(in alphabetical order)
If Members know of other Free or Open Source apps or utilities that they find useful please let us know.
Audacity
Multi-track Audio Editing
Free, open source, cross-platform audio software
Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.
Audacity is free, open source software.
It doesn’t suck.
BBEdit is the leading professional HTML and text editor for macOS. This award-winning product has been crafted to serve the needs of writers, Web authors and software developers, and provides an abundance of features for editing, searching, and manipulation of prose, source code, and textual data.
Features: Rendering, Modelling, Sculpting, Animation & Rigging, Story Artist (drawing 2D in 3D), VFX, Simulation, Pipeline, Video Editing, Scripting, and Interface
calibre is a powerful and easy to use e-book manager.
Users say it’s outstanding and a must-have. It’ll allow you to do nearly everything and it takes things a step beyond normal e-book software. It’s also completely free and open source and great for both casual users and computer experts.
An office and graphic art suite by KDE. It contains applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, vector graphics, and editing databases.
CapCut
Video Editor
Free all-in-one video editor for everyone to create anything anywhere. Flexible editing, magical AI tools, team collaboration, and stock assets. Make video creation like never before.
The free and open-source project behind Google Chrome (without tracking and spyware). If you must use Chrome based browser – use this.
DaVinci Resolve is the world’s only solution that combines editing, colour correction, visual effects, motion graphics and audio post production all in one software tool! Free Version requires on-line registration.
Imagine a place…
…where you can belong to a school club, a gaming group, or a worldwide art community. Where just you and a handful of friends can spend time together. A place that makes it easy to talk every day and hang out more often.
DuckDuckGo
Privacy/Security Web Browser
DuckDuckGo for Mac is a free browsing app that gives you comprehensive online privacy protection. With one download, you get a private everyday Internet browser that offers seamless protection while you search and browse – plus access to free tracking protection for your email inbox, secure password management, new beta features, and more.
Get the browser that protects what’s important
No shady privacy policies or back doors for advertisers. Just a lightning fast browser that doesn’t sell you out.
FreeTube
Private Advert Free YouTube Browser
With many features similar to YouTube, FreeTube has become one of the best methods to watch YouTube privately & Advert Free on desktop.
GIMP
Photo Editor (Photoshop replacement)
Used for all of our image editing.
See also McGIMP listed below.
GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows and more operating systems. It is free software free software, you can change its source code and distribute your changes.
Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist, GIMP provides you with sophisticated tools to get your job done. You can further enhance your productivity with GIMP thanks to many customisation options and 3rd party plugins.
Gramps
Genealogy App
Research, organise and share your family tree with Gramps.
Gramps is a free software project and community. We strive to produce a genealogy program that is both intuitive for hobbyists and feature-complete for professional genealogists. It is a community project, created, developed and governed by genealogists.
HandBrake
Video Converter
HandBrake is a open-source tool, built by volunteers, for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.
Reasons you’ll love HandBrake:
- Convert video from nearly any format
- Free and Open Source
- Multi-Platform (Windows, Mac and Linux)
Whether you are an illustrator, designer, web designer or just someone who needs to create some vector imagery, Inkscape is for you!
- Flexible drawing tools
- Broad file format compatibility
- Powerful text tool
- Bezier and spiro curves
Kdenlive is an open source video editor. The project was started around 2003. Kdenlive is built on Qt and the KDE Frameworks libraries. Most of the video processing is done by the MLT Framework, which relies on many other open source projects like FFmpeg, frei0r, movit, ladspa, sox, etc…
Our software was designed to answer most needs, from basic video editing to professional work.
Kdenlive is developed by a small team and new contributors are welcome.
LibreCAD is a free Open Source CAD application for Windows, Apple and Linux. Support and documentation are free from our large, dedicated community of users, contributors and developers.
LibreOffice
Free replacement for MS Office
(The Document Foundation) (Document Liberation Project)
Used to create our Apple-Q HowTo Tutorials.
LibreOffice is a free and powerful office suite, and a successor to OpenOffice.org (commonly known as OpenOffice).
Its clean interface and feature-rich tools help you unleash your creativity and enhance your productivity.
GIMP (see above) with lots of additional plug-ins including G’mic.
Regain control
You should control your data.
We help you achieve that: a safe home for all your data. Secure, under your control and developed in an open, transparent and trustworthy way. We are Nextcloud.
Why on earth should I use Scribus?
- Because it’s reliable and Free.
- Scribus is being shipped with almost 200 colour palettes;
- Reliable PDF creation & offers a wide range of options with respect to PDF export.
Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customise – and it’s loaded with great features!
Waterfox Classic is a legacy web browser for older systems & Classic Firefox Extensions.
WordPress is open source software you can use to create a beautiful website, blog, or app. Beautiful designs, powerful features, and the freedom to build anything you want. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
