Axorax/awesome-free-appsPublic

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• Audio
  • Audio Players
  • Audio Recording
  • DJ Software
  • Music Notation
  • Music Production
• Browsers
• Communication
  • Messaging
  • Email Clients
• Compression and Archiving
• Customize
  • System Customization
  • Wallpaper Tools
• Data Management
  • Copy and Move
  • Sync and Clone
• Developer Tools
  • API Development
  • Database
  • Network Analysis
  • Game Engines
  • Virtualization
• Documents
  • Office Suites
  • E-book
  • PDF Tools
• Note Taking
• Text Editors
• Download Managers
• Games
  • Cloud Gaming
• Mobile Emulators
• Other Emulators
• Graphics Tools
• 3D Modeling and Animation
• Security
  • Antivirus
  • Password Managers
  • Ad & Tracker Blocking
• Image Viewers
• Remote Access
• Video
  • Video Editors
  • Video Players
  • Video Streaming and Recording
  • Video Converters and Compressors
• VPN and Proxy Tools
• Utility
  • Clipboard Management
  • Metadata
  • Window Management
  • File Management
  • Application Management
  • Screenshot
  • Space Visualizer
  • Trackpad

• FXSound - Boost sound quality, volume, and bass. Has a beautiful modern UI. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
• JACK Audio - Audio server for routing and mixing sound between programs. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• EarTrumpet - Advanced volume control for Windows, offering app-specific audio management. 🪟
• Ambie - Use white noise, nature sounds, & more to boost your productivity. 🪟 🟢
• BlackHole - Virtual audio loopback driver for routing audio between macOS applications. 🍎 🟢
• BluetoothHandsFreeToggle - Fixes Bluetooth headsets stuck in low-quality Hands-Free mode. 🪟 🟢

• Foobar2000 - Lightweight and highly customizable audio player with support for many formats. 🪟 🍎 ⭐
• Audacious - Lightweight audio player for simple music playback. 🪟 🐧 🟢
• Karafun - Collection of karaoke songs across multiple genres. Play your own CDG files or use downloads from YouTube. 🪟
• MusicBee - Feature-rich music player and manager. 🪟
• Strawberry Music Player - Music player for organizing and playing your audio collection. 🪟 🍎 🐧

• Audacity - Audio editor for recording and editing sounds. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• Ocenaudio - Easy-to-use audio editor for recording and analyzing sounds. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Wavosaur - Simple audio editor for recording, editing, and processing sound. 🪟
• echo99 - Private call recorder with on-device transcription and speaker labels. 🍎

• DJ ProDecks - DJ software for mixing music and adding effects. 🪟
• Mixxx - DJ software for live mixing and beatmatching with controller support. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Serato DJ Lite - DJ software for beginners to mix music with ease. 🪟 🍎
• Rekordbox - Software that enables a comfortable DJ workflow with AI, cloud, and automation tech. 🪟 🍎
• VirtualDJ - DJ platform for mixing music, beatmatching, and live performance. 🪟 🍎

• ABCjs - Tool for writing and playing ABC music notation. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Denemo - Music notation software for fast score creation with LilyPond. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Frescobaldi - Editor for LilyPond to create music scores quickly. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• LilyPond - Music notation program for creating high-quality sheet music. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• MuseScore - Software for creating, playing, and sharing sheet music. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• TuxGuitar - TuxGuitar is an editor and player for multi-track guitar tablatures. It can open Guitar Pro, Power Tab Editor, TablEdit and MIDI files. 🪟 🍎 🐧🟢

• LMMS - DAW for creating music with virtual instruments and MIDI support. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• Ardour - DAW for recording, editing, and mixing audio with professional features. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Cakewalk - Full-featured DAW for music recording and editing by BandLab. 🪟
• Furnace - Multi-system chiptune tracker. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• MilkyTracker - Cross platform XM tracker. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• OpenMPT - Modren tracker software that can open multiple tracker formats. 🪟
• Qtractor - Multi-track DAW for Linux for audio and MIDI recording. 🐧
• Stargate DAW - Innovation-first DAW, instrument and effect plugins. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Tracktion T7 - DAW for music production with advanced editing features. 🪟 🍎 🐧

• Tor Browser - Privacy browser routing traffic over the Tor network. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• Arc - Vertical tab browser for modern productivity. 🪟 🍎
• Brave - Privacy-focused and fast browser. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Chrome - Fast browser with integrated Google services. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Chromium - Browser project behind Chrome. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• ungoogled-chromium - Privacy-focused Chromium with Google services removed. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Firefox - Browser with privacy and customization. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• LibreWolf - Privacy-focused Firefox fork with enhanced security. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Microsoft Edge - Chromium-based browser with extra enhancements. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Min - Fast, minimal browser prioritizing privacy. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Opera - Browser with built-in ad-blocking, VPN, and speed. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Pale Moon - Goanna-based browser. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Orion - Lightweight WebKit browser with Chrome/Firefox extension support. 🍎 🐧
• qutebrowser - Keyboard-driven, vim-like browser in Python and Qt. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Safari - Native Mac browser with Apple device integration. 🍎
• Mullvad Browser - Privacy browser with Tor, anti-fingerprinting, and Mullvad VPN. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Vivaldi - Customizable browser putting you in control. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Zen Browser - Beautifully designed, privacy-focused browser with custom mods. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

