- 68 Wikipedia alternatives
- Encyclopedia
- Free • Open Source
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Kindle Fire
- MediaWiki
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.
Wikipedia Features
- Ad-free
- Crowdsourced
- IFTTT Integration
- WYSIWYG Support
- Dark Mode
- 73 Transmission alternatives
- Torrent Client
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
- Haiku
- Cloudron
- Xfce
Transmission has the features you expect in a BitTorrent client: encryption, a web-based interface, peer exchange, UPnP and NAT-PMP port forwarding, web seed support, watch directories, tracker editing, global and per-torrent speed limits, and more.
Transmission Features
- Lightweight
- Portable
- No registration required
- Ad-free
- Command line interface
- No Tracking
- Support for Rsync
- Privacy focused
ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application (39 languages) that everyone should have in their toolkit. ImgBurn supports a wide range of image file formats. It can burn Audio CDs from any file type supported via DirectShow / ACM.
ImgBurn Features
- Lightweight
DiscontinuedThe last version 2.5.8.0 is from June 2013.
- 123 Pidgin alternatives
- Instant Messenger
- Group Chat App
- Video Calling App
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- Flathub
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Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log into accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on XMPP and sitting in an IRC channel at the same time.
Pidgin Features
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Multiple Account support
- Portable
- No Tracking
- Ad-free
- VoiP Calls
- 179 foobar2000 alternatives
- Audio Player
- Media Player
- Internet Radio Service
- Free Personal • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
foobar2000 is an advanced multi-platform freeware audio player.
foobar2000 Features
- Lightweight
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Ad-free
- Dark Mode
- MP3 / ID3 Renaming
- Portable
- No Tracking
- No registration required
- Works Offline
- 121 DuckDuckGo alternatives
- Web Search Engine
- Free • Proprietary
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Microsoft Edge
- Vivaldi Browser
- Google Chrome
- Safari
- F-Droid
- Yandex.Browser
- Tor
- Opera
- Firefox
DuckDuckGo is an alternative search engine that has rich features, respects your privacy, and is built from free/open-source software.
DuckDuckGo Features
- Privacy focused
- No Tracking
- Dark Mode
- No registration required
- Lightweight
- 74 Kodi alternatives
- Media Center
- Media Player
- Media Server
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
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- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- BSD
- iPad
- Flathub
- Flatpak
- Raspberry Pi
- Fire TV
Kodi, formerly XBMC, is a free and open source media player and entertainment center for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, XBox, and iOS. Kodi is designed to be the perfect companion to a home theater PC - it supports an almost endless range of remote controls, and combined with its...
Kodi Features
- Ad-free
- Portable
- AirPlay Support
- Support for 4K
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Works Offline
- Support for Themes
- Dark Mode
Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.
Rufus Features
- 289 Inoreader alternatives
- News Reader
- RSS Reader
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Google Chrome
- Safari
- Kindle Fire
- Opera
- Firefox
Take back control of your newsfeed and filter out the noise! With Inoreader, information comes straight to you the minute it’s available. Follow your favorite websites, content creators, newsletters, and social media feeds.
Inoreader Features
- Dark Mode
- IFTTT Integration
- Text to Speech
- Support for Themes
- Full-Text Search
- Website Monitoring
- Import/Export OPML Feeds
- Lightweight
- 107 PuTTY alternatives
- Terminal Emulator
- SSH Client
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- PortableApps.com
- ReactOS
PuTTY is a free and open-source terminal emulator, serial console and network file transfer application. It supports several network protocols, including SCP, SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw socket connection. It can also connect to a serial port.
PuTTY Features
- 114 calibre alternatives
- Ebook Reader
- Ebook Library
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
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- Linux
- BSD
- Self-Hosted
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
- Homebrew
Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application made by users, for users. Many languages, designed around the concept of the logical book, i.e., a single entry in your library that may correspond to actual e-book files in several formats.
calibre Features
- Built-in viewer
- DRM Free
- Ad-free
- Portable
- Lightweight
- Dark Mode
- Works Offline
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Ebook Conversion
- 111 Foxit Reader alternatives
- PDF Reader
- PDF Editor
- Text to Speech Service
- Free Personal • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- ReactOS
Foxit Reader is a free and light-weight multi-platform PDF document viewer. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7.
Foxit Reader Features
- PDF annotation
- Fill PDF Forms
- Sign PDF files
- Text to Speech
- Lightweight
- Support for scripting
- Spell Checking
- Portable
BundlewareThe installer tries to install McAfee WebAdvisor and PhantomPDF Business. These can be skipped by clicking Decline on each.
- 89 Python alternatives
- Programming Language
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Symbian S60
- BSD
- AROS
- Haiku
- AmigaOS
- OpenSolaris
- MorphOS
Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, extensible programming language. It provides an extraordinary combination of clarity and versatility, and is free and comprehensively ported.
Python Features
- Lightweight
- Support for scripting
- Portable
Windows 7 is the successor to Windows Vista . The new OS introduces a compelling combination of welcome innovations and much-needed polish. Windows 7 is built with the codebase from Vista and is a minor upgrade (6.
Windows 7 Features
DiscontinuedMainstream support for Windows 7 ended on January 13, 2015. Extended support with security updates ended on January 14, 2020.
- 197 Vim alternatives
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
- IDE
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
- AmigaOS
- OpenSolaris
- MorphOS
Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content. It also has a GUI version called GVim.
Vim Features
- Lightweight
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Syntax Highlighting
- Command line interface
- Works Offline
- Support for MarkDown
- Batch Editing
- No registration required
- Portable