We all love open-source software, but there are so many amazing projects out there that often go unnoticed. Let’s change that! Share your favorite open-source software that you think more people should know about. Here’s how you can contribute:

  1. Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
  2. No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
  3. Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.

Check out last year’s post for more inspiration: Last Year’s Post

Let’s create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!

  • pseudo@jlai.lu
    8·
    6 hours ago

    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.

  • LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works
    32·
    9 hours ago

    Newpipe, an YouTube client, which is:

    • ad free

    • lightweight

    • useful, it allows downloading videos, music, and playing them when screen is locked

    • usable without account

    • multi-platform, it can also serve as client for the PeerTube, Bandcamp, SoundCloud

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    Having discarded many other options, I’m looking at Cloud Stack for hosting VMs at home and the job2 site.

    This will be like your proxmox, libvirt, openstack (which derived from it), oVirt(RHEV,OLVM,etc).

    If you are in the market for a new alternative, please consider this less-known option.

  • Novaling@lemmy.zipEnglish
    33·
    12 hours ago

    Anki (and AnkiDroid):

    The gods of learning and studying with flashcards. You will never want another flashcard program, especially if you were still using Quizlet (so enshittified now…) because Anki uses SRS (spaced repetition system) which makes you review things right before your brain forgets it to reinforce the subject material.

    Add-ons: Bread and butter of Anki, I use several to make beautiful automatic flashcards of reading material/videos/games when I study Japanese. There’s an add-on for literally anything.

    Cross platform: Free on desktop, cost $25 on iOS, and free on Android, although Ankidroid is an unofficial app. Still great though!

    Cloud: Syncs your anki database across devices. If you don’t use anki for a while, will delete from the cloud, but as long as you have your own local database intact, you can reupload again later.

    Sharing Decks: If you don’t feel like making your own decks, download ones that others shared for free.

    Anki is used by language learners, college students, med students, etc. If you need to memorize it, use Anki.

  • thatradomguy@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 hours ago

    I used to recommend Glimpse as a more sane front-end for GIMP but they pretty much stopped maintaining it and put in the towel.

  • InFerNo@lemmy.ml
    2·
    7 hours ago

    PortMaster, program designed to streamline the management of Ports on your handheld Linux devices

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    14·
    11 hours ago

    Subsurface

    I recently found out after creating Linux, Linus Torvalds wanted to make a good open source scuba dive log software. Today, it’s probably one of the best, if not the best dive log programs out there and I recently used this myself on a recent dive and it’s great.