• Discord - Communication platform for text, voice, and video, popular with gamers. 🪟 🍎 🐧 ⭐
• Telegram - Cloud-based messaging app known for speed, security, and group chats. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• WhatsApp - Free messaging app with text, voice, video calls, and multimedia sharing. 🪟 🍎
• Signal - Secure, private messaging app with end-to-end encryption. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Slack - Collaboration hub for teams with messaging, file sharing, and integrations. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Viber - Free messaging app with text, voice, video calls, and file sharing. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Microsoft Teams - Team communication platform with chat, file sharing, and video conferencing. 🪟 🍎 🐧

• BlueMail - Cross-platform email client with modern interface. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• CanaryMail - Secure email app with PGP support and AI assistance. 🍎 🐧
• Edison Mail - Customizable, intuitive email client with smart features. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• ElectronMail - Electron-based desktop client for ProtonMail. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Eppie Mail - Open-source email client with local AI agents and full support for Gmail, Outlook, and Proton Mail. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• eM Client - Modern client to boost your productivity. 🪟
• Foxmail - Fast, user-friendly email client. 🪟 🍎
• Mailbird - IMAP/POP3 client with customization options. 🪟
• Mailspring - Beautiful, fast email client. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Nylas Mail - Extensible desktop email app based on web technologies. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Postbox - Advanced email management with productivity focus. 🪟 🍎
• Polymail - Simple, powerful email client with modern features. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Wino Mail - Fluent design email client with Mica effect. 🪟
• Spark - Fast email client with team collaboration features. 🍎 🐧
• ThunderBird - Email client for easier management. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Tutanota - Encrypted service focused on privacy. 🪟 🍎 🐧

• 7-Zip - Archive manager supporting 7z, ZIP, and other formats. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
• Bandizip - Fast, lightweight archive manager with extensive format support. 🪟
• muCommander - Lightweight dual-pane file manager with archive support. 🍎
• NanaZip - 7-Zip derivative optimized for Windows 10/11 with added functionality. 🪟
• PDF Archiver - Tool for tagging and organizing PDFs. 🍎 🟢
• PeaZip - Archive manager supporting 180+ formats with encryption and compression. 🪟 🐧 🟢
• The Unarchiver - Simple tool for extracting ZIP, RAR, ISO, and other formats. 🍎
• Unarchive One - Multi-format decompression tool with QuickLook integration. 🍎
• Keka - File archiver for compressing and extracting common archive formats. 🍎

• Winaero - All-in-one app for tuning Windows settings. 🪟
• Windhawk - Customization marketplace for Windows and programs. 🪟 🟢
• HideVolumeOSD - Hides the Windows volume bar. 🪟 🟢
• ExplorerPatcher - Restores and enhances the classic taskbar and system elements. 🪟 🟢
• Flow Launcher - Quick file search and app launcher like Spotlight. 🪟 🟢
• ModernFlyouts - Replaces default flyouts with customizable modern ones. 🪟 🟢
• Hidden Bar - Simple app to organize and declutter your menu bar. 🍎 🟢
• MacPilot - Unlock hidden settings and system tweaks. 🍎
• noMeiryoUI - Tools to freely change system fonts. 🪟 🟢
• TaskbarX - Personalize the taskbar with center alignment, transparency, and animations. 🪟
• TinkerTool - Utility for enabling hidden system preferences. 🍎
• Sizer - Resize any window to a predefined size. 🪟
• Sophia Script for Windows - The most powerful PowerShell module for fine-tuning Windows showing how Windows can be configured without making any harm to it. 🪟 🟢
• RetroBar - Classic Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista taskbar for modern versions of Windows. 🪟 🟢
• SaneBar - Menu bar icon manager and organizer. Local-only alternative to Bartender. 🍎 🟢
• SaneClick - Finder toolbar customizer for adding quick actions. 🍎 🟢
• Thaw - Menu bar manager for hiding, arranging, and customizing menu bar items. 🍎 🟢

• Lively Wallpaper - Tool to set animated and interactive wallpapers. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
• Rainmeter - Desktop customization tool offering widgets, skins, and live stats. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
• Komorebi - Animated wallpaper manager. 🐧 🟢
• Plash - App to set websites as wallpapers. 🍎 🟢
• ScreenPlay - Wallpaper and widget engine. 🪟 🐧 🟢
• Variety - Wallpaper changer with features for downloading and managing wallpapers. 🐧 🟢
• WinDynamicDesktop - Port of macOS Mojave Dynamic Desktop feature to Windows. 🪟 🟢
• Sucrose - Versatile wallpaper engine bringing life to your desktop with a wide range of interactive themes. 🪟 🟢

