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Windows Only — macOS Only — Linux Only — Open-source Only — Recommended Only

Mobile version — Android Only — iOS Only

Icon Meaning Icon Meaning
🪟 Available on Windows 🟢 Open-source (Repository Link)
🍎 Available on macOS ⭐ Recommended by us
🐧 Available on Linux

Important

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Want to add something to the list? Check -> contributing.md

If you want to become a maintainer, check this -> #28

Important

Looking for the mobile version of this list? -> MOBILE.md

Contents

Audio

  • FXSound - Boost sound quality, volume, and bass. Has a beautiful modern UI. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
  • Ambie - Use white noise, nature sounds, and focus features to boost your productivity. 🪟 🟢

Audio Players

  • Audacious - Lightweight audio player for simple music playback. 🪟 🐧 🟢

Audio Recording

  • Audacity - Audio editor for recording and editing sounds. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐

DJ Software

Music Notation

Music Production

  • LMMS - DAW for creating music with virtual instruments and MIDI support. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
  • Furnace - Multi-system chiptune tracker. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • MilkyTracker - Cross platform XM tracker. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Stargate DAW - Innovation-first DAW, instrument and effect plugins. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

Browsers

  • Tor Browser - Privacy browser routing traffic over the Tor network. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
  • Brave - Privacy-focused and fast browser. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Chromium - Browser project behind Chrome. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • ungoogled-chromium - Privacy-focused Chromium with Google services removed. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Firefox - Browser with privacy and customization. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • LibreWolf - Privacy-focused Firefox fork with enhanced security. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Pale Moon - Goanna-based browser. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • qutebrowser - Keyboard-driven, vim-like browser in Python and Qt. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Mullvad Browser - Privacy browser with Tor, anti-fingerprinting, and Mullvad VPN. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Zen Browser - Beautifully designed, privacy-focused browser with custom mods. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

Communication

Messaging

Email Clients

  • ElectronMail - Electron-based desktop client for ProtonMail. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Mailspring - Beautiful, fast email client. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • ThunderBird - Email client for easier management. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

Compression and Archiving

  • 7-Zip - Archive manager supporting 7z, ZIP, and other formats. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
  • PDF Archiver - Tool for tagging and organizing PDFs. 🍎 🟢
  • PeaZip - Archive manager supporting 180+ formats with encryption and compression. 🪟 🐧 🟢

Customize

System Customization

  • Windhawk - Customization marketplace for Windows and programs. 🪟 🟢
  • HideVolumeOSD - Hides the Windows volume bar. 🪟 🟢
  • ExplorerPatcher - Restores and enhances the classic taskbar and system elements. 🪟 🟢
  • Flow Launcher - Quick file search and app launcher like Spotlight. 🪟 🟢
  • ModernFlyouts - Replaces default flyouts with customizable modern ones. 🪟 🟢
  • Hidden Bar - Simple app to organize and declutter your menu bar. 🍎 🟢
  • noMeiryoUI - Tools to freely change system fonts. 🪟 🟢
  • 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. 🪟 🟢

Wallpaper Tools

  • Lively Wallpaper - Tool to set animated and interactive wallpapers. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
  • Rainmeter - Desktop customization tool offering widgets, skins, and live stats. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
  • 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. 🪟 🟢

Data Management

Copy and Move

Sync and Clone

  • FreeFileSync - Tool for comparing and syncing files or folders. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
  • Syncthing - Continuous file synchronization for multiple computers. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

Developer Tools

  • livewinsize - Visualize window size in pixels and other units. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
  • Meld - Tool for visual file, directory, and version control comparison. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • TkForge - Drag & drop in Figma to create a Python GUI with ease. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
  • WinMerge - Windows visual diff and merge for files and directories. 🪟 🟢
  • x64dbg - Debugger for Windows. 🪟 🟢

