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Ribbet
Ribbet
Ribbet makes editing your photos fun and easy by creating intuitive photo editing software for desktop and mobile. Have fun editing your photos with Ribbet's easy photo editor for desktop and mobile. Make basic adjustments and apply 1000s of incredible effects, fonts and pro tools. Watch as your favorite pictures arrange themselves into an artwork with our Shape Collage maker. With tens of thousands of shapes and fine-tuned controls, creating unique designs has never been easier. Ribbet puts hundreds of customizable collage layouts at your fingertips with its Grid Collage maker. Insert cells and customize your grid borders. Create beautiful looking designs immediately with our unique, hand-picked range of Fancy Card templates. Simply customize your text and photos to share online or print at home. Ribbet's mobile app for iPhone, iPad and Android lets you edit like a pro, on the go. We're constantly innovating to bring you the best, easy-to-use photo editing tools ever. -
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Dabble
Dabble
Dabble is an easy-to-use online writing tool, packed with helpful features that allows beginning novelists and published authors to create amazing stories. Dabble organizes your manuscript, story notes, and plot. Dabble simplifies story, leaving more room in your brain to create, which is what being a writer is really about. If you’re sick of using sticky notes, plotting on a piece of paper, and using elementary word processors, then you’re going to love Dabble. Dabble was created for two reasons - Simplicity and organization. Other tools are either way too complicated and require a course to teach you how to use them...or too elementary lacking basic tools and organization. That's where Dabble shines! Shape your story with Dabble’s unique plotting tool. Plot like J.K. Rowling. Dabble provides a plot grid, plot lines (subplots), and plot points (the events in your subplots) to supercharge your plotting.Starting Price: $5 per month -
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KIT Scenarist
KIT Scenarist
KIT Scenarist is a program for creating screenplays which oriented at international standards in the field of film production. The program is a full-featured studio for creating stories from the birth of the idea and before the transfer of the script to production. More than 10000 screenwriters already use KIT Scenarist in daily work. Issued more than 70 versions of the program. Updates come out every month. There are versions for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iOS, and Android. Research module of the program is designed so that you can collect all the necessary materials for the project in one place. In it, you can save basic information about the script, such as its name, logline, synopsis, and also fill in the title page of the script. Here you can manage lists of characters and locations. Create new ones, add descriptions, photos, rename and organize them. The script editor will allow you to think only about the story itself. -
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Trelby
Trelby
A free, multiplatform, feature-rich screenwriting program! Trelby is simple, fast and elegantly laid out to make screenwriting simple. It is infinitely configurable. Trelby is free software, that you can contribute to. Screenplay editor: Enforces correct script format and pagination, auto-completion, and spell checking. Multiplatform : Behaves identically on all platforms, generating the exact same output. Choice of view: Multiple views, including draft view, WYSIWYG mode, and fullscreen to suit your writing style. Name database: Character name database containing over 200,000 names from various countries. Reporting: Scene/location/character/dialogue reports. Compare: Ability to compare scripts, so you know what changed between versions. Import: Screenplay formatted text, Final Draft XML (.fdx), Celtx (.celtx), Fountain (.fountain), Adobe Story (.astx) and Fade In Pro (.fadein). Export: PDF, formatted text, HTML, RTF, Final Draft XML (.fdx) and Fountain (.fountain). -
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Realsoft 3D
Realsoft Graphics
Open design combined with a rich set of features has been the main strength of Realsoft 3D. Feature wise, Realsoft 3D challenges the most famous competitors and offers a better price/performance ratio. In some areas (e.g. SDS modelling, ray tracing), the product is the best on the market. Another major advantage is that the intelligent, context sensitive user interface is suitable for both novice users and skilled professionals. The program grows with and adapts to the skill level of the user. The program is used in different applications, for example by artists working in the advertising industry, architects, product designers, educational institutions, game industry and hobby users. As a versatile yet affordable product ($700), Realsoft 3D has quite a large group of potential users. Realsoft 3D is a powerful tool for making best quality photorealistic images, and there is a huge number of people who need images every day.Starting Price: $700 -
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3DEqualizer
3DEqualizer
