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Tools 2025

Tools 2025

Welcome to Tools 2025, a comprehensive directory of software, web services, and utilities organized by audience and use case. Use this guide to quickly find the perfect tool for browsing, programming, design, IT management, marketing, and beyond.

Most useful to most users

  1. Browser Add‑ins (1)
    • DownThemAll (chrome) (firefox) (opera) - DownThemAll lets you download all the links or images on a website and much more
    • Shut Up: Comment Blocker (chrome) - Toggles comments on many popular websites
    • Reader Mode (chrome) - a feature-packed Chrome reading extension and web app that removes clutter, ads, and distractions, while also includes dyslexia support, bookmarking, annotating, highlighting, text-to-speech and many other features all in one tool
    • Video Speed Controller (chrome) - allows you to control the playback speed on any site. Set the default pace to 1.10x and you'll go through videos 10% faster without even noticing
    • The Great Suspender (chrome) - Makes Chrome use fewer resources by suspending tabs you're not using 
    • Tab Snooze (chrome) - Ran into an interesting rabbit hole or website that you'd really like to check out, but don't have the time right now? Use Tab Snooze, and it'll magically reopen the tabs later
    • Google Keep Chrome Extension (chrome) - Save to Google Keep in a single click
    • Notion Web Clipper (chrome) - Use our Web Clipper to save any website into Notion
    • News Feed Eradicator for Facebook (chrome) - News Feed Eradicator removes your news feed (and live ticker) and replaces it instead with an inspirational quote
    • Minimal Twitter (chrome) - Extends Twitter UI functionality by adding CSS to make the UI cleaner. No big labels, cluttered elements, and distracting text
    • View Image (chrome) - Re-implements the Google Images' "View Image" and "Search by Image" buttons
    • Simplify Gmail (chrome) - Simplifies Gmail interface to the bare minimum
    • Babelshelf (chrome) - Highlight to save books from anywhere on the web
    • Rumin Web Clipper (chrome) - Browser extension for Rumin which allows you to save learnings from online resources. (Chrome Web Store link, Firefox Add-on link)
    • Vimium - a Google Chrome extension which provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of the Vim editor
  2. Browsers (2)
    • Chrome – Google’s mainstream browser.
    • Chromium .zip – Open‑source Chrome build.
    • Edge Chromium – Microsoft’s Chromium‑based browser.
    • Firefox – Mozilla’s open‑source browser.
    • Opera – Feature‑rich alternative browser.
    • Brave – Privacy‑focused browser with ad‑blocking.
    • Vivaldi – Highly customizable browser.
    • Nessie – Minimalist browser prototype.
    • brow.sh – Text‑based browser via SSH.
  3. Office Productivity (3)
  4. Additional Office Productivity (3)
    • Voice Typer - free speech to text
    • Filemail - send very large attachments for free
    • Grammarly - grammar and spell checking for free or $140/yr
    • Evernote - private cloud file system for $8/mnth
    • Obsidian (free) - a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files
    • Sizle.io (freemium/paid) - pdf & ppt tracking and analytics
    • gofile.io - File sharing platform, anonymous and free
    • mega.nz - the leading end-to-end encrypted cloud collaboration platform
    • QuillBot's summarizer can condense articles, papers, or documents in a short paragraph
    • Standalone Address Book - enables you to add your own Address Book fields and remove unused fields from Address Book, you can also change their size, location, and tab order of all the fields of Address Book in the input form. Searching on all the fields(with the custom field) simultaneously
    • Webwormhole.io - WEB WORMHOLE LETS YOU SEND FILES FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER (web sockets)
  5. Replacement Apps (4)
    • Notepad++ - Free source code editor and Notepad replacement with syntax highlighting and multiple tabs
    • 7z - Free and open-source file archiver with high compression ratio
    • Adobe Acrobat Reader - Industry standard PDF viewer with annotation capabilities
    • JAVA - Runtime environment required for Java applications and web applets
    • Instant Eyedropper - Color identification tool that captures color codes from anywhere on screen
    • someonewhocares.org - Hosts file to block unwanted advertising, tracking and malware sites
      • Visual Desktop Ruler:

