Audacity. Open source audio recording and editing
If you need to record a podcast, or you want to record vocals for a song, the most popular option that is open source and free to use is Audacity. It’s not even close to Garageband or professional DAWs...
GIMP. Open Source graphics editor
In a world where Photoshop is a verb, everybody is aware of the power of a graphics editor. GIMP may not be a complete replacement for Photoshop, but is a very powerful and useful graphics editor that is free...
Inkscape. An open source vector editor
If you work with illustrations, you know it’s better to use vector editors, like Illustrator or Sketch, than to use bitmap editors like Photoshop or Gimp, because they give you much more flexibility and fine grained control on the...
Blender. Open source 3D graphics editor
Blender is a 3D modeler, animator, renderer, post-processor, video editor, game engine… you name it. It’s a free and open source alternative to software like 3DS Max or Cinema 4D. Its interface is not the easiest to learn, and...
LibreOffice. An open source alternative to Microsoft Office
Even though this is a fork of OpenOffice (a suite of applications developed mainly by Sun Microsystems and later abandoned when Oracle bought the company, now again in active development by the Apache Foundation), LibreOffice has superseded its ancestor...