21 Lesser Known Open-Source Applications for Windows

[roraniel]

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock in Madagascar for the last few years, you undoubtedly already know about the All-Star open-source applications for Windows. I’m talking about applications such as Firefox, Thunderbird, GIMP, OpenOffice, and VLC.

However, there are hundreds of lesser-known but highly-useful open-source applications available for Windows. A few favourites are below.

These applications range from moderately popular to downright obscure, but all of them are open-source and FREE. All of them are worth the install time if you have never tried them. As a side bonus, many of them are cross-platform as well.

Here they are, in random order: 21 Lesser-Known Open-Source Applications for Windows | ixibo

[HappyAndyK]

Nice collection, thanks for sharing.

[seti]

very nice collection thanks for the post

[James]

I have used Notepad+ and Filezilla for years; glad to see them on that list.

[whs]

Very nice list. Thank you for bringing it to our attention. There are some that I will definitely study in more detail.

[leofelix]

Thank you roraniel, nice collection.
I personally use Paint.Net, Eraser and Infrarecoder (alongside with CD Burner XP) in some computers of mine.
I'll take a look for other interesting applications

[tweakwindows]

Handy list there. But some useful programs also missing from the list.

[nitinagarwal1988]

handy list and most are unknown to me, thanks for sharing.....i used only notepad++ and paint.net from that list.....

[ax89]

Very nice list - I've used some of them before (eg. FileZilla) but some are new. Thanks for posting the link to the article.