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definitive-opensource

A definitive list of the best of everything open source

Status: Active - Projects: 209

Tip

Discussions and contributions are welcome! This project is in it's early stages and a lot hasn't been ironed out yet. Submit or make changes by forking this repo, editing, commiting, and opening a pull-request - or just raise an issue. For more information on contributing and guidelines for open-source software submissions, consult their respective pages.

Caution

We have a very rigorous vetting and research process. We continously monitor projects on the list and immediately remove projects that no longer fit the criteria.

Note

My MacOS configuration.

Why another list?

There's plenty of awesome lists on GitHub, many focusing on open source specifically. However I've found them including many long-deprecated apps, cluttered with smaller projects on the verge of extinction, or missing a lot of modern open source projects.

This list aims to be comprehensive and highly curated, consolidating only the best open source projects. Mostly apps with a solid user base, solid set of contributors, and visible long term growth are included. These criteria are nothing more than suggestions, however, and projects with potential or ones that set out on a unique path can bypass the above criteria.

Tags

Alerts

🟢 🟡 🟠 🔴 - Security incident (Minor, Moderate, Major, Critical)

🚫 - Potentially abandoned

🛑 - Potentially closed source

⁉️ - Suspicious license

- Corporate influence

🧪 - Experimental (Pre-Alpha)

🚧 - Critically unstable/buggy

- On watch for removal

Awards (At 1k Stars)

🏆 - Crown of open source

🥈 - Second

🥉 - Third

💥 - Disruptive

🌍 - Influential

Platforms

Cross - Cross-platform (MacOS, Windows, Linux)

MacOS, Windows, Linux, IOS, Android, SelfHost, Web, VSCode, JetB, Chromium, Firefox, CLI, N/A

Project Status

Active - Active Development
Incremental - Minor Updates
Maintenence - Critical Fixes
Idle - Temporarily Paused
Abandoned - Development Halted

Contents

Alphabetical
Categorized

Applications

Audio

Name Description Platform Stars
Audacity Audio Editor Cross GitHub Repo stars
Spotube 🎧 Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium nor uses Electron! Available for both desktop & mobile! Cross GitHub Repo stars
BackgroundMusic Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio. MacOS GitHub Repo stars

AI Image GUI

Name Description Platform Stars
Auto1111 Stable Diffusion web UI Cross GitHub Repo stars
Upscayl 🆙 Upscayl - #1 Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, MacOS and Windows. Cross GitHub Repo stars
ComfyUI The most powerful and modular diffusion model GUI, api and backend with a graph/nodes interface. Cross GitHub Repo stars
InvokeAI Invoke is a leading creative engine for Stable Diffusion models, empowering professionals, artists, and enthusiasts to generate and create visual media using the latest AI-driven technologies. The solution offers an industry leading WebUI, and serves as the foundation for multiple commercial products. Cross GitHub Repo stars
WebUI Forge No description, website, or topics provided. Cross GitHub Repo stars
Fooocus Focus on prompting and generating Cross GitHub Repo stars
StableSwarmUI StableSwarmUI, A Modular Stable Diffusion Web-User-Interface, with an emphasis on making powertools easily accessible, high performance, and extensibility. Cross GitHub Repo stars
StabilityMatrix Multi-Platform Package Manager for Stable Diffusion Cross GitHub Repo stars

AI Code Complete

Name Description Platform Stars
Tabby Self-hosted AI coding assistant SelfHost JetB VSCode GitHub Repo stars

Backup

Name Description Platform Stars
Kopia Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included. Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars
Restic Fast, secure, efficient backup program Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars
Duplicati Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud! Cross GitHub Repo stars
Borg Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption. Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars
rclone "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars

Browser

Name Description Platform Stars
Zen 🌀 Experience tranquillity while browsing the web without people tracking you! Cross GitHub Repo stars
Brave Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows. Cross GitHub Repo stars
Ladybird 🧪 Truly independent web browser N/A GitHub Repo stars
Floorp All of source code of version 10 or later of Floorp Browser, the most Advanced and Fastest Firefox derivative 🦊 Cross GitHub Repo stars
MinBrowser A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy Cross GitHub Repo stars

