A GitHub repository offering recommendations for lightweight Linux distributions, browsers, text editors, desktop environments, window managers, terminals, file managers and media players. It lists alternatives to systemd and minimalist software suggestions.
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Awesome Open Source is a website for browsing and comparing open source projects. It organizes projects by categories and by programming languages, and applies expert categorization, alternatives and package manager metrics. The site states it spans 7,000 topics in 59 categories across 1,500,000 projects and 345,000 packages.
Ayaya is a temporary file uploader. The site states that the maximum upload size is 4GiB and that files expire after 14 days. It reports files hosted and lists patchy.moe as an alternative domain.
Blink is a GitHub-hosted open source project that implements a minimal x86-64 Linux emulator, also referred to as Blinkenlights. The repository includes documentation for getting started with the emulator, alternative build options, and testing procedures.
Bloop is a fast code search engine written in Rust, distributed through GitHub releases. The repository was archived by its owner on Jan 2, 2025, and is now read-only. Release notes for versions v0.6.0 to v0.6.5 list changes such as explaining files in a user-set language, adding multiple files to code studio, code coloring for COBOL, and alternative input types for Chinese users.
BreakTimer is break reminder software for Windows, macOS and Linux. It reportedly lets users set how often breaks happen and how long each one lasts, customize app colours and messages shown during breaks, configure working hours, and receive notifications when breaks are about to start.
Bruno is a local, open-source API client for REST, GraphQL, gRPC and Websocket. Its collections are stored as plain-text files in a repository and managed through Git, without cloud syncing or an account. The page presents it as a developer-first alternative to Postman-like platforms.
Cabin is a lightweight, cookieless web analytics service presented as a Google Analytics alternative. The site says it stores no visitor profile, cookies, IP logs or fingerprints, and provides public dashboards, scroll depth, AI traffic reporting and carbon emissions analysis from visitor data. Pricing lists a free plan with one domain and 10,000 monthly pageviews; paid plans list more domains and pageviews.
CruiseMapper offers free cruise tracking, showing current ship positions, along with itinerary schedules, deck plans, cabin information, and reports on cruise accidents and incidents. It also publishes cruise news and covers a wide range of cruise lines and river cruises.
CyPwn IPA Library is a sideloading library offering Regular and TrollStore IPAs in separate repositories. The site lists IPA files with version, size and upload date, and provides links to add them to AltStore, ESign, Scarlet, KravaSigner and SideStore. A search function and a Discord invite are also provided.
The Data Science Lab is a blog of experiments with data. Posts cover topics including k-means clustering, k-means++ seeding, the gap statistic, and an alternative approach to selecting the optimal number of clusters based on a 2004 publication by Pham, Dimov and Nguyen. A 2014 annual report notes the blog was viewed about 74,000 times that year.
Devika is an open-source implementation of an Agentic Software Engineer, initially started as an alternative to Devin. It uses large language models, planning and reasoning algorithms, and web browsing to develop software from human instructions. The project is in an early experimental stage, and the repository notes that there are unimplemented or broken features.
Fossies is a curated repository of selected free and open source software focused mainly on Internet, engineering and science. It lets users view archive contents and browse individual member files, and provides doxygen-generated source code documentation for most packages. It also offers package meta information and license file overviews.
F-Droid is an app distribution ecosystem for Android focused on free and open source software. It operates a repository of verified free software Android apps and provides server tools, scripts and build and release tools for setting up and running an app store, including additional or alternative repositories.
Isitreallyfoss is a website where projects are evaluated against the rights and freedoms provided by open source and free software. The repository on Codeberg holds the site's source, including about pages, documented license and transparency issues, and the project entries shown on the site. The site is built with Astro, and requests and feedback are accepted through Codeberg issues.
LO4D.com offers free software downloads for Windows PCs, with reviews, comparisons, alternatives and security reports including antivirus tests. It separates freeware from non-free titles by category and states that files are tested against malware and other threats.
MacFetch is a macOS system information utility designed as an alternative to the Neofetch tool. It is written in the Rust programming language, and its GitHub repository includes documentation on the project's purpose, Homebrew installation, and building from source code.
GitHub profile of Mahsima Dastan, a part-time data scientist who states work on the Altern AI Directory. The profile lists pinned repositories with curated lists of AI tools, AI directories, marketing tools, SaaS directories and AI books.
A repository of material for the exercise classes of a Big Data Analytics master course. Hands-on sessions cover Spark and its machine learning library, Map/Reduce implementations of linear regression and alternating least squares, streaming analytics with Recursive Least Squares, and image classification with convolutional neural networks. Material is provided as Jupyter notebooks.
Modern Unix is a collection of modern, faster and saner alternatives to common Unix commands. The repository lists command-line tools including bat, a cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration, and ripgrep, described as an extremely fast alternative to grep that respects gitignore. It also covers tools for file listing, git and diff viewing, directory navigation and system monitoring.
MOVE! Coach is a free app for Veterans and others who want to manage their weight. It offers self-management modules on healthy eating and physical activity, one per week for 16 weeks. Trackers log weight, activity minutes, steps, calories and water intake, and report charts show trends. The app states it is not a clinical intervention or treatment when used alone.
Mozhi is an alternative frontend for many translation engines, initially made as a maintained fork or rewrite of SimplyTranslate. The README lists supported engines Google, Reverso, DeepL, LibreTranslate, Yandex, MyMemory and DuckDuckGo, and notes the engine code has been split into a separate repository. The author states a focus on the API and engines, with a CLI and webapp planned.
Official repository for Open Web Analytics which is an open source alternative to commercial tools such as Google Analytics. Stay in control of the data you collect about the use of your website or app. Please consider sponsoring this project.
Opengist is a self-hosted pastebin powered by Git, described as an open-source alternative to GitHub Gist. Snippets are stored in a Git repository and can be read or modified with standard Git commands or through a web interface. It supports public, unlisted and private snippets, Git operations over HTTP or SSH, and Docker deployment.