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Linux Software

Applications

Audio

For a more comprehensive/advanced/better categorized/... list of Linux audio software, you may want to click here

Edit-Mix-Record

Music Player

Radio

Utilities

Chat Clients

3rd Party Client

All-in-One Client

Chat Client Utilities

IRC Client

Official Client

Data Backup and Recovery

  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Back In Time - A simple backup tool for Linux, inspired by "flyback project".
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] BorgBackup - A deduplicating backup program with compression and authenticated encryption.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] bup - Very efficient backup system based on the git packfile format, providing fast incremental saves and global deduplication (among and within files, including virtual machine images).
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Deja Dup - A simple backup tool with built-in encryption.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Duplicacy - Duplicacy is a new generation cross-platform cloud backup tool based on the idea of Lock-Free Deduplication. CLI version is free for personal use and is open-source, GUI and commercial use require licensing.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Duplicity - Duplicity does directory backups by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploading them to a remote or local file server.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] FreeFileSync - FreeFileSync is a folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files. Instead of copying every file every time, FreeFileSync determines the differences between a source and a target folder and transfers only the minimum amount of data needed.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Kopia - Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Photorec - PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Pika Backup - Pika Backup is designed to save your personal data and does not support complete system recovery. Pika Backup is powered by the well-tested BorgBackup software.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Qt-fsarchiver - Qt-fsarchiver is a GUI for the fsarchiver program to save/restore partitions, folders and even the MBR/GPT table. The program is for systems based on Debian, OpenSuse or Fedora.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] rclone - Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from various cloud storage solutions. It also allows encrypted backups.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] restic - restic is a backup program that is fast, efficient and secure. It supports the three major operating systems (Linux, macOS, Windows) and a few smaller ones (FreeBSD, OpenBSD).
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] rsnapshot - rsnapshot is a command line utility based on rsync to make periodic snapshots of local/remote machines. The code makes extensive use of hard links whenever possible to greatly reduce the disk space required.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] System Rescue CD - SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Test Disk - TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Timeshift - TimeShift is a system restore utility which takes incremental snapshots of the system using rsync and hard-links. These snapshots can be restored at a later date to undo all changes that were made to the system after the snapshot was taken. Snapshots can be taken manually or at regular intervals using scheduled jobs. Nowadays Timeshift is part of the Xapp project which is a collection of cross-DE and cross-distributions applications which are maintained by Linux-Mint.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Vorta - Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. It integrates the mighty BorgBackup with your desktop environment to protect your data from disk failure, ransomware and theft.

Desktop Customization

Desktop Icon Packs

Desktop Themes

Desktop Widgets and Theme Utilities

Development

Android

C++

Database

  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Cassandra - Apache Cassandra database is the right choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising performance. Linear scalability and proven fault-tolerance on commodity hardware or cloud infrastructure make it the perfect platform for mission-critical data.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] CouchDB - Seamless multi-master sync, that scales from Big Data to Mobile, with an Intuitive HTTP/JSON API and designed for Reliability.
  • DataGrip - DataGrip is a cross-platform IDE that is aimed at DBAs and developers working with SQL databases. It has built-in drivers that support DB2, Derby, H2, HSQLDB, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Sqlite and Sybase.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] DBeaver - A universal database client supporting multiple platforms and databases.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Kexi - Kexi is an open source visual database applications creator, a long-awaited competitor for programs like MS Access or Filemaker.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] MariaDB - One of the most popular database servers. Made by the original developers of MySQL.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] MongoDB - MongoDB is a free and open-source cross-platform document-oriented database program, uses JSON-like documents with schemas.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] MyCLI - MyCLI is a command line interface for MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona with auto-completion and syntax highlighting.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] MySQL - MySQL is the world's leading open source database thanks to its proven performance, reliability and ease-of-use. It is used by high profile web properties including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo! and many more.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] MySQL Workbench - MySQL Workbench is a unified visual tool for database architects, developers, and DBAs. MySQL Workbench provides data modeling, SQL development, and comprehensive administration tools for server configuration, user administration, backup, and much more.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] OmniDB - Browser-based tool that visually create, manage, and view databases.
  • ![Non Free][money icon] OracleDB - Object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation, one of the most trusted and widely-used relational database engines.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Percona MongoDB - Percona Server for MongoDB provides all features and benefits of MongoDB Community Server.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Percona Monitoring - Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB performance. You can run PMM in your own environment for maximum security and reliability. It provides thorough time-based analysis for MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB servers to ensure that your data works as efficiently as possible.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Percona MySQL - Percona Server for MySQL is a free, fully compatible, enhanced, open source drop-in replacement for MySQL that provides superior performance, scalability and instrumentation.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Percona XtraDB Cluster - Percona XtraDB Cluster is an active/active high availability and high scalability open source solution for MySQL clustering. It integrates Percona Server and Percona XtraBackup with the Codership Galera library of MySQL high availability solutions in a single package that enables you to create a cost-effective MySQL high availability cluster.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] pgcli - Pgcli is a command line interface for Postgres with auto-completion and syntax highlighting.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] PostgreSQL - PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system with more than 15 year development. PostgreSQL is not controlled by any corporation or other private entity and the source code is available free of charge.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Sqlite - SQLite is an in-process library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Sqlite Browser - Visually create, manage, and view sqlite database files.

