DITCH Big Tech? The 50 BEST Open Source Apps (Windows/MacOS/Linux)
VIDEO INFORMATION Free and Open Source applications (FOSS) that replace or are better than their paid alternatives, who doesn't love them? Trouble is, there's a whole ocean of them out there so finding the hidden gems from the others can be a challenge. Well in this video I'll be covering 50 of the best free and open source applications that are cross platform and all work across Windows and MacOS and Linux. Whether you have been slowly using more FOSS apps as the years go by, or are just curious about some cool new apps to download, I guarantee that you'll find a few in here that will increase your productivity and make your computing life that much easier. ---------------------------------- ⏲ Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:24 Local Send 0:42 Syncthing 1:02 KDE Connect 1:26 Remote Access Apps 1:48 Zotero + Jab Ref 2:12 KeePass and KeePassXC 2:35 Cyrptomator 2:57 Free File Sync 3:20 Jitsi Meet 3:34 Element Messenger 3:49 FOSS Browsers 4:23 Thunderbird 4:38 Mailspring 4:55 Libre Office 5:07Only Office 5:17 Whiteboard - Open Board 5:31 Excalidraw 5:41 Draw.io 6:01 Okular 6:21 PDFsam 6:31 Obsidian (Mention) 6:41 Logseq 6:51 Dendron 7:01 Joplin (Evernote) & Trillium Notes (OneNote) 7:11 AppFlowy and AFFiNE (Notion) 7:21 Super Productivity 7:43 BreakTimer 7:53 VLC Media Player 8:09 Navidrome 8:43 Jellyfin 8:55 Nora 9:06 Strawberry Player 9:18 Ardour + LMMS 9:38 f.lux 10:04 Blanket+ 10:20 GIMP 10:47 Krita + Inkscape 11:02 Pinta 11:23 CopyQ 11:40 Lap Photo Viewer 12:09 DigiKam + Darktable + RawTherapee 12:27 Flameshot + Ksnip 12:52 OBS Studio 13:06 Audacity 13:16 Handbrake 13:32 Kdenlive + Lossless Cut 14:08 Qalculate 14:34 SpeedCrunch 14:44 File Compressors 15:12 Filelight 15:31 Crossdirstat 15:46 Double Commander, MU Commander + Tag Spaces 16:13 Space Drive App 16:41 Persepolis Download Manager 17:11 Duplicati 18:04 System Monitoring 18:20 HDD Health Stuff 18:30 Actiona 18:52 Text Editors Lapce and Zed 19:14 Espanso 19:25 ASYAR + Ueli 20:07 FOSS Cloud Storage 20:25 Input Leap 20:36 OpenRGB + SignalRGB (Mention) 21:06 Paperless.ngx TOOLS I USE --------------------------------- 📷 Stock Footage and Icons: Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/ Coverr: https://coverr.co/ Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ma... Unsplash (Wallpapers): https://unsplash.com/ Reshot: https://www.reshot.com/ UX Wing: https://uxwing.com/ --------------------------------- 🎵 Audio Sources: Youtube Audio Libary Freesound - https://freesound.org/ --------------------------------- #productivity #computer #apps Thanks for watching!

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