Software That Stands
the Test of Time

Richard Stallman's flagship GNU project, still actively maintained

Started on Amiga, now a powerful Windows Explorer replacement by GPSoftware

Bram Moolenaar's "Vi IMproved", foundational Unix editor

Eugene Roshal's compression tool, still the gold standard for RAR

Originally "Windows Commander", dual-pane powerhouse by Christian Ghisler

GNU Image Manipulation Program, the free Photoshop alternative

The legendary MP3 player that "really whips the llama's ass"

Scooter Software's comparison/merge tool, still under 10 employees

Lightweight, fast image viewer by Irfan Skiljan

Multi-format image viewer and converter

Started as "Media Jukebox" in 1999; company founded 1982

Igor Pavlov's open-source compression with superior LZMA algorithm

Simon Tatham's essential Windows SSH client

Free multi-track audio editor, over 200 million downloads

Secure file transfer for Windows

VideoLAN's "plays everything" media player, 6+ billion downloads

Open-source FTP solution started as a university project

Desktop customization and widget platform

Peter Pawłowski's lightweight, customizable audio player

Music organizer and player for large collections

Don Ho's free source code editor, still actively maintained

Open-source video converter, originally for BeOS

Lightweight CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning utility

AgileBits' password manager, started as Mac app, bootstrapped for 14 years

Kovid Goyal's essential e-book management and conversion tool

Open-source password safe with strong encryption

Feature-rich screen capture and sharing utility

Instant Windows file search by voidtools

Feature-rich music player and organizer

Open Broadcaster Software, industry standard for streamers

Modern Vim fork with Lua extensibility

Microsoft's lightweight but powerful code editor

Open-source, cross-platform password management

Microsoft's power user toolkit (revival of 90s original)