Game Engines

Git

Golang

Java

Javascript

  • ![Non Free][money icon] Webstorm - Powerful IDE for modern JavaScript development, made by JetBrains.

Microcomputer and Embedded Devices

Multiple Languages Support

PHP

  • ![Nonfree][money icon] PHPStorm - Lightning-smart and powerful PHP IDE from Jetbrains.

Python

Shell

Supporting Tools

E-Book Utilities

Editors

Integrated Development Environment inspired / Common User Access based

Modal editors & derivatives

Other editors

Education

Email

File Manager

Games

City Building Simulation

Command Line

Engine Re-creations (require the actual game)

FPS

Miscellaneous

Puzzle

Racing

RPG

RTS

Sandbox

  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Mcpelauncher - Unoffical Open-source launcher for Minecraft: Bedrock edition.
  • ![Nonfree][money icon] Minecraft - Minecraft is a game about placing blocks and going on adventures. Explore randomly generated worlds and build amazing things from the simplest of homes to the grandest of castles.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Minetest - Open-source Minecraft written in C++ (uses less resources) and includes modding API.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] MultiMC - MultiMC is an alternative launcher for Minecraft. It allows you to have multiple, cleanly separated instances of Minecraft (each with their own mods, resource packs, saves, etc) and helps you manage them and their associated options with a simple and powerful interface.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] PolyMC - An Open Source Minecraft launcher with the ability to manage multiple instances, accounts and mods. Focused on user freedom and free redistributability.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Prism Launcher - A custom launcher for Minecraft that allows you to easily manage multiple installations of Minecraft at once (Fork of MultiMC and PolyMC).

Shooter

Turn Based Strategy

Gaming Applications

Launchers
Tools
W.I.N.E.

Machine Emulators

All-in-One
Atari
Microsoft
Nintendo
Sony
ZX Spectrum

Graphics

Graphic Creation

Image Editor

Image Management

Miscellaneous

PSD, Sketch Inspection

  • ![Nonfree][money icon] Avocode - Avocode - Share and inspect Photoshop and Sketch designs in a heart beat.

Screen Recorder

Screenshot

Streaming

Video Editor

Internet

Browser

Supportive Tool

Web Service Client

Office

Accounting

Office Suites

LaTeX

Markdown

Novel Writing

Productivity

Automation

Dock

Miscellaneous

Note Taking

Time and Task

Time and Usage Tracker

Widget and Indicator

Proxy

Security

Boot Integrity

  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Mortar - Mortar allows for convenient automatic unlocking of LUKS-encrypted disks without sacrificing security through the use of Secureboot and TPM validation. Mortar aims to be distribution-agnostic.

