Software

Downloadable tools and programs

Almost all of these programs are available for free to casual users.
A select few programs will be listed and clearly marked "Not Free Software" if they are a unique program with no free version available which meets a specific access need. If a free version is located, they will be replaced in this list by the free option.

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Accessibility Tools

Dancing Dots
Not Free Software
"Accessible Music Technology for Blind & Low Vision Performers since 1992."
LilySpeech
"LilySpeech is a FREE* speech to text dictation application for Windows with support for 51 languages! Experience the freedom of typing with your voice today."
Non-Visual Desktop Access (NVDA)
"[A] free, open source, globally accessible screen reader for the blind and vision impaired."

Audio and Video

Audacity
"Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Audacity is free, open source software."
JDownloader2
"JDownloader is a free, open-source download management tool with a huge community that makes downloading as easy and fast as it should be. Users can start, stop or pause downloads, set bandwith limitations, auto-extract archives and much more. It's an easy-to-extend framework that can save hours of your valuable time every day!"
Levelator
"The Levelator is a software that runs on Windows and OS X that adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file for variations from one speaker to the next, for example. It's not a compressor, normalizer or limiter although it contains all three. It's much more than those tools, and it's much simpler to use. The UI is dirt-simple: Drag-and-drop any WAV or AIFF file onto The Leveler's application window, and a few moments later you'll find a new version which just sounds better."
VLC Media Player
"VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols."

Browser Extensions

Library Extension
"Easily discover books and ebooks available at your local library! As you browse books and e-books, the Library Extension can check your library's online catalog and display the availability of that item on the same page... Access to more than one library? No more searching across multiple library catalogs. All conveniently displayed on the sites you visit already!"
--Also displays audiobook availability.

File Management

7-Zip
"7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio... You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip."

Fonts, Formatting, and Writing

FontSpace
"130,000+ Free Fonts... Free downloads of legally licensed fonts that are perfect for your design projects."
Sigil
"Sigil was designed to make it easy to create great ebooks using the EPUB format. If you are formatting books for your own use, or you are a professional editor publishing books on multiple platforms, then Sigil is for you. You can use Sigil to format and package your books into an EPUB that looks exactly the way you want it to using an advanced set of features that have made Sigil one of most popular EPUB editors available."

Images

ArtShield Sweeper
"Scan A.I.’s primary datasets to see if your images have potentially been trained on. Take action towards removing your images from being picked up by A.I. tools."
ArtShield Watermarker
"Apply ArtShield’s robust invisible watermark to your images to help camouflage them against A.I. robot scrapers."
GIMP
"The Free & Open Source Image Editor"
The Glaze Project: Glaze
"Glaze is a system designed to protect human artists by disrupting style mimicry. At a high level, Glaze works by understanding the AI models that are training on human art, and using machine learning algorithms, computing a set of minimal changes to artworks, such that it appears unchanged to human eyes, but appears to AI models like a dramatically different art style."
(Cannot be accessed through a VPN)
The Glaze Project: Nightshade
"[A] tool that turns any image into a data sample that is unsuitable for model training. More precisely, Nightshade transforms images into "poison" samples, so that models training on them without consent will see their models learn unpredictable behaviors that deviate from expected norms, e.g. a prompt that asks for an image of a cow flying in space might instead get an image of a handbag floating in space."
(Cannot be accessed through a VPN)

Software Suites

Ice Cream Apps
"Enjoy best and easy-to-use screen recording, video editing, photo editing and PDF editing apps for Windows and other OS."
  • Ebook Reader
  • Image Resizer
  • PDF Converter
  • PDF Editor
  • PDF Split & Merge
  • Photo Editor
  • Screen Recorder
  • Slideshow Maker
  • Video Converter
  • Video Editor
    "An open-source alternative to Microsoft Office. Contains a word processor, presentation, spreadsheet, and diagram drawing programs."