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Awesome Software Patreons

A curated list of awesome programmers and software projects you can support!

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Open Source Projects

Akira

, #2 - Linux application for UI and UX design.

Albert launcher

Keyboard launcher written in C++/Qt.

bcachefs

Linux filesystem.

Blender

3D creation suite

Bottles

Easily manage and run Windows apps on Linux.

Calibre

E-books manager.

Compiler Explorer

Online decompiler and compiler explorer.

Deluge

BitTorrent client.

DokuWiki

Wiki application.

Duplicati

Backup client.

F-Droid

, #2, #3 - An installable catalogue of FOSS applications for the Android platform.

Firezone

Self-hosted VPN server using WireGuard.

FreeCAD

Parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size.

Freeter

Productivity app for Developers, Designers and other professionals.

Godot Engine

Complete 3D engine.

HaxeFlixel

Cross-platform 2D game engine.

Homebrew

Package manager for macOS.

iTerm2

macOS terminal replacement.

JabRef

Software for bibliography management

JHipster

Open Source application platform for creating Spring Boot + Angular/React/Vue projects in seconds.

Kismet

, #2 - Kismet wireless tool.

Laigter

Automatic normal/specular/occlussion/parallax map generator for 2D game sprites.

LogSeq

Knowledge management

Memcode

Platform for flashcards

MuseScore

Music notation software.

NativeScript-Vue

Native mobile applications with NativeScript and Vue.

Neovim

Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability.

NewPipe

FLOSS video player on Android for services like YouTube, Soundcloud etc.

Olive

High quality video editing and compositing software.

Open Broadcaster Software

, #2 - Video recording and live streaming software.

Open Chemistry

Umbrella of multiple open source chemistry projects including Avogadro, cclib, DeepChem, MSDK, Open Babel, RDKit, and 3DMol.js.

Open Source BIM Collective

Tools for building information modeling.

openage

Real time strategy game engine.

OpenFAAS

Serverless platform.

OpenShot

Video editor.

OptiKey

, #2 - Full computer control and speech with your eyes.

Paperwork

Personal document manager.

Perkeep

Personal storage system.

PHPStan

PHP static analyzer.

PHPUnit

PHPUnit and related projects.

Pixelorama

A free & open-source 2D sprite editor, made with the Godot Engine.

PlantUML

UML diagram creation software.

Project Lombok

Java editor plugin.

Remmina

Remote desktop client.

ShareX Team

Screen capture and screen sharing tool.

Sonic Pi

Code-based music creation and performance tool.

SysV init

System V init implementation.

Termux

Android terminal emulator.

Thirty Bees

Ecommerce software.

Tiled

, #2, #3 - A 2D game level editor.

Transmission

BitTorrent client.

V Programming Language

Statically typed compiled programming language similar to Go, influenced by Oberon, Rust, Swift.

VideoLAN

Maker of the VLC video player.

Vim-Go

Go plugin for VIM.

Weblate

Localization tool with tight version control integration.

Webpack

JavaScript module bundler.

Wiki.js

, #2, #3 - Wiki platform built with Node.js.

WireGuard

, #2 - Next generation secure network tunnel.

Wireshark

Helping as many people as possible understand their networks as much as possible.

Xfce

#2 - Desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems.

Zig

#2 - System programming language which prioritizes robustness, optimality, and clarity.

In 2 lists

Zrythm

A highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation.

Kitbashery

3D kitbashing solution & CC0 model library.

Open Source Projects >Messaging and social media

BookWyrm

, #2 - Social reading and reviewing, decentralized with ActivityPub.

Dekko Project

Ubuntu email client.

Flarum

Forum platform.

Funkwhale

A free, federated and social music server.

The Lounge

Modern web IRC client.

Mastodon

, #2 - Federated social network server.

Matrix

, #2 - An open network for secure, decentralized communication.

MissKey

Federated microblogging platform.

Nitter

, #2, #3 - Free and open source Twitter client focused on privacy.

PixelFed

, #2, #3, #4 - Federated image sharing powered by the ActivityPub protocol.

postActiv

Microblogging platform.

