Igowerf from the anandtech forum posted a rather large list of freeware that can replace commercial products from the same category. For example a replacement for Microsoft Office would be of course Open Office which is free to download and use. It is a great list with lots of different categories that include Office, Internet / Networking, Graphics, IDE’s and editors, Audio/Mp3/CD, System tools, Video encoding/decoding/etc, 3D Modeling/Animation/etc and Misc suggestions.
So, if you are looking for a freeware C++ compiler, a new ftp program that has the same functionality as wsftp and flashfxp you’ve come to the right place and find this replacement right there.
Update: The list, while still available on the forum, has not been updated in the past five years. This makes it a lot less usable than at the time of writing. While you will still find some recommendations to link to software that is still actively developed, you will notice that some recommended applications have not been updated in a while.
One site that you may like to try is Alternative To a free site that displays service and software alternatives. All you need to do is enter a software or service that you want an alternative for to get a list of alternatives displayed right on the results page.
If you key in Microsoft Office Suite for instance, you will get recommendations such as Open Office, Libre Office or Google Docs, along with a dozen or so more on the results page.
While I cannot guarantee that every application or service under the sun is known by the service, it is likely that it knows all the popular programs and services that you may want to find alternatives for.
You can alternatively click on a category listing like backup, audio or file management to see the most popular applications and services of that category listed there.
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