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Pencil2D
Pencil2D
Lightweight and easy to use so you can focus on animating and not what button to hit next. Seamlessly switch between raster and vector workflows, allowing you to sketch, ink & paint on the go. Pencil2D is completely open source and free to use, even commercially! We’re happy to share with all of you Pencil2D’s most recent release. This time our top priority was fixing the most immediate and pressing issues that not only broke the animation experience but also to patch previously implemented features. Over 330+ individual commits has been added since the last release, to stabilize and improve the software for continued use.Starting Price: Free -
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Animation Paper
Animation Paper
Pro animators, students, filmmakers, and game developers will love the ease and speed of working in Animation Paper for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Quickly test ideas, or train your skills. Work rough, then clean up. This awesome app will feel effortless, while super efficient and powerful, and so much fun! A most important part of your animation production pipeline. Super responsive interface, prompt, and real-time workflow. Quickly gets you in the zone. Non-intrusive and cleverly built. The way 'traditional' animation is supposed to be done today. Uncluttered, intuitive, and what the pro needs. Super fast responsiveness, while drawing, while flipping, while everything. High-quality lines, no degradation when transformed or resolution is changed. Small to large format frames. Real-time smooth rotation and zooming of the view. Light table (onion skinning, advanced and customizable) Easy, yet powerful timing and reuse (also scribbled notes and sound wave display).Starting Price: $79 one-time payment -
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Zoom Workplace
Zoom Communications
Unified business communication and collaboration tools. Reimagine how your teams work with an all-in-one, open collaboration platform with AI Companion. Streamline communication, improve productivity, optimize in-person time, and increase employee engagement, all with Zoom Workplace. Make meaningful connections with a unified solution for meetings, team chat, whiteboard, phone, and more. Reduce wasted time going back and forth between applications. Zoom Workplace provides you with a seamless, automated user experience from your mobile device or desktop Streamlined features give you the ability to initiate a call or meeting from a chat, collaborate on a whiteboard from your desktop or room, and see whether a co-worker is available with presence.Starting Price: $13.32/user/month -
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Wunjo
Wunjo
Wunjo harnesses the power of neural networks to provide cutting-edge solutions in speech synthesis, voice cloning, content restyling, and deepfake animations. Seamlessly perform a face swap using just one photo, animate mouth movements using audio, upgrade low-res content, and even give faces a digital makeover. Master background removal and chroma key. Discover how to change the full content or object inside by text prompts. Perform the clone voice of your neighbors and separate vocals from background music effortlessly. Wunjo is an idea-to-content platform that utilizes combinations of AI. There’s a lot of technical stuff involved, but basically, you reincarnate your content. You can use the application in API mode and connect it to your services. The community edition version is absolutely free and you will able to find open source code. However, the professional version is available by subscription.Starting Price: Free -
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Synfig Studio
Synfig
Synfig Studio is a free and open-source 2D animation software, designed as a powerful industrial-strength solution for creating film-quality animation using a vector and bitmap artwork. It eliminates the need to create frame-by-frame animation, allowing you to produce 2D animation of a higher quality with fewer people and resources. Transform any vector shape into another! Synfig gives you powerful tools for full control of your vector artwork. Just set the key positions and the intermediate frames will be calculated automatically. Synfig provides more than 50 layers to create illustrations and animations of any complexity. Choose from several types of layers: geometry, gradients, filters, distortions, transformations, fractals and others. The full-featured bone system allows you to create cutout animations using bitmap images or control your vector artwork.Starting Price: Free -
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Firework
Firework
Looking to engage your customers better? At Firework, we specialize in creating interactive and engaging digital storefront experiences. Our state-of-the-art video commerce solution combines shoppable video and livestream technologies to create a seamless shopping experience that drives sales and fosters deep emotional connections with your customers. But our platform offers more than just an immersive shopping experience. We also provide critical insights into customer behavior and preferences, enabling you to optimize your marketing strategies for even greater success. With our user-friendly interface and seamless tech stack integration, it's easy to get started at any level of tech expertise. We're passionate about helping businesses unlock their potential through customer engagement. That's why we're proud to power over 1000 brands including Walmart, Samsung, L'Oréal, Guess, Unilever, Sam's Club, and Vogue. Request a demo today to see the power of Firework for yourself! -