Reddit Enhancement Suite

Reddit browser extension.

Retrospring

, #2, #3 - A social network following the Q/A (question and answer) principle.

Secure Scuttlebutt

A distributed and secure peer-to-peer protocol and social network.

Open Source Projects >Libraries

ApexCharts

JavaScript charts library.

Asset-Importer-Lib

Loads 40+ 3D file formats into one unified and clean data structure for game-developers.

Babel

JavaScript compiler.

Dear ImGui

Immediate Mode Graphical User interface for C++.

In 11 listsDetails

Hapi.js

Node.js framework.

HaxeUI

User interface toolkit.

Iced

, #2 - A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm.

Laravel

PHP framework.

LibGDX

Game development framework.

MicroG

, #2 - A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space apps and libraries.

Moleculer

Progressive microservices framework for Node.js.

Musl libc

The Musl libc project.

OpenFL

Cross-platform application framework.

Phalcon

Web framework delivered as a C extension for PHP.

stdlib

Standard library for JavaScript and Node.js with an emphasis on scientific computing.

Tabulator

JavaScript library for building interactive tables.

Vapor

, #2 - Server-side Swift framework.

Vue.js

Vue.js.

Yii framework

PHP framework.

Zappa

A server-less Python framework.

Open Source Projects >Operating Systems

/e/

Privacy-focused mobile OS.

Elementary OS

Ubuntu variant.

FreeDOS

MS-DOS compatible operating system.

GhostBSD

Desktop-focused BSD OS.

GrapheneOS

A privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.

LineageOS

, #2 - Fork of CyanogenMod.

Linux Lite

Linux distribution.

Mobian

Debian for mobile.

Parrot

Security-related Debian distribution.

PostmarketOS

A real Linux distribution for phones.

Qubes OS

A reasonably secure operating system.

ReactOS

A free Windows-compatible Operating System

Redox OS

OS written in Rust.

Serenity OS

#2 - A graphical Unix-like OS for x86, with 90s aesthetics.

Slackware Linux

Linux distribution.

Solus

Linux distibution.

Ubuntu Mate

Ubuntu variant.

Ubuntu Studio

, #2 - Ubuntu variant for creating audio, video, graphics etc.

Ubuntu Touch

, #2 - Touch-friendly mobile version of Ubuntu.

Open Source Projects >Games

Battle for Wesnoth

Turn-based strategy game.

Cemu

Nintendo Wii U emulator.

Citra

Nintendo 3DS emulator.

Citybound

City building game.

Cxbx-reloaded

Xbox emulator for Windows.

Eigengrau's Generator

TTRPG/Dungeons and Dragons Town and NPC Generator.

Fheroes2

Free Heroes of Might and Magic II engine.

Heroic Games Launcher

, #2, #3 - Open source GOG and Epic Games launcher.

Improved Initiative

D&D tabletop role-playing game combat tracker.

Libretro Team

Libretro, RetroArch and Lakka.

Lutris

, #2 - Game launcher & platform.

MelonDS

Nintendo DS emulator.

Play!

PS2 emulator.

Rpcs3

PS3 emulator.

Ryujinx

Nintendo Switch emulator.

Xemu

Xbox emulator.

Xenia

Xbox 360 emulator.

yuzu

Nintendo Switch emulator.

Open Source Projects >Open Source Art

Alexandre Prokoudine

, #2 - GIMP contributor, editor of Libre Graphics World online magazine.

Andrea Ferrero

Developer of PhotoFlow image editor, maintains various Appimage packages.

Duduf

Tools for animations and motion pictures production.

GIMP

GNU Image Manipulation Program.

Inochi2D

Opensource editor and libraries for realtime 2D puppet animation and rendering, e.g. VTubers.

Marc Jeanmougin

Inkscape contributor.

Morevna Project

Various contributions to open source animation tools and animated shorts sources released under CC.

MyPaint

Painting and drawing program that works nicely with pressure-sensitive tablets, and its dynamic brush engine library.

