awesome-free-apps
Curated list of the best free apps for PC and mobile
https://github.com/axorax/awesome-free-apps
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3D Modeling and Animation
Cloud Gaming
- MakeHuman - 3D human modeler for creating realistic character models. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- 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. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- Wings 3D - 3D modeling software focusing on subdivision modeling. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- OpenSCAD - Script-based 3D CAD modeler for creating precise solid geometry. 🪟 🍎 🐧
Audio
Audio Players
- MusicBee - Feature-rich music player and manager for Windows. 🪟
- Audacious - Lightweight audio player for simple music playback. 🪟 🐧
- Strawberry Music Player - Music player for organizing and playing your audio collection. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- Foobar2000 - Lightweight and highly customizable audio player with support for many formats. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- Karafun - Collection of karaoke songs across multiple genres. Play your own CDG files or use downloads from YouTube. 🪟
- Strawberry Music Player - Music player for organizing and playing your audio collection. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- Audacious - Lightweight audio player for simple music playback. 🪟 🐧 🟢
- AIMP - Music player with a clean interface and powerful features. 🪟
- MusicBee - Feature-rich music player and manager. 🪟
Audio Recording
- Audacity - Open-source 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. 🪟
- Wavosaur - Simple audio editor for recording, editing, and processing sound. 🪟
- Wavosaur - Simple audio editor for recording, editing, and processing sound. 🪟
- Audacity - Audio editor for recording and editing sounds. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
- Wavosaur - Simple audio editor for recording, editing, and processing sound. 🪟
- Ocenaudio - Easy-to-use audio editor for recording and analyzing sounds. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- echo99 - Private call recorder with on-device transcription and speaker labels. 🍎
DJ Software
- Mixxx - DJ software for live mixing and beatmatching with controller support. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- VirtualDJ - DJ platform for mixing music, beatmatching, and live performance. 🪟 🍎
- DJ ProDecks - DJ software for mixing music and adding effects. 🪟
- UltraMixer Free - DJ software for mixing audio and video with a simple interface. 🪟 🍎
- 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. 🪟 🍎
- DJ ProDecks - DJ software for mixing music and adding effects. 🪟
- VirtualDJ - DJ platform for mixing music, beatmatching, and live performance. 🪟 🍎
- Mixxx - DJ software for live mixing and beatmatching with controller support. 🪟 🍎 🐧
Music Notation
- LilyPond - Music notation program for creating high-quality sheet music. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- Frescobaldi - Editor for LilyPond to create music scores quickly. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- 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. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- MuseScore - Software for creating, playing, and sharing sheet music. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- Denemo - Music notation software for fast score creation with LilyPond. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- TuxGuitar - TuxGuitar is an editor and player for multi-track guitar tablatures. It can open Guitar Pro, Power Tab Editor, TablEdit and MIDI files. 🪟 🍎 🐧🟢
Music Production
- LMMS - DAW for creating music with virtual instruments and MIDI support. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
- Ardour - DAW for recording, editing, and mixing audio with professional features. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- Qtractor - Multi-track DAW for Linux for audio and MIDI recording. 🐧
- Cakewalk by BandLab - Full-featured DAW for music recording and editing. 🪟
- Stargate DAW - Innovation-first DAW, instrument and effect plugins. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- Reaper - Complete digital audio production application for computers, offering a full multitrack audio and MIDI recording. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- Furnace - Multi-system chiptune tracker. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- MilkyTracker - Cross platform XM tracker. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- OpenMPT - Modren tracker software that can open multiple tracker formats. 🪟
- LMMS - DAW for creating music with virtual instruments and MIDI support. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
- OpenMPT - Modren tracker software that can open multiple tracker formats. 🪟
- Zrythm - DAW for music production with an easy-to-use interface. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- JACK Audio - Audio server for routing and mixing sound between programs. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- EarTrumpet - Advanced volume control for Windows, offering app-specific audio management. 🪟
- FXSound - Boost sound quality, volume, and bass. Has a beautiful modern UI. 🪟
- 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. 🪟 🟢
Browsers
Music Production
- Brave - Privacy-focused and fast browser. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- Chrome - Chrome, developed by Google, offers fast browsing with integrated Google services. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- ungoogled-chromium - Privacy-focused Chromium with Google services removed. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- Microsoft Edge - Chromium-based browser with enhancements (everyone hates it though). 🪟 🍎 🐧
