10 FREE PROGRAMS That Should Be On EVERY PC!
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
- Over the years we’ve shown you numerous free alternatives to expensive software. Now it’s time to reveal the absolute best in various categories. In this video, we’ll share with you 10 of our favorite free programs that we think should be on every computer. All are feature-rich with most being available on all three of the major platforms Windows, MacOS and Linux. Near the end of this video, we’ll have 2 bonus programs for advanced users to check out as well.
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• Beginners Guide Tutorials
0:00 Intro
0:30 Internet Browser
1:21 Office Suite
2:02 Screen Capture
2:35 Screen Recorder
3:17 Media Player
3:41 Antivirus/Malware
4:27 Password Manager
5:02 Image Editor
5:30 Vector Graphics Editor
5:59 Video Editor
6:54 3D Computer Graphics Toolset
7:30 Virtualization Software
Bitdefender Antivirus Free
www.bitdefender.com/solutions...
Bitwarden
bitwarden.com/
Blender
www.blender.org/
DaVinci Resolve
www.blackmagicdesign.com/prod...
GIMP
www.gimp.org/
Inkscape
inkscape.org/
LibreOffice
www.libreoffice.org/
MalwareBytes Free
www.malwarebytes.com/
OBS Studio
obsproject.com/
ShareX
getsharex.com/
Thunderbird
www.thunderbird.net/
VirtualBox
www.virtualbox.org/
Vivaldi
vivaldi.com/
VLC
www.videolan.org/vlc/
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Thanks for watching! What free programs do you use that you think are great?
Free Download Manager - Not a single download failed, even if your net connection goes off, or you shutdown your pc in between downloads, or download links expired it can resume every single download you can change links if they are expired as well it'll resume from where it was stopped.
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Sandeep Kandpal what stuff
AutoHotkey, the ultimate programming language for automatisation
You're the GOAT
Ayy got a new pc for my grandmother, let’s install Blender and OBS in her computer
Specs reveal?
@@lucid4851 intel core duo with 4gb ddr3 ram and a 460Gb HDD 5200rpm
@@dovbaeb grandma got that drip
Make sure you install davince resolve 16 for editing the videos
Kraken gang
Notepad++ is a great alternative to Notepad. Its is very for editing text files and coding in many programming languages.
VS Code Studio is a whole other level about Notepad++
i always forget notepad++ isnt the standard
If you are saving passwords either on your computer or on a scrap of paper, come up with some convention that is only known to you. i.e. The 5th digit is always replaced with an '$' in the real password. This way anyone obtaining access to your list of passwords won't be able to use them, regardless of where you have them stored.
Unless you have like 2 or 3 accounts, that's very time-consuming, though. If you can keep it up, fine, but most of us would end up repeating passwords because it's too much work. The point of a password manager is to easily store and use different, strong, difficult to remember passwords backed with a single strong master password that is stored in a secure location, or nowhere.
Having a trusted password manager is still a better solution. Emphasis on _trusted._ I like the idea that the password data is encrypted at rest so that even the employees at Bitwarden (supposedly) can not read it. (but there's that _trust_ issue again)
@@uncaboat2399 Indeed, the good thing about Bitwarden is that if you don’t trust their service, you can always download, inspect and install it on your own server, as it’s open source.
Cool password:!*$()√[√♀™\£♂∆¿℃♂¢¢[™[¢【¢¿
@@floatingbeans Yah OK, but I dare you to remember it next week.
The best thing about watching your video randomly is that your list of programs has been my favorite for years. And, even better, to know that the tips I gave other people about these programs have their point of view too. Good job!
"Over the years..." Yes, you have. Thanks again. I look forward to seeing if there's something I've missed. There usually is.👍 I appreciate your work.
Great video! I'm already familiar with several of your picks as being some of the best available for free, and you certainly showed me some I hadn't heard of before.
Thank you, going to check out all 10 of the programs. I appreciate you sharing with all of us.
