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This is a list of free and open-source software packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses. Software that fits the Free Software Definition may be more appropriately called free software; the GNU project in particular objects to their works being referred to as open-source.[1] For more information about the philosophical background for open-source software, see free software movement and Open Source Initiative. However, nearly all software meeting the Free Software Definition also meets the Open Source Definition and vice versa. A small fraction of the software that meets either definition is listed here.

Some of the open-source applications are also the basis of commercial products, shown in the List of commercial open-source applications and services.

Artificial intelligence

General

  • OpenCog – A project that aims to build an artificial general intelligence (AGI) framework. OpenCog Prime is a specific set of interacting components designed to give rise to human-equivalent artificial general intelligence.

Computer Vision

  • AForge.NET – Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics library for the .NET Framework
  • OpenCV – Computer Vision Library in C++

Machine Learning

Planning

  • TREX – Reactive planning

Robotics

  • ROS – Robot Operating System
  • Webots – Robot Simulator
  • YARP – Yet Another Robot Platform

Assistive technology

Speech (synthesis and recognition)

Other assistive technology

CAD

  • FreeCAD – Parametric 3D CAD modeler with a focus on mechanical engineering, BIM, and product design
  • LibreCAD – 2D CAD software using AutoCAD-like interface and file format

Electronic design automation (EDA)

  • Fritzing
  • KiCad

Computer simulation

Main article: List of free and open-source computer simulation software

Cybersecurity

Main article: Cybersecurity

Antivirus

See also: Antivirus software

Data loss prevention

See also: Data loss prevention software
  • MyDLP

Data recovery

See also: Data recovery and List of data recovery software

Forensics

See also: Forensic science
Anti-forensics
See also: Anti-forensics
  • USBKill

Disk erasing

See also: Disk Cleanup

Encryption

See also: Encryption, Encryption software, and List of encrypting file systems

Disk encryption

See also: Disk encryption and Disk encryption software

Firewall

See also: Firewall (computing) and Firewall software

Network and security monitoring

Secure Shell (SSH)

See also: Secure Shell

Password management

Other cybersecurity programs

Data storage and management

Backup software

Database management systems (including administration)

Data mining

  • Environment for DeveLoping KDD-Applications Supported by Index-Structures (ELKI) – Data mining software framework written in Java with a focus on clustering and outlier detection methods
  • FrontlineSMS – Information distribution and collecting via text messaging (SMS)
  • Konstanz Information Miner (KNIME)
  • OpenNN – Open-source neural networks software library written in the C++ programming language
  • Orange (software) – Data visualization and data mining for novice and experts, through visual programming or Python scripting. Extensions for bioinformatics and text mining
  • RapidMiner – Data mining software written in Java, fully integrating Weka, featuring 350+ operators for preprocessing, machine learning, visualization, etc. – the previous version is available as open-source
  • Scriptella ETL – ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) and script execution tool. Supports integration with J2EE and Spring. Provides connectors to CSV, LDAP, XML, JDBC/ODBC, and other data sources
  • Weka – Data mining software written in Java featuring machine learning operators for classification, regression, and clustering
  • JasperSoft – Data mining with programmable abstraction layer

Data Visualization Components

  • ParaView – Plotting and visualization functions developed by Sandia National Laboratory; capable of massively parallel flow visualization utilizing multiple computer processors
  • VTK – Toolkit for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualisation.

Digital Asset Management software system

Disk partitioning software

Enterprise search engines

ETLs (Extract Transform Load)

  • Konstanz Information Miner (KNIME)
  • Pentaho

File archivers

File systems

  • OpenAFS – Distributed file system supporting a very wide variety of operating systems
  • Tahoe-LAFS – Distributed file system/Cloud storage system with integrated privacy and security features
  • CephFS – Distributed file system included in the Ceph storage platform.

Desktop publishing

  • Scribus – Designed for layout, typesetting, and preparation of files for professional-quality image-setting equipment. It can also create animated and interactive PDF presentations and forms.

