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Browsers ๐ŸŒ

Mozilla Firefox

๐ŸŒ www.mozilla.org

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current web standards. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: firefox

Google Chrome

๐ŸŒ www.google.com

Chrome is Google's browser based on the open source Chromium. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: google-chrome

Chromium

๐ŸŒ www.chromium.org

Chromium is a free and open-source web browser project, primarily developed and maintained by Google. It is a widely-used codebase, providing the vast majority of code for Google Chrome and many other browsers, including Microsoft Edge, Samsung Internet, and Opera. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: chromium

Ungoogled Chromium

๐ŸŒ github.com

ungoogled-chromium is a free and open-source variant of Chromium that removes all Google-specific web services. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: eloston-chromium

Arc

๐ŸŒ arc.net

Arc is a free, Chromium-based browser with modern takes on tab and profile management. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: arc

Vivaldi

๐ŸŒ vivaldi.com

Vivaldi is a free, Chromium-based browser with extensive customization options and targeted towards technical users. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: vivaldi

Opera

๐ŸŒ www.opera.com

Opera is a multi-platform web browser. The current edition of the browser is based on Chromium. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: opera

Brave

๐ŸŒ brave.com

Brave is a free and open-source web browser based on the Chromium web browser. It is focused on privacy, and does some interesting things with adblocking and cryptocurrency. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: brave-browser

Messaging & Communication ๐Ÿ“ง

Discord

๐ŸŒ discord.com

Discord is an instant messaging and VoIP social platform which has voice and video calls. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: discord

Beeper

๐ŸŒ www.beeper.com

Beeper is an instant messaging service that enables using a variety of other chat services and protocols from the same unique application. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: beeper

Slack

๐ŸŒ slack.com

Slack is a cloud-based team communication platform based primarily around instant messaging. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: slack

Zoom

๐ŸŒ zoom.us

Zoom is a proprietary video conferencing application. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: zoom

Skype

๐ŸŒ www.skype.com

Skype is a proprietary telecommunications application operated by Skype Technologies, a division of Microsoft, best known videoconferencing, voice calls, and instant messaging. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: skype

Thunderbird

๐ŸŒ www.thunderbird.net

Mozilla Thunderbird is free and open-source email client software which also functions as a full personal information manager with a calendar and contactbook, as well as an RSS feed reader, chat client (IRC/XMPP/Matrix), and news client. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: thunderbird

Security ๐Ÿ”

Bitwarden

๐ŸŒ bitwarden.com

Bitwarden is a freemium open-source password management service. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: bitwarden

KeePassXC

๐ŸŒ keepassxc.org

KeePassXC is a free and open-source password manager. It started as a community fork of KeePassX. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: keepassxc

QtPass

๐ŸŒ qtpass.org

A GUI on top of pass, the standard unix password manager.

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: qtpass

LastPass

๐ŸŒ www.lastpass.com

LastPass is a password manager. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: lastpass

OpenVPN

๐ŸŒ openvpn.net

OpenVPN is a virtual private network (VPN) system. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: openvpn

Tailscale

๐ŸŒ tailscale.com

Tailscale is a partially open-source mesh virtual private network (VPN) that is easy to configure [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: tailscale

WireGuard

๐ŸŒ www.wireguard.com

WireGuard is a communication protocol and free and open-source software that implements encrypted virtual private networks (VPNs) with a focus on simplicity and performance. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: wireguard-tools

Media ๐ŸŽž

Spotify

๐ŸŒ open.spotify.com

Spotify is an audio streaming app with music and podcasts. It has a premium subscription to remove ads. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: spotify

VLC

๐ŸŒ www.videolan.org

VLC media player is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: vlc

foobar2000

๐ŸŒ www.foobar2000.org

foobar2000 is a freeware audio player. It has a modular design, which provides user flexibility in configuration and customization. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: foobar2000

Handbrake

๐ŸŒ handbrake.fr

HandBrake is a free and open-source transcoder for digital video files. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: handbrake

FFmpeg

๐ŸŒ ffmpeg.org

FFmpeg is a free and open-source command line tool for handling video, audio, and other multimedia files and streams. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: ffmpeg

Utility ๐Ÿ”ง

Etcher

๐ŸŒ etcher.balena.io

balenaEtcher is a free and open-source utility used for writing image files such as .iso and .img files onto storage media to create live SD cards and USB flash drives. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: balenaetcher

Flameshot

๐ŸŒ flameshot.org

Flameshot is an open-source and cross platform screenshot tool.

