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Curated list of the best free apps for PC and mobile
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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

  • TeraCopy - Copy and move multiple files. 🪟 🍎
  • FastCopy - Copy and move files in batch. 🪟

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