This is a library of freeware products and software alternatives for paid products.

Full addresses are beside its titles, to unmask links so you may see clearly where you are going.

3D Graphics:
3DVia http://www.3dvia.com/software/3dvia-shape/
Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/
Art Of Illusion - http://www.artofillusion.org/
Blender - http://www.blender.org/
CreaToon http://www.creatoon.com/index.php
DAZ Studio - http://www.daz3d.com/program/studio/
Freestyle - http://freestyle.sourceforge.net/
Gelato - http://www.nvidia.com/page/gz_home.html
K-3D http://www.k-3d.org/wiki/Main_Page
Kerkythea http://www.kerkythea.net/joomla/index.php
OpenFX - http://www.openfx.org
OpenStages http://www.openstages.co.uk/
Pointshop 3D - http://graphics.ethz.ch/pointshop3d/downloadPS3D20.html
POV-Ray - http://www.povray.org/
SketchUp - http://sketchup.google.com/
Wings 3D - http://www.wings3d.com/

Anti-Virus:
a-squared Anti-Malware free - http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
Avast - http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
AVG - http://free.avg.com/
Avira AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
Comodo - http://www.comodo.com/home/internet-security/antivirus.php
ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/

Anti-Spyware:
Ad-aware SE Personal - http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php
GeSWall http://www.gentlesecurity.com/download.html
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware http://www.malwarebytes.org/
Microsoft Windows Defender - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx
SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SUPERAntiSpyware - http://www.superantispyware.com/
WinPatrol - http://www.winpatrol.com/

Audio Creation:
Ambiloop http://evenfall.com/ambiloop/index.html
Cross Platform Guitar Effect Processor http://cp-gfx.sourceforge.net/index.html
HammerHead - http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/introduction.shtml
Jesusonic - http://www.jesusonic.com/soft.php
Jungulator - http://www.iamthemightyjungulator.com/downloads
KRISTAL Audio Engine - http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/index.php
LMMS http://lmms.sourceforge.net/home.php
LoopBe1 - http://www.nerds.de/en/loopbe1.html
MP3myMP3 Recorder http://www.mp3mymp3.com/mp3_my_mp3_recorder.html
MuseScore http://www.musescore.org/en
orDrumbox - http://ordrumbox.sourceforge.net/
Reaper - http://www.cockos.com/reaper/index.php
Sound Club http://www.bluemoon.ee/history/scwin/index.html

Audio Players:
AIMP http://aimp.ru/index.php
Billy - http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy
CoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/
DeejaySystem MK1 - http://www.deejaysystem.com/prod_mk1.asp
Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Jet Audio Basic - http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/jetaudio/
Juke - http://www.wolosoft.com/en/juke/index.html
Mixxx - http://mixxx.sourceforge.net/
monoRAVEik - http://www.mono211.com/monoraveik/mr1200.html
MoreAmp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/moreamp/
Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/
musikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/
Nexus Radio http://www.nexusradio.com/download.php
QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/
Screamer Radio - http://www.screamer-radio.com/
Songbird http://getsongbird.com/
Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/
Xion - http://xion.r2.com.au/
XMPlay - http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html

Audio Tools and Converters:
Album Art Downloader http://sourceforge.net/projects/album-art/
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audiograbber - http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/
AudioShell - http://www.softpointer.com/AudioShell.htm
BeatHarness - http://www.beatharness.com/
BeSweet - http://dspguru.doom9.net/
CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
DarkWave Studio http://experimentalscene.com/darkwave/
EAC (Exact Audio Copy) - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
Free Audio Editor http://www.free-audio-editor.com/
Gephex - http://www.gephex.org/index.php
KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/
LameXP http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#lamexp
M4a/Flac/Ogg/Ape/Mpc Tag Support Plugin for Media Player & Media Center 2005 - http://www.softpointer.com/WMPTagSupport.htm
MediaInfo - http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en
MediaMonkey http://www.mediamonkey.com/
Medieval CUE Splitter - http://www.medieval.it/content/view/28/70/
MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html
mp3DirectCut - http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html
MP3Gain - http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/
mpTrim - http://www.mptrim.com/
MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/
opcode - http://www.opcode.co.uk/opd2d/default.asp
Pazera Free Audio Extractor http://www.pazera-software.com/products/audio-extractor/
Similarity http://www.music-similarity.com/
Smasher http://sourceforge.net/projects/smasher/
Sonic Visualiser http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/
SoundEngine Free - http://www.cycleof5th.com/products/soundengine/?lang=en
Switch Audio Converter - http://www.nch.com.au/switch/
TagScanner - http://www.xdlab.ru/en/index.htm
The GodFather - http://users.otenet.gr/~dtou20/
Tunatic - http://wildbits.com/tunatic/
Vibe Streamer - http://www.vibestreamer.com/
Wavosaur - http://www.wavosaur.com
winLAME http://winlame.sourceforge.net/

