List of free and open source software packages

This article is about software free to be modified and distributed. For examples of software free in the monetary sense, see List of freeware.

This is a list of free and open source software packages: computer software licensed under free software licenses and open source licenses. Software that fits the Free Software Definition may be more appropriately called free software; the GNU project in particular objects to their works being referred to as open source.^[1] For more information about the philosophical background for open source software, see free software movement and Open Source Initiative. However, nearly all software meeting the Free Software Definition also meets the Open Source Definition and vice versa. A small fraction of the software that meets either definition is listed here.

Applied fields

Global

• ZeuAPP - Free software program which automatically installs a large list of open source and/or freeware from over 182 applications and 15 different categories based on the user's choice

CAD

Main category: Free computer-aided design software

Electronic design automation (EDA)

Main category: Free electronic design automation software

Finance

• Bitcoin - Peer to peer decentralised digital cash.
• vtiger CRM - Open Source Customer Relationship Management(CRM) software with Sales force automation, marketing management,Customer Service/Support,Inventory Management
• ReOS — Web-based real estate listing management application
• SugarCRM — Commercial Open Source Customer Relationship Management
• OrangeHRM — Commercial Open Source Human Resource Management
• Ebase — Open source constituent relationship management developed especially for non-profit organizations
• Dolibarr ERP/CRM — Open source ERP/CRM software
• Bonita Open Solution — Business Process Management
• Adempiere — ERP Business Suite
• bookyt - Simple web-based Double-entry book-keeping software in Ruby on Rails
• Compiere — ERP solution automates accounting, supply chain, inventory and sales orders
• FrontAccounting — web-based accounting system with ERP elements
• GnuCash — Double-entry book-keeping
• Grisbi — Single-entry
• HomeBank — for personal use
• jFin
• JFire - an ERP Business Suite written with Java and JDO
• JGnash — Java-based, double-entry book-keeping
• JQuantLib — Java-based Quantitative Finance API framework for financial instrument valuation and more...
• KMyMoney — Double-entry book-keeping
• LedgerSMB — Double-entry book-keeping
• MibianLib - Options pricing library written in python
• Mifos — Microfinance Institution management software
• Octopus Micro Finance Suite — Microfinance Institution management software
• Openbravo
• OpenERP — ERP system
• Postbooks — Integrated Accounting and ERP Business Suite
• QuickFIX — FIX protocol engine written in C++ with additional C#, Ruby, and Python wrappers
• QuickFIX/J — FIX protocol engine written in Java
• SQL Ledger — Double-entry book-keeping
• Tryton
• TurboCASH — Double-entry book-keeping for Windows
• WebERP — web-based ERP system

See also: Comparison of accounting software

Integrated Library System

• refbase — Web-based institutional repository and reference management software
• Evergreen
• Koha
• NewGenLib
• OpenBiblio
• PMB

Mathematics

Main category: Free mathematics software

Computer simulation

• SimPy; queue-theoretic event-based simulator written in Python
• Blender; 3D modeling software written in Python and C++ that can make animations and games

Science

Main category: Free science software

Geographic Information Systems

Main category: Free GIS software

Plotting

Main category: Free plotting software

Microscope image processing

• CellProfiler
• ImageJ
• FIJI (software)
• Endrov

Molecule viewer

• Jmol
• Molekel
• MeshLab, able to import PDB dataset and build up surfaces from them
• PyMOL
• QuteMol
• RasMol
• Avogadro

Molecular dynamics

• Ascalaph Designer
• GROMACS
• LAMMPS
• MDynaMix
• TINKER
• NAMD

Bioinformatics

• See List of open source bioinformatics software.

Cheminformatics

• Chemistry Development Kit
• JOELib
• OpenBabel

Grid Computing

• P-GRADE Portal — Grid portal software enabling the creation, execution and monitoring of workflows through high-level Web interfaces

Statistics

Main category: Free statistical software

Artificial intelligence

• General
  • OpenCog A project that aims to build an open source artificial general intelligence (AGI) framework. OpenCog Prime is a specific set of interacting components designed to give rise to human-equivalent artificial general intelligence.
• Computer Vision
  • OpenCV Open Source Computer Vision Library
  • AForge.NET Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics library for the .NET Framework
• Robotics
  • ROS Robot Operating System
• Planning
  • TREX Reactive planning
• Machine Learning
  • See Data Mining below
  • See R programming language -- packages of statistical learning and analysis tools

