Pencil2D is an open source animation tool for making 2D hand-drawn animations, with raster and vector workflows. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux and FreeBSD. The software is free to use, including commercially.
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Pinta is a free, open-source program for drawing and image editing that combines an easy-to-use interface with tools such as a magic wand, clone and recolor. It offers real-time effects with live previews and unlimited undo, and is available on Linux, Mac, Windows and BSD.
Piskel is a free, open-source web-based editor for spriting and pixel art. It creates pixel art, game sprites and animated GIFs, and is best used in a desktop browser in landscape orientation. The tools include a live animation preview and export to GIF or PNG, including spritesheets. A separate child-friendly version, Piskel for Kids, is available. Free desktop and offline applications exist for Windows, OSX and Linux.
PixiEditor is a free and open-source universal 2D graphics editor built around a Node Graph workflow. It combines pixel art tools, raster image editing, drawing, vector art and frame-by-frame animation in one desktop application that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux and works offline.
PosteRazor is an open source tool that cuts a raster image into pieces which can be printed and assembled into a poster. The output is saved as a multipage PDF, and a wizard-like interface guides users through five steps. Windows, OSX and Linux versions are available.
PyDPainter is a pixel art program written in Python using PyGame, inspired by the Commodore Amiga version of Deluxe Paint. It offers painting tools, color cycling, animation and gradient fills, and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux under the GPLv3 license.
RapidRAW is a non-destructive, GPU-accelerated RAW image editor for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The editor and its built-in local AI tools are free; an optional RapidRAW Cloud subscription provides remote GPU generative edits.
RawTherapee is a free, cross-platform raw image processing program released as Free Software under GPLv3. It is designed for developing raw files from a broad range of digital cameras and offers a non-destructive, 32-bit floating point processing engine with modern demosaicing algorithms. It is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows and in over 15 languages.
REAPER is a digital audio production application for Windows, macOS and Linux. It provides multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering, supports many plug-in formats, and can be extended and scripted. A single fully featured version is available for evaluation for 60 days.
rFXGen is a sound effects generator based on Dr.Petter's sfxr. It offers predefined presets, multiple wave types and sound slots, and can export wave data as .wav, .qoa, .raw or .h files. It is available as a WebAssembly online tool and as a standalone download for Windows and Linux.
Rosegarden is a music composition and editing environment for Linux built around a MIDI sequencer with music notation understanding and basic digital audio support. It is described as aimed at composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home recording environments.
rx is described as a modern and minimalist pixel editor built around a command system inspired by vi's modal nature. Its listed features include built-in sprite animation with live preview, working with multiple files simultaneously, undo and redo, animated GIF output, HiDPI support and UI scaling. It runs on Linux, macOS and Windows and requires OpenGL 3.3 or later.
Schism Tracker is a free and open-source reimplementation of Impulse Tracker, a sample-based music composition tool. Its player is based on a modified ModPlug engine with bugfixes and playback changes. It runs on platforms supported by SDL, including Windows, macOS, Linux, and others.
Shinobi is an open-source video management system written in Node.js for recording and viewing camera streams. It runs on Linux, Mac and Windows, supports RTSP cameras and offers live stream display in a web browser. The project also provides video recording management, a tiered user system and motion detection.
Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor for Windows, Mac and Linux. It supports many audio and video formats through FFmpeg, allows native timeline editing without import, and handles resolutions up to 8K.
Sound Show is a soundboard application for live events that plays music, sound effects and ambience, and can send images, video, text, webcams and color backgrounds to a dedicated display. It is available on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android. A free core version exists, with limits on categories and playables per category, and a Pro edition unlocks unlimited categories and advanced features.
SPARTA is a collection of open-source audio plug-ins for spatial audio production and playback, distributed in VST, VST3, AU, LV2 and AAX formats for MacOS, Linux and Windows. The plug-ins support ambisonic processing up to tenth order, and the binaural decoders can load custom HRTFs via SOFA files and support head-tracking via OSC messages.
SpookyGhost is an open source tool by Encelo for creating procedural animations for sprites. It animates properties such as size, rotation, position and color, and allows users to deform sprite shapes. Lua scripts can be written for custom animations, and results can be exported as single frames or a spritesheet. Native versions are available for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.
Storyboarder is a free, open-source tool for visualizing a story as storyboards. It offers six simple drawing tools, adding boards with a click, and entering dialogue, action, timing and shot type. Boards can be edited in Photoshop and update automatically on save. It is available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
AutoSubs is a free, open-source tool for generating subtitles with AI models that run entirely on the user's machine. It works standalone or integrates with DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro and After Effects. It includes subtitle formatting, word-level timing and speaker labeling, and runs on Mac, Windows and Linux under the MIT license.
SuperCollider is a platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition, used by musicians, artists and researchers working with sound. It is free and open source software for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Its three main components are scsynth, a real-time audio engine implemented as a server; sclang, an interpreted programming language acting as a client; and scide, an editor for sclang.
Synfig Studio is a free and open-source 2D animation program for Windows, Linux and macOS, licensed under GNU GPL v3. It is designed for creating film-quality animation using vector and bitmap artwork, and it eliminates the need to create animation frame by frame. It provides vector tweening, 50+ layers and filters, and a bone system for cutout animation.
Tenacity is an easy-to-use, cross-platform multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, Linux and other operating systems, developed by volunteers as open-source software. It supports recording from real or virtual audio devices, import and export of many audio formats extendible with FFmpeg, up to 32-bit float audio, and VST, LV2 and AU plug-ins.
TextureLab is a downloadable tool for Windows, macOS and Linux that generates procedural textures. It offers over 70 nodes, exports all textures at once or individually, includes Unity export, and performs most filtering and texture generation operations on the GPU. It is free and open source under the LGPLv3 licence and is still in development.