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Software/Toolkits

For managing packages

General

Name Description
Ninite Software manager/downloader
Office Office suite
VLC Multimedia Player
Direct folders Acces folders quickly
Lightshot Screenshot tool
Advanced Renamer Automated renamer
Ditto Clipboard manager
FastStone Image viewer
Holdkey Quick characters with accents
PowerToys A set of utilities for users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity
qBittorrent Torrent client
nomacs Image viewer
WinDirStat Drive manager
7-zip Open source compression software
Javelin PDF reader
ImageGlass Image viewer
fman Dual pane file explorer
Obsidian Note taking app
Handbrake Open source video transcoder
Callibre E-book management
AllDUp Delete duplicate files
Everything Locate files and folders by name instantly
WizTree Drive manager
Diskvoyager Alternative file explorer
Simple Mind Mind mapper
Visual Subst Manage virtual and network drives
Chromecast audio stream Stream ChromeCast audio

Photography

Name Description
Darktable Open source photography workflow application and raw developer
digiKam Advanced open-source digital photo management application

Audio

Name Description
Audacity Multi-track audio editor
Ableton DAW
Buzz DAW with tracker interface
VCV Rack Virtual Eurorack DAW
SunVox Small, fast and powerful modular synthesizer
Pure Data Open source visual programming language for multimedia
Automatonism A modular synthesiser that runs in the open source programming language Pure Data
Mixxx DJ mixing software
Tobias Erichsen Tobias Erichsen (MIDI software: LoopMIDI/rtpMIDI)
MIDI-OX MIDI utility
Voicemeter Banana Audio rerouter
Traktor DJ software
DJCU DJ Conversion Utility

Drawing

Name Description
Photoshop Raster graphics editor
Alchemy Open drawing project aimed at exploring how we can sketch, draw, and create on computers in new ways

VFX

3D

Name Description
Blender 3D software
Plasticity 3D CAD software for artists
MeshLab System for processing and editing 3D triangular meshes.
AwesomeBump Generate normal, height, specular or ambient occlusion textures from a single image
Meshroom Photogrammetry software
COLMAP Photogrammetry software
Instant Meshes Meshing software
Embergen Real-time volumetric fluid simulator
TouchDesigner Visual programming language
Notch Builder Real time motion graphics and interactive VFX
3DSMax 3D software
Maya 3D software
ZBrush Sculpting software
Houdini Node based procedural 3D software
SpeedTree Tree/foilage generator
Substance Painter Texture software
Mari Texture software
Marvelous Designer Cloth simulation software
Arnold Monte Carlo ray tracing renderer
Redshift GPU-accelerated renderer
PFTrack Tracker
Syntheyes Tracker
Fusion Compositing software
Nuke Compositing software
Quixel Texture/material/asset library/editor
Materialize Image to material tool
MOI CAD for designers and artists
Aerialod Interactive path tracing renderer for height maps
ShoeBox Game related tools
ImageMagic Open-source software suite, used for editing and manipulating digital images
Omniverse USD platform
fSpy Open source still image camera matching
Plant Factory Create procedural plants
Jawset Nerf's/Gausian splatting
NerfStudio Nerf's/Gausian splatting
Gaffer Node-based application for look developers, lighters, and compositors to easily build, tweak, iterate, and render scenes

2D

Name Description
Krita
Neat Video Denoiser
DaVinci Resolve Editing, color correction, visual effects and audio post production in one software tool.
Resolume VJ Software
Topaz labs AI tools for photo/video
Flow Frames AI Video interpolator
EbSynth Style frame painter
ImageMagic Open-source software suite, used for editing and manipulating digital images
Chaotica Fractal generator
xNormal Texture map baking
RealBloom Bloom simulation / post processing tool
Hugin Free panorama sticher
PTGui Panorama stitcher

Reference

Name Description
PureRef Reference board
Allusion Free visual library manager
Eagle Visual library manager

Pipeline

Name Description
DJV Image sequence player
Anchorpoint Project based file browser, tailored for collaboration
Tik manager 4
Kitsu Platform for Animation and VFX productions
Flamenco Open Source Render Manager
Syncsketch Online review tool
MP4 from files Generate .mp4 files from file sequences (and GIF`s!)

https://github.com/cgwire/awesome-cg-vfx-pipeline Blender Pipeline

Game Dev

Engines

Name Description
Unreal Real-time 3D creation tool
Unity Real-time 3D development platform
Godot Engine Game Engine

Tools

Trimsheet Toolkit Create trimsheets and more

Live

Hexler OSC/Pilot

Programming

Name Description
Processing Software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts
Sublime Text Advanced text editor
coreframework coreframework.com
lite-xl Advanced text editor
Cursor AI Code editor
Open Frameworks Open source C++ toolkit for creative coding

AI

Name Description
Supervision Computer vision tools
Depth map generator Depth map generator
Neural crossbreed Blend inbetween faces
Eulerian Motion Fields Animating Pictures with Eulerian Motion Fields
Facefusion Replace face in video from single images
DiffMorpher Blend inbetween images
TagGUI
 Adding and editing image tags and captions
Rerun Visualization toolkit for multimodal data
ComfyUI Node based stable diffusion tool
Claude AI assistant, very good for coding

Project Managers

Name Description
Kabaret Studio Project manager
Prism Project manager
Post Haste Project manager
TimeTagger Time tracker

Outdoor

Name Description
GoogleMyMaps Create maps
QGIS Topo map creator
CalTopo Topo map creator
FatMap Discover, plan, track and share routes

Emulators

Name Description
Duckstation PS1 emulator
PCSX2 PS2 emulator
Dolphin Wii emulator

Web-Dev

Name Description
Spline Add 3D to your website
Polygonjs Houdini in browser
Vectary
Verge3d
Wordpress
Bricks Wordpress Plugin for building pages
Dokuwiki Open source wiki software
VitePress Markdown to Beautiful Docs in Minutes

Emergency

Name Description
Display Driver Uninstaller For when you are having display issues