DaVinci Resolve is professional grade video editing software that's completely free to use. It lacks some features that the paid version has but this probably doesn't effect the vast majority of casual users.
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Anki flash cards. I use it everyday and commercial programs can't hold a candle to it.
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- 7-zip
- VLC
- Signal
- Currency
- Handbrake
- Fennec (in lieu of Firefox)
Those are the free ones I use very frequently at least, I'm sure there's more.
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F-droid is amazing and distributes amazing software that many people already mentioned.
In order to write software, developers need software. I think we should also mention the GNU packages and LLVM.
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Right now, it's Calibre because I just got a Kobo eBook reader and it's so great to be able to install pretty much any format of book onto my device and convert it if it's a format the device can't use. And even convert it if the book works better in a different format.
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Kodi—It can connect to a media source via FTP, so I was able to effortlessly connected it to my online storage to download shows and movies from it to watch on the fly, and on my TV no less. Without that, it'd be a huge pain just to get the file onto my TV.
SmartTube—It's an ad-free YouTube video app for Android TVs, and it has Sponsorblock included. You could say it's YouTube Vanced for Android TVs.
Discord bots—I've setup my own personal Discord server (no other humans allowed in it) and set it up with various bots that do things ranging from posting tweets/ posts from Twitter/ Bluesky to letting me know when specific channels have uploaded a new video on YouTube or gone live on Twitch. I've also got another bot monitoring some RSS feeds.
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systemd
I miss when apps were specific to phones and we kept desktop computers out of it.
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Not an app, but a whole ass OS.
Fedora. Switched to Linux full time over a year ago, after years and years and years (like... 06/07?) of dabbling. It blows my mind how polished and wonderful it is to use. It's completely everything I need, and it always blows my mind that it's fucking free
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Stremio + torrentio plug-in.
My wife and I haven't paid for a subscription in 5 years and watch everything we want
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Kodi
Lithium EPUB reader
NAPS2. I go paperless as much as possible, but still have to scan stuff sometimes. It's the GOAT for scanning.
KiCad. It's an electronics design tool on par with commercial options in the industry, which cost a ton of money. Ever since the UI facelift it got a few years ago, it has become my go-to option. They are even working on integrating circuit simulation and finite element analysis, which is just crazy.
There are some excellent apps already listed that I won't repeat, but I'll add FFmpeg. Not sure it's quite what you're after, but it's incredible.
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Windows
- MPV - Video Player
- DaVinci Resolve - Best Free Video Editor
- Audacity - Audio Recorder
- TeraCopy - File Copy Tool
- Rufus, BalenaEtcher, Ventoy - Bootable USB Creator
- Wireguard, OpenVPN - VPN Client
- ShutterEncoder - Media Converter
- Revo Uninstaller - App Uninstaller
- Throttlestop - CPU Tweaker
- Peace, EqualizerAPO - Audio Equalizer
- Voicemeter - Virtual Audio Mixer
- Qbittorrent - Torrent Client
- Raindrop - Bookmark Manager
Android
- Aegis - Authenticator
- Wireguard - VPN Client
- NextDNS Manager - DNS Manager
- MPV - Video Player
- NewPipe, GrayJay, LibreTube - YouTube Client
- FUTU Voice Input
- FUTO Keyboard
- Aves Gallery
- Delta Icon Pack
- K9 Mail - Mail Client
- QKSMS+ - SMS App
- Perplexity Ai - GPT
- Wavelet - Audio Equalizer
- SafeSpace - Encrypted Vault
- AppOps - App Permission Manager
- Shizuku - Required by AppOps
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I dislike the implication that the most useful apps are not free.
I always feel more comfortable using FOSS software, even if it doesn't look as nice as the commercial option.
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OnlyOffice. Great office suite. Also any app from FUTO