Audacity 4 moves the whole interface onto Qt, replaces the tool modes with context aware clip editing, adds grouped clips and three workspaces, and stores projects in a new aup4 format. The 4.0.1 patch brought back export multiple and a portable Windows build.

After six quiet years LMMS shipped 1.3.0-alpha.2 in September 2026: 932 commits, 65 contributors and 8 new plugins, plus microtonal tuning, detachable windows and ARM64 builds. The stable release is still the one from July 2020.

Ardour 9.8 brings keys and scales into this open source digital audio workstation: notes outside the scale are marked in the piano roll and may be corrected per track. A crash during recording now recovers what was captured, losing at most five seconds.

Flameshot is an open source cross platform capture tool that lets you draw arrows, blur sensitive areas and drop text on the image right after the selection is made, with a rearranged toolbar, editable hotkeys and a command line interface for scripted captures.

A free streaming and recording program built on OBS, with scene templates, subscription alerts, chat management and product picks in one window, so a newcomer can go live without studying encoding parameters first.

From the ArtCraft team, an open source non linear video editor written from scratch in Rust: H.264, HEVC and ProRes codecs, the timeline, grading, audio and subtitles are all implemented in house.

Written by a working French editor, it puts presets for beginners and full encoder parameters for professionals in the same window: convert, compress, extract audio and burn subtitles without opening a second tool.

The successor to a much loved viewer keeps the two rules that mattered: open instantly and be pleasant to page through. Archives read without extracting, and comic reading modes are built in.

OpenShot is the editing program you can hand to someone who has never cut a video: drag clips onto a timeline, drop a transition, add keyframes from a right click. Free, open source and without watermarks.

For a tutorial, a bug report or a quick demonstration, one animation beats ten screenshots. Most recorders turn that into a project, a timeline and an export step. LICEcap leaves a draggable frame and a record button.

Bcut is a free editing tool from the platform it belongs to: multi track timeline, screen recording, picture in picture and automatic speech to subtitle, with a stock library and publishing without a separate export step. Free to use, no watermark, no feature locked away.

Tautulli is an open-source dashboard that runs beside a home media server and turns viewing into numbers: who is watching, when, what, and on which device. Live cards show resolution, bitrate, bandwidth, subtitles and audio track, history is aggregated by user, content and hour, and notifications fire when content arrives or a playback fails. Version 2.18.1 arrived at the end of August 2026.

Kdenlive is the non-linear video editor built by the desktop community behind the K suite, running on Windows, macOS and Linux with the same project file. Multi-track timeline with nested sequences and automatic backups, proxy editing on modest machines, multicam and three-point editing, a mixer with voiceover recording, automatic subtitle transcription, and hundreds of keyframable effects. Version 26.08.1.

DaVinci Resolve keeps media handling, editing, colour grading, visual effects and audio inside one application, divided into pages so nothing has to be exported in between. The free edition is complete enough for most individual work.

Logic Pro covers recording, arrangement, mixing and mastering in one application, and the tools that usually cost extra arrive with it: the Alchemy synth, samplers, drum machines, amplifier models and a downloadable sound library of over a hundred gigabytes. Virtual session players follow the chords, and mixes can be finished in spatial audio.