rewrite, taking advantage of the advancements computers have made since the late 90s.
- playback
FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
+1
LAV Filters are a set of open-source DirectShow filters, aimed to eventually replace the better part of the playback chain required to play all and any modern media.
MadVR uses your GPU to perform resolution upscaling, chroma upscaling, and all kinds of other video rendering enhancements that can significantly improve video quality. It can be used with a few different video players such as MPC-HC and PotPlayer.
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
MPC-BE is a free and open source audio and video player for Windows.
MPC-BE is based on the original Guliverkli project and "Media Player Classic Home Cinema" project, contains additional features and bug fixes.
+2
Media Library Management
- music
The Album Art Downloader is a program designed to make life easier for anyone who wishes to find and update their album art for their music collection. The sources for the pictures can be defined by creating plugin scripts.
Beets is the media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks. The purpose of beets is to get your music collection right once and for all. It catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes using the MusicBrainz database.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Medieval CUE splitter is an easy-to-use tool for breaking long audio files into smaller, songlike chunks. It has a simple layout and fast results; its only drawback is the rare CUE file format it uses.
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
+3
+4
Picard is the next generation MusicBrainz tagging application. This new tagging concept is album oriented, as opposed to track/file oriented like the ClassicTagger was. Picard is written in Python, which is a cross-platform language, and makes use of cross-platform libraries -...
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Python
- PortableApps.com
- videos
An open-source multithreaded video transcoder, HandBrake compresses and converts digital media, supporting MP4, MKV formats, and offers hardware-accelerated conversion.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- Flatpak
MakeMKV is a program designed for ripping DVD and Blu-Ray disc video. It works by decrypting proprietary discs to transfer codecs from the formats VOB and M2TS into MKV, preserving the necessary data without doing any lossy codec conversion.
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Kodi
+1
+1
Allows you to make thumbnails (caps, previews, screen-lists) and screenshots of video files. The utility can be used for home-video cataloging and for network video sharing support.
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
Web
- browsing
Bypass Paywalls Clean is a browser extension that allows you to read articles from (supported) sites that implement a paywall. You can also add domains as custom site and try to bypass the paywall. Weekly updates are released for fixes and new sites.
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
- BSD
- iPad
- AppImageHub
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
- Haiku
- Flatpak
- Homebrew
- Chocolatey
- Gecko
+7
Mullvad is a VPN service that helps keep your online activity, identity, and location private.
License model
- Paid • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- F-Droid
- WireGuard
- Qubes OS
- Tor
- OpenWrt
- Tomato
- IPFire
- pfSense
- OpenVPN
- DD-WRT
+10
Reddit Enhancement Suite is a community-driven unofficial browser extension for Reddit.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Microsoft Edge
- Google Chrome
- Opera
- Mozilla Firefox
+1
SingleFile is an extension that helps you to archive a complete page into a single HTML file or HTM-File with Google Chrome and Chromium.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Microsoft Edge
- Google Chrome
- Safari
- Mozilla Firefox
SponsorBlock is a browser extension and open API via crowdsource for skipping sponsor segments in YouTube videos. It's open-source. Users submit when a sponsor happens from the extension, and the extension automatically skips sponsors it knows about using a privacy...
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Microsoft Edge
- Google Chrome
- Safari
- Opera
- Firefox
