To Be Free
All Tools
This is not a download mirror. It is a curated software directory for tools worth using long term, with clear badges for open source, ads, tracking, sign-up requirements, offline support, official sites and source code.
224 tools
- Free
Alacritty
A GPU-rendered minimal terminal that deliberately omits tabs
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
- Free
Fooocus
Install-and-go AI image generation with no parameter tuning — development has stopped
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
- Free
Ghostty
A native terminal written in Zig — the fastest-rising of the group since its 2025 release
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
- Free
InvokeAI
AI image generation that feels like real image software — canvas and inpainting in the UI
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
- Free
kitty
A GPU terminal that can display images inline
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
- Free
Stable Diffusion WebUI
The most-starred AI image tool — but no longer maintained
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
- Free
SwarmUI
A simplified front end over ComfyUI — the engine underneath is still ComfyUI
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
- Free
Tabby
A cross-platform terminal configured through a GUI, with built-in SSH and serial management
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
- Free
Warp
A terminal with deep AI integration — but no fully offline mode
- Open Source
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
- Free
WezTerm
A cross-platform terminal configured in Lua, with the most complete multiplexing
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
- Free
Windows Terminal
Microsoft's official terminal — the default answer on Windows
- Open Source
- Offline
- No Ads
- No Sign-up
- Free
Buzz
Drag a file in and transcribe — batch jobs and multiple export formats
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
- Free
faster-whisper
A CTranslate2 Whisper implementation — same models, faster, less VRAM
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
- ✦ Ours Free
SoloPic
A whole folder of images, handled in one command
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Vibe
The lightest local transcription desktop app — a few dozen MB to install
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
- Free
whisper.cpp
Whisper reimplemented in C++ — runs on CPU, no Python required
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
- Free
WhisperX
Whisper for subtitles — word-level timestamps and speaker diarization
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
- Free
ActivityWatch
Automatically records where your time went, uploading not one byte
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Actual Budget
Envelope budgeting — give every dollar a job before you spend it
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
AdGuard Home
Network-wide ad blocking, with encrypted DNS thrown in
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Aegis Authenticator
Two-factor codes on your phone, encrypted, never online
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
AnythingLLM
Feed your own documents to a local model and get answers from your material
- Open Source
- No Ads
- Offline
- No Sign-up
- Free
Apache Guacamole
Remote desktop in a browser — no client to install anywhere
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
- Free
AutoHotkey
Bind any repetitive task to a single hotkey
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Beancount
Your ledger is a text file — and it belongs in Git
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
BleachBit
Clears caches and traces without selling you a "speed boost"
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Brave
A Chromium browser with ad blocking built into the engine
- Open Source
- No Sign-up
- Cross-platform
- Free tier
Chatbox
One window for every model, with conversations stored locally
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Sign-up
- Cross-platform
- Free
ClamAV
An open-source antivirus engine that never pops up, upsells or uploads your files
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
Cline
An open-source AI coding assistant — you choose the model
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Sign-up
- Cross-platform
- Free
ComfyUI
AI image generation broken into nodes, every step under your control
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Czkawka
Finds duplicate files, near-identical photos and assorted junk
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free tier
DaVinci Resolve
Film-grade editing and color, free with no watermark or time limit
- No Ads
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- Free
DB Browser for SQLite
Open a SQLite file and edit it like a spreadsheet
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Delta Chat
Chat over email — the other person does not even need the app
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
- Free
digiKam
Managing a hundred thousand photos, entirely offline, nothing uploaded
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Ditto
Everything you ever copied is still there, one hotkey away
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Dolphin
GameCube and Wii games at 1080p, or 4K if you like
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
draw.io
Flowcharts and architecture diagrams — no account, no diagram limits
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Element
Email, but for chat — an open protocol with a server you can own
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
- Free
Ente Auth
Two-factor codes synced across devices, invisible to the server
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
- Free
FFmpeg
The foundation under nearly all media software — you already use it
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Files
What Windows Explorer should have been
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
Firefly III
A personal finance system running on your own server
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Self-hostable
- Free
Floorp
A Firefox fork you can rearrange however you want
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
Flow Launcher
One hotkey, two letters, and anything launches
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
Fluent Reader
Read RSS immediately — no server to set up
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
FontForge
Build your own typeface, or fix somebody else's
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
FreeCAD
Parametric 3D modeling — change one dimension and the whole model follows
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Freeplane
Mind maps should not be a monthly subscription, or capped by node count
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
FreshRSS
You decide what you read — no algorithm involved
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
- Free
gallery-dl
yt-dlp for images — an entire gallery in one command
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
GeoGebra
Draw the function, drag a point, and the idea clicks
- No Ads
- Offline
- No Sign-up
