free software alternatives
i never stop talking about some of these so i might as well banish them to a single post! you might know about a lot of them already, but feel free to look anyway
Adobe Animate (Flash) → OpenToonz, Synfig Studio, or Pencil2D
Adobe Audition → Audacity
Adobe Illustrator → Inkscape
Adobe Photoshop → GNU Image Manipulation Program or Paint.NET
Adobe Premiere Pro/After Effects → Fusion, Shotcut, OpenShot, Natron, or Blender
Autodesk Maya → Blender
Clip Studio Paint/Paint Tool SAI → Krita, FireAlpaca, (both also include animation tools!) or MediBang Paint
FL Studio → LMMS
Microsoft Office → LibreOffice or Calligra Suite
Scrivener → Celtx (sort of?) or Evernote
VLC media player → VLC media player lol
freeware can be a great opportunity to get a feel for something and learn a new skill. and in some cases, the free versions are almost as powerful, so you might find that you saved a lot of money but made work that was just about equal to what you might have done with paid software!
