      • Pixel Rule - transparent ruler - (download page gone) - ***Better Version***
      • Ruler for Windows - A wood-like looking ruler
  6. Chat Apps (5)
  7. Search Engines (6)
    • myTech.Today - TL;UL of all sorts of internet investigative tools.  Perhaps thousands of government, NSO, military, educational, professional databases, search engines, investigation techniques, data-tracking software, and other material focused primarily on tracking human trafficking, the drug trade, political corruption, money laundering, and corruption worldwide.
    • myTech.Today - Bitcoin (BTC) Blog - musing on BTC, blogroll of authoritative BTC vlogs
    • wiby - A search engine for the classic web
    • https://www.google.com/search?q=%22search_term%22+AND+site%3A - Google's site search template
    • Google Search Operators: The Complete List (42 Advanced Operators)
    • All duckduckgo bang operators on one page (metasearch tool)
    • Google Image Search - Seach all of the images of the publicly available internet
    • Archive.is - Archived webpages at a point in time
    • Internet Archive: Wayback Machine - Searchable index of websites at points in history - not on page with javascript tech. such as Facebook
    • Apse.io - A Personal Search Engine, APSE for short.  OCRs screenshots and stores the text in a search index, so you can query by keyword, date, boolean operators, the whole shebang. It's all local >($15/mnth - Personal, $30/mnth/user - Business) (download page) (download trial)
    • Stackoverflow.com - Answers to programming problems
    • BigMatch - a tool to find open-source libraries in binaries only using their strings
    • Muzi - Search by color, keyword, or style
    • Reverse Google Image Search - Search where an image you have is from on the internet
    • duckduckgo - Privacy, simplified
    • Ahmia - searches hidden services on the Tor network
    • grep.app - Search across a half-million git repos
    • Runnaroo.com - it will pull traditional organic results from Google, but it will also directly query Stack Overflow for a deeper search
    • infinitysearch.co - open-source search engine
    • hndex.org - a search engine for finding articles posted to hacker news
    • symptoma.com - Symptom Checker & Medical Search Engine - Differential diagnoses
    • Advangle - a simple and convenient builder of complex web-search queries through Google or Bing search engines. You can save your queries in a free Advangle account to refer to later
    • Bing vs Google - A tool that provides a side-by-side list and comparison of search results delivered through Bing vs. Google search engines.
    • iSeek - A targeted discovery tool that allows an investigator to enhance, analyze, and organize searches, and see how collected information on a topic is distributed. iSeek uses natural language queries that understand the meaning and concepts embedded in the search and delivers relevant information.
    • asone.ai - Reddit but for research only (asone.ai)
    • Yippy (formerly Clusty) - a metasearch engine that allows investigators to index and federate documents and data sources to provide relevant big picture insights.
    • Weboas.is - eclectic collection of resources: search engines, databases, chat directories, torrent sites, Reddit forums, forum directories, file sharing tools - All-in-One Web Portal For Internet & Tech Enthusiasts Who Love Exploring & Learning About The Digital Underground
    • NerdyData - With NerdyData investigators can search for source code. The platform allows investigators to search for web technologies, advertising tags, meta descriptions, and any pattern that they want to identify on a website’s code.
    • 100% free, quality CC audio - A curation of CC-licensed music from various artists and genres for you to use, however you like with correct attribution, in your creative projects
    • Discover Classical Art - Browse and download high-resolution, public domain artworks
    • Smithsonian open-access Image Collection - search 120M Smithsonian images
    • SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) - digital library portal for researchers in astronomy and physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant.
    • PublicWWW - Allows investigators to search the source code and find related websites through the unique HTML codes they share such as widgets and publisher IDs.
    • The WWW Virtual Library - the oldest catalog on the web. It was started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, back in 1991
    • DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) - a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals - directory of US Federal Government Services
    • elephind - search all the world’s online historic newspapers from one place. We aren’t there yet, but we are adding more newspapers every day.
    • Awesome Health - Curated list of awesome open-source healthcare software, libraries, tools, and resources. Each link has been vetted to ensure the project is active and provides value to healthcare facilities, providers, developers, policy experts, and/or research scientists.
    • ForumSearch.io - monitor conversations across professional networks HackerNews, Reddit*, IndieHacker, DEV.to, Lobste.rs
    • Instant Search 2 Million Recipes
    • judyrecords - 439 million United States Court Cases
    • Leaked Google Search APIs - the Google's Search API exposed sensitive information, potentially compromising user data and revealing proprietary algorithms used for search rankings.
  8. Web Tools (8)