Thanks for providing this info. I use a few of these programs and will check out the other as well.
2nd for NotePad++ text editor, record/play keystrokes, edits vertically, plugins, and language support
Only that most people have 0 use for that. If you want to do coding or open insanely large files, definitely have it, but otherwise...
Libre office love! I used to use open office but something happened with it I'm not even sure and I eventually switched to Libre office. It's great.
Yea i agree Apache OpenOffice was great for sometime, but now i get a message about my trial being over.. they decided to not have it be free anymore it seems
My free password manager is a notepad document
Post-it notes are better for sticking under the keyboard.
Saved with the file name of "Family Picnic Pix?"
@@uncleelias Decades ago I was a night guard in a banking HQ. 100% mainframe and the official policy was for all keyboards to be flipped over after shut down and all mice to go into a locked desk drawer. Yes, many passwords were written on post-it's then stuck on the bottom side of the keyboards. My partner and I used to speculate what time frame we'd need to transfer enough money to a foreign bank so we'd never had to return to the U.S.. It was harmless fantasy as we were both boring and honest, but entertaining.
@@danielburgess7785
Make the first line
123456JFIF
Many programs will claim it is an image file.
Bury it in a VeraCrypt container, and..There ya go. Only need 1 password in yer head!
Great Work TG~Another must watch vid, many thanks
One of the best videos I've ever seen. Thanks, be blessed!
I use half of these, wasn't aware of the others. Heard of OBS Studio, but didn't know much about it. Hadn't heard of ShareX, Bitwarden or Davinci Resolve. I use LastPass as my password manager, but now I'll be looking at some comparison literature due to a clear price difference. Thanks for the information!
Well produced and quite useful. Thanks for posting the video.
Thank you for the informative video. I use most of these softwares. I'll try out the rest of the list.
Thanks for these videos, nice work as always
"Vivaldi 3.1 for Windows."
For a split of a second I read that in my head as Vivaldi for Windows 3.1.
With DosBox, I installed Windows 3.1 on my computer, just to show my young-adult children what Windows looked like when they were toddlers.
I had to do a double take also...I thought it was windows 3.11
lol same
@@rhomis i did that too, im not very old, but im very interested in the older systems. Got a V-Box machine with win. 3.11 on it, and even managed to install various drivers on it, heck i even got internet with IExplorer 5.01 working on it. Not many pages load, but google does :p
i use Opera, it's from the "same" company (they split years ago)
came across this video by chance,i rarely subscribe but now have done. love the no nonsense honest approach.Thank you guys.I have an old desktop pc which is due for a new hard drive so i'll be adding several of these programs.
Norm cap - Open source utility to snip text from a photo. Works flawlessly like snipping tool & I use often for code.
Keypose - To show which key on keyboard you press on the screen.
Proprietary- Fast duplicate file finder - As the name says in case you have so many duplicate photos or songs scattered across hard drive.
Every video of yours is a nugget of knowledge. And your unique style of delivering it is super awesome. Thank you. Keep it up! I am your fan👏👏
i remember your channel having like 30000 sub, congrats man! didn't even realize
Audacity for audio file editing. Free and fairly easy to use.
I've been using Vivaldi since roughly 2 years and I do higly recommend it, I already have most of the software presented here like gimp, davinci resolve and although I don't use it, I've always seen obs beeing recommended by streamer over the rest. Good list.
VLC is a fantastic programme. Been using it a long time. Flexibility and the ability to play higher resolution video is great. Have never ever had even a hiccup from it!
VLC is by far the best media software I have used.
Yes
And it also plays almost any type of video file.
If VLC can't play it it can't be played.
And also the conversion abilities are very nice.
You clearly haven't used MadVR
mpc is faster for most purposes
MPC-HC and mpv are leagues better. I wish UA-camrs would stop recommending VLC. Open a video in VLC and the same video in either MPC-HC or mpv and see the difference. MPC-HC and mpv, especially mpv, have a much smoother interface as well.
