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Windows 11

You’ll be able to upgrade to Windows 11 for free if you’re already a Windows 10 user, and you can test out an early version now. Use the PC Health Check app to see if your PC will be able to run Microsoft’s new operating system.

Windows 11 Is Available Now. Here’s How to Download It

There are a few ways to download Microsoft’s latest operating system. We walk you through the steps.

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Windows 11 is on the way, and if you’re already a Windows 10 user, it will be free to upgrade to Microsoft’s newly redesigned operating system. (Find everything you need to know about Windows 11 here.) So long as your PC meets the minimum requirements, you’ll be able to update to Windows 11 the same way you usually update Windows 10 — once it starts rolling out during the 2021 holiday season and into 2022. (While we don’t have an exact date yet, Microsoft has dropped some hints that it could arrive as early as October.)
If you’re a member of the Windows Insider Program and just can’t wait until the final version arrives, you can download the first Windows 11 Insider Preview build today and test out some of the new features, like widgets, snap layouts, virtual desktops and the new Microsoft Store. We’ll tell you how below.

First, to see if your current Windows 10 PC is eligible for the free upgrade to Windows 11, check out Microsoft’s site for specifications. And if you buy a new PC between now and the general release, that computer will also be eligible for the free upgrade.

If you haven’t updated to Windows 10 yet, don’t worry — there’s a trick for downloading Windows 10 free that still works. Now would be a good time to make the switch to prepare your machine for the Windows 11 upgrade.
Read more: Android apps coming to Windows 11: Everything we know right now

How to download the Windows 11 Insider Preview build
If you’re a member of the Windows Insider Program (you can sign up now for free), you can download the first Insider Preview build of Windows 11 now. However, it’s important to note that beta versions, particularly early ones like this, tend to be buggy. You should never download a beta on your primary device, only on a tester device if you have one. For most people, it’s best to wait for the public beta to arrive in July, or better yet, the general release later in the year. This first build also does not include every new feature that will eventually arrive with the general release.
Still want to try it out? Here’s how.

1. Make sure you’re running a licensed version of Windows 10 on your device, and that you’re an administrator on the device. Register to join the Windows Insider Program if you haven’t already. Or sign into your Windows Insider account. Click Start flighting.
2. Go to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Insider Program. Click Get Started.
3. Under Pick an account to get started, select + to connect the Microsoft account you registered with and continue.
4. Follow the instructions to choose the experience and channel you want to get Insider Preview builds through: the Dev channel (for developers), the beta channel (for early adopters) or the release preview channel (for those who want to get the latest version just before it’s generally released). Note that this build is coming to the Dev channel.
5. Review the Privacy Statement and terms, and click confirm. Click Restart Now.
6. After restarting, make sure your data settings are correct so you can download preview builds. To do this, go to Settings > Privacy > Diagnostics & feedback, and make sure the Optional Diagnostic Data switch is flipped to On.
7. Go to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update. Click the Check for updates button. You should see the latest Insider Preview build based on the settings you selected.
From there, your device should update the same way it would with any other Windows update, and you’ll be good to go.
How to download Windows 11 once it’s generally available
Here’s how you’ll download Windows 11.
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Once Windows 11 becomes available to all Windows users with compatible computers this fall, you’ll download it the same way you would with any new version of Windows. Most users will go to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update and click Check for Updates. If available, you’ll see Feature update to Windows 11. Click Download and install.
Windows 11 features a streamlined new design, with pastel colors, rounded corners, a new startup sound and overall a more Mac-like look. The Windows Start menu has moved from the bottom left of the screen to the middle, with app icons arranged in the center next to it. You’ll find lots of new desktop tools, like widgets that can give you at-a-glance information, and easier virtual desktop creation. And Android apps will be integrated into Windows and installable from the Microsoft Store. (Check out all of the best Windows 11 features and how to use them.)

The update marks the first major change to Microsoft’s operating system since Windows 10 launched back in 2015. Rumors about a major Windows redesign have been circulating for the past year. At the Microsoft Build developers conference on May 25, CEO Satya Nadella said Microsoft was planning “one of the most significant updates of Windows of the past decade,” confirming that a major change was on the horizon for the 1.3 billion users of the OS in 2021. And in mid-June, Microsoft quietly announced that it would end support for Windows 10 in 2025 as leaked images of Windows 11 spread.
For more, check out everything we wanted to see in Windows 11 but didn’t, and all of the big differences between Windows 10 and Windows 11.
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Stay current on the latest Microsoft news, plus reviews and advice on Windows PCs.

See also

• Windows 11 reveal event: All the free upgrades coming this fall
• Windows 11: Price, compatibility, release date and features for the new OS
• Android apps are coming to Windows 11, and here’s what you should know
• Microsoft Teams is beefed up in Windows 11, and FaceTime better watch out

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Everything here isn’t Windows-only

source: https://github.com/auctors/free-lunch

Audio

• foobar2000 – An advanced freeware audio player.
• AIMP – A full-featured music player.
• MusicBee – A music manager and player.
• Museeks – A simple, clean and cross-platform music player.
• Dopamine – An elegant audio player which tries to make organizing and listening to music as simple and pretty as possible.
• Harmonoid – Elegant music app to play & manage music library. Lyrics & playlists.
• Strawberry Music Player – A music player and music collection organizer.
• DeaDBeeF – A modular cross-platform audio player.
• CPOD – A simple, beautiful podcast app.
• nuclear – Streaming music player that finds free music for you.
• Google Play Music™ Desktop Player – A beautiful cross platform Desktop Player for Google Play Music.
• YouTube Music Desktop App – A Desktop App for YouTube Music.
• Cider – An open source and community oriented Apple Music client.
• Spotube – A lightweight free Spotify crossplatform-client which handles playback manually, streams music using Youtube & no Spotify premium account is needed.
• Jamulus – Jamulus is for playing, rehearsing, or just jamming with your friends, your band or just anyone you find online.
• AirConnect – Use AirPlay to stream to UPnP/Sonos & Chromecast devices.
• Audacity – An easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder.
• Tenacity – An easy-to-use, privacy-friendly, FLOSS, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder.
• fre:ac – A free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders.
• MusicBrainz Picard – An open-source cross-platform music tagger.
• MuseScore – Create, playback, and print sheet music for free.
• LMMS – Cross-platform music production software.
• Mixxx – Free DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes.
• Helio Workstation – One music sequencer for all major platforms, desktop and mobile.
• Sonic Pi – A code-based music creation and performance tool.
• projectM – The most advanced open-source music visualizer.
• Friture – An application to visualize and analyze live audio data in real-time.
• AudioStellar – Open source data-driven musical instrument for latent sound structure discovery and music experimentation.
• Figaro – Real-time open-source voice modification program & sound board.
• Soundux – A cross-platform soundboard that features a simple user interface.
• Carla – A fully-featured audio plugin host, with support for many audio drivers and plugin formats.
• Equalizer APO – A system-wide equalizer.
• Peace Equalizer – A Windows PC interface for Equalizer APO.
• Real-time Noise Suppression Plugin – Noise suppression plugin based on Xiph’s RNNoise.
• SoundSwitch – SoundSwitch offers you the opportunity to switch your playback and recording devices using simple hotkeys.
• MicMute – Control your microphone using keyboard and mouse hotkeys.
• Mechvibes – Adds sound feedback any keyboard.