3DEqualizer4 is the dominating 3D tracking solution in today's vfx world - merging live action footage with digital visual effects at highest quality possible. It is a cornerstone of modern post production business and used by virtually all of the major players around the globe working in this field. Many of those companies rely on 3DEqualizer since its very first version which has been introduced over 20 years ago - some of them exclusively! But this is just the tip of the iceberg. 3DEqualizer is widely being used throughout the entire vfx industry, which means if you go to the box office today to watch the latest visual effects driven blockbuster movie, you will most likely be entertained by the help of our work! The best product is nothing worth without reliable support - this is even more important for professional clients. The things we learn, while using 3DEqualizer under real production conditions, makes us understand our client's demands much better.Starting Price: €129 per month -
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Mocha Pro
Boris FX
Mocha Pro is the world renowned software for planar tracking, rotoscoping and object removal. Essential to visual effects and post-production workflows, Mocha has been recognized with prestigious Academy and Emmy Awards for contribution to the film and television industry. Mocha Pro has recently been used on global hits including The Mandalorian, Stranger Things, Avengers: Endgame, and many more. The next evolution of Mocha. PowerMesh enables a powerful new sub-planar tracking engine for VFX, roto and stabilization. Warped surface tracking and roto that sticks. Track complex organic surfaces through occlusions and blur using Mocha’s intuitive layer based interface. Simple to use and faster than most optical flow based techniques. Apply to source files for realistic match moves, convert to AE Nulls to drive motion graphics, render a mesh warped stabilize/reverse stabilize plate for compositing, or export dense tracking data to host applications.Starting Price: $27.75 per month -
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CAD Assistant
Open Cascade
Open Cascade CAD Assistant is a powerful offline 3D CAD viewer and converter with simple and intuitive interface, free for both personal and commercial use. Originally developed as a testbed and showcase for the Open CASCADE Technology on mobile platforms, the solution has been appreciated as fast and handy 3D viewer by thousands of end-users on mobiles and desktops worldwide. CAD Assistant brings the power of open technologies to the hands of engineers working with 3D data. CAD Assistant is based on open source libraries (Open CASCADE Technology, Qt, FreeType, FreeImage, etc.) and employs open formats for CAD and mesh data (STEP, IFC, IGES, BREP, glTF, JT, PLY, STL, OBJ, 3DM). It also supports a set of other file formats like DXF, SAT (ACIS), XT (Parasolid). Viewing mesh models with associated data is an additional functionality included in CAD Assistant. Mesh can be read from files in PLY format.Starting Price: Free -
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Denemo
Denemo
Denemo is a free music notation program for GNU/Linux, Mac OSX and Windows that lets you rapidly enter notation which it typesets using the LilyPond music engraver. Music can be typed in at the PC-Keyboard, or played in via MIDI controller, or input acoustically into a microphone plugged into your computer’s soundcard. Denemo uses LilyPond which generates beautiful sheet music to the highest publishing standards. During input Denemo displays the staffs in a simple fashion, so you can enter and edit the music efficiently. The typesetting is done in the background while you work, and is generally flawless publication quality. Some final tweaks can be done on the typeset score with the mouse if needed. This represents an enormous practical improvement over the popular programs which require you to re-position colliding notation constantly as you enter the music. See comparison with Musescore, Finale or Sibelius. -
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Hydrogen
Hydrogen
Very user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based on QT 4. Sample-based stereo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au and .aiff formats. Support of samples in compressed FLAC file. Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to chain patterns into a song. Up to 192 ticks per pattern with individual level per event and variable pattern length. Unlimited instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities. Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples for each instrument). Time-stretch and pitch functions via rubberband cli. Require the rubberband-cli package. Director Window with a visual metronome and song position tags. Export/Import single patterns into song projects. Midi learning via Shift+MouseClick on many gui-cotrollers combined with a midi settings editor. Unique human velocity, human time, pitch and swing functions. -
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Helm
Helm
Helm runs in GNU/Linux, Mac OSX and Windows. Run Helm as a standalone synthesizer or as an LV2, VST, VST3 or AU plugin. Comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. This means you are free to run Helm anywhere without the pains of DRM, you can study and change the source code and redistribute exact or modified copies of Helm. Helm is a software synthesizer. You use it to create electronic music on your computer. Helm is free as in freedom. This means you control this software, it doesn't control you. In terms of money, Helm is pay what you want. So you are free to pay nothing. Any sound that comes out of Helm belongs to the person who played it. You are the copyright holder to any sound you create with Helm. You can turn some modules on and of. They have little power buttons in the top left that you can click to turn them on or of. The SUB module is one of the three sound producers in Helm. It controls a single oscillator that by default plays one octave below the currently played note. -