Compartmentalization

Firewall

Password Manager

Other

Sharing Files

Cloud Drive

Download Manager

File Sharing

Remote Desktop

Torrent Client

Terminal

Utilities

Disk Utilities

System Maintenance

System Monitoring

Other

Video

VPN

  • ![Nonfree][money icon]CyberGhost - CyberGhost VPN allows you to surf the Internet freely, as if in disguise, regardless of the type of application you use and from where you log in.
  • ![Nonfree][money icon]ExpressVPN - ExpressVPN is the worlds fastest VPN service. It is both safe and reliable to watch and stream movies abroad, or simply access your favourite sites.
  • ![Nonfree][money icon]IVPN - IVPN offers a secure VPN service to privacy minded individuals including multi-hop technology and fast bandwidth.
  • ![Nonfree][money icon]![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Mozilla VPN - Protect your web history, feel safer on public Wi-Fi, and limit ad tracking by increasing the security of your network connection.
  • ![Nonfree][money icon]![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Mullvad - Mullvad is a VPN service that helps keep your online activity, identity, and location private.
  • ![Nonfree][money icon]NordVPN - NordVPN gives you military-grade protection online, and you can access all your favorite sites without restriction.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] OpenVPN - OpenVPN is a virtual private network (VPN) system that implements techniques to create secure point-to-point or site-to-site connections in routed or bridged configurations and remote access facilities. It implements both client and server applications.
  • ![Nonfree][money icon]![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Private Internet Access - Private Internet Access provides state of the art, multi-layered security with advanced privacy protection using VPN tunneling.
  • ![Nonfree][money icon]![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ProtonVPN - High-speed Swiss VPN that safeguards your privacy.
  • ![Nonfree][money icon]PureVPN - PureVPN is much more than your usual VPN services provider. It offers unparalleled security and anonymity, making it your only choice for a secure online browsing experience.
  • ![Nonfree][money icon]Surfshark - All you need in a VPN and more in one easy-to-use app.
  • ![Nonfree][money icon]![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Tailscale - Tailscale is a WireGuard-based app that makes secure, private networks easy for teams of any scale.
  • ![Nonfree][money icon]![Open-Source Software][oss icon] Windscribe - Browse the web privately as it was meant to be.
  • ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] WireGuard - WireGuard is an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPsec, while avoiding the massive headache.

Wiki Software

Others

Command Line Utilities

Internet

System Info / Monitoring

Tools

Custom Linux Kernels

Desktop Environments

Display manager

Console

Graphic

Window Managers

Compositors

Stacking Window Managers

Tiling Window Managers

Dynamic Window Managers

Linux News, Apps, and more:

Reddit

Windows

Applications

Audio

  • AIMP - 32 bit audio processing and multi-format playback. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Audacity - Free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • AudioNodes - Modular audio production suite with multi-track audio mixing, audio effects, parameter automation, MIDI editing, synthesis, cloud production, and more. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • CDex - CD Ripper (French site, English program). ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Dopamine - An audio player which tries to make organizing and listening to music as simple and pretty as possible. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Exact Audio Copy - Transfer files from your CDs to your PC in almost every format.Comes with some pretty nifty features too.
  • Foobar2000 - Free audio player for Windows, supports a wide range of audio formats and has a lot of cool features. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • K-Lite Codecs - Collection of DirectShow filters, VFW/ACM codecs, and tools. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Kodi - Free and Open Source home theatre software. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Mixxx - Free DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes, veritable alternative to Traktor. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Musicbee - Like iTunes but better than iTunes.
  • MusicBrainz Picard - Picard is a cross-platform music tagger that looks up and rewrite metadata tags. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Qtractor - An Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Reaper - Lightweight application with deep feature set and $60 for individual, non-profit, or small business use.
  • Resonic - Fast and free audio player.
  • WACUP - An extension/improvement to Winamp, providing bugfixes and more features such as a better MOD player and YouTube support. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
  • Winamp - Music player capable of playing MP3s, MP2s, WAVs, VOCs and MIDI files. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]

Chat Clients

Compression

  • 7-Zip - Open source Windows utility for manipulating archives. Formats 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR are supported fully, other formats can be unpacked. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Bandizip - A lightweight, fast and free All-In-One Zip Archiver. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • PeaZip - Archiver and file compressor. Extract 7Z CAB ISO RAR TAR ZIP archive files. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Riot - Compress images either by file size or by many other image attributes. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • WinRAR - A powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files.

