Questions tagged [gratis]

Software free of financial cost. For software that includes the source code, [open-source] is the best tag. Software can be either [gratis] or [open-source], or both. Only use this tag if "gratis" is a must-have requirement.

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Free software to block specific websites only for a specific Android device

The desired flow is: I define websites forbidden to a specific Android device. If a specific Android device tries to browse them, block them. But but send a notification to another device/pc (...
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Freeware program to convert big PDF eg 200MB PDF, to RTF, and compatible with Windows 7?

Is there a freeware program to convert a big PDF (e.g. 200MB) PDF, to RTF, that is compatible with Windows 7?
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Prioritise, categorise and share To Do list

I'm looking for a way of creating a To Do list. There are 4 of us in my team and each person will have a list of tasks. I want to set a priority and category to each task and have each assigned to one ...
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Program to check SSD health performance

I need an advice about what program should I use to check health and performance of SSD Drive. I bought some SSD Drives on outlet in a cheap price and now I would like to check them technically. ...
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Looking for free pdf-viewer with similar annotation capabilities to Zotero

This is what I require, anything else is optional: I must be able to set it as the default pdf-viewer, such that I can simply double-click on a file and start reading (Zotero can't do this, I have to ...
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Looking for API that lets me communicate between two of my applications

Im new to APIs in general, so please excuse any questions you may deem trivial - I probably don't :) Question: I have two apps, each one on a different machine (lets call them main and second) and an ...
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Free C++ library implementing hierarchical clustering or alike

Which can cluster small number of points by the given maximum distance between them. Two dimensions only.
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Image background removal tool for Windows (offline)

Background removal tools are possible: Remove BG (online) works nicely, Adobe (online), Removal AI (online; 1 free download only). But they all don't fit my needs, which are: works offline works on ...
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Image inpainting offline tool for Windows

Image inpainting seems to be everywhere: Vercel (online) or Cleanup Pictures (online). But they all don't fit my needs, which are: works offline works on Windows (10/11) is gratis, also for ...
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Upscale photos to at least 2x resolution (offline) for Windows

Upscaling images seems to be everywhere: Upscaler Stockphotos (free, online), Gigapixel AI (paid), Big JPG (online; unclear license for offline use) But they all don't fit my needs, which are: works ...
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API client that can sync via git and costs nothing

My colleagues and I maintain a collection of (REST) requests, that we share via git. We were happy users of Postman until they removed the import feature. Our intended replacement Insomnia technically ...
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Free tools to generate HTML from a picture

What are free tools to generate HTML from a picture of a website? Just to quickly implement designers' work into code. I want to upload a picture and get HTML, CSS from the service.
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Looking for tools to summarize or quiz from large PDF/text files

Claude AI chatbot provides the ability to summarize PDF/texts. But it still has a limit, usually if one wants to create a summary of a book the pdf/text file has a lot of words exceeding the limit ...
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Software for automated data evaluation and export

We are searching for a (free/open source) software that does the following: Take raw data from file (csv and tdms, up to several 100MB uncompressed) Filter outliers (based on thresholds) Calculate ...
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Need a 500-line AI summary of a text file

I have an 8000-line, 907 KB text file converted from a PDF book and need a 500-line summary using AI tools. Online options have character limits; looking for GitHub libraries or alternative online ...
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Can websites be opened without cursor detection by using cloud services or remote access tools?

Is there a way to open a website and move the cursor to another screen or browser on my laptop without the website detecting it? Typically, this can be achieved by using remote access tools to connect ...
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The proxychains equivalent for Windows

I'm already using SSH tunneling by ssh -D 9058 username@5*.**.1*1.1*. I need software on Windows to use this tunnel for specific applications or even for the whole system. It should be free and ...
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Switching profiles to "do not disturb" for multiple tools

In my company, different teams use different messaging tools. In total, I have Discord, MS Teams, Zoom and ProCall. At home, stuff is not much different. I use Skype, MS Teams and Discord. When I want ...
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Free SW for mapping the Network

Are there tools that map/scan the LAN and gather (as much as possible) information about the HW and/or network topology? Ideally, it would be great if that tool could also "draw" a topology ...
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Replacement for Windows camera app

I am looking for a replacement for the built-in Windows 10 camera app. Like the built-in app, it must display camera live stream from cameras take screenshots of cameras And it must have various ...
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Video/audio playback control Chrome extension with settings per URL regex

I'm often listening to sped up videos and looking for an extension that specifically can: set playback speed of videos (and optionally audio) on different websites, supporting as many players as ...
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A successor of amarok?