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: flameshot

File Sharing ๐Ÿ“‚

qBittorrent

๐ŸŒ www.qbittorrent.org

qBittorrent is a cross-platform free and open-source BitTorrent client. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: qbittorrent

Transmission

๐ŸŒ transmissionbt.com

Transmission is a free and open-source BitTorrent client which features a variety of user interfaces on top of a cross-platform back-end [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: transmission

Deluge

๐ŸŒ www.deluge-torrent.org

Deluge BitTorrent Client is a free and open-source, cross-platform BitTorrent client written in Python. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: deluge

Creative ๐ŸŽจ

OBS Studio

๐ŸŒ obsproject.com

OBS Studio is a free and open-source, cross-platform screencasting and streaming app. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: obs

Audacity

๐ŸŒ www.audacityteam.org

Audacity is a free and open-source digital audio editor and recording application. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: audacity

Unity Hub

๐ŸŒ unity.com

Unity is a cross-platform game engine for 2d and 3d games. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: unity

Godot

๐ŸŒ godotengine.org

Godot is a cross-platform, free and open-source game engine released under the permissive MIT license. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: godot

Godot (with Mono/C#)

๐ŸŒ godotengine.org

The version of Godot with Mono which allows for writing code in C#

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: godot-mono

Blender

๐ŸŒ www.blender.org

Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software tool set used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D-printed models and motion graphics. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: blender

GIMP

๐ŸŒ www.gimp.org

GNU Image Manipulation Program, commonly known by its acronym GIMP, is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation and editing. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: gimp

Krita

๐ŸŒ krita.org

Krita is a free and open-source raster graphics editor designed primarily for digital art, digital painting, and 2D animation. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: krita

Figma

๐ŸŒ www.figma.com

Figma is a collaborative web and desktop application for interface design. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: figma

Inkscape

๐ŸŒ inkscape.org

Inkscape is a free and open-source cross-platform vector graphics editor. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: inkscape

Compression ๐Ÿ—œ๏ธ

7-Zip

๐ŸŒ www.7-zip.org

7-Zip is a free and open-source file archiver, used to create and extract .zip, .7z and other archives. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: sevenzip

Cloud โ˜๏ธ

Dropbox

๐ŸŒ www.dropbox.com

Dropbox is a file storage and synchronization service. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: dropbox

Google Drive

๐ŸŒ www.google.com

Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service developed by Google. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: google-drive

Insync

๐ŸŒ www.insynchq.com

Insync is a third-party client for managing file syncing in Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: insync

Nextcloud

๐ŸŒ nextcloud.com

Nextcloud is a file synchronization service that can be self-hosted. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: nextcloud

Syncthing (CLI)

๐ŸŒ syncthing.net

Syncthing is a free and open source cross-platform peer-to-peer file synchronization application. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: syncthing

Documents ๐Ÿ“„

Foxit PDF Reader

๐ŸŒ www.foxit.com

Foxit PDF Reader is a cross-platform PDF reader. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: foxitreader

Adobe Acrobat Reader

๐ŸŒ get.adobe.com

Adobe Acrobat Reader is a PDF reader by Adobe.

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: adobe-acrobat-reader

Writing ๐Ÿ–‹

Notion

๐ŸŒ www.notion.so

Notion is a freemium productivity and note-taking web application. It offers organizational tools including task management, project tracking, to-do lists, and bookmarking. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: notion

Obsidian

๐ŸŒ obsidian.md

Obsidian is a personal knowledge base and note-taking software application that operates on Markdown files. It allows users to link between notes and create a knowledge graph. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: obsidian

Logseq

๐ŸŒ logseq.com

Logseq is an open-source and cross-platform knowledge base and organizational tool.

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: logseq

LibreOffice

๐ŸŒ www.libreoffice.org

LibreOffice is a free and open-source office productivity software suite. It provides similar functionality to the Microsoft Office Suite. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: libreoffice

Gaming ๐ŸŽฎ

Steam

๐ŸŒ store.steampowered.com

Steam is a video game digital distribution service and storefront developed by Valve. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: steam

Epic Games Launcher

๐ŸŒ store.epicgames.com

The Epic Games Store is a video game digital distribution service and storefront operated by Epic Games. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: epic-games

GOG Galaxy

๐ŸŒ www.gog.com

GOG Galaxy is a desktop client and digital distribution platform for DRM-free video games. It is operated by GOG. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: gog-galaxy