Assistive technology

Speech (synthesis and recognition)

• CMU Sphinx — Speech recognition software from Carnegie Mellon University
• Emacspeak — Audio desktop
• Festival Speech Synthesis System
• Modular Audio Recognition Framework — voice, audio, speech NLP processing
• NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) Screen reader for Windows
• Text2Speech — Lightweight and easy to use Text To Speech (TTS) Software
• ESpeak - compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages

Other assistive technology

• Dasher — Unique text input software
• Gnopernicus — AT suite for GNOME 2
• Virtual Magnifying Glass - a free, open source, multiplatform, screen magnification tool.

Data storage and management

Backup software

Main category: Free backup software

See also: List of backup software

File archivers

Main category: Free data compression software

File Systems

• OpenAFS -- a Distributed File System supporting a very wide variety of operating systems

Database management systems (including administration)

• Eucalyptus — Open source cloud computing software
• AppScale -- Open source cloud computing platform-as-a-service

Main category: Open source database management systems

Data Visualization Components

• FusionCharts Free
• ParaView plotting and visualization functions developed by Sandia National Laboratory, capable of massively parallel flow visualization utilizing multiple computer processors

Data mining

• Orange (software) — Open source data visualization and data mining for novice and experts, through visual programming or Python scripting. Extensions for bioinformatics and text mining.
• RapidMiner — data mining software written in Java, fully integrating Weka, featuring 350+ operators for preprocessing, machine learning, visualization, etc.
• Scriptella ETL — ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) and script execution tool. Supports integration with J2EE and Spring. Provides connectors to CSV, LDAP, XML, JDBC/ODBC and other data sources.
• Weka — data mining software written in Java featuring machine learning operators for classification, regression, and clustering.
• jHepWork — Java-based data analysis framework
• Konstanz Information Miner (KNIME)
• Environment for DeveLoping KDD-Applications Supported by Index-Structures (ELKI) - data mining software framework written in Java with a focus on clustering and outlier detection methods.

Enterprise search engines

• Jumper 2.0
• Lucene
• Solr
• Xapian
• Nutch

ETLs (Extract Transform Load)

• CloverETL
• Talend
• Pentaho
• SpagoBI
• Konstanz Information Miner (KNIME)

Networking and Internet

Advertising

• Limesurvey - online survey system
• OpenX

E-mail

Main category: Free email software

Instant messaging

Main category: Free instant messaging clients

IRC Clients

Main category: Free Internet Relay Chat clients

RSS/Atom readers/aggregators

• RSS Bandit - Windows - .NET
• RSSOwl - Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, Linux - Java SWT Eclipse
• Akregator - Platforms running KDE
• Sage (Mozilla Firefox extension)
• Liferea - Platforms running GNOME

Communication-related

• Bots — EDI software
• Asterisk — Telephony and VoIP server
• Ekiga — Video conferencing application for GNOME and Microsoft Windows
• FreePBX — Front-end and advanced PBX configuration for Asterisk
• FreeSWITCH — Open Source telephony platform
• Jitsi — Java VoIP and Instant Messaging client
• QuteCom — Free Voice, Video and IM client application
• sipX — SIP Communications Server
• Slrn — a newsreader
• Twinkle — VOIP softphone

File transfer

Main category: Free file transfer software

Peer-to-peer file sharing

Main category: Free file sharing software

See also Category: Free BitTorrent clients.

Remote access and management

• FreeNX
• OpenVPN
• rdesktop
• Synergy
• VNC (RealVNC, TightVNC, UltraVNC)
• xrdp