• FastCopy - Copy and move files in batch. 🪟
• TeraCopy - Copy and move multiple files. 🪟 🍎
• Blip - Direct file transfer app with unlimited file sizes, folder support, and transfer resume. 🪟 🍎 ⭐

• FreeFileSync - Tool for comparing and syncing files or folders. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• rclone - Command-line tool for managing and syncing files with cloud storage. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Syncthing - Continuous file synchronization for multiple computers. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

• livewinsize - Visualize window size in pixels and other units. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
• Diffinity - Diff and merging tool with focus on accurate and easy-to-read source code diffs. 🪟
• Meld - Tool for visual file, directory, and version control comparison. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• TkForge - Drag & drop in Figma to create a Python GUI with ease. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• WinMerge - Windows visual diff and merge for files and directories. 🪟 🟢
• WhereMyTokens - Windows system tray app for monitoring Claude Code token usage in real time. Displays per-session token counts, costs, context window usage, and rate limits. 🪟 🟢
• Headroom - Native macOS menu bar app showing Claude Code's session (5h) and weekly (7d) rate-limit usage as a live %, with color-coded alerts, reset countdowns, context window fill, active model name, and session cost. Zero network calls. 🍎 🟢
• x64dbg - Debugger for Windows. 🪟 🟢
• Ghostty - Fast native terminal emulator with GPU acceleration, tabs, splits, and modern terminal features. 🍎 🐧 🟢
• iTerm2 - Terminal replacement for macOS with split panes, profiles, search, and extensive customization. 🍎 🟢
• Ollama - Runs and manages local AI models with desktop and command-line tools. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Android Studio - Official IDE for Android development with emulator, code editor, and build tools. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• GitHub Desktop - Graphical Git client for cloning repositories, reviewing changes, and syncing with GitHub. 🪟 🍎 🟢
• WezTerm - GPU-accelerated terminal emulator and multiplexer with tabs, panes, SSH, and Lua configuration. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Tura - Local-first AI coding agent with persistent parallel sessions, desktop and terminal interfaces, and local-model support. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• DevProjex - Build structured, token-counted project context with visual file selection, Smart Ignore, preview, and multiple output formats. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

• Insomnia - Simple API client for REST and GraphQL development. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• Postman - API development platform with advanced testing and collaboration tools. 🪟 🍎 🐧 ⭐
• Apidog - All-in-one workspace for API design, testing, and documentation. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Bruno - Offline API client that is fast, Git-friendly, and open source. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Cocoa Rest Client - Native app for testing REST APIs. 🍎 🟢
• Hoppscotch - Lightweight API development tool for designing, testing, and debugging. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• HTTPie - Command-line and GUI tool to simplify working with APIs. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• HTTP Toolkit - Tool for debugging and mocking HTTP requests. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Katalon Studio - Testing automation for APIs, web, and mobile apps. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Mockoon - Desktop tool for creating and testing mock REST APIs. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• SoapUI Open Source - For testing REST and SOAP APIs with scripting support. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Paw - Advanced HTTP client. 🍎
• Yaak - An offline and Git friendly API tester for HTTP, GraphQL, WebSockets, SSE, and gRPC. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Endpoint - Native macOS API client with WebSocket support, performance testing, and customizable themes. 🍎

• DBeaver - Universal database tool for SQL databases like MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Apache Family, and more. 🪟 🍎 🐧 ⭐
• Beekeeper Studio - Modern, lightweight SQL client supporting MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, SQL Server, etc. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• DB Browser for SQLite - Visual tool for creating, browsing, and editing SQLite database files. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• DearSQL - Lightweight native database client built with Dear ImGui, supporting SQL and NoSQL databases. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

• Wireshark - Leading tool for capturing and analyzing network traffic. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• Burp Suite Community Edition - Class-leading vulnerability scanning and web app security. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Charles - Debugging proxy to view HTTP and HTTPS traffic. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• James - Proxy for intercepting HTTP/HTTPS requests. 🪟 🍎 🟢
• mitmproxy - Interactive HTTP proxy for debugging and penetration testing. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Proxie - HTTP debugging proxy for tracking requests. 🍎
• Proxyman - Modern HTTP proxy with an intuitive UI. 🍎
• Sniffnet - Tool for monitoring and analyzing network traffic. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