Browser Extensions

Name Description Platform Stars
UBlock uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean. Chromium Firefox GitHub Repo stars
DarkReader Dark Reader Chrome and Firefox extension Chromium Firefox GitHub Repo stars

Calendar

Name Description Platform Stars
Cal Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone. SelfHost GitHub Repo stars

Chat

Name Description Platform Stars
Signal A private messenger. Cross GitHub Repo stars

Code Editor

Name Description Platform Stars
Zed Code at the speed of thought Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. MacOS Linux GitHub Repo stars
Helix A post-modern modal text editor. Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars
Lapce Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust Cross GitHub Repo stars
Vim The official Vim repository Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars
Neovim Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars
Spacevim A modular Vim/Neovim configuration Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars
Nvchad Blazing fast Neovim config providing solid defaults and a beautiful UI, enhancing your neovim experience. Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars
LazyVim Neovim config for the lazy Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars
VSCode Visual Studio Code Cross GitHub Repo stars
VSCodium binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing Cross GitHub Repo stars
CodeEdit CodeEdit App for macOS Elevate your code editing experience. Open source, free forever. MacOS GitHub Repo stars
code-server VS Code in the browser SelfHost GitHub Repo stars

Cleaner

Name Description Platform Stars
Pearcleaner A free, source-available and fair-code licensed mac app cleaner MacOS GitHub Repo stars
Bleachbit BleachBit system cleaner for Windows and Linux Windows Linux GitHub Repo stars

Clipboard Manager

Name Description Platform Stars
Maccy Lightweight clipboard manager for macOS MacOS GitHub Repo stars

Document Editor

Name Description Platform Stars
Etherpad Etherpad: A modern really-real-time collaborative document editor. Web SelfHost GitHub Repo stars

Dev Extensions

Name Description Platform Stars
Continue Continue is the leading open-source AI code assistant. You can connect any models and any context to build custom autocomplete and chat experiences inside VS Code and JetBrains VSCode JetB GitHub Repo stars
Cline Autonomous coding agent right in your IDE, capable of creating/editing files, executing commands, using the browser, and more with your permission every step of the way. VSCode GitHub Repo stars

Download Manager

Name Description Platform Stars
GoPeed A modern download manager that supports all platforms. Built with Golang and Flutter. Cross GitHub Repo stars
AB A Download Manager that speeds up your downloads Cross GitHub Repo stars
Motrix A full-featured download manager. Cross GitHub Repo stars
Persepolis Persepolis is a download manager written in Python. Cross GitHub Repo stars
FileCentipede Cross-platform internet upload/download manager for HTTP(S), FTP(S), SSH, magnet-link, BitTorrent, m3u8, ed2k, and online videos. WebDAV client, FTP client, SSH client. SelfHost GitHub Repo stars

Docker

Name Description Platform Stars
Portainer Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy. Cross GitHub Repo stars
dockge A fancy, easy-to-use and reactive self-hosted docker compose.yaml stack-oriented manager Cross GitHub Repo stars

File Manager

Name Description Platform Stars
Spacedrive Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust. Cross GitHub Repo stars
Files A modern file manager that helps users organize their files and folders. Windows GitHub Repo stars
nnn n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager Linux CLI GitHub Repo stars
Yazi 💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O. Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars
Ranger A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars
Electerm 📻Terminal/ssh/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/sftp client(linux, mac, win) Cross GitHub Repo stars
If Terminal file manager Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars
Superfile Pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager Cross GitHub Repo stars
FileStash 🦄 A file manager / web client for SFTP, S3, FTP, WebDAV, Git, Minio, LDAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, Mysql, Backblaze, ... SelfHost GitHub Repo stars
Filegator Powerful Multi-User File Manager SelfHost GitHub Repo stars
Filebrowser 📂 Web File Browser SelfHost GitHub Repo stars