Video
Video Player

• Media Player – Media Player is designed to make listening to and watching your multimedia content more enjoyable.
• Rise Media Player – One media player for everything you own or stream.
• VLC – A free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project.
• MPC-BE – A free and open source audio and video player.
• MPC-HC – A free and open-source video and audio player.
• mpv – A free, open source, and cross-platform media player.
• mpv.net – A modern media player for Windows based on the popular mpv player.
• SMPlayer – Free Media Player with built-in codecs.
• Kawaii-Player – Multimedia player, media library manager and portable media server with PC-To-PC casting feature.
• FreeTube – An Open Source YouTube app for privacy.
• Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
• Invidious – An alternative front-end to YouTube.
• pogu.live – Watch any sub-only Twitch VOD for free.
• LBRY – A decentralized video sharing network.
• PeerTube – A free, decentralized and federated video platform developed as an alternative to other platforms that centralize our data and attention, such as YouTube, Dailymotion or Vimeo.
• Popcorn Time – A free BitTorrent client that includes an integrated media player.
• MotionMonkey – A semantic video player designed to stream Internet videos from a single query.
• Syncplay – Syncplay synchronises the position and play state of multiple media players so that the viewers can watch the same thing at the same time.
• Metastream – Watch streaming media with friends.
• OpenTogetherTube – The easy way to watch videos with your friends.
• WatchParty – A website for watching videos together.
• Pennywise – Cross-platform application to open any website or media in a floating window.

Video Editor

• DaVinci Resolve – DaVinci Resolve is the world’s only solution that combines editing, color correction, visual effects, motion graphics and audio post production all in one software tool!
• Shotcut – A free, open source, cross-platform video editor.
• OpenShot – An award-winning free and open-source video editor.
• Olive – Free open-source non-linear video editor.
• Kdenlive – Free and open source video editor.
• StaxRip – Video encoding GUI for Windows.
• Hitfilm Express – Free video editing software with professional-grade VFX tools and everything you need to make awesome content, films or gaming videos.
• Natron – Open-source video compositing software.
• Astrofox – A motion graphics program that lets turn audio into amazing videos.
• Mediabits.io – Mediabits.io lets anyone create engaging videos for their audio, perfect for sharing on social media.
• Kinovea – A video annotation tool designed for motion analysis.
• Clipchamp – Free online video editor.
• FFmpeg – A collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata.
• HandBrake – An open-source video transcoder.
• LosslessCut – The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing.
• VidCoder – An open-source DVD/Blu-ray ripping and video transcoding application.
• MKVToolNix – A set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska files under Linux, other Unices and Windows.
• av-converter – Convert audio/video files to another format.

Other

• Kodi – An award-winning free and open source software media player and entertainment hub for digital media for HTPCs (Home theater PCs).
• Jellyfin – A personal media server and client.
• Universal Media Server – A DLNA, UPnP and HTTP(S) Media Server.
• Macast – A menu bar application using mpv as DLNA Media Renderer.
• Webcamoid – A full featured and multiplatform webcam suite.
• Mini Video Me – A small webcam player focused on providing an easy way to add and control your webcam during recordings.
• Anime4KCPP – A high performance anime upscaler.
• DVDStyler – A cross-platform free DVD authoring application.
• Subtitle Edit – A free editor for video subtitles.
• SubSync – An automatic movie subtitle synchronization tool.
• Subliminal – A command line tool to search and download subtitles.
• Mediarepo – A tool for managing media files.
• Stash – An organizer for your porn, written in Go.
• IPTV – Collection of publicly available IPTV channels from all over the world.
• Glimesh – A next generation live streaming platform built by the community, for the community.

Graphics
Screenshot and Screen Recorder

• Flameshot – Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software.
• Greenshot – A light-weight screenshot software tool.
• Snipaste – A simple but powerful snipping tool.
• Ksnip – A Qt-based cross-platform screenshot tool that provides many annotation features for your screenshots.
• ShareX – A free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key.
• ScreenToGif – Screen, webcam, and board recorder with an integrated editor.
• Fluent Screen Recorder – A simple screen recorder built with UWP and featuring Fluent Design.
• OBS Studio – Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording.
• Streamlabs – Free and open source streaming software built on OBS and Electron.
• Captura – Capture Screen, Audio, Cursor, Mouse Clicks and Keystrokes.
• ScreenREC – A really simple web screen recorder.