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Edrawinfo
Wondershare Technology
With EdrawInfo, designing an eye-catching infographic can't be easier. Simply follow the 5 steps below, an appealing infographic will be generated within several minutes. With a large number of vector cliparts, anyone could build compelling infographics quickly and effortlessly. Every detail of your infographic can be customized, including colors, lines, shadow effects, and chart values. It's easy to save your final works to a variety of file formats, including PDF, PPT, PNG, SVG, Html, etc. Whether you’re creating infographics for business promotion, educational materials, or propaganda of non-profit institutes, EdrawInfo has you covered. With a large number of vector cliparts, anyone can build compelling infographics quickly and effortlessly. Every detail of your infographic can be customized, including colors, lines, shadow effects, and chart values. It's easy to save your work into a variety of file formats, including PDF, PPT, PNG, SVG, HTML, etc.Starting Price: $99 one-time payment -
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MC Musiceditor
MC Musiceditor
MC Musiceditor is free/open source (GPLv2 or above) music notation software. The two flavours, MCMusiceditor (full version) and MCMusiceditor-Lite, are made for Windows (XP and above). In addition, MCMusiceditor-Lite runs also fine on Linux (under Wine). MC Musiceditor is developed by Reinier Maliepaard, psychologist, software engineer, musician and teacher at the ArtEZ Conservatorium Netherlands (music theory and music history). Why? To make life of musicians easier when making scores. This resulted in a userfriendly editor which makes professional scores without requiring specific knowledge (other than musical basics)! MC Musiceditor is the easiest way to write, refine, hear and print professional scores. In addition: MC Musiceditor can share and interchange musical notation data of MC Musiceditor with WYSIWYG music notation editors like MuseScore, Finale and Sibelius (to mention only the most popular programs by my students). -
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CreateStudio
CreateStudio
Now you can create attention-grabbing explainer videos, video ads, and social content all inside one simple interface. No tech or design skills are needed. Create the perfect sales video or character explainer to drive your sales forward and brand your business as experts! Boost your engagement by matching the perfect video size for your social media channels. Drag & drop special 3D effects & adjust the interface for both Facebook & Instagram. Includes fully ad-compliant presets. Animate every element using custom animations & easing, or use our one-click presets for effortless animation. Add over 30 scroll-stopping visual effects to your social media posts to stop scrollers & drive traffic to your site & offers. Add any face to your character & create highly engaging & fun bobble head character videos. Great for seasonal videos. Animate any layer with just a click using our motion presets.Starting Price: $67 one-time payment -
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GrafX2
GrafX2
GrafX2 is a bitmap paint program inspired by the Amiga programs Deluxe Paint and Brilliance. Specialized in 256-color drawing, it includes a very large number of tools and effects that make it particularly suitable for pixel art, game graphics, and generally any detailed graphics painted with a mouse. The program is mostly developed on Haiku, Linux and Windows, but is also portable on many other platforms. -
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Aseprite
Aseprite
Aseprite lets you create 2D animations for video games. From sprites, to pixel-art, retro style graphics, and whatever you like about the 8-bit and 16-bit era. It has a color mode, which tell you how many colors the image can handle. All images in the sprite are in one specific mode, you cannot mix RGB images with Indexed images in the same sprite. It contains a set of layers. You can see them in the Timeline. The most important concept here is that there are two kind of layers: the background layer for opaque sprites, and transparent layers. A sprite can contain only one background layer, but several transparent layers. It contains animation frames. Each frame has a duration, i.e. how many milliseconds the frame must be on screen when the animation is being played. Integrate Aseprite in your assets pipeline with the command-line interface (CLI). Store several animations in one texture atlas.Starting Price: $19.99 one-time payment -
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Banuba Face AR SDK
Banuba
Real-time 3D masks and AR face filters in your mobile app or website. Powered by the industry’s best face-tracking technology. Immerse your users with Snapchat-like filters, AR lenses, and real-time facial animation. Our Face Filters SDK brings the most captivating video effects that engage and inspire people. Empower your app with beauty AI & AR tools. From portrait editing tools, real-time touch up to makeup filters, our beauty SDK & API offer the most powerful digital face beautification tailored to your use case. Let users experiment with new looks in seconds, adoring eyes and skin with digital makeup. Empower your video apps with real-time face touch up technology.Bring an easy to use blemish removal to your users for photo apps. The neural network recognizes the presence of skin defects on a user's face and retouches them based on the user's skin color. Users can remove skin defects in photos automatically or manually tapping on the desired area making their skin look perfect. -