Customization

Data Recovery

  • Data Rescue - Comprehensive and professional Hard drive recovery software that can recover your photos, videos, documents.
  • Ontrach EasyRecovery - Has filtering tools to help sort the large amount of data the software can recover.
  • PartitionGuru Eassos Recovery - Data recovery with partition recovery. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Recuva - Recover your deleted files quickly and easily.
  • Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery - Remote recovery option to recover data from another computer over a network.
  • TestDisk - Powerful free data recovery software primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again.

Developer Tools

Documents

E-Book Utilities

  • Bookviser - Awesome application for Windows 8 devices to read eBooks in a simple way. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Calibre - Powerful software for e-book management and conversion. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • kobo - Incredibly ugly but powerful software for ebook management and conversion. ![Freeware][freeware icon]

Email

Games

  • 0 A.D. - A free, open-source real-time strategy game of ancient warfare. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Awesome Games - List of games hosted on Github. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Freeciv - A Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Godot Engine - Free and open source game engine. Easy to get started and flexible for intermediate users. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • GOG - DRM-free game store with a lot of old games but also has a rich collection of new games.
  • Itch.io - Install, update and play indie games. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
  • Origin - Like Steam, but for EA.
  • Steam - Largest online video game retailer. Desktop app allows you to organise your library of games and play them at any time. But you already knew that.
  • Unity - Free game engine. Easy to pick up and use with a number of tutorials.
  • Unreal Engine - Another free game engine. Lots of documentation and easier to pick up, but you pay 5% royalties to Unreal when you make money from UE-based games.
  • Warsow - Free & fast-paced FPS game for Windows. ![Freeware][freeware icon]

Graphics

Text Editors

IDEs

Online Storage

  • Box - Ability to sync more than 100,000 files and supporting both special characters in file names and file paths longer than 256 characters.
  • Dropbox -Simple, elegant and versatile (PC, Macs, Android...) cloud storage solution.
  • Google Drive - Cloud storage solution deeply integrated in the Google ecosystem.
  • pCloud - A swiss based privacy first cloud provider. Also offers one time payment lifetime plans.
  • Sync - Encrypted file storage that stores all files in canadian datacenters
  • Mega - Encrypted file storage.
  • Mozy
  • OneDrive - Best cloud storage solution for Windows users.

Backup

  • Arq - Backs up your files to your own cloud account (Amazon Cloud Drive, AWS, Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Cloud Storage, OneDrive, and SFTP).
  • Bvckup 2 - Light, versatile data replication software.
  • Duplicati - Free backup software to store encrypted backups online For Windows, macOS and Linux. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]

Productivity

  • Aperture Control - Windows environment automation tool with a number of premade recipes and examples available. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • AutoHotkey - The ultimate automation scripting language for Windows. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Chocolatey - A package manager for Windows.
  • Cold Turkey - The only blocker for distracting websites that actually works. (even doesn't let you uninstall it when blocking is active).
  • CommandTrayHost - A Command Line program monitor systray for Windows. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • CopyQ - Clipboard manager with advanced features. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Ditto - Clipboard manager.
  • Easy Window Switcher - Switch between application instances, fast.
  • Everything - The fastest file/folder search tool by name.
  • Executor.dk - A free multi purpose customizable and light-weight launcher. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • f.lux - Automatically adjust your computer screen to match lighting. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • File Juggler - Organize files automatically. Monitor folders and execute actions like rename, delete, unzip and more. Finds dates in PDFs and much more.
  • Inkdrop - The note-taking app for Markdown lovers.
  • KatMouse - Utility that enables "universal scrolling" in Windows: scrolling does not need the window to be active/clicked first (i.e. how it works in macOS and Linux) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Keypirinha - A fast launcher for keyboard ninjas on Windows. You can think of Keypirinha as an alternative to Launchy and a cousin of Alfred. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Launchy - The Open Source Keystroke Launcher. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Listary - Keep files at your fingertips. An unique search utility.
  • Luna - Automatic dark mode for Windows 10.
  • MultiCommander - File Manager for Professionals. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Ninite - The easiest, fastest way to update or install software. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • One Commander - File manager featuring miller columns and dual-pane views. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Simplenote - Simple cross-platform note taking app with cloud-based syncing. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Taskade - Smart task lists with real-time cross-platform syncing and team collaboration. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Total Commander - The best file manager for Windows.
  • WordWeb - A very good English dictionary for windows. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Wox - An effective launcher for windows. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]