Finance

Name Description Platform Stars
Maybe The OS for your personal finances SelfHost GitHub Repo stars
Actual A local-first personal finance app SelfHost Cross GitHub Repo stars
Ghostfolio Open Source Wealth Management Software. Angular + NestJS + Prisma + Nx + TypeScript 🤍 SelfHost GitHub Repo stars

Games

Name Description Platform Stars
Endless Sky Space exploration, trading, and combat game. Cross GitHub Repo stars
Cataclysm DDA Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Cross GitHub Repo stars
Unciv Open-source Android/Desktop remake of Civ V Cross GitHub Repo stars
Wesnoth An open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme. Cross GitHub Repo stars

Game Launcher

Name Description Platform Stars
Heroic Games Launcher A games launcher for GOG, Amazon and Epic Games for Linux, Windows and macOS. Cross GitHub Repo stars
PlayNite Video game library manager with support for wide range of 3rd party libraries and game emulation support, providing one unified interface for your games. Windows GitHub Repo stars

Graphics

Name Description Platform Stars
Graphite 2D vector & raster editor that melds traditional layers & tools with a modern node-based, non-destructive, procedural workflow. Web GitHub Repo stars
FreeCAD This is the official source code of FreeCAD, a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler. Cross GitHub Repo stars
Blender Official mirror of Blender Cross GitHub Repo stars
Gaphor Gaphor is the simple modeling tool Cross GitHub Repo stars
darktable darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer Cross GitHub Repo stars
RawTherapee A powerful cross-platform raw photo processing program Cross GitHub Repo stars

Git GUI

Name Description Platform Stars
Github Desktop Focus on what matters instead of fighting with Git. Cross GitHub Repo stars

Game Engine

Name Description Platform Stars
Godot Godot Engine Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine Cross GitHub Repo stars

Home Automation

Name Description Platform Stars
HomeAssistant 🏡 Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. SelfHost Cross GitHub Repo stars
Frigate NVR with realtime local object detection for IP cameras SelfHost GitHub Repo stars

IDE

Name Description Platform Stars
IntelliJ Community IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition & IntelliJ Platform Cross GitHub Repo stars

Knowledge Base

Name Description Platform Stars
Logseq A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration. Cross GitHub Repo stars
Anytype Official Anytype client for MacOS, Linux, and Windows Cross GitHub Repo stars
AppFlowy Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. AppFlowy is an AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data. The best open source alternative to Notion. Cross GitHub Repo stars
Affine There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [əfain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use. Cross GitHub Repo stars
Outline The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible. Cross GitHub Repo stars
Siyuan A privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang. Cross GitHub Repo stars
FastGPT FastGPT is a knowledge-based platform built on the LLMs, offers a comprehensive suite of out-of-the-box capabilities such as data processing, RAG retrieval, and visual AI workflow orchestration, letting you easily develop and deploy complex question-answering systems without the need for extensive setup or configuration. Cross GitHub Repo stars

LLM Gui

Name Description Platform Stars
Ollama Get up and running with Llama 3.3, DeepSeek-R1, Phi-4, Gemma 2, and other large language models. Cross SelfHost CLI GitHub Repo stars
Open-webui User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...) SelfHost GitHub Repo stars
gpt4all GPT4All: Run Local LLMs on Any Device. Open-source and available for commercial use. Cross GitHub Repo stars
Jan Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer. Multiple engine support (llama.cpp, TensorRT-LLM) Cross GitHub Repo stars
Lobe-chat 🤯 Lobe Chat - an open-source, modern-design AI chat framework. Supports Multi AI Providers( OpenAI / Claude 3 / Gemini / Ollama / Azure / DeepSeek), Knowledge Base (file upload / knowledge management / RAG ), Multi-Modals (Vision/TTS) and plugin system. One-click FREE deployment of your private ChatGPT/ Claude application. Cross GitHub Repo stars
Chatbox User-friendly Desktop Client App for AI Models/LLMs (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Ollama...) Cross GitHub Repo stars
Text Generation WebUI A Gradio web UI for Large Language Models. Cross GitHub Repo stars
OpenIntepreter A natural language interface for computers Cross GitHub Repo stars
Khoj Your AI second brain. Self-hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research. Turn any online or local LLM into your personal, autonomous AI (gpt, claude, gemini, llama, qwen, mistral). Get started - free. SelfHost GitHub Repo stars
Cherry Studio 🍒 Cherry Studio is a desktop client that supports for multiple LLM providers. Support deepseek-r1 Cross GitHub Repo stars

