⚙️ PC Software
Some context: I use Windows 10, so the following software works on
Windows. Although, they might also be available
for other operating systems. Don't judge too hard, I am considering
Linux. Most software listed, if not all, is
FREE!
‼️ Top Picks
- voidtools
"Everything" ~ Windows
Desktop Search
Engine
- ClipClip ~ clipboard
management
software for Windows
- JDownloader
2 ~
open-source download
management tool
- CrystalDiskInfo
~ A HDD/SSD
utility software
which supports a part of USB, Intel RAID and
NVMe
- WinDirStat ~
Windows disk usage
statistics viewer and
cleanup tool
- WizTree ~
Disk Space
Analyzer
- qBittorrent ~
open-source
BitTorrent client
- Firefox
~
browser
- 7-Zip ~ file
archiver with a high
compression ratio
- Jocys-com
Clock ~ Clock for
WINDOWS
- Bulk Rename
Utility ~
File Renaming Utility
for
Windows
- f.lux ~ makes the
color of your
computer's display adapt
to the time of
day
- Plex ~ home media
server
- Plexamp ~
Plexamp is a free app that lets you create a
personalized music player with your own
library
- Malwarebytes
~ malware
removal and protection
software
- Speccy ~
advanced system
information tool for your
PC
- Sumatra
PDF ~ PDF, eBook (epub,
mobi), comic book
(cbz/cbr), DjVu, XPS, CHM, image viewer for
Windows
- MakeMKV ~ format
converter,
otherwise called
"transcoder"
- MediaInfo
~ convenient
unified display of the
most relevant
technical and tag data for video and audio
files
- WinMerge ~ Open
Source differencing
and merging tool for
Windows
- VLC ~
open-source
cross-platform multimedia
player
- MPC-BE
~
open-source audio and video player
for
Windows
- mpv ~ a free, open-source,
and
cross-platform media player for the
command
line
- Potplayer ~ a
media
player
- Audacity ~
audio editing and
recording app
- MP3TAG ~
universal tag
editor
- MusicBrainz
Picard ~
cross-platform music tagger
powered by the
MusicBrainz database
- Spek ~ open-source
spectrogram
viewer
- CUETools ~
suite of tools
for lossless audio/CUE
sheet format
conversion and verification
- foobar2000 ~
foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player
for the Windows platform.
- Soulseek ~ file
sharing
network
- Nicotine+ ~ a
graphical client
for the Soulseek
peer-to-peer
network
- MP3val ~
tool for checking
MPEG audio files'
integrity, also able
to fix problems
- MP3 Diags
~ identify
issues with MP3 files, fix
some of the
issues, and make other changes
- Lossless Audio
Checker ~
utility to check whether
a WAVE or FLAC
file is truly lossless or not
- official flac
cli ~
command-line tools and
libraries for FLAC
files
- ShareX ~ Screen
capture, file
sharing, and productivity
tool
- Snipaste ~
powerful snipping
tool
- TeraCopy
~ Copy your
files faster and more
securely
- Volume² ~
advanced
Windows volume control
- OBS Studio ~
open-source software
for video recording and
live
streaming
- Send
Anywhere ~
file transfer service, send
between
devices
- LibreOffice ~
free and
powerful office suite
- Bitwarden ~ password
manager
- LMMS ~ free, open-source
music production
tool
- Voicemeeter ~
virtual audio mixing
console, able to manage
every audio
source and audio points
- yt-dlp ~
Command-line
program to download videos
from YouTube.com
and other video sites
- wget
~ command-line
utility for retrieving
files using HTTP,
HTTPS and FTP protocols
- FFmpeg ~ A
complete, cross-platform
solution to record,
convert and stream
audio and video
- aria2 ~
lightweight multi-protocol
& multi-source
command-line download
utility
- ExifTool ~ Read,
Write and Edit Meta
Information
- Oxipng
~
Multithreaded PNG optimizer, this is
for losslessly
optimizing png files and optionally removing
tags from
them
- gallery-dl
~
Command-line program to download
image galleries
and collections from several image hosting
sites
- croc ~
secure and easy
data transfer, p2p e2ee,
but must trust
other enough to see your ip to use
- TeamViewer
Remote ~ Secure
remote access
- MW
Metadata ~ A quick way to
gather all the
metadata about a video, playlist, or channel
from the YouTube
API
- Visual Studio
Code ~ Code
editing
- Notepad++ ~
source code
editor and Notepad
replacement
- ~
🧩 Extensions Top Picks
- AdNauseam ~ obfuscate
browsing data
and protect users from
tracking by
advertising networks
- TrackMeNot ~
periodically issues
randomized
search-queries to popular
search engines - creates obfuscation
- FastForward ~
bypass annoying
link shorteners
- uBlock
Origin ~ An
efficient content & ad
blocker
- Ghostery ~ Ad
Blocker & Privacy
Browsing
- DuckDuckGo ~
privacy protection
for your browser
- Bitwarden ~ password
manager
- ImprovedTube
~
enrich your video experience
& enable your
content selection
- Return YouTube
Dislike ~
shows you dislikes on
Youtube
- DeArrow ~
crowdsourcing better
titles and thumbnails on
YouTube
- Imagus ~
show full-sized
images/videos on mouse
hover
- ColorZilla ~
Color Picker, Eye
Dropper, Gradient
Generator and many
additional advanced color tools
- Most
Recent Tab
~ adds a keyboard
shortcut to switch
back to your most recently selected tab
- Awesome
Screenshot ~
Screen Recorder and Screen
Capture
- FireShot ~ Website
Screenshots and
Annotations
- Linkclump
for
Firefox ~
allows you to open multiple links at once by
dragging a window
around all the links
- Linkclump
for
Chrome ~ allows you to open
multiple links at
once by dragging a window around all the
links
- Violentmonkey
~ An open
source userscript
manager
- Dark Reader ~
enable Dark Mode on
websites
- SponsorBlock ~
open-source
crowdsourced browser extension
and open API
for skipping sponsor segments in YouTube
videos
- Translate
Web
Pages ~ Translate
your page in real
time using Google or Yandex
- ~
📜 Scripts
🥈 Honorable Mentions
- Org Mode ~ A
GNU Emacs major
mode for keeping notes,
authoring
documents, computational notebooks, literate
programming,
maintaining to-do lists, planning
projects, and more —
in a fast and effective plain text
system
- Qalculate! ~ a
multi-purpose
cross-platform desktop
calculator
- Jekyll ~ Transform
your plain text
into static websites and
blogs
- Maloja ~
Self-hosted
music scrobble database to
create personal
listening statistics and charts
- Seagate
USB
External drive diagnostics ~ testing your
Seagate hard
drive
- Enhanced
Image-Colour-Transfer-2 ~ A
Further Enhanced Implementation of the Colour
Transfer Method
proposed by E Reinhard et
al
- DontBugMe
~ allows
you to easily use
credentials from
BugMeNot.com on any page
- Divolt ~ Divolt
- Divolt
Desktop ~
Revolt Desktop App, rebuilt
for
Divolt.
- ytdl-sub
~ Automate
downloading and metadata
generation with
YoutubeDL
- ~