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  1. ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors

    Ascensio System SIA (ONLYOFFICE)

    87

    Modern document editors with high compatibility

    Open source 85 WindowsLinuxmacOS
  2. PDFsam Basic

    Sober Lemur S.r.l.s. (PDFsam)

    87

    Merge and split PDF files for free

    Open source 85 WindowsLinuxmacOS
  3. GnuCash

    GnuCash Project

    87

    Accounting for individuals and small businesses

    Open source 80 WindowsLinuxmacOS
  4. Kile

    KDE e.V.

    87

    LaTeX Frontend

    Open source 77 Windows
  5. Microsoft PowerBI Desktop

    Microsoft Corporation

    87

    Visualize any data and integrate the visuals into the apps you use every day with Power BI, a unified platform for self-service and business intelligence.

    Free 77 Windows
  6. Microsoft Visio Viewer 2016

    Microsoft Corporation

    87

    Microsoft Visio 2016 Viewer allows anyone to view Visio drawings inside their Microsoft Internet Explorer Web browser.

    Free 77 Windows
  7. 87

    One command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. Dynamically built from Google Discovery Service. Includes AI agent skills.

    Open source 60 Windows
  8. Crow Translate

    KDE e.V.

    80

    A simple and lightweight translator that allows you to translate and speak text using Google, Yandex, Bing, LibreTranslate and Lingva.

    Open source 77 WindowsLinux
  9. Notion

    Notion Labs

    77

    Workspace for notes, tasks and wikis

    Free + paid plans 85 WindowsmacOSAndroidiOS & iPadOS
  10. LibreOffice

    The Document Foundation

    77

    Free office suite compatible with Office files

    Open source 80 WindowsLinuxmacOS
  11. Thunderbird

    MZLA Technologies (Thunderbird)

    77

    Free email and calendar

    Open source 80 WindowsLinuxmacOSAndroid
  12. KatanA Desktop

    HiroyukiFuruno

    72

    KatanA Desktop

    Open source 77 Windows
  13. Okular

    KDE e.V.

    72

    View and annotate documents

    Open source 72 Linux
  14. Time tracker

    Open source 77 macOS
  15. Actual Budget

    Actual Budget

    67

    A local-first personal finance app

    Open source 77 WindowsLinux
  16. AFFiNE

    AFFiNE

    67

    A privacy-focused, local-first, open-source, and ready-to-use alternative for Notion & Miro. One hyper-fused platform for wildly creative minds.

    Free + paid plans 77 WindowsmacOS
  17. 67

    Memory training application

    Open source 77 LinuxmacOS
  18. AppFlowy

    AppFlowy-IO

    67

    The Open Source Alternative To Notion.

    Open source 77 WindowsLinuxmacOS
  19. Asana

    Asana, Inc.

    67

    Manage your team’s work, projects, & tasks online

    Free + paid plans 77 WindowsmacOS
  20. ASAP Utilities (Home and Student edition)

    A Must in Every Office BV - Bastien Mensink

    67

    A friendly Excel add-in that saves our users a lot of valuable time.

    Free 77 Windows
  21. 67

    基于大模型的文档校对、格式调整与降低 AI 率软件

    Open source 77 Windows
  22. 67

    Replace text in, add or remove content, and edit thousands of Word documents in doc and docx formats, PDFs, RTF documents, and other text documents.

    Free + paid plans 77 Windows
  23. Replace, insert new content, remove existing text, change text style and formatting in 1000s of Word and text documents in bulk. Save results and convert between various document formats: docx, doc, pdf, odt, rtf, wpd, txt, xps, html, and others.

    Free + paid plans 77 Windows
  24. BeeBEEP

    Marco Mastroddi Software

    67

    BeeBEEP is the office messaging application that does not need an external server to let users communicate with each other.

    Free 77 Windows
  25. BlueMail

    BlueMail

    67

    BlueMail is a free, beautifully designed, cross platform email & calendar app, capable of managing an unlimited number of mail accounts from various providers.

    Free 77 WindowsLinux
  26. CalDavSynchronizer

    Gerhard Zehetbauer

    67

    Sync Outlook Everywhere

    Open source 77 Windows
  27. CherryTree

    Giuseppe Penone

    67

    A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file.

    Open source 77 WindowsLinux
  28. CopyQ

    Lukas Holecek

    67

    Clipboard manager with advanced features

    Open source 77 WindowsLinux
  29. Corresync

    nkiyohara

    67

    Local-first guarded mail and calendar CLI and MCP server

    Open source 77 Windows
  30. Craft

    Luki Labs Ltd.

    67

    Create documents, which will make an impact.

    Free + paid plans 77 WindowsmacOS

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