Øyvind Kolås

, #2 - Lead developer of babl & GEGL libraries used in the graphics editor GIMP.

Pablo Dobarro

Sculpting improvements for Blender.

Synfig

, #2 - 2D animation software.

Tavmjong Bah

Working on Inkscape vector graphics editor.

ZeMarmot

, #2, #3 - 2D animation film project to be released under CC. GIMP contributions from Jehan Pagès, art and direction by Aryeom Han.

Damien Maguire

Electric vehicle projects.

DIGImend

Improving Linux support for (non-Wacom) graphics tablets.

Espruino

JavaScript interpreter for microcontrollers.

Frank Buss

FPGA and other hardware projects.

GitClear

Improved Linux support for touchpads.

Geoffrey D. Bennett

Linux Focusrite Scarlett software.

Hector Martin "marcan"

, #2 - Asahi, Linux support for Apple Silicon Macs.

LibrePCB

Software to develop printed circuit boards.

Martin Povišer

Reverse-engineering and writing Linux drivers for audio hardware on Apple Silicon Macs.

Nefarius Software Solutions

Windows drivers for the Sony DualShock controller and others.

OctoPrint

Web interface for 3D printers.

OpenRGB

RGB lighting control application.

Pinout.xyz

Pinout diagrams for various microcontrollers.

Professor Abrasive

Retro gaming.

People Doing Open Source Work

Adam King

RLTrader, Tensortrade and other trading related projects.

Andreas Heinisch

LibreOffice developer.

Andreas Kainz

LibreOffice designer.

Andreas Pardeike

Programming tutorials, games and mods.

Andrius Štikonas

KDE contributor, mainly KDE Partition Manager.

Attogram Project

Shared Media Tagger, Open Translation Engine, and many more projects.

Bailey Burnsed

FOSS Nerd developing open source games in Godot and Rust

Daniel Gultsch

Conversations Jabber client.

Daniël Klabbers

Contributor to Flarum and other PHP projects.

Dave Täht

Working on improving the Internet.

David Hewitt

ElementaryOS contributor, Torrential, Clipped.

Dimitri Fontaine

Various contributions to the PostgreSQL ecosystem (pgloader, pg_auto_failover), Emacs libraries (el-get), author.

Dominik Honnef

, #2 - Working on tooling for the Go programming language.

Dragan Djuric

Creator of Uncomplicate, a family of Clojure libraries for AI, ML, and GPU high performance computing.

Drew DeVault

, #2, #3 - sway, wlroots, sr.ht, scdoc, aerc, and more.

Eevee

Games, applications and articles.

Egoist

Various JavaScript libraries and tools.

Erik Moqvist

Moblin, iOS app for IRL streaming and many other libraries.

Eric S. Raymond

Nethack, GPSd, author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar".

Ethan Lee

Contributions to FNA, SDL2 C# and other projects.

Fabio Zadrozny

Working on PyDev and related projects.

Felipe Lima

Various projects and libraries like OkReplay, AirMapView, AsymmetricGridView, GifImageView, Wombat.

Feross Aboukhadijeh

WebTorrent, StandardJS, and other JavaScript projects.

Flammie

, #2 - Apertium, linguistic tools for minority languages.

Franck Nijhof

Creates Home Assistant add-ons and helps out on the main project.

Gabriel Gonzalez

Dhall language, Nix and Haskell educational projects and Haskell libraries and tool.

Gilbert Pellegrom

Raneto, Vue.js libraries and more.

Jacky Alcine

Projects in the IndieWeb sphere, Koype and contributions to other open source projects.

James 'Purpleidea'

mgmt config, articles and more.

JeanHeyd Meneide

Creates C++ libraries and standards proposals.

Joey Hess

git-annex, keysafe, other Linux software.

Johann-S

Bootstrap JavaScript developer and various plugins and projects.

Jorge Bucaran

Hyperapp and many other JavaScript projects.

Jonathan Müller

Various C++ libraries, tools, articles.

Kevin Cozens

Contributor to projects such as GIMP, OpenSimulator, KiCad and TinyScheme.

