AWESOME WINDOWS TOOLS

• awesome-windows-tools

  1 8 0.0

  Discontinued A Curated List of tools and Software for Windows OS

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com featured

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

  

• audacity

  346 12,373 9.9 C

  Audio Editor

  

  Audacity - Free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.

• mixxx

  134 4,451 9.9 C++

  Mixxx is Free DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes.

  

  Mixxx - Free DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes, veritable alternative to Traktor.

• picard

  243 3,735 9.9 Python

  A cross-platform music tagger powered by the MusicBrainz database. Picard organizes your music collection by updating your tags, renaming your files, and sorting them into a folder structure, exactly the way you want it.

  

  MusicBrainz Picard - Picard is a cross-platform music tagger that looks up and rewrite metadata tags.

• zsh

  76 3,628 8.3 C

  Mirror of the Z shell source code repository.

  

  Zsh - A powerful command line shell.

• caprine

  25 7,008 7.7 TypeScript

  Elegant Facebook Messenger desktop app

  Caprine - An elegant Facebook Messenger desktop app.

• riot-web

  2 6,554 9.7 HTML

  Discontinued A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web. [Moved to: https://github.com/vector-im/element-web]

  

  Riot - A decentralised encrypted comms app for the Matrix.org ecosystem.

• Vagrant

  122 26,238 9.0 Ruby

  Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.

  

  Vagrant - A tool for building and managing virtual machines.

• Tor

  121 15 0.0 C

  Discontinued Tor protects your privacy on the Internet by hiding the connection between your Internet address and the services you use. (This is *not* the official repository.) (by katmagic)

  Tor Project - Enable anonymous communication.

• franz

  48 4,538 7.5 JavaScript

  Franz is a free messaging app for services like WhatsApp, Slack, Messenger and many more.

  

  Franz - A messaging app for WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Telegram and many many more.

• ScreenToGif

  155 23,678 6.9 C#

  🎬 ScreenToGif allows you to record a selected area of your screen, edit and save it as a gif or video.

  ScreenToGif - ScreenToGif allows you to record a selected area of your screen and save it as a gif or video.

• Classic-Start

  34 30 0.0

  Renamed to NeoClassic-UI then renamed to Open-Shell - https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu

  

  Classic Start - Use Start Menu and Explorer like it's 2000.

• EarTrumpet

  27 8,910 7.5 C#

  EarTrumpet - Volume Control for Windows

  

  EarTrumpet - Per application volume control from the system tray.

• rainmeter

  13 4,650 8.7 C

  Desktop customization tool for Windows

  

  Rainmeter - Rainmeter allows you to display customizable skins on your desktop, from hardware usage meters to fully functional audio visualizers.

• openoffice

  124 944 9.5 C++

  Apache OpenOffice

  

  OpenOffice - Software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more.

• search-deflector

  5 851 0.7 D

  Discontinued A small program that forwards searches from Cortana to your preferred browser and search engine.

  Search Deflector - A small program that redirects searches made from the Windows Start Menu or Cortana to whatever browser and search engine you prefer.

• TranslucentTB

  92 15,664 8.2 C++

  A lightweight utility that makes the Windows taskbar translucent/transparent.

  

  TranslucentTB - Make your Windows task bar transparent.

• ONLYOFFICE

  173 4,801 6.7 Shell

  ONLYOFFICE Docs is a free collaborative online office suite comprising viewers and editors for texts, spreadsheets and presentations, forms and PDF, fully compatible with Office Open XML formats: .docx, .xlsx, .pptx and enabling collaborative editing in real time.

  

  OnlyOffice - The most complete and feature-rich office and productivity suite.

• Windows-10-Login-Background-Changer

  1 667 0.0 C#

  Discontinued Changes the Windows 10 Login Screen Background

  Windows 10 Login Background Changer - Lets you change the Windows 10 login screen background.

• LibreOffice

  587 2,724 10.0 C++

  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 - Open source office suite.

• GitExtensions

  25 7,731 9.6 C#

  Git Extensions is a standalone UI tool for managing git repositories. It also integrates with Windows Explorer and Microsoft Visual Studio (2015/2017/2019).

  

  Git Extensions - A powerful and easy to use UI for Git.

• intellij-plugins

  177 2,135 9.9 Java

  Open-source plugins included in the distribution of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate and other IDEs based on the IntelliJ Platform

  

  IntelliJ IDEA - A modern Java IDE with free community edition.

• desktop

  221 19,709 9.9 TypeScript

  Focus on what matters instead of fighting with Git.

  

  GitHub Desktop - GitHub Desktop is an open source Electron-based GitHub app.

