Axorax/awesome-free-apps

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Mobile version — Android Only — iOS Only

| Icon | Meaning | Icon | Meaning | |------|----------------------|------|-------------------------------| | 🪟 | Available on Windows | 🟢 | Open-source (Repository Link) | | 🍎 | Available on macOS | ⭐ | Recommended by us | | 🐧 | Available on Linux | | |

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Contents

• Audio
• Audio Players
• Audio Recording
• DJ Software
• Music Notation
• Music Production
• Browsers
• Communication
• Messaging
• Email Clients
• Compression and Archiving
• Customize
• System Customization
• Wallpaper Tools
• Data Management
• Copy and Move
• Sync and Clone
• Developer Tools
• API Development
• Database
• Network Analysis
• Game Engines
• Virtualization
• Documents
• Office Suites
• E-book
• PDF Tools
• Finance
• Note Taking
• Text Editors
• Download Managers
• Games
• Cloud Gaming
• Mobile Emulators
• Other Emulators
• Graphics Tools
• 3D Modeling and Animation
• Security
• Antivirus
• Password Managers
• Ad & Tracker Blocking
• Image Viewers
• Remote Access
• Video
• Video Editors
• Video Players
• Video Streaming and Recording
• Video Converters and Compressors
• VPN and Proxy Tools
• Utility
• Clipboard Management
• Metadata
• Window Management
• File Management
• Application Management
• Screenshot
• Space Visualizer
• Trackpad

Audio

• FXSound - Boost sound quality, volume, and bass. Has a beautiful modern UI. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
• JACK Audio - Audio server for routing and mixing sound between programs. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• EarTrumpet - Advanced volume control for Windows, offering app-specific audio management. 🪟
• Ambie - Use white noise, nature sounds, & more to boost your productivity. 🪟 🟢
• BlackHole - Virtual audio loopback driver for routing audio between macOS applications. 🍎 🟢
• BluetoothHandsFreeToggle - Fixes Bluetooth headsets stuck in low-quality Hands-Free mode. 🪟 🟢

Audio Players

• Foobar2000 - Lightweight and highly customizable audio player with support for many formats. 🪟 🍎 ⭐
• Audacious - Lightweight audio player for simple music playback. 🪟 🐧 🟢
• Karafun - Collection of karaoke songs across multiple genres. Play your own CDG files or use downloads from YouTube. 🪟
• MusicBee - Feature-rich music player and manager. 🪟
• Strawberry Music Player - Music player for organizing and playing your audio collection. 🪟 🍎 🐧

Audio Recording

• Audacity - Audio editor for recording and editing sounds. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• Ocenaudio - Easy-to-use audio editor for recording and analyzing sounds. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Wavosaur - Simple audio editor for recording, editing, and processing sound. 🪟
• echo99 - Private call recorder with on-device transcription and speaker labels. 🍎

DJ Software

• DJ ProDecks - DJ software for mixing music and adding effects. 🪟
• Mixxx - DJ software for live mixing and beatmatching with controller support. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Serato DJ Lite - DJ software for beginners to mix music with ease. 🪟 🍎
• Rekordbox - Software that enables a comfortable DJ workflow with AI, cloud, and automation tech. 🪟 🍎
• VirtualDJ - DJ platform for mixing music, beatmatching, and live performance. 🪟 🍎

Music Notation

• ABCjs - Tool for writing and playing ABC music notation. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Denemo - Music notation software for fast score creation with LilyPond. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Frescobaldi - Editor for LilyPond to create music scores quickly. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• LilyPond - Music notation program for creating high-quality sheet music. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• MuseScore - Software for creating, playing, and sharing sheet music. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• TuxGuitar - TuxGuitar is an editor and player for multi-track guitar tablatures. It can open Guitar Pro, Power Tab Editor, TablEdit and MIDI files. 🪟 🍎 🐧🟢

Music Production

• LMMS - DAW for creating music with virtual instruments and MIDI support. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• Ardour - DAW for recording, editing, and mixing audio with professional features. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Cakewalk - Full-featured DAW for music recording and editing by BandLab. 🪟
• Furnace - Multi-system chiptune tracker. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• MilkyTracker - Cross platform XM tracker. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• OpenMPT - Modren tracker software that can open multiple tracker formats. 🪟
• Qtractor - Multi-track DAW for Linux for audio and MIDI recording. 🐧
• Stargate DAW - Innovation-first DAW, instrument and effect plugins. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Tracktion T7 - DAW for music production with advanced editing features. 🪟 🍎 🐧