• Godot - Game engine for 2D and 3D games with an easy-to-learn scripting language. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• Unreal Engine - Powerful, fully-featured game engine for high-quality 3D games. 🪟 🍎 🐧 ⭐
• Amazon Lumberyard - Free, cross-platform 3D game engine integrated with AWS and Twitch for multiplayer games. 🪟 🍎
• AppGameKit - Flexible game engine for 2D and 3D games with simple scripting. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Cocos2d - Game engine for mobile and web games, focused on 2D games. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Defold - Cross-platform 2D game engine with easy-to-use tools. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• CryEngine - Advanced game engine with cutting-edge graphics and tools for creating visually stunning games. 🪟
• Flixel - 2D engine built with Haxe, suitable for platformers and action games. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• GDevelop - No-code engine for creating 2D games with a visual event system. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Gosu - Simple 2D game development library for Ruby or C++. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• LÖVE - Simple, easy-to-learn 2D game engine for Lua. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• LÖVR - Simple 3D game engine for Lua, inspired by LÖVE. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Monogame - Framework for cross-platform game development with C#. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• OpenRA - Game engine for real-time strategy games, supporting mods for classic titles. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• PICO-8 - Fantasy console for making retro-style small games. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Ren'Py - Popular engine for creating visual novels with a simple scripting language. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Pixel Game Maker MV - Game creation engine for 2D pixel games with no coding required. 🪟
• Roblox Studio - Engine for making games on Roblox. 🪟 🍎
• Scirra Construct - Powerful game engine with drag-and-drop and visual scripting for 2D games. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Tiled - Level editor for creating tile-based game maps, used with other engines. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Unity - Popular game engine for creating both 2D and 3D games, with an intuitive interface and wide asset store. 🪟 🍎 🐧

• Docker - Containerization platform for operating-system-level virtualization. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• VirtualBox - Virtualization software for creating and managing virtual machines. 🪟 🍎 🐧 ⭐
• Lima - Tool for launching Linux VMs with file sharing and port forwarding. 🍎 🟢
• Multipass - Quickly launch and manage Ubuntu virtual machines on demand. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• OrbStack - Lightweight and fast virtualization for running Docker containers and Linux machines. 🍎
• Podman Desktop - Desktop alternative to Docker for managing containers. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• QEMU - Emulator and virtualizer for hardware and system virtualization. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Rancher Desktop - App for managing containers and Kubernetes on desktop. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• UTM - GUI for QEMU to run various VMs including ARM64 and x64. 🍎
• Vagrant - Tool for managing reproducible development environments using virtual machines. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• VMWare Workstation - Virtualization software with advanced features. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• eryph-zero - Tool for building VMs as if they were running in the cloud, but locally on Windows. 🪟 🟢
• Mocker - Docker-compatible container CLI for macOS built on Apple's Containerization framework. 🍎 🟢

• CDisplayEx - Lightweight comic book reader (.cbr, .cbz, .pdf, manga). 🪟

• LibreOffice - Popular and easy to use office suite. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• Apache OpenOffice - Suite for documents, spreadsheets, etc. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Calligra Suite - Office suite with word processing and vector graphics. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Collabora Online - Cloud-based LibreOffice for collaboration. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Etherpad - Real-time collaborative text editor. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• FreeOffice - Suite with compatibility for MS Office formats. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Google Workspace - Cloud-based suite for document collaboration. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• OnlyOffice - Office suite with collaboration features. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• WPS Office - Lightweight office suite compatible with MS file formats. 🪟 🍎 🐧

• Calibre - Powerful e-book manager. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• iChm - CHM reader. 🍎 🟢
• Kindle App - Official Kindle reader app. 🪟 🍎
• Klib - Manage Kindle and iBooks highlights. 🍎
• IReader Free and open source novel reader for Android and Desktop
• Koodo Reader - EBook reader supporting 15+ formats. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Naps2 - Scan documents to PDF and more, as simply as possible. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Readest - Cross-platform eBook reader with tools. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Scribus - Layout and publishing software. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Sigil - EPUB editor. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Simple Comic - Reader for PDF, CBZ, and CBR formats. 🍎
• KOReader - KOReader is a document viewer for E Ink devices. 🐧 🟢

• Sumatra PDF - Fast, lightweight PDF reader. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
• Foxit PDF Reader - PDF viewer with annotations. 🪟 🍎
• MuPDF - Powerful PDF viewer. 🪟 🐧 🟢
• Okular - Universal document viewer by KDE. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• PDF Arranger - PDF editor for splitting, merging. 🪟 🐧 🟢
• PDF24 - Easy PDF tools. 🪟
• qpdfview - Tabbed document viewer. 🐧 🟢
• Skim - PDF viewer for annotation. 🍎 🟢
• Xournal++ - Handwriting and annotation tool for PDFs. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• PDFGear - Read, edit, convert, merge, and sign PDF files across devices. 🪟 🍎
• PDFsam - Extract pages, split, merge, mix and rotate PDF files. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• qpdf - A content-preserving PDF document transformer. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• pdfcpu - A PDF processor written in Go. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Stirling-PDF - #1 PDF Application on GitHub that lets you edit PDFs on any device anywhere. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• pdftk - PDFtk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• PDFluent - Offline PDF editor for forms, OCR, redaction, signatures, conversion, and page management on Windows and macOS. 🪟 🍎

