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N NimiWikiTeam ·Alternative Apps ·1 day ago
Nimi Wiki: a browser tool for cross-platform social-video links

Hi, I work on Nimi Wiki, a browser-based option for saving videos from public X/Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Bluesky post links. If you manage your own clips across platforms, I’d value feedback on the link-to-download flow: what step feels unclear? https://video1.nimi.wiki/?utm_source=altforums&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=alternative_apps Please only save or share material in ways that respect creators’ rights and each platform’s rules.

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N NOSWorkspace ·Alternative Apps ·1 week ago
NOS: fix the wording on an HTML report right on the page, then share it by link

With NOS, which I'm building, you can fix the wording on an HTML report or brief right on the page, before or after you've shared it. Written notes and HTML pages live in the same workspace, so a report and the notes about it stay in one place.

Paste the HTML into NOS and you see the rendered page. Click the text you want to change and type the correction. The text in the original HTML is updated to match, so you don't have to dig through tags.

To share it, sign in, save the page and create a NOS link. The person you send it to can open it without an account. If you spot another mistake later, edit and save again. When they reopen the link they already have, they see the saved correction, so there's no new link to send and no separate site to deploy. Pasting, editing and previewing work without signing up at https://nos-workspace.com/, so you can try it on one of your own HTML files first.

Ravenfreak ·Alternative Apps ·3 weeks ago
Kdenlive

Whenever I use Linux this is my go to video editor. DaVinci Resolve works better on Windows, and it does work on Linux but there’s a few quirks with the software so I figured to try a different editor. I tried using Kdenlive in the past on Windows 10 but didn’t get good results, but the PC I used was much weaker than the one I use now.

https://kdenlive.org/

Ravenfreak ·Alternative Apps ·1 month ago
DaVinci Resolve

If you’re looking to get away from Adobe products and want a free, powerful video editor then look no further! DaVinci Resolve is the editor I use when I need to edit videos for my various accounts on different video platform sites. I use it whenever I use Windows, I use another editor on Linux. I’m honestly surprised I didn’t make a topic for this software yet. :V There is a paid version of the software btw, if you want to pay for it.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve

ishta ·Alternative Apps ·3 months ago
PDFGear > Adobe for PDFs

PDFGear on Windows

and PDFGear Scan are much better than Adobe and completely free.

I am trying to get my employers to make the switch

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Senkusha ·Alternative Apps ·7 months ago
Libre Office

Some people may have heard of this Microsoft Office competitor, especially if you've got any LInux experience under your belt. I believe this was formerly called Open Office, or it branched or something, but needless to say, the software is completely free, and is kept up to date. I use it instead of Microsoft Word and Excel, because it's fully compatible with MS stuff... and because I'm a cheap bas..... person-- I mentioned it's free! It's got a ton of functionality built in and so far I haven't had any need to install anything custom for it. Although, it does take a bit of getting used to, it's powerful enough for everything I do. There's also an Android app, I think, but I haven't really had a reason to use it, as I prefer to use Obsidian on my phone for my writing projects.

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Senkusha ·Alternative Apps ·3 months ago
Word Perfect

Oh. My. Goddess!

I just stumbled on to a major nostalgia moment on Threads. Did you know you can still purchase Word Perfect? Like, a one time purchase, no subscriptions, or any of that junk? And, yes, I believe Word Perfect is superior to Word. Simply having Reveal Codes was a Godsend! I'm seriously thinking about dropping the money for the full pro version, relearning it again just so I may be able to get a decent office job again! Apparently, lawyers and academia still uses Word Perfect (and related suite products).

(I wonder if macros are still a thing in the current version of Word Perfect?)

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Senkusha ·Alternative Apps ·4 months ago
Obsidian

I thought that I'd take a moment to write about my experience with Obsidian.

First, what is Obsidian? It's simple text editor, but on steroids! It uses simple Markdown formatting, which makes it really handy to write in. Need to italicize something, just surround it by single asterisks. Bold, double them. Bold and italicize? Triple them! IT supports more advanced formatting output as well, like tables, bullets, and you use hyperlinks too.

You can keep all your notes in separate documents, and all organized in a Treeview. You can also interlink the documents, creating a personal Wiki. You can include entire PDFs, and make a database, including images and all that extra stuff. But probably one of the best features is the PDF export function. You can customize the look of an exported PDF by using CSS coding, just like you would for webpages using HTML. And the CSS applies to ALL the files within your Vault. You can have multiple vaults too.

I don't use the majority of the functions that Obsidian supports. There's so much that it can do, and it's extendable with plug-ins! It also supports spellcheck, which is necessary for anybody who writes anything. But just the fact that I'm only scratching the surface of everything that Obsidian can do, allows me to grow with the software. Best of all, it works on all platforms, including Linux. It's totally free, although you can donate to the developers and get built in synchronization support. But you don't have to go that route, if you're poor like I am, you can always use something like Folder Sync, which is a free app that you can run on demand on your phone.

There's probably a ton more that could be written about Obsidian, but I simply don't know about all of it! Needless to say, it's one of my favorite applications for both my desktop and my mobile. Oh, one more thing-- it auto saves, like after every keystroke, so you never have to worry about lost input. There's just a ton of awesomeness to this App.

Senkusha ·Alternative Apps ·4 months ago
Scrivener

I hope that this is acceptable. But for the longest time, whenever I would write my fiction, I'd use Microsoft Word. It does a pretty decent job, and has a lot of advanced features that authors need for formatting blocks of text. However, since Office 365 came out, there's a monthly subscription fee attached. When you're poor like me, that's unacceptable. Just the fact that Microsoft can turn off your advanced features, or the fact that you need the Internet to write is ... bogus. The Internet is full of distractions. When I'm writing, I want to unplug and just write!

So, when I discovered Scrivener at $59 for a single-time purchase, I was overjoyed. What's really cool is that this is a software specifically designed for authors. You basically write your book on what I call Note cards, each one being a separate Scene. You can rearrange these note cards in any order. It creates an Outline for you, keeps track of words, you can keep track of all your research too, all organized within a TreeView.

There's a Windows and a Mac version. I don't remember if there's a Linux version or not.

There's also a companion app, Scrapple, which is a Mind Map application, for like $20.

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A Alien Hominid ·Alternative Apps ·4 months ago
SeaMonkey

Does anyone here also uses SeaMonkey?

It's in a few words the modern-day Netscape. And aside from being a web browser, it also includes an email and an IRC client (ChatZilla).

I personally use it sometimes when I want to visit old and "small" websites and also for RSS and email because I no longer like using Thunderbird (and even more when they introduced the new UI redesign) and because it's too lightweight and clean. But yeah, don't expect to use it for modern sites like YouTube (watching from embeds works fine tho).

https://seamonkey-project.org/

And BTW if you're trying to find an adblocker extension/addon for this browser, check this fork of uBlock Origin for legacy Firefox browsers like this one and others like Pale Moon (I highly recommend installing this to avoid the browser to hang up while processing all that crap):

https://github.com/UCyborg/uBlock-for-firefox-legacy

N NeoMetallix ·Alternative Apps ·4 months ago
GrayJay

https://grayjay.app/

Pretty awesome app that allows you to watch different video platforms such as YouTube, Rumble, Odysee, PeerTube with no ads and sponsorblock all in one app. Lots of settings for customizations.

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Ravenfreak ·Alternative Apps ·7 months ago
GIMP

Yeah back when GIMP was first released in 1995, it was called "The GIMP." Anyways this is a free photo manipulation software. It's similar to Photoshop, but it was made with Linux in mind. You can of course get it on Windows too, so it's not just a Linux based software. Have you ever used this alternative photo app?

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S Sir_Chivas ·Alternative Apps ·7 months ago
Photopea

have you ever thought of starting to do graphics? But can’t afford photoshop? The free alternative version is called photopea. I’ve started using this last year. I still need to a lot from it but from what I recall from using photoshop is that they’re very identical.

https://www.photopea.com/

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