<![CDATA[List of 300 Paid apps with Free Alternatives]]>PAID VERSION → FREE ALTERNATIVE

  1. ChatGPT Plus → Google Gemini
  2. Netflix Premium → Tubi
  3. Spotify Premium → SoundCloud
  4. YouTube Premium → NewPipe
  5. Canva Pro → Adobe Express
  6. Microsoft 365 → LibreOffice
  7. Adobe Photoshop → GIMP
  8. Figma Pro → Penpot
  9. Adobe Premiere Pro → DaVinci Resolve
  10. Grammarly Premium → LanguageTool
  11. Midjourney → Microsoft Designer
  12. Notion AI → Obsidian
  13. Claude Pro → Google Gemini
  14. Adobe Illustrator → Inkscape
  15. Zoom Pro → Google Meet
  16. Slack Pro → Discord
  17. Dropbox → Google Drive
  18. Adobe Acrobat Pro → PDFgear
  19. GitHub Copilot → Codeium
  20. CapCut Pro → DaVinci Resolve
  21. After Effects → Blender
  22. Microsoft Visio → draw io
  23. 1Password → Bitwarden
  24. LastPass Premium → Bitwarden
  25. Webflow → Framer
  26. Trello Premium → ClickUp
  27. Calendly Premium → Cal. com
  28. Audible → LibriVox
  29. Amazon Prime Video → Pluto TV
  30. Disney+ → Tubi
  31. Apple TV+ → Pluto TV
  32. Xbox Game Pass → Epic Games Store
  33. Final Cut Pro → DaVinci Resolve
  34. Adobe Lightroom → Darktable
  35. Loom → OBS Studio
  36. Typeform → Google Forms
  37. Mailchimp Premium → Brevo
  38. Zapier → Make
  39. Miro → FigJam
  40. Google Workspace → Zoho Workplace
  41. Perplexity Pro → You com
  42. Cursor Pro → Continue
  43. Evernote → Joplin
  44. Todoist Pro → Microsoft To Do
  45. NordVPN → Proton VPN
  46. ExpressVPN → Windscribe
  47. AutoCAD → FreeCAD
  48. Salesforce → HubSpot
  49. Shopify → WooCommerce
  50. Jira Premium → Plane

AI + CREATOR TOOLS

  1. Jasper AI → Writesonic
  2. Synthesia → HeyGen
  3. ElevenLabs → TTSMaker
  4. Murf AI → TTSMaker
  5. Runway → Kling AI
  6. Pika → Luma Dream Machine
  7. Leonardo AI → Playground AI
  8. DALL·E → Craiyon
  9. Ideogram → Microsoft Designer
  10. Gamma → Google Slides
  11. Beautiful ai → Google Slides
  12. Tome → Google Slides
  13. Otter ai Pro → Notta
  14. Fireflies ai → Fathom
  15. Krisp Pro → NVIDIA Broadcast
  16. Descript → Audacity
  17. Riverside → OBS Studio
  18. VEED Pro → CapCut
  19. InVideo Pro → CapCut
  20. Camtasia → OBS Studio
  21. ScreenFlow → OBS Studio
  22. Snagit → ShareX
  23. Screen Studio → OBS Studio
  24. QuillBot Premium → LanguageTool
  25. Hemingway Editor Plus → LanguageTool
  26. Freepik Premium → unDraw
  27. Envato Elements → Mixkit
  28. Shutterstock → Unsplash
  29. Adobe Stock → Pexels
  30. Epidemic Sound → Pixabay Music
  31. Artlist → Free Music Archive
  32. Flaticon Premium → SVG Repo
  33. Icons8 Pro → Lucide
  34. Font Awesome Pro → Heroicons
  35. Adobe Fonts → Google Fonts
  36. Sketch → Penpot
  37. Affinity Photo → GIMP
  38. Affinity Designer → Inkscape
  39. CorelDRAW → Inkscape
  40. Adobe InDesign → Scribus
  41. Affinity Publisher → Scribus
  42. Adobe XD → Penpot
  43. Cinema 4D → Blender
  44. Autodesk Maya → Blender
  45. Autodesk 3ds Max → Blender
  46. ZBrush → Blender
  47. Substance 3D Painter → ArmorPaint
  48. Pro Tools → Audacity
  49. FL Studio → LMMS
  50. Ableton Live → LMMS
  51. Logic Pro → GarageBand
  52. Adobe Audition → Audacity
  53. Motion → Blender
  54. DaVinci Resolve Studio → Kdenlive
  55. Final Cut Pro → Shotcut

