Folding@home is described as 'Distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Folding@home for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, Linux, Mac and Self-Hosted apps. The best Folding@home alternative is BOINC, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Folding@home are Apache Mesos, Charity Engine, Foldit and GridRepublic.