Thank you for such great info.
Thanks for the WONDERFUL info🤗👍🏻.
People sleep on Enpass for password management. No external server to sync to. It just syncs to your gdrive or whatever cloud service you use.
very usefull software, thank you. I would add macrium reflect for free backup software.
Thanks a lot, very useful
Great Info, Thank You!
Finally! I really miss this series haha
money back guarantee- I'll give you back the same 0 dollars, man that was hilarious.
Thank you! Vivaldi is what I need now to manage my browsing tabs!
Awsome video. Thanks for all your work on this. Surprised there was no mention of open office which is also open source and insulated word/excel to a T.
Tab tiling sold me on Vivaldi - Love it !!!
Thanks for the video :-) 👍
Thanks for your efforts.
Great tips tks
Instead of VLC I would recommend MPC-HC (for windows) or MPV (multiplatform) with MadVR. For the odd video here and there, VLC will do the job, and it can play even a lot of corrupted files, but it often doesn't look anywhere near as good as it can with those alternatives.
For video conversion, the two I recommend are Handbrake and FFMPEG. The former is a GUI program with it's own converter backbone. It's relatively easy and simple to use. Downside is that it can only output in MP4 and MKV, which isn't really a downside for most people as those are two of the most used formats. But if you want to output to say webm or whatever, you would be better off using FFMPEG. Downside of FFMPEG is it is CLI based, meaning no gui. If this isn't a problem for you, you will find it is very powerful on what you can do with files. Like being able to turn a bunch of images into a video, convert gif to webm or concatenate files. Most GUI converters tend to use FFMPEG as their backbone, but in my experience I tended to have issues with them, usually with the resulting files having audio desync or subtitle problems. FFMPEG itself would output correct files, but the GUI programs did not. Which is why I like handbrake so much.
For anti-virus, you're probably better off just using the built in defender, with the occasional scan with something like malwarebytes as a second opinion, and for files you think might be suspicious, scan them with virus-total. It scans the file with a lot of different scanners and tells you if they detected anything.
For image editing, I would recommend Paint.net. I have both it and GIMP installed, and while I tend to go for GIMP, it's mostly because of habit. I haven't looked at what one can do that the other can't so it's worth checking out both.
Speaking of images, I recommend Irfanview for actually viewing images. I've been using the program for years, ever since the Vista days.
For searching, I recommend Everything by Voidtools. It indexes your hard drives and so when you search for something it returns the result instantaneously as you type. Way faster than the built in. Supposedly you can configure the windows search to index the whole hard drive, but it still often tries to search inside of many files even when what you need is to find it based on filename which is what most people tend to need when they are looking for a file.
For archives, I recommend 7-zip, which most people probably have heard of. Of course you can use winrar, but 7-zip doesn't nag you about your trial ending every time you open it up.
For music I always use Foobar2000. It's a highly customizable player that can play pretty much any music file you throw at it. I recommend using the Columns UI plugin.
I also recommend qttabbar. What it does is it gives windows explorer extra features like tab support and the ability to launch programs from a little menu icon. I use the menu for batch files, which lets me do tasks in the current folder as if I had moved the batch file to that folder and executed it.
I do a lot of tasks which require renaming files and for that there are three recommendations. QTTabbar has a rename option built in. However for more advanced features there is bulk rename utility as well as ADV renamer. I typically go for Bulk Rename Utility.
For PDFs I use SumatraPDF. It's a PDF reader that's snappy and it can do tabbed reading.
If you are interested in comic book archives (cbz/cbr files), then I recommend YACReader. Comic book archives are just regular archives with a cbz (zip files) or cbr (rar files) extension, but it's a convenient and flexible way to store comics, manga chapters/books, or other groups of images. YACReader can even give the cbz/cbr files a proper thumbnail.