Routing software

Main category: Free routing software

Web browsers

Main category: Free web browsers

Webcam

• Cheese

Webgrabber

• cURL
• HTTrack
• Wget

Web-related

• Apache Cocoon — a web application framework
• Apache — the most popular web server
• AWStats — a log file parser and analyzer
• BookmarkSync — a tool for browsers
• CougarXML — a Javascript framework for parsing and manipulating XML code, based on W3C DOM Level-3 specifications.
• curl-loader - a powerful HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/FTPS loading and testing open-source tool
• HTTP File Server — a user friendly file server software with a drag and drop interface
• Distributed ICDL Crawler — an open source web crawler based on Website Parse Template
• Crawley Framework - a crawling / scraping framework written in python
• lighttpd — Resource sparing but also fast and full featured HTTP Server
• nginx — lightweight, high performance web server/reverse proxy and e-mail (IMAP/POP3) proxy
• NetKernel — an internet application server
• Piwik - an open source web analytics system
• Qcodo — an open source PHP5 framework
• Squid (software) — web proxy cache
• Web-Developer Server Suite — a package of web applications including Apache, MySQL, and PHP
• XAMPP — a package of web applications including Apache and MySQL
• Zope — a web application server

Portal Server

• Oxwall — Free Open Source community site software
• Liferay
• Sun Java System Portal Server
• uPortal

Middleware

• Apache Axis2 - Web service framework (implementations are available in both Java & C)
• Apache Geronimo
• GlassFish Application Server
• JacORB — Java implementation of the OMG's CORBA standard
• Jakarta Tomcat — a servlet container and standalone webserver
• JBoss Application Server an application server
• ObjectWeb JOnAS — Java Open Application Server, a J2EE application server
• OpenSplice DDS — implementation of the OMG's Data Distribution Service for Real-time Systems (DDS) standard
• SmartVariables — a generic network-shared object application server
• TAO (software) — C++ implementation of the OMG's CORBA standard

Other networking programs

• OpenLDAP — an open source LDAP server
• JXplorer — an open source LDAP client
• openVXI — an open source VoiceXML interpreter
• YaCy — P2P-based search engine

Educational

Educational suites

• Gnaural — Brainwave entrainment software
• DoceboLMS
• eFront - an icon-based learning management system
• GCompris
• IUP Portfolio
• Moodle
• Omeka
• Sakai Project - a web-based learning management system
• Chamilo - a web-based e-learning and content management system
• Tux Paint - a paint application for 3–12 year olds.
• openSIS - a web-based Student Information and School Management System system
• ATutor - a web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS)
• ILIAS - a web-based learning management system (LMS)

Learning support

Main category: Free learning support software

Language

• Kiten
• KVerbos

Typing

• KTouch
• Tux Typing

Geography

• KGeography

Other educational programs

• KEduca

File managers

Main category: Free file managers

Theology

Bible study tools

• openlp.org — Worship presentation software for churches to display songs, bibles, movies etc.
• BibleDesktop — For Cross-platform
• BibleTime — For Linux using KDE
• Xiphos The_SWORD_Project — For Linux using GNOME
• Go Bible — For Java Mobile Phones
• jSword — For Java
• MacSword — For Mac OS X
• SwordBible — For Windows
• The SWORD Project for Windows — For Windows
• Marcion — For Linux and Windows, using Qt UI Framework and embedded MySql server
• Online Bible — For Windows and Mac OS X

Games

Main article: List of open source games

Genealogy

Main category: Free genealogy software

Graphical user interface

Windowing system

Main category: Free windowing systems

Desktop environments

Main category: Free desktop environments

Window managers

Main category: Free X window managers

Groupware

Main category: Free groupware

Content management systems

Main category: Open source content management systems

Wiki software

Main category: Free wiki software

Healthcare software

Main article: List of open source healthcare software

Main article: List of Open Source Bioinformatics software

Media

Multimedia codecs / containers / splitters

Main category: Free multimedia codecs, containers, and splitters

Audio editors / audio management

Main article: Free audio software

Graphics

Main category: Free graphics software

Image galleries

Main category: Free image galleries

Image viewers

• Eye of GNOME
• F-spot
• Gqview
• Gthumb
• imgSeek
• Kphotoalbum

Radio

• Dream DRM Receiver

Television

Main category: Free television software

See also: Comparison of PVR software packages

2D animation

• KToon
• Synfig
• Pencil

3D animation

• Blender
• Art of Illusion
• K-3D
• OpenFX
• Seamless3d

Flash animation

• Pencil Animation (for animations)
• SWFTools (for scripting)

Video editing

See also: List of video editing software#Open source software

• Avidemux
• AviSynth
• Blender
• Cinelerra
• CineFX formerly known as Jahshaka
• DScaler
• DVD Flick
• DVDx
• Kaltura
• Kino
• Kdenlive
• LiVES
• OpenShot Video Editor
• PiTiVi
• VirtualDub
• VirtualDubMod

Video players

Main article: Comparison of video player software

CD-writing software

Main category: Free CD writing software

Other media packages

• Gnome Subtitles
• Celtx - Media Pre-production Software

Operating systems

Be advised that available distributions of these systems can contain, or offer to build and install, added software that is neither free software nor open source.