- Min - Fast, minimal browser prioritizing privacy. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- Pale Moon - Open Source, Goanna-based web browser. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- qutebrowser - Keyboard-driven, vim-like browser built with Python and Qt. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- Safari - Native browser for Macs with seamless integration across Apple devices. 🍎
- Station - Browser centralizing web apps in one workspace. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- Yandex - Fast, secure browser by Yandex with privacy features. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- Zen Browser - Beautifully designed, privacy-focused browser with custom mods. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- Tor Browser - Privacy browser routing traffic over the Tor network. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
- Microsoft Edge - Chromium-based browser with extra enhancements. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- qutebrowser - Keyboard-driven, vim-like browser in Python and Qt. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- Firefox - Browser with privacy and customization. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- Station - Browser centralizing web apps in one workspace. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- LibreWolf - Privacy-focused Firefox fork with enhanced security. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
Communication
Email Clients
- CanaryMail - Secure email app with PGP support and AI assistance. 🍎 🐧
- ElectronMail - Electron-based desktop client for ProtonMail. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- BlueMail - Cross-platform email client with modern interface. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- Foxmail - Fast, user-friendly email client. 🍎 🐧
- Wino Mail - Fluent design email client with Mica effect. 🪟
- Wino Mail - Fluent design email client with Mica effect. 🪟
- Wino Mail - Fluent design email client with Mica effect. 🪟
- ThunderBird - Email client for easier management. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- Eppie Mail - Open-source email client with local AI agents and full support for Gmail, Outlook, and Proton Mail. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
Messaging
- Discord - Communication platform for text, voice, and video, popular with gamers. 🪟 🍎 🐧 ⭐
- Telegram - Cloud-based messaging app known for speed, security, and group chats. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- WhatsApp - A free messaging app offering text, voice, and video calls, as well as multimedia sharing. 🪟 🍎
- Signal - Secure, private messaging app with end-to-end encryption. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- Slack - Collaboration hub for teams with messaging, file sharing, and integrations. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- Microsoft Teams - A communication and collaboration platform for teams, featuring chat, file sharing, and video conferencing. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- Discord - Communication platform for text, voice, and video, popular with gamers. 🪟 🍎 🐧 ⭐
- Microsoft Teams - Team communication platform with chat, file sharing, and video conferencing. 🪟 🍎 🐧
Compression and Archiving
Email Clients
- 7-Zip - Archive manager supporting 7z, ZIP, and other formats. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
- Unarchive One - Multi-format decompression tool with QuickLook integration. 🍎
- PDF Archiver - Tool for tagging and organizing PDFs. 🍎 🟢
- Unarchive One - Multi-format decompression tool with QuickLook integration. 🍎
- NanaZip - 7-Zip derivative optimized for Windows 10/11 with added functionality. 🪟
Customize
System Customization
- HideVolumeOSD - Hides the Windows volume bar. 🪟 🟢
- ExplorerPatcher - Restores and enhances the classic taskbar and system elements. 🪟 🟢
- 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. 🪟
- 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. 🪟 🟢
- SaneClick - Finder toolbar customizer for adding quick actions. 🍎 🟢
- Thaw - Menu bar manager for hiding, arranging, and customizing menu bar items. 🍎 🟢
- nowbar - Live album art for the currently playing music, right in the menu bar. 🍎 🟢
Wallpaper Tools
- 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. 🪟 🟢
- Rainmeter - Desktop customization tool offering widgets, skins, and live stats. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
- Sucrose - Versatile wallpaper engine bringing life to your desktop with a wide range of interactive themes. 🪟 🟢
Data Management
Copy and Move
Sync and Clone
- Syncthing - Continuous file synchronization for multiple computers. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
Developer Tools
API Development
- Postman - API development platform with advanced testing and collaboration tools.
- Insomnia - Simple API client for REST and GraphQL development.
- Bruno - Offline API client that is fast, Git-friendly, and open source.
- Hoppscotch - Lightweight API development tool for designing, testing, and debugging.
- SoapUI Open Source - For testing REST and SOAP APIs with scripting support.
- Cocoa Rest Client - Native macOS app for testing REST APIs.
- Paw - Advanced HTTP client designed for macOS.
- Katalon Studio - Testing automation for APIs, web, and mobile apps.
- HTTPie - Command-line and GUI tool to simplify working with APIs.
- Mockoon - Desktop tool for creating and testing mock REST APIs.
- Restbird - API platform for testing, automation, and mocking workflows.
- Apidog - All-in-one workspace for API design, testing, and documentation.
