This is a list of free and open-source software packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses. Software that fits the Free Software Definition may be more appropriately called free software; the GNU project in particular objects to their works being referred to as open-source.[1] For more information about the philosophical background for open-source software, see free software movement and Open Source Initiative. However, nearly all software meeting the Free Software Definition also meets the Open Source Definition and vice versa. A small fraction of the software that meets either definition is listed here. Some of the open-source applications are also the basis of commercial products, shown in the List of commercial open-source applications and services.

Artificial intelligence

General AI

Computer vision

Machine learning

Planning

  • TREX – Reactive planning

Robotics

Assistive technology

Speech (synthesis and recognition)

Other assistive technology

CAD

Finite Element Analysis (FEA)

  • Gmsh - A three-dimensional finite element mesh generator with built-in pre- and post-processing facilities.

Electronic design automation (EDA)

  • Fritzing - a CAD software for the design of electronics hardware to build more permanent circuits from prototypes
  • KiCad - a suite for electronic design automation (EDA) for schematic capture, PCB layout, manufacturing file viewing, SPICE simulation, and engineering calculation

Computer simulation

Cybersecurity

Antivirus

Data loss prevention

Data recovery

Forensics

Anti-forensics

Disk erasing

Encryption

Disk encryption

Firewall

Network and security monitoring

Secure Shell (SSH)

Password management

Other cybersecurity programs

Data storage and management

Backup software

Database management systems (including administration)

Data mining

Data Visualization Components

  • ParaView – Plotting and visualization functions developed by Sandia National Laboratory; capable of massively parallel flow visualization utilizing multiple computer processors
  • VTK – Toolkit for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualisation.

Digital Asset Management software system

Disk partitioning software

Enterprise search engines

ETLs (Extract Transform Load)

File archivers

File systems

Desktop publishing

  • Collabora Online Draw and Writer - Enterprise-ready edition of LibreOffice accessible from a web browser. The Draw application is for flyers, newsletters, brochures and more, Writer has most of the functionality too.[3]
  • Scribus – Designed for layout, typesetting, and preparation of files for professional-quality image-setting equipment. It can also create animated and interactive PDF presentations and forms.
  • LyX – A "What You See Is What You Mean" document creation system, LyX makes use of the LaTeX markup macro system for TeX, allowing the elegant creation of documents which match up with the layouts in it for various document classes.

E-book management and editing

  • Calibre – Cross-platform suite of ebook software
  • Collabora Online Writer - Enterprise-ready edition of LibreOffice accessible from a web browser. Allows exporting in the EPUB format.[4]
  • Sigil – Editing software for e-books in the EPUB format

Education

E-learning, learning support

  • ATutor – Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS)
  • Chamilo – Web-based e-learning and content management system
  • Claroline – Collaborative Learning Management System
  • DoceboLMS – SAAS/cloud platform for learning
  • eFront – Icon-based learning management system
  • H5P – Framework for creating and sharing interactive HTML5 content
  • IUP Portfolio – Educational platform for Swedish schools
  • ILIAS – Web-based learning management system (LMS)
  • Moodle – Free and open-source learning management system
  • OLAT – Web-based Learning Content Management System
  • Omeka – Content management system for online digital collections
  • openSIS – Web-based Student Information and School Management system
  • Sakai Project – Web-based learning management system
  • SWAD – Web-based learning management system

Academic advising

  • FlightPath – Academic advising software for universities

Educational suites for children

  • Tux Paint – Painting application for 3–12 year olds
  • GCompris – Educational entertainment, aimed at children aged 2–10

Language

Operating systems

Mind mapping & others

Offline learning & Open data

  • Kiwix: A free and open-source offline web browser that allows users download Wikipedia entire content and use for offline learning, later was expanded with repositories for Wikimedia Foundation, public domain texts from Project Gutenberg, many of the Stack Exchange sites, and other resources.
  • OpenStreetMap: OpenStreetMap was developed in 2004, it uses Open data and users data input through Crowdsourcing and Web mapping to create a complete and downloadable alternative to other online maps, this allow users to enter data when there is no data available due to lack of governance and economic interest or due lower population of the places mapped

Typing

  • KTouch – Touch typing lessons with a variety of keyboard layouts
  • Tux Typing – Typing tutor for children, featuring two games to improve typing speed

File managers

Finance

Accounting

Cryptocurrency

  • Bitcoin – Blockchain platform, peer-to-peer decentralised digital currency
  • Ethereum – Blockchain platform with smart contract functionality

CRM

  • CiviCRM – Constituent Relationship Management software aimed at NGOs
  • iDempiere – Business Suite, ERP and CRM
  • SuiteCRM – Web-based CRM

ERP

Human resources

  • OrangeHRM – Commercial human resource management

Microfinance

Process management

Trading

Games

Action

Application layer

Chess

Educational games

Video game emulation

Music video games

Karaoke

Rhythm game

Puzzle

Sandbox

  • Minetest – An open source voxel game engine.