Linux Dashboard

Name Description Platform Stars
Cockpit Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers. Linux GitHub Repo stars
CapRover Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids Linux GitHub Repo stars
CasaOS CasaOS - A simple, easy-to-use, elegant open-source Personal Cloud system. Linux GitHub Repo stars
NextCloud ☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data SelfHost Cross GitHub Repo stars

Language Package Manager

Name Description Platform Stars
Mise dev tools, env vars, task runner Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars
asdf Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars
Yarn Yarn is a modern package manager split into various packages. Its novel architecture allows to do things currently impossible with existing solutions Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars
PNPM Fast, disk space efficient package manager Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars
Bun Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager all in one Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars
UV An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust. Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars

Mail

Name Description Platform Stars
Mailspring 💌 A beautiful, fast and fully open source mail client for Mac, Windows and Linux. Cross GitHub Repo stars
Thunderbird Meet Thunderbird, the email and productivity app that maximizes your freedoms. Cross GitHub Repo stars

Markdown Editor

Name Description Platform Stars
Zettlr Your One-Stop Publication Workbench Cross GitHub Repo stars
HedgeDoc HedgeDoc - Ideas grow better together SelfHost GitHub Repo stars

The following also support markdown editing but have been placed in the knowledge base category.

  • Logseq
  • Anytype

Media Downloader

Name Description Platform Stars
yt-dlp A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars
YoutubeDownloader Downloads videos and playlists from YouTube Cross GitHub Repo stars
Cobalt best way to save what you love Web GitHub Repo stars

Media Management

Name Description Platform Stars
Immich High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution. SelfHost GitHub Repo stars
Photoprism AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web 🌈💎 SelfHost GitHub Repo stars
Jellyfin The Free Software Media System SelfHost GitHub Repo stars

Neovim Extensions

Name Description Platform Stars
Nvim-Dap Debug Adapter Protocol client implementation for Neovim N/A GitHub Repo stars
Coq Fast as FUCK nvim completion. SQLite, concurrent scheduler, hundreds of hours of optimization. N/A GitHub Repo stars
Neorg Modernity meets insane extensibility. The future of organizing your life in Neovim. N/A GitHub Repo stars
Vimwiki Personal Wiki for Vim N/A GitHub Repo stars
Neovide No Nonsense Neovim Client in Rust N/A GitHub Repo stars
lazy.nvim 💤 A modern plugin manager for Neovim N/A GitHub Repo stars

NoteTaking

Name Description Platform Stars
Joplin Joplin - the privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. Cross GitHub Repo stars
Notesnook A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote. Cross GitHub Repo stars
Trilium Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes Cross GitHub Repo stars
StandardNotes Think fearlessly with end-to-end encrypted notes and files. Cross GitHub Repo stars

Office Suite

Name Description Platform Stars
OnlyOffice An office suite that combines text, spreadsheet and presentation editors allowing to create, view and edit local documents Cross GitHub Repo stars
LibreOffice No description provided. Cross GitHub Repo stars
Cryptpad Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source. SelfHost GitHub Repo stars

Package Manager

Name Description Platform Stars
Homebrew macOS system monitor in your menu bar MacOS Linux CLI GitHub Repo stars
Choco Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows Windows GitHub Repo stars
Nix Nix, the purely functional package manager Cross GitHub Repo stars

Password Manager

Name Description Platform Stars
Bitwarden Open source security solutions for individuals, teams, and business organizations. Explore Password Manager, Secrets Manager, and passkey innovations. Cross GitHub Repo stars
Keepass KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “Keepass Password Safe”. Cross GitHub Repo stars
Vaultwarden Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs SelfHost GitHub Repo stars