E-book management and editing

  • Calibre – Cross-platform suite of e-book software
  • Sigil – Editing software for e-books in the EPUB format

Educational

Educational suites

  • ATutor – Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS)
  • Chamilo – Web-based e-learning and content management system
  • Claroline – Collaborative Learning Management System
  • DoceboLMS – SAAS/cloud platform for learning
  • eFront – Icon-based learning management system
  • FlightPath – Academic advising software for universities
  • GCompris – Educational entertainment, aimed at children aged 2–10
  • Gnaural – Brainwave entrainment software
  • H5P – Framework for creating and sharing interactive HTML5 content
  • IUP Portfolio – Educational platform for Swedish schools
  • ILIAS – Web-based learning management system (LMS)
  • Moodle – Free and open-source learning management system
  • OLAT – Web-based Learning Content Management System
  • Omeka – Content management system for online digital collections
  • openSIS – Web-based Student Information and School Management system
  • Sakai Project – Web-based learning management system
  • SWAD – Web-based learning management system
  • Tux Paint – Painting application for 3–12 year olds
  • UberStudent – Linux based operating system and software suite for academic studies

Geography

  • KGeography – Educational game teaching geography

Learning support

Language

Typing

  • KTouch – Touch typing lessons with a variety of keyboard layouts
  • Tux Typing – Typing tutor for children, featuring two games to improve typing speed

Finance

Accounting

See also: Comparison of accounting software
  • GnuCash – Double-entry book-keeping
  • HomeBank – Personal accounting software
  • KMyMoney – Double-entry book-keeping
  • LedgerSMB – Double-entry book-keeping
  • RCA open-source application – management accounting application
  • SQL Ledger – Double-entry book-keeping
  • TurboCASH – Double-entry book-keeping for Windows
  • Wave Accounting – Double-entry book-keeping

Cryptocurrency

See also: Cryptocurrency
  • EOS.IO – Blockchain platform, peer-to-peer decentralised digital currency

CRM

See also: Customer relationship management
  • CiviCRM – Constituent Relationship Management software aimed at NGOs
  • iDempiere – Business Suite, ERP and CRM
  • SugarCRM – Commercial Customer Relationship Management

ERP

See also: Enterprise resource planning
  • Adempiere – Enterprise resource planning (ERP) business suite
  • Compiere – ERP solution automates accounting, supply chain, inventory, and sales orders
  • Dolibarr – Web-based ERP system
  • ERPNext – Web-based open-source ERP system for managing accounting and finance
  • Ino erp – Dynamic pull based system ERP
  • JFire – An ERP business suite written with Java and JDO
  • metasfresh – ERP Software
  • Odoo – Open-source ERP, CRM and CMS
  • Openbravo – Web-based ERP
  • Tryton – Open-source ERP

Human resources

  • OrangeHRM – Commercial human resource management

Microfinance

Process management

  • Bonita Open Solution – Business Process Management

Trading

  • jFin – Java-based trade-processing program
  • QuickFIX – FIX protocol engine written in C++ with additional C#, Ruby, and Python wrappers
  • QuickFIX/J – FIX protocol engine written in Java

Games

Main article: List of open-source video games

Action

  • Xonotic – First-person shooter that runs on a heavily modified version of the Quake engine known as the DarkPlaces engine
  • Warsow – First-person shooter fast-paced arena FPS game that runs on the Qfusion engine

Application layer

  • WINE – Allows Windows applications to be run on Unix-like operating systems

Emulation

Puzzle

Simulation

  • OpenTTD – Business simulation game in which players try to earn money via transporting passengers and freight by road, rail, water and air.
  • SuperTuxKart – Kart racing game that features mascots of various open-source projects.

Strategy

Genealogy

  • Gramps – a free and open source genealogy software.

Geographic information systems

  • QGIS – cross-platform desktop geographic information system (GIS) application that supports viewing, editing, and analysis of geospatial data.

Graphical user interface

Desktop environments

Window managers

Windowing system

Groupware

Content management systems

Wiki software

Healthcare software

Main articles: List of open-source health software and List of open-source bioinformatics software

Hobby software

Homebrewing

  • CyberBrau

Integrated Library Management Software

  • Evergreen – Integrated Library System initially developed for the Georgia Public Library Service's PINES catalog
  • Koha – SQL-based library management
  • NewGenLib
  • OpenBiblio
  • PMB
  • refbase – Web-based institutional repository and reference management software

Image editor

  • Darktable – Digital image workflow management, including RAW photo processing
  • digiKam – Integrated photography toolkit including editing capabilities
  • GIMP – Raster graphics editor aimed at image retouching/editing
  • Inkscape – Vector graphics editor
  • Karbon – Scalable vector drawing application in KDE
  • Krita – Digital painting, sketching and 2D animation application, with a variety of brush engines
  • LazPaint – Lightweight raster and vector graphics editor, aimed at being simpler to use than GIMP
  • LightZone – Free, open-source digital photo editor software application.
  • RawTherapee – Digital image workflow management aimed at RAW photo processing

Mathematics

For a more comprehensive list, see List of open-source software for mathematics.

