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) â OpenToonz, Synfig Studio, or Pencil2DÂ
Adobe Audition â Audacity
Adobe Illustrator â InkscapeÂ
Adobe Photoshop â GNU Image Manipulation Program or Paint.NET
Adobe Premiere Pro/After Effects â Fusion, Shotcut, OpenShot, Natron, or Blender
Autodesk Maya â BlenderÂ
Clip Studio Paint/Paint Tool SAI â Krita, FireAlpaca, (both also include animation tools!) or MediBang Paint
FL Studio â LMMS
Microsoft Office â LibreOffice or Calligra SuiteÂ
Scrivener â Celtx (sort of?) or Evernote
VLC media player â 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!





























