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871 products in total: 615 OSI-approved open source, 19 source-available, 140 unresolved-license Projects, and 97 proprietary. Structural source=open URLs remain supported; use the license-policy filter for the canonical distinction.

Loom

Loom

Asynchronous screen and camera recording shared by link

CompanyAtlassian
Since2016
PricingFreemium

Loom's contribution was the workflow, not the recording. Stop the recording and the link is already on your clipboard, which is what made replacing a meeting with a three minute video actually happen.

QuickBooks Online

QuickBooks Online

Cloud accounting for invoices, expenses, bank records, and business reports

CompanyIntuit
Since2001
PricingFreemium

QuickBooks Online is Intuit’s cloud accounting application for managing income, expenses, invoices, and financial reports for a business.

Linear

Linear

Issue tracking built around speed and opinionated defaults

CompanyLinear
Since2019
PricingFreemium

Linear is fast in a way that changes behaviour. Keyboard navigation, instant sync, and a deliberately narrow feature set mean issues actually get filed, which is the hard part of any tracker.

Excalidraw

ExcalidrawOpen

Collaborative whiteboard with a hand-drawn look

Stars130.9K
Commit23h ago
LicenseMIT

Excalidraw's sketchy rendering is not decoration. Diagrams that look provisional invite comment, where a crisp vector diagram signals a decision already made, so it is unusually good at the early part of a design conversation.

Alternative toMiroFigma
llama.cpp

llama.cppAIOpen

Inference engine that runs LLMs on almost any hardware

Stars126.6K
Commit8h ago
LicenseMIT

llama.cpp is the layer most local model tooling is built on. It is a C and C++ inference engine with no Python runtime, aggressive quantisation support, and hand-tuned kernels for a remarkably wide range of hardware.

Alternative toLM Studio
Unity

Unity

Commercial game engine with the widest platform reach

CompanyUnity Technologies
Since2005
PricingFreemium

Unity's advantage is distribution. Console certification, mobile export, XR headsets, and the middleware ecosystem around them are all solved problems, which is why studios keep choosing it even after several rounds of unpopular licensing changes.

LM Studio

LM StudioAI

Desktop application for running language models locally

CompanyElement Labs
Since2023
PricingFree

LM Studio made local models approachable for people who do not want a terminal. Browse a catalogue, download a quantisation that fits the machine, and chat, with hardware requirements explained in plain language.

reCAPTCHA

reCAPTCHA

Hosted bot detection and risk assessment for website and application traffic

CompanyGoogle
Since2007
PricingFree

reCAPTCHA is Google’s hosted service for assessing automated traffic and applying bot protection to websites and applications.

Browserbase

BrowserbaseAI

Hosted headless browser infrastructure for agents

CompanyBrowserbase
Since2024
PricingFreemium

Browserbase runs the browsers so you do not have to. Sessions, proxies, captcha handling, and stealth configuration are managed, which removes the least interesting and most fragile part of building anything that scrapes or automates the web.

RustDesk

RustDeskOpen

Remote desktop you can point at your own relay server

Stars122.3K
Commit11h ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

RustDesk is remote desktop software where the relay server is a binary you can run yourself. That is the whole argument: the same convenience as the commercial tools, without your screen sessions transiting a vendor's infrastructure.

Alternative toAnyDesk
Twilio

Twilio

APIs for SMS, voice, and verification at scale

CompanyTwilio
Since2008
PricingPaid

Twilio turned telecommunications into an HTTP request, and the abstraction held. Sending a message to a phone anywhere in the world became a few lines of code rather than a carrier negotiation.

Miro

Miro

Infinite whiteboard for workshops and planning

CompanyMiro
Since2011
PricingFreemium

Miro is the canvas most distributed teams reach for when the work is thinking rather than producing: retrospectives, service maps, story mapping, and anything else that used to need a wall and sticky notes.

Alternative toFigma
Immich

ImmichOpen

Self-hosted photo and video backup for your own server

Stars113.1K
Commit8h ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Immich replaces a cloud photo service with software that runs on hardware you own. Mobile apps for iOS and Android back up new photos and videos in the background, so the library on your server stays current without you thinking about it.

Alternative toGoogle PhotosDropbox
Google Drive

Google Drive

Storage and document collaboration inside Workspace

CompanyGoogle
Since2012
PricingPaid

Google Drive is storage with an office suite attached, and the suite is the reason most organisations are on it. Docs, Sheets, and Slides collaborate in real time well enough that the underlying file storage barely gets thought about.

Alternative toDropbox
Calendly

Calendly

Booking links that read your real availability

CompanyCalendly
Since2013
PricingFreemium

Calendly removed an email thread from every meeting anyone arranges with someone outside their company. Share a link, the other person picks from real availability, and both calendars update.

Raindrop.io

Raindrop.io

Bookmark manager with collections, full-text search, and web archive

CompanyRaindrop.io
Since2013
PricingFreemium

Raindrop.io is a bookmark manager that keeps saved links, files, and highlights in searchable collections with tags and filters.

Alternative toBookmark It
Godot Engine

Godot EngineOpen

Free 2D and 3D game engine with no royalties

Stars116.5K
Commit22h ago
LicenseMIT

Godot ships a complete engine, editor, and export pipeline under the MIT licence, which means no royalties, no revenue thresholds, and no licensing conversation before a project starts.

Alternative toUnity
Browser Use

Browser UseAIOpen

Let AI agents drive a real browser

Stars111.9K
Commit15h ago
LicenseMIT

Browser Use gives an agent a real browser rather than an HTTP client. It handles the translation between a model's intent and DOM actions, keeps a structured representation of the page in context, and recovers from the usual navigation failures.

Alternative toBrowserbase
Google Photos

Google Photos

Cloud photo library with automatic backup and search

CompanyGoogle
Since2015
PricingPaid

Google Photos backs up everything a phone takes and then makes it findable. Search understands objects, places, and people without any tagging, and the timeline handles libraries in the hundreds of thousands without stalling.

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams

Chat, calls, and files bundled into Microsoft 365

CompanyMicrosoft
Since2017
PricingFreemium

Teams wins on bundling rather than on craft. If an organisation already pays for Microsoft 365, Teams arrives at no additional cost with identity, files, and calendar already wired together.

Alternative toSlack
Vanta

Vanta

Compliance automation for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and friends

CompanyVanta
Since2018
PricingPaid

Vanta turned compliance from a consulting engagement into a software subscription. It connects to cloud accounts, identity providers, and code hosting, then continuously checks controls and collects the evidence an auditor will ask for.

Supabase

SupabaseOpen

Postgres-powered backend platform for production apps

Stars108.7K
Commit8h ago
LicenseApache-2.0

Supabase gives an application everything it needs on the server side without hiding the database behind a proprietary abstraction. The primitive is plain Postgres, and the platform layers authentication, generated APIs, storage, realtime subscriptions, and edge functions on top of it.

Alternative toFirebase
Pi

PiAIOpen

Extensible terminal AI coding agent with model choice and tree-structured sessions

Stars114.5K
Commitjust now
LicenseMIT

Pi is an extensible terminal AI coding agent with a small core, multi-provider model choice, tree sessions, and a TypeScript extension system.

Alternative toOpenCode
CCleaner

CCleaner

PC and phone cleaner that removes junk and protects privacy

CompanyGen Digital Inc.
Since2004
PricingFree

CCleaner is a PC and phone cleaner that removes junk files, browser cookies, trackers, and leftover temporary data. It also cleans the Windows registry and closes privacy gaps left by browsers that do not clean up after themselves.

Alternative toBleachBit