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--- articles:open_source_software_alternatives [2025/03/31 10:01] – ipek
+++ articles:open_source_software_alternatives [2025/06/10 08:30] (current) – wgp
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 Here we have a list of software for different purposes that are (mostly) Open Source (and mostly free).
-**Software for creative & design purposes:**
+**Software for Creative & Design Purposes:**
-  * [[https://krita.org/en/|Krita]] -  Free and open-source raster graphics editor ~ equivalent of Photoshop
+  * [[https://www.gimp.org|Gimp]] - Free & Open Source Image Editor ~ equivalent of Photoshop
-  * [[https://www.gimp.org|Gimp]] - The Free & Open Source Image Editor ~ equivalent of Photoshop
+  * [[https://krita.org/en/|Krita]] -  Free and open-source raster graphics editor ~ equivalent of Photoshop, or more for illustration and animation
   * [[https://www.scribus.net/downloads/|Scribus]] - Libre Desktop Publishing ~ equivalent of InDesign
   * [[https://kdenlive.org/en/|Kdenlive]] - Free and open-source video editing software
-  * [[https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve|DaVinci Resolve]] - Video Editing Software (not open source, but available for Linux)
+  * [[https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve|DaVinci Resolve]] - Video Editing Software (not open source, but available for Linux as freeware)
-**Social media alternatives:**
+**Social Media Alternatives:**
-  * [[https://pixelfed.org|Pixelfed]] - Image sharing app ~ equivalent of Instagram
   * [[https://joinmastodon.org|Mastodon]] - Microblogging ~ equivalent of Twitter. Have a look at the instances and choose what suits you best, rather than choosing the social.mastodon
+  * [[https://pixelfed.org|Pixelfed]] - Image sharing app ~ equivalent of Instagram
 **Video Publishing:**
-  * [[https://simonrepp.com/hyper8/]] - Static Website generator for video publishing
+  * [[https://simonrepp.com/hyper8/|Hyper8]] - Static Website generator for video publishing, instead of Vimeo and Youtube
+**Music Publishing:**
+  * [[https://mirlo.space/|Mirlo]] - Music Sharing Platform instead of Spotify and Bandcamp
+  * [[https://jam.coop/|Jam Co-op]] - Music Sharing Platform
 **Newsletter Alternatives:**
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 **FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, and Cloud Storage Browser**
-  * [[https://cyberduck.io|Cyberduck]]
+  * [[https://cyberduck.io|Cyberduck]] (for Mac and Windows, and for Linux as command line interface)
 **Static Web Site Builder**
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   * [[https://jekyllrb.com/|Jekyll]]
-**Cloud Suite**
+**Peer-to-peer file synchronization application**
+  * [[https://syncthing.net/|Syncthing]]
+**Self-hosted Cloud Suite**
   * [[https://nextcloud.com/|Nextcloud]]
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   * [[https://joplinapp.org|Joplin]] Can be self-hosted to use it across devices
   * [[https://cryptpad.fr|Cryptpad]] Online pad and online form (instead of Google Forms)
-  * [[https://www.bookstackapp.com/|Book Stack]] Collaborative note taking tool that can be self-hosted (actually a Wiki software)
+  * [[https://www.bookstackapp.com/|Book Stack]] A wiki software that can be used as a self-hosted collaborative note taking tool
+  * [[https://obsidian.md/|Obsidian]] Note taking software with some nice advanced features (proprietary freemium software)
 **Peer-to-peer File Sharing**
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   * [[https://pi-hole.net/|Pi-hole]] - Network-wide ad and tracker blocking
+**Self-hosted Book Tracker instead of Goodreads**
+  * [[https://github.com/bayang/jelu/|Jelu]]
 **Other tools**
    *[[https://github.com/spieglt/FlyingCarpet?tab=readme-ov-file|Flying Carpet]] - Cross-platform AirDrop alternative