- Cross-platform
- Free tier
Ghostfolio
A self-hosted investment dashboard, readable from anywhere
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
- Free
Gitea
Your own GitHub, from a single executable
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
- Free
GNU Octave
MATLAB's language, without the licence
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
GnuCash
Real double-entry accounting — it tells you when the books do not balance
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
GnuPG
The long-standing standard for encryption and signatures
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Godot Engine
Make games with no royalties — whatever you earn is yours
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Heroic Games Launcher
Play your Epic and GOG library on Linux and macOS
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
Home Assistant
One interface for every smart-home brand — and it keeps working offline
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
HomeBank
Household bookkeeping with no accounting to learn first
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
ImageMagick
FFmpeg for images — one command, thousands of files
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Immich
Google Photos on your own disk, with your disk as the storage limit
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
- Free
IntelliJ IDEA Community
The heavyweight Java and Kotlin IDE, free for commercial use too
- Open Source
- No Ads
- Cross-platform
- Free
Jan
An open-source ChatGPT alternative that runs 100% offline on your own machine
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
- Free
Jitsi Meet
Share a link and start a meeting — no seat caps, no 40-minute timer
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
- Free
JupyterLab
Code, results and explanation living in one document
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
KDE Connect
Bridges phone and computer — notifications, clipboard, files, remote control
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
KiCad
Schematic capture, PCB layout and fab files — the whole chain, free
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Kopia
Encrypted, deduplicated incremental backup — you choose where it lands
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
KOReader
Install it on a Kindle or e-ink device and take the reader back
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
lazygit
A Git interface in your terminal — no more memorizing rebase flags
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
LibreCAD
2D drafting only — light, fast, and it speaks DXF
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
LibreChat
Host your own ChatGPT for a household or a whole team
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Self-hostable
- Free
LibreWolf
Firefox with every phone-home path removed
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
llama.cpp
The foundation nearly every local LLM tool is built on
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
LM Studio
Run local LLMs in a desktop GUI — free for personal and commercial use
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
- No Sign-up
- Free
LMMS
Free music production software, the entry point for electronic music
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
LocalSend
Move files between phone and PC without the cloud, a chat group or recompression
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Loop Habit Tracker
Habit tracking with no notifications spam, no fees, no network
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
LosslessCut
Trim video without re-encoding — seconds, and zero quality loss
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Luanti
An open-source voxel sandbox — no account, no purchase
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
MarkText
A free, open-source Markdown editor with real-time preview and a clean interface
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
- Free
mitmproxy
See exactly what requests an app or page is really making
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
MKVToolNix
Pack subtitles and multiple audio tracks into one file, no re-encoding
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Money Manager EX
Accounts, budgets and charts — usable the moment it opens
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Moonlight
Stream your gaming PC to any screen in the house
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
Motrix
A clean GUI for aria2 — the replacement for adware download managers
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
Mullvad Browser
Tor Browser's anti-fingerprinting, without the Tor network
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
Mumble
The lowest-latency voice chat, running on your own server
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
MuseScore Studio
Write scores, hear them play back, export PDFs — no licence needed
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Navidrome
Turn your own music library into streaming, uploaded to nobody
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
- Free
Nextcloud
Everything a cloud drive does, on a disk you own
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
- Free
Nmap
See what is actually on your network and which ports are open
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Ollama
Run large language models on your own machine, one command away
- Open Source
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
- Free
Open WebUI
A self-hosted web interface for local LLMs, usually placed in front of Ollama
- Self-hostable
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- No Ads
- Free
OpenSCAD
Model by writing code — changing a parameter beats dragging a mouse
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
OpenToonz
Professional 2D animation software used on feature films, free and open
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
OrcaSlicer
Turns models into printer paths, and helps you calibrate the machine
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Pandoc
The universal translator between document formats
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Paperless-ngx
Scan the paper in once, then search for it instead of digging through drawers
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
- Free
PCSX2
PlayStation 2 games on a PC, at whatever resolution you like
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
PDFsam Basic
Split and merge PDFs without uploading them to a website
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Pencil2D
The easiest hand-drawn animation tool — open it and draw
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Pi-hole
One device, and every screen in the house loses its ads
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Pixelorama
Pixel art and sprite animation — the free answer to Aseprite
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Playnite
Seven game launchers, one library
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
Podman Desktop
Container management with no licence to buy, and Docker's own commands
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
Portfolio Performance