Heroic Games Launcher

๐ŸŒ heroicgameslauncher.com

Heroic is a free, open-source, and cross-platform launcher for Epic, GOG and Amazon Prime Games

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: heroic

Dev Langs & Runtimes ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป

Python 3

๐ŸŒ www.python.org

Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: [email protected]

NodeJS

๐ŸŒ nodejs.org

Node.js is a cross-platform, open-source JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside a web browser. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: node

NodeJS (LTS)

๐ŸŒ nodejs.org

The long-term-support version of NodeJS

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: node@20

Deno

๐ŸŒ deno.com

Deno is a runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly that is based on the V8 JavaScript engine and the Rust programming language. Deno was co-created by Ryan Dahl, who also created Node.js. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: deno

Oracle JDK 17

๐ŸŒ www.oracle.com

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: oracle-jdk

Open JDK 17

๐ŸŒ openjdk.org

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: openjdk@17

Open JDK 21

๐ŸŒ openjdk.org

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: openjdk@21

Go

๐ŸŒ go.dev

Go is a statically typed, compiled high-level programming language designed at Google. It is syntactically similar to C, but also has memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing, and CSP-style concurrency. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: go

Rust

๐ŸŒ www.rust-lang.org

Rust is a multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language that emphasizes performance, type safety, and concurrency. It enforces memory safetyโ€”meaning that all references point to valid memoryโ€”without a garbage collector. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: rust

Rustup

๐ŸŒ rustup.rs

Rust toolchain installer. This will install everything you need to actually develop in Rust.

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: rustup-init

Ruby

๐ŸŒ www.ruby-lang.org

Ruby is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language. It was designed with an emphasis on programming productivity and simplicity. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: ruby

PHP

๐ŸŒ www.php.net

PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: php

Perl

๐ŸŒ www.perl.org

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: perl

Dev Tools ๐Ÿช›

PowerShell

๐ŸŒ learn.microsoft.com

PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management program from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and the associated scripting language. It is open-source and cross-platform. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: powershell

Visual Studio Code

๐ŸŒ code.visualstudio.com

Visual Studio Code, also commonly referred to as VS Code, is a source-code editor developed by Microsoft. It is cross-platform. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: visual-studio-code

VSCodium

๐ŸŒ vscodium.com

VSCodium is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoftโ€™s editor VS Code

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: vscodium

Git

๐ŸŒ git-scm.com

Git is a distributed version control system that tracks changes in any set of computer files. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: git

Git LFS

๐ŸŒ git-lfs.com

Git Large File System allows for tracking larger files and binary blobs in Git.

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: git-lfs

AWS CLI

๐ŸŒ aws.amazon.com

The CLI for Amazon Web Services.

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: awscli

Azure CLI

๐ŸŒ learn.microsoft.com

The CLI for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: azure-cli

Docker CLI

๐ŸŒ docs.docker.com

Docker uses OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: docker

Docker Desktop

๐ŸŒ www.docker.com

Docker Desktop is a GUI tool for managing Docker images and containers. It is not free for commercial use at larger companies!

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: docker

docker-compose

๐ŸŒ docs.docker.com

Docker Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container applications. It allows defining docker containers in YAML files instead of via command-line arguments.

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: docker-compose

OpenSSH

๐ŸŒ www.openssh.com

The Secure Shell Protocol (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network. Its most notable applications are remote login and command-line execution. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: openssh

PuTTY

๐ŸŒ www.putty.org

PuTTY is a free and open-source terminal emulator, serial console and network file transfer application. It supports several network protocols, including SCP, SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw socket connection. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: putty

Arduino IDE

๐ŸŒ www.arduino.cc

Aruino IDE is an editor and other tools required for programming and flashing Arduino microcontrollers.

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: arduino

cURL

๐ŸŒ curl.se

cURL is a computer software project providing a library (libcurl) and command-line tool (curl) for transferring data using various network protocols. The name stands for "Client for URL". [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: curl

GNU Wget

๐ŸŒ www.gnu.org

GNU Wget is a computer program that retrieves content from web servers. It is part of the GNU Project. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: wget

VirtualBox

๐ŸŒ www.virtualbox.org

Oracle VM VirtualBox is a hosted hypervisor for x86 virtualization developed by Oracle Corporation. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: virtualbox

Wireshark

๐ŸŒ www.wireshark.org

Wireshark is a free and open-source packet analyzer. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education. [Wikipedia]

๐Ÿ“ฆ Homebrew: wireshark

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