Backup and Synchronization:
Cobian Backup - http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm
DirSyncPro http://directorysync.sourceforge.net/
ERUNT - The Emergency Recovery Utility NT - http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
Everyday Auto Backup - http://www.backupsoft.net/everydayautobackup.htm
FavBackup http://www.favbrowser.com/backup/
FBackup http://www.fbackup.com/
FreeFileSync http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/
Syncback - http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html
Transmute http://www.gettransmute.com/

CD/DVD Burning/Cover Creation:
AVStoDVD http://sourceforge.net/projects/avstodvd/
Burrrn - http://www.burrrn.net/?page_id=4
CDBurnerXP - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
cdrtfe http://cdrtfe.sourceforge.net/cdrtfe/index_en.html
Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/?r=download
DVD Flick http://www.dvdflick.net/
DVDAuthor GUI - http://download.videohelp.com/liquid217/dvdauthorgui.pl
DVDStyler http://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/
eCover - http://www.esoftware.it/eCover/index.html
GUI for dvdauthor - http://www.videohelp.com/~gfd/
ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/
InfraRecorder http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/
ISO Recorder - http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm
MediaCD - http://www.botproductions.com/mediacd/index.html
Ultimate CD/DVD Burner - http://www.mispbo.com/burner.htm


Compression / Decompression:
7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/
AutoUnpack http://www.see-and-be.com/AutoUnpack/
bzip2 - http://www.bzip.org
Compress it - http://www.rg-software.de/
ExtractNow - http://www.extractnow.com/
FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/
Info-Zip - http://www.info-zip.org/
IZArc - http://www.izarc.org
KGB Archiver - http://kgbarchiver.sourceforge.net/
PeaZip http://peazip.sourceforge.net/
QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/quickzip5.html
TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/
Unpacker - http://lars.werner.no/?page_id=6
Unrar Extract and Recover - http://sourceforge.net/projects/unrarextractrec/
Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm

Defrag Software:
Auslogics Disk Defrag - http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/index.php
Defraggler http://www.defraggler.com/
IObit SmartDefrag http://www.iobit.com/iobitsmartdefrag.html
MyDefrag (formerly jkDefrag) http://www.mydefrag.com/
UltraDefrag http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/
WinContig http://wincontig.mdtzone.it/en/index.htm


Encryption and Data Security:
Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
ccrypt - http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/
CRYPTAINER LE - http://www.cypherix.com/cryptainer_le_download_center.htm
CryptoExpert http://www.secureaction.com/cryptoexpert/lite/
Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php
File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm
FreeOTFE http://www.freeotfe.org/
fseKrit - http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Other/fSekrit/
GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/
KeePass - http://keepass.sourceforge.net/
My Lockbox http://www.fspro.net/folder-lock-box/
Pismo File Mount Audit Package http://www.pismotechnic.com/pfm/ap/
Steghide - http://steghide.sourceforge.net/
TrueCrypt - http://www.truecrypt.org/

File Managers:
A43 - http://alterion.us/a43/
CubicExplorer - http://www.cubicreality.com/ce/
ExplorerXP - http://www.explorerxp.com
Free Disk Analyzer http://www.extensoft.com/?p=free_disk_analyzer
freeCommander - http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm
NDN (Necromancer's DOS Navigator) http://ndn.muxe.com/info/
Nomad.NET http://www.nomad-net.info/
Q-Dir - http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/Q-Dir
SpaceSniffer http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/
TeraCopy http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php
UltraExplorer - http://www.mustangpeak.net/ultraexplorer.html
wxCommander - http://www.wxcommander.com/
Xinorbis http://www.freshney.org/xinorbis/index.htm