Work out what your investments actually returned, with nothing uploaded
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
PPSSPP
PSP games on modern hardware, looking better than they did
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Privacy Badger
No blocklists — it watches which trackers follow you across sites
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free tier
Proton VPN
A free VPN tier with no data cap — nearly unique in this industry
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
- Free
PrusaSlicer
The stable one — and the ancestor of several other slicers
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
qBittorrent
The default BitTorrent client — no ads, no speed tiers
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
QGIS
Professional GIS that replaces a licence costing thousands a year
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- ✦ Ours Free
Radicand
sqrt(12) gives you 2√3, not 3.4641016
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
rclone
Seventy-plus cloud storage services, one set of commands
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
RetroArch
One interface for every retro console emulator
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
RustDesk
Remote desktop that will never accuse you of "commercial use"
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
Scratch
Build programs from blocks — a first programming language for kids
- No Ads
- Offline
- No Sign-up
- Cross-platform
- Free
scrcpy
Mirror an Android phone to your desktop and drive it with mouse and keyboard
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
ScummVM
Keeps 1990s adventure games running on today's systems
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Session
No phone number, no email — just a random ID
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
SimpleX Chat
A messenger with no user identifiers at all
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
SolveSpace
Parametric CAD in a few megabytes, opening instantly
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Squoosh
Compress images in a web page — with nothing uploaded
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Stellarium
A planetarium on your desktop, showing exactly what your eyes would see
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Strawberry
A music player for people who still own their music files
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Subtitle Edit
Create subtitles, fix timing, convert formats — all in one place
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Sunshine
Runs on your gaming PC and streams to Moonlight
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
Super Productivity
Tasks, pomodoro and time tracking in one app, with no subscription
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Sweet Home 3D
Draw the floor plan, then walk through it
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Tails
An operating system on a USB stick that forgets everything at shutdown
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free tier
Tailscale
Wires all your devices into one private network — no router config
- Open Source
- No Ads
- Cross-platform
- Self-hostable
- Free
Thorium Reader
Reading EPUB on a desktop, with the most serious accessibility work in the field
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Transmission
A quiet, lightweight client you can leave running for years
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Typst
A typesetting system ten times easier than LaTeX, compiling in milliseconds
- Open Source
- No Ads
- Offline
- No Sign-up
- Free
ungoogled-chromium
Chromium with every connection back to Google removed
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
Upscayl
Enlarge a small blurry image — detail reconstructed, not stretched
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Uptime Kuma
Know the moment your site goes down, without paying for monitoring
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
Vaultwarden
Run your own password vault server — the official clients still work
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
- Free
Vikunja
The same tasks as a list, a board, a Gantt chart or a calendar
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
- Free
Vivaldi
A browser built for people who keep a hundred tabs open
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Cross-platform
- Free tier
wallabag
Save articles to read later — and they are genuinely saved
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
- Free
WeKan
Trello you host yourself, with the cards and data in your hands
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
- Free
WinDirStat
One picture showing exactly what filled your drive
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
WinMerge
See exactly where two files differ, at a glance
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
WireGuard
A modern encrypted tunnel protocol configured in a dozen lines
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Wireshark
Lays out every packet on the wire for you to read
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Xournal++
Handwrite on a PDF the way you would on paper
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
yt-dlp
The de-facto standard for downloading video, in one command
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Zed
An editor rewritten in Rust, fast enough that you notice
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Sign-up
- Cross-platform
- Free
Zen Browser
Puts the browser's chrome on the side so the page can breathe
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free tier
Zulip
Group chat organized by topic — hundreds of people without the flood
- Open Source
- No Ads
- Cross-platform
- Self-hostable
- Free
7-Zip
A clean, no-nonsense archiver — zero nag screens
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Anki
Spaced-repetition flashcards that lock knowledge into long-term memory
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free tier
AppFlowy
The open-source Notion alternative that keeps your data in your hands
- Open Source
- No Ads
- Offline
- No Sign-up
- Free
Audacity
The world's most popular free audio recorder and editor
- Open Source
- No Ads
- Offline
- No Sign-up
- Free tier
Bitwarden
An open-source password manager whose free tier covers a lifetime of personal use
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
- Free
Blender
The free and open-source 3D creation suite
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Bruno
An offline-first, Git-native open-source API client
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Calibre
All-in-one e-book management and conversion
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Cryptomator
Encrypt files before they hit the cloud — the key stays with you
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
darktable
A free, open-source RAW workflow and virtual darkroom
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
DBeaver Community
One open-source SQL client for every database
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Sign-up
- Offline
- Free
Espanso
A privacy-first, cross-platform text expander
