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  • Vibes don’t ship, Retool does Icon
    Vibes don’t ship, Retool does

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    Tux Paint

    Tux Paint

    An award-winning drawing program for children of all ages

    Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program originally created for children ages 3 to 12, but enjoyed by all! It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program. You're presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative. Along with paintbrush, shapes and text, Tux Paint includes a "stamp" feature to add pre-drawn or photographic imagery to pictures, and a set of "magic tools" that provide filter effects (like blur, tint and waves) and interesting drawing tools (like train tracks, bubbles and grass). Tux Paint includes a collection of "starter" images, both coloring-book style and photo-realistic, and a large collections of stamps are available as a separate download. Additional content can be added by parents & teachers, or downloaded from 3rd parties. Tux Paint is available for Windows, macOS, Android, Linux, & Haiku operating systems, among others.
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    Downloads: 18,406 This Week
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    Logisim
    An educational tool for designing and simulating digital logic circuits, featuring a simple-to-learn interface, hierarchical circuits, wire bundles, and a large component library. As a Java application, it can run on many platforms.
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    Downloads: 7,745 This Week
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    Stellarium

    Stellarium

    A planetarium software that shows a 3D simulation of the night sky

    Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulae and others things like ground, landscape, atmosphere, etc.
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    Downloads: 2,538 This Week
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    Zero Install
    Zero Install is a decentralised cross-distribution software installation system. Create one package that works everywhere! With dependency handling and automatic updates, full support for shared libraries, and integration with native package managers
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    Downloads: 1,922 This Week
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    Quite Universal Circuit Simulator

    Quite Universal Circuit Simulator

    A circuit simulator with graphical user interface (GUI)

    Qucs is a circuit simulator with graphical user interface. The software aims to support all kinds of circuit simulation types, e.g. DC, AC, S-parameter, Transient, Noise and Harmonic Balance analysis. Pure digital simulations are also supported.
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    Downloads: 1,296 This Week
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    Jmol

    Jmol

    An interactive viewer for three-dimensional chemical structures.

    Over 1,000,000 page views per month. Jmol/JSmol is a molecular viewer for 3D chemical structures that runs in four independent modes: an HTML5-only web application utilizing jQuery, a Java applet, a stand-alone Java program (Jmol.jar), and a "headless" server-side component (JmolData.jar). Jmol can read many file types, including PDB, CIF, SDF, MOL, PyMOL PSE files, and Spartan files, as well as output from Gaussian, GAMESS, MOPAC, VASP, CRYSTAL, CASTEP, QuantumEspresso, VMD, and many other quantum chemistry programs. Files can be transferred directly from several databases, including RCSB, EDS, NCI, PubChem, and MaterialsProject. Multiple files can be loaded and compared. A rich scripting language and a well-developed web API allow easy customization of the user interface. Features include interactive animation and linear morphing. Jmol interfaces well with JSpecView for spectroscopy, JSME for 2D->3D conversion, POV-Ray for images, and CAD programs for 3D printing (VRML export).
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    Downloads: 1,129 This Week
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    Klavaro Touch Typing Tutor

    Klavaro Touch Typing Tutor

    A very efficient tutor.

    A touch typing tutor very flexible, supporting customizable keyboard layouts. You can edit and save new or unknown keyboard layouts, as the basic course was designed to not depend on specific ones. Also, there are some charts about the learning process.
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    Downloads: 931 This Week
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    Moodle

    Moodle

    A free course management system (CMS) to create online learning sites

    Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a Free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites. https://moodle.org/
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    Downloads: 684 This Week
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    eXe

    eXe

    eLearning XHTML editor

    eXe, the eLearning XHTML editor, is a freely available authoring application that assists teachers in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup. Resources authored in eXe can be exported to the web or LMS.
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    Downloads: 315 This Week
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    Failed Payment Recovery for Subscription Businesses

    For subscription companies searching for a failed payment recovery solution to grow revenue, and retain customers.

    FlexPay’s innovative platform uses multiple technologies to achieve the highest number of retained customers, resulting in reduced involuntary churn, longer life span after recovery, and higher revenue. Leading brands like LegalZoom, Hooked on Phonics, and ClinicSense trust FlexPay to recover failed payments, reduce churn, and increase customer lifetime value.
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    "Tux, of Math Command" is a math drill game starring Tux, the Linux Penguin. Lessons are included from simple number typing through addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of positive and negative numbers. It is intended for kids ~4-10.
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    Downloads: 177 This Week
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    eduActiv8

