Free Software Sites

This list aims to be a valuable and easy to use resource for free software available on the Web.

Feel free to contribute with your software suggestions, but keep in mind some simple rules:

* Must be freeware.
* Must provide name and homepage URL and not links to tutorials or freeware/shareware sites.
* If the software you want to suggest cannot be in any of the existing categories, please also suggest a new category.


3D Modeling
Blender - http://www.blender.org/
Google SketchUp - http://sketchup.google.com/download/

Anti Virus
AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
Avast - http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
AVG - http://free.grisoft.com/
BitDefender - http://www.bitdefender.com/
ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/
Kaspersky Security Suite CBE 2009 - http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/...uite-cbe-2009/

Anti Spyware
Ad-aware SE Personal - http://www.lavasoft.de/products/ad-a...e_personal.php
ComboFix - http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/comb...-use-combofix/
Hijackthis - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware - http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
Microsoft Windows Defender - http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...e/default.mspx
Ninja Pendisk - http://nunobrito.eu/ninja/
SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
WinPatrol - http://www.winpatrol.com/

Archive Managers
7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/
Compress it - http://www.rg-software.de/
KGB Archiver - http://kgbarchiver.sourceforge.net/
QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/
SimplyzIP - http://www.dpaehl.de/
TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/

Audio Creation and Manipulation
Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audiograbber - http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/
CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
MediaInfo - http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en
MIDI Pattern Generator 64 - http://www.gradywerks.com/mpg64/
MP3Gain - http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/
Reaper - http://www.cockos.com/reaper/index.php
Smart PC Record - http://www.voiceemotion.com/smartrecorder.htm

Audio Players
AIMP2 - http://www.aimp.ru/
Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Jet Audio Basic - http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/jetaudio/
musikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/
Songbird - http://getsongbird.com/
Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/

BitTorrent Clients
µTorrent - http://www.utorrent.com/
Azureus - http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
Deluge - http://deluge-torrent.org/

CD/DVD Burning
Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/
Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/
CDBurnerXP - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/
ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/
InfraRecorder - http://infrarecorder.org/
Ultimate CD/DVD Burner - http://www.mispbo.com/burner.htm

Checksum Utilities
fsum - http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/
HashCalc - http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/
HashTab - http://beeblebrox.org/hashtab/
ICEECC - http://www.ice-graphics.com/ICEECC/IndexE.html
md5sum - http://www.etree.org/md5com.html
md5summer - http://www.md5summer.org/
MooSFV - http://www.ubercow.com/moosfv/
QuickPar - http://www.quickpar.org.uk/
QuickSFV - http://www.quicksfv.org/

Defrag Software
Auslogics Disk Defrag - http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/index.php
JkDefrag - http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/

Desktop Customization
AveDesk - http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=17372
CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html
Desktop Sidebar - http://www.desktopsidebar.com/
Glass2k - http://www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml
Kapsules - http://kapsules.shellscape.org/
Rainlendar - http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php
RKLauncher - http://home.cogeco.ca/~rklauncher/
RocketDock - http://rocketdock.com/
Samurize - http://www.samurize.com/
TaskSwitchXP Pro - http://www.ntwind.com/taskswitchxp/
WinRoll - http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/
Yahoo! Widget Engine (Formerly Konfabulator) - http://widgets.yahoo.com/

Download Managers
Flashget - http://www.amazesoft.com/index_en.htm
Free Download Manager - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
Gigaget - http://www.gigaget.com/
LeechGet - http://www.leechget.net/en/
wget - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/

Email Clients
Evolution for Windows - http://shellter.sourceforge.net/evolution/
Foxmail - http://fox.foxmail.com.**/
Pegasus Mail - http://www.pmail.com/
Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
Zimbra - [url]http://www.zimbra.com/products/desktop.html[url]

Encryption and Data Security
Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm
ccrypt - http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/
CRYPTAINER LE - http://www.cypherix.com/cryptainer_l...oad_center.htm
Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php
File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm
GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/
PGP Freeware - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html
TrueCrypt - http://www.truecrypt.org/

File Managers
2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
CubicExplorer - http://www.cubicreality.com/
ExplorerXP - http://www.explorerxp.com
freeCommander - http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm

File Repair and Recovery
ADRC Data Recovery Software Tools - http://www.adrc.net/data_recovery_software/index.html
Avira UnErase Personal - http://www.free-av.com/antivirclassi...a_unerase.html
FreeUndelete - http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/
PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm
VAIOSoft Recovery Manager - http://www.vaiosoft.com/products/recoverymanager.html

Firewalls
Comodo Personal Firewall - http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com
Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
SoftPerfect Personal Firewall - http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall/
Zonealarm Basic firewall - http://www.zonelabs.com/store/conten...eeDownload.jsp

FTP Clients
CoreFTP - http://www.coreftp.com/
Filezilla - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/

FTP Servers
FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd
TYPSoft FTP Server - http://en.typsoft.com/
WarFTPD - http://www.jgaa.com/

Image Capture
MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html

Image Editors
GIMP - http://www.gimp.org/
Inkscape - http://www.inkscape.org/
Paint.net - http://www.getpaint.net/

Image Viewers
FastStone Image Viewer - http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/
Picasa - http://picasa.google.com
XNView - http://www.xnview.com/

