Best free alternatives for paid software

Free alternatives for paid software which must you have in your PC

It's legit for them to charge you because a company with a use development team is making software only for you but you don't always need paid software do you sometimes free software are

just as good as the paid ones if not better so here are some free alternatives to expensive software that needs more

Let’s check out some best free alternatives for paid software well if

 

• .       OBS ​

You are not into gaming or you are not a YouTube you might not have heard of OBS studio but hey you should still know about it.

OBS studio lets you record your screen or stream it over YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, while most free ones limit the screen recording or streaming to 1080 30p here you can go 4k 60p well if your screen supports that obviously on top of that you can also add overlays mixer sound and all the features that you get with a pro streaming software so the next time you want to record your screen or stream it remember OBS studio.

• .       Libre Office ​

Another Microsoft product well I would agree that it's legit Microsoft Office is paid because it has its own usability it's an enterprise level software with lots of tools and features inside it but mostly it's an overkill for you and me you would be better off using the libre office for the start the names are quite confusing let me put it this way libra writer is ms word while libra calc is ms excel and libra impress is what you call MS PowerPoint the controls presentation and the UI mostly are built around Microsoft Office apps most of all it supports MS Office files which for me is pretty damn important suppose I get a doc or Excel files from someone and I don't have MS Office now how do I work with this file well just double click and open it in libre office it's as simple as that

 

• .     Station ​

This one is quite interesting all the friends is free but will occasionally nudge you to upgrade by making you wait a few seconds with time this gets annoying and I don't want to pay a subscription fee for a web wrapper so me and everyone here just switched to station which is free supports more apps and has a few extra features like Google Drive support DND etc. most importantly it does not make you wait for messages overall station is way better than France

• .       Brave Browser ​

This list wouldn't have been complete without brief I've been using brave browser on my Android for a long time and a large number of people don't know that it also has a desktop variant built on chromium I feel at home using brave browser since all the controls are similar to that of Google Crome and the inbuilt ad blocker makes sure that the website load time is faster but the best thing is it has cross-platform browser sync so the bookmarks get synced right away the sink is in beta as of now but works good.

• .       Wox Launcher ​

I Don’t have to tell you how bad the Windows Start menu is now I know it's not paid but a cool replacement to that is the Wox launcher it's not only free but the awesome thing about it is the modules it has everything file search currency converter calculator etc. you name it and the module is present in Wox

• .       DaVinci Resolve ​

Now talking about videos good video editing software like Premiere Pro Final Cut Pro lots of pro all these software are good but the software which is gaining traction right now is DaVinci Resolve this one from black magic is basically free with a few add-on purchases here and there. The only issue is it's hard to understand the interface it's not suitable for beginners and you would need a relatively powerful system to edit your videos but it's a great tool if you want to edit your videos professionally and you are ready to invest some time learning the tool

• .       GIMP ​

 

Now might not be the ideal replacement for Photoshop but think of this what's the most used feature of Photoshop layers colour correction, colour grading, face retouching, annotation, stamping, masking well that's a lot but you can do all of these in GIMP my most favourite would be this stamp tool which I use quite often and yeah it's just a layer for color grading and you get all those color correction tools but here's the main problem the UI as you can see is not great plus coming from Photoshop you might have problems finding the smallest of tools like I cannot see the resolution while exporting the photo I have to go back and change all that in the preferences but hey free and open source

• .       Handbrake 

 

Handbrake which helps significantly reducing the size for example I upload this 1 GB of file to handbrake and after compression it is reduced to almost 30 to 40 MB and the loss in quality is just indistinguishable to the human eye but why handbrake just do a quick google search for video encoders most of them you'll find are paid and free ones don't let you export in 4k but handbrake on the other hand as all the latest codecs I mean H dot 264 and also lets me outsource in 4k custom frame rates which is just awesome the tragedy with this free open source apps is that they work exactly as advertised and sometimes even better than the paid one but due to lack of marketing budget you don't hear about them and neither they rank on the SEO.

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Let me know in the comments below if a free app that you use is better than a paid one. If you have any suggestion or want to ask question please comment below