Most useful for programmers

  1. IDEs & Text Editors (1)
  2. DevOps & Version Control (2)
    • Git – Distributed source control.
    • Vagrant – Dev environment automation.
    • Docker – Container platform.
    • Selenium.dev – Browser automation.
    • Elemental - Common use-cases missing from Selenium are built into Elemental. Elemental has built-in automatic waiting so that your automation is less flaky. It has a sensible default which can be overridden when necessary. Easy access to 100% of Selenium's API. Write less code than you would if you were using Selenium directly. The Elemental API is terse and internally consistent while still being explicit and unambiguous.
    • Appium – Mobile test automation.
    • Ansible – IT configuration automation.
    • Postman – HTTP API testing.
    • WSL – Windows Subsystem for Linux.
    • VirtualBox – Virtualization software.
  3. Databases (3)
    • Microsoft SQL Server - Build intelligent, mission-critical applications using a scalable, hybrid data platform for demanding workloads (local) (azure)
    • MySQL -  The most comprehensive set of advanced features, management tools, and technical support to achieve the highest levels of MySQL scalability, security, reliability, and uptime
    • SQLite - SQLite is a C-language library that implements a small, fast, self-contained, high-reliability, full-featured, SQL database engine
    • Oracle Database Cloud - A complete database solution to run all of your workloads more securely, whether it’s on-premises or autonomously managed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    • MongoDB - MongoDB is a general-purpose, document-based, distributed database built for modern application developers and for the cloud era
    • Access - Access is an easy-to-use tool for creating business applications, from templates or from scratch
    • OrbitDB - a serverless, distributed, peer-to-peer database. OrbitDB uses IPFS as its data storage and IPFS Pubsub to automatically sync databases with peers
    • AWS RDS - cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backup
    • Postgresql - a powerful, open-source object-relational database system with over 30 years of active development
    • IBM Cloud - Upload, download, and transfer data to and from cloud databases on IBM Cloud for free
    • Heroku - SQL
    • AWS dynmoDB - noSQL
    • Cloud FireStore - noSQL
    • Google SQL Cloud - SQL
    • Fauna - a flexible, developer-friendly, transactional database delivered to you as a secure, web-native API
    • Redis - an open-source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker
    • dapr.io - An event-driven, portable runtime for building microservices on cloud and edge
    • Cloudstate.io - Distributed State Management for Serverless
    • Kafka - better throughput, built-in partitioning, replication, and fault-tolerance which makes it a good solution for large scale message processing applications
    • sheet2api – Turn spreadsheets into REST APIs.
  4. Tools (4)
    • Tensorflow.org - end-to-end open-source machine learning platform
    • RegistryChangeView – Registry monitoring tool.
    • Ex-Googler Resources – Lookup for Google-originated dev tools.
    • GNU Coreutils – Command-line utilities.
    • Apache JMeter - open-source software, a 100% pure Java application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance
    • Blazemeter - cloud-based load and performance testing platform for JMeter
    • LoadImpact - cloud-based load and performance testing platform
    • LoadRunner - load and performance testing tool
    • Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition
    • Development Tools by ex-googlers, for ex-googlers - a lookup table of similar tech & services
    • code.visualstudio.com - Free. Built on open source. Runs everywhere
    • Jetbrains.com - (freemium) - integrated IDE and multiple tools for development
    • Pycharm - Python IDE
    • Glitch.com - free, easy-to-use, HTML, JS, & CSS testing platform
    • JSFiddle - free, easy-to-use, HTML, JS, & CSS testing platform
    • Protocol Designer - Protocol Designer is a versatile tool designed to help developers and engineers create, simulate, and validate communication protocols efficiently through an intuitive and visual interface.
    • Vagrant - Dev environment automation.
    • Appium - open-source test automation framework for use with native, hybrid, and mobile web apps. It drives iOS, Android, and Windows apps using the WebDriver protocol
    • Ansible.com - IT configuration automation.
    • Postman - sniff HTTP communications.
    • Explainshell.com - write down a command-line to see the help text that matches each argument
    • QR Code Generator from the ZXing Project
    • datafold.com - simplifies data QA by enabling instant table comparison and profiling of SQL DBs
    • gec - a command-line utility written in Bash with convenience commands for using gocryptfs with git. making it possible to naively fallback to the underlying gocryptfs or git commands if a need should arise.
