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My humble attempts to collect all great pieces of software I use, recommend, or know about
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My humble attempts to collect all great pieces of software I use, recommend, or know about
Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/Himura2la/awesome-soft
Owner: Himura2la
Created: 2018-03-25T08:55:25.000Z (over 6 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2024-05-23T07:36:56.000Z (7 months ago)
Last Synced: 2024-05-23T08:45:06.943Z (7 months ago)
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Watchers: 2
Forks: 4
Open Issues: 1
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- Readme: README.md
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Tools matter


# Awesome Free Software

### The ultimate guide to quit pirating

## Audio/Video

Name | Type | Platform | Popular Alternative

---- | ---- | -------- | -------------------

[DaVinci Resolve](https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/ru/products/davinciresolve/) | Video&Audio editor (All-in-One) | Lin, Mac, Win | Vegas/Premiere + After Effects + Audition + SpeedGrade

[HitFilm Express](https://hitfilm.com/express/) | Video&VFX editor | **Mac, Win** | Vegas/Premiere + After Effects

**[Kdenlive](https://kdenlive.org/)**, [Shotcut](https://shotcut.org), [Olive](https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/), [OpenShot](https://www.openshot.org/), [Flowblade](https://jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/), [Pitivi](https://www.pitivi.org/) | Other FOSS video editors | Lin, Mac, Win | Movie Maker

[Ardour](https://ardour.org/), [LMMS](https://lmms.io/), [qtractor](https://qtractor.sourceforge.io/) | Digital Audio Workstation | Lin, Mac, Win | Audition in a multi-track mode, FL Studio

[JACK](http://jackaudio.org/) | Sound server (great with Ardour) | Lin Mac, Win | Many sound cards + hardware mixer

[Calf Studio Gear](https://calf-studio-gear.org/) | Audio plug-in pack (great with Ardour) | Lin, Mac | Random VST Plugins

[ocenaudio](https://www.ocenaudio.com/) | A perfect single-track audio editor | Lin, Mac, Win | Audition in a single-track mode

[Resonic Player](https://resonic.at/) | A perfect audio player, analyzer and organizer | Win | -

[VLC](https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.ru.html) | The ultimate media player | Lin, Mac, Win | Many of them

[MPC-BE](https://mpcbe.sourceforge.io/) | Old classic Media Player | Win | VLC

[OBS Studio](https://obsproject.com/) | Live video production software with unlimited capabilities | Lin, Mac, Win | -

[HandBrake](https://handbrake.fr) | The ultimate video converter | Lin, Mac, Win | Tons of ugly and greedy shareware

**[NATRON](https://natrongithub.github.io)**, [enve](https://maurycyliebner.github.io/) | 2D animation, VFX, and Motion Graphics | Lin, Win | After Effects

[ossia score](https://ossia.io/) | Intermedia sequencer (for live shows and media installations) | Lin, Mac, Win | Touchdesigner

[Q Light Controller Plus](https://www.qlcplus.org) | DMX Controller Software (live stage lightning) | Lin, Mac, Win | Sunlite Suite

[OpenToonz](https://morevnaproject.org/opentoonz/) | 2D Animation software | Lin, Mac, Win | Adobe Animate

[LosslessCut](https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut) | FFmpeg GUI for lossless operations | Lin, Mac, Win | CLI ffmpeg

[Pedalboard2](https://github.com/lrq3000/Pedalboard2) | VST plugin host for live processing | Lin, Mac, Win | OBS Studio

[cobalt](https://github.com/imputnet/cobalt) | YouTube downloader | Web | youtube-dl

## Imaging/Design/Foto

Name | Specifics | Platform | Popular Alternative

---- | --------- | -------- | -------------------

[blender](https://www.blender.org/) | Widely appreciated 3D tool | Lin, Mac, Win | 3ds Max

[GIMP](gimp.org) | It's awesome when you use shortcuts | Lin, Mac, Win | Photoshop

[darktable](https://www.darktable.org/), [RawTherapee](https://rawtherapee.com/) | Raw photos developing toolset | Lin, Mac, Win | Lightroom