Some people recommend WinDIRstat to visualize what is taking up all of your space, but I recommend Wiztree. Wiztree can do what Windirstat, but it does it way faster since Windirstat scans the drive folder by folder, while Wiztree scans using the MFT.
Here's a vital one for many people. It's called Unchecky. Many installers include extra software, much of which is unwanted crapware. Typically the user can opt-out, but many do not and some may not know how to. Unchecky detects these "offers" and defaults them to opt-out. I still recommend not just skipping through the installer (not picking custom install, or pressing next without paying attention), but Unchecky should stop most of the crapware that software bundles.
I recommend Testdisk as well. You may at some point suffer a hard drive failure, or accidentally delete a file and something like testdisk then becomes necessary. I recommend this program because in my experience it was able to recover things that other programs couldn't.
If you're comfortable with command line, there's not one, but at least three package managers for windows. They are Chocolatey, Scoop, and Winget. Package managers can make installing programs way more convenient. Downloading and executing an installer is fine, but the syntax for installing said program can often be very simple and therefore quicker and it also allows you to install the program unattended. Furthermore, you can create scripts to install them on other computers you use. Say you have to reinstall windows for some reason or another. You just execute your script file and it will install all of the things you mentioned. For those uncomfortable with the command line, Chocolatey has a GUI program as well. The three package managers can also coexist with each other, so it might be worth it to try all three out. Also, the package managers avoid crapware packaged in with installers.
There's another option for those uncomfortable with the command line and that option is called Ninite. Ninite isn't a program, it's a website with a repository of programs. You select which programs you want and it will create a web installer that when opened will install those programs unattended, avoiding crapware they may have. The selection is way smaller than the package managers, but many of the most recommended programs are on the list. Also, you can just open the web installer that you made to update the apps it installed.
Thank you so much, TechGumbo. Vivaldi IS fantastic and so is Thunderbird, which is my default email client. PotPlayer is my default media player, because it's just as good as VLC media player but less complicated to use.
If you like to watch movies and tv shows, then use MPC-HC & madVR for your media player. Look on the Wikipedia page for MPC-HC for a link to the forum page where it's actively deceloped. MadVR is an output module. It has better chroma upscaling algorithms, artifact removal filters, automatic black bar removal for ultrawide monitors, it can be configured to change the refresh rate of your monitor to match the video for smother playback, it can be set to either tonemap HDR content to SDR, or send the HDR content straight to your display if it supports it, etc.
Great info on the software.
You are awesome buddy. Keep it up
Audacity (Audio Editor), CDBurnerXP (CD/DVD/ISO burner equivalent to Nero), Media Player Classic (Just as Good as VLC but Lighter on resources (in my experience) These are also FREE and Open-Source (except CDBurnerXP which is FREEWARE) all available for Linux and Windows..not so sure about Mac. I also use KeePass (Password Manager for all platforms including Android and ios)
MP3DirectCut is better than Audacity but it works only for MP3 files.
@@italixgaming915 and that's why i don't use that
thank you for this video!
Okay. Last one. Your followers are awesome. Calibre is great e-book organizer. Also you should make a video just on the hidden power of VLC. Like getting IPTV and other video sources online. Also how to set up a stream from one PC to another device with VLC...
Thanks buddy!
I missed using WinAmp..🥺
I still use it. :)
I still use it.
Winamp... it really work the horses ass....😂😂😂
It's sad it's discontinued. I'm using AIMP now. Not the same, but the best alternative I've tried so far.
Best video ever...thank you so much bro it's was so usefull
Great video! Thanks 🙏
Excellent video as ever. Videoclip is great for downloading videos/mp3 from UA-cam and other sites. Free and easy to use. I tried Share X but i prefer Monosnap cause it got a better screen recorder.
Where can I download Videoclip to try?
Good list.
Great Video Thank You Man
Nice list! 😁👍
Really like shotcut for video editing, its very light on resources
I never miss your video whenever you uploaded
Great video, thank you.