Browsers

• Tor Browser - Privacy browser routing traffic over the Tor network. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• Arc - Vertical tab browser for modern productivity. 🪟 🍎
• Brave - Privacy-focused and fast browser. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Chrome - Fast browser with integrated Google services. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Chromium - Browser project behind Chrome. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• ungoogled-chromium - Privacy-focused Chromium with Google services removed. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Firefox - Browser with privacy and customization. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• LibreWolf - Privacy-focused Firefox fork with enhanced security. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Microsoft Edge - Chromium-based browser with extra enhancements. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Min - Fast, minimal browser prioritizing privacy. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Opera - Browser with built-in ad-blocking, VPN, and speed. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Pale Moon - Goanna-based browser. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Orion - Lightweight WebKit browser with Chrome/Firefox extension support. 🍎 🐧
• qutebrowser - Keyboard-driven, vim-like browser in Python and Qt. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Safari - Native Mac browser with Apple device integration. 🍎
• Mullvad Browser - Privacy browser with Tor, anti-fingerprinting, and Mullvad VPN. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Vivaldi - Customizable browser putting you in control. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Zen Browser - Beautifully designed, privacy-focused browser with custom mods. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

Communication

Messaging

• Discord - Communication platform for text, voice, and video, popular with gamers. 🪟 🍎 🐧 ⭐
• Telegram - Cloud-based messaging app known for speed, security, and group chats. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• WhatsApp - Free messaging app with text, voice, video calls, and multimedia sharing. 🪟 🍎
• Signal - Secure, private messaging app with end-to-end encryption. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Slack - Collaboration hub for teams with messaging, file sharing, and integrations. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Viber - Free messaging app with text, voice, video calls, and file sharing. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Microsoft Teams - Team communication platform with chat, file sharing, and video conferencing. 🪟 🍎 🐧

Email Clients

• BlueMail - Cross-platform email client with modern interface. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• CanaryMail - Secure email app with PGP support and AI assistance. 🍎 🐧
• Edison Mail - Customizable, intuitive email client with smart features. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• ElectronMail - Electron-based desktop client for ProtonMail. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Eppie Mail - Open-source email client with local AI agents and full support for Gmail, Outlook, and Proton Mail. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• eM Client - Modern client to boost your productivity. 🪟
• Foxmail - Fast, user-friendly email client. 🪟 🍎
• Mailbird - IMAP/POP3 client with customization options. 🪟
• Mailspring - Beautiful, fast email client. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Nylas Mail - Extensible desktop email app based on web technologies. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Postbox - Advanced email management with productivity focus. 🪟 🍎
• Polymail - Simple, powerful email client with modern features. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Wino Mail - Fluent design email client with Mica effect. 🪟
• Spark - Fast email client with team collaboration features. 🍎 🐧
• ThunderBird - Email client for easier management. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Tutanota - Encrypted service focused on privacy. 🪟 🍎 🐧

Compression and Archiving

• 7-Zip - Archive manager supporting 7z, ZIP, and other formats. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
• Bandizip - Fast, lightweight archive manager with extensive format support. 🪟
• muCommander - Lightweight dual-pane file manager with archive support. 🍎
• NanaZip - 7-Zip derivative optimized for Windows 10/11 with added functionality. 🪟
• PDF Archiver - Tool for tagging and organizing PDFs. 🍎 🟢
• PeaZip - Archive manager supporting 180+ formats with encryption and compression. 🪟 🐧 🟢
• The Unarchiver - Simple tool for extracting ZIP, RAR, ISO, and other formats. 🍎
• Unarchive One - Multi-format decompression tool with QuickLook integration. 🍎
• Keka - File archiver for compressing and extracting common archive formats. 🍎

Customize

System Customization

• Winaero - All-in-one app for tuning Windows settings. 🪟
• Windhawk - Customization marketplace for Windows and programs. 🪟 🟢
• HideVolumeOSD - Hides the Windows volume bar. 🪟 🟢
• ExplorerPatcher - Restores and enhances the classic taskbar and system elements. 🪟 🟢
• Flow Launcher - Quick file search and app launcher like Spotlight. 🪟 🟢
• ModernFlyouts - Replaces default flyouts with customizable modern ones. 🪟 🟢
• Hidden Bar - Simple app to organize and declutter your menu bar. 🍎 🟢
• MacPilot - Unlock hidden settings and system tweaks. 🍎
• noMeiryoUI - Tools to freely change system fonts. 🪟 🟢
• TaskbarX - Personalize the taskbar with center alignment, transparency, and animations. 🪟
• TinkerTool - Utility for enabling hidden system preferences. 🍎
• Sizer - Resize any window to a predefined size. 🪟
• Sophia Script for Windows - The most powerful PowerShell module for fine-tuning Windows showing how Windows can be configured without making any harm to it. 🪟 🟢
• RetroBar - Classic Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista taskbar for modern versions of Windows. 🪟 🟢
• SaneBar - Menu bar icon manager and organizer. Local-only alternative to Bartender. 🍎 🟢
• SaneClick - Finder toolbar customizer for adding quick actions. 🍎 🟢
• Thaw - Menu bar manager for hiding, arranging, and customizing menu bar items. 🍎 🟢
• nowbar - Live album art for the currently playing music, right in the menu bar. 🍎 🟢