[Hugin](http://hugin.sourceforge.net/) | The best panorama photo stitcher ever | Lin, Mac, Win | Many of them

[Inkscape](https://inkscape.org/en/) | Vector editor for creative drawings | Lin, Mac, Win | CorelDRAW

[LibreOffice Draw](https://libreoffice.org/), [Karbon](https://calligra.org/karbon/) | Simple vector editors for technical drawing | Lin, Mac, Win | CorelDRAW

[Krita](https://krita.org/en/) | Digital painting made free | Lin, Mac, Win | SAI

[Synfig Studio](https://www.synfig.org/) | 2D animation software | Lin, Mac, Win | Adobe Animate (former Flash)

[FontBase](https://fontba.se/) | Font Manager | Lin, Mac, Win | -

[FastStone Image Viewer](http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDownload.htm) | Ultimate | **Win** | ACDSee, IrfanView

[Excalidraw](https://excalidraw.com/) | Whiteboard | Web | Microsoft Whiteboard, diagrams.net

## Plain Text Editors

Name | Specifics | Platform | Popular Alternative

---- | --------- | -------- | -------------------

[Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/) | Ultimate | Lin, Mac, Win | Sublime Text

[Lite XL](https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl) | Light and Fast | Lin, Win | `notepad.exe`, AkelPad, leafpad, lite

[Vim](https://www.vim.org/download.php) | It seems hard unless you try ([my .vimrc](https://gitlab.com/himura/env/-/blob/master/.vimrc)) | Lin, Mac, Win | Neovim

[HackMD](https://hackmd.io/) | Online & Collaborative | Web | Google Docs

## Language/Writing

Name | Specifics | Platform | Popular Alternative

---- | --------- | -------- | -------------------

[LanguageTool](https://languagetool.org/) | Good spell checker | All | Many

[Emojipedia](https://emojipedia.org/objects/) | Emoji search engine | Web | -

[Glosbe](https://glosbe.com/) | Dictionary with usage examples | Web | -

[Thesaurus.com](http://thesaurus.com) | Synonims search engine | Web | -

[LaTeX](https://www.latex-project.org/) | Believe me, it worth learning | Lin, Mac, Win | Microsoft Office

[LibreOffice](https://libreoffice.org/) | Quite a robust office suite | Lin, Mac, Win | Microsoft Office

[DeepL](https://www.deepl.com) | AI translator | Web | Google Translate

## Developer Tools

Name | Specifics | Platform | Popular Alternative

---- | --------- | -------- | -------------------

[GCC](https://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/) | The compiler that changed the industry | Any | Visual Studio, LLVM

[Regex101](https://regex101.com/) | Regular expressions debugger | Web | Your language's debugger

[GitLab](https://gitlab.com) | Raise your own internal GitHub-like service! | Web | GitHub

[tig](http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/) | Text-based UI for Git | Lin, Mac (CLI) | -

[Fork](https://git-fork.com/) | GUI for Git | **Mac, Win** | Git Extensions, SourceTree

[GitKraken](https://www.gitkraken.com/) | GUI for Git (free for home and opensource) | Lin, Mac, Win | Git Extensions, SourceTree

[P4Merge](https://www.perforce.com/products/helix-core-apps/merge-diff-tool-p4merge), [DiffMerge](http://www.sourcegear.com/diffmerge/index.html) | Diff/Merge Tool | Lin, Mac, Win | KDiff3, WinMerge

[git-filter-repo](https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo) | Rewrite the whole Git history | Python | `git-filter-branch`, BFG Repo-Cleaner

[tldr](https://tldr.sh/) | `man` in a nutshell | Web, CLI | `man`

[explainshell](https://www.explainshell.com/) | Explanation to any shell command | Web | `man`

[Data Converter](https://conv.darkbyte.ru/) | Text, Bin, Dec, Hex, Base64, Hash sums | Web | Hand-made tools

[DB Browser for SQLite](http://sqlitebrowser.org/) | A quick and easy way to use SQL | Lin, Mac, Win | -

[PM2 Runtime](https://pm2.io/runtime/) | Production Process Manager for Node.js | NodeJS | SystemD or Docker

