$0 Freeware/Open Source Hidden Gems

[pastrychef]

With inflation running rampant and the economy seemingly headed for a recession, I thought it would a good "deal" to talk about some great freeware/open source software.

Here are some of my favorites (in no particular order):

• Stats - This is an open source alternative to iStat Menus or Sensei. Perhaps not quite as polished as the commercial alternatives yet, but it's very good and improving regularly.
• SABnzbd - An awesome open source usenet newsgroup downloader. (Also check out Radarr and Sonarr, companion apps to help automate things.)
• ngPost - This is, by far, the best app I have ever found to post things to usenet newsgroups.
• Suspicious Package - This is a pkg inspector. It allows you to inspect what's in a pkg installer before actually launching the installer. It's an extremely useful tool to help you keep your Mac free of malware.
• Xplist - A cool open source plist editor.
• BlockBlock - This is an app that helps monitor if anything is being installed in persistent locations. A fantastic app to help keep your Mac malware-free.
• LuLu - Another great app from Objective-See. This is an excellent firewall.
• DIM (aka Desktop Icon Manager) - I'm a bit of a stickler and obsessive about where icons are on my desktop and this app will help keep them exactly where you expect them to be.

For some fun and games, here are some awesome emulators:

• RPCS3 - PS3 emulator.
• Dolphin - GameCube and Wii emulator.
• Ryujinx - Nintendo Switch emulator.
• DuckStation - PS1 emulator.
• * Honorable mention - AetherSX2 - PS2 emulator. This is a fantastic emulator. Unfortunately, the developer has suspended development.

What are your favorite freeware/open source apps?

 

[oli.mathieu]

Video/3D :

• Davinci Resolve (free version)
• Blender

Encoding :

• Handbrake
• ShutterEncoder

Playback :

• IINA

(De)Compress :

• Keka

Install :

• Pacifist
• Suspicious package

Remote access

• Anydesk

 

[Yomiro]

The best text/notepad editor.
VS Code

Terminal Emulator:
iTerm2

Uninstaller for Mac:
AppCleaner

FTP Client: (Free, No Nags, etc. I used to like CyberDuck)
Filezilla

 

[Stork]

Bean word processor > https://www.bean-osx.com/Bean.html

 

[pastrychef]

For those who have Apple Silicon Macs, there's a app called Mx Power Gadget that does pretty much exactly what Intel Power Gadget did for Intel Macs.

Get it free here:

https://www.seense.com/menubarstats/mxpg/

 

[thedocbwarren]

Will check this out!

 

[tedyun]

With inflation running rampant and the economy seemingly headed for a recession, I thought it would a good "deal" to talk about some great freeware/open source software.

Here are some of my favorites (in no particular order):

• Stats - This is an open source alternative to iStat Menus or Sensei. Perhaps not quite as polished as the commercial alternatives yet, but it's very good and improving regularly.
• SABnzbd - An awesome open source usenet newsgroup downloader. (Also check out Radarr and Sonarr, companion apps to help automate things.)
• ngPost - This is, by far, the best app I have ever found to post things to usenet newsgroups.
• Suspicious Package - This is a pkg inspector. It allows you to inspect what's in a pkg installer before actually launching the installer. It's an extremely useful tool to help you keep your Mac free of malware.
• Xplist - A cool open source plist editor.
• BlockBlock - This is an app that helps monitor if anything is being installed in persistent locations. A fantastic app to help keep your Mac malware-free.
• LuLu - Another great app from Objective-See. This is an excellent firewall.
• DIM (aka Desktop Icon Manager) - I'm a bit of a stickler and obsessive about where icons are on my desktop and this app will help keep them exactly where you expect them to be.

For some fun and games, here are some awesome emulators:

• RPCS3 - PS3 emulator.
• Dolphin - GameCube and Wii emulator.
• Ryujinx - Nintendo Switch emulator.
• DuckStation - PS1 emulator.
• * Honorable mention - AetherSX2 - PS2 emulator. This is a fantastic emulator. Unfortunately, the developer has suspended development.

What are your favorite freeware/open source apps?

I've been really getting into Obsidian. It's a note-taking program that is highly customizable.

Zotero is a reference manager that is originally designed for researchers to catalog peer-reviewed journal articles, but can also be used to store web articles, images and other web-clippings

 

[tonymacx86]

There's a similar thread to this one here, however extremely dated:

Share your favorite Mac OS X software

Perhaps some people building osx86 machines from scratch are new to OS X in general. I thought I would share some of my favorite software to get you productive in your new desktop. Please share as well! 1. Fluid - http://fluidapp.com - This one allows creating SSBs (Single Site Browsers) for...

www.tonymacx86.com

 

[guindillas]

With inflation running rampant and the economy seemingly headed for a recession, I thought it would a good "deal" to talk about some great freeware/open source software.

Here are some of my favorites (in no particular order):

• Stats - This is an open source alternative to iStat Menus or Sensei. Perhaps not quite as polished as the commercial alternatives yet, but it's very good and improving regularly.
• SABnzbd - An awesome open source usenet newsgroup downloader. (Also check out Radarr and Sonarr, companion apps to help automate things.)
• ngPost - This is, by far, the best app I have ever found to post things to usenet newsgroups.
• Suspicious Package - This is a pkg inspector. It allows you to inspect what's in a pkg installer before actually launching the installer. It's an extremely useful tool to help you keep your Mac free of malware.
• Xplist - A cool open source plist editor.
• BlockBlock - This is an app that helps monitor if anything is being installed in persistent locations. A fantastic app to help keep your Mac malware-free.
• LuLu - Another great app from Objective-See. This is an excellent firewall.
• DIM (aka Desktop Icon Manager) - I'm a bit of a stickler and obsessive about where icons are on my desktop and this app will help keep them exactly where you expect them to be.

For some fun and games, here are some awesome emulators:

• RPCS3 - PS3 emulator.
• Dolphin - GameCube and Wii emulator.
• Ryujinx - Nintendo Switch emulator.
• DuckStation - PS1 emulator.
• * Honorable mention - AetherSX2 - PS2 emulator. This is a fantastic emulator. Unfortunately, the developer has suspended development.

What are your favorite freeware/open source apps?

I didn't know Ryujinx for MacOS was released.

And like Suspicious Package, good discovery.

I can recommend MacmouseFIX it helps, with secondary buttons, invert the wheel, and a lot of functions.

And the apps from this GUY

 

[pastrychef]

I just discovered Mounty. It allows for writing to NTFS partitions.