Instant Messengers
AMSN - http://amsn.sourceforge.net/index.php
Google Talk - http://www.google.com/talk/
Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/
Pidgin - http://www.pidgin.im/
Skype - http://www.skype.com/
Trillian Basic - http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/downloads/
Yahoo! Messenger - http://messenger.yahoo.com/

IRC Clients
BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/
BitchX - http://bitchx.org/
Clicks&Whistles - http://i42.co.uk/stuff/
HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/
NodeIRC - http://node.sourceforge.net/
TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat - http://www.silverex.org/news/

Maps
Goggle Earth - http://earth.google.com/
NASA World Wind - http://sourceforge.net/projects/nasa-exp/

Misc Tools
Evernote - http://www.evernote.com

Network Tools
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/
Fomine NetSend GUI - http://www.fomine.com/net-send-gui.html
Free IP Switcher - http://www.eusing.com/ipswitch/free_ip_switcher.htm
FreeNAS - http://www.freenas.org/
Hamachi - http://www.hamachi.cc/
NetMeter - http://readerror.gmxhome.de/
NMap - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
Ntop - http://www.ntop.org
PingPlotter - http://www.pingplotter.com
PRTG Traffic Grapher - http://www.paessler.com/prtg
PuTTY - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.u k/~sgtatham/putty
RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/
TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/
Ultr@VNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/

Office Applications
AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/
OpenOffice.org - http://www.openoffice.org/

Partition Managers
GParted LiveCD http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
Partition Logic - http://partitionlogic.org.uk/
Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/

PDF Utilities
Adobe Reader - http://get.adobe.com/reader/
CutePDF - http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
Foxit PDF Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
Ghostscript/GSView - http://www.ghostscript.com/awki
PDFCreator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
PrimoPDF - http://www.primopdf.com/
Sumatra PDF - http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/

Programming
ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl
BlueJ - http://www.bluej.org/download/download.html
Crimson Editor - http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
Code::Blocks - http://www.codeblocks.org/
Context - http://www.context.cx/
Dev C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Dev Pascal - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Digital Mars C++ - http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html
Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/
Enigma - http://www.enigma-uk.freeserve.co.uk/Enigma.htm
ExamDiff - http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff
Freepascal - http://www.freepascal.org/
JCreator LE - http://www.jcreator.com/download.htm
jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/
Metapad - http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/
Open Watcom - http://www.openwatcom.org/
PaseoExpress - http://www.paseosoft.com/
Pelles C - http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htm
PHP Designer 2007 Personal - http://www.mpsoftware.dk/products.php
PHP Hypertext Parser - http://www.php.net/
Programmer's Notepad - http://www.pnotepad.org/
PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/
Python - http://www.python.org/
Ruby - http://www.ruby-lang.org/
Screenweaver - http://screenweaver.com/download
SE|PY ActionScript Editor - http://www.sephiroth.it/python/sepy.php
SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/
WebMatrix - http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/
WinMerge - http://winmerge.org/
XML Copy Editor - http://xml-copy-editor.sourceforge.net/

RSS Readers
klipfolio - http://www.serence.com/site.php
RssReader - http://www.rssreader.com/
SharpReader - http://www.sharpreader.net/

System Info and Monitoring
AIDA32 - http://www.sofotex.com/AIDA32-download_L9326.html
ATITool - http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/
ATI Tray Tools - http://www.guru3d.com/article/atitraytools/189/
CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
GPU-Z - http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
HWiNFO - http://www.hwinfo.com/
Motherboard Monitor - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311
SpeedFan - http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
Sysmetrix - http://www.xymantix.com
WCPUID - http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002.../download.html

System Tools
AutoHotkey - http://www.autohotkey.com/
CCleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com/

Video Codecs
Real Alternative - http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...lternative.htm
k-lite codec pack - http://www.codecguide.com/
Combined Community Codec Pack (cccp) - http://www.cccp-project.net/

Video Players
BsPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/
Crystal Player - http://www.crystalplayer.com/index.php?page=downloads
DivX Player - http://www.divx.com/
KMPlayer - http://www.kmplayer.com/
Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=82303
VLC - http://www.videolan.org/
Gom Player - http://www.gomlab.com/eng/

Video Tools and Converters
AVIDemux - http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
DScaler - http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/
DVDx - http://www.labdv.com/dvdx/
GSpot - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
Handbrake - http://handbrake.fr/
MobileVideo For iPod - http://www.keronsoft.com/mobilevideo...converter.html
Movica - http://vani.bhargav.googlepages.com/movica
Personal Video Database - http://www.videodb.info
PSP Video 9 - http://www.pspvideo9.com/
RatDVD - http://www.ratdvd.ca/
Super - http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
TMPGEnc - http://www.tmpgenc.net/en/e_main.html
VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/
VirtualDubMod - http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=65889

Web Browsers
Firefox - http://www.getfirefox.com
Flock - http://www.flock.com/
Chrome - http://www.google.com/chrome
K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/
Netscape - http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/
Opera - http://www.opera.com

Web Servers
Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/
HTTP File Server - http://www.rejetto.com/hfs/
Sambar - http://www.sambar.com/
TinyWeb - http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html

Webcam Software
booruWebCam - http://www.booru.net/
Dorgem - http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/
grabMotion - http://www.grabmotion.com/
Pryme - http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/
Splitcam - http://www.splitcamera.com/index.html