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Free alternatives to ThinLinc client

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  1. RustDesk

    Purslane Ltd. (RustDesk)

    87

    Open-source remote desktop you can self-host

    Open source 90 WindowsLinuxmacOSAndroid
  2. ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors

    Ascensio System SIA (ONLYOFFICE)

    87

    Modern document editors with high compatibility

    Open source 85 WindowsLinuxmacOS
  3. PDFsam Basic

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

    87

    Merge and split PDF files for free

    Open source 85 WindowsLinuxmacOS
  4. 87

    The easy way to remotely connect with your home or work computer, or share your screen with others.

    Free 82 WindowsmacOS
  5. GnuCash

    GnuCash Project

    87

    Accounting for individuals and small businesses

    Open source 80 WindowsLinuxmacOS
  6. Kile

    KDE e.V.

    87

    LaTeX Frontend

    Open source 77 Windows
  7. 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
  8. Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2022

    Microsoft Corporation

    87

    Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2022 enables app deployment, remote debugging, remote testing, performance profiling, and unit testing on computers that do not have Visual Studio installed.

    Free 77 Windows
  9. Windows Admin Center (v2)

    Microsoft Corporation

    87

    A customer-deployed, browser-based app for managing servers, clusters, hyper-converged infrastructure, and Windows 10/11 PCs. It comes at no additional cost beyond Windows and is ready to use in production.

    Free 77 Windows
  10. 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
  11. Microsoft PowerBI Desktop

    Microsoft Corporation

    84

    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
  12. LibreOffice

    The Document Foundation

    77

    Free office suite compatible with Office files

    Open source 80 WindowsLinuxmacOS
  13. Thunderbird

    MZLA Technologies (Thunderbird)

    77

    Free email and calendar

    Open source 80 WindowsLinuxmacOSAndroid
  14. Remote Desktop

    Microsoft Corporation

    77

    You can access Windows Virtual Desktop resources on devices with Windows 7, Windows 10, and Windows 10 IoT Enterprise using the Windows Desktop client.

    Free 77 Windows
  15. KatanA Desktop

    HiroyukiFuruno

    75

    KatanA Desktop

    Open source 77 Windows
  16. Notion

    Notion Labs

    74

    Workspace for notes, tasks and wikis

    Free + paid plans 85 WindowsmacOSAndroidiOS & iPadOS
  17. AnyDesk

    AnyDesk Software GmbH

    72

    Fast remote access to any device

    Free + paid plans 77 WindowsLinuxmacOSAndroid
  18. Okular

    KDE e.V.

    72

    View and annotate documents

    Open source 65 Linux
  19. 1PhoneMirror

    MSEndpointMgr

    67

    Wireless screen mirroring for iOS (AirPlay) and Android (scrcpy) on Windows.

    Open source 77 Windows
  20. Time tracker

    Open source 77 macOS
  21. 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 Windows
  22. 67

    Memory training application

    Open source 77 LinuxmacOS
  23. Apollo

    Yukino Song

    67

    Sunshine fork - The easiest way to stream with the native resolution of your client device.

    Open source 77 Windows
  24. Asana

    Asana, Inc.

    67

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

    Free + paid plans 77 Windows
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. Avash

    Adrien Cros

    67

    Native, fast and secure SSH, RDP and VNC connection manager

    Open source 77 Windows
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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

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