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  • MongoDB Atlas runs apps anywhere Icon
    MongoDB Atlas runs apps anywhere

    Deploy in 115+ regions with the modern database for every enterprise.

    MongoDB Atlas gives you the freedom to build and run modern applications anywhere—across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. With global availability in over 115 regions, Atlas lets you deploy close to your users, meet compliance needs, and scale with confidence across any geography.
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    A unique web-based, end-to-end innovative LOS for residential mortgage lending

    Lenders, Banks, Credit Unions, and Brokers in need of a cloud solution to accelerate their lending portfolio

    LendingPad is a cloud-native, enterprise loan origination system (LOS) built to modernize mortgage lending for lenders, brokers, bankers and credit unions. Designed by mortgage professionals, the platform emphasizes speed, clarity and ease of use — helping teams close loans faster while delivering a superior borrower experience.
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    Scribus

    Scribus

    Powerful desktop publishing software

    Scribus is an Open Source program that brings professional page layout to Linux, BSD UNIX, Solaris, OpenIndiana, GNU/Hurd, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4, eComStation, and Windows desktops with a combination of press-ready output and new approaches to page design. Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and spot colors, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation.
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    Downloads: 45,732 This Week
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    LibreOffice

    LibreOffice

    A free and powerful office suite

    LibreOffice is a free and powerful office suite, and a successor to OpenOffice. Its clean interface and feature-rich tools help you unleash your creativity and enhance your productivity. LibreOffice is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) – development is open to new talent and new ideas, and our software is tested and used daily by a large and devoted user community. Your documents will look professional and clean, regardless of their purpose: a letter, a master thesis, a brochure, financial reports, marketing presentations, technical drawings and diagrams. LibreOffice makes your work look great while you focus on the content, thanks to its powerful styles system and structuring tools. LibreOffice is compatible with a wide range of document formats such as Microsoft® Word (.doc, .docx), Excel (.xls, .xlsx), PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx) and Publisher. But LibreOffice goes much further with its native support for a modern and open standard (OpenDocument Format).
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    Downloads: 895 This Week
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    Notepad++ Python Script

    Notepad++ Python Script

    A Python Scripting plugin for Notepad++

    A Python Scripting plugin for Notepad++. Complete easy script access to all of the editor's features (including absolutely everything in Scintilla). Configurable menus and toolbar options, assign shortcuts to scripts.
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    Downloads: 300 This Week
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    FastAPI

    FastAPI

    FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code

    FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints. Great editor support. Completion everywhere. Less time debugging. Designed to be easy to use and learn. Less time reading docs. Minimize code duplication. Multiple features from each parameter declaration. Fewer bugs. Get production-ready code. With automatic interactive documentation. Based on (and fully compatible with) the open standards for APIs: OpenAPI (previously known as Swagger) and JSON Schema. If you are building a CLI app to be used in the terminal instead of a web API, check out Typer. Typer is FastAPI's little sibling. And it's intended to be the FastAPI of CLIs. In summary, you declare once the types of parameters, body, etc. as function parameters. You do that with standard modern Python types. You don't have to learn a new syntax, the methods or classes of a specific library, etc.
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    The Original Buy Center Software.

    Never Go To The Auction Again.

    VAN sources private-party vehicles from over 20 platforms and provides all necessary tools to communicate with sellers and manage opportunities. Franchise and Independent dealers can boost their buy center strategies with our advanced tools and an experienced Acquisition Coaching™ team dedicated to your success.
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    Utilities for general- and special-purpose documentation. Includes reStructuredText, the easy to read, easy to use, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup language.
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    Downloads: 168 This Week
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    Diffuse
    Diffuse is a graphical tool for comparing and merging text files. It can retrieve files for comparison from Bazaar, CVS, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, RCS, Subversion, and SVK repositories.
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    Downloads: 137 This Week
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    The AbiWord word processor is a full-featured cross-platform word processor.
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    Downloads: 160 This Week
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    DeepSpeech

    DeepSpeech

    Open source embedded speech-to-text engine

    DeepSpeech is an open source embedded (offline, on-device) speech-to-text engine which can run in real time on devices ranging from a Raspberry Pi 4 to high power GPU servers. DeepSpeech is an open-source Speech-To-Text engine, using a model trained by machine learning techniques based on Baidu's Deep Speech research paper. Project DeepSpeech uses Google's TensorFlow to make the implementation easier. A pre-trained English model is available for use and can be downloaded following the instructions in the usage docs. If you want to use the pre-trained English model for performing speech-to-text, you can download it (along with other important inference material) from the DeepSpeech releases page.
    Downloads: 14 This Week
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    DocBook to LaTeX Publishing transforms your SGML/XML DocBook documents to DVI, PostScript or PDF by translating them in pure LaTeX as a first process. MathML 2.0 markups are supported too. It started as a clone of DB2LaTeX.
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    Downloads: 81 This Week
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    Lightspeed golf course management software

    Lightspeed Golf is all-in-one golf course management software to help courses simplify operations, drive revenue and deliver amazing golf experiences.