[Partition Wizard](https://www.partitionwizard.com/) | Free Partition Manager for Windows | **Win** | Many

[ptpython](https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/ptpython/) | A better Python REPL | Python | `python`

[Podman](https://podman.io/) | Docker done right (with backward compatibility) | Lin, Mac, Win | Docker

[Ansible](https://www.ansible.com/) | Describe and maintain the state of your servers | Lin, Mac, Win | bash scripts

[Nomad](https://www.nomadproject.io/) | Orchestration the Easy Way | Lin, Mac, Win | Kubernetes

[Diffy](https://diffy.org/) | Online diff-file viewer (`diff -ur ./d1 ./d2 > d.txt`) | Web | git + GitLab or GitHub

[Flutter](https://flutter.dev/) | Next generation of cross-platform development. Dart is awesome. | Lin, Mac, Win | PhoneGap

[Turndown](https://mixmark-io.github.io/turndown/) | HTML to Markdown converter | Web | pandoc

[Google Colab](https://colab.research.google.com) | [Free](https://research.google.com/colaboratory/faq.html) computing resources (including GPUs) | Python, Web

[ShredOS](https://github.com/PartialVolume/shredos.x86_64) | Wipe all of your disks | bootable x86/x64 | ?

[Nomad](https://www.nomadproject.io/) | A simple orchestrator that you can manage yourself | Web | k8s

[Jupyter](https://jupyter.org/) | Python notebook | Any | Python Interactive CLI

[Harbor](https://goharbor.io/) | Container registry | Containers | Docker Registry, ACR

[CustomTkinter](https://github.com/TomSchimansky/CustomTkinter) | Python GUI Library | Python | wxPython, tcl/tk

[Kivy](https://kivy.org/gallery.html) | Python GUI Library | Python | PyQt

[csvkit](https://csvkit.readthedocs.io) | Treat CSV files as database tables | Python | -

[mosh](https://mosh.org/) | SSH client for long-distance and unstable links | Lin, Mac, Win | ssh+tmux

## Engineering

Name | Specifics | Platform | Popular Alternative

---- | --------- | -------- | -------------------

[FreeCAD](https://www.freecadweb.org/) | The 3D CAD | Lin, Mac, Win | SolidWorks

[SolveSpace](https://solvespace.com/) | The parametric 3D CAD | Lin, Mac, Win | SolidWorks

[BRL‑CAD](https://brlcad.org/), [OpenSCAD](https://openscad.org/) | Extremely hard. Don't even try. | Lin, Mac, Win | -

[LibreCAD](https://librecad.org/), [QCAD](https://www.qcad.org/) | The 2D CADs | Lin, Mac, Win | AutoCAD

[KiCad](http://kicad-pcb.org/) | The EDA | Lin, Mac, Win | P-CAD, Altium Designer, EAGLE, DipTrace

[bCNC](https://github.com/vlachoudis/bCNC) | The ultimate GRBL CNC tool on tcl/tk | Lin, Mac, Win | Many

## Utilites

Name | Specifics | Platform | Popular Alternative

---- | --------- | -------- | -------------------

[FreeFileSync](https://freefilesync.org) | Nice and friendly file synchronizer (mostly for backuping) | Lin, Mac, Win | -

[Tixati](https://www.tixati.com), [qBittorrent](https://www.qbittorrent.org/) | Awesome no-ad torrent clients | Lin, Win | μTorrent

[KeePass](https://www.keepassx.org/) | Secure password manager | Lin, Mac, Win, Android | Paper?

