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Awesome Software for Students

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File Management

  • 7-Zip

    Compress and decompress heavy files.

  • FileZilla

    Cross-platform FTP, SFTP, and FTPS client with a vast list of features, which supports Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and more.

  • Peazip

    A free file archiver utility, based on Open Source technologies of 7-Zip, p7zip, FreeArc, PAQ, and PEA projects.

  • PuTTY

    a very popular an easy to use SSH and telnet client.

  • Space Sniffer

    Free application that lets you understand how folders and files are structured on your disks. By using a Treemap visualization layout, you have immediate perception of where big folders and files are placed on your device.

  • WinSCP

    A SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3 and SCP client for Microsoft Windows.

Reading

  • Adobe Acrobat

    The most popular pdf viewer. It allows you to create, manipulate, print and manage pdf files. It used in libraries or public places. It'll do the job just fine, but there are better alternatives.

  • Calibre

    A cross-platform suite for organizing existing e-books into virtual libraries, displaying, editing, creating and converting e-books, as well as syncing e-books with a variety of e-readers.

  • Evince

    A document viewer for multiple document formats. Originally from gnome, it can also be used in Windows.

  • Foxit Reader

    Freemium PDF tool that can create, view, edit, digitally sign, and print PDF files.

  • SumatraPDF

    PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) reader for Windows.

  • WinDjView

    Fast, compact and powerful DjVu viewer for Windows with tabbed interface, continuous scrolling and advanced printing options, based on free DjVuLibre library.

Misc & Utilities

  • Aegisub

    A tool for creating and modifying subtitles.

  • Alternativeto

    A community that allows to search for alternatives to different apps. It's people-oriented, so you have some feedback related to the alternatives.

  • AnySoftKeyboard

    An Android keyboard, similar to Gboard, but without the part that collects your typing to "improve your experience"

  • DarkTable

    A program that manages your digital negatives and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.

  • Etcher

    Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily.

  • Focus

    A Chrome extension with a few simple tactics to help prevent procrastination.

Music

  • Aimp

    A full-featured free music player designed with sound quality and wide, customizable functionality in mind. Over twenty audio formats are supported.

  • Clementine

    A multiplatform music player. It is inspired by

  • Foobar2000

    An advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform.

  • Media Monkey

    A digital media player and media library application. For windows only.

  • MusicBee

    A freeware media player for playback and organization of audio files on Microsoft Windows.

Flashcards

  • Anki

    A cross plataform software with spaced repetition system.

  • Quizlet

    A mobile and web-based study application that allows students to study information using flashcards (audio and images) and games, which are optional and automatically generated.

Remote Control

  • Anydesk

    A proprietary cross-platform remote desktop.

  • Chrome Remote Desktop

    Access other computers or allow another user to access your computer securely over the Internet. The options are very basic in contrast with the software previously mentioned.

  • RealVNC

    A remote access software similar to the Teamviewer.

  • Rustdesk

    An open source alternative to TeamViewer

  • Teamviewer

    A proprietary cross-platform software for remote control, desktop sharing, online meetings, web conferencing and file transfer between computers.

Chat & Study Groups

  • Appearin

    A video collaboration tool that lets you have video conversations effortlessly without requiring any downloads. PRO supports up to 12 people simultaneously.

  • Discord

    Freeware VoIP application and digital distribution platform. Formally, it was intended to the videogaming community however there are many groups in different servers to learn or practice many subjects.

  • Hangout

    Communication platform which includes messaging, video chat, SMS and VOIP features. Very easy and useful among Google users to setup a video conference.

  • Jami

    Similar to Jitsi, this is an open source alternative for video conferences that respects your privacy and data.

  • Jitsi

    Secure video conferencing and desktop sharing using WebRTC.

  • Ring

    Telephone, teleconferencing, and media sharing through a distributed service.

Programming and Web Design

  • Arduino

    Open-source electronic prototyping platform enabling users to create interactive electronic objects.

  • Atom

    Free and open-source text and source code editor for macOS, Linux, and Microsoft Windows with support for plug-ins written in Node.js, and embedded Git Control, developed by GitHub.

  • CodeBlocks

    a free C, C++ and Fortran IDE. It is designed to be very extensible and fully configurable.

  • FreeXML Editor

    A free XML editor for Windows that can load big files fast and lets you format XML and edit HTML and any loosely formed XML.

  • Geany

    A lightweight GUI text editor using Scintilla and GTK+, including basic IDE feature

  • NetBeans

    an integrated development environment for Java.

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