Firewalls:
Comodo Personal Firewall - http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com
Sunbelt Personal Firewall - http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Home-Home-Office/Sunbelt-Personal-Firewall/
Outpost Firewall Free http://free.agnitum.com/
Tallemu Online Armor free - http://tallemu.com/free-firewall-protection-software.html

Image Editing and Design:
3D Box Shot Maker - http://www.bosseye.com/boxshot/index.htm
Active Pixels http://idea-systems.net/
Apophysis - http://sourceforge.net/projects/apophysis/
ArtRage Starter Edition - http://www.ambientdesign.com/artragedown.html
Artweaver - http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version
Beneton Movie GIF - http://software.benetonfilms.com/Beneton_Movie_GIF.php
Creative Docs http://www.creativedocs.net/
Evans Image Editor - http://www.evanolds.com/eie.html
HeliosPaint http://www.heliospaint.com/
IcoFX - http://icofx.xhost.ro/
Inkscape - http://www.inkscape.org/
InsightPoint http://www.icytec.com/
Paint .NET - http://www.getpaint.net
Pencil http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil/
PhotoFiltre Free - http://photofiltre.free.fr/frames_en.htm
Photoscape http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php
QuickBox http://www.dancemammal.com/quickbox.htm
RealWorld Paint.COM http://www.rw-designer.com/image-editor
Rendera http://www.rendera.net/
Rotoscope http://www.toonyphotos.com/
Sodipodi - http://sourceforge.net/projects/sodipodi/
StylePix http://hornil.com/en/products/stylepix/
Synfig - http://www.synfig.com/overview/
The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/
Tuxpaint - http://www.tuxpaint.org
WinMorph - http://www.debugmode.com/winmorph/

Image Tools and Converters:
Auto Adjust Photo http://log69.com/aaphoto_en.html
ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
Delineate - http://delineate.sourceforge.net/
Easy Thumbnails http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/index.php
Faststone Photo Resizer - http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm
FotoSketcher - http://www.fotosketcher.com/
ImageTasks http://www.imagetasks.com/
iWeb Album - http://www.eunq.com/
JPEGCrops - http://ekot.dk/programmer/JPEGCrops/
JPEGsnoop http://www.impulseadventure.com/photo/jpeg-snoop.html
MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
Phatch http://photobatch.stani.be/
Photo Studio http://www.stuffware.co.uk/photostudio/
Photology http://www.getphotology.com/index.html
PhotoME http://www.photome.de/
PhotoMerge - http://www.kiwiczech.net/index.php?menu=354&sub=5
PicPick http://picpick.wiziple.net/
PictureRelate - http://www.walthelm.net/picture-relate/
Pixel Ace - http://www.walltechsoftware.com/PixelAce/info.html
Pixie - http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html
Pixrev - http://pylab.altervista.org/pixrev.html
png2ico - http://winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico
PrtScr http://www.fiastarta.com/PrtScr/
Squash http://code.google.com/p/squash/
Time Stamp Modifier http://jpgtime.learsy.com/
Visipics http://www.visipics.info
WinShot http://www.sibnature.com/winshot/winshot.html


Instant Messengers:
AMSN - http://amsn.sourceforge.net/index.php
Bitwise IM - http://www.bitwiseim.com/
Fomine LAN Chat - http://www.fomine.com/lan-chat.html
Google Talk - http://www.google.com/talk/
Instantbird http://www.instantbird.com/
Mercury Messenger - http://www.mercury.to/
MiniAIM - http://miniaim.net/
Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/
Pandion - http://www.pandion.be/
Pidgin (formerly Gaim) http://www.pidgin.im/
SIM - http://sim-im.org/wiki/Main_Page
Skype - http://www.skype.com/
TerraIM - http://terraim.sourceforge.net/about.php
Trillian Basic - http://trillian.im


Office Application:
AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/
IBM Lotus Symphony http://symphony.lotus.com/
OpenOffice.org - http://www.openoffice.org/
PolyEdit Lite http://www.polyedit.com/free.html
qjot - http://www.xtort.net/xtort/qjot.php
Scribus - http://www.scribus.net/index.php?name=Sect...id=2&page=1
TextMaker Viewer - http://www.officeviewers.com/
WorkWeek http://www.team9a.web.ur.ru/dife.html


