freac: free audio converter :)

ShareX, one of the best Screensho/cast productivity tool, edt tools, OCR, QR codes, scrolling capture, color picker......, storing locally, uploading captures to hosts, sharelink in clipboard. Complement with right click extension for Firefox and Chromium

Sadly Windows only

https://getsharex.com/

https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX

NotallyX. Basically free, open source Google Keep, for anyone that enjoys that app.

PairDrop like Localsend or Airdrop but working on anything that has an internet connection and a resonably new web Browser! You can share files even when on different networks, by pairing devices. Works like a charm.

Lichess: A popular free, open-source online chess platform offering play, puzzles, and tournaments.

tmux: A terminal multiplexer that enables managing multiple terminal sessions within a single window, allowing detaching and reattaching sessions to keep programs running in the background.

Forgejo: A self-hosted, lightweight software forge offering Git repository hosting with an easy-to-install, low-maintenance platform focused on collaboration, federation, and privacy.

OsmAnd, mobile app for navigation and maps. Offline, based on OSM, can do anything. I use it for checking out and bookmarking places, finding POIs and pubic transport stations, routing (especially for bike and foot), measuring distances, and so on. It can also show and record tracks, do car navigation, edit OSM points, and more stuff that I don't use. Pro/plus/full version free on FDroid

LibRedirect is an open-source browser extension for Firefox and Microsoft Edge that automatically redirects popular online services like YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, and others to privacy-friendly alternative websites, enhancing user privacy by avoiding trackers and data collection on the original platforms.

krusader is a dual-paned file manager for KDE. It runs on Linux (of course), MS Windows, and Mac OSX.

Folder sync is what makes krusader outstanding, even if you don't care about dual-pane file management. Open the two folders you want to sync in the panes and go to Tools > Synchronize Folders. You can synchronize both ways, exclude files, delete lone files, etc. Very powerful.

Being a KDE app, krusader does not skimp on features, so there are lots of other things that krusader can do.

link: https://krusader.org/

Rustdesk.

It's TeamViewer / AnyDesk without the headaches.

tomb: Tomb is a minimalistic CLI based hidden file encryption tool based on Linux dm-crypt and LUKS.
In addition to its cool ass name, it also has a GUI that's called Mausoleum.

Lemmy ^[1]^

FairEmail, email app for Android that has every feature I can imagine. Available on FDroid

Joplin: An open-source note-taking and to-do app with markdown support and end-to-end encryption.

TerraForge3D, is a procedural terrain generation toolkit as well as a procedural modellling toolkit. TerraForge3D is suitable for modern 3D Environment design.

https://jaysmito101.github.io/TerraForge3D/

https://github.com/Jaysmito101/TerraForge3D?tab=readme-ov-file

Changedetection.io: track selected websites for updates or price changes

Pandoc: A universal document converter allowing conversion among numerous markup formats including Markdown, LaTeX, HTML, and Word.

Zotero: a free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials, such as PDF and ePUB files.

Bookwyrm, a book tracker and review sharing plateform that is part of the fediverse allowing you to share your notes and review about books in the threadiverse as well as the twittoverse.

Shattered pixel dungeon. Open source dungeob crawler roguelike. Extremely fun.

Copyparty turns almost any device into a file server with resumable uploads/downloads using any web browser

Tenacity - a pre-enshitification fork of Audacity. An audio recorder and editor that does multi-track recording, effects and much more in a really simple UI.

rnote Rnote is an open-source vector-based drawing app for sketching, handwritten notes and to annotate documents and pictures. It is targeted at students, teachers and those who own a drawing tablet and provides features like Pdf and picture import and export, an infinite canvas and an adaptive UI for big and small screens.

Typst: A modern typesetting system designed for easy document creation with markup inspired by Markdown but more powerful and programmable.

Open Video Downloader: Download any video or playlist from Youtube as audio and/or video, in various resolutions.

Portmaster, nowadays mandatory, monitor the traffic of all installed apps and even from the OS itself, blocking with a simple click all unwanted traffic, Inbuild DNS crypt with dynamic filterlists (customizable) blocking ads, trackers and unwanted crap from big companies. Optional SPN service (paid). Windows and Linux.

https://safing.io/

https://github.com/safing/portmaster

Czkawka: A free, fast, and open-source tool for finding and removing duplicate files, cleaning empty folders, and optimizing storage by content-based file comparison across multiple platforms.

screen

a gnu until that let's you run a persistent session, even if you log off. log back in and reattach your screen and whatever you were doing is still running.

This post is a gold mine!

PieFed: a link aggregator and forum platform built for the Fediverse, focusing on individual control, safety, decentralized power, and healthy community interactions, with features like reputation indicators and keyword filters to enhance user experience.