Freemium software
A useful free version or free tier exists, but additional features, usage, storage, support or services require payment.
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Standard Notes
Encrypted notes built for the long term, where sync is free on unlimited devices and you can host the server.
Telegram Desktop
The official Telegram client for the desktop, with open source code and chats that are not end-to-end encrypted.
TreeSize Free
Shows which folders are eating a Windows drive, ranked largest first, without a scan that takes all afternoon.
Tuta Desktop
The desktop client for Tuta's encrypted mail service, with end-to-end encrypted mail, calendar and contacts.
Typst
A typesetting system as capable as LaTeX but far easier to learn, with fast incremental compilation and readable error messages.
UTM
Runs Windows, Linux and other systems in a virtual machine on a Mac, iPhone or iPad.
XnView MP
Views, converts and organises images in more than five hundred formats, free for personal use.
Yaak
An offline-first API client for REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets and SSE, with requests stored as files you can commit to git.
Zed
A Rust editor from the people who built Atom, written for speed and for two people editing one file.
ZeroTier One
Puts machines anywhere in the world on the same virtual Ethernet network, as if they were plugged into one switch.
Zotero
Collects the papers and web pages you cite, files them, and writes the bibliography in the style your journal wants.
Zulip
Team chat organised by topic inside each channel, so conversations stay readable when you come back hours later.
Adobe Acrobat
Adobe's PDF software: the free Acrobat Reader for viewing and commenting, and paid Acrobat plans for editing and conversion.
Cryptomator
Encrypts a folder inside your existing cloud storage, so Dropbox or OneDrive holds files it cannot read.
eM Client
A polished commercial mail, calendar and contacts client for Windows and Mac, with a free tier capped at two accounts.
FileZilla
The long-standing free FTP, FTPS and SFTP client, with a matching server for Windows.
Google Photos
Google's hosted photo and video service with automatic backup from Android and iOS and 15 GB of shared free storage.
HWiNFO
The deepest hardware report and sensor monitor on Windows, free for personal use.
ImageGlass
A fast image viewer that opens the formats Windows still argues about: WebP, JXL, HEIC, AVIF, SVG, HDR and raw.
Kavita
A self-hosted reading server for ebooks, comics and manga, with readers built for each format and OPDS for everything else.
LM Studio
A polished desktop app for downloading, running and chatting with local language models, with an OpenAI-compatible server built in.
Mp3tag
A tag editor that fixes the metadata of a whole music folder at once, with online database lookups.
Ollama
The simplest way to pull down an open language model and run it on your own machine, from one command or a desktop app.
Plex Media Server
A polished media server for your own library, free on the home network, with a paid pass for remote streaming.
PPSSPP
A PSP emulator that needs no BIOS file and runs handheld games in HD on phones and PCs.
Proxmox VE
A bare-metal server platform that runs KVM virtual machines and LXC containers from one web interface.
RustDesk
An open-source remote desktop tool you can point at your own relay server instead of somebody else’s cloud.
WizTree
Finds what is eating a Windows disk in seconds by reading the NTFS master file table directly.