• im-only-resting

  1 187 0.0 C#

  A feature-rich WinForms-based HTTP client

  

  I'm Only Resting -A feature-rich WinForms-based HTTP client

• NSudo

  8 1,622 6.1 C++

  Discontinued [Deprecated, work in progress alternative: https://github.com/M2Team/NanaRun] Series of System Administration Tools

  

  NSudo - A Powerful System Administration Tool.

• freeciv

  44 1,266 9.9 C

  Freeciv is a Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization. Upstream repository for the standalone Freeciv client and server. Report bugs and submit patches at https://osdn.net/projects/freeciv/ticket/

  

  Freeciv - A Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization.

• TailBlazer

  3 2,216 0.0 C#

  A modern file tail utility based on Rx.Net which show cases reactive programming and Dynamic Data (see https://github.com/RolandPheasant/DynamicData)

  TailBlazer - A small fast tool for browsing through logs

• tortoisegit

  36 1,442 9.2 C++

  Windows Explorer Extension to Operate Git; Mirror of official repository https://tortoisegit.org/sourcecode

  

  TortoiseGit - Git client with full shell integration.

• vagrant

  1 21,837 9.5 Ruby

  Discontinued Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments. [Moved to: https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant] (by mitchellh)

  

  Vagrant - A tool for building and managing virtual machines.

• Visual Studio Code

  2,982 163,396 10.0 TypeScript

  Visual Studio Code

  

  Visual Studio Code - Build and debug modern web and cloud applications.

• davinci-resolve-linux

  180 129 4.6

  Setup Davinci Resolve on Linux an Fix Issues with Importing and Exporting Media

  DaVinci Resolve - Professional video creation software for editing, visual effects, color correction, and audio post production.

• wmie2

  7 768 0.0 C#

  WMI Explorer - Provides the ability to browse and view WMI namespaces/classes/instances/properties in a single pane of view.

• sumatrapdf

  44 13,477 9.9 C

  SumatraPDF reader

  

  Sumatra PDF - PDF, ePub, MOBI, CHM, XPS, DjVu, CBZ, CBR reader.

• arq_restore

  126 647 0.0 C

  command-line utility for restoring from Arq backups

  Arq - Backs up your files to your own cloud account (Amazon Cloud Drive, AWS, Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Cloud Storage, OneDrive, and SFTP).

• Mailspring

  68 15,474 8.0 C

  :love_letter: A beautiful, fast and fully open source mail client for Mac, Windows and Linux.

  

  Mailspring - A fast and maintained fork of Nylas Mail, built on modern web technologies.

• ueli

  29 3,632 9.8 TypeScript

  Cross-Platform Keystroke Launcher

  ueli - A powerful keystroke launcher for Windows.

• N1

  1 24,601 0.0 JavaScript

  Discontinued :love_letter: An extensible desktop mail app built on the modern web. Forks welcome! [Moved to: https://github.com/nylas/nylas-mail]

  

  Nylas Mail - An extensible desktop mail app built on the modern web.

• 0ad

  142 2,733 9.2 C++

  Discontinued [DEPRECATED] Git mirror of the 0 A.D. SVN source code (migrated to https://gitea.wildfiregames.com on August 20th 2024)

  

  0 A.D. - A free, open-source real-time strategy game of ancient warfare.

• games

  17 22,821 0.0

  :video_game: A list of popular/awesome video games, add-ons, maps, etc. hosted on GitHub. Any genre. Any platform. Any engine.

  Awesome Games - List of games hosted on Github.

• sqlitebrowser

  283 21,105 9.0 C++

  Official home of the DB Browser for SQLite (DB4S) project. Previously known as "SQLite Database Browser" and "Database Browser for SQLite". Website at:

  

  DB Browser for SQLite - High quality, visual, open source tool to create, design, and edit database files compatible with SQLite

• SpaceVim

  86 19,974 4.8 Vim Script

  Discontinued A community-driven modular vim/neovim distribution - The ultimate vimrc

  

  SpaceVim - A community-driven vim distribution

• Godot

  2,762 90,052 10.0 C++

  Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine

  

  Godot Engine - Free and open source game engine. Easy to get started and flexible for intermediate users.

• RetroShare

  32 1,741 9.0 C++

  RetroShare is a Free and Open Source cross-platform, Friend-2-Friend and secure decentralised communication platform.

  

  Retroshare - A platform for secure communications and file sharing between friends.

• itch

  69 2,361 7.4 TypeScript

  🎮 The best way to play your itch.io games

  

  Itch.io - Install, update and play indie games.

• Quassel IRC

  11 724 4.5 C++

  Quassel IRC: Chat comfortably. Everywhere.

  

  Quassel - Quassel IRC is a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client.