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MotionBuilder
Autodesk
Capture, edit, and play back complex animations with MotionBuilder® 3D character animation software. Work in an interactive environment optimized to help you work faster and more efficiently without compromising creativity. Produce high-quality 3D character animations with prebuilt moves. Create realistic character movements using one of the industry's fastest animation tools. Fine-tune character animations with production-proven tools used to manipulate motion capture data. Included software development kit and FBX data exchange enable easy interoperability with other 3D applications. MotionBuilder software is available with a subscription only. We no longer sell perpetual licenses. Your MotionBuilder subscription gives you access to install and use the 3 previous versions. With a subscription to MotionBuilder software, you can install it on up to 3 computers or other devices.Starting Price: $1,950 per year -
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NinjaCapture by 500apps
500apps
NinjaCapture by 500apps is a free screen recorder extension that enables you to record, capture, and share screenshots and videos from within the Chrome browser. Share your screen via email or third-party services. We are building the future of business growth. Our Promise - is agile and sustainable apps at your fingertips. Easily share what you’re seeing with teammates and customers by using NinjaCapture's tailor-made screenshot-capturing features. Works with popular cloud-storage services and business apps (Google Drive, Box, Dropbox). Manage the privacy settings for public, private, or specific people with an auto-generated password. Record web page activities seamlessly in video format. Select the area on your screen to instantly record and share the file with anyone. Record your narratives on web activities through your webcam and save them for future reference or share them with others effortlessly. -
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MakeHuman
MakeHuman
MakeHuman is an open source (AGPL3) tool designed to simplify the creation of virtual humans using a Graphical User Interface, also commonly referred to as a GUI. This is a specialized branch of the more general subject of 3D modelling. The MakeHuman Team is focused on this specific branch of the broader subject in order to achieve the best possible level of quality and ease of use in that area. The ultimate goal is to be able to quickly produce a wide array of realistic virtual humans with only a few clicks of the mouse and be able to render or export them for use in other projects.Starting Price: $2 per month -
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Clapper
Flathub
Simple and modern GNOME media player. Clapper is a GNOME media player built using GJS with GTK4 toolkit. The media player is using GStreamer as a media backend and renders everything via OpenGL. The player works natively on both Xorg and Wayland. It also supports hardware acceleration through VA-API on AMD/Intel GPUs, NVDEC on NVIDIA, and V4L2 on mobile devices. The media player has an adaptive GUI. When viewing videos in "windowed mode", Clapper will use mostly unmodified GTK widgets to match your OS look nicely. When the player enters "fullscreen mode" all GUI elements will become darker, bigger, and semi-transparent for your viewing comfort. It also has a "floating mode" which displays only video on top of all other windows for a PiP-like viewing experience. Mobile-friendly transitions are also supported. We improved the GL/GLES context automatic selection. Additionally, it also has a few patches, thus some functionalities work better (or are only available) in Flatpak version.Starting Price: Free -
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Kodi
Kodi
Kodi puts your smart TV to shame. Kodi plays almost every kind of media you can find and looks great while doing it! Here are just a few things Kodi excels at: Your music collection has never looked this good! Support for almost every format, playlist, party mix and more. So much better than a pile of DVDs on a shelf. Kodi brings your movie collection to life with artwork, cast, genres and more. Perfect for binge-watching or the occasional catch-up on your favorite show. Kodi keeps all your tv organized like nothing else. Kodi allows you to watch and record live TV all from an easy-to-use interface. It works with a number of popular backends including MediaPortal, MythTV, NextPVR, Tvheadend and many more. Kodi isn't just for passive entertainment media. You can also play games on Kodi. Pick from a large number of emulators, or even play a stand-alone game. There's even extensive support for game controllers.Starting Price: Free -
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mpv
mpv
