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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 financial management.

• LedgerSMB - SQL-Ledger fork.

• PhreeBooks

• SQL-Ledger - first professional and now leading FOSS accounting app for businesses.

Animation

• KTooN - 2D animation.

Association / Non-Profit Management

• Association Subscribers Manager

• CiviCRM - first and now standard FOSS app for association management, events, campaigns.

Astronomy

• Arduino Telescope ASCOM Driver - hardware controller standard.

• AIPS - Astronomical Image Processing System.

• GNU Radio - for 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

Bittorrent

• Deluge
• FreeDownloadManager - multiple download methods.
• Popcorn Time - movie streaming.
• qBittorrent - bittorrent client.

Business Intelligence

• Pentaho - one of the first FOSS BI systems.

CD/DVD Creation

• DVD Flick

• InfraRecorder

Church Management

• ChurchDB - management of families, integration with Google Maps.

Communications

• Asterisk - first and now standard Voice over IP (VoIP) management system.

• Ekiga - conferencing support.

Computer Aided Design (CAD)

• BRL-CAD

(Also see 3D modelling app "Blender" in Graphics section.)

Crowd Sourcing

• Ushahidi - dispersed information collection and mapping.

Customer Relationship Management

• OpenCRX - with ticketing and issue management.

• vtiger - standard FOSS fork of original SugarCRM software.

Desktop

• GNOME - most widely used Linux user interface, underlying Ubuntu.

• KDE - second most widely used Linux user interface.

Desktop Publishing

• SCRIBUS - standard FOSS app for magazines, bulletins, handouts, posters.

Development Environments

• Eclipse - standard FOSS integrated development environment (IDE), foundation supported by almost every major tech company, based in Ottawa, Canada.

• NetBeans

Disaster Management

• OpenRelief - inexpensive drone controller.

• SAHANA

Dispatching

• Tickets CAD - dispatch management and tracking system.

Document Management

• Alfresco - one of the first and most widely used doc management systems, several commercial open source components but makes the list because they converted back to the GPL License.

• Nuxeo - standard FOSS doc management system from Europe, all FOSS components, scales from small to very large organizations..

Ebook Readers

• BookReader

• bookworm

• Calibre

• EPUBReader

• FBReader

• Plucker

E-commerce

• Abantecart

• AxisCommerce

• Drupal Commerce - for Drupal websites.

• Loaded Commerce

• Magento Commerce

• nopCommerce - asp.net based cart.

• OpenCart

• Open For Business - one of the first FOSS e-commerce systems.

• osCMax

• oscommerce - one of the first FOSS e-commerce systems.

• PrestaShop

• RapidShop - shopping carts.

• Simplecart - JavaScript shopping carts.

• Spree

• Ubercart - integrates with Drupal.

• Virtuemart - integrates with Joomla.

• Zen Cart

Education

• Chamilo

• Claroline

• Course Builder - by Google.

• Kuali

• Moodle - one of the first and now most widely used FOSS education apps.

• Olat

• Sakai

• Sugar

• VUE - unique capabilites, extraordinary visual mapping tool to help organize digital resources.

Email & Calendar

• Evolution - widely deployed world wide by Novell in late 1990's, the standard enterprise level client.

• Thunderbird-Lightening - Mozilla (Firefox) supported client, most widely used individual FOSS client.

Email Marketing

• OpenEMM - emails and campaigns with automated opt-out compliance.

• 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 - one of the very first FOSS ERP solutions.

• Dolibarr ERP/CRM

• OpenBravo

• OpenERP - one of the most widely used.

• opentaps - one of the most widely used.

• WebERP

File Compression

• 7-zip - support for gzip, zip, related formats.

Flight Simulator

• FlightGear

Forums

• phpBB

Game

• MegaZeux (mainstream)

• MegaZeux (forked)

• KDE Games - games for the KDE Linux user interface (should be able to run on most Gnome based systems as well).

Genealogy

• Gramps

Graphics

• Blender3D - 3D modeling.

