Look, I get it, we are all sick of subscriptions for software or paying for software that is often mediocre or aggravating. What if I told you that there is free software that is equally as good, and sometimes, better than alternatives? Look no further!
- 3D Modeling and animation – Blender
- Illustration / Drawing – https://inkscape.org/
- Network Traffic Analyzer – Wireshark
- Adblocking – uBlock Origin (find in browser extensions/add-ons)
- Video Recording and Live Streaming – https://obsproject.com/
- Video Editing – https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
- Video Transcoding – https://handbrake.fr/
- Convert Audio/Video – https://ffmpeg.org/
- Audio Editing – https://www.audacityteam.org/
- Music Composition and notation – https://musescore.com/
- File compression/extraction – https://7-zip.org/
- Media player (movies, DVDs, CDs, etc.) – https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
- Software development – https://code.visualstudio.com/
- Game Development – https://godotengine.org/
- Torrent – https://www.qbittorrent.org/
- Screen capturing tool – https://flameshot.org/
Alternatives to:
- Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader – https://tools.pdf24.org/en/
- Adobe Photoshop – https://www.getpaint.net/
- Notepad – https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
- Photo Viewer – https://www.irfanview.com/
- Kindle – https://calibre-ebook.com/
- Microsoft Office – https://www.libreoffice.org/
- Spotify / YouTube Music / Amazon Music / Netflix / Hulu / Disney+ – https://www.plex.tv/
- Audible or other audiobook software – Libby (on iPhone and Android)
- TurboTax – https://www.freetaxusa.com/