API Development

  • Insomnia - Simple API client for REST and GraphQL development. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
  • Bruno - Offline API client that is fast, Git-friendly, and open source. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Cocoa Rest Client - Native app for testing REST APIs. 🍎 🟢
  • Hoppscotch - Lightweight API development tool for designing, testing, and debugging. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • HTTPie - Command-line and GUI tool to simplify working with APIs. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • HTTP Toolkit - Tool for debugging and mocking HTTP requests. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Mockoon - Desktop tool for creating and testing mock REST APIs. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • SoapUI Open Source - For testing REST and SOAP APIs with scripting support. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

Database

Network Analysis

  • Wireshark - Leading tool for capturing and analyzing network traffic. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
  • James - Proxy for intercepting HTTP/HTTPS requests. 🪟 🍎 🟢
  • mitmproxy - Interactive HTTP proxy for debugging and penetration testing. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Sniffnet - Tool for monitoring and analyzing network traffic. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

Game Engines

  • Godot - Game engine for 2D and 3D games with an easy-to-learn scripting language. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
  • Cocos2d - Game engine for mobile and web games, focused on 2D 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. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Monogame - Framework for cross-platform game development with C#. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • OpenRA - Game engine for real-time strategy games, supporting mods for classic titles. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Ren'Py - Popular engine for creating visual novels with a simple scripting language. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Tiled - Level editor for creating tile-based game maps, used with other engines. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

Virtualization

  • Docker - Containerization platform for operating-system-level virtualization. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
  • Lima - Tool for launching Linux VMs with file sharing and port forwarding. 🍎 🟢
  • QEMU - Emulator and virtualizer for hardware and system virtualization. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Rancher Desktop - App for managing containers and Kubernetes on desktop. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Vagrant - Tool for managing reproducible development environments using virtual machines. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • eryph-zero - Tool for building VMs as if they were running in the cloud, but locally on Windows. 🪟 🟢

Documents

Office Suites

  • LibreOffice - Popular and easy to use office suite. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
  • Apache OpenOffice - Suite for documents, spreadsheets, etc. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • OnlyOffice - Office suite with collaboration features. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

E-book

  • Calibre - Powerful e-book manager. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
  • iChm - CHM reader. 🍎 🟢
  • Koodo Reader - EBook reader supporting 15+ formats. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Naps2 - Scan documents to PDF and more, as simply as possible. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Readest - Cross-platform eBook reader with tools. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Scribus - Layout and publishing software. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Sigil - EPUB editor. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

PDF Tools

  • Sumatra PDF - Fast, lightweight PDF reader. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
  • MuPDF - Powerful PDF viewer. 🪟 🐧 🟢
  • Okular - Universal document viewer by KDE. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • PDF Arranger - PDF editor for splitting, merging. 🪟 🐧 🟢
  • qpdfview - Tabbed document viewer. 🐧 🟢
  • Skim - PDF viewer for annotation. 🍎 🟢
  • Xournal++ - Handwriting and annotation tool for PDFs. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • PDFsam - Extract pages, split, merge, mix and rotate PDF files. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

Note Taking

  • Inkless - Minimal, shortcut based app to take notes and use for light coding. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
  • Joplin - Capture your thoughts and securely access them from any device. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Logseq - Privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Simplenote - Minimalist note-taking app that syncs across devices. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • fylepad - Lightweight notepad with powerful rich-text editing. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