mpv is a free (as in freedom) media player for the command line. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types. mpv has an OpenGL, Vulkan, and D3D11 based video output that is capable of many features loved by videophiles, such as video scaling with popular high quality algorithms, color management, frame timing, interpolation, HDR, and more. mpv can leverage most hardware decoding APIs on all platforms. Hardware decoding can be enabled at runtime on demand. A straightforward C API was designed from the ground up to make mpv usable as a library and facilitate easy integration into other applications.Starting Price: Free -
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SMPlayer
SMPlayer
SMPlayer is a free media player for Windows and Linux with built-in codecs that can play virtually all video and audio formats. It doesn't need any external codecs. Just install SMPlayer and you'll be able to play all formats without the hassle to find and install codec packs. One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave but don't worry, when you open that movie again it will be resumed at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, and volume. SMPlayer is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the award-winning MPlayer, which is capable of playing almost all known video and audio formats. But apart from providing access for the most common and useful options of MPlayer, SMPlayer adds other interesting features like the possibility to play Youtube videos or download subtitles.Starting Price: Free -
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GNOME Videos
GNOME
Also known as Totem, Videos is a movie player designed for GNOME. Features plugin support. Included as core application since GNOME 2.10 release. All your videos are automatically gathered, all you need is to pick and play one. Several video channels can be accessed directly and simply via Videos. The simple interface of Videos let you focus on what is really important: your watching experience. Fluendo for sponsoring Ronald Bultje and Tim-Philipp Müller's work on GStreamer backend. Collabora for sponsoring Tim-Philipp Müller's work on GStreamer backend.Starting Price: Free -
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XnView
XnView
XnView MP/Classic is a free Image Viewer to easily open and edit your photo file. The Image Viewer supports all major image formats (JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, WEBP, PSD, JPEG2000, OpenEXR, camera RAW, HEIC, PDF, DNG, CR2). As Image Viewer you have features like color adjusting, image resizer, cropping, screen capture, metadata editing (IPTC, XMP) and much more. With its easy-to-use explorer-like interface, XnView MP allow you to quickly view your images and photos, but also to make image management. You have features like batch rename, batch converter, duplicate image finder, image compare, but you can also create contact sheets, slideshow.Starting Price: Free -
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Geeqie
Geeqie
Comments and Exif information browsing and editing. Supported Metadata formats Exif, IPTC and XMP. Fast preview for many raw image formats and many other supported. Geeqie has great defaults but also offers lots of customization options. Check Preferences menu. Easy integration with other software: open images with your favourite editor.Starting Price: Free -
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Gwenview
KDE
Gwenview is a fast and easy to use image viewer created by KDE, ideal for browsing and displaying a collection of images. Allows simple image manipulations: rotate, mirror, invert, and resize. It allows basic file management actions, such as copy, move and delete, among others. It works as a stand-alone application or as a viewer integrated into the Konqueror web browser.Starting Price: Free -
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Regards
Regards
Support reading Picture format : BMP files, Dr. Halo CUT, DDS, EXR files, Raw Fax G3, GIF files, HDR files, ICO files, IFF, JBIG files, JNG files, JPEG/JIF files, JPEG-2000 File Format, JPEG-2000 codestream, JPEG-XR files, KOALA, Kodak PhotoCD, MNG, PCX, PBM/PGM/PPM files, PFM files, PNG files, Macintosh PICT, Photoshop PSD, RAW camera, Sun RAS, SGI, TARGA files, TIFF files, WBMP files, WebP files, XBM, XPM files, PFM, SVG, AVIF AND HEIC. Support reading Video format (DXVA2 acceleration support) : mpeg4, avi, mkv, webp, y4m, AV1 format, quicktime and AVCHD. Open DMG file and Copy RegardsViewer to Application Folder. Add new button for linking external program for video and picture edition. Correct crash when you keep push down space bar after video thumbnail. Correct bug on scrollbar disapear on Thumbnail video and Thumbnail effect.Starting Price: Free -
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D-ID
D-ID
D-ID is a cutting-edge technology company specializing in generative AI and synthetic media, best known for its innovative Creative Reality Studio. This platform allows users to transform text, images, and audio into photorealistic videos featuring lifelike digital humans with natural facial expressions, speech, and movements. By combining deep learning, computer vision, and advanced AI models, D-ID empowers businesses, educators, and content creators to produce personalized, interactive video content at scale. The Creative Reality Studio enables users to generate talking avatars from static images, making it a popular tool for e-learning, marketing, entertainment, and customer service. Committed to privacy and ethical AI use, D-ID also incorporates facial anonymization technology, ensuring secure and responsible handling of visual data.Starting Price: $5.90 per month