Image

• ImageGlass – A lightweight, versatile image viewer.
• nomacs – A free, open source image viewer.
• IrfanView – A very fast, compact and innovative FREEWARE image viewer/converter.
• NeeView – A Free and Open Source, modern and powerful image viewer and a manga/comic reader.
• Quick Picture Viewer – Lightweight, versatile desktop image viewer.
• qView – Practical and minimal image viewer.
• GIMP – A cross-platform image editor.
• PhotoGIMP – A patch for optimizing GIMP 2.10+ for Adobe Photoshop users.
• Paint.NET – Free image and photo editing software.
• Inkscape – A free and open-source vector graphics editor.
• ImageMagick – A software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images.
• PhotoDemon – A portable photo editor.
• Photopea – Online photo editor.
• miniPaint – Online image editor lets you create, edit images using HTML5 technologies.
• FotoSketcher – Turn your photos into beautiful paintings, sketches or drawings in seconds.
• Polotno Studio – Free online design editor.
• Milton – A free and open-source infinite canvas paint program.
• Screenshot.rocks – An online tool which allows you to create beautiful mobile & browser mockups from screenshots.
• Cleanup.Picture – A free web application that lets you quickly cleanup or remove objects in any image.
• BackgroundRemover – A free web application that lets you Remove Background from images and video.
• Remove.bg – Remove background from images 100% automatically in 5 seconds without a single click.
• darktable – An open source photography workflow application and raw developer.
• RawTherapee – A powerful cross-platform raw photo processing program.
• Filmulator – Simplified raw editing with the power of film.
• digiKam – An advanced digital photo management application.
• Krita – A free and open source digital painting application.
• Pinta – A free, open source program for drawing and image editing.
• Drawpile – A collaborative drawing program.
• tldraw – A tiny little drawing app.
• AutoDraw – An intuitive drawing tool for everyone.
• Excalidraw – Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams.
• OpenBoard – A cross-platform interactive whiteboard application intended for use in a classroom setting.
• WBO – Online collaborative Whiteboard that is simple, free, easy to use and to deploy.
• Imagine – A desktop app for compression of PNG and JPEG, with a modern and friendly UI.
• Caesium – A cross-platform image compression software.
• Caesium Image Compressor – An image compression web app.
• Squoosh – An image compression web app that reduces image sizes through numerous formats.

2D and 3D

• Synfig Studio – A free and open-source 2D animation software.
• OpenToonz – An open-source full-featured 2D animation creation software.
• Pencil2D – An easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations.
• Wick Editor – A free and open-source tool for creating games, animations and everything in-between!
• Blender – Free and Open Source 3D creation suite.
• FreeCAD – An open-source parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size.
• OpenSCAD – The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller.
• MeshLab – The open source mesh processing system.
• Sweet Home 3D – A free interior design application which helps you draw the plan of your house, arrange furniture on it and visit the results in 3D.
• F3D – A fast and minimalist 3D viewer.

Other

• Graphviz – Open source graph visualization software.
• Gephi – Gephi is the leading visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks.
• LibreSprite – A free and open source program for creating and animating your sprites.
• Shape Shifter – A web-app that simplifies the creation of icon animations for Android, iOS, and the web.
• gInk – An easy to use on-screen annotation software inspired by Epic Pen.
• LiveDraw – A tool allows you to draw on screen real-time.
• Storyboarder – Storyboarder makes it easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures.
• gImageReader – A simple Gtk/Qt front-end to tesseract-ocr.
• Colorpicker – A mininal but complete colorpicker desktop app.
• Avataaars generator – Simple generator React app for avataaars.
• Personas by Draftbit – A delightful avatar generator by the folks at Draftbit.
• macOS Big Sur – Replacements Icons – Replacement icons for popular apps in the style of macOS Big Sur.

Browser and Extension
Browser

• Firefox – Get the browser that protects what’s important.
• LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.
• Brave – A fast, private and secure web browser.
• Chromium – The free and open-source project behind Google Chrome.
• Tor Browser – A web broswer that anonymizes your web traffic using the Tor network.
• Chrome – A web browser built for speed, stability and security.
• Min – A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy.

Extension

• uBlock Origin – An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.
• AdNauseam – Fight back against advertising surveillance.
• ClearURLs – This extension will automatically remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy when browsing the Internet.
• LocalCDN – A web browser extension that emulates Content Delivery Networks to improve your online privacy.
• LibRedirect – A web extension that redirects popular sites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends and backends.
• Mailvelope – Browser extension for OpenPGP encryption with Webmail.
• Violentmonkey – An open source userscript manager.
• Automa – A chrome extension for automating your browser by connecting blocks.
• Omni – The all-in-one tool to supercharge your productivity keyboard.
• Memex – Browser Extension to full-text search your browsing history & bookmarks.
• Dark Reader – Dark Reader analyzes web pages and aims to reduce eyestrain while browsing the web.
• Bypass Paywalls – A web browser extension to help bypass paywalls for selected sites.
• Search by Image – A browser extension that makes effortless reverse image searches possible, and comes with support for more than 30 search engines.
• Read Aloud – A Text to Speech Voice Reader extension for your browser!
• Translate Web Pages – Translate your page in real time using Google or Yandex.
• Screenity – The most powerful screen recorder & annotation tool for Chrome.
• Marinara – A time management assistant for Chrome that follows the Pomodoro Technique.
• nightTab – A neutral new tab page accented with a chosen colour.
• xBrowserSync – Free and open source tool for syncing your browser data between browsers and devices whilst maintaining your privacy and anonymity.
• Floccus – Sync your bookmarks privately across browsers.
• Gesturefy – Navigate, operate, and browse faster with mouse gestures! A customizable Firefox mouse gesture add-on with a variety of different commands.

Communications
Email

• Protonmail – An email provider/service that respects privacy and puts people first.
• Tutanota – Tutanota is the secure email service with built-in end-to-end encryption that enables you to communicate securely with anyone on all your devices.
• Thunderbird – Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize – and it’s loaded with great features!
• Delta Chat – Chat over e-mail.
• Mailspring – A beautiful, fast and fully open source mail client.
• AnonAddy – Anonymous Email Forwarding.
• SimpleLogin – Receive and send emails anonymously.
• Burner.kiwi – No bullshit temporary mail service written in Go.
• MailDrop – A quick, disposable email.
• Guerrilla Mail – A disposable email.

IM

• Signal – Signal is a messaging app with an unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all the features expected from a modern IM app.
• Element – Secure and independent communication, connected via Matrix.
• Session – Session is an end-to-end encrypted messenger that minimises sensitive metadata, designed and built for people who want absolute privacy and freedom from any form of surveillance.
• Franz – Messaging app for WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram, HipChat, Hangouts and many many more.
• Hamsket – Free messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one.
• Jitsi Meet – Free Jitsi Meet instance, provising state-of-the-art video conferencing.
• Revolt – User-first chat platform built with modern web technologies.

