thesanjithkumar / awesome-oss

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

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)!

You don't have to be a developer to contribute to your favorite open source projects. Check out this great guide to learn more about other ways you can contribute.

Contents

• Audio Editors
• Audio Players
• Documents
• Developer Tools
• Email
• Foundations
• FTP Clients
• Graphics
• Multimedia
• Networking
• OS/Distributions
• Other
• Password Managers
• 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
  
• 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
  
• Git - distributed version control system
  
• GitLab - web-based Git repository manager with wiki and issue tracking features
  
• 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
  
• PuTTy - free and open-source terminal emulator
  
• Rancher - a complete container management platform
  
• Refine - an open source React-based framework for building CRUD apps
  
• 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
  

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 program
  
• The Document Foundation - non-profit organization that promotes open-source document handling software
  
• Django Software Foundation - non-profit organization to promote, support, and advance the Django Web framework
  
• Eclipse Foundation not-for-profit corporation that acts as the steward of Eclipse
  
• Electronic Frontier Foundation - international non-profit digital rights group
  
• Free Software Foundation - non-profit organization to support the free software movement
  
• GNOME Foundation - non-profit organization that coordinates the efforts in the GNOME project
  
• Internet Archive - non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 306 billion archived web pages
  
• JS Foundation - supports some of the most important projects in the JavaScript ecosystem
  
• KDE e.V. - non-profit organization that represents the KDE community in the legal and financial entities
  
• Mozilla Foundation - non-profit organization that exists to support and collectively lead the open source Mozilla project
  
• Open Source Initiative - non-profit organization dedicated to promoting open-source software
  
• Open Whisper Systems - organization that focuses on the development of the Signal Protocol
  
• OpenBSD Foundation - non-for-profit corporation, supporting OpenBSD and related projects
  
• OpenStreetMap Foundation - not-for-profit company which supports the OpenStreetMap project
  
• Perl Foundation - non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of Perl through discussion, collaboration, design, and code
  
• Privacy Guides - non-profit, socially motivated website that provides information for protecting your data security and privacy
  
• Python Software Foundation - non-profit organization devoted to the Python programming language
  
• Ruby Central - non-profit organization dedicated to support and advocacy for the Ruby programming language
  
• Software Freedom Conservancy - not-for-profit charity that helps promote, improve, develop, and defend Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects
  
• Tor Project - not-for-profit organization that is responsible for maintaining software for the Tor anonymity network
  
• VideoLAN - non-profit organization that develops and promotes open-source multimedia solutions
  
• Wikimedia Foundation - a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual, educational content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge
  
• X.Org Foundation - non-profit corporation chartered to research, develop, support, organize, administrate, standardize, promote, and defend a free and open accelerated graphics stack
  

FTP Clients

• Cyberduck - client for FTP and SFTP, WebDAV, and cloud storage
  
• FileZilla - cross-platform FTP application
  
• WinSCP - SFTP, FTP, WebDAV and SCP client for Microsoft Windows
  

Graphics

• Blender - 3D Creation Software
  
• Caesium Image Compressor - advanced compression tool for photos and images (JPG, PNG, GIF)
  
• FreeCAD - general purpose parametric 3D CAD modeler
  
• GIMP - raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks
  
• ImageMagick - software suite for displaying, converting, and editing raster image and vector image files
  
• Inkscape - vector graphics editor
  
• Krita - raster graphics editor designed primarily for digital painting and animation purpose
  
• LibreCAD - Computer-aided design application for 2D design
  
• Pinta - program for drawing and image editing
  

Multimedia

• Kodi - media player software application
  
• Media Player Classic - light-weight media player for Windows
  
• MPlayer - media player software
  
• SMPlayer - cross-platform graphical front-end for MPlayer
  
• VLC - cross-platform multimedia player and framework
  

Networking

• Apache - cross-platform web server software
  
• Firezone - self-hosted WireGuard® based VPN Server & Firewall
  
• FreeNAS - Network Attached Storage software
  
• Let's Encrypt - free, automated, and open Certificate Authority
  
• Nextcloud - self-hosted file sync and share and communication app platform
  
• Nginx - HTTP and mail proxy server
  
• Nmap - Security Scanner, Port Scanner, & Network Exploration Tool
  
• OpenNIC - user owned and controlled Network Information Center; alternative DNS network
  
• OpenSSH - a suite of security-related network-level utilities based on the Secure Shell protocol
  
• OpenWRT - project for embedded operating system based on Linux, primarily used on embedded devices to route network traffic
  
• OPNsense - an open source, easy-to-use and easy-to-build FreeBSD based firewall and routing platform
  
• ownCloud - self-hosted file sync and share app platform
  
• pfSense - a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD specifically tailored for use as a firewall and router that is entirely managed via web interface
  