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Krita
Krita
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone. An intuitive user interface that stays out of your way. The dockers and panels can be moved and customized for your specific workflow. Once you have your setup, you can save it as your own workspace. You can also create your own shortcuts for commonly used tools. Over 100 professionally made brushes that come preloaded. These brushes give a good range of effects so you can see the variety of brushes that Krita has to offer. Have a shaky hand? Add a stabilizer to your brush to smoothen it out. Krita includes 3 different ways to smooth and stabilize your brush strokes. There is even a dedicated Dynamic Brush tool where you can add drag and mass. Built-in vector tools help you create comic panels. Select a word bubble template from the vector library and drag it on your canvas. Change the anchor points to create your own shapes and libraries. -
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HandBrake
HandBrake
HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs. Convert video from nearly any format. HandBrake is an open-source video transcoder available for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Everyone can use HandBrake to make videos for free. HandBrake is a post-production tool. Its primary purpose is to convert videos from supported source formats to MP4, MKV, or WebM format. If you wish to make changes to your Source video, please use an appropriate video editing software. HandBrake takes videos you already have and makes new ones that work on your mobile phone, tablet, TV media player, game console, computer, or web browser—nearly anything that supports modern video formats. HandBrake works with most common video files and formats, including ones created by consumer and professional video cameras, mobile devices such as phones and tablets, game and computer screen recordings, and DVD and Blu-ray discs. -
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Mixxx
Mixxx
Mixxx integrates the tools DJs need to perform creative live mixes with digital music files. Whether you are a new DJ with just a laptop or an experienced turntablist, Mixxx can support your style and techniques of mixing. BPM and musical key detection help you find the perfect next track from your library. Use master sync to match the tempo and beats of four songs for seamless mixing. Built-in mappings for DJ controller hardware gives you hands-on control of Mixxx's features. Use the programmable mapping system to customize your workflow and add support for any MIDI or HID device. Add your unique spin to tracks with sound effects. Get creative by chaining multiple effects together and twisting all their knobs. Use turntables with timecode vinyl records to control playback and scratch your digital music files as if they were pressed on vinyl. Mix music vinyls into your set by toggling vinyl passthrough mode. -
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LMMS
LMMS
Compose music on Windows, Linux and macOS. Compose songs, create sequences, mix and automate in one simple interface. Play the notes with a MIDI controller or using your computer keyboard. Consolidate instrument tracks using the Rhythm + Bass Editor. Fine-tune patterns, notes, chords, and melodies with the Piano Roll Editor. Full automation based on user-defined tracks and computer controlled automation sources. Import MIDI files and Hydrogen projects. Built-in support for 64-bit VST instruments via 32-bit VST bridge (Windows 64-bit). Support for LADSPA plugins. Support for VST® Effects Plugins (Linux and Windows). Built-in compressor, limiter, delay, reverb, distortion, and bass booster. Graphic and parametric equalizers included. Built-in spectrum analyzer / viewer. Create music with your computer, making melodies and rhythms, synthesizing and mixing sounds, arranging samples, and much more. -
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Rosegarden
Rosegarden
Rosegarden is a music composition and editing environment based around a MIDI sequencer that features a rich understanding of music notation and includes basic support for digital audio. Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on Linux, ideal for composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home recording environments. Rosegarden is currently an application for Linux only. Now that we have ported to Qt 4, and now that Qt is freely available for all platforms without a commercial license, there are fewer obstacles standing in the way of eventually becoming a cross-platform application. Rosegarden uses the Qt 4 libraries for various common controls, but you can run it under any window manager or graphical environment you like. The Open in Notation Editor option on the main view's Segments menu will open all the currently-selected segments together in a single editor. -
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Waveform
Tracktion Corporation