Social Media

• Mastodon – Globally interconnected microblogging community.
• Lemmy – A link aggregator / Reddit clone for the fediverse.
• WriteFreely – A clean, simple publishing platform made for writers.

Downloader

• youtube-dl – Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites.
• YT-DLP – A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes.
• You-Get – A tiny command-line utility to download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the Web.
• Lux – A fast and simple video downloader built with Go.
• Tartube – A GUI front-end for youtube-dl.
• Hitomi Downloader – Desktop utility to download images/videos/music/text from various websites, and more.
• Video Downloader – A video and channel downloader that supports 110 websites.
• YoutubeDownloader – YoutubeDownloader is an application that lets you download videos from YouTube.
• Streamlink – A CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player.
• qBittorrent – qBittorrent aims to be a good alternative to all other bittorrent clients out there.
• Transmission – A fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client.
• PicoTorrent – A tiny and minimal BitTorrent client.
• WebTorrent – The streaming torrent app.
• Instant.io – Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent (torrents on the web).
• Free Download Manager – A powerful modern download accelerator and organizer.
• Motrix – A full-featured download manager.
• FireDM – A good open-source internet download manager.
• JDownloader – A free, open-source download management tool.
• XDM – Powerfull download accelerator and video downloader.
• Persepolis – A download manager & a GUI for Aria2.
• AriaNg-Native – A better aria2 desktop frontend than AriaNg, containing all features of AriaNg and more features for desktop.
• N_m3u8DL-CLI – A command line tool for downloading m3u8.
• Twitch Leecher – An extremely fast and easy to use Twitch VOD downloader.
• SpotiFlyer – Kotlin Multiplatform Music Downloader ,supports Spotify, Youtube, Gaana, Jio-Saavn and SoundCloud.
• HakuNeko – A cross-platform downloader for manga and anime from various websites.
• AllTube Download – Web GUI for youtube-dl.
• Ytmdl – A simple app to get songs from YouTube in mp3 format with artist name, album name etc from sources like iTunes, Spotify, LastFM, Deezer, Gaana etc.

News and Books
News

• QuiteRSS – Free news feeds reader.
• Raven Reader – Raven is a open source desktop news reader with flexible settings to optimize your experience.
• Fluent Reader – Modern desktop RSS reader.

Books

• Okular – Okular is a universal document viewer developed by KDE.
• Sumatra PDF – Sumatra PDF is a free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) viewer for Windows.
• Sioyek – A PDF viewer designed for reading research papers and technical books.
• calibre – An e-book manager.
• Koodo Reader – A modern ebook manager and reader.
• Libation – Audible audiobook manager.
• AudiobookSuite – A WPF application with the goal of providing an easy to use local audiobook library and player for modern Windows systems.
• Thorium Reader – Thorium Reader is the best free reading application for EPUB, PDF and DAISY 3 ebooks, audiobooks and digital comics.
• YACReader – Yet another comic reader.
• Sigil – A multi-platform EPUB ebook editor.
• PDF Arranger – Small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split pdf documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface.
• PDFsam – A desktop application to extract pages, split, merge, mix and rotate PDF files.
• Kiwix – An offline reader for online content like Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, or TED Talks.
• ZLibrary – The world’s largest ebook library.
• Sci-Hub – A shadow library website that provides free access to millions of research papers and books.
• Library Genesis – A file-sharing based shadow library website.
• Project Gutenberg – A library of over 60,000 free eBooks.
• Open Library – An open, editable library catalog.
• Internet Archive – A non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
• Mind Expanding Books – Books everyone should read!
• Books – Awesome Book Lists.

Games

• itch.io – An online game marketplace and community.
• GOG GALAXY – Truly gamer friendly, DRM-free online gaming platform.
• Playnite – An open source video game library manager and launcher with support for 3rd party libraries like Steam, GOG, Origin, Battle.net and Uplay.
• RetroArch – A frontend for emulators, game engines and media players.
• Moonlight PC – An open source implementation of NVIDIA’s GameStream.
• Minetest – An open source voxel game engine.
• Warzone 2100 – A ground-breaking and innovative 3D real-time strategy game.
• 0 A.D. – A free, open-source game of ancient warfare.
• Widelands – A free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode.
• Mindustry – A sandbox tower defense game written in Java.
• Wesnoth – An open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme.
• Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead – A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
• Thrive – A free, open-source game about the evolution of life.
• Unciv – Open-source Android/Desktop remake of Civ V.
• SuperTuxKart – A free kart racing game.
• Xonotic – An addictive, arena-style first person shooter with crisp movement and a wide array of weapons.
• FlightGear – An open-source flight simulator.
• Endless Sky – A space exploration and combat game similar to Escape Velocity.
• osu! – A free-to-win rhythm game. Rhythm is just a click away!
• Lichess – The complete chess experience, play and compete with friends and others around the world.

File Management

• 7-Zip – A file archiver with a high compression ratio.
• NanaZip – The 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience.
• PeaZip – Free Zip / Unzip software and Rar file extractor. Cross-platform file and archive manager. Features volume spanning, compression, authenticated encryption.
• Files – A modern file manager.
• Xplorer – A customizable, modern and cross-platform File Explorer.
• Double Commander – A free cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side.
• Sigma File Manager – A free, open-source, quickly evolving, modern file manager app.
• Far Manager – A program for managing files and archives in Windows operating systems.
• Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly.
• EverythingToolbar – Everything integration for the Windows taskbar.
• Orange – A cross-platform desktop application for searching local files.
• Czkawka – Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.
• dupeGuru – A cross-platform GUI tool to find duplicate files in a system.
• Video Duplicate Finder – A cross-platform software to find duplicated video (and image) files on hard disk based on similiarity.
• Ant Renamer – A free program that makes easier the renaming of lots of files and folders by using specified settings.
• File Renamer Diff – A File Renamer App featuring a difference display before and after the change for Windows.
• WinMerge – An Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows.
• Pandoc – Universal markup converter.
• File Converter – A very simple tool which allows you to convert and compress one or several file(s) using the context menu of windows explorer.
• Dangerzone – Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to a safe PDF.
• Convertio – Easy tool to convert files online.

