Open-Source Alternatives to Popular Software
Many everyday office, imaging, design and video tools are paid products. Open-source software offers free use, public source code and open file formats. From software on this site we matched mature open-source projects to common commercial tools, judging them on project activity, coverage of everyday features, file-format compatibility and learning curve, and noting where each falls short of its commercial counterpart.
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LibreOffice for Windows, the free and open-source office suite with Writer, Calc, Impress and more.
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GIMP for Windows: the free, open-source raster image editor for photo retouching, compositing and illustration.
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Inkscape for Windows, a free and open-source professional vector graphics editor that uses SVG as its native format.
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Krita for Windows is a free, open-source digital painting app from the KDE community, built for illustration, concept art, comics and 2D animation.
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Blender for Windows: the free, open-source 3D creation suite for modeling, sculpting, animation, rendering and video editing.
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binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing
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Joplin - the privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
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KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “KeePass Password Safe”.
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7-Zip.
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OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording
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cross-platform (Qt), open-source (GPLv3) video editor
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An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer.
