Introduction

Find Your Next Favorite Software #

Audio #

  • AIMP - 32 bit audio processing and multi-format playback.
  • Audacity - Free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds. (https://github.com/audacity/audacity)
  • AudioNodes - Modular audio production suite with multi-track audio mixing, audio effects, parameter automation, MIDI editing, synthesis, cloud production, and more.
  • CDex - CD Ripper (French site, English program).
  • Dopamine - An audio player which tries to make organizing and listening to music as simple and pretty as possible.
  • Exact Audio Copy - Transfer files from your CDs to your PC in almost every format.Comes with some pretty nifty features too.
  • Foobar2000 - Free audio player for Windows, supports a wide range of audio formats and has a lot of cool features.
  • K-Lite Codecs - Collection of DirectShow filters, VFW/ACM codecs, and tools.
  • Kodi - Free and Open Source home theatre software. (https://github.com/xbmc)
  • Mixxx - Free DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes, veritable alternative to Traktor. (https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx)
  • Musicbee - Like iTunes but better than iTunes.
  • MusicBrainz Picard - Picard is a cross-platform music tagger that looks up and rewrite metadata tags. (https://github.com/metabrainz/picard)
  • Qtractor - An Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer. (http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/qtractor-downloads.html#Git)
  • Reaper - Lightweight application with deep feature set and $60 for individual, non-profit, or small business use.
  • Resonic - Fast and free audio player.
  • WACUP - An extension/improvement to Winamp, providing bugfixes and more features such as a better MOD player and YouTube support.
  • Winamp - Music player capable of playing MP3s, MP2s, WAVs, VOCs and MIDI files.

Chat Clients #

Compression #

  • 7-Zip - Open source Windows utility for manipulating archives. Formats 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR are supported fully, other formats can be unpacked. (http://www.7-zip.org/download.html)
  • Bandizip - A lightweight, fast and free All-In-One Zip Archiver.
  • PeaZip - Archiver and file compressor. Extract 7Z CAB ISO RAR TAR ZIP archive files. (https://osdn.net/projects/peazip/)
  • Riot - Compress images either by file size or by many other image attributes.
  • WinRAR - A powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files.

Customization #

Developer Tools #

Games #

  • 0 A.D. - A free, open-source real-time strategy game of ancient warfare. (https://github.com/0ad/0ad)
  • Awesome Games - List of games hosted on Github.
  • Freeciv - A Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization. (https://github.com/freeciv/)
  • Godot Engine - Free and open source game engine. Easy to get started and flexible for intermediate users. (https://github.com/godotengine/godot)
  • GOG - DRM-free game store with a lot of old games but also has a rich collection of new games.
  • Itch.io - Install, update and play indie games. (https://github.com/itchio/itch)
  • Pokemon Infinite Fusion Calculator - A calculator for the Pokemon Infinite Fusion ROM hack.
  • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
  • Origin - Like Steam, but for EA.
  • Steam - Largest online video game retailer. Desktop app allows you to organise your library of games and play them at any time. But you already knew that.
  • Unity - Free game engine. Easy to pick up and use with a number of tutorials.
  • Unreal Engine - Another free game engine. Lots of documentation and easier to pick up, but you pay 5% royalties to Unreal when you make money from UE-based games.
  • Warsow - Free & fast-paced FPS game for Windows.

Data Recovery #

  • Data Rescue - Comprehensive and professional Hard drive recovery software that can recover your photos, videos, documents.
  • Ontrach EasyRecovery - Has filtering tools to help sort the large amount of data the software can recover.
  • PartitionGuru ｜ Eassos Recovery - Data recovery with partition recovery.
  • Recuva - Recover your deleted files quickly and easily.
  • Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery - Remote recovery option to recover data from another computer over a network.
  • TestDisk - Powerful free data recovery software primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again.