Backup and Sync

• Dropbox – A file hosting service.
• Google Drive – A file storage and synchronization service developed by Google.
• OneDrive – A file hosting service operated by Microsoft.
• Nextcloud – A suite of client-server software for creating and using file hosting services.
• MEGA – A secure, user-controlled end-to-end encrypted cloud storage and communications service with 20 GB free storage space.
• Sync – A file storage and document collaboration platform.
• Tresorit – Tresorit is the ultra-secure place in the cloud to store, sync, and share files within your organization and with external partners.
• Internxt Drive – A zero-knowledge cloud storage service based on best-in-class privacy and security.
• Rclone – A command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers.
• Duplicati – Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!
• Kopia – A simple, cross-platform tool for managing encrypted backups in the cloud.
• restic – Fast, secure, efficient backup program.
• Duplicacy – A new generation cloud backup tool.
• Syncthing – A continuous file synchronization program.
• Cyberduck – A libre FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3, Backblaze B2, Azure & OpenStack Swift browser.
• UrBackup – UrBackup is an easy to setup Open Source client/server backup system, that through a combination of image and file backups accomplishes both data safety and a fast restoration time.
• Macrium Reflect Free – The complete backup solution for personal use.
• Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows Free & Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition – The free backup software to protect virtual, physical and cloud workloads.
• Ludusavi – A tool for backing up your PC video game save data.
• ChoEazyCopy – Simple and powerful RoboCopy GUI.
• Ultracopier – Ultracopier acts as a replacement for files copy dialogs.

File Sharing

• WinSCP – A popular free SFTP and FTP client for Windows.
• OpenSSH – Windows Optional Features. OpenSSH is a complete implementation of the SSH protocol (version 2) for secure remote login, command execution and file transfer.
• SFTPGo – Fully featured and highly configurable SFTP server with optional HTTP/S, FTP/S and WebDAV support.
• LANDrop – A cross-platform tool that you can use to conveniently transfer photos, videos, and other types of files to other devices on the same local network.
• Sharik – An open-source, cross-platform solution for sharing files via Wi-Fi or Mobile Hotspot.
• Winpinator – Send and receive files across a local network.
• Flying Carpet – Wireless, encrypted file transfer over automatically configured ad hoc networking.
• miniserve – A CLI tool to serve files and dirs over HTTP.
• OnionShare – An open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network.
• croc – A CLI file-transfer tool.
• Magic Wormhole – Get things from one computer to another, safely.
• Rymdport – A GUI for the Magic Wormhole.
• Tresorit Send – Send big files up to 5 GB securely.
• Send – Simple, private file sharing.
• Disroot Upload – Anonymous file sharing services with temporary storage.
• FileSend – Simple, encrypted file sharing.
• SwissTransfer – Send files up to 50 GB free of charge.
• pic.infini – A free and anonymous image hosting service.
• Snapdrop – A Progressive Web App for local file sharing.
• ShareDrop – Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC.
• FilePizza – Peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser.
• Blaze – A P2P file sharing web app.
• Wormhole – Simple, private file sharing.
• I2P – The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is a fully encrypted private network layer.
• Freenet – Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant and privacy-respecting publishing and communication.
• IPFS – A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open.

Productivity
Office

• LibreOffice – A free and powerful office suite.
• Google Docs – Free online document editor.
• Microsoft Office Online – Collaborate for free with online versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote.
• CryptPad – A collaboration suite that is end-to-end-encrypted and open-source.
• Grist – Grist is a modern relational spreadsheet.
• Sozi – A presentation tool for SVG documents.

Notes

• Joplin – A free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks.
• Standard Notes – A free, open-source, and completely encrypted notes app.
• Cryptee – Cryptee is a privacy focused, encrypted and secure documents, notes, files and photos service.
• SilentNotes – A simple note taking app which respects your privacy.
• Simplenote – The simplest way to keep notes.
• Focalboard – An open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.
• Notable – The Markdown-based note-taking app.
• MarkText – A simple and elegant markdown editor.
• Trilium Notes – A hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases.
• Logseq – A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration.
• Zettlr – A Markdown Editor for the 21st century.
• AppFlowy – An open-source alternative to Notion.
• Foam – A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode.
• Athens – An open-source knowledge graph that helps individuals and organizations solve complex problems by enabling them to capture, compose, and recombine ideas.
• QOwnNotes – A plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with markdown support and Nextcloud / ownCloud integration.
• Obsidian – A powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
• Mini Diary – Simple and secure journal app.
• linked – Daily journaling without distraction.
• Leaflet – POSP official notes application, written in flutter, beautiful, fast and secure.
• Lorien – An infinite canvas drawing/note-taking app that is focused on performance, small savefiles and simplicity.
• Xournal++ – A handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support.
• Microsoft journal – Microsoft Journal is a notetaking application that focuses on the inking experience.