Thats great! Thanks
Kodi is far and away the best media management software I have ever used. Not just for add-ons that are available.
Vivaldi stems from Opera, and Opera was, as far as i know, the first browser to have tab stacking. That was over 10 years ago.
Yeah they added it in version 11.00 which was in December 2010 and I don't know any other browser beforehand. Unfortunately Opera dumped the feature when they switched over to Chromium in 2013 and haven't added it back, their browser has really gone down the gurgler since then. Thank Tetzchner for keeping the old spirit of Opera alive in Vivaldi, I don't know what browser I'd be using if it wasn't around.
Thank You very much
Cool well done thanks friend
If you want to do scientific computing look at octave.
Kicad is good for doing electronics.
Audacity is good for working with audio using a GUI.
For Linux "wine" is very useful because it allows you to run all well written windows programs.
7zip - Free archiving tool that handles a zip files that everyone uses but also offers 7z files that result in smaller compressed files
I never understood people still using WinRAR...
Amid HMI
You guys use 7zip? Nah I use Windows Explorer
Thanks for all the great programs.
Thank you!
I love those vids!
I can vouch for Inkscape. My graphic design teacher let me use it because she knows, as well as I, the pain of Adobe products.
Amogus
Thankyou so much
Thanks for sharing. Big 👍 Stay safe, Joe Z
Real raw choice of free utilities!
I smashed the like button like you said, but now I need a screen repaired...
Great video 👍
I can't back Davinci Resolve enough - the only issue I have with it is that it can't open mkv files, which means I have to convert any such files into a supported format before I can edit them (but this almost exclusively happens when downloading HD movies online for use in fan-edits).
As usual you are always brilliant
NVDA - a free software available for Windows - replaces by far Windows' Narrator - the screen reader that helps blind people to use the computer. Also, for a MIDI editor, I'd recomend QWS or Quick Windows Sequencer, a very accessible program to help musicians out there. (And that was my small contribution with apps based on sound in a visual world.)
Tech Gumbo, my fav channel. Kindly do a best various apps for those of us who due to cercumstances we are running low end systems and get everyone on board. Many thanks, Paul, Kenya.
Thanks for sharing.
Its more than 10 software.
Any advice thesedays there are practically everything asking you to download apps on android. It will take a toll on storage. Wished someone can make it an cloud version so we don't crowd our android desktop screen with so many apps.
blender was a high learning curve. but you've got to see the latest one which is much user friendly out there
Switched to Vivaldi a while ago, never looked back since
I've been very happy with Vivaldi for a couple of years now. The tab stacks alone make it a great browser. That's a feature I always miss if I have to use Chrome.
Panopreter Basic for text to speech conversion. It takes up very little space and works amazingly fast, with good accuracy.
I chose GIMP and Inkscape as alternatives, basically because Adobe moved to a subscription-based service (although when they were individual products they were too expensive for me anyway), but while they're very advanced for being free software, they're way less user-friendly as well. - I can't figure out how to do the most basic things, like copying and pasting a selection into another image, without having weird side-effects in GIMP, or creating simple shapes at certain angles without messing things up in Inkscape. - And I've seen people say things like "You need to learn how to use the tool like playing an instrument.". - No, that's not the same at all. A software-tool should be convenient and intuitive and NOT require a whole guide to learn how to do basic stuff. And it's also not the same as learning how to play something like guitar, like I have done for hours a day for TWENTY YEARS. I should be able to boot up a program and do basic stuff almost immediately by looking at it. That's what a TOOL is for, it's NOT an instrument. - I feel like you give up the refinement and logic for free programs like these.
It's also kinda ironic, because I went with free alternatives because I won't use them all that much, yet they're much less user-friendly and definitely for those who are more serious and will put in the time to learn all the tiny ins and outs of the software. I just can't invest that because all I want to do is fairly simple things and not do giant projects or very involved stuff. Why can't I find software to simply cut and paste selections??... It was fairly simple in Photoshop. If you're gonna copy Photoshop, make it similar.