    • GOMP (Git cOMPare) - a Git-based tool for comparing branches, designed to work with a rebase-oriented Git workflow
    • regexr.com - online regex explorer tool (regex tutorial)
    • Refined GitHub (chrome) - Simplifies the GitHub interface and adds useful features
    • Semgrep - Lightweight static analysis for many languages. Find and block bug variants with rules that look like source code
    • OneFuzz - A self-hosted Fuzzing-As-A-Service platform.  Enables continuous developer-driven fuzzing to proactively harden software prior to release
    • TakeNote - a note-taking app for the web. You can use the demo app at takenote.dev. It is a static site without a database and does not sync your notes to the cloud
    • qareplay - Smartest screen recorder, instant replay for bug reporting. Record steps to reproduce effortlessly
    • Draw.io VS Code Integration - This unofficial extension integrates Draw.io into VS Code
    • Streamlit.io - open-source app framework is the easiest way for data scientists and machine learning engineers to create beautiful, performant apps in only a few hours! All in pure Python. All for free
    • An attempt to make a font look more handwritten
    • Concise Encoding - The friendly data format for human & machine
    • xkit.co - Build OAuth integrations in minutes.  fresh access tokens for 25+ apps in 5 lines of code. No backend needed.
    • Real-Time License Plate Identification System - project implements a license plate identification system
    • Igel - A machine learning tool that allows you to train/fit, test, and use models without writing code
    • tidy-json-to-csv - Converts a subset of JSON to a set of tidy CSVs. Supports both streaming processing of input JSON and output of CSV, and so suitable for large files in memory-constrained environments
    • Starfish - A Peer to Peer Authentication System, using bitcoin wallet encryption
    • DAIN (Depth-Aware Video Frame Interpolation) - a depth-aware flow projection layer to synthesize intermediate flows that preferably sample closer objects than farther ones
    • Sir.DB - simple database on the file system - JSON files organized into subdirectories for each table
    • gron - Make JSON greppable! - gron transforms JSON into discrete assignments to make it easier to grep for what you want and see the absolute 'path' to it. It eases the exploration of APIs that return large blobs of JSON but have terrible documentation
    • Build a Collaborative Chatbot with Google Sheets and TensorFlow - The Universal Sentence Encoder, recently released by Google AI, is one of these new models available via Tensorflow Hub
    • Google Trends Data Downloader - two scripts designed to help you download daily data from Google Trends over longer periods of time
    • QR-to-QR - enables two phones (with front cameras) to share text 
    • salient - salient is a natural language processing and machine learning toolkit
  5. Blockchain Tools (5)
    • Truffle - The most comprehensive suite of tools for smart contract development
    • hardhat - Ethereum development environment for professionals
    • Web3js - A JavaScript library for building on Ethereum
    • Ethereum SDK - Ethereum developer resources
    • {solidity} - A statically-typed curly-braces programming language designed for developing smart contracts that run on Ethereum.
    • ERC-20 TOKEN STANDARD - A technical standard used for creating and issuing smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain, primarily for implementing tokens with a set of rules that all Ethereum-based tokens must follow.
    • ERC721 Token Contract - ERC-721 is a standard for representing ownership of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), where each token is unique and can represent different assets on the Ethereum blockchain.
    • ERC-1400 Security Token - ERC-1400 is a security token standard on the Ethereum blockchain that aims to incorporate features for compliance with securities regulations and includes partial fungibility, where tokens can represent both fungible and non-fungible assets under a single contract.
  6. Languages (6)
    • Citrine - Localized Programming Language
    • C# -  programming language on the .NET platform (mono framework)
    • C/C++ - Microsoft C++, C, and Assembler documentation
    • Picat - a simple, and yet powerful, logic-based multi-paradigm programming language aimed for general-purpose applications
    • PHP - a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development
    • Python - a programming language that lets you work quickly and integrate systems more effectively
    • jquery - a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library.
    • Javascript - a lightweight, interpreted, or just-in-time compiled programming language with first-class functions
  7. Resources (7)

