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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
- jGnash - personal.
- GnuCash - personal.
- LedgerSMB - SQL-Ledger spin-off.
- SQL-Ledger - business.
Animation
- KTooN - 2D animation.
Association / Non-Profit Management
- 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
- Jack - audio connection.
- Ardour - digital audio workstation
Billing
Blogging, Discussions, Forums
Business Intelligence
CD/DVD Creation
Church Management
Communications
- Asterisk - voice over IP.
- Ekiga - conferencing.
Computer Aided Design & 3D Modeling
Crowd Sourcing
- Ushahidi - Information collection and mapping
Customer Relationship Management
Desktop
Desktop Publishing
Development Environments
Disaster Management
- OpenRelief - Inexpensive drone controller
Dispatching
Document Management
Ebook Readers
Ecommerce
- nopCommerce - asp.net based cart.
- RapidShop - carts.
- Simplecart - Javascript cart.
- Spree
- Ubercart - Integrates with Drupal.
- Virtuemart - Integrates with Joomla.
Education
- Course Builder - by Google.
Email & Calendar
Email Marketing
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
File Compression
Flight Simulator
Forums
Game
Geneaology
Graphics
- Blender3D - 3D.
- Cenon - Vector graphics.
- DIA - Templates.
- Gimp - Bitmap editing, extraordinarily powerful.
- Krita - painting and sketching.
- Inkscape - Vector graphics.
Graphing
- Graphite - Scalable Realtime Graphing/
Groupware
- eGroupWare - web-based.
Health / Medical / Dental
- Eclipse OHF - health framework.
- GnuMED - electronic medical records.
- OpenDental - dental application
- OpenEHR - electronic health records.
- Open EMR - electronic medical records.
- OpenMolar - dental software.
- OpenTox - interoperable predictive toxicology framework.
- OSCAR - electronic medical records.
- VistA - electronic medical records.
Human Resources (HR)
Instant Messaging
- PHIRC (IRC)
Inventory Management
ISP Management
- Freeside - billing, CRM, trouble ticketing, network monitoring and provisioning for ISPs, VoIP providers and other industries
Issue Tracking
Label Printing
Library Software
Mathematics
- Mathbuntu - learning software
Mind Mapping
Modeling
- ArgoUML - UML modeling
Multimedia
- HandBrake - Format conversions
- Hugin - Panorama photo stitcher
Notes
Office Suite
- Calligra Suite - Koffice spinoff
- LibreOffice - Microsoft Office compatible, update of OpenOffice.org
PDF Viewers / Editors / Writers
- CC PDF converter - PDF printer
- PDFCreator - PDF printer.
Photography
- Hugin - Panorama photo stitcher.
Point of Sale
Printing (3D)
Project Management
- GanttProject - Gantt charts, reads/writes MS project.
- Planner - Gantt charts.
- ProjectLibre - Gantt project software, update of OpenProj
Real Estate
Reporting / Charts / Graphs
- D3.js - Javascript data driven documents
Resource Management
Screencasting
- Kazam - Screen recording for screencasts.
Search Engine
Social Networking
- Diaspora - modeled on Facebook.
Sound Editing
Survey Software
Terminal Emulation
- PuTTY - Telnet, SSH, xterm emulator.
Timesheet & Time Tracking
- Timesheet Next Gen - spin-off of long-time Timesheet.php.
Video Capture
Video Players
Video Conferencing
Video Editing
Virtual Desktop Clients
Virtual Private Network
Virtual World / Simulator
Vision
- Gaze Tracker - gaze tracker.
- OpenCV - computer vision libraries.
Voice Calling
Voice Recognition
Website Analytics
Web Browser
- Firefox - descendent of original Netscape.
Web Conferencing
Web Development
- Amaya - view and edit, supported by creator of web, Tim Berners-Lee.
- Bluefish - editor.
- BlueGriffon - editor.
- Drupal - content management system.
- Joomla - content management system.
- Wordpress - content management system.
Wiki
- MediaWiki - same software as Wikipedia.