Snake games

Simulation

Strategy

Genealogy

Geographic information systems

Graphical user interface

Desktop environments

Window managers

Windowing system

Groupware

Content management systems

Wiki software

Healthcare software

Integrated library management software

Image editor

  • Darktable – Digital image workflow management, including RAW photo processing
  • digiKam – Integrated photography toolkit including editing abilities
  • GIMP – Raster graphics editor aimed at image retouching/editing
  • Inkscape – Vector graphics editor
  • Karbon – Scalable vector drawing application in KDE
  • Krita – Digital painting, sketching and 2D animation application, with a variety of brush engines
  • LazPaint – Lightweight raster and vector graphics editor, aimed at being simpler to use than GIMP
  • LightZone – Free, open-source digital photo editor software application.
  • RawTherapee – Digital image workflow management aimed at RAW photo processing

Maps & Navigation

  • OpenStreetMap - open geographic database updated and maintained by a community of volunteers via open collaboration.

Mathematics

Computer algebra systems

symbolic manipulation systems

Mobile software

Statistics

  • R – Statistics software

Numerical analysis

  • Octave - Numerical analysis software
  • Scilab - Numerical analysis software

Geometry

Spreadsheet

Media

Audio editors, audio management

CD/USB-writing software

Flash animation

Game engines

Chess engines

Graphics

2D

  • Pencil2D – Simple 2D graphics and animation program
  • Synfig – 2D vector graphics and timeline based animation
  • TupiTube (formerly KTooN) – Application for the design and creation of animation
  • OpenToonz – Part of a family of 2D animation software
  • Krita – Digital painting, sketching and 2D animation application, with a variety of brush engines
  • Blender – Computer graphics software, Blender's Grease Pencil tools allow for 2D animation within a full 3D pipeline.
  • mtPaintraster graphics editor for creating icons, pixel art

3D

  • Blender – Computer graphics software featuring modeling, sculpting, texturing, rigging, simulation, rendering, camera tracking, video editing, and compositing
  • MakeHuman
  • OpenFX – Modeling and animation software with a variety of built-in post processing effects
  • Seamless3d – Node-driven 3D modeling software
  • Wings 3Dsubdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware.

Image galleries

Image viewers

Multimedia codecs, containers, splitters

Subtitle

Television

Video converters

Video editing

DVD authoring

Other media packages

Ripping

Video encoders

Video players

Networking and Internet

Advertising

E-mail

File transfer

Grid and distributed processing

Instant messaging

IRC Clients

Middleware

RSS, Atom readers, aggregators

Peer-to-peer file sharing

Portal Server

Remote access and management

Routing software

Web browsers

Graphical

Text-based

Webcam

  • Cheese – GNOME webcam application
  • Guvcview – Linux webcam application

Webgrabber

  • Apache Cocoon – A web application framework
  • Apache – The most popular web server
  • AWStats – Log file parser and analyzer
  • BookmarkSync – Tool for browsers
  • Cherokee – Fast, feature-rich HTTP server
  • curl-loader – Powerful HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/FTPS loading and testing tool
  • FileZilla – FTP
  • Hiawatha – Secure, high performance, and easy-to-configure HTTP server
  • HTTP File Server – User-friendly file server software, with a drag-and-drop interface
  • lighttpd – Resource-sparing, but also fast and full-featured, HTTP Server
  • Lucee – CFML application server
  • Nginx – Lightweight, high performance web server/reverse proxy and e-mail (IMAP/POP3) proxy
  • NetKernel – Internet application server
  • Qcodo – PHP5 framework
  • Squid – Web proxy cache
  • Vaadin – Fast, Java-based framework for creating web applications
  • Varnish – High-performance web application accelerator/reverse proxy and load balancer/HTTP router
  • XAMPP – Package of web applications including Apache and MariaDB
  • Zope – Web application server

Web search engines

Other networking programs

Office software

Text editors

SoftwarePlatformFormats
AbiWordLinux, Windows.txt
Atom (text editor)macOS 10.9 or later, Windows 7 and later, and Linux.txt
geditLinux, MacOS.txt
GNOME Text EditorLinux.txt
Kate (text editor)25 Linux distributions, Microsoft Windows, macOS.txt
LeafpadLinux, BSD, Maemo.txt
MetapadWindows.txt
MousepadLinux, BSD, Maemo.txt
PyRoomUnix-like (Linux included).txt
Visual Studio CodeLinux, Windows, MacOS.txt

