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Use This Guide To Help You Find An Open Source Alternative To Common Proprietary Software Tools

This document provides a cheat sheet of open source alternatives to common proprietary software tools. It lists alternatives in categories such as creative tools, office tools, project management tools, notetaking tools, news and social media, filesharing, CRM tools, security, personal finance, and gaming. For each alternative, it provides 1-3 links to more information on open source.com about the alternative or category. The full document is a guide to help users find open source replacements for tools they may currently be using.

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Use This Guide To Help You Find An Open Source Alternative To Common Proprietary Software Tools

This document provides a cheat sheet of open source alternatives to common proprietary software tools. It lists alternatives in categories such as creative tools, office tools, project management tools, notetaking tools, news and social media, filesharing, CRM tools, security, personal finance, and gaming. For each alternative, it provides 1-3 links to more information on open source.com about the alternative or category. The full document is a guide to help users find open source replacements for tools they may currently be using.

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Opensource.

com: Open Source Alternatives Cheat Sheet


Use this guide to help you find an open source alternative to common proprietary software tools.
Creative Tools
Photoshop GIMP, Pinta, Krita https://opensource.com/life/12/6/design-without-debt-five-tools-
for-designers
Dreamweaver Aptana Studio, BlueGriffon, NetBeans, SeaMonkey, https://opensource.com/alternatives/dreamweaver
Aloha Editor
AutoCAD BRL-CAD, FreeCAD, LibreCAD https://opensource.com/alternatives/autocad
Video Editing Pitivi, OpenShot, Cinelerra, KDEnlive, Blender https://opensource.com/article/18/4/new-state-video-editing-linux
Microsoft Publisher Scribus, LibreOffice, LaTeX or other markup languages https://opensource.com/alternatives/microsoft-publisher
Chat Tools
Slack IRC, Let's Chat, Mattermost, Rocket.Chat, Riot.im https://opensource.com/alternatives/slack
WhatsApp Line, Riot.im, Signal, Threema, Viber, Wire, https://opensource.com/article/19/3/open-messenger-client
Skype Jami, Jitsi, Linphone, Riot, Wire, Pidgin https://opensource.com/alternatives/skype
Office Tools
Microsoft Access LibreOffice Base, DB Browser for SQLite, Kexi, https://opensource.com/alternatives/access
nuBuilder Forte
Gmail Roundcube, Zimbra, SquirrelMail, Rainloop, Cypht https://opensource.com/alternatives/gmail
https://opensource.com/article/19/1/productivity-tool-cypht-email
Google Docs CryptPad https://opensource.com/article/19/1/productivity-tool-cryptpad
Google Sheets EtherCalc https://opensource.com/article/19/7/get-going-ethercalc
Project Management Tools
Project MyCollab, Odoo, Taiga, Phabricator, Tuleap Open ALM, https://opensource.com/business/16/3/top-project-management-
Management Tools Agilefant, Redmine, Gitlab, OpenProject, LibrePlan, tools-2016
ProjectLibre
Trello Taiga, Kanboard, Wekan, Restyaboard, Taskboard https://opensource.com/alternatives/trello
Notetaking Tools
Evernote Joplin, Turtl, Paperwork, Laverna, Permanote, https://opensource.com/article/17/12/joplin-open-source-
Brainstorm evernote-alternative
https://opensource.com/article/17/12/using-turtl-open-source-
alternative-evernote
https://opensource.com/alternatives/evernote
News and Social Media
Pocket Wallabag https://opensource.com/article/18/7/wallabag
Social Media Mastodon, Textile, PixelFed https://opensource.com/article/19/1/open-source-social-media-
alternatives
Filesharing
Dropbox ownCloud, NextCloud, Seafile, OnionShare, Pydio Cells https://opensource.com/alternatives/dropbox
CRM Tools
Salesforce Corteza https://opensource.com/article/19/8/corteza-open-source-
alternative-salesforce
CRM Tools EspoCRM, SuiteCRM, Oro CRM, CiviCRM, Fat Free https://opensource.com/business/16/2/top-6-open-source-crm-
CRM, Zurmo tools-2016
Security
LastPass Bitwarden https://opensource.com/article/18/3/managing-passwords-bitwarden
https://opensource.com/life/14/7/managing-passwords-open-
source-way
Personal Finance
Personal Finance GnuCash, HomeBank, KMyMoney, Money Manager https://opensource.com/life/17/10/personal-finance-tools-linux
Tools Ex, Skrooge, Spreadsheets
Gaming
Minecraft, Steam Lutris, Minetest, Terasology, Voxel.js, TrueCraft, Craft https://opensource.com/alternatives/minecraft
https://opensource.com/article/18/10/lutris-open-gaming-platform
More
More open source alternatives https://opensource.com/tags/alternatives
https://opensource.com/alternatives

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