I liked Amarok as a music player, where it's more of a library manager that also plays things rather than a "virtual physical player gadget" in the style of WinAmp. Alas, Amarok seems to be ...
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C++ performance analysis

I have a program that I optimized for better performance by using multi-threading via C++ execution policies. That way it now uses ~80% of the CPU, which is much better than the 10% before. However, I ...
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Software to take a picture via webcam every X time (e.g. every 20 minutes), over an extended period of time (multiple weeks)

I have a project where I need to consistently be able to capture pictures (preferrably timestamped) over the course of a longer period. I have found some options but many of them either cost, or have ...
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free chat app with end-to-end encryption operating on Android and iPhone

What I need is a chat app with the following features: Has end-to-end encryption. No mandatory monthly / licensing fees. In other words: a free public service. Mobile app supporting both Android and ...
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Free SVG editor better than Inkscape

I know of the following SVG editors: BoxySVG Adobe Animate (formerly Flash Professional) Adobe Illustrator ToonBoom Studio All paid. This is the only one I know that is free and open-source: ...
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Repair damaged videos that tend to have infinite times

On Android 10 Samsung Mobile I used a camera app with API 2 enabled ( ? ) . This caused corrupt video recordings. In most such corrupt videos I can see that the time length is infinite even though ...
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free cloud or on promise sw for customer support

I a looking for a free customer support (help desk + knowledge base) for small team for multiple products with multi-language support (English + Czech is a must) submission of tickets (and preferably ...
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Agenda/Session Scheduler (to automatically assign timeslots)

I am looking for an optimization tool that can schedule sessions with assigned participants in such a way that participants can attend all of their assigned sessions (i.e. no participant would have to ...
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Utility for viewing Chrome-trace-format JSONs

Chrome/ium has a trace viewing functionality, accessible via chome://tracing, which can load trace files in a certain JSON format and display them along a timeline. This is nice, but - I would like to ...
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Free AI music genre recognition for local files

I'm wondering if there's any music genre detection which meets these criteria: it's free works on Windows/Linux works with files on your disk, doesn't have to be offline, but it shouldn't require ...
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Sanbox app for android

Need suggestions for some good sandbox apps for Android. I want to install an app and test it, but it's picking up some credentials automatically. So thought of having a sandbox app that could prevent ...
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Color blindness simulation

In order to check the perception of color choices, I'd like to be able to simulate color blindness for people with normal eyesight (me, basically). My goal is to weaken / worsen / decrease the ...
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Is there a free modern software to displayer caller ID via Windows TAPI?

In the past there used to be softwares that could monitor caller ID of modems, but they seem to be gone nowadays, certainly the ones that utilize Windows' TAPI. Is there a modern software free or at ...
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Freeware File Auditing Software for File Access

Good day, Can you please recommend me a freeware/open-source solution for file access monitoring on Windows? To give a full background of how our system works currently: We have a single PC running ...
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Use iPhone as WebCam for PC

There are a lot of apps out there that allow you to use your phone as a WebCam and I don't know how to choose, and I'd like to solve this problem by delegating it to someone else. The app must be free ...
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Free text messenger with registration without much details

Need suggestions for some good text message android apps where registration can be done only using some random id. Kind of anonymous messaging
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Command line tool for scraping flight prices?

I want to have a free-to-use code (ideally from github, ideally in python) to scrape flight prices automatically for various connections, dates, times, airlines etc. which I can run at different times,...
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How to change different shades of colors to one color only on specific parts of a photo?

I have photos of people that don't have a single background color behind them. I would need to redo it completely white. But, since the color has a bunch of different shades, I can't simply fill it. ...
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Crop a photo into a circle?

I need to recommend a free software with which I can crop photos into a circle. I found a few (eg here) but they are all online. Please help Thank you
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An open-source note-taking app that facilitates drawing/handwriting?

I don't know what kind of hardware my device will be yet, but I imagine that it'll be a detachable 2-in-1 that runs Linux. As stated in that link, I plan to get help to add some function(s) into the ...
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Downloading a .ts or .m3u8 video using youtube-dl or any other CLI

I am downloading videos from a website using the Video DownloadHelper Firefox extension. Recently I encountered an issue where the audio video is out of sync and the video is playing in a slow mode. ...
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Chrome picture in picture extension with options similar to Opera's in-built feature

Is there any "picture in picture" Chrome extension that has these features: player with options like volume controls and timeline option for the videos to go automatically into this mode ...
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Software for renting (a monitor)

we have a company that displays commericals on outdoor monitors. I would need a software, where I can see when a monitor is booked by whom: There are up to 10 clients on one monitor at once I would ...
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Best software to run Android apps on Linux

I am planning a migration from Windows to a Debian-based distro. I want to run a certain app that is only available as a mobile app. Is there any way to have applications control their own windows ...
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Reduce video size on Android

I need to reduce the size of an Android screencast, on Android. The screencast is a few seconds long MP4, takes ~50 MB, and I want to reduce it to about 10 MB. Context: I want to post a screencast to ...
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FOSS live language learning apps?

Is there a FOSS alternative to Tandem for doing live, peer-to-peer language learning with native speakers?
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Are there specific tools for drawing UML diagrams?

Related to this question, but different because that question is 8 years out of date. I draw UML diagrams by hand or on PowerPoint, but they quickly become messy as I develop them. Are there any ...
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Software to do Data Mining in SQL Server 2022

I'm tasked with creating a few data mining models for the Adventure Works demo database. I'm supposed to have been using SSDT and Visual Studio with SQL Server, however the latest version of SSDT (...
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Visual Studio Plugin to check the C++ Rule of 0 / Rule of 5

I am looking for a Visual Studio (2019 and/or 2022) extension that identifies classes for me that do not adhere to the Rule of 0 or Rule of 5. The extension may be a Resharper extension, since I own a ...
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