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Everything
The fastest file search on Windows — results as you type
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- No Sign-up
- Free tier
Excalidraw
A free, collaborative whiteboard with a hand-drawn feel
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
Firefox
An open-source browser built by a nonprofit that protects privacy by default
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
Flameshot
A simple, handy open-source screenshot annotator
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- ✦ Ours Free
FreeID Photo
On-device ID photos — no watermark, no paywall
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- No Sign-up
- Free
GIMP
A free, professional image editor — the open-source answer to Photoshop
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
HandBrake
The open-source video transcoder — compress and convert entirely offline
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Hoppscotch
An open-source API tool you use straight from the browser
- Open Source
- No Ads
- Cross-platform
- Self-hostable
- Free
Inkscape
Professional vector graphics — the open-source answer to Illustrator
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Jellyfin
A fully self-controlled, free media server
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
Joplin
Open-source, offline-first note-taking with end-to-end encrypted sync
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Kdenlive
A professional-grade free video editor from KDE
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
KeePassXC
A fully offline password vault — one encrypted file holds it all
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Kodi
The open-source media center that turns your TV into a home theater
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Krita
A free, professional digital painting app made by artists
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
LibreOffice
A complete office suite, Office-compatible, free forever
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Logseq
An open-source outliner with bidirectional links to grow your knowledge graph
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Microsoft PowerToys
Microsoft's official power-user toolbox for Windows
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Sign-up
- Offline
- Free
Mozilla Thunderbird
The veteran free email client that puts privacy first
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
mpv
A minimalist, high-performance open-source media player
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Neovim
A hyperextensible modern Vim with built-in LSP and Lua
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Notepad++
The classic open-source code and text editor for Windows
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
OBS Studio
Pro-grade screen recording and live streaming — fully open, fully free
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Obsidian
A local-first knowledge base — your notes stay yours
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- No Sign-up
- Free
Okular
The universal document viewer from KDE
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors
A free office suite with outstanding format compatibility
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
PeaZip
A cross-platform archive manager for 200+ formats
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Penpot
An open-source design and prototyping platform — the free answer to Figma
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Self-hostable
- Free tier
Proton Mail
Swiss end-to-end encrypted email with a free tier that covers everyday use
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
- Free
RawTherapee
A powerful, free and open-source RAW photo developer
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Rufus
A tiny, fast bootable USB creator
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Scribus
Free, open-source desktop publishing and layout software
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
ShareX
The all-in-one capture, record and upload powerhouse
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Shotcut
A free, open-source cross-platform video editor with 4K support
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Signal
End-to-end encrypted messaging where privacy is the default, not an option
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
- ✦ Ours Free
SoloMD
A free, open-source Markdown editor — one file, one window, just write
- Open Source
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Cross-platform
- ✦ Ours Free
SoloPDF
A local-first PDF reader — your highlights become notes
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free tier
Standard Notes
End-to-end encrypted notes with free unlimited-device sync
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Cross-platform
- Free tier
Stirling-PDF
A self-hosted all-in-one PDF toolbox
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
Sumatra PDF
An ultra-lightweight PDF reader for Windows
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Syncthing
Peer-to-peer real-time file sync, no cloud needed
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Tor Browser
Triple-encrypted, multi-hop traffic for truly anonymous browsing
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- Free
Trilium Notes
A hierarchical note app built for large personal knowledge bases
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
uBlock Origin
A fast, memory-light blocker for ads and trackers — install and breathe
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- No Sign-up
- ✦ Ours Free
unfetch
A download manager for humans and AI
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- ✦ Ours Free
Unflick
A video player for humans and AI
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- ✦ Ours Free
Unterm
The terminal AI agents can drive
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Ventoy
Drop in an ISO and boot — the multi-ISO USB solution
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
VeraCrypt
Open-source disk encryption that locks down drives and USB sticks
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
VLC
The universal player that plays anything
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
VS Code
The most popular code editor — endless extensions, completely free
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Sign-up
- Offline
- Free
VSCodium
Clean, telemetry-free builds of VS Code
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
WinSCP
A free, capable SFTP/FTP file-transfer client for Windows
- Open Source
- No Ads
- Offline
- No Sign-up
- Free
Zettlr
A one-stop Markdown workbench for researchers and writers
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free
Zim Desktop Wiki
A plain-text desktop wiki for managing notes the way you use a wiki
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- ✦ Ours Free
Ziplark
A free, fast, cross-platform archiver
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
- Free tier
Zotero
A free reference and research manager
- Open Source
- No Ads
- No Tracking
- Offline
No matching tools found