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13 catalogue entries use this topic; each Project's license policy is labeled separately.

Fincept Terminal

Fincept TerminalAIOpen

Open-source financial terminal for market analytics and research

Stars32.2K
Commitjust now
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Fincept Terminal is an open-source financial terminal for market analytics, investment research, and economic data, positioned as a lower-cost alternative to subscription terminals.

T3 Code

T3 CodeOpen

Open-source control plane for coding agents

Stars27.2K
Commitjust now
LicenseMIT

T3 Code is an open-source control surface for coding agents that drives the Codex, Claude, Cursor, Grok Build, OpenCode, and Antigravity subscriptions on your machine from one desktop, web, and mobile app.

Alternative toEmdash
OpenWork

OpenWorkOpen

Open-source desktop workspace for teams to run AI agents

Stars24K
Commitjust now
LicenseMIT

OpenWork is a free MIT-licensed desktop app that lets teams run AI agents across 50+ models, share skills and MCP servers, and automate browser tasks with their own keys.

Alternative toOpenCode
Cap

CapOpen

Screen recorder with editing and instant shareable links

Stars21.4K
Commit16h ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Cap records screen and camera, then gives you an editor with backgrounds, automatic zooms, and cursor smoothing before you share a link. It is built in Rust on Tauri, so the binary is small and recording does not tax the machine it is recording.

Alternative toScreen StudioLoom
SurfSense

SurfSenseAI

Air-gapped open-source NotebookLM alternative for private documents

Stars16.4K
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0 AND BUSL-1.1

SurfSense is a free, open-source desktop AI agent that researches, edits, and transforms documents on your own machine, with no account and no uploads.

Alternative toOpen-Notebook
Shotcut

ShotcutOpen

Free open-source cross-platform video editor

Stars15.4K
Commitjust now
LicenseGPL-3.0

Shotcut is a free, open-source video editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux with native timeline editing, broad FFmpeg format support, and 4K output.

Alternative toKdenlive
Krita

Krita

Free digital painting app for illustration and animation

Stars10.5K
Commitjust now
LicenseGPL-3.0-only

Krita is a free desktop digital painting application for illustration, comics, texture art, and 2D animation on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and ChromeOS.

Alternative toGIMP
GIMP

GIMP

Free raster image editor for retouching and composition

Stars6,499
Commitjust now
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later

GIMP is a free raster graphics editor for photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Alternative toDarktable
5ire

5ireAI

Desktop AI assistant with MCP tools and a local knowledge base

Stars5,368
Commitjust now
LicenseModified Apache-2.0

5ire is a free desktop AI assistant that chats with many model providers, runs tools through MCP servers, and searches documents stored on your computer.

Alternative toOpen WebUI
Jarvis

JarvisAIOpen

Open-source voice-first desktop AI assistant that runs your agents

Stars168
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

Jarvis is a free, open-source, voice-first desktop AI assistant. Speak a request and it answers or operates your agents, coding CLIs, browser, and apps.

Alternative to5ire
Cursor

CursorAI

An editor rebuilt around model assisted editing

CompanyAnysphere
Since2023
PricingFreemium

Cursor forked VS Code rather than extending it, which let it change the editing model itself. Multi-file edits, codebase-wide context, and a tab completion that predicts the next edit rather than the next token are the result.

Alternative toGitHub Copilot
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.

Screen Studio

Screen Studio

Screen recording with automatic zooms and polished motion

CompanyScreen Studio
Since2022
PricingPaid

Screen Studio produces product demos that look edited without anyone editing them. Cursor movement is smoothed, clicks trigger zooms, and the resulting motion reads as deliberate rather than as somebody's screen recording.

Alternative toLoom