What are the best apps you've been using for a long time on Windows?

• LibreOffice

  584 2,423 10.0

  Read-only LibreOffice core repo - no pull request (use gerrit instead https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/) - don't download zip, use https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/bundles/ instead (by LibreOffice)

  

LibreOffice - best free and open-source alternative to Microsoft Office.

• bedrock

  57 1,152 9.8 HTML

  Making mozilla.org awesome, one pebble at a time (by mozilla)

  

Mozilla Firefox (portable) - web browser (tabs, extensions, bookmarks, zoom, incognito, PIP...)

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• HandBrake

  981 15,530 9.8 C

  HandBrake's main development repository

  

HandBrake (portable) - video converter

• czkawka

  361 17,429 7.9 Rust

  Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.

Czkawka - a very powerful duplicate file detector tool.

• VideoLAN Client (VLC)

  379 12,959 0.0 C

  VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please follow https://wiki.videolan.org/Sending_Patches_VLC/

  

VLC - plays virtually everything.

• yt-dlp

  2,360 70,159 9.8 Python

  A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

  

yt-dlp - powerful command-line video downloader and the best for youtube.

• qBittorrent

  709 24,960 9.6 C++

  qBittorrent BitTorrent client

  

qBittorrent - best torrent client.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• ShareX

  578 27,580 9.3 C#

  ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.

  

JPEGView - lightweight image viewer for Windows. ShareX - screen capture tool with other nice features.

• VeraCrypt

  74 6,187 9.3 C

  Disk encryption with strong security based on TrueCrypt

  

VeraCrypt - Create encrypted disks quickly and on the fly.

• rclone

  963 43,720 9.8 Go

  "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Yandex Files

  

rclone - "rysnc for cloud storage."

• FreshRSS

  72 8,306 9.5 PHP

  A free, self-hostable news aggregator…

  

FreshRSS - Technically not something on "Windows", but can be self-hosted.

• Files

  181 31,870 9.9 C#

  Building the best file manager for Windows

  

Files - Replacement for File Explorer.

• FFmpeg

  485 42,250 10.0 C

  Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

  

FFmpeg - Swiss Army Knife for videos. You can convert, encode anything.

• Visual Studio Code

  2,838 158,095 10.0 TypeScript

  Visual Studio Code

  

VSC - VSC's got so advanced it's nearly scary.

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com sponsored

  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

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