Most useful for video game developers

  1. Video Game Development (1)
    • Unity3D - freemium integrated 3D video game middle-ware development environment (download page) (download link)
    • Twine - an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories (download x64 macOS Linux)
    • RPGmaker.net - RPG Maker VX Ace improves every aspect of RPG creation, making it not only the latest but also the greatest engine in the RPG Maker Series. With multiple tileset support, full auto shadow control, and a flexible features system, Ace gives you the most powerful RPG making tools ever
    • WORK WITH INDIES - a single place to find all the cool jobs in indie games
  2. Video Game Miscellaneous Tools (2)
    • Allegorithmic.com - Procedural texture plug-in for Unity
    • Bolt - $70/once, soon free - Unity visual scripting plug-in (download page)
    • DeltaDNA - A PRODUCT BY UNITY - Build intelligent long-term relationships with players using personalized engagement – powered by deep and rich data!
    • Leanplum  - simplifies multi-channel campaigns to help you achieve engagement and revenue goals
    • Unity Analytics - gives you the specific information you can use to tweak gameplay and offer the best possible experience on multiple platforms. And it helps you get the most out of your monetization efforts.
    • Fast Inverse Square Root - The famous fast inverse square root is some mysterious code not written by programming legend John Carmack to calculate a fast approximation of 1/x1/\sqrt{x}1/x
  3. 3D Modeling and Printing (3)
  4. CAD (4)
    • TinkerCad - online CAD system, easy-to-use
    • FreeCAD - an open-source parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size
    • Archimedes - free and open-source CAD (Computer-Aided Design) software. For Architectural Illustrations.  It is a robust system built over Eclipse's Rich Client Platform fully based on plugins (download page) (download x64 macOS Linux)
    • BRL-CAD - Hybrid CSG and B-rep kernel with innovative methods for unambiguous 3D geometry. Verification, validation, performant (download page)
    • qcad - 2D CAD for Windows, Linux, and Mac (download page)
    • onshape - Onshape.com is a cloud-based CAD platform that enables collaborative 3D design, modeling, and engineering.

