Superior to Windows' built in search function. Great if you don't know where your files went.

Rename several files at once. Very handy if you like making multiple variations of your art, or if you are working on projects like game sprites or emotes.

Opens most image files including ones your standard OS image viewer may not.

Amazing for gathering up reference photos. Very user friendly.

Designed to complement PureRef, Allusion is a Visual Library for reference images, with watched folders, image tagging, and advanced search features. Allusion helps you organise your images and keep them under your control.

Upscales images.

Waifu2x Caffe rewrites only the conversion function of the image conversion software "waifu2x" using Caffe and is software developed for Windows. Although it can convert with CPU, using CUDA (or cuDNN) can convert faster than CPU.

Creates vectors out of raster images.

Web version. Lets you pose a 3D model of a human in your browser.

Web version. Lets you pose a 3D model of a human in your browser.

Lets you sculpt a 3D model in your browser. Useful for sketching out details if you are struggling to find reference photos or existing 3D models of them.

LocalSend is a free, open-source, cross-platform file-sharing tool designed to securely share files and messages with nearby devices over your local network without needing an internet connection. Here are some of its key features:

Lets you use your old phones as macro pads for program shortcuts

Lets you use your game controllers for shortcuts

EasyCanvas is an application that allows you to use your iPad as a digitizer.

You can use your PC programs including Photoshop directly using EasyCanvas.

dispcalGUI is a graphical user interface developed by Florian Höch for the display calibration and profiling tools of Argyll CMS, an open source color management system developed by Graeme Gill.

Lazy Nezumi Pro is a Windows app that helps you draw smooth, beautiful lines, with your mouse or pen tablet.

A free, open-source painting program for professional artists offering customizable UI, 9 brush engines, layer support, and color management.

PaintTool SAI is high quality and lightweight painting software, fully digitizer support, amazing anti-aliased paintings, provide easy and stable operation, this software make digital art more enjoyable and comfortable.

Essential digital tool for comic and manga artists, offering specialized tools for shortcuts like panel layouts, inking, vector support, and 3D model import.

Multi-award winning app offers professional tools and flexibility for creative illustration on iPad and iPhone with features like layering and brushes.

Magma is where artists draw, collaborate, and grow together. Join shared canvases, follow favorite creators, and take part in live Art Jams.

Drawpile is a drawing program that lets you share the canvas with other users in real time.

Fast, smooth vector graphic design software with curve precision, vibrant colors, live gradients, and dynamic drawing tools, ideal for professionals.

Open source vector graphics editor supporting SVG with features like custom brushes, pressure sensitivity, and layer management across multiple platforms.

Fontforge is a free Typeface (font) editor program for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux and is localized in several languages.

Open-source DTP tool with flexible layouts, typesetting, CMYK support, and interactive PDFs, ideal for creating newspapers and brochures.

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.

Web-based design tool for UI, websites, etc. Can be self-hosted or used for free with up to 10gb storage.

Penpot Desktop is an unofficial desktop application for the open-source design tool, Penpot.

Animation graphic editor easy to use - Powerful tool for spriting and pixel art.

Aseprite (previously ASE, aka Allegro Sprite Editor) is a program to create animated sprites & pixel art. Sprites are little images that can be used in your website or in a video game. You can draw characters with movement, intros, textures, patterns, backgrounds, logos...

Storyboarder makes it easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures. Quickly draw to test if a story idea works. Create and show animatics to others. Express your story idea without making a movie.

Papagayo is a lip-syncing program designed to help you line up phonemes (mouth shapes) with the actual recorded sound of actors speaking. Papagayo makes it easy to lip sync animated characters by making the process very simple – just type in the words being spoken (or copy/paste...

OpenToonz is an animation program that is a free software version of Toonz, the animation software used by Studio Ghibli, amongst others.

Tahoma2D is a powerful program for 2D and stop motion animation. Tahoma 2D is based on OpenToonz.

Friction is a powerful and versatile motion graphics application that allows you to create vector and raster animations for web and video platforms with ease.

Inochi creator is a framework for realtime 2D puppet animation. On this site you can find the reference implementation as well as the official tooling for creating and using Inochi2D puppets for VTubing.

GifCam is a handy and reliable application designed to record the screen and to convert the recordings into GIF format.

Free and open-source tool for screen capture and recording; enables file uploads, annotation, dark mode, 4K support, and customizable themes.

Comprehensive software providing screen recording and live streaming on Mac, Windows, and Linux with powerful encoding support and unlimited scenes.