Language/Multiple-languages/Culture/Productivity-tools-for-polyglots

Free resources for productivity around languages and cultures.

Hi Polyglots 😃

On this page we have gathered our best resources to improve your productivity in the world of languages and cultures.

This page is winner-picking because the choices are too many.

If you are unsatisfied on the choice, Alternativeto and SimilarWeb can provide some help.

Please edit this page with the most up-to-date content.

Legal knowledge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

Know about how copyrighted material can be used for what purpose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_copyright_license

Know about public license.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain

Know about public domain.

Resource

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Free_media_resources

Free licensed media resources.

Writing

https://www.libreoffice.org/

Office suite. It is open-source.

https://wekan.github.io/

Collaborative kanban. It is open-source.

https://cryptpad.fr/

Cloud office suit. Zero knowledge. It is open-source.

https://ethercalc.net/

Collaborative spreadsheet. It is open-source.

https://sigil-ebook.com/

For writing e-books. It is open-source.

https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger

For editing PDF on Linux and Windows. It is open-source.

https://tabula.technology/

For extracting tables from PDF. Java is required. It is open-source.

Painting & Graphics

https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-avif/

Champion of raster graphic formats. Details at Netflix Technology Blog and Jake Archibald. It is open-source.

https://krita.org/

For drawing. It is open-source.

https://inkscape.org/

For editing vector graphics. It is open-source.

https://www.blender.org/

For creating 3D stuffs. Professional. It is open-source.

https://www.bforartists.de/

Fork of Blender with friendly UI. It is open-source.

https://www.draw.io/

For creating diagrams. Online. It is open-source.

https://pencil.evolus.vn/

For creating diagrams. Offline. It is open-source.

https://www.flaticon.com/

High-quality icons. Good for visual memorisation of vocabulary for nouns and verbs.

https://opengameart.org/

Art repository for games.

https://mapchart.net/

Easily create customized maps.

https://fontforge.github.io/

Font creation. Not an easy work. It is open-source.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Comparison_of_editors

Editors of OpenStreetMap. Most of them are open-source.

Audio

https://www.audacityteam.org/

For editing audio. It is open-source.

https://musescore.org/

For composing music. It is open-source.

Video

https://obsproject.com/

For creating videos and streaming. It is open-source.

https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/

For video editing. It is open-source.

https://www.nikse.dk/SubtitleEdit

Subtitle edit. It is open-source.

https://github.com/juliango202/jijimaku

Add dictionary definitions to subtitles. It is open-source.

https://lettier.github.io/gifcurry/

For converting videos into GIFs. It is open-source.

Programming & Developing

https://www.freecodecamp.org/

It is for training skills mainly related to websites. It is open-source.

https://exercism.io/

It is for practising languages. It is open-source.

The positions of language in “Available language tracks” are random, seems to be showing the equality of languages.

Unfortunately, there is no G-code.

https://neutralino.js.org/

Develop programs with HTML, CSS & JavaScript. It is open-source.

There are some comparisons on its GitHub page, which shows that its focus is being lightweight.

https://beeware.org/

GUI creation for for Python with native tools. It is open-source.

https://www.ultimatepp.org/

Rapid development framework for C++. It is open-source.

https://godotengine.org/

Game engine. It is open source.

https://gdevelop-app.com/

Develop games without programming. It is open-source.

Information

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gucharmap

Character map of Unicode. For Linux and Mac. It is pre-installed in many Linux distributions. It is open-source.

https://alternativeto.net/

Find alternatives.

There are also criticism on it.

https://www.similarweb.com/

Find similar sites.

https://www.producthunt.com/

Find amazing products.

https://www.slant.co/

Compare two products.

Localisation

https://opensource.com/article/17/6/open-source-localization-tools

Tools for localization. They are open-source.

Conversion

https://imagemagick.org/

Image converter. it is open-source.

https://www.freac.org/

Audio converter. it is open-source.

https://handbrake.fr/

Video converter. it is open-source.

File Management

http://file-folder-ren.sourceforge.net/

For batch rename. It is open-source.

https://meldmerge.org/

It compares two different files or directories. It is open-source.

https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka

Duplicate file finder. It is open-source.

USB boot

https://www.ventoy.net/

Creator of bootable USB. It can have multiple images on one USB. It is open-source.