• Inkless - Minimal, shortcut based app to take notes and use for light coding. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
• Obsidian - Knowledge base app with powerful linking and markdown support. 🪟 🍎 🐧 ⭐
• Craft Docs - Beautiful and powerful tool for creating and organizing documents and notes. 🪟 🍎
• Joplin - Capture your thoughts and securely access them from any device. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Logseq - Privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Notion - All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, databases, and collaboration. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Plain Text Editor - Simple, distraction-free text editor for quick note-taking. 🍎
• Tot - Simple, elegant app for collecting and editing text snippets. 🍎
• RemNote - Knowledge management app with note-taking and spaced repetition features. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Simplenote - Minimalist note-taking app that syncs across devices. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• qnote - Minimal frameless notepad with Markdown preview, real PDF export via Typst, OCR via Tesseract, and automatic version history. 🐧 🟢
• fylepad - Lightweight notepad with powerful rich-text editing. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• plumio - Privacy-first, open-source, self-hostable notes-taking app. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Xournal++ - Take handwritten notes with ease. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• RNote - Sketch and take handwritten notes. . 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Trilium Notes - Organize your thoughts. Build your personal knowledge base. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Snoq - Secure, offline-first note-taking app with AES-256 encryption. 🪟
• Knopo - Local-first outliner for plain Markdown notes with backlinks, page/block references, and graph-friendly files. 🍎 🟢
• Bangle.io - Local-first WYSIWYG note-taking app that keeps notes as portable Markdown files. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

• Visual Studio Code - Code editor with debugging, integrated Git support, and a vast extension marketplace. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• Atom - Highly customizable editor with Git integration, real-time collaboration, and extensive plugins. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Bluefish - Web developer editor supporting HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP with built-in preview. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Brackets - Web-focused editor with live preview, CSS preprocessor support, and inline editing for HTML. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• CodeEdit - Native macOS editor with live preview, Git integration, and Markdown support. 🍎 🟢
• CotEditor - Text editor with syntax highlighting, snippets, and regular expression search. 🍎 🟢
• Emacs - Customizable editor with robust scripting, project management, and multi-language support. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Fastedit - Minimal text editor with a frost glass background and basic text editing tools. 🪟 🟢
• FluentEdit - Simple code editor with a Fluent design, featuring split view and customizable themes. 🪟
• Geany - Lightweight editor with built-in terminal, project management, and syntax highlighting for many languages. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Notepad++ - Editor with customizable syntax highlighting, multi-line editing, and plugin support. 🪟 🟢
• Haystack Editor - Visual editor with a canvas UI to help navigate and understand code structure. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Helix - Modal text editor with powerful text manipulation, multiple cursors, and a modern UI. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Lapce - Fast, extensible editor with built-in support for multiple languages and advanced editing features. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• LightTable - Code editor offering real-time feedback and live execution of code in an interactive environment. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• micro - Simple, modern terminal-based editor with support for mouse interaction and plugin extensions. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Neovim - Advanced Vim-based text editor with improved extensibility, plugins, and modern features. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Notepad 3 - Fast and light-weight Scintilla-based text editor with syntax highlighting. 🪟 🟢
• Nova - Editor with an intuitive interface, fast navigation, and built-in Git support. 🍎
• Sublime Text - Fast text editor with powerful search, multi-caret editing, and a strong plugin ecosystem. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• SubEthaEdit - Collaborative text editor enabling real-time editing with multiple users. 🍎 🟢
• Kate - Editor with plugins, split-view and more by KDE. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• TextMate - Editor with project management, language bundles, and customizable macros. 🍎 🟢
• Vim - Efficient command-line editor with powerful keyboard shortcuts and multi-file editing. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Vimr - Editor offering a refined Vim experience with enhanced UI and modern features. 🍎 🟢
• Zed - High-performance, collaborative editor designed for speed, real-time collaboration, and custom workflows. 🍎 🐧 🟢
• MDLook - Portable offline Markdown editor using WebView2 with live preview, dark mode, and diagram support. 🪟
• VSCodium - Community-built VS Code binaries without Microsoft branding, telemetry, or licensing changes. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• MarkEdit - Native Markdown editor for macOS with a TextEdit-like workflow and local-file editing. 🍎 🟢
• Cate - Code editor on an infinite zoomable canvas where editors, terminals, browsers, and AI agent panels float in a spatial workspace, with docking, detachable windows, and per-project layout persistence. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

• AB Download Manager - Easily download files from anywhere. 🪟 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• Free Download Manager - Modern download accelerator. 🪟 🍎 🐧 ⭐
• Aria2 - Lightweight, command-line download utility supporting multiple protocols. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Download Master - Download manager by WestByte. 🪟
• JDownloader - Popular download manager. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Motrix - Simple and clean download manager with cross-platform support. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Persepolis Download Manager - GUI for Aria2, providing an intuitive interface. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Xtreme Download Manager (XDM) - Powerful tool to increase download speed. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Transmission - Lightweight BitTorrent client with native desktop, daemon, and web interfaces. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• FluxDown - Multi-protocol download manager with IDM-style dynamic segmentation, covering HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, eD2K, HLS and DASH. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

