Software

This combination makes VibeVoice with ComfyUI one of the best free alternatives to commercial AI speech tools, giving you the power to create professional-grade audio locally on your own machine, with full privacy & no vendor lock-in.

With support for REST APIs, GraphQL queries & even gRPC, Insomnia ensures you don’t need multiple tools to work across different API protocols. It offers intuitive workspace management, plugin support, SSL certificates handling, environment syncing & automated testing, making it an all-in-one API powerhouse.

Audacity runs smoothly on Windows, macOS & Linux, which makes it a truly cross-platform editor. With features like unlimited undo, spectrogram view, VST plugin support & batch processing, Audacity is trusted by millions worldwide.

With n8n, you can build complex workflows visually using its intuitive drag & drop interface. You can create powerful automation without deep coding knowledge. It integrates with hundreds of popular applications & services including Google Sheets, Slack, Discord, GitHub, Notion, Airtable, Trello, and many more.

OBS Studio is the premier free and open source software for video recording and live streaming that professionals and content creators across the globe rely on. It offers powerful scene composition, high performance capturing, and flexible broadcasting, all without any cost. OBS Studio brings studio-quality tools to your desktop, whether you are streaming on Twitch, YouTube, or recording tutorials and webinars.

Natron is a professional grade open source compositing software designed for creators, editors, educators, and filmmakers who need high quality results without the heavy price tag. It is completely free to use and offers the same node based workflow used in the biggest studios across the world.

PixiEditor is a clean fast & free raster image editor designed for pixel art illustration sprite work UI mockups & everyday graphics tasks. It focuses on precision ease of use & a distraction free workflow so you can create assets for games websites apps social posts & presentations without heavy subscriptions or steep learning curves.

Dyad is completely local, meaning all your work stays on your machine, giving you speed, privacy & complete control. It is designed for developers, students, startups & creators who want to experiment, build & launch AI apps without limitations.

ShareX gives you the full stack: region/window/display capture, scrolling capture, GIF recording, system mic & app audio, hotkeys for everything, post-capture actions, direct uploads to services like Imgur/Drive/Dropbox via built-in or custom uploaders, plus a robust editor for blur, arrows, callouts & step-by-step markup

OpenBoard stands out as the most reliable free and open-source alternative to Microsoft Whiteboard. While Microsoft’s tool ties users into its ecosystem, OpenBoard offers freedom, flexibility, and complete control: