NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra BEST FIT Healthy growth: Stars rising (+13,865 in 30 days) with 100+ people committing, active 11 of the last 12 weeks. ★ 92k active today
NSA's software reverse engineering framework with disassembly, decompilation, graphing, scripting and a debugger.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Confirmed: Yes · Apache-2.0
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Confirmed: CPU works
- Setup
- Confirmed: Medium
obsproject/obs-studio BEST FIT Healthy growth: Stars rising (+1,356 in 30 days) with 100+ people committing, active 11 of the last 12 weeks. ★ 78k active today
Mature desktop app for recording and streaming screen, camera and audio with scene compositing; saves local files, no share links.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · GPL-2.0-or-later
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Confirmed: CPU works
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm BEST FIT Actively maintained: 100+ people committing, active 12 of the last 12 weeks. ★ 67k active today
All-in-one desktop or Docker app to chat with your documents using local or cloud LLMs, with agents and a built-in vector database.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Confirmed: Yes · MIT
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Confirmed: CPU works
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
janhq/jan BEST FIT Actively maintained: 100+ people committing, active 12 of the last 12 weeks. ★ 45k active today
Desktop app that downloads and runs LLMs from Hugging Face offline, with optional cloud model connections and a local OpenAI-compatible API.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Confirmed: Yes · Apache-2.0
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Confirmed: CPU works
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
upscayl/upscayl BEST FIT Quiet lately: No commits in the last 12 weeks.Few active maintainers: Only 2 people committed in the last 12 months, so its future depends on very few hands. ★ 51k active 2w ago
Desktop AI image upscaler for Windows, macOS and Linux, built on Real-ESRGAN models running through ncnn and Vulkan.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · AGPL-3.0
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Confirmed: GPU needed
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
nexu-io/open-design BEST FIT Actively maintained: 100+ people committing, active 11 of the last 12 weeks. ★ 103k active today
Local-first desktop workspace where a coding agent or your own model key turns a brief into web prototypes, slides, images and motion graphics.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Confirmed: Yes · Apache-2.0
- Paid services
- Partial: Optional only
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
storytold/photocraft BEST FIT Unusual spike: 69,699 stars in 20 days since it was created. Fast for a new project: check it’s as good as its numbers. ★ 70k active today
Clean-room, Photoshop-style image editor written in Rust, with layers, masks, adjustment layers and PSD support. Part of the ArtCraft suite.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Confirmed: Yes · MIT OR Apache-2.0
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
dyad-sh/dyad BEST FIT Actively maintained: 33 people committing, active 11 of the last 12 weeks. ★ 22k active today
Free desktop AI app builder that writes and runs JavaScript web apps on your computer, using your own model keys or local models.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · Apache-2.0
- Paid services
- Partial: Optional only
- Hardware
- Confirmed: CPU works
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
toeverything/AFFiNE BEST FIT Healthy growth: Stars rising (+995 in 30 days) with 100+ people committing, active 11 of the last 12 weeks. ★ 74k active 8d ago
Local-first workspace merging docs, whiteboard canvas and multi-view databases, with real-time sync and a self-hostable server.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · Custom licence
- Paid services
- Partial: Optional only
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
Anjok07/ultimatevocalremovergui BEST FIT Few active maintainers: Only 1 person committed in the last 12 months, so its future depends on very few hands. ★ 27k active 2w ago
Desktop app that splits songs into vocals and instrumental or other stems using MDX-Net, VR, Demucs and MDX23C models.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Confirmed: Yes · MIT
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Confirmed: GPU, ~6GB+
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
storytold/filmcraft BEST FIT Unusual spike: 15,334 stars in 20 days since it was created. Fast for a new project: check it’s as good as its numbers. ★ 15k active today
Clean-room, Premiere Pro-style non-linear video editor written in Rust, with colour, audio, titles and captions. Part of the ArtCraft suite.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Confirmed: Yes · MIT OR Apache-2.0
