Applications

FOSS SOFTWARE RESOURCES

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has come a long way over the last decade. Today many of these are funded by major corporations around the world. Many of the applications in the list below are nearly equal in features and capabilities as their paid alternatives.

 

Free Open Source Software: Alternative to $$$:
LibreOffice - https://www.libreoffice.org/ Microsoft Office
Notepad++ : https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ Microsoft Notepad
Mozilla Thunderbird: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/ Microsoft Outlook
Dia Diagram: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dia-installer/ Microsoft Visio
FileZilla: https://filezilla-project.org/ File transfer software
GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/ Adobe Photoshop
Inkscape: https://inkscape.org/en/ Adobe Illustrator
Scribus: https://www.scribus.net/ Adobe InDesign
Lightworks: https://www.lwks.com/

Kdenlive: https://kdenlive.org/en/

Shotcut: https://shotcut.org/

DaVinci Resolve:

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve

Adobe Premiere
Natron: https://natron.fr/

Blender: https://www.blender.org/

Adobe After Effects
OpenToonz: https://opentoonz.github.io/e/ Toon Boom Harmony
Sculptris: http://pixologic.com/sculptris/ Zbrush
Bluefish: http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html

Blue Griffon: http://bluegriffon.org/

Seamonkey: https://www.seamonkey-project.org/

Adobe Dreamweaver
PDF Creator: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ Adobe Acrobat
Synfig Studio: https://www.synfig.org/ Adobe Animate
Audacity: https://www.audacityteam.org/ Adobe Audition
Rawtherapee: http://rawtherapee.com/

Dark Table: http://www.darktable.org/

Adobe Lightoom Classic
Blender: https://www.blender.org/ Adobe Character Animator
Libre Office Impress: https://www.libreoffice.org/ Adobe Spark Video
Handbrake: https://handbrake.fr/ Adobe Media Encoder
VLC: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ Media Player, Quicktime, RealPlayer
Blender: https://www.blender.org/ Autodesk Maya
Blender: https://www.blender.org/ Autodesk Mudbox
Nanocad: http://nanocad.com/

Freecad: https://freecadweb.org/

BRLCAD: http://brlcad.org/

Autodesk CAD
QGIS: https://qgis.org/en/site/ ESRI ArcGIS mapping software
PSPP: http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html SPSS Statistical Software
Octave: https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/

Scilab: http://www.scilab.org/

Sage Math: http://www.sagemath.org/index.html

Matlab
R Programming Language: https://www.r-project.org/ SAS