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Application related Free Open Source Software is user-facing, software that does something useful under the operation of a human being. The following applications are all FOSS, in most cases the result of many years of wide user involvement and continuing improvement:

Accessibility

• Orca - screen reader and voice access.

• SITPLUS - eye tracking.

• Viacam - mouse replacement.

• Vinix - Ubuntu optimized for visually impaired users.

Accounting

• Grisbi

• jGnash - personal.

• GnuCash - personal.

• LedgerSMB - SQL-Ledger spin-off.

• PhreeBooks

• SQL-Ledger - business.

Animation

• KTooN - 2D animation.

Association / Non-Profit Management

• Association Subscribers Manager

• CiviCRM - association management, events.

Astronomy

• Arduino Telescope ASCOM Driver - Hardware controller standard.

• AIPS - Astronomical Image Processing System

• GNU Radio - Radio Astronomy

• INDI - Distributed control protocol for astronomical instrumentation.

• JSkyCalc - Time and sky calculations.

• Observation Manager - Astronomical observations logbook.

• PHD Guiding - Intelligent auto-guiding.

• SGL Observatory Automation - Automate an astronomical observatory.

• XEphem - Sky charting.

• XmTel - Telescope control software.

Audio Editing

• Audacity

• Jack - audio connection.

• Ardour - digital audio workstation

Billing

• jBilling
• Freeside
• CitrusDB

Blogging, Discussions, Forums

• WordPress

Business Intelligence

• Pentaho

CD/DVD Creation

• DVD Flick

• InfraRecorder

Church Management

• ChurchDB

Communications

• Asterisk - voice over IP.

• Ekiga - conferencing.

Computer Aided Design & 3D Modeling

• Blender

• BRL-CAD

Crowd Sourcing

• Ushahidi - Information collection and mapping

Customer Relationship Management

• OpenCRX

• vtiger

Desktop

• GNOME

• KDE

Desktop Publishing

• SCRIBUS

Development Environments

• Eclipse

• NetBeans

Disaster Management

• OpenRelief - Inexpensive drone controller

• SAHANA

Dispatching

• Tickets CAD

Document Management

• Alfresco

• Nuxeo

Ebook Readers

• BookReader

• bookworm

• Calibre

• EPUBReader

• FBReader

• Plucker

Ecommerce

• Abantecart

• AxisCommerce

• Drupal Commerce

• Loaded Commerce

• Magento Commerce

• nopCommerce - asp.net based cart.

• OpenCart

• Open For Business

• osCMax

• oscommerce

• PrestaShop

• RapidShop - carts.

• Simplecart - Javascript cart.
• Spree

• Ubercart - Integrates with Drupal.

• Virtuemart - Integrates with Joomla.

• Zen Cart

Education

• Chamilo

• Claroline

• Course Builder - by Google.

• Kuali

• Moodle

• Olat

• Sakai

• Sugar

Email & Calendar

• Evolution

• Thunderbird-Lightening

Email Marketing

• OpenEMM

• phplist

Emergency Services

• Open ISES Tickets - Information Systems for Emergency Services (ISES)

Engineering

• Code-Aster - Civil and Structural Engineering finite element analysis and numeric simulation in structural mechanics.

ERP

• Adempiere

• Dolibarr ERP/CRM

• OpenBravo

• OpenERP

• opentaps

• WebERP

File Compression

• 7-zip

Flight Simulator

• FlightGear

Forums

• phpBB

Game

• MegaZeux (mainstream)

• MegaZeux (forked)

• KDE Games

Geneaology

• Gramps

Graphics

• Blender3D - 3D.

• Cenon - Vector graphics.

• DIA - Templates.

• Gimp - Bitmap editing, extraordinarily powerful.

• ImageMajick

• Krita - painting and sketching.

• Inkscape - Vector graphics.

Graphing

• Graphite - Scalable Realtime Graphing/

Groupware

• cyn.in

• eGroupWare - web-based.

• Bedework

• Horde

• SOGo

Health / Medical / Dental

• Eclipse OHF - health framework.

• GnuMED - electronic medical records.

