Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About
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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:
- Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
- No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
- 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!
FindMyDevice, a find my server with channels through sms, a self hostable server, notifications. This is one of my favorite android utilities.
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Dino: a modern open-source chat client (XMPP) for the desktop.
Dino (for desktop) pairs nicely with Conversations for Android (mobile).
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emacs, the text editor. it's so powerful and customizable that I feel listing any feature would do so many others a disservice
And also (n)vim, if you want an app that does one job and does it well.
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Mullvad vpn, probably the best vpn imo
wrote last edited by [email protected]Or Proton VPN if you can't/don't want to pay. (like me)
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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:
- Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
- No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
- 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!
I could not believe I didn't find this fun free gem sooner. I'll let the description from F-Droid explain the details:
This is a roguelike twist on the original Breakout formula:
The goal is to catch as many coins as possible during 7 levels.
Coins appear when you break bricks.
They fly around, bounce and roll, and you need to catch them with your paddle.
At the end of the level, you get to pick upgrades.
There are 50+ different upgrades that impact the gameplay in various ways.
Many upgrades will impact your combo, that's the number of coins spawned for each brick broken.
Your "combo" is displayed on your paddle. Your score is displayed in the top right corner of the screen.
Oh, and don't miss the ball, you don't have extra lives. -
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.
I much prefer tmux over screen.
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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:
- Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
- No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
- 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!
Markor is a handy fast Android note taking app with Markdown and todo.txt support.
Since everything it creates are text files, it pairs well with various file syncing apps recommend in this thread.
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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.
Sounds nice, for which services do you use it?
I've had mixed experiences with Invidious but haven't tried that for some time.
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KeePassXC: A modern, secure, open-source password manager that stores and manages sensitive information offline.
I can also recommend Bitwarden which is a hosted password manager (enabling e.g. automatic sync). The commitment to FOSS is not as great (there have been some controversies AFAIK) but self-hosting is possible.
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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:
- Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
- No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
- 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!
Audiobookshelf. Not exactly a "hidden" gem at this point, but I'm putting it here for today's lucky 10,000. Simply the best way to store and stream audiobooks. Does podcasts too, and ebooks, although there are better tools for those.
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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.
How does it compare to Xournalpp? I've always used that but it seems a bit antiquated.
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This post is a gold mine!
Yes! I've already found several gems
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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:
- Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
- No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
- 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!
LocalSend should be called God Send because it'll save your life. It's AirDrop, but for everything and open source. Works really well, no setup, no server.
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Rustdesk.
It's TeamViewer / AnyDesk without the headaches.
A TeamViewer shooter coming out to downvote you lol
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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:
- Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
- No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
- 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!
I already made a list
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Rustdesk.
It's TeamViewer / AnyDesk without the headaches.
Also MeshCentral.
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Zotero: a free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials, such as PDF and ePUB files.
I really wish there was a minimal, command-line alternative to Zotero. Zotero, as it is, is great for most people, but it really slows down after a few hundred entries, and the GUI doesn’t seem necessary for all that it does.
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I really wish there was a minimal, command-line alternative to Zotero. Zotero, as it is, is great for most people, but it really slows down after a few hundred entries, and the GUI doesn’t seem necessary for all that it does.
This guy reference!
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Mixed with syncthing to sync your database file across your devices and its chef's kiss
but don't forget to exclude your key file from sync
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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:
- Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
- No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
- 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!
Copyparty turns almost any device into a file server with resumable uploads/downloads using any web browser
