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📚 Free Learning and Science Software
Academic software is often absurdly expensive, yet this is where open source is strongest — many of these tools were born inside universities and research institutes. This category covers spaced repetition, reference management, graphing, astronomy, GIS and kids programming, most of it usable entirely offline.
9 tools
GeoGebra
Draw the function, drag a point, and the idea clicks
- No Ads
- Offline
- No Sign-up
- Cross-platform
GNU Octave
MATLAB's language, without the licence
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
JupyterLab
Code, results and explanation living in one document
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
QGIS
Professional GIS that replaces a licence costing thousands a year
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
Radicand
sqrt(12) gives you 2√3, not 3.4641016
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
Scratch
Build programs from blocks — a first programming language for kids
- No Ads
- Offline
- No Sign-up
- Cross-platform
Stellarium
A planetarium on your desktop, showing exactly what your eyes would see
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
Anki
Spaced-repetition flashcards that lock knowledge into long-term memory
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
Zotero
A free reference and research manager
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline