Ed Software

A list of all the software I use.

Unless otherwise mentioned, tools listed are open source.

Key Chart:

[✨] - Always Installed

[🔒] - Closed Source

[🪟] - Windows
[🐧] - Linux
[🍎] - MacOS

[🤖] - Android
[‍️🍏] - iOS

[🦊] - Firefox
[‍️👁️] - Chrome

Categories

Split into Desktop and Mobile.

Desktop

• Development
• Editor Extensions
• Network
• Media
• System Tools
• Gaming

Mobile

• System Tools
• Network Tools
• User Tools
• Media
• Media Tools
• Productivity
• Gaming

Desktop

Development

Text Editors

Program	Description
🪟🐧🍎🔒 VSCode	GUI text editor. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 nvim / vim	Terminal text editor. ✨

IDEs

Program	Description
🪟🔒 Visual Studio Community	Building native windows programs. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 IntelliJ IDEA	Excellent IDE, especially for JVM & Android dev. ✨

Code Management

Program	Description
🪟🐧🍎 git	Popular version control software. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 dploy	Config file symlink management.

Database Tools

Program	Description
🪟🐧🍎 SQLite Tools	SQLite. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 SQLite Browser	GUI SQLite editor. Can also use a VSCode Editor / Viewer.
🪟🐧🍎 DBeaver	GUI extendable DB editor. Can also use a VSCode extendable DB tool. ✨
🪟🔒 SSMS	GUI SQL Server editor. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 go-ycsb	SQL benchmarking tool w/ focus on NoSQL.
🪟🍎 HammerDB	TPC-C and TPC-H benchmarking for common SQL dbms.

Compilers and Interpreters

Program	Description
🪟🐧🍎 OpenJDK / Adoptium	Java. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 Python 3	Python. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 Miniconda	Python env and dependency management system. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 nvm	Node version manager. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 Node.js	Javascript. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 .NET Core	.NET Core. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 Texlive / MacTeX	Fully featured LaTeX installation. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 PowerShell	PowerShell.
🪟🐧🍎 Go	Go.
🪟🐧🍎 Rust	Rust.
🪟🐧🍎 PHP	PHP.
🪟🐧🍎 gcc + mingw-gcc	GNU C & C++ with Windows cross-compiler.
🪟 Msys2	Mingw64 package manager.

Game Development

Program	Description
🪟🐧🍎 Godot	2d & 3d game engine w/ many language bindings.
🪟🐧🍎 Blender	Great for nearly everything 3d, extremely versatile.

Testing Tools

Program	Description
🪟🐧🍎 mkcert	Simple local certs for development. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 Playwright	Browser automation E2E testing. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 curl	Tool used for testing REST and other protocols.
🪟🐧🍎 HTTP Toolkit	REST analysis tool.
🪟🐧🍎 Insomnia	REST creation, mapping, and testing tools. Alt VSCode httpYac.
🪟🐧🍎 JMeter	Load testing & benchmarking.
🪟🐧🍎 OWASP ZAP	Web application security testing suite.
🪟🐧🍎 Ghidra	Software reverse engineering framework.
🪟 POSH-acme / 🐧🍎 acme.sh	ACME clients for certs.

Virtualization

Program	Description
🪟🐧 VirtualBox	Virtual machine platform. ✨
🍎 UTM	Hardware accelerated virtual machine and emulation platform. ✨
🪟🐧 Docker	Container platform at near-native speed (WSL2 for Windows). ✨
🪟🐧🍎 Rancher Desktop	Easy dev docker & kubernetes using the host's native VM capabilities. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 Podman Desktop	Easy dev podman using the host's native VM capabilities.
🪟🐧🍎 Vagrant	Fast VM instantiation platform for testing.
🪟🐧🍎 GNS3	Network virtualization and testing tool.

Fonts

Program	Description
JetBrains Mono	Sharp & wide, meaning normal width and more lines when zoomed out. ✨
Comic Mono	Fun and unexpectedly legible monospace, inspired by Comic Sans. ✨
Inter	Variable width sans, gitlab's default font. Easy to read. ✨
Iosevka SS14	Narrow yet legible and JetBrains Mono inspired. Alt monospace.

Editor Extensions

VSCode

Development Tools

Program	Description
🔒 Remote Development	Extremely useful remote development tools for WSL, SSH, and Containers. ✨
Jupyter Notebook	Live notebook editing. ✨
Polyglot Notebook	Jupyter for other languages. ✨
Playwright Test	E2E testing suite. ✨
Live Preview	Fairly basic built-in web server w/ live reloading. ✨
GitLens	Extra Git tools for VSCode, nice to have. ✨
SFTP	Well featured FTP/SFTP editing / syncing / exploring tool.
httpYac	Extensive REST testing tool w/ code generation. Alt REST Client.
Live Server	Live reloading webpages w/ support for dynamic languages.
Markdown PDF	Export Markdown to PDF/HTML/Image w/ customizations.
Color Manager	Integrated color picker and palette management tool.
Serial Monitor	Serial management and interfacing tool.
vscode-random	Generate random data.

Media Viewers

Program	Description
Hex Editor	Easy to use Hex Editor. ✨
Draw.io Integration	Editor for diagrams.net files. ✨
Data Preview	Visualization tool for structured data. ✨
Excel Viewer	Excel and CSV table visualization tool. ✨
LaTeX Workshop	PDF Viewer + Watcher & *TeX tools. If no need for *TeX, use vscode-pdf. ✨
RSS	RSS Reader if you prefer in code editor.

Code Management

Program	Description
Project Manager	Efficiently add and manage projects. ✨
Partial Diff	Allows custom selection diffs. ✨
gitignore	Quickly append official gitignore templates to project. ✨
DotENV	Syntax highlighting for .ENV files. ✨
Peacock	Workspace theme engine for easier context switching. ✨

Formatting Tools

Program	Description
Easy Snippet	Efficiently manage & logically edit language snippets. ✨
Code Spell Checker	Unobtrusive spell checker. ✨
Rewrap	Hard wrapping & unwrapping tool. ✨
Better Align	Operator and comment alignment tool. ✨
Paste Image	Makes pasting images to markup formats very easy. ✨
:emojisense:	Insert emojis quickly. ✨
Path Intellisense	Makes path completion faster. ✨
Remove Empty Lines	Configurable empty line handler. ✨

Editor Personalization

Program	Description
Vim	Native Vim binds. ✨
Material Icon Theme	More legible icon theme. ✨
Word Count	Counts words in markdown files. ✨
filesize	Shows file information, including size, gzip size, and time of creation. ✨
Rainbow CSV	Provides clarity to CSV files and filtering/sorting tools. ✨
Color Highlight	Global Hex and RGBA color preview.✨
indent-rainbow	Preferred over the native indention highlighter. ✨
Error Lens	Inline error codes. ✨
Better Comments	Applies custom highlighting to different types of comments. ✨
Todo Tree	Keeps track of todo comments in code. ✨
Color Highlight	Inline colors. ✨
Docs View	Read documentation on side instead of scrolling hover.

Visual Studio Extensions

Program	Description
VsVim	Vim keybinds. ✨
Visual Studio Iconizer	Adds easier to identify symbols to buttons. ✨
Editor Guidelines	Add graphical ruler to editor. ✨
NuGet Package Manager	Graphical browser for NuGet. ✨
Output Enhancer	Colorizes output of terminal and debug log. ✨
Trailing Whitespace Visualizer	Visualizes whitespace if not automatically truncating. ✨
SideScroller	Allows shift scroll. ✨
Time Stamp Margin	Gives time upon execution or event in log. ✨
Shrink Empty Lines	Frees vertical space by slightly shrinking unused lines. ✨
Solution Error Visualizer	Hover file to see error in solution. ✨
Add New File	Simple tool to add a file of whatever type. ✨
CodeMaid	Adds easier source + object navigation to C# and C++.
Dummy Text Generator	Lorem Ipsums.
Visual Studio Spell Checker	Spell checker.
Align Assignments	Alignment tool for assignments.

IntelliJ IDEA Extensions

Program	Description
IdeaVim	Vim keybinds. ✨
Rainbow Brackets	Rainbow syntax for nested code. ✨
Indent Rainbow	Rainbow indents for nested code. ✨
Extra Icons	Easier to identify symbols. ✨
String Manipulation	Quickly change string formatting.
Restful Fast Request - API Buddy	REST testing tools.
GitToolBox	Advanced git tools.
Maven Helper	Advanced MVN tools.
Randomness	Random generator.