• Cenon - vector graphics.

• DIA - first FOSS template tool, occasionally useful, now superseded by LibreOffice Draw, Gimp, Inkscape, and others.

• Gimp - standard FOSS bitmap editing application, extraordinarily powerful.

• ImageMajick

• Krita - painting and sketching.

• Inkscape - standard FOSS vector graphics application.

• Diagram Designer - Simple vector graphics editor for creating flowcharts, UML class diagrams, illustrations and slide shows.

Graphing

• Graphite - scalable real-time graphing.

Groupware (email, contacts, calendar, notes, tasks )

• cyn.in

• eGroupWare - web-based.

• Group-Office - 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 - first FOSS HR management software.

• SimpleHRM

Instant Messaging

• Pidgin - standard FOSS app for IM, can connect to all major networks.

• PHIRC (IRC)

• Spark

Inventory Management

• Asset Tracker

ISP Management

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

Issue Tracking

• Trac - standard (basic) FOSS issue tracking app, simple interface, customizable reports.

(See "Bug Tracking" software on "System Software" page for more sophisticated systems.)

Label Printing

• gLabels

Library Software

• Evergreen

• GreenStone

• Koha

• oss4lib

Mathematics

• Mathbuntu - learning software.

• Octave

• Sage

• Scilab

Mind Mapping

• FreePlane - update of and more powerful than the original FreeMind app.

Modeling

• ArgoUML - UML modeling.

Multimedia

• Banshee

• HandBrake - format conversions.

• Hugin - panorama photo stitcher.

• VLC media player

• OpenLP

Notes

• Tomboy

• WhisperNote - portable encrypted HTML note.

Office Suite

• Calligra Suite - Koffice spinoff.

• LibreOffice - standard FOSS office suite software, compatible with Microsoft Office, update of original OpenOffice.org.

Password Managers

• EveryPass - a HTML5 based password manager that allows cross domain password management on modern, web enabled devices.

• KeePass - open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and mobile devices.

PDF Viewers / Editors / Writers

• CC PDF converter - PDF printer.

• Evince

• Ghostscript

• PDFCreator - PDF printer.

• PDFEdit

• PDFMod

• Xpdf

• Sumatra

Photography

• Hugin - panoramic photo stitcher togetherer.

Point of Sale

• LemonPOS

Presentations

• Sozi - zooming presentation editor and player.

Printing 3D

• ReplicatorG

• RepRap

Project Management

• Collabtive

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

• Planner - simple interface, Gantt charts, resource allocation, cost roll-ups, HTML export, best basic tool.

• ProjectLibre - update of original OpenProj app, Gantt charts, resources, costing, read /write compatible with MS Project, best sophisticated tool.

• RedMine - web-based collaboration support for project teams.

• 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 - good video conversion, rotation tools.

• 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 - standard FOSS app until Chrome took more user share, traces lineage as a descendent of the first widespread browser Netscape.

• Chrome - Google supported browser, very fast, portal to bring users into other (non-FOSS) Google services.

Web Conferencing

• BigBlueButton - standard FOSS conferencing app for education.

• DimDim - one of the first FOSS conferencing apps.

• OpenMeetings

• VMukti

• WebHuddle - one of the first FOSS conferencing apps.

Website Content Management Systems (CMS)

• Drupal - most widely used FOSS content management system for complex sites, many themes and plugins.

• Joomla - second most widely used FOSS content management system.

Website Development

• Amaya - original browser supported by creator of web, Tim Berners-Lee, with his vision of always being able to both view and edit any page in the same app.

• Aptana Studio 3

• Bluefish - editor.

• BlueGriffon - editor.

• KompoZer

• Nvu

• Quanta

• WordPress - standard and most widely used FOSS website software, large set of templates, support for blogging, discussions, forums.

Wiki

• MediaWiki - original and same software that runs Wikipedia.

• TWiki

Workflow

• Bonita

• Process Maker