Software-Index
A curated list of awesome free software that I personally love
https://github.com/NexusWasLost/Software-Index
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💪🏼 Benchmarking and Monitoring
- CPU Z - Shows Detailed CPU and RAM information.
- GPU Z - Shows Detailed GPU information.
- MSI Afterburner - GPU overclocking and monitoring Software.
- Rivatuner Statistics Server - Bundled with MSI Afterburner, a powerful software to display system data like performance while gaming.
- Unigine Superposition Benchmark - A great GPU benchmarking tool.
- Cinebench - Industry grade CPU benchmarking tool.
- Furmark - A great tool to stress test a GPU.
- HW Info - System monitoring and hardware analysis tool for Windows.
- HW Monitor - Hardware monitoring program that displays temperatures, power, clock speeds and other information.
- Libre Hardware Monitor - Free open source Hardware monitoring software just like HW Monitor.
- CrystalDiskMark - Simple Disk Benchmarking Software. Check HDD and SSD speeds.
- Rivatuner Statistics Server - Bundled with MSI Afterburner, a powerful software to display system data like performance while gaming.
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💡 Browsers
- Brave - The best chromium based browser with crazy strong adblocker.
- Firefox - The most well know non chromium browser, pretty good.
- Mullvad Browser - A good privacy focused web browser.
- Tor - The best privacy browser, no tracking, IP masking and anonymity.
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☁ Cloud
- Terabox - 1TB of free cloud storage. Although not recommended for personal stuff like photos and documents. I upload old games here...😁.
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☁ Cloud Storage
- Filen - End-to-End Encrypted cloud storage with 10GB free plan.
- pCloud - Free 10GB cloud storage BUT End-to-End Encryption is a paid add-on...😑 WHY ?
- MEGA - Zero Knowledge Encrypted cloud storage with 20GB free plan, though with a bit of shady past.
- Ice Drive - Another privacy focused cloud storage. Free 10GB storage and this uses TwoFish Encryption instead of AES, pretty cool !
- Hivenet - Decentralized cloud compute and cloud storage. 10GB free cloud storage.
- Proton Drive - Part of the proton suite, free 5GB Storage, End-to-End Encrypted.
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📐 Code Editors
- Visual Studio Code - This is mainstream but its insanely cool, useful and my primary code editor.
- Helix Editor - A modern terminal-first text/code editor with in-built themes and other features.
- Vim - The legendary terminal text editor. Minimal, insanely fast and powerful !
- Codepen - Web based frontend code editor. HTML, CSS and JS.
- Online GDB - Online Code editor and Debugger, supports maximum mainstream languages.
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🥪 Customization Tools and Library
- Rainmeter - Lightweight Windows Customization Tool. Loads "skins" to make windows look good.
- WindHawk - Powerful Windows customization tool and Windows mod marketplace.
- Shields.io - Cool Badges markdown, websites and more.
- Remix Icons - Simple, neutral - style icons, free to use.
- Font Awesome - Icons for the web, delivered through CDN.
- Google Fonts - Large library of font specimens to use.
- Devicons - Free Icons for devs to use delivered through CDN.
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📧 Email Services
- Proton Mail - Proton Mail or rather the whole proton suite is privacy focused and offers very good features and a generous free tier.
- Tuta Mail - Another Privacy first email service alongside a calendar with a minimal UI and generous free tier.
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🔑 Password Managers
- Bitwarden - One of the best password managers out there, free and open source powered with AES Encryption and E2E Encryption.
- Proton Pass - Part of the Proton Suite a very good password manager with E2E Encryption.
- KeepassXC - An open source local storage password manager with encryption selection.
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💻 Productivity Applications
- Obsidian - Best Note taking app, markdown heaven with plugin support. Everything is stored locally so no concerns on privacy.
- Trello - A project Management Tool, organized everything into "cards" for better management.
- Libre Office Suite - An incredibly powerful, useful and open source suite of applications used to create and edit documents, spreadsheets, presentations, etc. The best equivalent to Microsoft Office Suite.
- Flow Launcher - Quick File Search & App Launcher for Windows.
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🎥 Recording and Editing Applications
- OBS Studio - One of the best screen recording and streaming software. Open source and free.
- Shotcut - Lightweight, free, open source Video editing software supporting 4k60fps exports.
- Da Vinci Resolve - The industry grade free video editing software and direct competitor to Premiere Pro.
- Gimp - Free and Open source feature-rice image editor.
- photoeditor.com - Web based photo editor, not the best but gets the job done.
- Avidemux - Free and open source tool for simple video cutting, filtering, and encoding. Ideal for quick edits without re-encoding.
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🔍 Search Engines
- Startpage - Privacy search powered by Google results, but strips all trackers and logs.
- DuckDuckGo - Popular privacy-first search engine, simple UI with zero user profiling.
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🔨 Utilities
- TranslucentTB - A lightweight utility that makes Windows taskbar transparent.
- Shutup10++ - A Windows utility that gives full control over data, prevents unwanted data collection by Windows.
- BlockTheSpot - Ad skip/block for Spotify, Super handy !
- Cryptomator - Free and open source data encryption software.
- scoop - A command-line installer for Windows, super useful.
- Revo Uninstaller - Uninstall apps down to the registry that too for free, Its one of my personal favorite !
- 7-zip - Another incredibly good file zipping and compression software.
- SCLI - Open source command Line shortcut opener made by Me...😁.
- Rufus - Bootable Media Creation Tool, my personal favorite.
- WinToys - Optimize Windows for better performance and stop annoying features.
- Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) - A must have, used to uninstall display drivers.
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🌎 Web Applications
- Wormhole - End-to-End Encrypted temporary File Sharing.
- TempMail - Get free temporary emails.
- Pi7 Image Compressor - Variable size image compressor.
- Sejda - Okay-ish PDF editor but with feature to edit PDF contents.
- ILovePDF - My go to PDF Editor of choice.
- Markdown Live Preview - Online Markdown editor.
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