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This is a list of software that I have used and had a good experience with. Items marked with an asterisks* are commercial or donationware.

Desktop Applications | Self-Hosted (including Home Assistant Add-Ons) | Boot Tools and Distros

Curated Software Lists

• Awesome Awesomes (List of Awesome Lists)
• Awesome Home Assistant
• Awesome Self-Hosted
• Awesome Windows

Desktop Applications

Audio/Photo/Video

• Audacity (Audio Editor, Cross-Platform)
• DigiKam (Library/Editor)
• ffmpegX (Transcoder, macOS)
• Handbrake (Transcoder, Cross-Platform)
• VLC (Video Player/Cross-Platform)

Design Tools

• Font picker (Browse Fonts, macOS) *
• Rulers (Alignment and Measurement, macOS)*

File/Drive Utilities

• 7-Zip (File Compression, Cross-Platform)
• Bulk File Utility (Rename/Modify Files)
• Keka (File Compression, macOS)
• WinDirStat (Windows Directory Statistics, Windows)
• Veracrypt (File Encryption, Cross-Platform)

IDE/Text Editors

• TextWrangler (Text Editor, macOS)
• UltraEdit (Text Editor/Cross-Platform) *
• Video Studio Code (IDE/Cross-Platform)

Network

• IP Scanner Pro (macOS) *
• WiFi Scanner (macOS) *

Organization/Productivity

• Gramps (Genealogical Research, Cross-Platform)
• Home Inventory (Home Inventory, macOS) *
• Super Productivity (Project Management)

Reading

• Reeder for Mac (RSS Reader, macOS)
• Vienna (RSS Reader, macOS)

Security

• KeePassX (Password Database, Cross-Platform)

System Utilities

• PowerShell (Cross-Platform)

Virtualization

• VMWare Fusion (macOS) *
• VMWare Workstation (Windows) *

Web Development

• JSON Formatter & Validator (Web Service)
• Postman (API Development/Web Service)
• RequestBin (HTTP Request Inspector/Web Service)

Website Tools

• Scrutiny (Website Inspection, macOS) *

Self-Hosted

Home Assistant Add-Ons

• AdGuard Home

Home Assistant Community Store (HACS)

• WallPanel (wall panel mode and photo screensaver)

Home Automation

• Home Assistant (Server, Cross-Platform)
• Indigo (Server, macOS)

Network & Server Management

• Nginx Proxy Manager (Reverse Proxy Manager) | HA Add-On
• Pi-hole (DNS Server/Ad-Blocking) | HA Add-On

Organization/Productivity

• Actual Budget (Financial Management) | HA Add-On
• Gramps Web (Genealogical Research) | HA Add-On

Boot Tools & Distros

Boot Tools

• Belena Etcher
• Grub2Win
• Fedora Media Writer
• Raspberry Pi Imager

Distros

• Bazzite (Video game platform built in parallel to SteamOS)
• Linux Mint
• Raspberry Pi OS
• Ubuntu