Media

2D animation

  • Pencil2D – Simple 2D graphics and animation program
  • Synfig – 2D vector graphics and timeline based animation
  • TupiTube (formerly KTooN) – Application for the design and creation of animation
  • OpenToonz – Part of a family of 2D animation software
  • Krita – Digital painting, sketching and 2D animation application, with a variety of brush engines
  • Blender – Computer graphics software, Blender's Grease Pencil tools allow for 2D animation within a full 3D pipeline.

3D animation

  • Blender – Computer graphics software featuring modeling, sculpting, texturing, rigging, simulation, rendering, camera tracking, video editing, and compositing
  • OpenFX – Modeling and animation software with a variety of built-in post processing effects
  • Seamless3d – Node-driven 3D modeling software

Audio editors, audio management

Main article: Comparison of free software for audio

CD/USB-writing software

Flash animation

  • Pencil2D – For animations
  • SWFTools – For scripting

Game Engines

Graphics

Image galleries

Image viewers

Multimedia codecs, containers, splitters

Television

Main article: List of free television software
See also: Comparison of PVR software packages

Video converters

Video editing

See also: List of video editing software § Free_and_open-source

Video encoders

Main article: Comparison of video encoders

Video players

Main article: Comparison of video player software

Other media packages

Networking and Internet

Advertising

  • Revive Adserver

Communication-related

  • Asterisk – Telephony and VoIP server
  • Ekiga – Video conferencing application for GNOME and Microsoft Windows
  • ConferenceXP – video conferencing application for Windows XP or later
  • FreePBX – Front-end and advanced PBX configuration for Asterisk
  • FreeSWITCH – Telephony platform
  • Jami – Cross-platform, peer to peer instant-messaging and video-calling protocol that offers end-to-end encryption and SIP client
  • Jitsi – Java VoIP and Instant Messaging client
  • QuteCom – Voice, video, and IM client application
  • Enterprise Communications System sipXecs – SIP Communications Server
  • Slrn – Newsreader
  • Twinkle – VoIP softphone
  • Tox – Cross-platform, peer-to-peer instant-messaging and video-calling protocol that offers end-to-end encryption

E-mail

  • Geary (software) – Email client based on WebKitGTK+
  • Mozilla Thunderbird – Email, news, RSS, and chat client

File transfer

Grid and distributed processing

  • GNU Queue
  • HTCondor
  • OpenLava
  • pexec

Instant messaging

IRC Clients

Middleware

  • Apache Axis2 – Web service framework (implementations are available in both Java & C)
  • Apache Geronimo – Application server
  • Bonita Open Solution – a J2EE web application and java BPMN2 compliant engine
  • GlassFish – Application server
  • Jakarta Tomcat – Servlet container and standalone webserver
  • JBoss Application Server – Application server
  • ObjectWeb JOnAS – Java Open Application Server, a J2EE application server
  • OpenRemote – IoT Middleware
  • TAO (software) – C++ implementation of the OMG's CORBA standard
  • Enduro/X – C/C++ middleware platform based on X/Open group's XATMI and XA standards

RSS/Atom readers/aggregators

Peer-to-peer file sharing

  • Popcorn Time – Multi-platform, free, and open-source media player
  • qBittorrent – Alternative to popular clients such as μTorrent
  • Transmission – BitTorrent client

Portal Server

Remote access and management

Routing software

Web browsers

  • Brave – web browser based on the Blink engine
  • Chromium – Minimalist web browser from which Google Chrome draws its source code
  • Falkon – web browser based on the Blink (web engine)|Blink engine
  • Firefox – Mozilla-developed web browser using the Gecko layout engine
  • Midori – Lightweight web browser using the WebKit layout engine
  • Tor Browser – Modified Mozilla Firefox ESR web browser
  • Waterfox – Alternative to Firefox (64-bit only)
  • SeaMonkey – Internet suite

Webcam

  • Cheese – GNOME webcam application
  • Guvcview – Linux webcam application

Webgrabber

Web-related

  • Apache Cocoon – A web application framework
  • Apache – The most popular web server
  • AWStats – Log file parser and analyzer
  • BookmarkSync – Tool for browsers
  • Cherokee – Fast, feature-rich HTTP server
  • curl-loader – Powerful HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/FTPS loading and testing tool
  • FileZilla – FTP
  • Hiawatha – Secure, high performance, and easy-to-configure HTTP server
  • HTTP File Server – User-friendly file server software, with a drag-and-drop interface
  • lighttpd – Resource-sparing, but also fast and full-featured, HTTP Server
  • Lucee – CFML application server
  • Nginx – Lightweight, high performance web server/reverse proxy and e-mail (IMAP/POP3) proxy
  • NetKernel – Internet application server
  • Qcodo – PHP5 framework
  • Squid (software) – Web proxy cache
  • Vaadin – Fast, Java-based framework for creating web applications
  • Varnish (software) – High-performance web application accelerator/reverse proxy and load balancer/HTTP router
  • XAMPP – Package of web applications including Apache and MariaDB
  • Zope – Web application server

