Free Software

Here is a really cool list of free software based on this reddit post

If you aren’t aware, there is a lot of really nice free software made available by kind people on the internet. For example, you can find some of my stuff here.

I’ve marked all the ones I have used and liked in bold.

Caveats:

• Some of it stretches the definition of “free” as it is commerical software that has a limited “free” license. Be sure to check to make sure you’re not violating the license terms. (e.g. TeamViewer is only free for personal use, not commercial)
• These are for the most part passion projects. You might find that they work well for only a small niche of users and your particular use case won’t interest the developers at all!
• Some of the user interfaces are a bit rough. This is the result of two separate things. A) These are volunteers and they might not have much background in user experience or user interface design and B) they usually try to build for multiple operating systems at once. As such, the user interfaces never look right in any of the operating systems.

The wonderful thing is, the only thing trying out the software costs is your time.

Over 1,000 upvotes

• Google Maps: Navigation app - https://www.google.com/maps
• Blender: 3D modeling software - https://www.blender.org/
• VLC: Video player - https://www.videolan.org/index.html
• The Windows Snipping Tool: Screen capture tool - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4027213/windows-open-snipping-tool-and-take-a-screenshot
• Space Engine: Space exploration simulator - http://spaceengine.org/
• Wikipedia: Online encyclopedia - https://www.wikipedia.org/
• MuseScore: Music notation software - https://musescore.org/en
• Audacity: Audio editing software - https://www.audacityteam.org/
• Handbrake: video converter - https://handbrake.fr/
• Zotero: Reference manager - https://www.zotero.org/
• Desmos.com: Online Calculator - https://www.desmos.com/
• Calibre: ebook manager - https://calibre-ebook.com/download
• Notepad++: Text Editor - https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
• stud.io: Lego simulator - https://studio.bricklink.com/v2/build/studio.page
• Search Everything: Instant file search software - https://www.voidtools.com/
• LaTeX: Document software - https://www.latex-project.org/
• **archive.org Contains music, movies, books, software, games, and webpages **- http://archive.org/
• Linux/Apache/Postgres/Gcc: Various Linux based OS’s, webservers, compilers, etc. - https://www.linux.org/
• Discord: Chat and Communication software - https://discordapp.com/
• OBS Studio: Streaming and Recording software - https://obsproject.com/
• Krita: Digital design - https://krita.org/en/
• R: Statistics software - https://www.r-project.org/
• pfSense: Firewall software - https://www.pfsense.org/
• FreeNAS: File server software - http://www.freenas.org/
• Gimp: Digital design - https://www.gimp.org/
• OpenSCAD: 3D Model scripting software - http://www.openscad.org/
• This list - https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7x639l/what_free_software_is_so_good_you_cant_believe/
• Malwarebytes: Malware protection - https://www.malwarebytes.com/
• Unity: Game design software - https://unity3d.com/
• draw.io: Online diagram software - https://www.draw.io/
• Paint.NET: Image design - https://www.getpaint.net/
• Draftsight: Free CAD - https://www.3ds.com/products-services/draftsight-cad-software/free-download/
• 7Zip: File archiving - http://www.7-zip.org/
• Plex: Media storage access - https://www.plex.tv/
• Libre Office: Document editing suite - https://www.libreoffice.org/
• KeePass: Password manager - https://keepass.info/
• DaVinci Resolve: Video color correcting/editing - https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/
• Inkscape: Vector art software - https://inkscape.org/en/
• Google Apps: Google’s document suite (Docs, Sheets, Gmail, etc) - https://www.google.com/
• Duolingo: Language learning - https://www.duolingo.com/
• Darktable: Photo workflow a la lightroom - https://www.musicpd.org/ and https://www.darktable.org/
• MPD/Mopidy: F/OSS music player daemon - https://www.mopidy.com/
• Doom shareware: A classic game - a 3.5” floppy disk

Over 150 upvotes:

• fxSolver/Cymath/Mathway - Math/engineering/chemistry problem solving - https://www.fxsolver.com/ and https://www.cymath.com/ and https://www.mathway.com/Algebra
• Recuva: Restores deleted files - https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva
• Python: A programming language for quickly writing scripts - https://www.python.org/
• foobar2000: Freeware audio player - https://www.foobar2000.org/
• Robin Hood: Stock trading app - https://www.robinhood.com/
• Flux: Day/Night cycle on monitor color/brightness - https://justgetflux.com/
• Fusion 360: Free 3D CAD/CAM design software - https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/students-teachers-educators
• Steam: Platform for game distribution - http://store.steampowered.com/
• Shazam: App that tells you what song is playing - https://www.shazam.com/
• Audio Router: Sound routing - https://github.com/audiorouterdev/audio-router
• Arduino: Open-source electronics platform (software is free) - https://www.arduino.cc/
• LMMS: Music studio - https://lmms.io/
• Kodi: Entertainment center software - https://kodi.tv/
• Git: Version control system - https://git-scm.com/
• REAPER: Audio workstation - https://www.reaper.fm/
• Greenshot: Print screen tool - http://getgreenshot.org/
• Irfanview: Image viewer, editor, organiser and converter - http://www.irfanview.com/
• TeamViewer: Remote desktop software - https://www.teamviewer.us/
• Firefox: Web browser - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
• Alarm Clock on Cell Phones: Alarm clock on cell phones - On your cell phone
• Wireshark: Open source packet analyze - https://www.wireshark.org/
• Disk Fan: Visually see how much space is being used on a volume - http://www.diskspacefan.com/
• Beyond Compare: Compare two files/directories: whole tree’s and directories - https://www.scootersoftware.com/
• VNCServer/Viewer: Remote desktop software - https://www.realvnc.com/en/connect/download/vnc/
• Ubuntu: A Linux OS - https://www.ubuntu.com/
• WinDirStat: Graphical disk usage analyzer - https://windirstat.net/
• Oracle VirtualBox: Open-source hypervisor - https://www.virtualbox.org/
• PuTTy: An all in one protocol terminal - https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html
• Visual Studio Code: Code editor - https://code.visualstudio.com/