Other

• Manuskript – A open-source tool for writers.
• bibisco – An open source application for writing novels.
• novelWriter – An open source plain text editor designed for writing novels.
• Scribus – An open source desktop publishing software.
• TeXstudio – A fully featured LaTeX editor.
• Super Productivity – To-do list & time tracker for programmers & designers.
• Kanban Tasker – A simple personal kanban board.
• sleek – A todo app based on todo.txt.
• TagSpaces – An offline, open source, document manager with tagging support.
• Knowledge Canvas – With Knowledge Canvas, you can import almost any digital resource and use it to build your own personal Knowledge Base.
• Paperwork – Paperwork is a personal document manager. It manages scanned documents and PDFs.
• drawio-desktop – An open source technology stack for building diagramming applications.
• draw.io – Free online diagram software.
• Heimer – A simple cross-platform mind map, diagram, and note-taking tool written in Qt.
• My Mind – My Mind is a web application for creating and managing Mind maps.
• Wireflow – Flow chart collaboration app.
• ASCIIFlow – A client-side only web based application for drawing ASCII diagrams.
• Datawrapper – An open source tool helping everyone to create simple, correct and embeddable charts in minutes.
• RAWGraphs – An open web tool to create custom vector-based visualizations on top of the amazing d3.js library.
• Google Data Studio – Data visualization and business intelligence (BI) platform.
• Microsoft Power BI – With this powerful authoring tool, you can create interactive data visualizations and reports.
• Reactive Resume – A free and open source resume builder.
• Resumake – A website for automatically generating elegant LaTeX resumes.
• ueli – This is a keystroke launcher for Windows and macOS.
• Flow launcher – Quick file search & app launcher for Windows with community-made plugins.
• Cerebro – Open-source productivity booster with a brain.
• espanso – A cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust.
• Beeftext – A text snippet tool for Windows.
• Ditto – Ditto is an extension to the standard windows clipboard.
• CopyQ – CopyQ is advanced clipboard manager with editing and scripting features.
• Clipboard Canvas – A tool that helps you be productive, preview multiple files on Infinite Canvas, save storage space with smart Reference Files, and work uninterruptibly with Autopaste.
• XClipper – A clipboard manager for Windows & Android which helps to track clipboard activities and makes it easier to interact with them.
• AutoHotkey – A free, open source macro-creation and automation software utility that allows users to automate repetitive tasks.
• Power Automate – Power Automate allows you to automate web and desktop applications on your Windows desktop by mimicking the user interface actions like clicks, and keyboard input.
• AutoActions – Application-based actions to change Windows settings ( display, audio) or run any program or action.
• Phone Link – Link your Android phone and PC to view and reply to text messages, make and receive calls, view your notifications, and more.
• KDE Connect – Enabling communication between all your devices.
• QuickLook – Bring macOS “Quick Look” feature to Windows.
• DropPoint – Make drag-and-drop easier using DropPoint.

Health and Fitness

• Ambie – The best white noise app on Windows.
• f.lux – f.lux warms up your screen at night to help you relax and wind down before bed.
• LightBulb – An application that reduces eyestrain produced by staring at a computer screen when working late hours.
• Eyes Guard – A Windows application for protecting your eyes when you are working with your PC or Laptop.
• Workrave – A free program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI).
• Pomatez – An open-source Pomodoro timer application aimed for simplicity and productivity.
• Pomotroid – Simple and visually-pleasing Pomodoro timer.
• Stretchly – The break time reminder app.
• ActivityWatch – The best free and open-source automated time tracker.
• Strategr – No-Fuss Time Management App.
• Nomie – Open-source mood and life tracking.
• Habitica – A habit tracker app which treats your goals like a Role Playing Game.
• QMapShack – An intuitive and efficient tool for route planning and GPS recordings visualization.

Personal Finance

• Money – Personal Expense Manager.
• My Budget – Free, open source offline cross-platform budgeting solution built with Electron.
• Money Manager Ex – A free, open-source, cross-platform, easy-to-use personal finance software.
• GnuCash – GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software.
• KMyMoney – A cross-platform personal finance manager.
• grocy – A web-based self-hosted groceries & household management solution for your home.
• CryptoTracker – Simple yet powerful cryptocurrency portfolio tracker designed with simplicity and functionality in mind.
• rotki – A portfolio tracking, analytics, accounting and tax reporting application that protects your privacy.

Education

• Crow Translate – A simple and lightweight translator.
• LanguageTool – Checks your writing in more than 20 languages.
• DeepL Translator – A neural machine translation service.
• Lingva Translate – Alternative front-end for Google Translate.
• Zotero – A free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.
• JabRef – An open-source, cross-platform citation and reference management tool.
• Qiqqa – Qiqqa is award-winning research management software, designed for commercial and academic researchers.
• GCompris – A high quality educational software suite.
• Scratch – With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations.
• freeCodeCamp.org – Learn to code for free with millions of other people around the world.
• The Odin Project – An open-source curriculum for learning full-stack web development.
• Stellarium – A free open source planetarium for your computer.
• Celestia – Real-time 3D visualization of space.
• Avogadro – An advanced molecular editor designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas.
• Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards.
• Tabby– Simple timetable desktop app to track your school schedule.
• Qalculate! – A multi-purpose cross-platform desktop calculator.
• Orange Data Mining – A data mining and visualization toolbox for novice and expert alike.
• GeoGebra – Free digital tools for class activities, graphing, geometry, collaborative whiteboard and more.
• BOINC – Open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing.
• Gramps – Research, organize and share your family tree with Gramps.
• Scilab – Open source software for numerical computation.
• GNU Octave – A programming language for scientific computing.
• ZoteroBib – ZoteroBib helps you build a bibliography instantly from any computer or device, without creating an account or installing any software.
• edX – Free online courses by Harvard, MIT.
• Khan Academy – A personalized learning resource for all ages.
• Coursera – Free and paid courses on a wide variety of subjects from scholastic to technical and more.

Personalization

• Rainmeter – Desktop customization tool for Windows.
• Open-Shell-Menu – Classic Shell Reborn.
• SystemTrayMenu – Browse and open your files easily.
• Lively Wallpaper – Free and open-source software that allows users to set animated desktop wallpapers and screensavers.
• ScreenPlay – Modern, Cross Plattform, Live Wallpaper, Widgets and AppDrawer!
• WinDynamicDesktop – WinDynamicDesktop ports the Dynamic Desktop feature from macOS Mojave to Windows 10.
• SpaceEye – Make live satellite imagery your desktop background with SpaceEye.
• Superpaper – A cross-platform multi monitor wallpaper manager.
• Windows Auto Dark Mode – Switches between the dark and light theme of Windows at scheduled times.
• TranslucentTB – TranslucentTB offers you control over the appearance of your taskbar.
• RoundedTB – Add margins, rounded corners and segments to your taskbars!
• TaskbarX – TaskbarX gives you control over the position of your taskbar icons.
• EarTrumpet – A powerful volume control app for Windows.
• TrafficMonitor – A network monitoring suspension window software on Windows platform.
• OpenNetMeter – A simple program to monitor your network/data usage.
• TileIconifier – Creates tiles for most Windows 8.1 and 10 start menu icons.
• ModernFlyouts – A modern Fluent Design replacement for the old Metro themed flyouts present in Windows.
• ElevenClock – Have a customizable clock on your Windows 11 displays.
• Twinkle Tray – Easily manage the brightness of your monitors in Windows from the system tray.
• Monitorian – A Windows desktop tool to adjust the brightness of multiple monitors with ease.
• Taskbar Groups – Lightweight utility for organizing the taskbar through groups.
• Audio Band – Display and control songs from the Windows taskbar.
• RunCat_for_windows – A cute running cat animation on your windows taskbar.
• Desktop Pet (eSheep) – This project gives you the possibility to add a pet to your desktop.
• AirPodsDesktop – AirPods desktop user experience enhancement program.
• Custom Context Menu – Add Custom Context Menu For Windows11.
• ContextMenuManager – A program to manage the Windows right-click context menu.
• ExplorerPatcher – This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows.
• ThisIsWin11 – ThisIsWin11 lets you customize Windows 11 all in one place.