• Steam - Platform for buying and playing PC games. 🪟 🍎 🐧 ⭐
• Amazon Games - Platform for Prime Gaming titles. 🪟
• Battle.net - Platform for Blizzard games. 🪟 🍎
• Bethesda Launcher - Launcher for Fallout and Elder Scrolls. 🪟
• EA App - EA Origin alternative. 🪟
• Epic Games Store - Platform for exclusive and free games. 🪟 🍎
• GOG Galaxy - DRM-free games and library management. 🪟 🍎
• Heroic Games Launcher - Launcher for Epic, GOG. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Humble App - Launcher for Humble Bundle games. 🪟
• Itch.io - Marketplace for indie games. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Lutris - Open-source game manager for Linux. 🐧 🟢
• Origin - EA game launcher. 🪟 🍎
• Riot Client - Launcher for League of Legends and more. 🪟 🍎
• Rockstar Games Launcher - Launcher for Rockstar games. 🪟
• Playnite - Unified game library manager. 🪟 🟢
• ProtonUp-Qt - Tool for managing Proton/Wine compatibility. 🐧 🟢
• Porting Kit - Install Windows games on Mac. 🍎
• Ubisoft Connect - Game launcher for Ubisoft titles. 🪟 🍎

• Antstream Arcade - Free tier with retro games playable via the cloud. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Boosteroid - Free plan available for limited game streaming. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• NVIDIA GeForce NOW - Free tier for streaming supported games from the cloud. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Xbox Cloud Gaming - Free trial with limited titles via the cloud. 🪟 🍎

• BlueStacks - Android emulator for playing mobile games on PC. 🪟 🍎 ⭐
• Andy - Android emulator to run mobile games and apps on PC. 🪟 🍎
• Genymotion - Android emulator with advanced features for developers and gamers. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• LDPlayer - Lightweight Android emulator for gaming on PC. 🪟
• KoPlayer - Android emulator optimized for gaming and streaming. 🪟
• MEmu Play - Powerful Android emulator with excellent gaming support. 🪟
• NoxPlayer - Android emulator optimized for mobile gaming on desktop. 🪟 🍎
• Waydroid - Container-based approach to boot a full Android system. 🐧 🟢

• RetroArch - Open-source, cross-platform emulator that allows to play games from a wide variety of retro gaming consoles and platforms. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• PPSSPP - PSP emulator for any OS. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Dolphin - GameCube and Wii emulator. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• PCSX2 - PlayStation 2 emulator with compatibility for most games. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• RPCS3 - PlayStation 3 emulator that runs a lot of games. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Cemu - Wii U emulator that supports 4K resolution. 🪟
• MAME - Arcade machine emulator with a massive library of supported games. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• DOSBox - DOS emulator designed for running old DOS games and applications. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• DuckStation - PlayStation 1 emulator with focus on speed, accuracy, and modern enhancements. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• ScummVM - Emulator focused on classic point-and-click adventure games. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Citra - Nintendo 3DS emulator with great compatibility and performance. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• OpenEmu - Multi-system emulator with a clean interface and support for a variety of retro systems. 🍎
• xemu - Original Xbox emulator for playing classic Xbox games on modern systems. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• PCSX-Redux - PlayStation 1 emulator aimed at advanced debugging and better game compatibility. 🪟 🐧 🟢
• Mednafen - Multi-system emulator with a focus on precision and compatibility. 🪟 🐧
• MelonDS - Nintendo DS emulator with accurate performance and Wi-Fi support. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• BSNES - SNES emulator with cycle-accurate emulation for high compatibility. 🪟 🍎 🐧

• GIMP - Versatile image editor for tasks like photo manipulation and graphic design. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• Inkscape - Vector graphics editor used for creating logos, illustrations, and more. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• Krita - Digital painting software designed for illustrators and concept artists. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• Aspect - Photo organizer with peer-to-peer synchronization for secure image storage. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• pngquant - Command-line tool for compressing PNG images without losing quality. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Alchemy - Experimental drawing application focused on conceptual art creation. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Amadine - Intuitive vector drawing app aimed at graphic designers. 🍎
• Colorpicker - Color manipulation tool for picking and modifying colors. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Draw.io - Desktop app for creating diagrams and flowcharts. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Figma - Collaborative interface design tool for building UI/UX projects. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• FontForge - Font editor for creating and modifying font files. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• inklet - Use your Mac's trackpad as a drawing board for creative work. 🍎
• Lunacy - Design tool offering collaboration features and built-in assets. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• macSVG - Design HTML5 SVG art and animations with this easy-to-use tool. 🍎
• MagicaVoxel - Lightweight voxel editor and interactive path tracing renderer for 3D models. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Monodraw - ASCII art editor for creating and editing text-based drawings. 🍎
• Paintbrush - Bitmap image editor with basic drawing tools and pixel-level manipulation. 🪟
• Paint.NET - Simple yet powerful image editor for quick edits and designs. 🪟
• PhotoFiltre - Complete image retouching program. 🪟
• Pencil2D - Simple and intuitive tool for creating 2D hand-drawn animations. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Pixen - Native pixel art and animation editor designed. 🍎
• Affinity - Professional creative suite for photo editing, graphic design, and desktop publishing. 🪟 🍎
• Open Photo AI - An open source alternative to the popular photo AI editor. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

