10 GITHUB REPOS THAT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL TO HAVE FOR FREE.


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Recordly. Open-source Screen Studio. Auto-zoom, smooth cursor, webcam overlay, styled backgrounds, polished demos without an editor.

Stirling PDF. Your entire PDF toolkit, self-hosted. Merge, split, sign, redact, OCR, convert, compress. 50+ tools. Nothing leaves your machine.

PhotoGIMP. Turns GIMP into Photoshop. Shortcuts, layout, and splash screen patched right onto GIMP 3+.

Open Notebook. Self-hosted NotebookLM. Drop in PDFs, URLs, YouTube links, chat with them, summarize, generate podcasts. Bring your own model across 18+ providers.

Odysseus. PewDiePie's self-hosted AI workspace. Chat, agents, deep research, documents, email, memory. Local-first. Your hardware, your data.

FreeDomain. Free domain names for everyone. Register one, point it at Cloudflare or any DNS, ship your site without paying for the name.

Hyperframes. Write HTML, render video. The engine that turns HTML/CSS and animations into deterministic MP4s, built for AI agents.

Web-to-App. Turn any website into an Android app, on-device. Configurable webview, APK signing, even Node, PHP, and Python runtimes. No remote build.

Reclip. Self-hosted video and audio downloader. Paste a link from YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram, 1,000+ sites. Grab it as MP4 or MP3. Powered by yt-dlp.

Excalidraw. The infinite whiteboard that replaces Miro, FigJam, and Lucidchart. Hand-drawn diagrams, wireframes, real-time collab, end-to-end encrypted. 120K+ stars for a reason.

Most people pay monthly for tools that already exist for free.
You don't have to.
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