Network and Admin
Remote Desktop

• Chrome Remote Desktop – The easy way to remotely connect with your home or work computer, or share your screen with others.
• DWService – Remotely access your devices from a Web browser.
• AnyDesk – Your Remote Desktop Software for Windows.
• Quick Assist – Quick Assist is a new app in Windows 10 that enables you to receive or provide assistance over a remote connection.
• scrcpy – Display and control your Android device.
• adb – A versatile command-line tool that lets you communicate with a device.
• Microsoft Remote Desktop – Use the Microsoft Remote Desktop app to connect to a remote PC or virtual apps and desktops made available by your admin.
• TightVNC – A free remote desktop application.
• TigerVNC – TigerVNC is a high-performance, platform-neutral implementation of VNC, a client/server application that allows users to launch and interact with graphical applications on remote machines.
• Weylus – Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on your computer.
• ZeroTier – A smart programmable Ethernet switch for planet Earth.
• Tailscale – A mesh VPN alternative that makes it easy to connect your devices.
• ScreenTask – Share your screen across local devices without internet.
• Deskreen – A desktop app that turns any device with a web browser into a secondary screen for your computer over WiFi.
• RustDesk – Yet another remote desktop software.
• Screego – Screego allows you to share your screen with good quality and low latency.
• PRemoteM – A modern personal remote session manager and launcher.
• mRemoteNG – An open source, multi-protocol, tabbed remote connections manager.
• Veyon – Cross-platform computer monitoring and classroom management.

Network Monitors

• Wireshark – The world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer.
• GlassWire – A network security monitoring tool and analyzer.
• Fiddler – A Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet.
• NETworkManager – A powerful tool for managing networks and troubleshoot network problems.
• Angry IP Scanner – Fast and friendly network scanner.

Other

• SwitchHosts – SwitchHosts is an App for managing hosts file.
• Wifinian – A Windows desktop tool to enable user to actively control Wi-Fi connections.
• LibreSpeed – This is a very lightweight Speedtest implemented in Javascript, using XMLHttpRequest and Web Workers.

Development

• Notepads – A modern, lightweight text editor with a minimalist design.
• Notepad++ – A free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.
• Kate – A multi-document text editor.
• Lapce – Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust.
• Visual Studio Code – A free, lightweight, and extensible code editor.
• VSCodium – VSCodium is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VS Code.
• StackEdit – In-browser Markdown editor.
• Dillinger – A cloud-enabled, mobile-ready, offline-storage compatible, AngularJS-powered HTML5 Markdown editor.
• PowerToys – Windows system utilities to maximize productivity.
• DevToys – A Swiss Army knife for developers.
• Radiograph – Universal tool for managing your computer.
• Windows Terminal – The Windows Terminal is a modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL.
• Fluent Terminal – A Terminal Emulator based on UWP and web technologies.
• PowerShell – A task-based command-line shell and scripting language built on .NET.
• Tabby – A highly configurable terminal emulator, SSH and serial client.
• Docker – Enterprise-focused container platform for building, sharing, and running any application.
• Hyper-V – Hyper-V is Microsoft’s hardware virtualization product.
• VirtualBox – A powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use.
• WSL – Windows Subsystem for Linux.
• WSA – Windows Subsystem for Android.
• wsa_pacman – A GUI package manager and package installer for Windows Subsystem for Android.
• Magisk on WSA – Integrate Magisk root and Google Apps (OpenGApps) into WSA (Windows Subsystem for Android).
• AltStore – An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices.
• Windows Sandbox – Windows Sandbox provides a lightweight desktop environment to safely run applications in isolation.
• Sandboxie – A sandbox-based isolation software for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows NT-based operating systems.

Utilities
Package Managers

• Chocolatey – The package manager for Windows.
• Chocolatey GUI – A delicious GUI for Chocolatey.
• Scoop – A command-line installer for Windows.
• winget – Microsoft’s open-source CLI packager manager for Windows.
• winstall – A web app for browsing and installing Windows Package Manager apps.
• PortableApps.com – A website offering many free, commonly used Windows applications that have been specially packaged for portability.
• GeekUninstaller – A portable software uninstaller.
• BCUninstaller – A free program uninstaller.

Hardware Monitoring

• CrystalDiskMark – A simple storage benchmark.
• GSmartControl – Hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool.
• Fan Control – A focused, highly customizable fan controlling software for Windows.
• NBFC – A cross-platform fan control service for notebooks.
• Sidebar Diagnostics – A simple sidebar for Windows desktop that displays hardware diagnostic information.
• Open Hardware Monitor – The Open Hardware Monitor is a free open source software that monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds of a computer.
• Libre Hardware Monitor – A fork of Open Hardware Monitor.