• Blender - 3D creation tool supporting modeling, animation, rendering, video editing, and more. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• FreeCAD - Parametric 3D CAD modeler for designing real-life objects of any size. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• MakeHuman - 3D human modeler for creating realistic character models. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• OpenSCAD - Script-based 3D CAD modeler for creating precise solid geometry. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Wings 3D - 3D modeling software focusing on subdivision modeling. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

• Avast - Antivirus to help detect and isolate potential cyberthreats. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• AVG Antivirus - Free antivirus software to protect against viruses, malware, and spyware. 🪟 🍎
• Bitdefender - Lightweight and powerful antivirus for essential protection. 🪟 🍎
• ClamAV - Antivirus engine for detecting malware, viruses, and other threats. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Malwarebytes - Malware removal tool offering real-time protection and cleanup. 🪟 🍎
• Pareto Security - Check for basic security hygiene of any Windows, Mac or Linux desktop. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

• Bitwarden - Password manager for securely storing, managing, and sharing sensitive online data. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• KeePass - Lightweight password manager for secure storage of passwords in encrypted databases. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• KeePassXC - Modern community fork of KeePass with cross-platform support and enhanced features. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• LastPass - Cloud-based password manager with secure password sharing and autofill features. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• NordPass - Secure password manager with autofill and password health insights. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Passbolt - Team-oriented password manager for sharing and storing passwords securely. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• RoboForm - Password manager and form filler with multi-platform synchronization. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• ProtonPass - Free password manager with end-to-end encryption based in Switzerland. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

• SaneHosts - macOS hosts file manager for system-wide ad and tracker blocking. 🍎 🟢

• ImageGlass - Lightweight, versatile image viewer. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
• FlowVision - Waterfall-style image viewer. 🍎 🟢
• Irfanview - Simple image viewer with some editing abilities. 🪟
• JPEGView - Lean, fast and highly configurable viewer/editor for JPEG, BMP, PNG, WEBP, TGA, GIF and TIFF images. 🪟
• qView - Visually minimal and space efficient. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• XnView - Image resizer, batch image converter. 🪟 🍎 🐧

• AnyDesk - Remote access solution for multiple devices, providing fast and secure connections. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Moonlight - GameStream client for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Steam Link. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Parsec - High-performance remote desktop solution with 4k streaming at 60fps and low latency. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• RoyalTSX - Remote access tool for IT professionals, supporting multiple protocols. 🍎
• RustDesk - Remote desktop software with a focus on simplicity and security. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Steam Link - Play your Steam games across devices using the Steam Link app. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Sunshine - Self-hosted game streaming server for use with Moonlight. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• TeamViewer - Popular remote control software for desktop sharing and file transfer. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Windows Remote Desktop - Connect to remote PCs, virtual apps, and desktops with ease. 🪟
• wmWebStack - Local server stack with one-click live publishing and remote device access. 🪟
• Remmina - Remote access screen and file sharing to your desktop. 🐧
• RemSupp - Simple remote desktop. 🪟 🍎 🐧

• FreeTube - Private YouTube client with no ads. 🪟 🍎 🐧

• DaVinci Resolve - Professional video editor with advanced color correction and effects. 🪟 🍎 🐧 ⭐
• Capcut Desktop - Simple video editor with many builtin effects. 🪟 🍎
• Shotcut - Video editor with a wide range of features. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• OpenShot - Easy-to-use video editor with support for multiple video tracks. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Kdenlive - Video editor with multi-track editing and a powerful interface. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Lightworks - Professional video editor with advanced features for filmmaking. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• VSDC Free Video Editor - Non-linear video editor with a rich set of editing tools. 🪟
• Olive Video Editor - Non-linear video editor with powerful features and an intuitive interface. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Avidemux - Video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• lossless-cut - Swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

• PotPlayer - Feature-rich video player with advanced playback options. 🪟 ⭐
• Bomi Player - Advanced media player that supports a variety of video formats. 🐧
• Clementine Player - Music and video player with a user-friendly interface. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• GOM Player - Popular media player with support for most video formats and customizable features. 🪟 🍎
• IINA - Media player that claims to perform better than VLC. 🍎 🟢
• KMPlayer - Media player supporting various video formats and streaming protocols. 🪟 🍎
• Kodi - Media center that allows you to play and view most videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• MPV - Cross-platform media player with a simple interface. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• MPC-HC - Lightweight video player with support for all common formats. 🪟 🟢
• RealPlayer - Versatile media player for playing videos and streaming. 🪟 🍎
• Stremio - Provides a secure, modern and seamless entertainment experience. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• ScreenBox - Basically VLC but with a modern UI. 🪟
• SMPlayer - Media player with the ability to remember playback settings and support for various video formats. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Videotape - Simple and minimalist video player for quick playback of local video files. 🪟
• VLC Media Player - Media player supporting almost all video formats. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