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Partial: See details
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
storytold/lightcraft BEST FIT Unusual spike: 14,052 stars in 20 days since it was created. Fast for a new project: check it’s as good as its numbers. ★ 14k active today
Clean-room, Lightroom-style photo library and non-destructive raw developer written in Rust. Part of the ArtCraft suite.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Confirmed: Yes · MIT OR Apache-2.0
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Partial: See details
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
Zackriya-Solutions/meetily BEST FIT ★ 32k active 5w ago
Local AI meeting assistant that records mic and system audio, transcribes live with Whisper or Parakeet and summarises with an LLM.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Confirmed: Yes · MIT
- Paid services
- Partial: Optional only
- Hardware
- Partial: CPU works
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
darktable-org/darktable BEST FIT Healthy growth: Stars rising (+193 in 30 days) with 100+ people committing, active 12 of the last 12 weeks. ★ 13k active today
Photography workflow app and non-destructive raw developer with a lighttable library and darkroom editing.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · GPL-3.0
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Confirmed: CPU works
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
TriliumNext/Trilium BEST FIT Healthy growth: Stars rising (+545 in 30 days) with 100+ people committing, active 12 of the last 12 weeks. ★ 38k active today
Hierarchical note-taking app for large personal knowledge bases, with scripting, encryption and sync to a self-hosted server.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Confirmed: Yes · AGPL-3.0
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
altic-dev/FluidVoice BEST FIT Actively maintained: 50 people committing, active 11 of the last 12 weeks. ★ 12k active today
On-device voice dictation app for macOS that also records meetings (FluidMeet) with live captions, speaker labels and transcripts.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · GPL-3.0
- Paid services
- Partial: Optional only
- Hardware
- Confirmed: See details
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
block/buzz BEST FIT Actively maintained: 100+ people committing, active 11 of the last 12 weeks. ★ 36k active today
Block's self-hostable workspace where people and AI agents share channels, threads, DMs, canvases, workflows and git, built on a Nostr relay.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Confirmed: Yes · Apache-2.0
- Paid services
- Partial: Optional only
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Confirmed: Medium
fluxerapp/fluxer BEST FIT Actively maintained: 41 people committing, active 12 of the last 12 weeks. ★ 11k active today
AGPL-3.0 instant messaging and VoIP app for groups and communities, with desktop and mobile apps and a free Docker self-host path.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · AGPL-3.0-or-later
- Paid services
- Partial: Optional only
- Hardware
- Confirmed: CPU works
- Setup
- Confirmed: Medium
webadderallorg/Recordly BEST FIT Actively maintained: 80 people committing, active 9 of the last 12 weeks. ★ 35k active 4d ago
Desktop screen recorder and editor for polished demos with auto-zoom, cursor effects, webcam bubble and timeline trims; exports MP4 or GIF.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · AGPL-3.0-only
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
keepassxreboot/keepassxc BEST FIT Healthy growth: Stars rising (+420 in 30 days) with 100+ people committing, active 11 of the last 12 weeks. ★ 29k active today
Offline desktop password manager for Windows, macOS and Linux that stores your vault in an encrypted KeePass (KDBX) file you control.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
CapSoftware/Cap BEST FIT Actively maintained: 100+ people committing, active 12 of the last 12 weeks. ★ 23k active today
Loom-style screen and camera recorder with instant share links, comments, transcripts and analytics; desktop app plus a self-hostable web app.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · AGPL-3.0-only
- Paid services
- Partial: Optional only
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
chaiNNer-org/chaiNNer BEST FIT ★ 6.1k active today
Node-based image processing app built for AI upscaling, running PyTorch, NCNN, ONNX and TensorRT models on GPU or CPU.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · GPL-3.0
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Confirmed: CPU works
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
storytold/pdfcraft BEST FIT Unusual spike: 16,668 stars in 20 days since it was created. Fast for a new project: check it’s as good as its numbers. ★ 17k active today