• iHRIS

• Indivo

• Mirth

• OpenDental - dental application

• OpenEHR - electronic health records.

• Open EMR - electronic medical records.

• OpenMolar - dental software.

• OpenMRS

• OpenTox - interoperable predictive toxicology framework.

• OSCAR - electronic medical records.

• OSEHRA

• Phyaura

• Tolven

• USENIX HealthSEC Workshop - HealthSEC Papers

• VistA - electronic medical records.

Human Resources (HR)

• OrangeHRM

• SimpleHRM

Instant Messaging

• Pidgin

• PHIRC (IRC)

• Spark

Inventory Management

• Asset Tracker

• Tracmor

ISP Management

• Freeside - billing, CRM, trouble ticketing, network monitoring and provisioning for ISPs, VoIP providers and other industries

Issue Tracking

• Trac

Label Printing

• gLabels

Library Software

• Evergreen

• GreenStone

• Koha

• oss4lib

Mathematics

• Mathbuntu - learning software

• Octave

• Sage

• Scilab

Mind Mapping

• FreePlane - update of FreeMind

Modeling

• ArgoUML - UML modeling

Multimedia

• Banshee

• HandBrake - Format conversions

• Hugin - Panorama photo stitcher

• VLC media player

• OpenLP

Notes

• Tomboy

Office Suite

• Calligra Suite - Koffice spinoff

• LibreOffice - Microsoft Office compatible, update of OpenOffice.org

PDF Viewers / Editors / Writers

• CC PDF converter - PDF printer

• Evince

• Ghostscript

• PDFCreator - PDF printer.

• PDFEdit

• PDFMod

• Xpdf

• Sumatra

Photography

• Hugin - Panorama photo stitcher.

Point of Sale

• LemonPOS

Printing (3D)

• ReplicatorG

• RepRap

Project Management

• Collabtive

• GanttProject - Gantt charts, reads/writes MS project.

• Planner - Gantt charts.

• ProjectLibre - Gantt project software, update of OpenProj

• RedMine

• TaskJuggler

Real Estate

• Open-Realty

Reporting / Charts / Graphs

• BIRT

• D3.js - Javascript data driven documents

• Datavision

• GNUplot

• Jasper Reports

• JFreeChart

• DocumentBurster

Resource Management

• MRBS

• phpScheduleIt

Screencasting

• Kazam - Screen recording for screencasts.

Search Engine

• OpenSearchServer

Social Networking

• Diaspora - modeled on Facebook.

Sound Editing

• Audacity

Survey Software

• LimeSurvey

Terminal Emulation

• PuTTY - Telnet, SSH, xterm emulator.

Timesheet & Time Tracking

• Project Hamster

• Timesheet Next Gen - spin-off of long-time Timesheet.php.

• TimeTrex

Video Capture

• CamStudio

• Freeseer

Video Players

• Flowplayer

• Web Player

Video Conferencing

• Ekiga

Video Editing

• Avidemux

• CamStudio

• Cinelerra

• Liconcomp

• PiTiVi

• Kdenlive

Virtual Desktop Clients

• kNX

• OpenNX.

• Remmina

• qtnx

• x2go

Virtual Private Network

• OpenVPN

Virtual World / Simulator

• OpenSimulator

Vision

• Gaze Tracker - gaze tracker.

• OpenCV - computer vision libraries.

Voice Calling

• GNU Telephony

Voice Recognition

• CMU Sphinx

• Julius

Website Analytics

• Piwik

Web Browser

• Conkeror

• Firefox - descendent of original Netscape.

• Google Chrome

Web Conferencing

• BigBlueButton

• DimDim

• OpenMeetings

• VMukti

• WebHuddle

Web Development

• Amaya - view and edit, supported by creator of web, Tim Berners-Lee.

• Aptana Studio 3

• Bluefish - editor.

• BlueGriffon - editor.

• Drupal - content management system.

• Joomla - content management system.

• KompoZer

• Nvu

• Quanta

• Wordpress - content management system.

Wiki

• MediaWiki - same software as Wikipedia.

• TWiki

Workflow

• Bonita

• Process Maker