Web search engines

Other networking programs

Office suites

  • Apache OpenOffice (formerly known as OpenOffice.org)
  • Calligra Suite – The continuation of KOffice under a new name
  • LibreOffice – Independent Work of OpenOffice.org with a number of enhancements
  • ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors – An open-source offline edition of the Cloud

Operating systems

Be advised that available distributions of these systems can contain, or offer to build and install, added software that is neither free software nor open-source.

Emulation and Virtualisation

Personal information managers

Programming language support

Main article: List of open-source programming languages

Bug trackers

Code generators

  • Bison
  • CodeSynthesis XSD – XML Data Binding compiler for C++
  • CodeSynthesis XSD/e – Validating XML parser/serializer and C++ XML Data Binding generator for mobile and embedded systems
  • Flex lexical analyser – Generates lexical analyzers
  • Kodos
  • Open Scene Graph – 3D graphics application programming interface
  • OpenSCDP – Open Smart Card Development Platform
  • phpCodeGenie
  • SableCC – Parser generator for Java and .NET
  • SWIG – Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator for several languages
  • ^txt2regex$
  • xmlbeansxx – XML Data Binding code generator for C++
  • YAKINDU Statechart Tools – Statechart code generator for C++ and Java

Documentation generators

  • Doxygen – Tool for writing software reference documentation. The documentation is written within code.
  • Mkd – The software documentation is extracted from the sources files, from pseudocode or comments.
  • Natural Docs – Claims to use a more natural language as input from the comments, hence its name.

Configuration software

Debuggers (for testing and trouble-shooting)

Integrated development environments

Version control systems

Reference management software

See also: Comparison of reference management software

Risk Management

Science

Bioinformatics

See also: List of open source bioinformatics software

Cheminformatics

Electronic Lab Notebooks

  • ELOG
  • Jupyter

Geographic Information Systems

Geoscience

See also: List of free geology software
See also: Comparison of free geophysics software

Grid computing

  • P-GRADE Portal – Grid portal software enabling the creation, execution and monitoring of workflows through high-level Web interfaces

Microscope image processing

  • CellProfiler – Automatic microscopic analysis, aimed at individuals lacking training in computer vision
  • Endrov – Java-based plugin architecture designed to analyse complex spatio-temporal image data
  • FIJI (software) – ImageJ-based image processing
  • Ilastik – Image-classification and segmentation software
  • ImageJ – Image processing application developed at the National Institutes of Health
  • IMOD – 2D and 3D analysis of electron microscopy data
  • ITK – Development framework used for creation of image segmentation and registration programs
  • KNIME – Data analytics, reporting, and integration platform
  • VTK – C++ toolkit for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualisation
  • 3DSlicer – Medical image analysis and visualisation

Molecular dynamics

  • GROMACS – Protein, lipid, and nucleic acid simulation
  • LAMMPS – Molecular dynamics software
  • MDynaMix – General-purpose molecular dynamics, simulating mixtures of molecules
  • NWChem – Quantum chemical and molecular dynamics software

Molecule viewer

  • Avogadro – Plugin-extensible molecule visualisation
  • BALLView – Molecular modeling and visualisation
  • Jmol – 3D representation of molecules in a variety of formats, for use as a teaching tool
  • Molekel – Molecule viewing software
  • MeshLab – Able to import PDB dataset and build up surfaces from them
  • PyMOL – High-quality representations of small molecules as well as biological macromolecules
  • QuteMol – Interactive molecule representations offering an array of innovative OpenGL visual effects
  • RasMol – Visualisation of biological macromolecules

Nanotechnology

  • Ninithi – Visualise and analyse carbon allotropes, such as Carbon nanotube, Fullerene, Graphene nanoribbons

Plotting

  • Veusz

Quantum chemistry

See also: List of quantum chemistry and solid-state physics software
  • CP2K – Atomistic and molecular simulation of solid-state, liquid, molecular, and biological systems

Screensavers

Statistics

Theology

Bible study tools

See also

General directories

References

  1. ^ Richard Stallman (July 13, 2011). "Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software". Retrieved August 24, 2011.

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