Most useful for web designers/creators

  1. Web Services (1)
  2. Web Design Services (2)
    • Simple Link Checker (Mozilla) - Redirect Link Checker will check all links on your page to find broken and redirect links
    • cssbuilder (chrome) - adds easy to use CSS3 design widget to Chrome
    • WordPress Theme Detector and Plugins Detector (chrome) - This tool detects theme and plugins used on WordPress sites and displays information about them
    • Web Sniffer (chrome) - View all HTTP Requests and Responses sent between the Web browser and the Web server
    • Wappalyzer (chrome) - a utility that uncovers the technologies used on websites
    • WhatRuns (chrome) - Discover what runs a website. Frameworks, Analytics Tools, WordPress Plugins, Fonts - you name it
    • WhatFont (chrome) - the easiest way to find out the fonts used in a webpage
    • CodeKitWP Easily add custom codes
      on your WordPress website
  3. Web Frameworks (3)
    • flask - a lightweight and flexible Python web framework that provides the tools necessary to build web applications quickly and with minimal setup, emphasizing simplicity and fine-grained control.
    • laravel - a comprehensive PHP framework known for its elegant syntax, extensive features for robust application development, and built-in tools to support everything from simple APIs to complex web applications.
    • CodeIgniter4 - a lightweight PHP framework that offers simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications with a focus on performance and minimal configuration.
    • Cordova - an open-source mobile development framework that allows developers to build cross-platform mobile applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, leveraging web technologies to access native device features.
    • Remix - Remix is a full stack web framework that lets you focus on the user interface and work back through web standards to deliver a fast, slick, and resilient user experience.
  4. JavaScript Libraries & Frameworks (4)
    • Web3.js – JavaScript library for Ethereum.
    • roughnotation.com - A small JavaScript library to create and animate annotations on a web page
    • form-validation.js
    • handwritten.js - Convert typed text to realistic handwriting
    • Elevator.js - fixes those awkward "scroll to top" moments the old fashioned way
    • vuejs.org - The Progressive JavaScript Framework
    • vuetifyjs - a Vue UI Library with beautifully handcrafted Material Components
    • reactjs - A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
    • material-ui - React components for faster and easier web development
    • angular.io - Develop Across All Platforms
    • Suri - your own link shortener that's easily deployed as a static site (for free)
    • videoinput.js - client-side video input field with POST submissions
    • SQL.js - a javascript SQL database. create a relational database and query it entirely in the browser
    • emberjs - a productive, battle-tested JavaScript framework for building modern web applications
    • nodejs.org - a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine
    • gatsbyjs - a free and open-source framework based on React that helps developers build blazing-fast websites and apps
    • Nextjs.org - React Framework
    • Livewire - a full-stack framework for Laravel that makes building dynamic interfaces simple, without leaving the comfort of Laravel
    • svelte.dev - js framework - runs at build time, converting your components into highly efficient imperative code that surgically updates the DOM
    • procedural-gl.js - a library for creating 3D map experiences on the web, written in JavaScript and WebGL. It is built on top THREE.js
    • Google News JS - an open-source package for scraping Google News data. It provides easy API access to main Google News features
    • Mocha - Mocha is a feature-rich JavaScript test framework running on Node.js and in the browser, making asynchronous testing simple and fun. Mocha tests run serially, allowing for flexible and accurate reporting, while mapping uncaught exceptions to the correct test cases.
    • Chai - Chai is a BDD / TDD assertion library for node and the browser that can be delightfully paired with any javascript testing framework.
  5. CSS Frameworks (5)
    • XP.css - a framework to look like WinXP or Win98
    • mono-color (download) - accessible HTML/CSS charts with markdown support
    • ChartSS.css - a framework to provide flat mono or color controls
    • newcss.net - basic, vanilla, classless CSS framework for simple sites of the only HTML
    • w3.css - a modern CSS framework with support for desktop, tablet, and mobile design by default, is smaller and faster than similar CSS frameworks, was designed to be a high-quality alternative to Bootstrap, was designed to be smaller, faster, easier to learn, and easier to use, was also designed to be independent of jQuery or any other JavaScript library
    • Bootstrap - the world’s most popular front-end open-source toolkit, featuring Sass variables and mixins, a responsive grid system, extensive prebuilt components, and powerful JavaScript plugins
    • Foundation - The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world
    • bulma.io - a free, open-source CSS framework based on Flexbox and used by more than 200,000 developers
    • skeleton - A dead simple, responsive boilerplate
    • SPCSS - a simple and plain stylesheet for simple text-based websites. Demo <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/spcss@0.3.0">
    • purecss.io - A set of small, responsive CSS modules that you can use in every web project
    • groundworkcss - A Responsive HTML5, CSS and Javascript Framework
    • cardinalcss - Cardinal is a modular, “mobile-first” CSS framework built with performance and scalability in mind
    • powertocss - A versatile CSS Framework. Simple, light, and responsive
    • muellergridsystem - a modular grid system for responsive/adaptive and non–responsive layouts, based on Compass
    • bootflat - an open source Flat UI KIT based on Bootstrap 3.3.0 CSS framework
    • CSS Geometric Shapes
    • Pattern.css - CSS only library to fill the empty background with beautiful patterns
    • 7GUIs - by Brad Woods

Most useful for AI tools

  1. AI Assistants & Tools (1)
    • GitHub CoPilot – AI pair programmer that helps write code faster.
    • ChatGPT – Revolutionary AI for natural language processing.
    • MyGPT – Customizable user interface for ChatGPT with plugins and API integrations.
    • DALL-E AI – Advanced AI for generating digital images from text descriptions.
    • llamafile – Project leveraging AI for enhanced file management.
    • Auto-GPT – AI tool for automating content creation and processing tasks.
    • Flex-GPT – Flexible AI platform for custom GPT model training and deployment.
    • Swarms – AI-driven platform for collaborative decision making.
    • AutoGen – Microsoft's AI tool for generating code and automating development.
    • BardAI Chatbot – Google's AI-driven chatbot for answering questions.
    • Bing.com/create – AI-powered tool for content creation and idea generation.
    • app.myshell.ai – AI-based platform for enhancing shell scripting.
    • AskTheCode – AI solution for code querying and understanding.
    • Hugging Face – Technology company specializing in NLP and machine learning.
    • Vocal Remover and Isolation – Separate voice from music using AI algorithms.
    • ChatGPT Workflows – Integrating ChatGPT API into systems for automation.
    • AI Tools for Business – Curated list of 65 AI tools for small businesses.
    • Unify.AI – Route your prompts to the best LLM.
    • Claude AI – AI chatbot by Anthropic.
    • DeepSeek AI - AI chatbot by Chinese DeepSeek.
    • NotebookLM –
    • Grok AI – AI chatbot by X.ai.

