MOST POPULAR FREE/OPENSOURCE APPLICATIONS FOR YOUR COMPUTER


Why  spend money for an application when you can get alternate application at zero cost. In this post I will share with you some most downloaded , useful applications which are freely available to download. lets start...

LibreOffice: Libre office is a set of office application like we have in Microsoft Office. If you do not want to spend money for office application like MS Office, you can consider as it is free and opensource.




VLC : VLC is well known media player application and one of the most downloaded application. It supports almost every popular audio video format.Apart from playing media files there are some more features available in this tool like online streaming ,convert media files etc.





ShotCut: Shotcut is a free video editor available for Windows, Linux or MacOS. It is a professional mid level tool that you can use to edit  your videos.And comes with great stability as compare with others. It has also come with small size and protable  version.





OBS Studio: OBS studio is another freely available screen recording/streaming tool that the professional IT geeks use to make video of any technical issue on a computer or program.you can also stream online your games with this tool.




HandBrake: Handbrake is a tool which is used to compress/encode the video formats. Its can use to reduce the file size of any video with the help of optimization option. And it dramtically reduce the size of any video file. you can reduce the size of any video file upto 80 percent.


Audacity: Audacity is another powerful as freely available tool that is used to process audio recordings. Its a professional level audio processing tool but a newbie can also use for simple modification in any audio files like compression , change tempo , change speed , distortion , noise cancellation and many more.




GPG: GnuPG is free cryptographic software from the GNU Project which helps people ensure the confidentiality, integrity and assurance of their data.. you can use this tool for signing, encrypting or certifying user id. You can encrypt any file with the help of this tool which is use popular algorithm like SHA to encrypt them. you can aslo sign file and make them available then to other who can check that file & ensure that it is coming from trust source(who sign that).



ScrCpy: This tool is helpful for those who want to mirror their smartphone to their computer screen , it is available for Windows Linux MacOS.




Aegisub32 : It is a tool to create subtitles for your video. Aegisub is a free, cross-platform open source tool for creating and modifying subtitles. Aegisub makes it quick and easy to time subtitles to audio, and features many powerful tools for styling them, including a built-in real-time video preview.



TestDisk & PhotoRec: These tools are also freely available & use to recover your data in any hard drive or usb drive . It can recover data from lost partition , corrupts drives and formats drive , you can recover your media file(songs, photo, video ) with the help of photo rec tool.



Sumatra PDF Reader: This is a pdf reader which is opensource and lightweight application as compare with adobe pdf reader. It supports pdf,ePub,MOBI,CHM,XPS,DjVu,CBZ,CBR, reader formats.


XDM Download Manager: This is a free opensource download manager , which can download multiple files simultaneously It also able to download the streaming files.



ImageGlass: If you don't like the default photo viewer app of  Windows you can try this application.Beautiful lightweight application to view your photos.Lots of custom themes and fonts & night dark gray view out.



OpenShot Video Editor: It is another free software for editing a video with limited features.


Tiger Vnc: If you want to share your computer screen over internet for some troubleshooting or any other purpose you can use this free software, This is client-server application which is use to share the computer screen over internet with secure connection.It is alternate of TeamViewer or RealVNC.


Blender: It is a computer graphic software freely available .You can create 3D creation with this tool. This is the most trusted professional tool to for 3D creation.





Inkscape: Whether you are an illustrator, designer, web designer or just someone who needs to create some vector imagery, Inkscape is for you! It has features like flexible drawing , broad file format compatibility ,powerful text tool.





Tor Browser: As we know we have free browser like chrome Firefox etc. but they can not search & guarantee for your privacy you have to compromise with you privacy with these browsers. Here we come with TOR browser as it comes with advance level of security and with any working VPN connection you become anonymous over internet.It is hard to trace you. That's why Hackers use this browser to browse deep/dark web.



EpicBrowser: One of the fast growing privacy featured browser bases on chromium. If privacy matter a lot for you then its a best option for you.They provide extereme level of privacy feature with some paid service or you can rely on free version with some limited features.





PeaZip: Peazip is free, opensource file archiving tool. can compress the file size  in different formats.The main advantage of this tool is that you can zip/compress multiple folders at once & you can encrypt them with any passphrase or any key file.




7Zip: Its another opensource freely available tool for windows.






Uget: Uget is a opensource download manager for your computer. Its is available for Windows BSD Linux & Android.







BleachBit: BleachBit is an advance level of system cleaner & file shredder. It can clean various type of temporary files (e.g cache , cookies , system temp files , user temp files, logs, junk files,history files etc). This is also use for permanent delete the folder or files that will be never recoverable if you need to ensure for some data like personal photos etc.








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  1. Great content, very helpful

    Keep the good work

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