Terminal

Utilities

  • A-Z of Windows Terminal Commands
  • Acrosync - The only native rsync client for Windows (no cygwin required). It supports automatic uploads on file changes and incremental hourly backups.
  • AddToSendTo - This script lets you add your favorite Folder to Send To option, when you right-click. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon]
  • Advanced Renamer - Advanced batch renaming program, with support for renaming based on GPS data from images, ID3 tags from music files, TV show data and regular expressions. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Bandicam - Recording software allowing easy video recording of both desktop and 3D apps simultaneously.
  • Carnac - The easiest way to record keystrokes during any screen recording.
  • CleanMyPC - A clean computer in no time.
  • CPU-Z - A free all-in-one CPU monitoring tool. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Econap - Prevent sleep mode while your system is busy. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Ext2Fsd - Open source ext3/4 file system driver for Windows. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • ExifCleaner - Remove exif metadata from images and videos with drag and drop. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Far - File and Archive manager. Clone of the Norton Commander. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon]
  • FileOptimizer - A lossless file size optimizer supporting a wide array of formats.
  • Fraps- Video game capture screen recorder that can be used with all games using DirectX or OpenGL technology.
  • FreeFileSync - An easy backup solution for files and folders, It supports mirroring/two way sync/update between source and destination.
  • fselect - Command-line tool to search files with SQL-like queries.
  • Glary Utilities - Provides many more advanced features which are non existent in ccleaner.
  • GPU-Z - A free all-in-one GPU monitoring tool. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Greenshot - Take and crop screenshots directly on the screen. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon]
  • HTTrack- Offline browser utility, allowing you to download a website from the Internet to a local directory. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon]
  • HWMonitor - A hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors : voltages, temperatures, fans speed.
  • IrfanView - A very fast, small, compact and innovative graphic viewer for Windows.
  • LICEcap - Animated screen captures and save them directly to .GIF
  • LightBulb - Reduces eyestrain by adjusting gamma based on the current time
  • Link Shell Extension - Create symlinks from Explorer.
  • PowerPlanSwitcher - Provides a quick UI for switching power schemas & automatic switch on AC-plug-in on Windows10. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon]
  • Process Explorer - Discover which program has a particular file or directory open. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.
  • qBittorrent - Free and reliable P2P Bittorrent client.
  • Retroshare - A platform for secure communications and file sharing between friends. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon]
  • rimraf - A deep deletion module for node. Help to delete files and folders with very long paths
  • Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way.
  • SDelete - A command line utility that can securely delete a file, or clean the slack space.
  • SetToStartup - This script will help you to add your favorite programs or self made scripts/folders to startup. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
  • ShareX- Lets you take screenshots or screencasts of any selected area with a single key. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
  • Snipping Tool / Snip & Sketch - Windows 10 utility to easily capture and edit selected area in screen.
  • SDelete - A command line utility that can securely delete a file, or clean the slack space.
  • SetToStartup - This script will help you to add your favorite programs or self made scripts/folders to startup. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon]
  • ShareX- Lets you take screenshots or screencasts of any selected area with a single key. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • SpaceMonger - A graphical utility to display folders and files in blocks relative to their disk usage.
  • Speccy -Detailed statistics on every piece of hardware in your computer.
  • SpeedCrunch - The best and only calculator you'll need, completely stripped down of unnecessary UI clutter. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
  • Sysinternals Suite - Tool suite by Mark Russinovich that provides access to Windows internals for troubleshooting: processes, physical ports, disk activity etc.
  • ueli - A powerful keystroke launcher for Windows.
  • SpeedCrunch - The best and only calculator you'll need, completely stripped down of unnecessary UI clutter. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Sysinternals Suite - Tool suite by Mark Russinovich that provides access to Windows internals for troubleshooting: processes, physical ports, disk activity etc.
  • Unlocker - Unlock files Windows won't let you delete
  • Waltr - Transfer any movie or music file to your iPhone w/o iTunes.
  • WinDirStat - It is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup too.
  • Windows 10 Login Screen Changer - Changes the Windows 10 Login Screen Background. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon]
  • winreg-cli - Command line tool with a fluent API for modifying Windows registry. [Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • WizTree - Excellent, small utility application allows users to quickly find large files on a hard drive. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Yacy - A general search engine by corporations of people, including the search web page, general crawlers, indexing, and ranking functions.![Open-Source Software][oss icon]
  • ZeroNet - A decentralized web. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon]
  • ZoomIt - It is a screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations. It runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image.