MARKETING + BUSINESS

  1. Semrush → Ubersuggest
  2. Ahrefs → Google Search Console
  3. Moz Pro → Google Search Console
  4. Surfer SEO → Google Keyword Planner
  5. Similarweb → Google Trends
  6. BuzzSumo → Google Trends
  7. Hotjar Pro → Microsoft Clarity
  8. Hootsuite → Buffer
  9. Sprout Social → Metricool
  10. Later → Buffer
  11. SocialBee → Buffer
  12. ConvertKit → Substack
  13. Beehiiv → Substack
  14. HubSpot Marketing Hub → Mautic
  15. Intercom → Tawk to
  16. Zendesk → Zammad
  17. Freshdesk → Zammad
  18. DocuSign → SignWell
  19. PandaDoc → Jotform
  20. SurveyMonkey → Google Forms
  21. Airtable → Baserow
  22. Asana Premium → OpenProject
  23. Monday com → Taiga
  24. ClickUp → OpenProject
  25. Microsoft Project → ProjectLibre
  26. QuickBooks Online → Wave
  27. FreshBooks → Wave
  28. Xero → Wave
  29. Dropbox Sign → SignWell
  30. Nitro PDF Pro → PDF24
  31. Smallpdf Pro → PDF24
  32. CamScanner Premium → Microsoft Lens
  33. TeamViewer → RustDesk
  34. AnyDesk → RustDesk
  35. Dashlane Premium → Bitwarden
  36. NordPass Premium → Bitwarden
  37. Squarespace → WordPress
  38. Wix Premium → WordPress
  39. BigCommerce → WooCommerce
  40. Elementor Pro → Brizy
  41. Divi → Brizy
  42. WP Rocket → LiteSpeed Cache
  43. Yoast SEO Premium → Rank Math
  44. Rank Math Pro → The SEO Framework
  45. WPForms Pro → Forminator
  46. Gravity Forms → Forminator
  47. MemberPress → Paid Memberships Pro
  48. Google One → Proton Drive
  49. Microsoft OneDrive → MEGA
  50. Microsoft Teams → Jitsi Meet

DEVELOPER + TECH

  1. Replit Core → StackBlitz
  2. Postman Pro → Insomnia
  3. Docker Desktop Pro → Podman
  4. Datadog → Grafana
  5. New Relic → Grafana
  6. Sentry → GlitchTip
  7. Firebase → Supabase
  8. MongoDB Atlas → Supabase
  9. Vercel Pro → Cloudflare Pages
  10. Netlify Pro → Cloudflare Pages
  11. Heroku → Render
  12. AWS → Oracle Cloud Free Tier
  13. Twilio → Telnyx
  14. Algolia → Meilisearch
  15. Pinecone → Qdrant
  16. OpenAI API → Google AI Studio
  17. Claude API → Gemini API
  18. WebStorm → VS Code
  19. PyCharm Professional → VS Code
  20. DataGrip → DBeaver
  21. IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate → Eclipse
  22. Rider → Visual Studio Community
  23. Visual Studio Professional → Eclipse
  24. Sublime Text → Notepad++
  25. UltraEdit → Notepad++
  26. Charles Proxy → mitmproxy
  27. Splunk → OpenSearch
  28. Terraform Cloud → OpenTofu
  29. GitHub Enterprise → Gitea
  30. GitLab Premium → Gitea
  31. Elasticsearch Cloud → OpenSearch
  32. SendGrid → Brevo
  33. Mailgun → Brevo
  34. Make → n8n
  35. PagerDuty → Grafana OnCall