- Bruno - Offline API client that is fast, Git-friendly, and open source. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- Endpoint - Native macOS API client with WebSocket support, performance testing, and customizable themes. 🍎
- Postman - API development platform with advanced testing and collaboration tools. 🪟 🍎 🐧 ⭐
Database
- 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. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- DBeaver - Universal database tool for SQL databases like MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Apache Family, and more. 🪟 🍎 🐧 ⭐
- DBTool - Desktop client for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, Oracle, and SQL Server with server-side pagination, a visual query builder, and ER diagrams. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- DearSQL - Lightweight native database client built with Dear ImGui, supporting SQL and NoSQL databases. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
Game Engines
- Unreal Engine - Powerful, fully-featured game engine for high-quality 3D games. 🪟 🍎 🐧 ⭐
- Flixel - 2D engine built with Haxe, suitable for platformers and action games. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- LÖVE - Simple, easy-to-learn 2D game engine for Lua. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- LÖVR - Simple 3D game engine for Lua, inspired by LÖVE. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- Ren'Py - Popular engine for creating visual novels with a simple scripting language. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- Unity - Popular game engine for creating both 2D and 3D games, with an intuitive interface and wide asset store. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- Cocos2d - Game engine for mobile and web games, focused on 2D games. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- Pixel Game Maker MV - Game creation engine for 2D pixel games with no coding required. 🪟
- Godot - Game engine for 2D and 3D games with an easy-to-learn scripting language. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
- AppGameKit - Flexible game engine for 2D and 3D games with simple scripting. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- Roblox Studio - Engine for making games on Roblox. 🪟 🍎
- CryEngine - Advanced game engine with cutting-edge graphics and tools for creating visually stunning games. 🪟
- Scirra Construct - Powerful game engine with drag-and-drop and visual scripting for 2D games. 🪟 🍎 🐧
Network Analysis
- Wireshark - Leading tool for capturing and analyzing network traffic.
- Charles - Debugging proxy to view HTTP and HTTPS traffic.
- James - Proxy for intercepting HTTP/HTTPS requests. 🪟 🍎 🟢
- Little Snitch - Network monitor for macOS with traffic visualization.
- Proxie - HTTP debugging proxy for tracking requests on macOS.
- Burp Suite Community Edition - Class-leading vulnerability scanning and web app security. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- Proxie - HTTP debugging proxy for tracking requests. 🍎
- DevPeek - HTTP(S) debugging proxy with mock, automatic parameter decryption, and request replay. 🪟 🍎
Sync and Clone
- 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. 🪟
- TkForge - Drag & drop in Figma to create a Python GUI with ease. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
- 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. 🪟 🟢
- 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. 🪟 🍎 🟢
- 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. 🍎 🟢
- 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. 🍎 🟢
- Tura - Build agent that uses 80% less token and delivers better results. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- DevProjex - Builds safe, token-efficient project context with GUI, TUI, CLI, visual file selection, live preview, secret redaction, Git scopes, and syntax-aware compression. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- Nexus Shell - Native macOS SSH workspace with multi-tab terminals, dual-pane file transfer, server monitoring, and Docker controls. 🍎
- DSH Studio - Installs, supervises, and manages DeepSeek Harness from a cross-platform desktop interface. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- Agent Island - Status companion for AI coding agents. Shows live session state for Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Grok, and Cursor, alerts you when a run is waiting on your turn, and computes quota and cost locally. No account, no telemetry. 🪟 🍎 🟢
- Nexus Shell - Native macOS SSH workspace with multi-tab terminals, dual-pane file transfer, server monitoring, and Docker controls. 🍎
Virtualization
- Lima - Tool for launching Linux VMs with file sharing and port forwarding. 🍎 🟢
- Multipass - Quickly launch and manage Ubuntu virtual machines on demand. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- eryph-zero - Tool for building VMs as if they were running in the cloud, but locally on Windows. 🪟 🟢
- Multipass - Quickly launch and manage Ubuntu virtual machines on demand. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- VMWare Workstation - Virtualization software with advanced features. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- Vagrant - Tool for managing reproducible development environments using virtual machines. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- VirtualBox - Virtualization software for creating and managing virtual machines. 🪟 🍎 🐧 ⭐
- Mocker - Docker-compatible container CLI for macOS built on Apple's Containerization framework. 🍎 🟢
- OrbStack - Lightweight and fast virtualization for running Docker containers and Linux machines. 🍎
Documents
E-book
- iChm - CHM reader. 🍎 🟢
- Readest - Cross-platform eBook reader with tools. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- Scribus - Layout and publishing software. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- Simple Comic - Reader for PDF, CBZ, and CBR formats. 🍎
- Koodo Reader - EBook reader supporting 15+ formats. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- Scribus - Layout and publishing software. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- IReader
- Kindle App - Official Kindle reader app. 🪟 🍎
- Klib - Manage Kindle and iBooks highlights. 🍎
- Sigil - EPUB editor. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
Office Suites
- OnlyOffice - Office suite with collaboration features. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
- FreeOffice - Suite with compatibility for MS Office formats. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- WPS Office - Lightweight office suite compatible with MS file formats. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- FreeOffice - Suite with compatibility for MS Office formats. 🪟 🍎 🐧
- Etherpad - Real-time collaborative text editor. 🪟 🍎 🐧
PDF Tools
- PDF Arranger - PDF editor for splitting, merging. 🪟 🐧 🟢
- PDF24 - Easy PDF tools. 🪟
- qpdfview - Tabbed document viewer. 🐧 🟢