Project Management

Name Description Platform Stars
Plane 🔥 🔥 🔥 Open Source JIRA, Linear, Monday, and Asana Alternative. Plane helps you track your issues, epics, and product roadmaps in the simplest way possible. Cross GitHub Repo stars
Focalboard Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana. Cross GitHub Repo stars
Huly Huly — All-in-One Project Management Platform (alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack, Notion, Motion) Cross GitHub Repo stars
Openproject OpenProject is the leading open source project management software. Cross GitHub Repo stars

RAG

Name Description Platform Stars
AnythingLLM The all-in-one Desktop & Docker AI application with built-in RAG, AI agents, and more. Cross GitHub Repo stars
Kotaemon An open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents. SelfHost GitHub Repo stars
Verba Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) chatbot powered by Weaviate SelfHost GitHub Repo stars
RAGFlow RAGFlow is an open-source RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) engine based on deep document understanding. SelfHost GitHub Repo stars

Remote Desktop

Name Description Platform Stars
Rustdesk An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer. Cross GitHub Repo stars

Screen Recording

Name Description Platform Stars
OBS Studio OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording Cross GitHub Repo stars
ShareX 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. Windows GitHub Repo stars

System Monitoring

Name Description Platform Stars
Stats macOS system monitor in your menu bar MacOS GitHub Repo stars
Vitals A glimpse into your computer's temperature, voltage, fan speed, memory usage and CPU load. Linux GitHub Repo stars

Sync

Name Description Platform Stars
Syncthing Open Source Continuous File Synchronization Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars
rsync An open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. It also has useful features for backup and restore operations among many other use cases. Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars

Shell

Name Description Platform Stars
Fish Shell The user-friendly command line shell. Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars

Task Management

Name Description Platform Stars
Super Productivity Super Productivity is an advanced todo list app with integrated Timeboxing and time tracking capabilities. It also comes with integrations for Jira, Gitlab, GitHub and Open Project. Cross GitHub Repo stars

Terminal

Name Description Platform Stars
Kitty Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal Cross GitHub Repo stars
Wezterm A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust Cross GitHub Repo stars
Waveterm An open-source, cross-platform terminal for seamless workflows Cross GitHub Repo stars
Alacritty A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. Cross GitHub Repo stars
Tabby A terminal for a more modern age Cross GitHub Repo stars
Rio A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator focusing to run in desktops and browsers. Cross GitHub Repo stars
Ghostty 👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration. Cross GitHub Repo stars

Text Editor

Name Description Platform Stars
Quill Quill is a modern WYSIWYG editor built for compatibility and extensibility Web GitHub Repo stars
CotEditor Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS MacOS GitHub Repo stars
Micro A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars
Notepads A modern, lightweight text editor with a minimalist design. Windows GitHub Repo stars
Kakoune mawww's experiment for a better code editor Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars
Lite-XL A lightweight text editor written in Lua Cross GitHub Repo stars
Emacs An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more. Cross GitHub Repo stars

Terminal Multiplexer

Name Description Platform Stars
Zellij A terminal workspace with batteries included Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars
tmux tmux source code Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars

Tools

Name Description Platform Stars
czkawka Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc. Windows Linux GitHub Repo stars
BalenaEtcher Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily. Cross GitHub Repo stars
LocalSend An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop Cross Android IOS GitHub Repo stars
MonitorControl 🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs. MacOS GitHub Repo stars
Keka The macOS & iOS file archiver MacOS GitHub Repo stars
ScriptKit Script Kit. Automate Anything. Cross GitHub Repo stars

Version Manager

Name Description Platform Stars
XcodesApp The easiest way to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode - with a mouse click. MacOS GitHub Repo stars
rbenv Manage your app's Ruby environment Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars
PyEnv Simple Python version management Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars
NVM Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions Cross CLI GitHub Repo stars