Most useful for artists

  1. Audio Streaming Players (1)
    • Subsonic – Self-hosted music streaming server.
    • Miniwebplayer – Self-hosted music streaming server.
    • Subsonic – Self-hosted music streaming server.
    • iTunes - Apple's media player for organizing and playing music, videos, and podcasts with integrated store
    • Spotify – Music streaming service.
    • Pandora - Personalized internet radio service that streams music based on user preferences and feedback
    • Streamlabs.tv – Streaming platform with tools for content creators.
    • Mixcloud – Platform for DJ mixes and radio shows.
    • Deezer – Music streaming service with personalized recommendations.
    • Tidal – Hi-fi music streaming with lossless audio quality.
    • Qobuz – High-resolution music streaming and download service.
    • Plex – Media server software for organizing and streaming personal collections.
    • Jellyfin – Open-source alternative to Plex for media management.
    • Napster – Subscription-based music streaming service.
    • TuneIn – Radio streaming service with access to global stations.
    • Last.fm – Music tracking and recommendation service.
    • AllMusic – Comprehensive music database and review platform.
    • Beatport – Electronic music store specializing in DJ tracks.
    • Jamendo – Platform for free and legal music downloads from independent artists.
    • SoundCloud – Audio distribution platform for creators and listeners.
    • Bandcamp – Platform for artists to sell music directly to fans.
    • ReverbNation – Platform for independent musicians to promote their work.
    • Musixmatch – World's largest lyrics catalog with synchronization features.
    • Shazam – Music recognition app to identify songs playing around you.
    • Audionautix – Royalty-free music library for content creators.
    • Freeplaymusic – Licensed music for video, film and other media projects.
    • Bensound – Royalty-free music compositions for creative projects.
  2. Audio & Visual Tools (1)
    • ImageMagick - (download page) (download x64 mac OS Linux) - Use ImageMagick® to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. It can read and write images in a variety of formats (over 200) including PNG, JPEG, GIF, HEIC, TIFF, DPX, EXR, WebP, Postscript, PDF, and SVG. Use ImageMagick to resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and BĂ©zier curves.
    • Audiomass – In‑browser audio editor.
    • Squoosh – Image compression & format converter.
    • DeOldify – AI image & video colorizer.
    • FFmpeg – Multimedia processing framework.
    • HandBrake – Video transcoder.
    • Blender – 3D modeling & rendering.
    • Unity – Game development platform.
    • Streamlabs.tv – Streaming platform with tools for content creators.
    • OBS Studio – Screen recording & streaming.
    • Audacity – Audio editing software.
    • VLC Media Player – Cross-platform media player.
    • GIMP – Image editing software.
    • Adobe Photoshop – Image editing software.
    • Adobe After Effects – Video editing software.
    • Adobe Premiere Pro – Video editing software.
    • Adobe InDesign – Desktop publishing software.
    • Adobe Illustrator – Vector graphics editor.
    • Adobe XD – UI/UX design software.
    • One Web Page Media Player - One file drop-in video player web app for using MP4 video files served using basic directory listing
    • Unscreen - remove green screen from videos
    • The Project - a real-time application in OpenCV using the first-order model
    • Squoosh.app - an image compression web app that allows you to dive into the advanced options provided by various image compressors for .AVIF files

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Most useful for Mac/iOS Users

