Best Free & Open Source Media Tools
Category | License | Alternatives To | Links | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Media+2 | GPL-3.0 | Fooocus, Stable Diffusion Webui, Invokeai | 129,558 | ||
Media+1 | AGPL-3.0 | Google Photos | 112,507 | ||
Media+1 | MIT | Vosk, Kaldi, Deepspeech | 107,844 | ||
Media+1 | MIT | GameMaker, Unity, Unreal Engine | 92,000 | ||
Media+1 | MIT | Adobe Acrobat | 90,267 | ||
Media+1 | Unlicense | JDownloader, 4K Video Downloader, Internet Download Manager | 78,000 | ||
Media | GPL-2.0 | Camtasia, StreamYard | 75,367 | ||
Media | GPL-2.0 | Emby, Plex | 56,109 | ||
Media+1 | AGPL-3.0 | Twitter, X | 50,246 | ||
Media+1 | LGPL-2.1 | Compressor, Adobe Media Encoder, Sorenson Squeeze | 46,000 | ||
Media | AGPL-3.0 | Apple Photos, Google Photos | 40,102 | ||
Media | GPL-3.0 | YouTube Mobile | 39,465 |
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