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Bitwarden

Bitwarden Inc. · Secrets management

Open-source password manager with hosted and self-hosted server options, passkey support, organization sharing and a separate Secrets Manager for developers

AGPL-3.0-onlyFreemiumPaidLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

ComfyUI

Comfy Org · Voice, vision & multimodal AI

Open-source node-based interface and inference engine for diffusion and other generative models (image, video, audio, 3D), runnable locally with desktop apps or as a hosted cloud

GPL-3.0-onlyOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Cypress

Cypress.io · Testing & QA

End-to-end and component testing framework that runs tests inside the browser with an interactive runner, paired with the commercial Cypress Cloud

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Docker

Docker, Inc. · Containers & virtualization

In-depth entry

Container platform combining the Docker Engine runtime, the Compose and Build tooling, Docker Desktop for macOS and Windows, and the Docker Hub registry

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreemiumLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

draw.io

draw.io AG / JGraph Ltd · Design & prototyping

Free diagramming editor (formerly diagrams.net) for flowcharts, network, UML and architecture diagrams, available as web app, desktop app and integrations

Apache-2.0FreeOpen sourceLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

EViews

S&P Global (EViews) · Econometrics & causal inference

Commercial Windows econometrics package for time-series estimation, forecasting and macro modelling, sold as single-user, volume, University and free Student Lite editions

ProprietaryPaidAcademicLocalNov 2, 2026

exo

Exo Labs · Distributed & parallel computing

Open-source software that pools several Apple Silicon Macs (and Linux hosts) into one local inference cluster, sharding large models across devices with MLX

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

GitHub

GitHub (Microsoft) · Version control & code hosting

In-depth entry

Microsoft-owned code hosting platform for Git repositories with pull requests, issues, Actions CI/CD, package registry, Copilot and the largest open-source community

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

gretl

gretl developers (Allin Cottrell, Riccardo Lucchetti) · Econometrics & causal inference

Free, GPL-licensed cross-platform econometrics program with a GUI, the hansl scripting language and estimators for time series, panels and limited dependent variables

GPL-3.0-onlyFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

Hammerspoon

Hammerspoon contributors · macOS automation

Open-source macOS automation app that exposes system APIs to a Lua configuration file for hotkeys, window management and event-driven scripts

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Hoppscotch

Hoppscotch · API development & tooling

Open-source API client that runs in the browser or as a desktop app, supports REST, GraphQL and realtime protocols, and can be self-hosted for teams

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

JabRef

JabRef e.V. and contributors · Citation management

Open-source, BibTeX/biblatex-native reference manager for LaTeX users with online fetchers, groups, file linking and editor integration

MITFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

Karabiner-Elements

pqrs.org (Takayama Fumihiko) · macOS system utilities

Free, public-domain keyboard customizer for macOS that remaps keys and defines complex modifications through JSON rules at the driver level

UnlicenseOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

LM Studio

Element Labs, Inc. · Local LLM inference & serving

In-depth entry

Proprietary desktop app for discovering, downloading and running local LLMs with llama.cpp and MLX engines, a chat UI, an OpenAI-compatible server, CLI, SDKs and a headless daemon

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalBroken

MATLAB

MathWorks · Mathematical & statistical computing

MathWorks' commercial numeric computing environment and language for engineers and scientists, with toolboxes, Simulink integration, apps and MATLAB Online

ProprietaryPaidAcademicLocalNov 2, 2026

Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft · BI & dashboards

Microsoft's business-intelligence suite: free Windows Power BI Desktop for modeling and reports, and the Power BI service in Microsoft Fabric for sharing

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalBroken

Observable

Observable, Inc. · Notebooks & interactive computing

JavaScript data notebooks and the open-source Observable Framework static-site generator for data apps, from the maintainers of D3 and Plot

ISCFreemiumPaidLocalNov 2, 2026

Ollama

Ollama · Local LLM inference & serving

In-depth entry

Open-source runtime and model manager for running open-weight LLMs locally on macOS, Windows and Linux, with a REST API, OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints and optional cloud models

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Podman

Podman Container Tools (LF Projects) · Containers & virtualization

Daemonless, rootless container engine with a Docker-compatible CLI, companion Buildah and Skopeo tools and a Podman Desktop GUI

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Positron

Posit Software, PBC · Mathematical & statistical computing

Posit's multi-language data-science IDE built on Code OSS, with first-class R and Python consoles, variables and plots panes, under the Elastic License 2.0

Elastic-2.0FreeLocalNov 2, 2026

QGIS

QGIS.org association · GIS & mapping

In-depth entry

Open-source desktop GIS for viewing, editing, analysing and publishing vector and raster geodata, extensible with Python plugins

GPL-2.0-or-laterOpen sourceFreeLocalBroken

RStudio IDE

Posit Software, PBC · Mathematical & statistical computing

Posit's open-source integrated development environment for R, with console, editor, plots, environment panes, Quarto/R Markdown authoring and Python via reticulate

AGPL-3.0-onlyFreeOpen sourceLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Stata

StataCorp LLC · Mathematical & statistical computing

Commercial statistical software from StataCorp widely used in economics and social science, with editions BE/SE/MP, a command language, Mata and comprehensive PDF manuals

ProprietaryPaidAcademicLocalNov 2, 2026

Tableau

Salesforce · BI & dashboards

Salesforce's visual analytics platform: Tableau Desktop authoring (now with a free edition), Tableau Cloud and Server for sharing, and Tableau Next for CRM analytics

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

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