Desktop

Bundles a Python application with its interpreter into a single executable for Windows, macOS and Linux. in Programming Languages →

Software distribution and building platform for Windows providing up-to-date MinGW-w64, GCC, Clang, and C/C++ libraries… in C, C++ & Rust →

The official documentation for the Qt framework: class reference, examples and platform guides for C++ and QML. in C, C++ & Rust →

A build of Firefox for web developers, with advanced debugging tools built in. in Web & Frontend →

A resource list for Electron, building desktop apps with web technologies. in Mobile & Desktop →

A list for Uno Platform, building cross-platform .NET UIs from one codebase. in Mobile & Desktop →

Open-source project that runs a hardware-accelerated Linux desktop environment on unrooted Android devices; focuses on… in Mobile & Desktop →

Bundles Chromium and Node.js to ship desktop apps built with web technology; VS Code and Slack were built this way. in Mobile & Desktop →

Reference for the main/renderer process split and the IPC between them. in Mobile & Desktop →

The engine behind AAA productions, offering real-time high-density geometry and global illumination through Nanite and Lumen. in Mobile & Desktop →

An open-source SQL editor and manager supporting many databases. in Databases →

A universal desktop database client managing many databases from one interface. in Databases →

A free desktop client for Oracle databases combining querying, schema browsing and PL/SQL debugging. in Databases →

Redis’s official GUI — browse, edit, query and profile your data. in Databases →

An MIT-licensed game engine with separately mature 2D and 3D pipelines. in Game Development →

Lightweight desktop voxel art editor with a built-in GPU path-tracing renderer; enables rapid block-based 3D creation… in Game Development →

The most widely used cross-platform game engine; 2D/3D, mobile and console. in Game Development →

A desktop app that runs models locally and offline. in AI · Models & Assistants →

A desktop app for finding GGUF models, downloading them and picking a quantisation level. in AI · Models & Assistants →

Runs embedded in Word, Excel and the Windows shell, so you operate on a document without copying it to a website. in AI · Models & Assistants →

A VS Code fork that indexes your codebase and makes multi-file editing the primary flow. in AI · Applied Tools →

Stores snippets with their source and what you were doing at the time, so you can later search for “the thing I used while fixing that bug last week”. in AI · Applied Tools →

Cursor’s closest rival; its Cascade mode carries long tasks alone and runs terminal commands when needed. in AI · Applied Tools →

Auto-captioning, speaker tracking and vertical-format templates. in AI · Generative Media →

Installs as a virtual microphone device and kills noise at the source. in AI · Generative Media →

An open-source desktop GIS for Windows, macOS and Linux; it reads and analyses shapefile, GeoPackage, PostGIS and… in Data Science & ML →

The Sysinternals tool that lists everything Windows runs at startup: services, scheduled tasks, shell extensions, drivers. in Networking & Sysadmin →

A list of apps and extensions for the GNOME desktop environment. in Networking & Sysadmin →

A list of apps and resources for the KDE desktop environment. in Networking & Sysadmin →

A list of recommended apps and tools for the Windows desktop. in Networking & Sysadmin →

A cross-platform app that shows network traffic in a friendly interface (Rust). in Networking & Sysadmin →

Lightweight, open-source VNC remote desktop server and viewer optimized for slow network connections; connects directly… in Networking & Sysadmin →

A simple, portable notebook keeping notes as plain files on disk. in Self-Hosting & Personal Cloud →

An office suite of writer, spreadsheet, presentation and database, defaulting to the open ODF standard. in Self-Hosting & Personal Cloud →

An outliner with bi-directional links that keeps every note as a plain Markdown file on disk. in Self-Hosting & Personal Cloud →

A desktop mail client under the Mozilla umbrella, with IMAP, calendar, contacts and OpenPGP signing in one place. in Self-Hosting & Personal Cloud →

The NSA's open source reverse engineering framework with disassembler, decompiler and scripting. in Offence, Defence & OSINT →

An open-source reference manager: its browser connector saves the citation and PDF from an article page in one click… in Science & Academia →