Network

Browsers

Program	Description
🪟🐧🍎 Firefox	Favorite browser, tag based bookmarking. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 Chromium / Edge 🔒 / Brave	Blink browsers (for testing). ✨

Browser Extensions

Program	Description
🦊👁️‍ uBlock Origin	Blocks ads and useful webpage analysis tools. ✨
🦊👁️‍ Dark Reader	Globally injected dark theme. ✨
🦊👁️‍ Video Speed Controller	Control video playback speed. ✨
🦊👁️‍ Highlight or Hide Search Engine Results	Block domains from search results. ✨
🦊👁️‍ Channel Blocker	Block channels from recommendations. ✨
🦊👁️‍ Vimium-FF / Vimium	Vi binds for webpage navigation. ✨
🦊👁️‍ Wayback Machine	Archive web pages to the Wayback Machine. ✨
🦊👁️‍ Archive Page	Archive web pages to archive.is ✨
🦊👁️‍ User-Agent Switcher	Faster user agent changing. ✨
🦊👁️‍ Decentraleyes	Stubs CDN calls, reduces spying surface. ✨
🦊👁️‍ Old Reddit Redirect	Redirects to old format reddit. ✨
🦊👁️‍ ClearURLs	Removes trackers and PII from URLs automatically. ✨
🦊👁️‍ Fast Forward	Skips link shortening services. ✨
🦊👁️‍ SponsorBlock	Crowdsourced video annotation and skipping. ✨
🦊👁️‍ Violentmonkey	Userscripts manager. ✨
🦊👁️‍ DF YouTube	Reduces visual distractions on YouTube. ✨
🦊👁️ Feedbro	RSS Client. ✨
🦊 cookies.txt	Exports cookies for other tools.
🦊👁️‍ Search by Image	Reverse image search anything quickly.
🦊👁️‍ Center Pages	Condense HTML pages if too wide.
🦊👁️‍ Bypass Paywalls Clean	Skips paywalls from articles.
🦊👁️‍ SoundFixer	Allows audio amplification for low sources.
🦊 Limit Tabs	Blocks tabs after user-set max is reached.
🦊👁️‍ LeechBlock NG	Customizable site blacklist and time-gate software.

Userscripts

Program	Description
🦊👁️‍ Youtube Music fix volume ratio	More granular volume slider.
🦊👁️‍ VGMLoaderX	Gets past annoying roadblocks.

Communication

Program	Description
🪟🍎🔒 Outlook	Email and calendar client. FOSS option Thunderbird. ✨
🪟🐧🍎🔒 Discord	Current popular chat platform. ✨
🪟🍎🔒 OneDrive	Native-ish SharePoint file browser integration. ✨
🪟🍎🔒 Teams	Business VOIP & IM platform.

VPN

Program	Description
🪟🐧🍎 OpenVPN	OpenVPN client and server. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 WireGuard	WireGuard client and server.
🪟🐧🍎 SoftEther	Client and server for SSTP, IPSec, WireGuard, and OpenVPN.
🪟🐧🍎 OpenConnect	Client and server for AnyConnect.

File Downloading

Program	Description
🪟🐧🍎 yt-dlp	Download video and audio from most websites. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 gallery-dl	Download social media and gallery data. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 qbittorrent	Torrent client and search engine. ✨
🪟🍎 Cyberduck	GUI for nearly all protocols and cloud platforms. Does nag. ✨
🪟 winscp	GUI client for SFTP, S3, WebDAV, and more. Doesn't nag.
🪟🐧🍎 wget	Download websites.
🪟🐧🍎 aria2	Sophisticated threaded downloading tool.
🪟🐧🍎 rclone	Mount & sync shares from many cloud vendors.
🪟 winfsp	Dependency for rclone on Windows.

Analysis

Program	Description
🪟🐧🍎 nmap/Zenmap	Network analysis. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 Wireshark	Packet analysis. ✨

Media

Documents

Program	Description
🪟🔒 OneNote 2016 / 🍎🔒 OneNote	Preferred personal / team note system. ✨
🪟 OneMore	Quality-of-life extension for OneNote 2016. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 LibreOffice	Microsoft Office viewer & editor. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 pandoc	Text media conversion tool. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 pdftk-java	PDF transformation tool (Rewrite of pdftk). ✨
🪟🐧 Okular	PDF and eBook reader / editor.
🪟🐧🍎 Koodo	Modern ebook desktop app.
🪟🐧🍎 Calibre	Tools for ebooks.
🪟🐧🍎 Tesseract	Text OCR tool.

Images

Program	Description
🪟🐧🍎 GIMP	Full fledged editing and drawing software. Alt Krita. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 DarkTable	Raw & batch processing photography. ✨
🪟 ZoomIt	Fast screenshot markup & live magnification tool. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 ImageMagick	CLI tool for automated editing. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 Asesprite	Pixel art software. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 Ksnip	Advanced screenshot tool.
🪟🐧🍎 Inkscape	Full vector editing suite.
🪟🐧🍎 exiftool	Remove or edit EXIF data.