Wallpaper Tools

• Lively Wallpaper - Tool to set animated and interactive wallpapers. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
• Rainmeter - Desktop customization tool offering widgets, skins, and live stats. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
• Komorebi - Animated wallpaper manager. 🐧 🟢
• Plash - App to set websites as wallpapers. 🍎 🟢
• ScreenPlay - Wallpaper and widget engine. 🪟 🐧 🟢
• Variety - Wallpaper changer with features for downloading and managing wallpapers. 🐧 🟢
• WinDynamicDesktop - Port of macOS Mojave Dynamic Desktop feature to Windows. 🪟 🟢
• Sucrose - Versatile wallpaper engine bringing life to your desktop with a wide range of interactive themes. 🪟 🟢

Data Management

Copy and Move

• FastCopy - Copy and move files in batch. 🪟
• TeraCopy - Copy and move multiple files. 🪟 🍎
• Blip - Direct file transfer app with unlimited file sizes, folder support, and transfer resume. 🪟 🍎 ⭐

Sync and Clone

• FreeFileSync - Tool for comparing and syncing files or folders. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• rclone - Command-line tool for managing and syncing files with cloud storage. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Syncthing - Continuous file synchronization for multiple computers. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

Developer Tools

• livewinsize - Visualize window size in pixels and other units. 🪟 🟢 ⭐
• Diffinity - Diff and merging tool with focus on accurate and easy-to-read source code diffs. 🪟
• Meld - Tool for visual file, directory, and version control comparison. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• TkForge - Drag & drop in Figma to create a Python GUI with ease. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• WinMerge - Windows visual diff and merge for files and directories. 🪟 🟢
• WhereMyTokens - Windows system tray app for monitoring Claude Code token usage in real time. Displays per-session token counts, costs, context window usage, and rate limits. 🪟 🟢
• Headroom - Native macOS menu bar app showing Claude Code's session (5h) and weekly (7d) rate-limit usage as a live %, with color-coded alerts, reset countdowns, context window fill, active model name, and session cost. Zero network calls. 🍎 🟢
• Agent Island - Status companion for AI coding agents. Shows live session state for Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Grok, and Cursor, alerts you when a run is waiting on your turn, and computes quota and cost locally. No account, no telemetry. 🪟 🍎 🟢
• x64dbg - Debugger for Windows. 🪟 🟢
• Ghostty - Fast native terminal emulator with GPU acceleration, tabs, splits, and modern terminal features. 🍎 🐧 🟢
• iTerm2 - Terminal replacement for macOS with split panes, profiles, search, and extensive customization. 🍎 🟢
• Ollama - Runs and manages local AI models with desktop and command-line tools. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Android Studio - Official IDE for Android development with emulator, code editor, and build tools. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• GitHub Desktop - Graphical Git client for cloning repositories, reviewing changes, and syncing with GitHub. 🪟 🍎 🟢
• WezTerm - GPU-accelerated terminal emulator and multiplexer with tabs, panes, SSH, and Lua configuration. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Tura - Build agent that uses 80% less token and delivers better results. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• DevProjex - Builds safe, token-efficient project context with GUI, TUI, CLI, visual file selection, live preview, secret redaction, Git scopes, and syntax-aware compression. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Nexus Shell - Native macOS SSH workspace with multi-tab terminals, dual-pane file transfer, server monitoring, and Docker controls. 🍎
• Atomic Agent - Local-first CLI and TUI coding assistant that runs open-weight models entirely on your machine. Includes 56 built-in tools for browser, filesystem, git, memory, and vision, MCP support, and a five-layer local memory system. No account or API key required. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• DSH Studio - Installs, supervises, and manages DeepSeek Harness from a cross-platform desktop interface. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢

API Development

• Insomnia - Simple API client for REST and GraphQL development. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢 ⭐
• Postman - API development platform with advanced testing and collaboration tools. 🪟 🍎 🐧 ⭐
• Apidog - All-in-one workspace for API design, testing, and documentation. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Bruno - Offline API client that is fast, Git-friendly, and open source. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Cocoa Rest Client - Native app for testing REST APIs. 🍎 🟢
• Hoppscotch - Lightweight API development tool for designing, testing, and debugging. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• HTTPie - Command-line and GUI tool to simplify working with APIs. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• HTTP Toolkit - Tool for debugging and mocking HTTP requests. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Katalon Studio - Testing automation for APIs, web, and mobile apps. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• Mockoon - Desktop tool for creating and testing mock REST APIs. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• SoapUI Open Source - For testing REST and SOAP APIs with scripting support. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Paw - Advanced HTTP client. 🍎
• Yaak - An offline and Git friendly API tester for HTTP, GraphQL, WebSockets, SSE, and gRPC. 🪟 🍎 🐧 🟢
• Endpoint - Native macOS API client with WebSocket support, performance testing, and customizable themes. 🍎

Database

• DBeaver - Universal database tool for SQL databases like MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Apache Family, and more. 🪟 🍎 🐧 ⭐
• Beekeeper Studio - Modern, lightweight SQL client supporting MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, SQL Server, etc. 🪟 🍎 🐧
• DB Browser for SQLite - Visual tool for creating, browsing, and editing