Other

• Rufus – A utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives.
• Ventoy – A Multiboot Bootable USB Creation Tool.
• Etcher – A powerful OS image flasher.
• UNetbootin – UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions without burning a CD.
• USBImager – A very minimal GUI app that can write compressed disk images to USB drives.
• UUP Media Creator – An utility to convert Unified Update Platform file sets into Windows Media files.
• UUP dump – Download UUP files from Windows Update servers with ease.
• Driver Store Explorer – Driver Store Explorer [RAPR] makes it easier to deal with Windows driver store.
• Sysinternals Suite – A bundle of the Sysinternals utilities including Process Explorer, Process Monitor, Sysmon, Autoruns, ProcDump, all of the PsTools, and many more.
• Process Hacker – A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware.
• NSudo – NSudo is a system management tool for advanced users to launch programs with full privileges.
• FontForge – Free (libre) font editor for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux.
• Shutdown Timer Classic – Pick a time and let your computer shutdown itself.
• Barrier – Open-source KVM software.
• X-Mouse Controls – Windows utility to enable or disable active window tracking, raising and also the delay in milliseconds.
• Mouse Jiggler – A very simple piece of software whose sole function is to “fake” mouse input to Windows, and jiggle the mouse pointer back and forth.
• SharpKeys – A utility that manages a Registry key that allows Windows to remap one key to any other key.
• OpenRGB – Open source RGB lighting control that doesn’t depend on manufacturer software.
• NVDA – The free and open source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows.
• Scanner – An all-in-one scanner app built for the Universal Windows Platform.
• WinCompose – A compose key for Windows.
• AltSnap – Easily drag windows when pressing the alt key.
• BleachBit – BleachBit cleans files to free disk space and to maintain privacy.
• Eraser – A secure data removal tool for Windows.
• Permadelete – An easy to use and beautiful app for shredding files and folders permanently.
• Turbo Delete – A blazing fast alternative to the default Windows delete.
• TestDisk – A powerful free data recovery software.
• Windows File Recovery – A command-line software utility from Microsoft to recover deleted files.
• DMDE – A powerful tool for data searching, editing, and recovery on disks.
• TreeSize Free – The disk space manager TreeSize Free tells you where precious disk space has gone.
• WizTree – The fastest disk space analyzer.
• Filelight – An application to visualize the disk usage on your computer.
• CompactGUI – Visual Interface for the Windows 10 Compact Function.

Privacy and Security
Encryption Tools

• Bitlocker – BitLocker is capable of encrypting entire hard drives, including both system and data drives.
• VeraCrypt – Disk encryption with strong security based on TrueCrypt.
• Hat.sh – Encrypt and Decrypt files securely in your browser.
• Cryptomator – Multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud.
• Boxcryptor – An easy-to-use encryption software optimized for the cloud.
• Gnupg – A complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by PGP.
• Age – A simple, modern and secure encryption tool.
• Picocrypt – A very small, very simple, yet very secure encryption tool.
• cppcryptfs – An implementation of the gocryptfs encrypted overlay filesystem in C++ for Windows.
• SiriKali – A Qt/C++ GUI front end to sshfs, ecryptfs-simple, cryfs, gocryptfs, securefs, fscrypt and encfs.
• Kryptor – A simple, modern, and secure encryption and signing tool that aims to be a better version of age and Minisign.
• Minisign – A dead simple tool to sign files and verify digital signatures.
• Horcrux – Split your file into encrypted horcruxes so that you don’t need to remember a passcode.
• OpenStego – OpenStego is a tool implemented in Java for generic steganography, with support for password-based encryption of the data.
• StegCloak – Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely using passwords.

Password Managers

• Bitwarden – Bitwarden is the easiest and safest way to store all of your logins and passwords while conveniently keeping them synced between all of your devices.
• KeePassXC – KeePassXC is a modern, secure, and open-source password manager that stores and manages your most sensitive information.
• KeeWeb – This webapp is a browser and desktop password manager compatible with KeePass databases.
• LessPass – A stateless password manager.
• Diceware Passphrase Generator – A tool for generating strong Diceware passwords, with entropy and crack time estimates.

Other

• Windows Security – Windows 10 and 11 include Windows Security, which provides the latest antivirus protection.
• VirusTotal – Free online malware detection service for analyzing suspicious files and URLs.
• Windows Defender Firewall – Windows Defender Firewall is a stateful host firewall.
• Simplewall – Simple tool to configure Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) which can configure network activity on your computer.
• Portmaster – Monitor all network activity.
• O&O ShutUp10++ – Free antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11.
• Privatezilla – Performs a privacy & security check of Windows 10.
• ProtonVPN – High-speed Swiss VPN that safeguards your privacy.
• Windscribe – Free VPN and Ad Blocker.
• ExifCleaner – Cross-platform desktop GUI app to clean image metadata.
• Image Scrubber – This is a tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests.
• Disroot Bin – Encrypted pastebin by PrivateBin is a minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data.
• Password Pusher – A dead-simple application to securely communicate passwords over the web.
• One-Time Secret – Keep sensitive info out of your email & chat logs.
• Blacklight – A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector.
• Privacy Guides – Protect your data against global mass surveillance programs.
• PRISM Break – Privacy/security-oriented software recommendations.
• EFF – The leading nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation.
• Awesome Privacy – List of free, open source and privacy respecting services and alternatives to privative services.
• Personal Security Checklist – A curated checklist of 300+ tips for protecting digital security and privacy.
• Anonymous Planet – This is a maintained guide with the aim of providing an introduction to various online tracking techniques, online ID verification techniques, and detailed guidance to creating and maintaining (truly) anonymous online identities.

Online Services

• Kutt – A modern URL shortener with support for custom domains.
• anon.to – An anonymous URL redirector and shortener.
• Lstu – A nice and open source url shortener.
• LimeSurvey – The most popular FOSS online survey tool on the web.
• Framaforms – Design your online surveys easily while respecting your audience.
• Framadate – Schedule a meeting or create an opinion poll.
• DuckDuckGo – The search engine that doesn’t track you.
• Searx – Privacy-respecting metasearch engine.
• Whoogle search – A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine.
• fediverse.party – A quick look into Fediverse networks.
• AlternativeTo – A website which lists alternatives to web-based software, desktop computer software, and mobile apps.
• Product Hunt – A website that lets users share and discover new products.
• Slant – A product recommendation community with the goal of making it effortless to find the best product, app or game for you.
• Awesome Windows – An awesome & curated list of best applications and tools for Windows.
• switching.software – Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software.
• Opensource.Builders – Opensource.builders is a website to find and request open-source alternatives to popular software you already use.
• Mostly Free Resources for Almost Everyone – A list of mostly free resources for almost anyone.
• Awesome Piracy – A curated list of awesome warez and piracy links.
• Piracy Index – This website is a collection of the best digital piracy resources.
• degoogle – A huge list of alternatives to Google products.
• Awesome-Selfhosted – A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers.

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