Main category: Free software operating systems

Password management

• KeePass
• Password Safe

Personal information managers

• TeamLab - Open source platform for project management and collaboration
• Project.net — Commercial Open Source Project Management
• Chandler — developed by the OSAF.
• KAddressBook
• Kontact
• KOrganizer
• Mozilla Calendar — A Mozilla-based, multiplatform calendar program.
• Novell Evolution
• OpenSync (software)
• Rachota Timetracker — portable timetracking for projects. Open source. Windows, Linux, Solaris and Mac.

Programming language support

Main article: List of open-source programming languages

Bug trackers

• Bugzilla
• Mantis
• Mindquarry
• Redmine
• Trac

Code generators

• Open Scene Graph — 3D graphics application programming interface
• OpenSCDP - Open Smart Card Development Platform
• Bison
• CodeSynthesis XSD — XML Data Binding compiler for C++
• CodeSynthesis XSD/e — Validating XML parser/serializer and C++ XML Data Binding generator for mobile and embedded systems
• xmlbeansxx — XML Data Binding code generator for C++
• Flex lexical analyser
• Kodos
• phpCodeGenie
• ^txt2regex$
• SableCC — parser generator for Java and .Net
• SWIG — Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator for several languages

Configuration software

• Autoconf
• Automake

Debuggers (for testing and trouble-shooting)

• Xnee — Record and replay tests
• Memtest86 — Stress-tests RAM on x86 machines
• JSystem - Test Automation Framework
• GNU Debugger - "works for many programming languages [...]"

Integrated development environments

Main category: Open-source integrated development environments

Version control systems

Main category: Free revision control software

Typesetting

Main category: Free typesetting software

Screensavers

• Electric Sheep
• Flurry
• XScreenSaver
• Boinc

Security

Anti-virus

• ClamAV
• ClamWin
• Gateway Anti-Virus

Anti-spyware

• Winpooch

Data loss prevention

• MyDLP

See also: List of data recovery software

Encryption

• GnuPG
• KGPG
• Seahorse
• GnuTLS
• OpenSSL

Disk encryption

• CrossCrypt
• FreeOTFE and FreeOTFE Explorer

Firewall

• Iptables
• Coyote Linux
• Firestarter
• IPFilter
• ipfw
• IPCop
• IPFire
• M0n0wall
• PeerGuardian
• PF
• pfSense
• Rope
• SmoothWall
• Shorewall
• Untangle
• Vyatta
• Zentyal

Network and security monitoring

Main category: Open source network management software

Secure Shell (ssh)

• Lsh - server and client (supporting SRP and Kerberos authentication)
• OpenSSH — client/server
• PuTTY — client only
• Cyberduck — Mac OS X and Windows client (since version 4.0)

Other security programs

Main category: Free security software

compilations of open-source software

Main category: open source software distributions

See also

Free software portal

• List of GNOME applications
• List of GNU packages
• List of KDE applications
• List of liberated software
• List of Unix programs

General directories

• SourceForge.net
• Freshmeat
• Ohloh
• CodePlex

References

1. ^ Richard Stallman (July 13, 2011). "Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software". http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html. Retrieved August 24, 2011. 

External links

General Directories

• Free Software Directory - The Free Software Directory of the Free Software Foundation.
• Open Source Software Directory - Provides a list of open source software organized by categories.
• Open Source Living - Open Source Living is a community-driven dynamic archive of Open Source software.
• Ohloh - Ohloh is an open source directory that anyone can edit.

Open source for Windows

• List Of Open-source Programs (LOOP list) for Windows
• TheOpenDisc.com pre-assembled disc of OSS for Windows (successor to TheOpenCD.org)
• The OSSwin project: Open Source for Windows!

Other directories

• The OpenScience Project - Open Source software for science and mathematics
• FreeOpenSourceSoftware.org - Wiki on FOSS including sources, directories, system & application software indexes.