Audio

Program	Description
🪟🐧🍎🔒 FL Studios	Fully featured DAW. FOSS Alt Ardour. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 Audacity	GUI Audio editing software. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 Mixxx	DJ mixing software and audio analysis tool. ✨
🪟🐧 Soundux	Sampler / Soundboard.
🪟🐧🍎 Quod Libet	Dedicated audio library and player.
🪟🐧🍎 MusicBrainz Picard	Automated music meta tagging software.
🪟 Equalizer APO & Peace Equalizer	System-wide VST applier for audio IO.
🪟🐧🍎 Spleeter	AI Vocal / Instrumental isolation tool.

Video

Program	Description
🪟🐧🍎 VLC	Fully featured media player. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 OBS	Allows livestreaming, easy screen recording, and overlays. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 FFmpeg	Fully featured CLI media conversion tool and editor. ✨
🪟🐧🍎🔒 DaVinci Resolve	Graphical non-linear video editing software. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 Kdenlive	Preferred FOSS graphical non-linear video editing software. ✨
🪟 MPV.NET / 🍎 MPV	Fast and customizable media player.

Video Server

Program	Description
🪟🐧🍎 Jellyfin	Media server.

System Tools

Backups

Program	Description
🪟🐧🍎🔒 Synology Utilities	Tools for my NAS. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 TestDisk & PhotoRec	Partition and File recovery tool. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 ddrescue	Failing drive recovery and backup tool. ✨
🪟🐧🍎🔒 Veeam Agent	Free incremental block and file level backup + replication tool.
🪟🐧🍎 Restic	File level backup tool.

File Management

Program	Description
🪟🐧🍎 7-Zip	Full featured archive manager, easy encryption. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 DupeGuru	Duplicate file finder. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 ripgrep + ripgrep-all	Recursive file and string finder. ✨
🪟 WinDirStat / 🐧 QDirStat / 🍎 GrandPerspective	GUI storage analysis. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 buku	Bookmark and tag system.
🪟 wincdemu	Virtual disk mounter & creator.
🐧🍎 rsync	Fully featured copying tool.
🪟🐧🍎 dua	CLI storage analysis.

Security

Program	Description
🪟🐧🍎 Bitwarden	Multi-user synced secrets. ✨
🦊👁️‍ Bitwarden-Browser	Browser plugin for Bitwarden.
🪟🐧🍎 Veracrypt	Portable encrypted volumes.
🪟 Gpg4win	PGP keychain and tools.

Installation Media

Program	Description
🪟🐧 Ventoy	Multiboot USB tool. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 Etcher	Easy to use alternative to prepare installation media. ✨

Automation

Program	Description
🪟 AHK / 🐧 sxhkd / 🍎 karabiner	Rebind and map keyboard(s). ✨
🪟🐧🍎 espanso	Quick variable compatible keyboard templates.

Productivity

Program	Description
🪟🐧 Qalculate	Full featured calculator. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 Anki	SRS and flashcard tool.

Terminal

Program	Description
🪟🐧🍎 PuTTY	Serial console, putty gen, and terminal logging. VScode alt Serial Monitor.
🪟🐧🍎 tio	CLI serial console.

Input

Program	Description
🪟🔒 VoiceMeeter Potato / 🍎 BlackHole	Virtual audio routing.
🪟🐧🍎 KDE Connect	Desktop <-> Smartphone input and notifications.
🪟🐧🍎 Barrier	Cross-platform keyboard and mouse KVM software.

Window Management

Program	Description
🍎 Rectangle	Sane window management keybind program. ✨
🍎 AltTab	Sane window switching behavior. ✨
🍎 Swift Quit	Sane window closing behavior. ✨

Runtimes

Program	Description
🪟🔒 .NET 3.5	Older .NET Framework that old software depends on. ✨
🪟🔒 DirectX	DirectX 9 and above. Dependency for many games. ✨
🪟🔒 MSVC Redist 2015-2022	Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022. ✨
🪟🔒 MSVC Redist 2013	Microsoft Visual C++ 2013. ✨
🪟🔒 MSVC Redist 2012	Microsoft Visual C++ 2012. ✨
🪟🔒 MSVC Redist 2010	Microsoft Visual C++ 2010. ✨
🪟🔒 MSVC Redist 2008	Microsoft Visual C++ 2008. ✨
🪟🔒 MSVC Redist 2005	Microsoft Visual C++ 2005. ✨

Debug

Program	Description
🪟🔒 Sysinternals Suite	Extended official tools for debugging. ✨
🪟🔒 Windows SDK	Lots of important debug and development tools. ✨
🪟 diskspd / 🐧🍎 fio	Detailed disk performance metrics. ✨
🪟 CrystalDiskInfo / 🐧🍎 smartmontools	SMART and other disk health metrics. ✨
🪟🍎🔒 iTunes	Dependency for certain Apple device procedures.
🪟🐧🍎 adb	Interface and automate android.
🐧🍎 sysbench	CPU, Memory, IO, and basic SQL benchmarking tools.

