awesome-oss

A list of open source projects with links to contribute or donate.

This list is a work in progress. I'm sure I'm missing many great projects. Feel free to send a pull request (just make sure it has a contribution/donation/both link)!

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Audio Editors
Audio Players
Documents
Developer Tools
Email
Foundations
FTP Clients
Games
Game Engines
Graphics
Multimedia
Networking
OS/Distributions
Other
Password Managers
Payments
Social
Text Editors
Video Software
Web Browsers

Audio Editors

Ardour - cross platform audio software to record, edit, mix and master audio and MIDI projects
Audacity - cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing
WaveShop - multi-tab audio editor with a wide range of effects/functions and several supported file formats

Audio Players

Clementine - modern music player and library organizer
MPD - free and open music player server
OooPlayer - Lightweight music player for Windows
Rhythmbox - integrated music management application

Documents

Etherpad - web-based collaborative real-time editor
Evince - document viewer for multiple document formats
LibreOffice - office suite
Okular - universal document viewer
Scribus - a page layout program
Sumatra PDF - free and open-source document viewer

Developer Tools

Ansible - radically simple IT automation platform
ConEmu - free and open-source tabbed terminal emulator for Windows
Daytona - The Open Source Dev Environment Manager
DEM - Containerized Development Environment Manager for Embedded Development
Ddosify - Distributed Performance Testing Platform
Flutter - mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and Android
Fossil - simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management system
Genezio CLI - cli tool that helps you deploy your JS/TS/Dart website (backend + frontend) to genez.io's serverless infrastructure for free.
Git - distributed version control system
GitLab - web-based Git repository manager with wiki and issue tracking features
Hook0 - webhooks-as-a-service (WaaS) for SaaS developers
Manifest - Open-source Backend-as-a-Service that enables developers to create backends effortlessly.
Mosh - remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes
Node-RED - programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways
Pixeleye - visual review & testing platform for catching UI bugs
PuTTy - free and open-source terminal emulator
Rancher - a complete container management platform
Refine - an open source React-based framework for building CRUD apps
Taipy - open-source Python library for building web applications’ GUI and back-end management.
Tolgee - developer & translator friendly localization platform
VirtualBox - free and open-source hypervisor
Windows Terminal - tabstyle windows command line/shell tool. Works with Subsystem/WSL and more. Custom look through integrated .json file
Yaade - Yaade is an open-source, self-hosted, collaborative API development environment
Revert - An open source unified API to build B2B product integrations
Panora - Alternative to Merge.dev - Add an integration catalog to your SaaS in minutes, not months

Email

Dovecot - IMAP and POP3 email server for Linux/UNIX-like systems
Mail-in-a-box - one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP+everything else server
Mailcow - The mailserver suite with the 'moo' – 🐮 + 🐋 = 💕
Mailu - simple yet full-featured mail server as a set of Docker images
Mutt - text-based mail client for Unix operating systems
NeoMutt - command line mail reader

Foundations/Organizations

Apache Software Foundation - non-profit corporation to support Apache software project
Blender Foundation - nonprofit organization responsible for the development of Blender, an open source 3D content-creation