PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks (Mechanical Hard drives, Solid State Drives...), CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's file system has been severely damaged or reformatted.

PhotoRec is free - this open source multi-platform application is distributed under GNU General Public License (GPLV v2+). PhotoRec is a companion program to TestDisk, an application for recovering lost partitions on a wide variety of file systems and making non-bootable disks bootable again. You can download them from this link.

For more safety, PhotoRec uses read-only access to handle the drive or memory card you are about to recover lost data from. Important: As soon as a picture or file is accidentally deleted, or you discover any missing, do NOT save any more pictures or files to that memory device or hard disk drive; otherwise you may overwrite your lost data. This means that while using PhotoRec, you must not choose to write the recovered files to the same partition they were stored on.

Generate video, images, 3D, audio with AI

ComfyUI is free, open-source, and shaped by a community of artists, developers, and dreamers. They believe in giving everyone full control over their creative tools.

The free, OpenAI, Anthropic alternative.

LocalAI is a free, Open Source OpenAI alternative. Run LLMs, autonomous agents, generate images, audio and more locally with consumer grade hardware.

Qubes OS is a free and open-source, security-oriented operating system for single-user desktop computing. Qubes OS leverages Xen-based virtualization to allow for the creation and management of isolated compartments called qubes.

These qubes, which are implemented as virtual machines (VMs), have specific:

Purposes: with a predefined set of one or many isolated applications, for personal or professional projects, to manage the network stack, the firewall, or to fulfill other user-defined purposes.

Natures: full-fledged or stripped-down virtual machines based on popular operating systems, such as Fedora, Debian, and Windows.

Levels of trust: from complete to non-existent. All windows are displayed in a unified desktop environment with unforgeable colored window borders so that different security levels are easily identifiable.

The Free and Open Source Software for Disk Imaging and Cloning

Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program similar to True Image® or Norton Ghost®. It helps you to do system deployment, bare metal backup and recovery.

Three types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live, Clonezilla lite server, and Clonezilla SE (server edition).

Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore.

While Clonezilla lite server or SE is for massive deployment, it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the hard disk.
This increases the clone efficiency. With some high-end hardware in a 42-node cluster, a multicast restoring at rate 8 GB/min was reported.

ActivityWatch is an app that automatically tracks how you spend time on your devices.

It is open source, privacy-first, cross-platform, and a great alternative to services like RescueTime, ManicTime, and WakaTime.

It can be used to keep track of your productivity, time spent on different projects, bad screen habits, or just to understand how you spend your time.

Postal is a complete and fully featured mail delivery platform for use by websites & web servers. Think Sendgrid, Mailgun or Postmark but open source and ready for you to run on your own servers.

Picocrypt NG (new generation) is a very small (hence Pico), very simple, yet very secure encryption tool that you can use to protect your files.

It's designed to be the go-to tool for file encryption, with a focus on security, simplicity, and reliability.

Picocrypt NG uses the secure XChaCha20 cipher and the Argon2id key derivation function to provide a high level of security.

Optimize your WiFi network using WiFi Analyzer (open-source) by examining surrounding WiFi networks, measuring their signal strength as well as identifying crowded channels.

Users' privacy and security is a huge concern these days and WiFi Analyzer (open-source) is designed to use as few permissions as possible. It asks for just enough to perform the analysis. Plus, it is all open source so nothing is hidden! Most notably, this application does not require access to internet, so you can be sure it does not send any personal/device information to any other source

Create good habits and track their progress over time.

Loop helps you create and maintain good habits, allowing you to achieve your long-term goals. Detailed charts and statistics show you how your habits improved over time. The app is completely ad-free, open source and it respects your privacy.

dupeGuru is a tool to find duplicate files on your computer. It can scan either filenames or contents. The filename scan features a fuzzy matching algorithm that can find duplicate filenames even when they are not exactly the same.

Good with music. It has a special Music mode that can scan tags and shows music-specific information in the duplicate results window.

Good with pictures. It has a special Picture mode that can scan pictures fuzzily, allowing you to find pictures that are similar, but not exactly the same.

Customizable. You can tweak its matching engine to find exactly the kind of duplicates you want to find. The Preference page of the help file lists all the scanning engine settings you can change.

Safe. Its engine has been especially designed with safety in mind. Its reference directory system as well as its grouping system prevent you from deleting files you didn’t mean to delete.

OpenShot Video Editor is an easy to use, quick to learn, and surprisingly powerful video editor.

It's designed to be easy to use, quick to learn, and surprisingly powerful. Some key features include:

• Cross-platform support: Works on Linux, Mac, and Windows.

• Video trimming: Easily cut and trim videos.

• Animation & keyframes: Add animations and keyframes to your projects.

• Layer support: Add multiple layers for watermarks, background videos, audio tracks, etc.

• Video effects: Remove backgrounds, adjust brightness, invert colors, and more.

• Audio visualization: Visualize audio files as waveforms.

• Title templates: Use templates or create custom titles.

• Playback control: Reverse, slow down, speed up, and animate playback speed.

• Drag and drop: Easily import video, audio, or images

Have you ever received a message from ChatGPT about sending too much data and needing to send a shorter text?

ChatGPT PROMPTs Splitter is an open-source tool designed to help you split long text prompts into smaller chunks, making them suitable for usage with ChatGPT (or other language models with character limitations).

The tool ensures that the text is divided into safe chunks of up to 15,000 characters per request as default, although can be changed.

The project includes an easy-to-use web interface for inputting the long text, selecting the maximum length of each chunk, and copying the chunks individually to paste them to ChatGPT.

Also works with other A.I systems where you exceed the prompt length

A New Kind of Instant Messaging

Whether it's corporations or governments, digital surveillance today is widespread.

Tox is easy-to-use software that connects you with friends and family without anyone else listening in.

While other big-name services require you to pay for features, Tox is completely free and comes without advertising — forever.

Betterbird is a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird, Thunderbird on steroids, if you will.

Betterbird is better than Thunderbird in three ways: It contains new features exclusive to Betterbird, it contains bug fixes exclusive to Betterbird and it contains fixes that Thunderbird may ship at a later stage.

KeePassDX is an open-source password manager for Android. It allows you to securely store and manage your passwords in a single encrypted file.

With KeePassDX, you can edit encrypted keys and digital identities, fill out forms securely, and ensure your data remains private.

The app is compatible with other KeePass products and offers a high level of security and interoperability.

The open source alternative to TeamViewer
RustDesk is a full-featured open source remote control alternative for self-hosting and security with minimal configuration.

Share files to nearby devices.
Free, open-source, cross-platform.

Project page: https://github.com/localsend/localsend

Edge Workspaces is an extension that replicates the Microsoft Edge Workspaces feature. It allows you to save the state of a window, including all open tabs, and reopen it later as a workspace.

Links to stores to download on project page

Kicksecure is a free and open-source Linux distribution that aims to provide a highly secure computing environment. It has been developed from the ground up according to a formidable -- and time proven -- defense in-depth security design. In the default configuration, Kicksecure provides superior layered defenses of protection from many types of Malware.

Kicksecure is a complete computer operating system designed. Numerous applications come pre-installed with safe defaults which can be used immediately upon installation with minimal user input.