Proxy and VPN Tools

  • Algo - Personal IPSEC VPN in the cloud.

Video

Setup

Windows 10 Setup

Windows 8.1 Setup

Security

  • Acrylic DNS Proxy - A local DNS proxy which caches the responses coming from your DNS servers and helps you fight unwanted ads through a custom HOSTS file. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • AdwCleaner - Free removal tool for adware, PUP/LPI, Toolbars and Hijacker. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Bitdefender - Best outright protection against malware.
  • Cryptomator - Free client-side encryption for your cloud files. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Disable Data Logging - Make Windows 10 more private and safe. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • ENCRYPTO - Encrypt your files in an elegant way. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • GlassWire - Network security monitoring tool and analyzer that visualizes your network activity.
  • IIS Crypto - A utility for configuring encryption protocols, cyphers, hashing methods, and key exchanges for Windows components (eg TLS/AES/SHA for Remote Desktop)
  • KeePass - Free, open-source, easy-to-use password manager. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Malwarebytes - protects from dangerous threats that antivirus doesn't. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • NetLimiter - Internet traffic control and monitoring tool. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • SpyBot - Search and destroy malware, spyware and viruses. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • System Explorer - An enhanced task manager with support for monitoring and modifying system processes, start-up programs, system services, drivers, shell extensions, and more.
  • Tor Project - Enable anonymous communication. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • UnChecky - automatically unchecks unrelated offers from installers.
  • VeraCrypt - VeraCrypt is a free open source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon]
  • Viscosity - Fully-featured OpenVPN client, ready for enterprise deployment. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Windows 10 Paranoid's Guide

Reddit

MacOS

Applications

Audio

  • Audio Hijack - Record audio from any application like iTunes, Skype or Safari, or from hardware devices like microphones and mixers.
  • Audio Profile Manager - Allows you to pin input/output devices for each particular combination of connected devices. May suppress HDMI displays from being chosen.
  • BackgroundMusic - Record system audio, control audio levels for individual apps, and automatically pauses your music player when other audio starts playing and unpauses it afterwards. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
  • krisp - AI-powered app that removes background noise and echo from meetings leaving only human voice.
  • Plug - Discover and listen to music from Hype Machine. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
  • Recordia - Record audio directly from the menu bar or with a global keyboard shortcut.
  • VOX Player - Play numerous lossy and lossless audio formats.
  • XLD - Rip/Decode/convert/play various "lossless" audio files. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]

Backup

  • Arq - Encrypted backups to Amazon, Dropbox, Google, OneDrive, etc.
  • Carbon Copy Cloner - Create incremental and fully bootable backups of your Mac to external storage.

Chat Clients

Data Recovery

  • Data Rescue - Comprehensive and professional data recovery for a multitude of scenarios.
  • DiskWarrior - Recover from filesystem corruptions when Disk Utility is out of options.

Developers

E-Book Utilities

Editors

Email Utilities

  • Airmail - Lightning fast email client designed for El Capitan.
  • MailMate - Advanced IMAP email client, featuring extensive keyboard control and Markdown support.
  • Mailplane - A tightly integreted client for Google Mail, Inbox, Calender, and Contacts.

