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Wikipedia. Not an app but still deserves a mention.
OBS, and Blender. Two industry shaping software solutions that ere fully open source and free.
uBlock Origin leading the pack by at least a furlong.
The Dialer.
- Comes with every phone
- 10+ digit number instantly connects you with millions of people, services, and institutions
- 3 digits connects you with life-saving emergency support
- Very low-latency voice support
- High quality audio (most of the time)
- No ads
- No obnoxious UI
All kidding aside, I’m routinely astounded at how we have yet to top the ease and utility of old-fashioned phone service.
I still can’t get used to calling programs apps
VLC is a big one for me.
some new weird video format opens windows stock media player because it’s not yet associated with vlc
“Hey… it looks like your going to have to buy a codec…”
manually open in vlc where it runs seemlessly
People buy codecs?
default behaviour of Windows Media Player…
Oof
Literally never heard of the end user being billed for the codecs.
[Edit]: I think I should rephrase. Could I please be informed about how are codecs priced?
I wonder what are the ToS, is this $0.79 all that you have to pay to use it for commercial purposes?
Always have been. It’s either included in licensing a software or operating systems. VLC ffmpeg and other open source software are a bit of a grey area since they don’t make money from the software strictly speaking.
+1 VLC will dutifully try to play even corrupted to hell files that any other media player would just fail with some form of “can’t play, file is corrupt”
Wasn’t there some big thing where they tried to buy it and the person that made it was just like “nah”
VLC is pretty great. I would say IINA is at least a close second on Mac. Haven’t had a problem playing anything in it yet.
VLC runs great on Mac and Android as well
It even runs on iOS. It’s one of the only ways to play videos that aren’t in Apple’s bullshit proprietary format.
Yeah I personally prefer IINA on the Mac because of how native the interface is. Neither VLC or IINA has had trouble paying any video files I have.
I agree that it’s cool and all, but I just really don’t like VLC. It’s ugly, bad UX and misses some major features. I love other similar and also free ones thoigh, like PotPlayer, MPC and MPV.
VLC just managed to get some newer video files to play for me on a 10 year old tablet that wouldn’t play them with it’s included video player. It was also one of the only apps on the play store that would still work on that old tablet as well. It’s been my go-to video player for years now, terrific software 🥂
It won’t keep track of my place in a Playlist to resume so I trashed it.
Librewolf, FFmpeg, Vim, Wine
Linux
Wikipedia
Don’t forget to donate!
But then it’s not free anymore /s
That reminds me, I should donate
Wikipedia
app
Reee
Home Assistant, not only an App but it changed the way i look at IoT/Smarthome and in that way it brings me a lot of comfort.
Organic Maps. After switching to graphene, I quickly found plenty of apps replacing the “defaults” I had on stock android, however, a good app for maps was impossible to find until I stumbled over that one. Great UI, local maps, even has a navigation feature. Completely replaces google maps for me.
LocalSend, Immich, Signal, Aurora store, Radio Garden, Gray Jay, yt-dlp, and Bitwarden just to name a few
A bit more niche, is Weasis - Dicom Browser for medical images. Alternative is also ImageJ which is used a lot in for scans too.
New pipe, I didn’t see anyone mentioned it
Besides, I use Linux, Organic maps, Signal, VLC, KDE on daily basis and THANK YOU good people on internet for making my life happier!
Blender, Gimp, Inkscape, OBS (open broadcast software), Linux distros of various sorts, openHAB, LibreOffice, Firefox (and plugins like uBlock), PiHole, VirtualBox, Notepad++, Paint.NET, VLC, 7-Zip, FileZilla…
I’m sure there’s more.
Gimp is a bit of a stretch.
I’ve used it a lot, but unlike most of the others on this list, the commercial product (Photoshop) is so much better that I’m willing to shell out the monthly fee to use it over Gimp.
Back when Photoshop was $300 (600 todays money) It was fine for non-professional work.
It could use a little UI finesse, a content aware fill without plugins, and a regular human usable macroining system.
But for 90% of non-professional work clone, dodge, smudge, burn, masking and curves are perfectly serviceable.
I’ve found a nice workflow in gimp to touch my photos. It works wonderfully
I’m not sure what field you’re in and photoshop certainly is the standard but Affinity has been great for my needs and is pay once if you’re looking to avoid SAAS
https://www.photopea.com has everything I need for daily graphic touch ups.
Only problem I have with it is the potential situation of (seemingly) uploading pictures which is bad for confidential stuff.
It may be local but I don’t trust it that much.Now for personal projects: Absolutely. I even used it once on my phone. Great page!
Yeah, it does all i need and uses a format that will be compatible long into the near future, very useful.
Vectorpea is available too.
