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General Computing Software and Tools that I use

Android

  1. Antenna Pod: AntennaPod is a podcast player that is open-source and you can subscribe to any RSS feed. AntennaPod is built by volunteers so it respects your privacy while giving you full control.
  2. Capy Reader: A smallish Android RSS reader for Feedbin, FreshRSS and local feeds. It's non cloud based and so far the best I have found in terms of render quality and automatically finding RSS feed URL from the root URL.
  3. LibreTube: a YouTube forntend (install it from F-droid)
  4. Fennec: a FireFox based web browser (install it from F-droid)
  5. FireFox Focus: privacy focused web browser by Mozilla
  6. Tasks: Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders

Cross platform or web based

  1. HandBrake: an open source video transcoder to convert video formats
  2. Kdenlive: an open source video editor
  3. Microsoft OneNote: for collaborative notes
  4. LibriVox: Free public domain audiobooks read by volunteers from around the world.
  5. MusicBrainz Picard: a cross-platform music tagger powered by the MusicBrainz database
  6. Obsidian: note taking app for building a knowledgebase
  7. Piped.video: a YouTube frontend
  8. Portable Apps: small Windows applications that do not require installation
  9. Raindop: bookmark manager
  10. ReadEra: ReadEra is an app for reading books, magazines, articles and documents that allows you to read books for free, without ads and without registration.I usually use it to read ebooks in epub format that I download from Standard Ebooks website.
  11. SimpleNote: a quick note taking app
  12. Standard Notes: end to end encrypted note taking app
  13. StartPage: Google based search engine, but privacy focused. I find it better than DuckDuckGo
  14. Standard Ebooks: beautifully edited public domain ebooks
  15. Termius: SSH client
  16. VisiData: VisiData is an interactive multitool for tabular data. It combines the clarity of a spreadsheet, the efficiency of the terminal, and the power of Python, into a lightweight utility which can handle millions of rows with ease.

Linux

  1. Gigolo: Gigolo is a frontend to easily manage connections to local and remote filesystems using GIO/GVfs. It allows you to quickly connect/mount a remote filesystem and manage bookmarks of such
  2. Grsync: Grsync is a simple GTK graphical front-end application for Rsync command line utility
  3. PDFsam: PDF split and merge tool (cross platform)

Windows

  1. MobaXterm: enhanced terminal for Windows with X11 server, tabbed SSH client, network tools and much more
  2. Toucan: Toucan is a small utility allowing you to synchronise, backup and secure your data
  3. SSHFS-Win Manager: SSHFS-Win Manager is a GUI (graphics user interface) for SSHFS on Windows

Mac

  1. Homebrew: Linux style package manager for Mac
  2. Magnet: organize open windows side by side.