    eduActiv8

    A collection of interactive educational exercises

    eduActiv8 is a free Open Source multi-platform educational application that aims to assist in learning various early education topics - from learning the alphabet and new words, colours, time to a wide range of maths-related subjects. eduActiv8 is a continuation of the development of the pySioGame project just under a new name. It is being developed on GitHub at: https://github.com/imiolek-ireneusz/eduActiv8 but 'compiled' releases are published here. The latest version has been partially redesigned to improve usability, but certain activities will still be in the somewhat "prototype quality" - this will be gradually redesigned as time allows. Currently, it is available for Windows, MacOS, Linux and Android (you may need to allow unknown sources to install it on Android). Packages for multiple Linux distributions are available from: https://software.opensuse.org//download.html?project=home%3Aimiolek-i&package=eduactiv8 Support eduActiv8 at https://ko-fi.com/eduactiv8
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    Downloads: 326 This Week
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    FET- Free timetabling software
    FET is free timetabling software for schools, high-schools and universities. Scheduling is done automatically. Please visit the project web site https://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/ to be sure you always have the latest version
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    Downloads: 201 This Week
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    Zekr: Multimedia Quran Study Software
    Zekr is an open source Quran study software for Windows, Linux and Mac. It's designed to ease access to the most authentic and valuable text of Muslims. Zekr provides Quran translations, recitation, search and other features to study Holy Quran.
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    Downloads: 154 This Week
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    wxMaxima

    wxMaxima

    Cross platform GUI for Maxima

    wxMaxima is a cross-platform graphical front-end for the computer algebra system Maxima based on wxWidgets. It provides nice display of mathematical output and easy access to Maxima functions through menus and dialogs. This project has moved to github and can be reached at http://wxmaxima-developers.github.io/wxmaxima/
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    Downloads: 129 This Week
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    OSGeoLive

    OSGeoLive

    Bootable linux distro for Geospatial Applications

    OSGeoLive is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine based on Lubuntu that allows you to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It is composed entirely of free software, allowing it to be freely distributed, duplicated and passed around. It provides pre-configured applications for a range of geospatial use cases, including storage, publishing, viewing, analysis and manipulation of data. It also contains sample datasets and documentation.
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    Downloads: 739 This Week
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    Educational activities based on multimedia elements (images, sounds, and text). ie. associations, puzzles, counting activities... Creation and modification of the activities using XML files. Multiple language support, multiple screen resolutions (SVG
    Downloads: 132 This Week
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    Kiwix

    Kiwix

    Wikipedia offline & more

    Kiwix is an offline reader for Web content. It's especially intended to make Wikipedia available offline. With Kiwix, you can enjoy Wikipedia on a boat, in the middle of nowhere... or in Jail. Kiwix manages to do that by reading ZIM files, a highly compressed open format with additional meta-data.
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    Downloads: 109 This Week
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    XDXF - XML Dictionary Exchange Format
    XDXF is a project to unite all existing open dictionaries and provide both users and developers with universal XML-based format, convertible from and to other popular formats like Mova, PtkDic, StarDict, ABBYY Lingvo etc. * New drafts of format can be found here: https://github.com/soshial/xdxf_makedict/tree/master/format_standard * The development of dictionary converter moved to Github: https://github.com/soshial/xdxf_makedict
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    Downloads: 101 This Week
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    vym - view your mind
    VYM (View Your Mind) is a tool to generate and manipulate maps which show your thoughts. Such maps can help you to improve your creativity and effectivity. You can use them for time management, to organize tasks, to get an overview over complex contexts
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    Downloads: 97 This Week
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    biblatex
    Biblatex is a LaTeX package which provides full-featured bibliographic facilities
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    Downloads: 86 This Week
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    forma.lms

    forma.lms

    forma.lms is a Learning Management System (LMS), opensource lms

    forma.lms is an open-source, web-based elearning platform (learning management system - LMS), used to manage and deliver online training courses. It's focused on corporate training needs. The projects forma.lms ((aka formalms) was originally created as a fork of Docebo CE v 4.0.5. The support comnunity of forma.Lms is active on https://forum.formalms.org/
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    Downloads: 99 This Week
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    MuseScore

    MuseScore

    Free music notation & composition software

    MuseScore is a free and open-source music notation software designed for composers, arrangers, educators, and musicians of all levels. It allows users to write, edit, and print professional-quality sheet music with no limitations or subscription fees. MuseScore Studio supports a wide range of instruments and ensembles, from solo piano and guitar to full orchestras and choirs. The software is easy to learn while still offering powerful tools for advanced notation and score layout. With support for MIDI input and formats like MusicXML and MIDI, MuseScore integrates smoothly with other music software and workflows. Built by a global open-source community, MuseScore continues to evolve through active development and community contributions. Support MuseScore at http://musescore.org/en/donate
    Downloads: 52 This Week
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    Biogenesis
    Biogenesis is an artificial life program that simulates the processes involved in the evolution of organisms. It shows colored segment based organisms that mutate and evolve in a 2D environment. Biogenesis is based on Primordial Life.
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    Downloads: 58 This Week
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    European digital radio & television uses the DVB standard to broadcast its data. Project X gives you a look behind the transmissions and tries its best to handle & repair many stream types and shows what went wrong on reception.
    Downloads: 40 This Week
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    Nootka

    Nootka

    application to learn classical score notation.

    Nootka helps understand the basics of music notation: reading and practicing playing musical scores. ​Long story short: the user plays notes (melody) displayed by the app, which then in real time checks if the notes was played correctly. The application is free and open source. It works under Windows, Linux, Mac and Android...
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    Downloads: 41 This Week
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