Spreadsheet software

SoftwareOperating systemFormat
GnumericUnix-like (Linux included).gnm, .gnumeric
GNU OleoLinux.oleo[5]
PyspreadUnix-like, Windows.CSV, .XLS, .SVG, .PDF
SheetsterCross-platformJSON, XML, .XLS, .CSV, xlsx/.ooxml, .exml, .zip

Office suites

  • Apache OpenOffice - The cross platform office productivity suite from Apache Software Foundation (ASF) consists of programs for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, diagrams and drawings, databases, etc.
  • Calligra Suite – The office productivity suite from KDE consists of programs for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, databases, vector graphics, and digital painting
  • Collabora Online - Enterprise-ready edition of LibreOffice, web application, mobile phone, tablet, Chromebook and desktop (Windows, macOS, Linux)[6]
  • LibreOffice – The cross platform office productivity suite from The Document Foundation (TDF) consists of programs for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, diagrams and drawings, databases, etc.
  • OnlyOffice Desktop Editors – An open-source offline edition of the Cloud

Operating systems

Be advised that available distributions of these systems can contain, or offer to build and install, added software that is neither free software nor open-source.

Emulation and Virtualization

Personal information managers

Programming language support

Bug trackers

Code generators

Documentation generators

  • Doxygen – Tool for writing software reference documentation. The documentation is written within code
  • Mkd – Extracts software documentation from source code files, pseudocode, or comments
  • Natural Docs – Claims to use a more natural language as input from the comments, hence its name

Configuration software

Debuggers (for testing and trouble-shooting)

Integrated development environments

Version control systems

Reference management software

Risk Management

Science

Bioinformatics

Cheminformatics

Electronic lab notebooks

Geographic information systems

Geoscience

Grid computing

  • P-GRADE Portal – Grid portal software to create, execute, and monitor workflows through high-level Web interfaces

Microscope image processing

  • CellProfiler – Automatic microscopic analysis, aimed at individuals lacking training in computer vision
  • Endrov – Java-based plugin architecture designed to analyse complex spatio-temporal image data
  • FijiImageJ-based image processing
  • Ilastik – Image-classification and segmentation software
  • ImageJ – Image processing application developed at the National Institutes of Health
  • IMOD – 2D and 3D analysis of electron microscopy data
  • ITK – Development framework used for creation of image segmentation and registration programs
  • KNIME – Data analytics, reporting, and integration platform
  • VTK – C++ toolkit for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualisation
  • 3DSlicer – Medical image analysis and visualisation

Molecular dynamics

  • GROMACS – Protein, lipid, and nucleic acid simulation
  • LAMMPS – Molecular dynamics software
  • MDynaMix – General-purpose molecular dynamics, simulating mixtures of molecules
  • ms2 - molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulation package to predict thermophysical properties of fluids
  • NWChem – Quantum chemical and molecular dynamics software

Molecule viewer

  • Avogadro – Plugin-extensible molecule visualisation
  • BALLView – Molecular modeling and visualisation
  • Jmol – 3D representation of molecules in many formats, for teaching use
  • Molekel – Molecule viewing software
  • MeshLab – Able to import PDB dataset and build up surfaces from them
  • PyMOL – High-quality representations of small molecules and biological macromolecules
  • QuteMol – Interactive molecule representations offering an array of innovative OpenGL visual effects
  • RasMol – Visualizes biological macromolecules

Nanotechnology

Plotting

Quantum chemistry

  • CP2K – Atomistic and molecular simulation of solid-state, liquid, molecular, and biological systems

Screencast

Screensavers

Statistics

  • R – Statistics software
  • LimeSurvey – Online survey system

Theology

Bible study tools

Typesetting

See also

General directories

References

  1. Richard Stallman (July 13, 2011). "Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software". Retrieved August 24, 2011.
  2. "Further Development of Verification Check-casesforSix-Degree-of-Freedom Flight Vehicle Simulations" (PDF). NASA Engineering and Safety Center Academy. 2015. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 10, 2021.
  3. "Create great flyers, newsletters, brochures and more with open source software". opensource.com.
  4. Bärwaldt, Eric (2020). "Collaborative online office solutions". Admin Network & Security. 60/2020. ...users can also convert text files to the ePub format for displaying appear on ebook readers or with desktop software for reading ePub files.
  5. "File Formats".
  6. Bärwaldt, Eric (2020-09-01). "Working Together Tools for collaborative office work". Linux Magazine (238/2020). For cross-platform use, the suite not only supports the Open Document Format (ODF) but also all newer Microsoft formats, which makes interaction with other office suites easier.
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