Free Personal Use Software
Free for Personal Use Software |
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| 7-Zip |
Decompression program for extracting ZIP files as well as many other formats.
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| Audacity | Free and powerful audio editing software. |
| Blender | Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software toolset used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, motion graphics, interactive 3D applications, virtual reality, and computer games. Possible substitute for Cinema 4D and 3DS Max. |
| Chrome | Free web-browser that is similar in features to Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. |
| DaVinci Resolve | DaVinci Resolve is the world’s only solution that combines editing, color correction, visual effects, motion graphics and audio post production all in one software tool. Possible substitute for Adobe Premiere Pro. |
| Figma | Figma is a vector graphics editor and prototyping tool which is primarily web-based, with additional offline features enabled by desktop applications for macOS and Windows. Possible substitute for Adobe XD. |
| Filezilla | An open-source (free) file transfer application that supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS), and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) connections. |
| GIMP |
The GNU Image Manipulation Program is an open source freeware program that has many of the features that are available in the commercial Adobe Photoshop application. |
| Inkscape | A feature-packed editor that’s a possible substitute for Adobe Illustrator. |
| Infrarecorder | Open source (free) software used to write to CDs and DVDs. |
| IrfanView | An excellent freeware image viewing program. |
| Firefox | Free open-source web-browser that is similar in features to Chrome, Internet Explorer and Safari. |
| LibreOffice | An open-source (free) office suite that offers comparable features to and file compatibility with Microsoft Office. This suite includes Writer (like Word), Calc (like Excel), Impress (like PowerPoint), and Base (like Access). In addition to being free the installer for this suite is also about a third the size of Microsoft Office. |
| MiKTeX | An open-source (free) command-line suite for producing TeX documents. And use TeXnicCenter to make it easier to produce the documents. |
| Natron |
Open Source Compositing Software For VFX and Motion Graphics. Possible substitute for Adobe After Effects. |
| Notepad++ | An open-source and free text editor that provides more flexibility and performance than standard text editors such as Notepad or Wordpad. |
| Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. | |
| An open-source and free PDF creation tool. Previously known as PDFCreator. | |
| R | An open-source (free) statistical computation and graphical display programming environment that provides similar functionality to SAS, Matlab, SPSS, Minitab, Stata, etc. |
| R Studio | RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R. It includes a console, syntax-highlighting editor that supports direct code execution, as well as tools for plotting, history, debugging and workspace management. |
| SageMath |
SageMath is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It builds on top of many existing open-source packages: NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, Sympy, Maxima, GAP, FLINT, R and many more. Access their combined power through a common, Python-based language or directly via interfaces or wrappers. Mission: Creating a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab. |
| Shotcut |
Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor. |
| TeXnicCenter | An open-source (free) alternative to WinEdt for graphically editing TeX documents. Download this and MiKTeX for producing TeX documents. |
| Thunderbird | An open-source (free) email client that is a good alternative to Microsoft Outlook. |
| VLC Media Player | VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. |