Video Editing

Name Description Platform Stars
Kdenlive Free and open source video editor, based on MLT Framework and KDE Frameworks Cross GitHub Repo stars
Shotcut cross-platform (Qt), open-source (GPLv3) video editor Cross GitHub Repo stars
Olive Free open-source non-linear video editor Cross GitHub Repo stars
Losslet-Cut The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing Cross GitHub Repo stars
Natron Open-source video compositing software. Node-graph based. Similar in functionalities to Adobe After Effects and Nuke by The Foundry. Cross GitHub Repo stars

Virtual Machine

Name Description Platform Stars
UTM Virtual machines for iOS and macOS MacOS GitHub Repo stars
VirtualBuddy Virtualize macOS 12 and later on Apple Silicon, VirtualBuddy is a virtual machine GUI for macOS M1, M2, M3 MacOS GitHub Repo stars

Video Player

Name Description Platform Stars
mpv 🎥 Command line video player Cross GitHub Repo stars
iina The modern video player for macOS. MacOS GitHub Repo stars
VLC VLC is a libre and open source media player and multimedia engine, focused on playing everything, and running everywhere. Cross GitHub Repo stars

Video Transcoder

Name Description Platform Stars
HandBrake HandBrake's main development repository Cross GitHub Repo stars

Note

In an effort to prevent duplication, categorizing apps into the below OS specific sections is ill-advised. They exist only for software that is so specific to an OS that the app's concept could not be ported to other platforms.

MacOS

Name Description Platform Stars
Boring Notch TheBoringNotch: Not so boring notch That Rocks 🎸🎶 MacOS GitHub Repo stars
Ice Powerful menu bar manager for macOS MacOS GitHub Repo stars
Sol MacOS launcher & command palette MacOS GitHub Repo stars
Cork A fast GUI for Homebrew written in SwiftUI Cross GitHub Repo stars
AppLite User-friendly GUI macOS application for Homebrew Casks Cross GitHub Repo stars

Linux

Name Description Platform Stars
Flatseal Manage Flatpak permissions Linux GitHub Repo stars
Extension Manager A utility for browsing and installing GNOME Shell Extensions. Linux GitHub Repo stars

Windows

Name Description Platform Stars

Other

Name Description Platform Stars
OpenPilot openpilot is an operating system for robotics. Currently, it upgrades the driver assistance system in 275+ supported cars. Linux GitHub Repo stars

Uncategorized

Name Description Platform Stars
Ansible Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. Cross GitHub Repo stars
Twenty Building a modern alternative to Salesforce, powered by the community. Cross GitHub Repo stars
Mediamtx Ready-to-use SRT / WebRTC / RTSP / RTMP / LL-HLS media server and media proxy that allows to read, publish, proxy, record and playback video and audio streams. N/A GitHub Repo stars
Netron Visualizer for neural network, deep learning and machine learning models Cross GitHub Repo stars
Perplexica Perplexica is an AI-powered search engine. It is an Open source alternative to Perplexity AI SelfHost GitHub Repo stars
Teable The Next Gen Airtable Alternative: No-Code Postgres SelfHost GitHub Repo stars
Unstract No-code LLM Platform to launch APIs and ETL Pipelines to structure unstructured documents SelfHost GitHub Repo stars
gpt-crawler Crawl a site to generate knowledge files to create your own custom GPT from a URL SelfHost GitHub Repo stars
mattermost Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle. SelfHost GitHub Repo stars

Honorable Mentions of Closed-Source Software

Some proprietary software just deserve recognition.

  • Davinci Resolve - A full-fledged video editor with a powerful free tier.
  • Obsidian - One of the most popular note taking apps / markdown editors. Almost everything about this project screams open source, except for the fact that it's not open source (like no analytics, free unless you want sync, and local storage).
  • LM Studio - Feature rich gui for running local LLM models.
  • JetBrains - A suite of powerful (and slightly bloated) IDE's.
  • Raycast - Incredibly powerful all-in-one utility.

Removed Projects

Projects that were once on this list but removed - usually due to abandonement or going closed source.

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