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My humble attempts to collect all great pieces of software I use, recommend, or know about

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Audio/Video

Name Type Platform Popular Alternative
DaVinci Resolve Video&Audio editor (All-in-One) Lin, Mac, Win Vegas/Premiere + After Effects + Audition + SpeedGrade
HitFilm Express Video&VFX editor Mac, Win Vegas/Premiere + After Effects
Kdenlive, Shotcut, Olive, OpenShot, Flowblade, Pitivi Other FOSS video editors Lin, Mac, Win Movie Maker
Ardour, LMMS, qtractor Digital Audio Workstation Lin, Mac, Win Audition in a multi-track mode, FL Studio
JACK Sound server (great with Ardour) Lin Mac, Win Many sound cards + hardware mixer
Calf Studio Gear Audio plug-in pack (great with Ardour) Lin, Mac Random VST Plugins
ocenaudio A perfect single-track audio editor Lin, Mac, Win Audition in a single-track mode
Resonic Player A perfect audio player, analyzer and organizer Win -
VLC The ultimate media player Lin, Mac, Win Many of them
MPC-BE Old classic Media Player Win VLC
OBS Studio Live video production software with unlimited capabilities Lin, Mac, Win -
HandBrake The ultimate video converter Lin, Mac, Win Tons of ugly and greedy shareware
NATRON, enve 2D animation, VFX, and Motion Graphics Lin, Win After Effects
ossia score Intermedia sequencer (for live shows and media installations) Lin, Mac, Win Touchdesigner
Q Light Controller Plus DMX Controller Software (live stage lightning) Lin, Mac, Win Sunlite Suite
OpenToonz 2D Animation software Lin, Mac, Win Adobe Animate
LosslessCut FFmpeg GUI for lossless operations Lin, Mac, Win CLI ffmpeg
Pedalboard2 VST plugin host for live processing Lin, Mac, Win OBS Studio

Imaging/Design/Foto

Name Specifics Platform Popular Alternative
blender Widely appreciated 3D tool Lin, Mac, Win 3ds Max
GIMP It's awesome when you use shortcuts Lin, Mac, Win Photoshop
darktable, RawTherapee Raw photos developing toolset Lin, Mac, Win Lightroom
Hugin The best panorama photo stitcher ever Lin, Mac, Win Many of them
Inkscape Vector editor for creative drawings Lin, Mac, Win CorelDRAW
LibreOffice Draw, Karbon Simple vector editors for technical drawing Lin, Mac, Win CorelDRAW
Krita Digital painting made free Lin, Mac, Win SAI
Synfig Studio 2D animation software Lin, Mac, Win Adobe Animate (former Flash)
FontBase Font Manager Lin, Mac, Win -
FastStone Image Viewer Ultimate Win ACDSee, IrfanView

Plain Text Editors

Name Specifics Platform Popular Alternative
Visual Studio Code Ultimate Lin, Mac, Win Sublime Text
Lite XL Light and Fast Lin, Win notepad.exe, AkelPad, leafpad, lite
Vim It seems hard unless you try (my .vimrc) Lin, Mac, Win Neovim
HackMD Online & Collaborative Web Google Docs

Language/Writing

Name Specifics Platform Popular Alternative
LanguageTool Good spell checker All Many
Emojipedia Emoji search engine Web -
Glosbe Dictionary with usage examples Web -
Thesaurus.com Synonims search engine Web -
LaTeX Believe me, it worth learning Lin, Mac, Win Microsoft Office
LibreOffice Quite a robust office suite Lin, Mac, Win Microsoft Office
DeepL AI translator Web Google Translate