Kévin Dunglas

API Platform, Vulcain, Mercure and Symfony contributions.

Khoa Pham

A multitude of libraries, applications and articles about iOS/Cocoa,

Kozec

Syncthing-GTK and SC-Controller.

Kurt Kremitzki

, #2 - FreeCAD contributor and Debian packager.

Lars Moelleken

Various PHP libraries and OSS contributions.

Luke Dashjr

Author of bfgminer and other substantial contributions to Bitcoin.

Matt Lewis

Angular-calendar and other angular components.

Matthieu Napoli

Bref, PHP-DI and other PHP libraries.

Max Bridgland

Various pentesting frameworks and tools.

Max Howell

Creator of Homebrew, maintainer of PromiseKit and a multitude of other project for Apple platforms.

Michal Čihař

Contributor to Weblate and phpMyAdmin.

Nate Graham

KDE contributor.

Nick Sweeting

ArchiveBox and OSS contributions but also articles and documentation.

Nicolas Hafner

Various Common Lisp libraries.

Nils Maier

Download Them All! Firefox and Chrome extension.

Oleh Krehel

GNU Emacs plugins, maintainer of Ivy/Swiper/Counsel, Hydra, Avy, Lispy, and more.

Ondřej Surý

Debian packager.

Patrick Wardle

Owner of Objective-See, various macOS security tools and articles.

Pedro Piñera

Tuist and XcodeProj libraries, articles.

Pedro Carrasco

Various iOS libraries and projects.

Povilas Kanapickas

X server, Buildbot CI, Barrier and many others.

Raph Levien

druid and other Rust projects.

Reini Urban

Maintaining and developing software such as cperl, parrot, a lot of perl5 modules, safeclib and libredwg.

René Rebe

T2 System Development Environment.

Rekka Bellum & Devine Lu Linvega

Open source tools and games.

Rob Landley

Working on Toybox, mkroot and various other projects.

Ryan C. Gordon

, #2 - Linux ports of games, game-related utilities.

Sanjay Madan

, #2 - Mowglii apps, author of Itsycal and Snk.

Scarlett Moore

KDE contributor.

Scott Lahteine

Contributor to Marlin Firmware for 3D printers.

Sindre Sorhus

Countless open source projects.

skypjack

C++ libraries such as uvw and EnTT.

Stéphane Peter

AudioKit contributor, Makeself and other libraries and projects.

Steve Purcell

MELPA lisp package archive and other software tooling.

Steven Troughton-Smith

Various iOS/macOS software.

Thomas M. Edwards

Gaming related projects.

Tim Oliver

Multitude of iOS libraries and various contribution to the iOS ecosystem.

Timothée Giet

GCompris contributor.

Tobias Koppers

Founder and maintainer of Webpack.

Yorik van Havre

, #2 - FreeCAD contributor.

Other kinds of content >Articles and Tutorials

Alecaddd

Various programming tutorials.

Boiling Steam

, #2 - Linux gaming news, reviews, guides.

Chris Bradfield

Programming tutorials for kids.

DistroWatch

Reviews and tutorials for Linux/BSD.

Fluent C++

C++ articles.

GamingOnLinux

articles and videos about Linux, Steam Deck, SteamOS gaming.

Kyle Simpson

Author of the "You Don't Know JS" book series. Doing articles, podcasts and OSS contributions.

Meeting C++

C++ articles.

Modernes C++

C++ articles.

Other kinds of content >Videos

Corey Schafer

Python tutorials.

Fun Fun Function

JavaScript and general programming videos.

Joel Yliluoma

, #2, #3 - Programming videos.

LiveOverflow

IT security videos.

The Coding Train

Programming tutorials.

ThreatWire

Hak5 security show.

Other kinds of content >Podcasts

Destination Linux

Linux discussion and news related podcast.

Late Night Linux

Linux and news.

More Than Just Code

Podcast for iOS developers.

The Debug Log

Game development.

This Week in Linux

Linux News Podcast, 2-3 times more topics per episode than other podcasts.

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