• inkscape

  45 - -

  Inkscape - Inkscape is a professional vector graphics editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

• obs-studio

  2,367 59,639 9.9 C

  OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording

  

  Open Broadcaster Software - Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.

• Atom

  286 58,803 8.1 JavaScript

  Discontinued :atom: The hackable text editor

  

  Atom - A hackable text editor for the 21st Century.

• notepad-plus-plus

  332 22,750 9.7 C++

  Notepad++ official repository

  

  Notepad++ - A source code editor which supports several programming languages.

• neovim

  1,404 82,395 10.0 Vim Script

  Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

  

  Neovim - literally the future of vim

• Brackets

  38 33,735 1.4 JavaScript

  Discontinued An open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

  

  Brackets - A modern, open source text editor that understands web design.

• Vim

  430 36,343 9.9 Vim Script

  The official Vim repository

  

  GVim - (G)Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing.

• mpv

  849 28,136 9.9 C

  🎥 Command line video player

  

  mpv - Media player.

• Kodi Home Theater Software

  312 18,359 9.9 C++

  Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.

  

  Kodi - Free and Open Source home theatre software.

• Light Table

  10 11,740 0.0 Clojure

  Discontinued The Light Table IDE ⛺

  

  Light Table - A customizable editor with instant feedback and showing data values flow through your code.

• oni

  4 11,463 0.4 TypeScript

  Discontinued Oni: Modern Modal Editing - powered by Neovim

  

  SpaceVim - A community-driven vim distribution

• insomnia

  239 34,547 9.8 JavaScript

  The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.

  

  Insomnia - A modern REST client with a beautiful interface.

• hyperterm

  87 43,266 9.1 TypeScript

  A terminal built on web technologies

  

  Hyper - A terminal built on web technologies.

• intellij-community

  104 17,160 10.0 Java

  IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition & IntelliJ Platform

  

  IntelliJ IDEA - A modern Java IDE with free community edition.

• mockttp

  18 776 8.5 TypeScript

  Powerful friendly HTTP mock server & proxy library

  

  HTTP Toolkit - HTTP debugging & mocking tool.

• Duplicati

  22 11,048 9.9 C#

  Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!

  

  Duplicati - Free backup software to store encrypted backups online For Windows, macOS and Linux.

• hexchat

  22 2,986 0.0 C

  Discontinued GTK+ IRC client

  

  Hexchat - IRC client based on XChat

• aperture-control

  1 128 1.8 PowerShell

  Windows environment automation tool

  

  Aperture Control - Windows environment automation tool with a number of premade recipes and examples available.

• aperture-control-recipes

  1 24 1.8 PowerShell

  Collection of recipes for aperture-control

  

  Aperture Control - Windows environment automation tool with a number of premade recipes and examples available.

• aperture-control-example

  1 32 1.8 PowerShell

  Example for a standard development environment setup via Aperture Control

  

  Aperture Control - Windows environment automation tool with a number of premade recipes and examples available.

• CommandTrayHost

  1 389 0.0 C++

  A command line program monitor systray for Windows

  CommandTrayHost - A Command Line program monitor systray for Windows.

• HandBrake

  982 17,511 9.7 C

  HandBrake's main development repository

  

  HandBrake - High performance video encoding and conversion tools with a nice GUI.

• CopyQ

  30 8,652 9.2 C++

  Clipboard manager with advanced features

  CopyQ - Clipboard manager with advanced features.

• Launchy

  1 120 0.0 C++

  Launchy is a good looking launcher for Windows (by OpenNingia)

  Launchy - The Open Source Keystroke Launcher.

• Luna

  2 222 0.0 C#

  Discontinued Automatic dark mode for Windows 10 (by adrianmteo)

  Luna - Automatic dark mode for Windows 10.

• ShareX

  581 29,391 9.2 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.

  

  ShareX- Lets you take screenshots or screencasts of any selected area with a single key.

• Scoop

  255 21,039 9.0 PowerShell

  A command-line installer for Windows.

  

  Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows.

• Wox

  23 24,424 9.6 Go

  A cross-platform launcher that simply works

  

  Wox - An effective launcher for windows.

• exifcleaner

  42 1,866 0.0 TypeScript

  Cross-platform desktop GUI app to clean image metadata

  ExifCleaner - Remove exif metadata from images and videos with drag and drop.

• Tabby

  92 58,814 9.1 TypeScript

  A terminal for a more modern age

  Terminus - modern, highly configurable terminal app based on web technologies.

• babun

  1 8,637 0.0 Shell

  Babun - a Windows shell you will love!

  

  Babun - Alternative Windows shell based on Cygwin.

• cmder

  81 25,872 5.8 C++

  Lovely console emulator package for Windows

  

  Cmder - Console emulator package with clink shell.