Clean-room, Acrobat-style PDF reader and editor written in Rust, for viewing, organizing, commenting, forms, signing and redaction. Part of the ArtCraft suite.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Confirmed: Yes · MIT OR Apache-2.0
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
getopenscreen/openscreen BEST FIT Actively maintained: 100+ people committing, active 12 of the last 12 weeks. ★ 4.7k active today
Desktop recorder and editor for product demos with webcam overlay, auto-zoom, on-device captions and a CLI; MIT, exports MP4 or GIF.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Confirmed: Yes · MIT
- Paid services
- Partial: Optional only
- Hardware
- Confirmed: CPU works
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
storytold/designcraft BEST FIT ★ 4.6k active today
Clean-room, InDesign-style page layout and publishing editor written in Rust, with threaded text frames and styles. Part of the ArtCraft suite.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Confirmed: Yes · MIT OR Apache-2.0
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Partial: See details
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
LibreOffice/core BEST FIT Healthy growth: Stars rising (+160 in 30 days) with 100+ people committing, active 12 of the last 12 weeks. ★ 4.5k active today
Mature free office suite from The Document Foundation with Writer (documents), Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw, Base and Math.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · MPL-2.0
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Confirmed: CPU works
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
storytold/vectorcraft BEST FIT Unusual spike: 10,195 stars in 20 days since it was created. Fast for a new project: check it’s as good as its numbers. ★ 10k active today
Clean-room, Illustrator-style vector illustration app written in Rust, with SVG, PDF and .ai (PDF-compatible) files. Part of the ArtCraft suite.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Confirmed: Yes · MIT OR Apache-2.0
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
evolus/pencil BEST FIT Quiet lately: No commits in the last 12 weeks.Few active maintainers: Only 1 person committed in the last 12 months, so its future depends on very few hands. ★ 9.9k active today
Free desktop GUI prototyping and wireframing tool with stencil collections for web, mobile and desktop mock-ups and diagram drawing.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · GPL-2.0
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
Free and open-source graphical reverse engineering platform built on rizin, with a Ghidra decompiler plugin and Python or C++ plugins.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · GPL-3.0
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
storytold/effectcraft BEST FIT Unusual spike: 7,536 stars in 19 days since it was created. Fast for a new project: check it’s as good as its numbers. ★ 7.5k active today
Clean-room, After Effects-style motion graphics and compositing tool written in Rust, with keyframes, effects, expressions and 3D. Part of the ArtCraft suite.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Confirmed: Yes · MIT OR Apache-2.0 code, Apache-2.0 weights
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
GNOME/gimp BEST FIT Healthy growth: Stars rising (+107 in 30 days) with 100+ people committing, active 12 of the last 12 weeks. ★ 6.5k active today
Long-running free raster image editor (GNU Image Manipulation Program) for photo retouching, compositing and image authoring.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · GPL-3.0-or-later
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
storytold/gridcraft BEST FIT Unusual spike: 6,039 stars in 14 days since it was created. Fast for a new project: check it’s as good as its numbers. ★ 6.0k active today
Clean-room, Excel-style spreadsheet written in pure Rust, with XLSX as its native format, PivotTables, charts and an MCP server. Part of the ArtCraft suite.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Confirmed: Yes · MIT OR Apache-2.0
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
KDE/kdenlive BEST FIT Healthy growth: Stars rising (+205 in 30 days) with 100+ people committing, active 12 of the last 12 weeks. ★ 5.9k active today
KDE's free non-linear video editor built on the MLT framework, for Windows, macOS and Linux.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · GPL-3.0
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
Local desktop audio studio for macOS and Windows that makes songs and instrumentals with ACE-Step 1.5, alongside text-to-speech and voice cloning.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · Apache-2.0
- Paid services
- Partial: Optional only
- Hardware
- Confirmed: GPU, ~12GB+
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors BEST FIT ★ 5.6k active 7d ago
Free desktop office suite with document, spreadsheet, presentation and PDF editors, built around Office Open XML (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx).