Services

Program	Description
🪟 NSSM	Create services from binaries and scripts.

Management

Program	Description
🪟🐧🍎 MeshCentral	Remote desktop server and client software w/ AMT support.
🪟🐧🍎 Guacamole	SSH/RDP/VNC server gateway.
🪟🐧🍎 TigerVNC	VNC client (& server options).
🐧 XRDP	RDP server for Linux.

Gaming

Platforms

Program	Description
🪟🐧🍎🔒 Steam	Common platform for PC games and utilities. ✨
🪟🍎🔒 GOG Galaxy	Dependency to play some network multiplayer GOG games.

Peripherals

Program	Description
🪟 DS4Windows	Allows PS4 to be functional on non-supporting platforms.

Emulation

Program	Description
🪟🐧🍎 Retroarch	Emulator platform. ✨
🪟🐧🍎 Dolphin	Emulator for GCN / Wii + netplay.

Games

Program	Description
🪟🐧🍎 Nullpomino	All sorts of falling block games and styles.
🪟🐧🍎🔒 Minecraft	Fun for everyone!

Mobile

System Tools

App	Description
🤖 F-Droid	FOSS app store. ✨
🤖 Termux	Android terminal for phone w/ package manager. ✨
🤖 Ghost Commander	File explorer w/ network mounting ability. ✨
🤖🍏 Bitwarden	Secrets manager. ✨
🤖🍏 TOTP	Anything will do. ✨
🤖 Easer	Event based automation platform.

Web Browsers

App	Description
🤖🍏 Firefox	General purpose web browser. ✨
🤖🍏 Brave	Ad-blocking browser, good for iOS. ✨

Communication

App	Description
🤖🍏🔒 Outlook	Preferred calendar and email system. ✨
🤖🍏🔒 Discord	Popular chat platform. ✨
🤖🍏🔒 Teams	Business IM platform.

Network Tools

App	Description
🤖 DNS66	Quick adblocking DNS. ✨
🤖🍏 OpenVPN	OpenVPN client. ✨
🤖 WiFiAnalyzer	WiFi analysis tool. ✨
🤖 primitive ftpd	FTP/SFTP server. ✨
🤖 PCAPdroid	PCAP capture for device.
🤖 Ning	Layer 2-4 discovery tool.
🤖 LibreTorrent	Torrent client.
🤖🍏 WireGuard	WireGuard client.
🤖 FTPClient	FTP client.

User Tools

App	Description
🤖🍏🔒 Google Maps	Navigation & GPS software. ✨
🤖 Calculator-inator	Full calculator ✨
🤖 Audio Recorder	Record audio. ✨
🤖 omWeather	Weather application. ✨
🤖 Compass	Compass application. ✨
🤖 Markor	Basic text editor. ✨
🤖 Simple Draw Pro	Basic drawing program. ✨
🤖 Semitone	Tuner, keyboard, and metronome. ✨
🤖 Open Note Scanner	Document scanning & PDF appending tool.
🤖 Acode	Programming focused text editor.
🤖 BetterCounter	Counter app.

Media

App	Description
🤖 NewPipe	Youtube frontend, download videos as well. ✨
🤖🍏🔒 Audible	Amazon's audiobook store. ✨
🤖 Voice	Audiobook player. ✨
🤖🍏 VLC	Fully featured media player. ✨
🤖 AntennaPod	Podcast player & tracker. ✨
🤖 Metro	Music player.
🤖 Librera Reader	eBook reader.
🤖 Spotube	Spotify frontend.

Media Tools

App	Description
🤖 VES	Photo comparison tool.
🤖🔒 Snapseed	Photo editing tool, including RAW processing.

Productivity

App	Description
🤖🍏 OneNote	Preferred personal / team note system. ✨
🤖 Track & Graph	Graphing tool.
🤖 Goodtime Productivity	Pomodoro timer.
🤖 TimeR Machine	Interval timer.
🤖🍏 AnkiDroid	SRS and flashcard tool.

Gaming

App	Description
🤖 Open Sudoku	Sudoku. ✨
🤖 Antimine	Minesweeper. ✨
🤖🍏 Retroarch	Emulator platform. ✨