1. Photo Editing
Polarr has crept up on us over the past few years, but since it made the jump from mobile to PC app, it’s proved to be one of the coolest and most capable photo-tweaking tools available, paid or not.
Adobe Photoshop Express will edit, retouch, assemble collages, and combine photos in a tap to create something new. Photoshop Express includes unique lenses and effects to make photo magic automatic.
2. Music-making
Cakewalk is originally a DOS sequencer launched in 1987 and coming to Windows in 1991, Cakewalk recently came under new ownership and is back from the dead – those new owners decided the app was best given to the world for free. Pro-level recording, all the tools you need to mix and master tracks, not to mention a host of software instruments and effects.
Ardour is an open-source, a collaborative effort of a worldwide team including musicians, programmers, and professional recording engineers. Record, edit, mix any music files.
3. Audio editing
Audacity almost annoys us: we’re absolutely desperate to recommend something different in this slot, but there’s still nothing else that can hold a candle to it for audio cutting or tweaking. It’s a tool that everyone should have installed at all times.
Ocenaudio is a cross-platform, easy to use, fast and functional audio editor. It is the ideal software for people who need to edit and analyze audio files without complications. ocenaudio also has powerful features that will please more advanced users.
4. Video editing
Shotcut has been carving out its own niche in the video-editing world, and while it’s still catching up to the big boys, it’s also entirely free – no surprises, no restrictions. Unless you look on the Microsoft Store, where it’s inexplicably paid-for. Don’t do that.
OpenShot is simple and powerful. It is easy to use, quick to learn, and surprisingly powerful video editor.
5. Notes
Notepad++ – There’s a whole lot of contextual formatting in Notepad++ (it is, after all, made for sketching code in all manner of languages), but it’s just as much a straightforward and capable alternative to Microsoft’s Notepad. And that’s a good thing.
Atom is a hackable text editor for the 21st Century. A text editor is at the core of a developer’s toolbox, but it doesn’t usually work alone. Work with Git and GitHub directly from Atom with the GitHub package.
6. Office
LibreOffice – Pretty much a free equivalent to Microsoft Office, and compatible with the same file formats, LibreOffice is a non-paid essential. It even does more: There’s a full database and a complex formula editor included.
Apache OpenOffice – Apache OpenOffice is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers.
7. Disk rescue
TestDisk – Whole drive letting you down? Mechanical disk giving you the click of death? TestDisk can ignore all the usual safeguards and filesystems in order to wade through the raw data, sector by sector, giving you one last chance to rescue your files.
Paragon Rescue Kit – A failure occurred? Don’t worry, It’s not end of the world. Back up and recover your assets, correct boot data, and undelete partitions with Paragon Rescue Kit Free.
8. File manager
Tablacus – Quite why Windows Explorer doesn’t have tabs in 2019 we don’t know, but Tablacus solves that problem: It’s a file manager that, yes, includes tabs. It also lets you tile folders in panes, and disable any components you don’t need.
XYplorer is a file manager for Windows. It features tabbed browsing, a powerful file search, a versatile preview, a highly customizable interface, optional dual pane, and a large array of unique ways to efficiently automate frequently recurring tasks. It’s fast, light, and portable.
9. Backup
Cobian Backup is one of the most capable free backup packages there is. Send your files off to an external drive, send them to a network location, send them to an FTP server: whatever works.
EaseUS Todo Backup lets you create backups of your important files or your entire computer through its streamlined interface.
10. System cleaner
CCleaner does all those long, laborious clean-up tasks in one place. You can either run a selective scrubbing job, or set up a batch job to deal with everything at once. Just be wary of the pop-ups.
Advanced System Optimizer is the most powerful cleanup and optimization software for Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista and XP. We’ve been developing Windows performance software since 1999. We do a better job of removing unnecessary files because we know where Windows hides the junk files that you no longer need.
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