Developer Tools

Name Specifics Platform Popular Alternative
GCC The compiler that changed the industry Any Visual Studio, LLVM
Regex101 Regular expressions debugger Web Your language's debugger
GitLab Raise your own internal GitHub-like service! Web GitHub
tig Text-based UI for Git Lin, Mac (CLI) -
Fork GUI for Git Mac, Win Git Extensions, SourceTree
GitKraken GUI for Git (free for home and opensource) Lin, Mac, Win Git Extensions, SourceTree
P4Merge, DiffMerge Diff/Merge Tool Lin, Mac, Win KDiff3, WinMerge
git-filter-repo Rewrite the whole Git history Python git-filter-branch, BFG Repo-Cleaner
tldr man in a nutshell Web, CLI man
explainshell Explanation to any shell command Web man
Data Converter Text, Bin, Dec, Hex, Base64, Hash sums Web Hand-made tools
DB Browser for SQLite A quick and easy way to use SQL Lin, Mac, Win -
PM2 Runtime Production Process Manager for Node.js NodeJS SystemD or Docker
Partition Wizard Free Partition Manager for Windows Win Many
ptpython A better Python REPL Python python
Podman Docker done right (with backward compatibility) Lin, Mac, Win Docker
Ansible Describe and maintain the state of your servers Lin, Mac, Win bash scripts
Nomad Orchestration the Easy Way Lin, Mac, Win Kubernetes
Diffy Online diff-file viewer (diff -ur ./d1 ./d2 > d.txt) Web git + GitLab or GitHub
Flutter Next generation of cross-platform development. Dart is awesome. Lin, Mac, Win PhoneGap
Turndown HTML to Markdown converter Web pandoc
Google Colab Free computing resources (including GPUs) Python, Web
ShredOS Wipe all of your disks bootable x86/x64 ?
Nomad A simple orchestrator that you can manage yourself Web k8s
Jupyter Python notebook Any Python Interactive CLI
Harbor Container registry Containers Docker Registry, ACR
CustomTkinter Python GUI Library Python wxPython, tcl/tk
Kivy Python GUI Library Python PyQt
csvkit Treat CSV files as database tables Pthon -

Engineering

Name Specifics Platform Popular Alternative
FreeCAD The 3D CAD Lin, Mac, Win SolidWorks
SolveSpace The parametric 3D CAD Lin, Mac, Win SolidWorks
BRL‑CAD, OpenSCAD Extremely hard. Don't even try. Lin, Mac, Win -
LibreCAD, QCAD The 2D CADs Lin, Mac, Win AutoCAD
KiCad The EDA Lin, Mac, Win P-CAD, Altium Designer, EAGLE, DipTrace
bCNC The ultimate GRBL CNC tool on tcl/tk Lin, Mac, Win Many

Utilites

Name Specifics Platform Popular Alternative
FreeFileSync Nice and friendly file synchronizer (mostly for backuping) Lin, Mac, Win -
Tixati, qBittorrent Awesome no-ad torrent clients Lin, Win μTorrent
KeePass Secure password manager Lin, Mac, Win, Android Paper?
Bitwarden Convenient password manager Lin, Mac, Win, Android KeePass
7-Zip The best archiver Lin, Win WinRAR
WizTree Disk space analyzer Win Folder Size
GParted Partition manager Lin, Mac, Win MiniTool Partition Wizard
Clonezilla SSD Migration software Lin, Mac, Win Macrium Reflect, EaseUS Todo Backup Free
fixparts Converts primary partition to logical Lin, Mac, Win EaseUS Partition Master
SVGOMG! Cleans up the SVG markup Web -
RustDesk Remote desktop Lin, Mac, Win, Android TeamViewer, AnyDesk
awfice Simple browser-based office apps Web Browser -
Element, Mattermost, Rocket.Chat, Zulip Collaboration software All Slack, Teams
Joplin Notes All Evernote
Tor Browser Slow, but very secure anonymizer Lin, Mac, Win, Android VPNs
Syncthing Continuous file synchronization program Lin, Mac, Win, Android rsync
Home Assistant A single place for all smart home automation - Mi Home
WingetUI Keep your apps always updated Win MS Store
yt-dlp It works! Python A youtube-dl fork
Jitsi / Jitsi Meet FLOSS Video Conference Service Web Zoom, Google Meet
is.gd Link Shortener Web former goo.gl

Browser Extensions

Name Specifics Platform
uBlock Origin A general-purpose blocker Fox, Chrm
I don't care about cookies Clean more useless shit from the Internet Fox, Chrm
Dark Reader Dark mode for any page Fox, Chrm
LanguageTool Spell Checker Fox, Chrm
Stylus Userstyles manager Fox, Chrm
Tampermonkey Userscript manager Fox, Chrm
To Google Translate Quick translatioon tool Fox
Link Text and Location Copier Copy text linked to current page Fox
VkOpt VKontakte Optimizer Tampermonkey

Cool Hardware

Name Specifics Software
Omega2 The cheapest Linux platform OpenWRT-based Linux
ESP8266 The cheapest MCU with Wi-Fi MicroPython, Lua, Arduino, and more
C.H.I.P. (R.I.P.) A better Raspberry Pi Debian-based Linux
MAX9814 Microphone preamp USB
SoloKeys Opensource FIDO2 keys YubiKey, Authenticator app, SMS

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