A lightweight open-source Bitcoin wallet, developed since 2011. in Finance, Markets & Crypto →

An editor built for pixel art and animation, with onion skinning, a frame timeline and sprite sheet export. in Media, Files & Diagrams →

Modelling, texturing, rigging, simulation, rendering and video editing in one package. in Media, Files & Diagrams →

A font creation and editing program that converts between TTF, OTF and WOFF and lets you work on glyph hinting. in Media, Files & Diagrams →

A full-featured image editor that is the open-source alternative to Photoshop. in Media, Files & Diagrams →

A vector editor that uses SVG as its native format. in Media, Files & Diagrams →

A painting program for digital art and concept work, with a strong brush engine and frame-by-frame animation. in Media, Files & Diagrams →

Cuts and joins video without re-encoding, working on keyframe boundaries. in Media, Files & Diagrams →

Dumps the technical identity of a video or audio file: codec, bitrate, frame rate, colour space, container details. in Media, Files & Diagrams →

A screenshot and recording tool for Windows that chains post-capture steps: upload, shorten, OCR. in Media, Files & Diagrams →

A subtitle editor that shows a waveform and spectrogram underneath, reads over 200 formats, shifts timings and extracts burned-in subtitles by OCR. in Media, Files & Diagrams →

Batch image conversion and processing that reads over 500 formats and writes around 70, with resize and watermark steps chained together. in Media, Files & Diagrams →

An architect-focused BIM software rivalling Revit. in Architecture & Building →

A leading tool for Building Information Modelling (BIM) — model, drawings and data in one file. in Architecture & Building →

A free-form (NURBS) modelling tool; with the Grasshopper plugin, the hub of algorithmic design. in Architecture & Building →

A fast 3D modelling tool for architecture and interiors. in Architecture & Building →

A multi-language open-source IDE, strong for Java. in Editors, IDEs & Terminals →

A portable, pleasant console package for Windows that ships with bash and unix commands. in Editors, IDEs & Terminals →

An IDE framework that runs on the desktop and in the browser and takes VS Code extensions. in Editors, IDEs & Terminals →

A lightweight C/C++ IDE. Unlike modern IDEs it runs on weak hardware and remains the standard install in many Turkish… in Editors, IDEs & Terminals →

An open-source terminal built with web technologies and extensible via plugins. in Editors, IDEs & Terminals →

A lightweight source editor for Windows with syntax highlighting, multi-file search and replace, and macro recording. in Editors, IDEs & Terminals →

A text/code editor focused on speed and fluidity, opening very fast. in Editors, IDEs & Terminals →

The most widely used code editor: it starts light but approaches an IDE through language servers and debuggers. in Editors, IDEs & Terminals →

A community build of VS Code with Microsoft’s telemetry and branding stripped out. in Editors, IDEs & Terminals →

A terminal written in Rust that keeps each command and its output as a separate block instead of one scrolling stream… in Editors, IDEs & Terminals →

Chris Titus’s PowerShell tool for installing programs, applying tweaks and fixing Windows. in Productivity & Everyday Tools →

Instant filename search on Windows, built by reading the NTFS master file table directly. in Productivity & Everyday Tools →

The official set of tools that adds what Windows lacks: window layouts (FancyZones), bulk rename, colour picker, text extraction. in Productivity & Everyday Tools →

Cross-platform download manager powered by aria2 that handles HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, and Magnet links in one clean… in Productivity & Everyday Tools →

Lightweight context-menu customizer for Windows File Explorer configured via a clean declarative syntax; supports… in Productivity & Everyday Tools →

Personal knowledge base that operates on a local folder of plain Markdown files with backlinks, graph view, and… in Productivity & Everyday Tools →

A tool for installing recent macOS on Macs Apple no longer supports. in Productivity & Everyday Tools →

A Windows tool for writing bootable USB drives that works out the UEFI/BIOS and partitioning details itself. in Productivity & Everyday Tools →

An ad-free, open-source BitTorrent client with built-in search and sequential streaming. in Piracy →