A huge list of alternatives to Adobe products.
Only open source alternatives are included.
Acrobat Pro, Dreamweaver, Dimension, Capture, Premiere Rush, Photoshop Camera, Aero, Prelude and Lightroom Web are excluded from the list
considering there are no worthwhile alternative I found.
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| Gimp | GIMP is a free program for such photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. Essentially it’s the closest thing to Photoshop you can get for free. |
| Krita | Krita is a professional Free and open source (FOSS) painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone withith concept art, texture and matte painters, illustrations and comics. |
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| Inkscape | Unlike Illustrator, Inkscape is completely free and open source, and it uses Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) as its native format. This lightweight app is usually recommended if you don’t have a powerful computer, as it also has many of the useful features from illustrator, including layers, grouping objects, drawing, shape, calligraphy, pencil tools, path simplification with variable threshold, bitmaps, and boolean operations. Plus, you can open or import a wide range of file formats including SVG, PDF, EPS, CDR, or even AI (Adobe Illustrator). |
| MyPaint | The biggest difference with Illustrator is that MyPaint works with bitmaps instead of vector graphics. It’s open source software designed mainly to illustrate and draw with a digitizer tablet. It has a simple interface, where almost all the basic drawing functions are assigned to keyboard shortcuts, which improves workflow speed. In addition, you can hide the entire graphical interface and focus all attention on the drawing without being distracted by unnecessary or complex buttons or palettes. It’s a good option if you are interested in digital illustration without too many overwhelming features. |
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| Scribus | Scribus is a desktop publishing (DTP) application. Scribus is designed for flexible layout and typesetting, and the ability to prepare files for professional quality image setting equipment. It can also create animated and interactive PDF presentations and forms. |
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| Kdenlive | Kdenlive is a non linear video editor. It is based on the MLT framework and accepts many audio and video formats, allows you to add effects, transitions and render into the format of your choice. |
| Shotcut | Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform, non-linear video editor. |
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| Natron | Natron is an open source, cross platform nodal compositing application. It is built around industry standard open source tech such as OpenFX, OpenEXR, OpenColorIO and OpenImageIO. |
| Blender | Blender is the free and open-source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing, video editing, and motion tracking. |
| Name | Description |
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| Darktable | darktable is a virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers: it manages your digital negatives in a database and lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable. it also enables you to develop raw images and enhance them. |
| RawTherapee | RawTherapee is a free RAW converter and digital photo processing software. All changes can be applied and batch processed at a convenient time. |
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| Penpot | Penpot is the first Open Source design and prototyping platform meant for cross-domain teams. Non dependent on operating systems, Penpot is web based and works with open web standards (SVG). For all and empowered by the community. |
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| Wick Editor | The Wick Editor is a free and open-source tool for creating games, animations, and everything in-between. It’s designed to be the most accessible tool for creating multimedia projects on the web. Your creations can run on any device with a web browser - that means mobile too. |
| OpenToonz | OpenToonz is an animation program that is a free software version of Toonz, the animation software used by Studio Ghibli, amongst others. |
| Name | Description |
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| Darktable | darktable is a virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers: it manages your digital negatives in a database and lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable. it also enables you to develop raw images and enhance them. |
| RawTherapee | RawTherapee is a free RAW converter and digital photo processing software. All changes can be applied and batch processed at a convenient time. |
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| Audacity | Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. You can use Audacity to record live audio, convert tapes and records, edit sound files, change the speed or pitch of a recording and much more. |
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| Manuscript | Manuskript is an open-source tool for writers, with outliner, character management, plot development, distraction-free editor, etc. |
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| Synfig Studio | Synfig is a free and open-source, industrial-strength, vector-based 2D animation app designed for producing feature-film animations. It eliminates the need to create animations frame by frame. It is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. |
| enve | Enve is a free and open-source 2D animation app. It can create both vector and raster animations and even use sound and video files. It has been created with flexibility and expandability in mind. |
| Name | Description |
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| Krita | Krita is a professional Free and open source (FOSS) painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone withith concept art, texture and matte painters, illustrations and comics. |
| MyPaint | Krita is a professional Free and open source (FOSS) painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone withith concept art, texture and matte painters, illustrations and comics. |
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| DigiKam | digiKam is an advanced digital photo management application which makes importing and organizing digital photos a “snap”. The photos are organized in albums which can be sorted chronologically, by folder layout or by custom collections. |
| quigv | Qt5 image viewer with optional video support. Contribute to easymodo/qimgv development by creating an account on GitHub. |
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| GIMP | GIMP is a free program for such photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. Essentially it’s the closest thing to Photoshop you can get for free. |
| Pixelitor | Pixelitor is a cross-platform raster graphics editor written in Java. It supports image filters, drawing, layers, multiple undo, etc. Currently its main strength lies in the more than 70 image filters and color adjustments, some of which are unique. |
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| Handbrake | HandBrake is an open-source, multithreaded video transcoder – it compresses and converts digital media from one format to another. HandBrake can rip encrypted DVDs with libdvdcss (libdvdcss is installed with VLC media player on macOS, or AnyDVD/DVD 43 on Windows). |
| FFmeg | FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge. |
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| GImageReader | gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to the Tesseract OCR Engine. |
| Tesseract | Tesseract.js is a javascript library that gets words in almost any language out of images. |
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| JsignPdf | JSignPdf is a Java application which adds digital signatures to PDF documents. It can be used as a standalone application or as an Add-On in OpenOffice.org. The application uses the jsignpdf-itxt library for PDF manipulations (based on iText library in version 2.1.7 with LGPL/MPL license). JSignPdf is open-source software and can be freely used in both private and business sectors. |
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| SumatraPDF | Sumatra PDF is a free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) viewer for Windows. |
| Evince | Evince (or GNOME Document Viewer) is a document viewer for multiple document formats: PDF, Postscript, djvu, tiff, dvi, XPS, SyncTex support with gedit, comics books (cbr,cbz,cb7 and cbt) and others. See Supported Document Formats for details. |