Text Editors

  • Visual Studio Code - Code editor with debugging, integrated Git support, and a vast extension marketplace. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
  • Atom - Highly customizable editor with Git integration, real-time collaboration, and extensive plugins. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Aurora Editor - Fast, lightweight editor with modern design and syntax highlighting. 🍎 🟢
  • Bluefish - Web developer editor supporting HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP with built-in preview. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Brackets - Web-focused editor with live preview, CSS preprocessor support, and inline editing for HTML. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • CodeEdit - Native macOS editor with live preview, Git integration, and Markdown support. 🍎 🟢
  • CotEditor - Text editor with syntax highlighting, snippets, and regular expression search. 🍎 🟢
  • Emacs - Customizable editor with robust scripting, project management, and multi-language support. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Fastedit - Minimal text editor with a frost glass background and basic text editing tools. 🪟 🟢
  • Geany - Lightweight editor with built-in terminal, project management, and syntax highlighting for many languages. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Notepad++ - Editor with customizable syntax highlighting, multi-line editing, and plugin support. 🪟 🟢
  • Haystack Editor - Visual editor with a canvas UI to help navigate and understand code structure. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Helix - Modal text editor with powerful text manipulation, multiple cursors, and a modern UI. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Lapce - Fast, extensible editor with built-in support for multiple languages and advanced editing features. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • LightTable - Code editor offering real-time feedback and live execution of code in an interactive environment. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • micro - Simple, modern terminal-based editor with support for mouse interaction and plugin extensions. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Neovim - Advanced Vim-based text editor with improved extensibility, plugins, and modern features. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Notepad 3 - Fast and light-weight Scintilla-based text editor with syntax highlighting. 🪟 🟢
  • SubEthaEdit - Collaborative text editor enabling real-time editing with multiple users. 🍎 🟢
  • TextMate - Editor with project management, language bundles, and customizable macros. 🍎 🟢
  • Vim - Efficient command-line editor with powerful keyboard shortcuts and multi-file editing. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Vimr - Editor offering a refined Vim experience with enhanced UI and modern features. 🍎 🟢
  • Zed - High-performance, collaborative editor designed for speed, real-time collaboration, and custom workflows. 🍎 🐧 🟢

Download Managers

Games

Cloud Gaming

Mobile Emulators

  • Waydroid - Container-based approach to boot a full Android system. 🐧 🟢

Other Emulators

  • RetroArch - Open-source, cross-platform emulator that allows to play games from a wide variety of retro gaming consoles and platforms. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
  • DuckStation - PlayStation 1 emulator with focus on speed, accuracy, and modern enhancements. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • PCSX-Redux - PlayStation 1 emulator aimed at advanced debugging and better game compatibility. 🪟 🐧 🟢

Graphics Tools

  • GIMP - Versatile image editor for tasks like photo manipulation and graphic design. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
  • Inkscape - Vector graphics editor used for creating logos, illustrations, and more. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
  • Krita - Digital painting software designed for illustrators and concept artists. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
  • Colorpicker - Color manipulation tool for picking and modifying colors. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Draw.io - Desktop app for creating diagrams and flowcharts. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • FontForge - Font editor for creating and modifying font files. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

3D Modeling and Animation

  • Blender - 3D creation tool supporting modeling, animation, rendering, video editing, and more. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
  • MakeHuman - 3D human modeler for creating realistic character models. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Wings 3D - 3D modeling software focusing on subdivision modeling. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

Security

Antivirus

  • ClamAV - Antivirus engine for detecting malware, viruses, and other threats. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

Password Managers

  • KeePass - Lightweight password manager for secure storage of passwords in encrypted databases. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Passbolt - Team-oriented password manager for sharing and storing passwords securely. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

Image Viewers

  • ImageGlass - Lightweight, versatile image viewer. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
  • FlowVision - Waterfall-style image viewer. 🍎 🟢

Remote Access

  • Moonlight - GameStream client for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Steam Link. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • RustDesk - Remote desktop software with a focus on simplicity and security. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Sunshine - Self-hosted game streaming server for use with Moonlight. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

Video

Video Editors

  • Shotcut - Video editor with a wide range of features. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • OpenShot - Easy-to-use video editor with support for multiple video tracks. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Kdenlive - Video editor with multi-track editing and a powerful interface. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Olive Video Editor - Non-linear video editor with powerful features and an intuitive interface. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Avidemux - Video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • lossless-cut - Swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

Video Players

  • IINA - Media player that claims to perform better than VLC. 🍎 🟢
  • Kodi - Media center that allows you to play and view most videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • MPV - Cross-platform media player with a simple interface. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • MPC-HC - Lightweight video player with support for all common formats. 🪟 🟢
  • VLC Media Player - Media player supporting almost all video formats. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

Video Streaming and Recording

  • OBS Studio - Software for live streaming and recording video. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
  • Jitsi Meet - Video conferencing and live streaming with ease. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Livestreamer - Command-line tool to stream video from multiple platforms. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Kaltura - Platform for managing and streaming video content. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Nginx RTMP - RTMP streaming server built with NGINX. 🐧 🟢
  • Streamlabs Desktop - Streaming software with customizable alerts and overlays. 🪟 🍎 🟢