• Console

  1 73,526 9.8 C++

  Discontinued The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place! [Moved to: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal] (by Microsoft)

  

  ColorTool - Set custom color schemes for the Windows Console with support for iTerm color schemes.

• ConEmu

  30 8,574 5.1 C++

  Customizable Windows terminal with tabs, splits, quake-style, hotkeys and more

  ConEmu - Customizable terminal with tabs, splits, quake-style and more.

• tdesktop

  170 26,111 10.0 C++

  Telegram Desktop messaging app

  

  Telegram - A messaging app with a focus on speed and security, it’s super fast, simple and free.

• console

  4 2,924 2.6 C++

  This is a modified version of Console 2 for a better experience under Windows Vista/7/8/10 and a better visual rendering. (by cbucher)

  ConsoleZ - Modified version of Console 2 for a better experience and a better visual rendering.

• Cryptomator

  492 11,656 9.5 Java

  Multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud

  

  Cryptomator - Free client-side encryption for your cloud files.

• FluentTerminal

  8 9,210 0.0 C#

  A Terminal Emulator based on UWP and web technologies.

  FluentTerminal - A Terminal Emulator based on UWP and web technologies.

• hyper

  2 35,630 9.7 TypeScript

  Discontinued A terminal built on web technologies [Moved to: https://github.com/vercel/hyper] (by zeit)

  

  Hyper - A terminal built on web technologies.

• Chocolatey

  395 10,276 9.2 C#

  Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows

  

  Chocolatey - A package manager for Windows.

• Windows Terminal

  514 95,226 9.8 C++

  The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!

  

  Windows Terminal - Microsoft's official new terminal for Windows.

• Ext3Fsd

  10 707 0.0 C

  Ext2/3/4 file system driver for Windows

  Ext2Fsd - Open source ext3/4 file system driver for Windows.

• fselect

  14 3,999 8.3 Rust

  Find files with SQL-like queries

  fselect - Command-line tool to search files with SQL-like queries.

• calibre

  864 19,528 9.9 Python

  The official source code repository for the calibre ebook manager

  Calibre - Powerful software for e-book management and conversion.

• awesome-dva

  28 31 0.0 JavaScript

  A curated list of "damn vulnerable apps" and exploitable VMs / wargames. See contributing.md for information.

• greenshot

  305 3,957 2.6 C#

  Greenshot for Windows - Report bugs & features go here: https://greenshot.atlassian.net or look for information on:

  

  Greenshot - Take and crop screenshots directly on the screen.

• httrack

  5 3,526 5.0 C

  HTTrack Website Copier, copy websites to your computer (Official repository)

  HTTrack- Offline browser utility, allowing you to download a website from the Internet to a local directory.

• AutoHotkey_L

  53 6,118 7.5 C++

  Discontinued AutoHotkey - macro-creation and automation-oriented scripting utility for Windows. [Moved to: https://github.com/AutoHotkey/AutoHotkey]

  

  AutoHotkey - The ultimate automation scripting language for Windows.

• LightBulb

  22 2,254 8.6 C#

  Reduces eye strain by adjusting screen gamma based on the current time

  LightBulb - Reduces eyestrain by adjusting gamma based on the current time

• PowerSwitcher

  3 317 0.0 C#

  Power plan switcher for Windows 10. Heavily inspired by EarTrumpet.

  PowerPlanSwitcher - Provides a quick UI for switching power schemas & automatic switch on AC-plug-in on Windows10.

• rimraf

  17 5,638 7.2 TypeScript

  A `rm -rf` util for nodejs

  rimraf - A deep deletion module for node. Help to delete files and folders with very long paths

• winreg-cli

  1 46 1.1 JavaScript

  Discontinued Command line tool with a fluent API for modifying the Windows registry

  winreg-cli - Command line tool with a fluent API for modifying Windows registry.

• Yacy

  115 3,394 8.1 Java

  Distributed Peer-to-Peer Web Search Engine and Intranet Search Appliance

  

  Yacy - A general search engine by corporations of people, including the search web page, general crawlers, indexing, and ranking functions.

• ZeroNet

  149 18,347 0.0 JavaScript

  ZeroNet - Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network

  ZeroNet - A decentralized web.

• algo

  155 28,843 5.7 Jinja

  Set up a personal VPN in the cloud

  

  Algo - Personal IPSEC VPN in the cloud.

• olive

  66 8,174 6.1 C++

  Free open-source non-linear video editor

  

  Olive Video Editor - Open source cross-platform non-linear video editor.

• OBS

  1 3,400 0.0 C

  Open Broadcaster Software (Deprecated: See OBS Studio repository instead)

  Open Broadcaster Software - Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.

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