Software I use
Animation / VFX
- Blender (3D modeling, animation, and rendering software)
- Doodly (whiteboard animation / sketch creation)
- Glaxnimate (2D vector animation)
- Natron (node-based compositing software for VFX)
- Synfig Studio (2D animation with tweening, open-source)
Backup / Clone
- Boot-Repair-Disk (boot repair tool for Linux/Windows)
- Clonezilla (disk cloning and backup tool)
- Macrium Reflect FREE Edition (free disk backup & cloning tool)
- Rescuezilla (disk cloning and backup tool with GUI)
Capture / Recording Tools
- DroidCam (app to use Android/iPhone as a webcam)
- DroidCam Classic (app to use Android phone as a webcam)
- DroidCam OBS (plugin to connect DroidCam with OBS Studio)
- NVIDIA Broadcast App (AI audio and video enhancement tool for streaming) NVIDIA GPU only
- NVIDIA Broadcast Engine (SDK with AI audio and video effects for apps like OBS) NVIDIA GPU only
- OBS Studio (open-source screen recording and streaming software)
Development
Database Clients
- DBGate – (cross-platform SQL & NoSQL database manager)
Frameworks
- Flutter (cross-platform UI development framework)
IDE / Editors
- Android Studio (official IDE for Android app development)
- IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition (IDE for Java and other programming languages)
- PyCharm Community Edition (IDE for Python development)
- Visual Studio Code or VS Code (extensible code editor with debugging support)
- Visual Studio Community (full-featured IDE for multiple languages)
Local Web Servers
Programming Languages
- Dart (programming language for web and mobile apps)
- Python (general-purpose programming language)
- Rust (systems programming language for performance and safety)
Terminals
- PowerShell (Microsoft’s command-line shell and scripting environment)
- PuTTY (SSH and Telnet terminal client)
Emulators
File Archivers
Internet
Downloaders (Download Managers)
- Free Download Manager (download accelerator and file manager)
- JDownloader (free and open-source download manager)
- Thunderbird (open-source email client)
- FileZilla (free FTP client)
- FreeFileSync (folder comparison and synchronization tool)
Office applications
- Kate (open-source text editor for programmers by KDE)
- Okular (open-source universal document viewer developed by KDE)
- Scribus – alternative download link (desktop publishing and page layout software)
- SumatraPDF (lightweight PDF and ebook reader)
- Trelby (screenwriting software)
Office suites
- LibreOffice (open-source office suite for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations)
- OnlyOffice (alternative office suite compatible with Microsoft Office, for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations)
Operating systems
Photo Editing / Vector Graphics
- Darktable (RAW photo editing)
- FotoSketcher (photo-to-painting/sketch converter)
- GIMP (open-source image editor)
- Inkscape (free vector graphics editor)
- Krita (digital painting / image editing)
Remote Desktop
Software Center
- Ninite (automatic installer for multiple Windows applications)
- PortableApps.com (platform for portable Windows applications)
System
- CPU-Z (hardware detection and information)
- CUDA (GPU parallel computing API and platform)
- DirectX End-User Runtime – alternative link (web installer for legacy DirectX components)
Utilities / Tools
- Balena Etcher (bootable USB creation tool)
- CrystalDiskInfo (disk health monitoring tool)
- MiniTool Partition Wizard Free (partition manager for Windows)
- Rufus (bootable USB creation tool)
- PowerToys (utility tools for Windows power users)
- Winaero Tweaker (tool for Windows debloat and tweaks)
- Windhawk (tool for Windows debloat and tweaks)
- WinUtil (tool for Windows debloat and tweaks)
Video Production
Subtitle Editors
- SubtitleEdit (subtitle editing and synchronization)
- Cursor Highlighter (mouse cursor highlighting tool)
- Pointofix (screen annotation tool)
- DaVinci Resolve (video, color grading, VFX and audio editing)
- Kdenlive (advanced open-source video editor)
- OpenShot (easy-to-use open-source video editor)
- Shotcut (open-source video editor)
- K-Lite Codec Pack (codec pack for audio-video playback on Windows)
Virtual Machines
- VirtualBox (virtual machines for multiple operating systems on one PC)
AI
- CUDA Toolkit (a toolkit for creating high-performance, GPU-accelerated apps)
Alternative Download link - Pinokio (Install, Run & Control AI Apps on Your Computer)
- Zonos for Windows (open-weight text-to-speech model)