Ask HN: Which "open-source alternatives" have succeeded?

This page summarizes and extends the software alternatives mentioned in the source post on Hacker News.

2024-07-01

Art Tools Digital Drawing And Painting Graphic Design Software

Hacker News Search Landing Page
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Hacker News Search

a faster hnsearch
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Search Engine #Social Networks #Web Search 2320 social mentions
Inkscape Landing Page
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Inkscape

Inkscape is a free, open source professional vector graphics editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Graphic Design Software #Digital Drawing And Painting #Art Tools 492 social mentions
Krita Landing Page

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Krita

Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to seaffordable art tools for everyone. Concept art. texture and matte painters, illustrations and comics.

Fairly well known on HN by now but Krita is also excellent and simple image editor and painting app like Photoshop was 20 years ago https://krita.org/en/.

#Concept Art #Art Tools #Illustrations 300 social mentions
OBS Studio Landing Page
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OBS Studio

Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming for Mac, Windows and Linux.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
OBS Studio - I found this to be a very valuable and successful application for video and audio editing, with some amazing companies sponsoring them. - https://obsproject.com/.

#Video Recording #Screen Recording #Live Streaming 1069 social mentions

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