Who says all good things cost a price. Here is the list of free apps we think the best. All software we have listed here are free but Make no mistake – they are powerful too. Let’s jump to our list by categories.
OFFICE SUITE
We have many options when it comes to office suites, well Microsoft office is the standard and if you can afford -the best. Among the free options we think LibreOffice is the best, it has all necessary features and it is fully compatible with Microsoft Office documents. OpenOffice is also very good productivity suit. For web-browser based apps GoogleDocs is a good one.
Download:LibreOffice
MEDIA PLAYER and MEDIA MANAGER
While most of the folks go with VLC Media Player (and actually it is a good media player), we think that the KM Player is best media playing software. KMPlayer plays most media formats and it has good skinning support. Also it does not have stupid 200% volume bar (sorry VLC but I hate that) It has good subtitle support and slick UI.
If you are thinking of choosing a Media Center Software download Kodi (formally XBMC) it can play almost all media formats and it has a good 10 Foot UI.
To organize your media files MediaMonkey free is a really good software. It can tag media files and auto organize them.
Download: KMPlayer | Kodi | MediaMonkey
ANTIVIRUS and ANTIMALWARE
Thanks to Trojan horses and stupid shortcut and autorun viruses -Now everyone knows that antivirus is really important. But some people still don’t know that many good free antivirus are available on the internet. Our pick for antivirus is Avast Free Antivirus. It is fast and avast can protect you from most of the Viruses. For a second opinion one can use MalwareBytes Antimalware – avast for real time scan and Malwarebytes for on-demand scan.
Download: Avast | MalwareBytes
SYSTEM MAINTAINCE and CLEANUP
To keep your PC fast and running happily we need some cleaning apps. CCleaner is both free and excellent. It offers junk cleanup, registry cleanup. Heck! You can even use it to disable auto-start apps.
Download : CCleaner
WEB BROWSER
In one word CHROME. The world’s most popular web browser and the fastest too. Chrome offers wide range of extensions and themes to choose from – it is quick snappy and compatible with most of websites and web-apps. If you are an Open Source fan then you can go for Mozilla FireFox or Chromium – the open source version of chrome.
Download : Chrome | FireFox | Chromium
IMAGE EDITOR
We know that for image manipulation and editing Adobe Photoshop is the “Industry Standard”. Still if you want a powerful, feature rich and free image editing software you can use GIMP. It has support for layers and you can extend the functionalities by using plugins, GIMP is available for Linux also.
Download : GIMP
IMAGE VIEWER
For a normal user we would recommend Google Picasa – the editing options are very straight forward and the Picasa image Viewer is one of the most beautiful viewer we found till date.
For a PowerUser we would recommend using IRFANVIEW. It is free, Feature, Packed and it will keep any PowerUser happy.
Download : Picasa | IRFAN VIEW
FILE COMPRESSION
We have already discussed many ways to compress data and save disk space. Data compression helps us sending data via E-mail or web. Zip and rar are the most used formats for archives. 7zip is an excellent app with support to almost all compression formats. On the other hands the compression ratio of 7z files is the best.
Download : 7Zip
DOWNLODERS
Downloading stuff form internet can be made really quick if you use good internet Downloading Software. Internet download manager is quite famous and I have personally seen some people trying to download Pirated copy of this app. To download stuff form internet faster, we think Free Download Manger is the best (may be better than the Paid Ones) for downloading. When it comes to downloading your perfectly legal torrents µtorrent is excellent. That is small on size and lite on resources.
Download : Free Download Manager | uTorrent
DESKTOP CUSTOMIZATION
To make your desktop fancy and more productive Rainmeter is the best. It offers highly customizable skins to make your desktop look cool, here is a snapshot of my own desktop.
Rainmeter gives information at a glance and web is filled with really good rainmeter themes.
Rainmeter gives information at a glance and web is filled with really good rainmeter themes.
Download : Rainmeter
Liked our list? What to suggest us any app to add to this list – drop us your comments below.
