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Open source tools
Open source alternatives to Figma, Adobe and other paid software: what they are, how to install them, how well they really work and their license, tested.
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Fish Speech 3.0 ships Drama 3 and S2-Pro: voice cloning and TTS you can run on your own GPU. Hardware, license and what it costs compared with ElevenLabs.
- Free alternatives to paid apps
- Run it on your server
Open source tools
What Speridlabs' Idol is, how it turns one photo into a 3D Gaussian splat, how much GPU it needs, how to install it and which licenses to check first.
- Design, image and video
- Free alternatives to paid apps
A code-level look at Concat 0.2.8, the free, local CapCut alternative: Whisper captions, no watermark, AGPL license and a built-in MCP server for AI agents.
- Free alternatives to paid apps
- Design, image and video
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What Dioramas is: an MIT framework for 3D landing pages in three.js, with a Nano Banana 2 + Meshy 7.1 asset pipeline, a post-processing engine and 20 examples.
- Design, image and video
- Step-by-step tutorials
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We review VoiceStudio 0.5.7: voice cloning and design, video dubbing, dictation and MCP for Claude Code on your PC. AGPL license and which models you can use.
- Free alternatives to paid apps
- Claude Code
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Filee converts images, PDF, Word, Excel, video and 266 formats when you drop a file on a ring menu at your cursor. Free, MIT, offline. What it does and setup.
- Free alternatives to paid apps
- Design, image and video
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Google Maps Scraper Kit turns local businesses into a CSV of names, phones, emails and websites, free and on your machine. Use cases, setup and the legal side.
- Free alternatives to paid apps
- Marketing and SEO
System Design 101 collects 400 free visual guides from ByteByteGo on APIs, databases, caching and distributed systems: what is inside and its license.
- Free alternatives to paid apps
- Claude Code
Open source tools
Recordly records your screen and adds auto zoom, a smooth cursor, backgrounds and webcam on Windows, macOS and Linux. What it does, how it works, its license.
- Free alternatives to paid apps
- Design, image and video
What OpenSEO is, the MIT Semrush and Ahrefs alternative: how it works, what it costs, how to self-host it with Docker and use it from Claude Code over MCP.
- Free alternatives to paid apps
- Marketing and SEO
Open source tools
Solid Glass turns your shadcn/ui components into smoky glass with one stylesheet. Real examples, a comparison with Material UI and how to use it in Next.js.
- Design, image and video
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BG0 removes photo backgrounds in your browser with WebGPU or WebAssembly: no upload, no account. How it works, which model it runs, its license and limits.
- Free alternatives to paid apps
- Design, image and video
Open source tools
Two immersive websites made with HyperFrames 0.8.170, GSAP and Claude Code, for bikes and cars, with scroll-driven scenes: demos, timings, pros and limits.
- Design, image and video
- Claude Code
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We tested HyperFrames 0.8.170, HeyGen's Apache 2.0 framework that renders HTML to MP4: setup, local Kokoro voiceover, background music and real errors.
- Design, image and video
- Marketing and SEO
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We review It's a Plan 1.5, the open source issue tracker with AI agents: what it does, how it works, pros and cons, and if it fits companies or freelancers.
- Free alternatives to paid apps
- Run it on your server
Open source tools
We tested FigCraft 0.5.1, the open source Figma alternative written in Rust: features, install, its CLI and MCP server for AI agents, and what it still lacks.
- Free alternatives to paid apps
- Design, image and video