Audio and Video
Programs for creating, editing, and accessing audio and video.
Audacity
"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."
Has AI Features
Contains Downloadable Files
Does Not Have Ads
Ice Cream Apps
"When setting up Windows 10 and 11, Microsoft not only installs the operating system alone, but also a whole range of additional apps – some useful, some less so. O&O AppBuster allows you to remove the unwanted apps easily and quickly. Or, if you accidentally uninstalled one of these apps, you can also retrieve them with one click.
- Ebook Reader
- Image Resizer
- PDF Converter
- PDF Editor
- PDF Split & Merge
- Photo Editor
- Screen Recorder
- Slideshow Maker
- Video Converter
- Video Editor
Contains Downloadable Files
Does Not Have Ads
Kenney
"Thousands of completely free game assets for you to use."
Does Not Have Ads
Levelator
"The Levelator is a software that runs on Windows and OS X that adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file for variations from one speaker to the next, for example. It’s not a compressor, normalizer or limiter although it contains all three. It’s much more than those tools, and it’s much simpler to use. The UI is dirt-simple: Drag-and-drop any WAV or AIFF file onto The Leveler’s application window, and a few moments later you’ll find a new version which just sounds better."
Contains Downloadable Files
Has Ads
Handbrake
Rips DVDs from the disc, compresses video files.
Does Not Have Ads
JDownloader2
"JDownloader is a free, opensource download management tool with a huge community that makes downloading as easy and fast as it should be. Users can start, stop or pause downloads, set bandwith limitations, auto-extract archives and much more. It’s an easy-to-extend framework that can save hours of your valuable time every day!"
Contains Downloadable Files
Has Ads
Make MKV
"MKV stands for "Matroska Video". Matroska is a container file format, capable of holding unlimited number of video, audio and subtitile tracks, along with any metadata. Practically this means that it is possible to put entire movie with multiple sound and subtitle tracks, chapters information and movie thumbnail into single file. Being open and patent-free Matroska gained broad support recently and quickly becomes de-facto standard for storing movies."
Does Not Have Ads
Mix It Up
"Mix It Up Is A Free, Full Featured, Community Driven, opensource Stream Bot Developed BY Streamers FOR Streamers"
Contains Downloadable Files
Does Not Have Ads
Open Broadcaster Studio
"Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Download and start streaming quickly and easily on Windows, Mac or Linux."
Contains Downloadable Files
Does Not Have Ads
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."
Recommended by Robin
Contains Downloadable Files
Does Not Have Ads
Images
Image creation and processing.
Glaze
"Glaze is a system designed to protect human artists by disrupting style mimicry. At a high level, Glaze works by understanding the AI models that are training on human art, and using machine learning algorithms, computing a set of minimal changes to artworks, such that it appears unchanged to human eyes, but appears to AI models like a dramatically different art style." (Cannot be accessed through a VPN)
Contains Downloadable Files
Does Not Have Ads
Nightshade
"[A] tool that turns any image into a data sample that is unsuitable for model training. More precisely, Nightshade transforms images into "poison" samples, so that models training on them without consent will see their models learn unpredictable behaviors that deviate from expected norms, e.g. a prompt that asks for an image of a cow flying in space might instead get an image of a handbag floating in space." (Cannot be accessed through a VPN)
Contains Downloadable Files
Does Not Have Ads
Other
Miscellaneous other software.
1blocker
"The Most Beautiful & Powerful Ad Blocker for Safari. Enjoy a cleaner, faster, and more private web."
Contains Downloadable Files
Has a Mobile App
Does Not Have Ads
7-zip
"7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio... You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don’t need to register or pay for 7-Zip."
Recommended by Robin
Contains Downloadable Files
Does Not Have Ads
Alternative To
"AlternativeTo is a crowd-sourced and free site that helps you find better apps and services."
Has AI Features
Does Not Have Ads
BitWarden
"Bitwarden protects your online credentials from crafty hackers across all platforms with advanced features and cross-browser support to keep your digital life secure and private." Available as a browser extension.
Available as a desktop application (Windows, MacOS, Linux).
Available as a mobile application on the App Store (iOS), Google Play (Android), and F-Droid.
Does Not Have Ads
DuckDuckGo
"Free. Fast. Private. Get our browser on all your devices. Search and browse more privately with the DuckDuckGo browser. Unlike Chrome and other browsers, we don’t track you." Important notes:
Does not allow download of any browser extensions.
Offers an optional VPN option (paid).
Caveats - Has an AI chat option.
Has AI Features
Contains Downloadable Files
Has a Mobile App
Does Not Have Ads
HTTrack Website Copier
"HTTrack is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility."
"It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site’s relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system. "
Contains Downloadable Files
Does Not Have Ads
JSesh
"JSesh is a word processor, for ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts. It’s used in many professional egyptological publications: the IFAO, the JARCE, and all kinds of books."
Contains Downloadable Files
Does Not Have Ads
O&O ShutUp10++
"The free antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11". Lets you disable AI scraping and Cortana from a single interface.
Contains Downloadable Files
Does Not Have Ads
Plex
"When you’re here, you’re home. (And so is all your entertainment.)"
"We’re fans at heart. Of movies, shows, music, and well, all things entertainment. So much so that we built an app that brings it all together—streaming services, personal media, ratings and watch lists. As beautiful as it is easy-to-use, Plex gives fans everywhere a way to discover, save, and enjoy the entertainment they love the most."
Contains Downloadable Files
Does Not Have Ads
Privacy Badger
"Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically learns to block invisible trackers." This is especially useful for people who are not able to choose their browser, whether due to job requirements, website compatibility issues, or anything else which means their default browser allows for more tracking than they are comfortable with.
Does Not Have Ads
Rarebit
"A free, opensource WEBCOMIC TEMPLATE. Built in HTML and JavaScript".
Contains Downloadable Files
Does Not Have Ads
Ruby On Rails
"Rails is a web application development framework written in the Ruby programming language. It is designed to make programming web applications easier by making assumptions about what every developer needs to get started. It allows you to write less code while accomplishing more than many other languages and frameworks. Experienced Rails developers also report that it makes web application development more fun."
Does Not Have Ads
Sigil
"Sigil was designed to make it easy to create great ebooks using the EPUB format."
Does Not Have Ads