• OBS Studio - Software for live streaming and recording video. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• Jitsi Meet - Video conferencing and live streaming with ease. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Livestreamer - Command-line tool to stream video from multiple platforms. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Kaltura - Platform for managing and streaming video content. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Nginx RTMP - RTMP streaming server built with NGINX. 🐧 🟢
• Streamlabs Desktop - Streaming software with customizable alerts and overlays. 🪟 🍎 🟢
• XSplit Broadcaster - Streaming and recording with advanced features and effects. 🪟
• Zoom - Video meetings with streaming, recording, and screen sharing. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• GPU Screen Recorder - Shadowplay-like screen recorder that is fast. 🐧
• Shadowplay - Record gameplay videos, screenshots, and livestreams. 🪟
• ScreenToGif - Record, edit, and create animated GIFs from your screen. 🪟 🟢

• FFmpeg - Powerful tool for format conversion and multimedia editing. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• Any Video Converter - Supports batch conversion and output to various formats. 🪟 🍎
• FastFlix - GUI for fast encoding with H.264, HEVC, and AV1 support. 🪟 🟢
• Format Factory - Converts video, audio, and images with customizable settings. 🪟
• HandBrake - Video transcoder with preset profiles for device compatibility. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Shutter Encoder - Supports video, audio, and image conversion with extra processing tools. 🪟 🍎
• XMedia Recode - Multi-format converter with advanced video editing features. 🪟
• VidCoder - User-friendly HandBrake-based transcoder with batch processing. 🪟 🍎 🟢
• Adapter - Media converter app for video, audio, and images on Mac and Windows. 🪟 🍎

• Algo - Simple IPSEC VPN setup for secure cloud connections. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Cloudflare WARP - VPN and DNS service enhancing privacy and security. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• FlClash - Multi-platform proxy client based on ClashMeta. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Hiddify - Multi-platform proxy toolchain. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• MoonProxy - GUI client for FRP (fast reverse proxy) to expose local services to the internet. 🪟 🍎 🟢
• rvc-mac - Secure VPN client from Ribose. 🍎 🟢
• Lantern - Internet freedom tool to bypass restrictions. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• OpenVPN - VPN solution for secure internet connections with customizable settings. 🪟 🟢
• Proxifier - Windows proxy client that routes applications via a proxy server. 🪟
• Psiphon - VPN and proxy tool for bypassing censorship. 🪟 🍎
• SoftEther VPN - Multi-protocol VPN software for secure connections. 🪟 🟢
• Sing-box - Universal proxy platform supporting multiple protocols. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• ShadowsocksX-NG - Modern Shadowsocks client for enhanced security. 🍎 🟢
• SpechtLite - Minimal proxy tool using rule-based configuration. 🍎 🟢
• Specht - Rule-based proxy with Network Extension support. 🍎 🟢
• Twingate - Zero trust access for secure private network connections. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Tunnelblick - Easy-to-use OpenVPN client with a macOS-friendly interface. 🍎 🟢
• v2rayN - Open source GUI for Xray and Sing-box. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• WireGuard - Fast, secure VPN protocol designed for simplicity. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Tailscale - Mesh VPN client for secure private networks using WireGuard. 🪟 🍎 🐧

• AutoHotkey - Scripting language for task automation and custom hotkeys. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
• PowerToys - Utilities for file renaming, resizing, and productivity tools. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
• yt-dlp - Command-line tool for downloading audio and video. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• Advanced IP Scanner - Network scanner for detecting and analyzing devices on LAN. 🪟
• CookCLI - Recipe manager with web server, shopping lists, and meal planning. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Fan Control - Software for managing and controlling system fans. 🪟
• Keylock - Lock your keyboard with a click. 🪟 🟢
• Legacy Update - Installs updates to fix Windows Update access on unsupported versions. 🪟
• Locale Emulator - Simulate different system regions and languages. 🪟 🟢
• LocalSend - Share files instantly to nearby devices. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• MultiDrive - Clone, erase, back up one or more drives simultaneously. 🪟
• Nirsoft - Collection of small utilities for various tasks. 🪟
• PeakFlow - Seven productivity tools with screen dimming, clipboard manager, volume mixer, and meeting alerts. 🪟 🟢
• ProcessSpy - Native process monitor for macOS. 🍎
• PuTTY - SSH and Telnet client for remote connections. 🪟
• SpeedCrunch - Fast, high-precision scientific calculator with keyboard shortcuts. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Twinkle Tray - Simple tool to manage brightness

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