• Remmina - feature rich Remote Desktop Application
  
• sshuttle - Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN
  
• Syncthing - peer-to-peer file synchronization
  
• Tribler - Privacy enhanced BitTorrent client with P2P content discovery
  
• WireGuard - fast, modern and secure VPN tunnel
  
• Wireshark - packet analyzer
  

OS/Distributions

• Android-X86 - an unofficial initiative to port Google's Android mobile operating system to run on devices powered by AMD and Intel x86 processors
  
• Arch Linux - a lightweight and flexible Linux distribution
  
• CentOS - a Linux distribution that attempts to provide a free, enterprise-class, community-supported computing platform functionally compatible with its upstream source
  
• Debian - a Unix-like computer operating system that is composed entirely of free software
  
• Fedora - a Linux distriibution developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat
  
• FreeBSD - free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from Research Unix via the Berkeley Software Distribution
  
• Kubuntu - an official flavour of the Ubuntu operating system which uses the KDE Plasma Desktop
  
• LineageOS - successor to the popular CyanogenMod ROM
  
• Linux - an operating system kernel released by Linus Torvalds
  
• Linux Mint - a community-driven Linux distribution based on Debian and Ubuntu
  
• NixOS - Purely Functional Linux Distribution
  
• OpenBSD - Unix-like computer operating system descended from Berkeley Software Distribution
  
• openSUSE - a Linux-based project and distribution sponsored by SUSE Linux GmbH and other companies
  
• postmarketOS - a Linux-Based, LTS OS For Android Phones
  
• Slackware - The oldest maintained Linux distribution geared towards power and stability
  
• Ubuntu Linux - a Linux distribution based on the Debian architecture
  
• Xubuntu - an official flavour of the Ubuntu operating system which uses the XFCE desktop environment
  

Other

• AWStats - free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically
  
• Common Voice - open and publicly available dataset of voices
  
• Dub - alternative to Bitly
  
• FreedomBox - a community project to develop, design and promote personal servers running free software for distributed social networking, email and audio/video communications
  
• GnuPG - encrypt and sign data and communication
  
• Huginn - a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online
  
• MediaWiki - wiki software
  
• MyCroft - Voice Assistant
  
• OpenSSL - project that provides a robust, commercial-grade, and full-featured toolkit for TLS & SSL
  
• OpenStreetMap - collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world
  
• Radicale - CalDAV and CardDAV Server
  
• Stockfish Chess - UCI chess engine
  
• Tyk - open source API gateway
  
• VeraCrypt - disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux
  
• Yacy - P2P Search Engine
  
• ZoneMinder - state-of-the-art video surveillance software system
  

Password Managers

• Bitwarden - password manager
  
• KeePass - password manager
  
• KeeWeb - cross-platform password manager compatible with KeePass
  
• Password Safe - password manager
  
• Pass - Standard Unix Password Manager
  

Social

• Mastodon - social network server
  
• Matrix - open network for secure, decentralized communication
  
• Pidgin - a universal instant messaging (IM) program
  
• HexChat - IRC client based on XChat
  
• Rocket.Chat - the ultimate webchat platform
  
• Talk - alternative to Disqus
  
• WeeChat - fast, light and extensible chat client
  

Text Editors

• Atom - a hackable text editor for the 21st century, built on Electron,
  
• Code::Blocks - cross-platform IDE that supports multiple compilers including GCC, Clang and Visual C++
  
• Emacs (GNU) - extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor
  
• Kate Editor - a text editor developed by the KDE free software community
  
• Nano - a text editor for Unix-like computing systems or operating environments using a command line interface
  
• Notepad++ - a notepad replacement that supports several languages
  
• Treehouse - a lightweight outliner app you can use in the browser or to build your own custom application.
  
• Vim - a greatly improved version of the good old UNIX editor Vi
  
• Visual Studio Code - a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications
  

Video Software

• Avidemux - video editing program designed for video editing and video processing
  
• HandBrake - a GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder
  
• KdenLive - a video editing software based on the MLT Framework, KDE and Qt
  
• Open Broadcaster Software - streaming and recording program maintained by the OBS Project
  
• OpenShot Video Editor - a video editor for FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, and Windows
  
• Shotcut - a free, open source, cross-platform video editor
  
• VirtualDub - free video tool for basic editing and encoding, including batch processing, mainly geared to AVI files
  

Web Browsers

• Brave - an open source browser project with priority on speed and privacy based on Chromium
  
  
• Chromium - an open-source web browser project started by Google
  
• Falkon - a lightweight multiplatform web browser written in Qt Framework and using its web rendering engine QtWebEngine
  
• Midori - A lightweight browser using the WebKit rendering engine
  
• Mozilla Firefox - web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation
  
• NetSurf - web browser which uses its own layout engine
  
• PaleMoon - web browser with an emphasis on customizability
  
• qutebrowser - a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI
  
• SeaMonkey - Internet suite
  
• Tor Browser - a version of Mozilla Firefox that has been modified by the Tor Project for enhanced security and privacy
  
• Uzbl - a lightweight webkit browser following the UNIX philosophy