    From tee sheet management, point of sale and payment processing to marketing, automation, reporting and more—Lightspeed is built for the pro shop, restaurant, back office, beverage cart and beyond.
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    WikidPad is a wiki-like notebook for storing your thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, or anything else you can think of to write down.
    Downloads: 70 This Week
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    Arabeyes

    A project to increase free Arabic fonts on Unix/Linux

    Arabeyes is a Meta project that is aimed at fully supporting the Arabic language in the Unix/Linux environment. It is designed to be a central location to standardize the Arabization process. Arabeyes relies on voluntary contributions.
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    Downloads: 173 This Week
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    PDF-Shuffler
    PDF-Shuffler is a small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split pdf documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. It is a frontend for python-pyPdf.
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    Downloads: 50 This Week
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    Pix2Text

    Pix2Text

    Open-Source Python3 tool for recognizing layouts, tables, and math

    An Open-Source Python3 tool for recognizing layouts, tables, math formulas, and text in images, converting them into Markdown format. A free alternative to Mathpix, empowering seamless conversion of visual content into text-based representations. 80+ languages are supported. Pix2Text (P2T) aims to be a free and open-source Python alternative to Mathpix, and it can already accomplish Mathpix's core functionality. Pix2Text (P2T) can recognize layouts, tables, images, text, and mathematical formulas, and integrate all of these contents into Markdown format. P2T can also convert an entire PDF file (which can contain scanned images or any other format) into Markdown format.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    Pootle, Virtaal & Translate Toolkit

    Pootle, Virtaal & Translate Toolkit

    Localization tools built by localizers for localizers

    Tools for localization: - Pootle: web based translation management system. - Virtaal: Computer Aided Translation (CAT) tool. - Translate Toolkit: QA, format conversion and support (PO, Java .properties, OpenOffice, Mozilla, XLIFF, TMX, TBX, CSV, Qt .ts).
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    Downloads: 56 This Week
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    Mozc

    Mozc

    Mozc - a Japanese Input Method Editor designed for multi-platform

    Mozc is an open source Japanese Input Method Editor (IME) developed by Google, designed to provide Japanese text input across multiple operating systems including Android, macOS, Windows, GNU/Linux, and Chromium OS. The project originated as a subset of Google Japanese Input, released publicly under the BSD 3-Clause license for community use and development. Mozc offers core IME functionality such as text conversion, prediction, and dictionary-based input, enabling users to efficiently type and edit Japanese text. While Mozc shares much of its codebase with Google’s internal IME, it operates as an independent open source project without official support, guarantees, or stable release cycles. Developers can build Mozc from source for their preferred platform, and the repository includes detailed build instructions for Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows environments.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    Vim Win32 Installer

    Vim Win32 Installer

    Vim Win32 Installer

    The vim-win32-installer project provides prebuilt Windows installers and archive builds of Vim — the venerable command-line text editor known for its efficiency, modal editing, and extensibility — specifically packaged for the Microsoft Windows platform. This repository automates building Nightly and stable snapshots of Vim for Win32, Win64, and ARM64 targets, producing ready-to-run .exe installers and .zip bundles that users can download and install without compiling from source. It ensures that Windows users have access to the latest Vim features and bug fixes with appropriate patches applied, maintaining compatibility with native Windows behavior while preserving the core Unix-originated Vim experience. These builds can include support for scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, Lua, and Perl when corresponding interpreters are installed, expanding Vim’s extensibility on Windows.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    OxygenOffice Professional(OOOP, O2OP)is an enhanced version of free OpenOffice.org what is a multi-platform office productivity suite.OxygenOffice Professional contains more extras like templates, cliparts, samples, fonts and VBA support. Get 3.2.1
    Downloads: 28 This Week
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    ARIS