Waveform is a rapidly evolving application specifically designed for the needs of modern music producers. Specializing in creative and inspirational workflows and avoiding features not explicitly needed to allow the app to remain surprisingly fun and intuitive. While other apps try to appeal to broad user groups, for example film score, live sound, performance – we are laser focused on music production. Waveform Pro introduces the Arranger Track, a remarkably simple yet powerful tool for manipulating regions of your arrangement. Simply create an arrange clip in the arranger track to control the entire region of your arrangement. The arranger track has contemporary features such as magnetic movement, commonly found in video editors, that automatically open and close regions of the arrangement based on your selections. Experimenting with your arrangement and song structure has never been easier. -
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Tonfotos
Andrey Isaev
Tonfotos simplifies browsing of large photo collections by grouping shots by events, dates, people, locations, and so on. Quickly find what you need regardless of where files are stored - on your computer, external drives, or NAS. Tonfotos artificial intelligence will automatically find the faces of people in your photos and help you mark those images that include your relatives and friends. The program learns from already marked photos and automatically offers you new photos with the same people. Modern neural networks allow Tonfotos to recognize people regardless of their age in the picture, and can work even if the face is only partially visible. Collect in one place not only family photos, but also reference and genealogical information about your ancestors, distant relatives and friends. Fill in the required information in the person's card, and you will be able to see all family ties between people, as well as quickly move between relatives in one click.Starting Price: $39 -
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Noise Firewall
SoliCall
Noise Firewall is a software solution for call centers and shared workspaces. It blocks the ambient noise of the call center/shared workspace and prevents customers from overhearing it. Shields the customers from the ambient noise of the call center such as other agents talking with other customers, supervisors giving instructions, announcements on the PA, etc. Supports hybrid work model which combines work from the office with remote work. For at-home agents, the Noise Firewall will also remove any non-human sounds like a dog barking, car horns, etc. Can be deployed in almost any telephony environment and supports both a distributed and centralized architecture. Does not require connection to any cloud service and in addition protects sensitive and private data from being overheard by the customers which corresponds with regulations such as PCI, FedRAMP, HIPAA, and GDPR. Provides a useful dashboard with statistics on call quality including a Noise Map of the call center. -
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Fox Renderfarm
Fox Renderfarm
Fox Renderfarm is one of the largest around-the-clock commercial cloud render farm, and also a TPN-Accredited Vendor. We offer world-class professional CPU & GPU rendering solutions and tailor-made rendering services. With our industry-leading innovations, we serve visual effects, animation, architectural and entertainment businesses around the world. Automatically detects IT environment and matches cloud infrastructure service. Fire up thousands of rendering nodes instantly. Fox Renderfarm is deeply committed to supporting education and making it accessible to everyone around the world. In order to help CG students and educators realize their dreams, Fox Renderfarm has launched the GoCloud Program, which provides education pricing for individuals and for groups. Fox Renderfarm is ISO 27001 certified to keep your assets and information secure.Starting Price: $0.036 per hour -
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Color.io
Color.io
Color.io is a one-of-a-kind film emulation tool and online raw photo editor for photographers and filmmakers. Craft stunning film color that works for any camera, in any software, and on any screen with the world's most advanced AI-powered analog grading engine. Tap into your image's full potential with powerful tools that have been purpose-engineered for natural, photographic color that deeply integrates into your images so that even extreme edits retain an unparalleled organic aesthetic. Color.io empowers photographers, filmmakers, colorists, and artists at all skill levels to craft their unique vision of color. Our color science and film emulation tools are trusted by the world's leading brands and creatives for unparalleled color depth and visual impact. Color.io uses film-derived math for exceptional color stability and smoothness. Adapt colors dynamically to your images, copy color grades from stills, and generate presets with AI.Starting Price: €15 per month -
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SnapPod AI
SnapPod AI
SnapPod AI is an innovative podcast creation platform that turns simple text prompts into professional-quality audio episodes within minutes. Designed to eliminate the need for expensive studios, complex editing tools, and production teams, it streamlines the entire process for creators of all levels. Users can upload a script, notes, or even a high-level idea, and the AI generates a fully polished podcast complete with pacing, intonation, and optional background music. The platform supports 25+ languages and allows direct publishing to Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and more. Additional features like voice cloning add personalization for podcasters who want their own voice replicated by AI. Affordable pricing tiers make it accessible to beginners, entrepreneurs, educators, and businesses looking to expand their voice presence.Starting Price: $10 -