  1. macOS & iPhone Tools (1)
    • Mono Framework - Cross-platform, open-source .NET framework
    • supertag - a tag-based file system, written in Rust, that provides a unique view of your files by removing the hierarchy constraints typically imposed on files and folders. In other words, it allows you to think about your files not as objects stored in folders, but as objects that can be filtered by folders.
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    • Antivirus Zap - Secure your Mac from all malware, stop and prevent pop-up scams
    • K7 Antivirus - Protect your Mac from viruses, malware, and other threats
  3. Apps (3)
    • BackBlaze Unlimited Backup ($6/month) - Cloud storage that's astonishingly easy and low-cost
    • EtreCheck - macOS system utility and monitoring
    • Downie 4 (freemium/$20 one-time) - online downloader for online video from websites.
    • DiskWarrior ($120) - The world's most advanced macOS repair and data recovery tool
    • Coriolis Systems - Mac utility software, including its award-winning iPartition partitioning tool and iDefrag disk optimizer, as well as a handful of other products including VMOptimizer, Zipster, and a real-time AC-3 compatible encoder, Aura
    • Objective-See - simple, yet effective OS X security tools
    • Namebench  - a free networking software program that helps users find the fastest Domain Name System (DNS) for an enhanced browsing experience
    • Monolingual -  a program for removing unnecessary language resources from macOS
    • OnyX - a multifunction utility that you can use to verify the structure of the system files, to run miscellaneous maintenance and cleaning tasks, to configure parameters in the Finder, Dock, Safari, and some Apple applications, to delete caches, to remove certain problematic folders and files, to rebuild various databases and indexes, and more
    • lunar.fyi - Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external display
    • iTerm2 - free and open-source terminal emulator that offers users a robust search tool coupled with auto-complete commands, multiple panes in independent sessions, multiple profile support, several customization options, etc
    • Alacritty - cross-platform terminal emulator with a strong emphasis on simplicity and performance. It uses the system’s GPU to accelerate its performance, works well out of the box, and is both free and open-source
    • AppCleaner - a small and simple application that will let you uninstall all those unwanted apps. Whenever you install an application, it distributes a number of files to your system while using the space from the hard drive unnecessarily
    • Transmit 4 - one of the most liked file transfer applications which allows you to establish a connection with servers using FTP, Amazon S3, SFTP, and iDisk protocols. It comes with a simple and easy to use interface that allows you to download, upload and delete files
    • DaisyDisk - Visualize your disk and free up the memory space by searching and removing unused files and folders
    • ImageOptim - application offers an excellent way to make your Mac and iPad applications look smaller. It’s a great way to publish images on the internet. eliminating EXIF metadata like the camera’s serial number and GPS position etc. so that the images are published without any private data
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    • Setapp.com - Full repertoire - Maintenance, Lifestyle, Productivity, Task Management, Developer Tools, Writing & Blogging, Education, Mac Hacks, Creativity, Personal Finance
    • Alfred - Alfred is an award-winning app for macOS which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords, text expansion, and more. Search your Mac and the web, and be more productive with custom actions to control your Mac
    • Mac keyboard shortcuts - By pressing certain key combinations, you can do things that normally need a mouse, trackpad, or other input device
  5. CloudMounter ($47.79) - Your Amazon S3 browser OS X and Windows

Most useful for Linux users

  1. Tools (1)
    • Mono Framework - Cross-platform, open-source .NET framework
    • i3wm.org - a tiling window manager for GNU/Linux and BSD
    • GNU & GNU core utilities - Free Software Foundation
    • >git - a free and open-source distributed version control system
    • regexr.com - online regex explorer tool (regex tutorial)
    • ripgrep (Linux) - recursively searches directories for a regex pattern (install)
    • fzf (Linux) - A command-line fuzzy finder
    • thefuck (Linux) - Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command
    • Crush - an attempt to make a traditional command-line shell that is also a modern programming language
    • YouCompleteMe (vim) - A code-completion engine for Vim
    • Darling - Darling is a translation layer that lets you run macOS software on Linux
    • scanimage - scan from the command line (scanimage is a command-line tool, in the sane-utils Debian package )
    • Cronhub Scheduler - a job scheduler to automate workflows and run jobs on a recurring basis. Think of it as a friendlier alternative to traditional cron jobs
    • Argo Workflows - a container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes
    • Argo Events - a cloudEvents-based event-driven compute platform for Kubernetes
    • Argo CD - a declarative continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes
    • Argo Rollouts - a progressive delivery tool for Kubernetes
    • Argo Tasks - a task scheduler for Kubernetes
    • Argo Dataflow - a stream processing framework for Kubernetes
    • Argo Scuba - a tool for visualizing and debugging Kubernetes workloads
    • Argo Tasks - a task scheduler for Kubernetes
    • Freetype - included in the font stack on Unix, is quite complex

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  • allisonhouse - The data you trust and the weather display you want
  • PageWatch - Catch embarrassing website errors before any of your users do
  • spike.sh - We alert you of your incidents via Phone call, SMS, Slack, and Email before your customers do
  • pipl - interact with searchable databases, member directories, court records, and other deep internet search content to offer you a detailed snapshot of a person
  • CallsRedirect - ($4/mnth; $0.035/min calling) Get business calls on your cell phone. With no internet, no app, and no desk phone. Calls are marked as business calls. Business Phone Numbers - Calls Forwarded To Cell Phone - Voicemails & Faxes Sent To Email