    ARIS

    Lightweight Markdown-only skills for autonomous ML research

    ARIS is an experimental automation framework that leverages AI coding agents to perform continuous research and development tasks autonomously, even without active user supervision. The system is designed to run iterative cycles of research, coding, testing, and refinement, effectively simulating a “sleep mode” where productive work continues in the background. It integrates with AI tools such as Claude Code to generate solutions, analyze results, and improve outputs over time. The project emphasizes long-running workflows that can explore problem spaces more deeply than manual intervention would typically allow. It also highlights the potential of autonomous agents to handle repetitive or exploratory tasks that would otherwise require significant human effort. The framework is particularly relevant for developers interested in automated experimentation, continuous learning systems, and AI-driven productivity.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Planning with Files

    Planning with Files

    Claude Code skill implementing Manus-style persistent planning

    Planning With Files is a Claude Code skill — essentially a plugin for AI agent workflows — that adapts the “Manus-style” persistent markdown planning methodology into developer workflows, enabling structured project planning, progress tracking, and knowledge storage using plain text files. Inspired by high-profile agent workflows and context engineering patterns, it uses persistent markdown files (like task_plan.md, progress.md, and findings.md) as the “working memory” for AI agents, overcoming the limitations of ephemeral memory and large context windows that often lead to drift or information loss. Once installed, the plugin supports commands to create and manage planning files, integrates with multiple IDEs and CLI environments, and ensures sessions can recover progress even when context limits are reached.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    meld-installer

    meld-installer

    Meld Installer for Windows

    Bundles Portable Python (with PyGTK) and Meld together in an easy to use installer. This allows you to not have to worry about setting up Python or PyGTK and you can keep Meld's Python separate from other Python installations on your machine. ** NOTE ** Meld 3.11 and later now have official installers, hence this project is no longer supported. You can download the new installer here: https://download.gnome.org/binaries/win32/meld/. You should uninstall the old 1.8 version before upgrading.
    Downloads: 27 This Week
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    mooedit
    A text editor.
    Downloads: 12 This Week
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    SynWrite add-ons

    SynWrite add-ons

    Collection of add-ons for SynWrite editor

    Collection of add-ons for SynWrite editor. These add-ons can be installed via program's Addon Manager, or you can download zip files to install later.
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    Downloads: 60 This Week
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    AutoCut

    AutoCut

    Cut videos with a text editor

    AutoCut is an innovative tool that lets users edit and cut videos using a text-centric workflow instead of a traditional video editor. AutoCut automatically generates subtitles or transcripts for uploaded videos, and users can simply edit the text file to select the segments of the video they want to keep. This approach transforms video editing into a textual editing task, greatly lowering the barrier to editing for users who find traditional video editors complex or unintuitive. AutoCut supports multiple transcription backends, including Whisper and faster-whisper modes, allowing users to choose based on speed or accuracy needs. After editing the transcript text, the corresponding video clips are merged into the final output, and the tool also produces matching subtitle files. Its command-line interface can be integrated into scripts, making it suitable for automated workflows or batch processing.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Remarkable for Linux

    Remarkable for Linux

    The Markdown Editor for Linux

    With Live Preview you can see your changes as you make them. There is no need to export first to check your syntax. This is accompanied by synchronized scrolling. Remarkable has Github Flavoured Markdown. This has a simple, easy-to-learn syntax with features like checklists, highlighting, links, images and more. Remarkable allows you to export your files to PDF and HTML from within the app. The HTML code is even prettified and PDFs have a TOC. You can style your markdown documents however you like. If you don't like the default styles you can use your own. The code you write is highlighted in the Live Preview. This makes Remarkable great for writing software documentation or even taking lecture notes. You can set up Remarkable whatever way you like. You can swap views, hide views and more. There is even a night mode. With MathJax support you can render beautiful, rich documents with advanced formatting. Keyboard shortcuts enable maximum productivity.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    novelWriter

    novelWriter

    Open source plain text editor designed for writing novels

    A markdown-like text editor designed for writing novels and larger projects of many smaller plain text documents. It is designed to be a simple text editor that allows for easy organization of text files and notes, with a metadata syntax for comments, synopsis, and cross-referencing between files, and built on plain text files for robustness. The project storage is suitable for version control software, and also well suited for file synchronisation tools. All text is saved as plain text files with a meta data header. The core project structure is stored in a single project XML file. Other meta data is primarily saved as JSON files.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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