[Bitwarden](https://bitwarden.com/) | Convenient password manager | Lin, Mac, Win, Android | KeePass

[7-Zip](https://www.7-zip.org/) | The best archiver | Lin, Win | WinRAR

[WizTree](https://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wiztree-finds-the-files-and-folders-using-the-most-disk-space-on-your-hard-drive/) | Disk space analyzer | **Win** | Folder Size

[GParted](https://gparted.org/) | Partition manager | Lin, Mac, Win | [MiniTool Partition Wizard](https://www.partitionwizard.com/download.html)

[Clonezilla](http://www.clonezilla.org/) | SSD Migration software | Lin, Mac, Win | [Macrium Reflect](https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree), [EaseUS Todo Backup Free](https://www.easeus.com/backup-software/tb-free.html)

[fixparts](http://www.rodsbooks.com/fixparts/) | Converts primary partition to logical | Lin, Mac, Win | [EaseUS Partition Master](https://www.easeus.com/partition-manager/epm-free.html)

[SVGOMG!](https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg) | Cleans up the SVG markup | Web | -

[RustDesk](https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk) | Remote desktop | Lin, Mac, Win, Android | TeamViewer, AnyDesk

[awfice](https://github.com/zserge/awfice) | Simple browser-based office apps | Web Browser | -

[Element](https://element.io), [Mattermost](https://mattermost.com/), [Rocket.Chat](https://rocket.chat/), [Zulip](https://zulip.com/) | Collaboration software | All | Slack, Teams

[Joplin](https://joplinapp.org/) | Notes | All | Evernote

[Tor Browser](https://www.torproject.org/download/) | Slow, but very secure anonymizer | Lin, Mac, Win, Android | VPNs

[Syncthing](https://syncthing.net/) | Continuous file synchronization program | Lin, Mac, Win, Android | rsync

[Home Assistant](https://www.home-assistant.io/) | A single place for all smart home automation | - | Mi Home

[WingetUI](https://github.com/marticliment/WingetUI) | Keep your apps always updated | Win | MS Store

[yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) | It works! | Python | A youtube-dl fork

[Jitsi](https://jitsi.org/) / [Jitsi Meet](https://meet.jit.si/) | FLOSS Video Conference Service | Web | Zoom, Google Meet

[is.gd](https://is.gd/) | Link Shortener | Web | former goo.gl

## Browser Extensions

Name | Specifics | Platform

---- | --------- | --------

[uBlock Origin](https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#installation) | A general-purpose blocker | Fox, Chrm

[I don't care about cookies](https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/) | Clean more useless shit from the Internet | Fox, Chrm

[Dark Reader](https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader#dark-reader-for-google-chrome-and-mozilla-firefox) | Dark mode for any page | Fox, Chrm

[LanguageTool](https://languagetool.org/#firefox_chrome) | Spell Checker | Fox, Chrm

[Stylus](https://github.com/openstyles/stylus/#releases) | Userstyles manager | Fox, Chrm

[Tampermonkey](https://www.tampermonkey.net/) | Userscript manager | Fox, Chrm

[To Google Translate](https://github.com/itsecurityco/to-google-translate) | Quick translatioon tool | Fox

[Link Text and Location Copier](https://github.com/evilnickname/link-text-location-copier) | Copy text linked to current page | Fox

[VkOpt](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VkOpt/VkOpt/master/builds/vkopt_script.user.js) | VKontakte Optimizer | Tampermonkey

## Cool Hardware

Name | Specifics | Software

---- | --------- | --------

[Omega2](https://onion.io/omega2/) | The cheapest Linux platform | OpenWRT-based Linux

[ESP8266](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP8266) | The cheapest MCU with Wi-Fi | [MicroPython](https://micropython.org/), Lua, Arduino, and more

[C.H.I.P.](https://getchip.com/) (R.I.P.) | A better Raspberry Pi | Debian-based Linux

[MAX9814](https://ebay.to/2RzuxGU) | Microphone preamp | USB

[SoloKeys](https://solokeys.com/) | Opensource FIDO2 keys | YubiKey, Authenticator app, SMS

## [Apps I Use On The Go](Android.md)

## Other Stuff

* [The Book of Secret Knowledge](https://github.com/trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge)

* [More ![Awesome](https://awesome.re/badge-flat.svg) Software](https://awesome.re)

  * [More Awesome Linux Software](https://github.com/luong-komorebi/Awesome-Linux-Software)

  * [More awesome software by language](https://github.com/lk-geimfari/awesomo)

* [More Free Services](https://habrahabr.ru/post/271279/) (Russian)

* [My Cheatsheets](https://gitlab.com/himura/cheatsheets)