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · AGPL-3.0
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
Gnucash/gnucash BEST FIT Actively maintained: 100+ people committing, active 12 of the last 12 weeks. ★ 4.4k active today
Desktop double-entry accounting for personal and small-business books, with customer invoices, bills, reconciliation, OFX/QIF import and reports.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · GPL-2.0-or-later
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
magenta/magenta-realtime BEST FIT Quiet lately: No commits in the last 12 weeks. ★ 1.8k active 2w ago
Google's open-weights live music model that streams instrumental music in real time from text prompts on Apple Silicon Macs.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Confirmed: Yes · Apache-2.0 code, CC-BY-4.0 weights
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Confirmed: GPU needed
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
gridaco/grida BEST FIT Healthy growth: Stars rising (+43 in 30 days) with 8 people committing, active 9 of the last 12 weeks. ★ 2.7k active 1d ago
Open-source canvas editor (Rust/Skia engine) for graphics, images and presentations, with Figma import and optional BYOK or local AI.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Confirmed: Yes · Apache-2.0
- Paid services
- Partial: Optional only
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
EutropicAI/Final2x BEST FIT ★ 7.4k active 4d ago
Cross-platform desktop image super-resolution app with built-in models and support for loading your own.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · BSD-3-Clause
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
theJayTea/WritingTools BEST FIT ★ 2.5k active 2mo ago
System-wide hotkey app that proofreads, rewrites and changes the tone of selected text using a local LLM (Ollama, MLX) or a cloud API.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · GPL-3.0
- Paid services
- Partial: Optional only
- Hardware
- Confirmed: CPU works
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
Aseiel/VideoHighlighter BEST FIT Actively maintained: 8 people committing, active 11 of the last 12 weeks. ★ 266 active today
Local desktop app that scores the strongest moments in long footage from motion, audio, objects and transcript, then exports a highlight reel and clips.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · AGPL-3.0
- Paid services
- Partial: Optional only
- Hardware
- Confirmed: CPU works
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
scribusproject/scribus BEST FIT Quiet lately: No commits in the last 12 weeks.Few active maintainers: Nobody committed in the last 12 months, so its future depends on very few hands. ★ 640 active 1d ago
Long-running open-source desktop publishing app for page layout, with complex-script text and print-ready PDF output.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · GPL-2.0-or-later
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
scragnog/HOT-Step-CPP BEST FIT Actively maintained: 10 people committing, active 12 of the last 12 weeks. ★ 179 active today
Portable local music studio running ACE-Step 1.5, MiniMax-Music3 and YuE2 in one C++ engine, with covers, repaint, stems and adapter training.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · MIT
- Paid services
- Partial: Optional only
- Hardware
- Confirmed: CPU works
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
intoolswetrust/jsignpdf BEST FIT Healthy growth: Stars rising (+6 in 23 days) with 19 people committing, active 9 of the last 12 weeks. ★ 483 active today
Desktop and command-line app that adds certificate-based digital signatures to PDFs, with smartcard/HSM support, timestamps and PAdES.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · MPL-2.0 OR LGPL-2.1-only
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
open-eid/DigiDoc4-Client BEST FIT Healthy growth: Stars rising (+1 in 30 days) with 6 people committing, active 7 of the last 12 weeks. ★ 144 active today
Estonia's official desktop app for signing and encrypting documents with an Estonian ID-card, Mobile-ID or Smart-ID.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · LGPL-2.1-only
- Paid services
- Partial: Optional only
- Hardware
- Confirmed: CPU works
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
bridge-mind/bridgeclip BEST FIT ★ 378 active 2w ago
Desktop app that finds moments in long videos and reframes and captions them locally, using your own OpenRouter key for the AI steps.
- Runs locally
- Partial: Partly
- Commercial use
- Confirmed: Yes · MIT
- Paid services
- No: Required
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
anthropics/claude-code BEST FIT Actively maintained: 35 people committing, active 12 of the last 12 weeks. ★ 153k active today
Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining…
- Runs locally
- Unknown: Unknown
- Commercial use
- Unknown: Unknown
- Paid services
- Unknown: Unknown
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Unknown: Unknown
keepassium/KeePassium BEST FIT Quiet lately: No commits in the last 12 weeks.Few active maintainers: Only 2 people committed in the last 12 months, so its future depends on very few hands. ★ 1.7k active 5mo ago
KeePass-compatible password manager for iPhone, iPad and Mac with Password AutoFill and database sync through the iOS Files providers.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · GPL-3.0-only
- Paid services
- Partial: Optional only
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy
hashgraph-online/hol-guard BEST FIT ★ 956 active today
Open-source antivirus for AI agents: block risky tools, secret access, prompt injection, malicious packages, MCP servers, plugins, and skills at runtime.
- Runs locally
- Unknown: Unknown
- Commercial use
- Unknown: Unknown
- Paid services
- Unknown: Unknown
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Unknown: Unknown
Fast Rust app that finds duplicates, big files, empty folders, temporary files and similar images or videos to free space.
- Runs locally
- Confirmed: Yes
- Commercial use
- Partial: Conditions · MIT AND GPL-3.0-only
- Paid services
- Confirmed: None required
- Hardware
- Unknown: Unknown
- Setup
- Confirmed: Easy