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darktable
darktable
darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them. Having developers that are also avid photographers as part of the target audience is good for understanding the real world problems, challenges, and workflows. darktable edits your images non-destructively all the way through its pipeline. Your original image is never modified! Professional color management features ensure fidelity all the way to print and GPU accelerated processing means you can speed up your workflow using your video card. You do not need to write code to be involved in the darktable community! You can help other users by providing your input on the mailing list or the forum. If you'd like to show others what darktable is capable of, contribute to the Flickr page. -
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Natron
Natron
Natron is a powerful digital compositor that can handle all of your 2D/2.5D needs. Its robust OIIO file formats and OpenFX architecture is what make Natron the most flexible open source compositor for the visual effects community. Its interface and functionally are the same across all platforms such as MacOS, Linux and Windows. Natron has a powerful keying, roto/rotopaint, 2D tracking tools that are staple for all current film production project that requires visual effects. On the surface Natron has a powerful GUI interface that is a flexible and intuitive multi-platform node based engine. Natron may seem to be a simple compositing application but it does have layers of complexity that will allow your creativity to reach new heights. Natron has flexible Roto and Rotopaint tool-set that can generate unlimited layers of masks, mattes and shapes. -
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Kdenlive
KDE
Kdenlive is a non linear video editor. It is based on the MLT framework and accepts many audio and video formats, allows you to add effects, transitions and render into the format of your choice. -
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Ardour
Ardour
Grab yourself a nice audio interface. Plug in a microphone or a keyboard. Add a track, press record, and you got it. Cut, move, stretch, copy, paste, delete, align, trim, crossfade, rename, snapshot, zoom, transpose, quantize, swing, drag, drop. Import audio or MIDI from your hard drive or the Freesound database. All with unlimited undo/redo. All in the same window. Mute, solo, fader, automate, EQ, dynamics, insert, send, pre-fader, post-fader, sync, monitor, isolate. Floating point fidelity, the most flexible mixer architecture in the industry, hundreds of plugins, and external control surfaces. Ardour's core user group, people who want to record, edit, mix and master audio and MIDI projects. When you need complete control over your tools, when the limitations of other designs get in the way, when you plan to spend hours or days working on a session, Ardour is there to make things work the way you want them to. -
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LibrePhotos
LibrePhotos
A self-hosted Google Photos clone, with a slight focus on cool graphs. LibrePhotos is a fork of Ownphotos. A self-hosted open-source photo management service, with a slight focus on cool graphs. Django backend and React frontend. Step-by-step installation instructions are available in our documentation. Support for all types of photos including raw photos, support for videos, timeline view, scans pictures on the file system, with multiuser support. Generate albums based on events like "Thursday in Berlin", face recognition, face classification, reverse geocoding, object/scene detection, semantic image search, and search by metadata. You need a x86 processor, and it is recommended to have 8GBs of RAM. You will need at least 10 GB of HDD Space for the Docker images. It needs that space because of the machine learning models. Librephotos will also create a database and thumbnails which will need additional space. LibrePhotos comes with separate backend and frontend servers. -
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Fotoxx
Fotoxx
Fotoxx is a free open source Linux program for image editing and collection management. The goal is to meet the needs of serious photographers while remaining fast and easy to use. Navigate a large image collection using a thumbnail browser, click on an image to view or edit. A rich set of edit and retouch functions is available. Import RAW files and edit with deep color. Save revised images as JPEG, PNG (8/16 bits/color), or TIFF (8/16). Select an object or area within an image (freehand draw, follow edges, flood matching tones), apply edit functions, copy and paste, resize, blend, warp, etc. without using layers. Edit functions have fast feedback using the full image. Edit image metadata (tags, geotags, dates, ratings, captions). Search images using any combination of metadata and file and folder names or partial names. Click a marker on a scalable world map to view all photos from that location. -
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PikoPixel
PikoPixel
PikoPixel is a free, open-source Mac application for drawing & editing pixel-art images. It's easy to use, unlimited undo, supports multiple layers, customizable canvas background, hotkey-activated popup panels, export upscaled images, and supports linear (gamma-correct) space color blending. -
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Compress
OHZI Interactive