PDF Utilities:
Brava! Reader - http://www.bravaviewer.com/reader.htm
Cool PDF Reader - http://www.pdf2exe.com/reader.html
CutePDF - http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
doPDF http://www.dopdf.com/
eXPert PDF Reader http://www.visagesoft.com/products/pdfreader/
Foxit PDF Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
Ghostscript/GSView - http://www.ghostscript.com/awki
PDF 995 - http://www.pdf995.com/
PDF Split and Merge http://www.pdfsam.org/
pdf24-creator - http://en.pdf24.org/
PDFCreator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
PDFRedirect - http://www.exp-systems.com/PDFreDirect/Features.htm?1
PDFTK Builder - http://www.angusj.com/pdftkb/
PrimoPDF - http://www.primopdf.com/
Quick PDF Tools http://www.quickpdftools.com/


Video Players:
BSPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/
Cygwin MPlayer - http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/
Flash Movie Player - http://www.eolsoft.com/freeware/flash_movie_player/
GB-PVR - http://www.gbpvr.com/index.html
GOMPlayer - http://www.gomplayer.com/main.html
Got All Media HTPC http://www.gallm.com/default.aspx
Haihaisoft Universal Player http://www.drm-x.com/Haihaisoft-Universal-Player.aspx
KMPlayer http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10298
MaximusDVD - http://www.maximusdvd.com/
Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303
Media Player Classic Home Cinema - http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/
MediaPortal http://www.team-mediaportal.com/
Miro http://www.getmiro.com
MPUI - http://mpui.sourceforge.net/
SMPlayer http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/
VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org/
XBMC Media Center http://xbmc.org/

Video Tools and Converters:
abcAVI Tag Editor - http://abcavi.kibi.ru/
alltoavi - http://alltoavi.sourceforge.net/
AVI Screen Capture - http://www.evanolds.com/sc_main.html
AVI Trimmer - http://solveigmm.com/?Products&id=AVITrimmer
AVI2DVD - http://www.trustfm.net/divx/SoftwareAvi2Dvd.html
AVIDemux - http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
CaptureFlux - http://paul.glagla.free.fr/captureflux_en.htm
Debut Video Capture Software http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/index.html
DScaler - http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/
DVDx - http://www.labdv.com/dvdx/
EncodeHD - http://dcunningham.net/encodehd/
FlowPlayer - http://flowplayer.sourceforge.net/
FormatFactory http://www.pcfreetime.com/
Free Video Converter http://www.extensoft.com/?p=free_video_converter
Griffith - http://www.griffith.cc/
iPodTVShow - http://members.verizon.net/pucklock/iPTV/iPodTVShow.html
Mediacoder - http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/
MeGUI - http://megui.sourceforge.net/
Movica - http://vani.bhargav.googlepages.com/movica
Prism Video Converter - http://www.nchsoftware.com/prism/
PSP Video 9 - http://www.pspvideo9.com/
Riva FLV Encoder http://www.rivavx.com/index.php?encoder&L=3
Scilab Aurora http://scilab-aurora.sourceforge.net/English/index.html
Sublight http://www.subtitles-on.net/
Super http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
Taksi - http://taksi.sourceforge.net/
The FilmMachine http://members.home.nl/thefilmmachine/
TMPGEnc - http://www.tmpgenc.net/en/download.html
Transana - http://www.transana.org/index.htm
TVTagger - http://tvtagger.wordpress.com/
VCDEasy - http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/Au...eo/VCDEasy.html
VEMoDe http://www.free-codecs.com/download/VEMoDe.htm
Video DVD Maker Free - http://www.videodvdmaker.com/
Video Tools - http://www.bobyte.com/
VideoPad Video Editor - http://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/index.html
Videora iPod Converter http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/
VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/
VirtualDubMod - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65889
Wax - http://www.debugmode.com/wax/


Web Browsers:
Apple Safari http://www.apple.com/safari/
Firefox - http://www.mozilla.com/
Flock - http://www.flock.com/
Google Chrome http://www.google.com/chrome
K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/
Mozilla Prism - http://prism.mozilla.com/
Opera - http://www.opera.com
SeaMonkey http://www.seamonkey-project.org/