Video Converters and Compressors

  • FFmpeg - Powerful tool for format conversion and multimedia editing. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
  • FastFlix - GUI for fast encoding with H.264, HEVC, and AV1 support. 🪟 🟢
  • HandBrake - Video transcoder with preset profiles for device compatibility. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • VidCoder - User-friendly HandBrake-based transcoder with batch processing. 🪟 🍎 🟢

VPN and Proxy Tools

  • Algo - Simple IPSEC VPN setup for secure cloud connections. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • FlClash - Multi-platform proxy client based on ClashMeta. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Hiddify - Multi-platform proxy toolchain. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • rvc-mac - Secure VPN client from Ribose. 🍎 🟢
  • OpenVPN - VPN solution for secure internet connections with customizable settings. 🪟 🟢
  • SoftEther VPN - Multi-protocol VPN software for secure connections. 🪟 🟢
  • Sing-box - Universal proxy platform supporting multiple protocols. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • ShadowsocksX-NG - Modern Shadowsocks client for enhanced security. 🍎 🟢
  • SpechtLite - Minimal proxy tool using rule-based configuration. 🍎 🟢
  • Specht - Rule-based proxy with Network Extension support. 🍎 🟢
  • Tunnelblick - Easy-to-use OpenVPN client with a macOS-friendly interface. 🍎 🟢
  • v2rayN - Open source GUI for Xray and Sing-box. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • WireGuard - Fast, secure VPN protocol designed for simplicity. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

Utility

  • AutoHotkey - Scripting language for task automation and custom hotkeys. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
  • PowerToys - Utilities for file renaming, resizing, and productivity tools. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
  • yt-dlp - Command-line tool for downloading audio and video. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
  • Keylock - Lock your keyboard with a click. 🪟 🟢
  • Locale Emulator - Simulate different system regions and languages. 🪟 🟢
  • Winpower - Advanced power settings and management for Windows. 🪟 🟢
  • Windterm - SSH/Telnet/Serial/Shell/Sftp client for DevOps. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • UniGetUI - UI for popular package managers like Winget, NPM, and more. 🪟 🟢

Clipboard Management

  • Clipy - Simple clipboard manager. 🍎 🟢
  • CopyQ - Clipboard manager with editing and scripting features. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Diodon - Simple and minimal clipboard manager. 🐧 🟢
  • EcoPaste - Cross-platform modern clipboard management tool. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Maccy - Minimal clipboard manager. 🍎 🟢
  • Qopy - Minimalist clipboard manager with unique features. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

Metadata

Window Management

  • FancyZones - Snap and arrange windows in multi-monitor setups. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
  • AltSnap - Snap windows to positions using keyboard shortcuts. 🪟 🟢
  • GlazeWM - Tiling window manager inspired by i3. 🪟 🟢
  • i3 - Keyboard-driven tiling window manager. 🐧 🟢
  • OnTopReplica - Display part of a window on top of others. 🪟 🟢
  • Sway - Wayland-based tiling window manager, i3-like. 🐧 🟢
  • YASB - Highly configurable Windows status bar. 🪟 🟢
  • Komorebi - Tiling window manager for Windows. 🪟 🟢

File Management

  • Files - Modern file manager for easy file organization. 🪟 🟢
  • WinSCP - Easy-to-use SFTP, FTP, and WebDAV client. 🪟 🟢

Application Management

  • Bulk Crap Uninstaller - Powerful tool for uninstalling multiple applications and cleaning leftovers. 🪟 🟢 ⭐

Screenshot

  • ShareX - Powerful screenshot and screen recording tool with advanced editing options. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
  • Capter - Super simple screenshot tool. 🪟 🍎 🟢
  • Flameshot - Customizable screenshot tool with an easy-to-use interface and built-in editor. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
  • Greenshot - Screenshot tool for Windows that allows capturing, annotating, and editing screenshots. 🪟 🟢
  • Snipaste - Free, Customizable, Portable snipping tool.

Space Visualizer