Our company, OHZI Interactive, has developed a really effective app to compress and convert videos, that is currently having a great engagement across our audience. It is available for MAC, Linux, and windows and has features that make it very user-friendly. For example, you can choose between video compression speed or quality. Also, you can choose the size you want for the compressed video. We have several built-in languages like Japanese, English, Spanish, Persian, and Portuguese. -
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Strawberry
Strawberry
Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer. It is aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. With Strawberry, you can play and manage your digital music collection, or stream your favorite radio. Strawberry is free software released under GPL. The source code is available on GitHub. Strawberry is a fork of Clementine. It's written in C++ using the Qt toolkit and GStreamer. Strawberry is compatible with both Qt versions 5 and 6. Strawberry is free software, both free as in freedom and as cost, but is depends on donations from our users. There are few developers, and most of the development is done by one person. Strawberry has become very popular over the past few years with hundred of users. Maintaining the application, running all the services, providing releases and dealing with bugs and technical issues is a time-consuming job. -
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Elecard StreamEye Studio
Elecard
Elecard StreamEye Studio is a set of powerful software tools for video quality analysis designed for professional use in video compression, processing, communication and streaming media industries. It consists of 5 separate stand-alone applications and command line tools for all-around video analysis: 1. Elecard StreamEye enables effective in-depth bitstream analysis to macroblock level, codec parameters inspection. Supports MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVC/H.264, HEVC/H.265, AV1, VP9, VVC. 2. Stream Analyzer – Syntax analysis of encoded media stream. 3. Video Quality Estimator (QuEst) – comparative analysis of two encoded streams based on objective metrics and display of essential statistics of encoded streams. 4. YUV viewer – professional video analysis tool designed to view YUV data sequence, compare files and view the result of comparison. 5. Quality Gates – tool for visual comparison of several video sequences encoded with various settings: resolution, frame rate, bit depth. -
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FreeCAD
FreeCAD
FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size. Parametric modeling allows you to easily modify your design by going back into your model history and changing its parameters. FreeCAD allows you to sketch geometry constrained 2D shapes and use them as a base to build other objects. It contains many components to adjust dimensions or extract design details from 3D models to create high quality production ready drawings. FreeCAD is a multiplatfom (Windows, Mac and Linux), highly customizable and extensible software. It reads and writes to many open file formats such as STEP, IGES, STL, SVG, DXF, OBJ, IFC, DAE and many others, making it possible to seamlessly integrate it into your workflow. FreeCAD is designed to fit a wide range of uses including product design, mechanical engineering and architecture. Whether you are a hobbyist, a programmer, an experienced CAD user, a student or a teacher, you will feel right at home with FreeCAD. -
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KiCad EDA
KiCad EDA
With the schematic editor you can create your design without limit, there are no paywalls to unlock features. An official library for schematic symbols and a built-in schematic symbol editor help you get started quickly with your designs. Make professional PCB layouts with up to 32 copper layers. KiCad now has a push and shove router which is capable of routing differential pairs and interactively tuning trace lengths. KiCad includes a 3D viewer which you can use to inspect your design in an interactive canvas. You can rotate and pan around to inspect details that are difficult to inspect on a 2D view. Multiple rendering options allow you to modify the aesthetic appearance of the board or to hide and show features for easier inspection. KiCad’s schematic capture is efficient, with all the tools you can expect for such a task. The interface focuses on productivity. There are no complexity limits, as large designs can be divided into hierarchical subsheets. -
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muse.ai
muse.ai
Cheapest way to host and share your video without adverts. Includes the most advanced AI powered in-video search. What we are creating at muse.ai has a multiplicity of applications and truly extends the human ability to learn and discover new information at faster speeds. By designing and engineering a Perceptual Artificial Intelligence that watches and indexes video content into human friendly concepts, we are enabling anyone to quickly navigate through vast amounts of audio-visual data and surface the moments of interest. Video is increasingly the way people communicate and exchange ideas. However, watching and navigating video is still a draggy and time consuming experience. We believe that it is possible to navigate video in similar ways to how we describe and recall our memories and that's why at muse.ai we combine the most advanced artificial intelligence to watch and index video using human friendly keywords.Starting Price: $5 per month / yearly