Finder

  • ForkLift - File Manager and FTP/SFTP/WebDAV/Amazon S3 client.
  • Path Finder - A powerful dual-pane browser alternative to Finder.
  • Quicklook-Plugins - List of extra quicklook plugins to enable previewing more filetypes in the Finder.
  • TotalFinder - A powerful alternative to Finder.
  • XtraFinder - Adds useful features to Finder. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]

Games

Graphics

News Readers

Productivity

  • Alfred - Boosts your efficiency and productivity.
  • BetterTouchTool - Configure gestures for mouse and actions for keyboard shortcuts.
  • ClipMenu - ClipBoard History Manager. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
  • CloudClip - Sync your clipboard between your Mac and your iOS devices. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
  • Dropzone - Create a popup grid of customizable actions that enhance productivity on your Mac.
  • f.lux - Automatically adjust your computer screen to match lighting. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
  • Fantastical 2 - Complete Calendar app replacement which uses natural language for creating events.
  • Hazel - Create rules to automatically keep your files organized.
  • HazeOver - Turn distractions down and focus on your current task.
  • HyperDock - Select individual application window.
  • iCMD - Fuzzy menubar search and vim emulation.
  • Instant Translate - Translate speech and text between 100+ languages from the menu bar.
  • ItsyCal - A tiny menubar calendar to display your Mac Calendar app events. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
  • Karabiner - A powerful keyboard customizer. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
  • Keyboard Maestro - Automate routine actions based on triggers from keyboard, menu, location, added devices, and more.
  • Keytty - Enables you to control your mouse with a few key strokes. Mouse Keys Alternative.
  • LaunchBar - Start applications, navigate folders, manipulate files, control your Mac and much more just by using the keyboard.
  • MeetingBar - Your meetings in MacOS status bar ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
  • MenubarX - A powerful menu bar browser.
  • OmniFocus - An incredible task management platform for Mac, iPad, and iPhone.
  • OmniOutliner - Perfect for collecting information, outlining ideas, adding structure to any sort of writing, and much more.
  • Pandan - Time awareness in your menu bar. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
  • Paste - The new way to copy & paste for Mac.
  • PDF Archiver - A nice tool for tagging and archiving tasks. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
  • PopClip - Instantly copy & paste, access actions like search, spelling, dictionary and more.
  • Presentify - Annotate anything on screen, be it, images, pdfs, videos, code, etc.
  • Qbserve - Automatic time and project tracking, timesheets, invoicing, and real-time productivity feedback.
  • Quicksilver - Control your Mac quickly and elegantly. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
  • Rocket - Makes typing emoji faster and easier using Slack-style shortcuts. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
  • SelfControl - Block access to distracting websites. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
  • Simplenote - Simple cross-platform note taking app with cloud-based syncing. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
  • Taskade - Real-time organization and task management tool.
  • TaskPaper - Plain text to-do lists.
  • Telephone - A SIP softphone. Make phone calls over the Internet or your companys network. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
  • TextExpander - Create custom keyboard shortcuts for frequently-used text and pictures.
  • Timing - Automatic time and productivity tracking for Mac. Helps you stay on track with your work and ensures no billable hours get lost if you are billing hourly.

Sharing Files

  • CloudApp - Capture and share files and screenshots instantly.
  • Jumpshare - Real-time file sharing app with support for instantly sharing code / Markdown, annotating screenshots, screen recording, and voice recording. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
  • mac2imgur - Upload images and screenshots to Imgur. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
  • Monosnap - Annotate and upload images and screenshots, supports many backends like S3, SFTP, WebDAV, Dropbox, etc. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
  • Transmission - Simple, lightweight, multi-platform torrent client. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]

Terminal

Utilities

Video

Window Management

Others

Command Line Utilities

macOS Utilities

Setup

DevMyMac

laptop

mac-dev-setup

macbook-playbook

Ansible playbook to configure a development and desktop environment from a clean macOS install.

macOS 10.9 Mavericks Setup

macOS 10.10 Yosemite Setup

macOS 10.11 El Capitan Setup

macOS 10.12 Sierra Setup

macOS 10.13 High Sierra Setup

macOS 10.14 Mojave Setup

macOS 10.15 Catalina Setup

Security

Miscellaneous

Discussion Forums

IRC channels

MacRumors

Reddit