I agree, i HATE gimp because even the easiest and most intuitive things like a simple color or copy paste i need an extensive tutorial for and i forget it by the next time i would use it.
What about Canva? I've found that pretty easy.
I use GIMP and LibreOffice; both are very good programs that I have recommended to friends, and have had very good success with both of them. I'd like to try out some of the others on this list, though.
GIMP is absolutely horrid. - It's still the only "Photoshop"-alternative that I have and use, cause I refuse to use Adobe (or at least to get a subscription), but I don't even understand how to simply copy and paste a selection into a new image without all kinds of weirdness going on. - It's like they never finished the software and it just feels like it's decades old. - I suppose the refinement is what you give up when it's free software, but come on, the most basic stuff is painfully complicated. Shouldn't have to go and find instructions to do basic stuff that should be intuitive. That's the problem, it's unintuitive, like a LOT of this type of software is. Inkscape as well... I use that. I don't know how to use it, because it's a pain in the ass, but that's what I have.
GIMP or Photoshop are very similar. They’re for complicated work. I agree that their big flaw is that the basic functionality is dreadful. I always revert to Paint or MS Picture manager.
I been using Apache Open Office it very good to use.
VLC player converts flac audio files to mp3 as well.
Notepad++
WinDirStat
FastStone Image Viewer
mp3DirectCut
7-Zip
MPC-HC
uTorrent 1.8.2
Sysinternals Autoruns
Format Factory
Thanks. Any good free photo editor for Mac? Thanks? :)
I have 5 Operating system installed on my Hard drives, and use Grub 2 to choose which Operating System I want run! No virtual box thing
Please do a video on some free and good pdf editors.
Yes Please!!!!
I wonder why nobody ever mentions the Opera browser? With the built in add blocker I NEVER see adds in UA-cam. That alone makes it the best browser in my opinion. Not to mention built in VPN and tracker blocking.
I've used Opera for many years - always loved it. Along with the built-in ad blocker I also run a custom script and see no ads in anything. I've used nearly every browser out there at some point and always go back to Opera.
Opera was taken over & after version 12 can't be trusted (web search should why not to use it). The original developers of opera who left after the take over are the makers of vivaldi
@@scorpnz4433 Like everything else on the planet these days, whether Opera can be trusted is up for debate with arguments on both sides.
Although Opera is Chromium-based, it sometimes has strange issues with certain websites.
k lite codec pack with mpc-hc is my fav media player for more than a decade.
Apache , php , mysql then install nextcloud
And you will have a Nas with users and add-ons and a password manager and lots more (Web apps are really good plus can be accessed from anywhere at any device)
Everything. I can't manage without it.
Was looking for someone to suggest this. :)
Audacity? has this been mentioned. free audio audio editor
Yep used it sometimes still but 15 years ago I started lol
LMMS is better but harder to get use to
Audacity is really good. But I like Ocen Audio's interface better. It just feels more modern. Plus, it installs with MP3 support.
It was mentioned in another video of his.
I use Greenshot for my Screen Capture program but I will test out ShareX. As for Anti-Virus, I currently use Avast and after watching your other video that called out CCleaner, I'm looking to replace that now. I also already use GIMP, Inkscape, DaVinchi Resolve and I have played with Blender in the past. As for the others, I also use OBS, VLC, and VirtualBox and they are still awesome programs. I have also used Thunderbird in the past and I highly recommend it to a Outlook alternative.Thanks for the great video!
I'd like to know if there are any free programming software programs that have the facility to save to an EXE without having to download add-ons or use command prompt syntax. In the past, visual basic could do this but visual studio has taken over, but this does not let you do it unless you start downloading a lot more add-on programs. :-(
Do you know of any "out of the box" solutions?