DATA + ENGINEERING + PROFESSIONAL

  1. MATLAB → GNU Octave
  2. Mathematica → SageMath
  3. SPSS → PSPP
  4. Stata → Gretl
  5. Tableau → Apache Superset
  6. Power BI Pro → Looker Studio
  7. Qlik Sense → Metabase
  8. Alteryx → KNIME
  9. Minitab → Jamovi
  10. ArcGIS → QGIS
  11. SolidWorks → FreeCAD
  12. SketchUp Pro → Blender
  13. Revit → FreeCAD
  14. Fusion 360 → FreeCAD
  15. Rhino 3D → Blender
  16. MATLAB Simulink → Scilab Xcos
  17. LabVIEW → GNU Radio
  18. COMSOL → OpenFOAM
  19. ANSYS → OpenFOAM
  20. Wolfram Alpha Pro → GeoGebra
  21. QuarkXPress → Scribus
  22. Microsoft Project → ProjectLibre
  23. Microsoft Visio → diagrams net
  24. Tableau → Metabase
  25. Power BI Pro → Apache Superset

MORE FREE ALTERNATIVES

  1. Adobe Premiere Pro → Kdenlive
  2. After Effects → Natron
  3. Final Cut Pro → Kdenlive
  4. Adobe Acrobat Pro → PDF24
  5. Adobe Express Premium → VistaCreate
  6. Canva Pro → VistaCreate
  7. Figma Pro → Lunacy
  8. Sketch → Lunacy
  9. Photoshop → Photopea
  10. Lightroom → RawTherapee
  11. Illustrator → Vectr
  12. InDesign → Scribus
  13. Pro Tools → Cakewalk
  14. Ableton Live → Cakewalk
  15. ScreenFlow → OBS Studio
  16. Loom Business → ScreenPal
  17. Slack Pro → Mattermost
  18. Zoom Pro → Jitsi Meet
  19. Discord Nitro → Telegram
  20. 1Password → KeePassXC
  21. LastPass Premium → KeePassXC
  22. Evernote → Standard Notes
  23. Todoist Pro → Super Productivity
  24. Notion → Anytype
  25. Airtable → NocoDB
  26. Jira → OpenProject
  27. Monday com → OpenProject
  28. Calendly → ZCal
  29. Typeform → Tally
  30. Mailchimp → MailerLite
  31. Hootsuite → Publer
  32. Sprout Social → Buffer
  33. HubSpot → Bitrix24
  34. Adobe Stock → Pixabay
  35. Shutterstock → Pexels
  36. Envato Elements → Pixabay
  37. Freepik Premium → Pixabay
  38. Epidemic Sound → Free Music Archive
  39. Artlist → Pixabay Music
  40. Dropbox → Proton Drive
  41. Google Drive Storage → MEGA
  42. NordVPN → Windscribe
  43. ExpressVPN → Proton VPN
  44. TeamViewer → RustDesk
  45. AnyDesk → Chrome Remote Desktop
  46. AutoCAD → LibreCAD
  47. SolidWorks → SolveSpace
  48. MATLAB → Scilab
  49. SPSS → Jamovi
  50. Tableau → Metabase
  51. Power BI Pro → Metabase
  52. ArcGIS → QGIS
  53. WebStorm → VSCodium
  54. PyCharm Professional → VSCodium
  55. DataGrip → Beekeeper Studio
  56. Postman Pro → Bruno
  57. Docker Desktop Pro → Rancher Desktop
  58. Datadog → Prometheus
  59. New Relic → OpenTelemetry
  60. Sentry → Highlight io
  61. Firebase → Appwrite
  62. MongoDB Atlas → Neon
  63. Vercel Pro → GitHub Pages
  64. Netlify Pro → GitHub Pages
  65. Algolia → Typesense
  66. Pinecone → Weaviate
  67. Elasticsearch Cloud → OpenSearch
  68. GitHub Copilot → Continue
  69. Cursor Pro → VS Code + Continue
  70. Zapier → n8n
  71. Miro → Excalidraw
  72. Trello Premium → Taiga
  73. Asana Premium → Taiga
  74. Adobe XD → Penpot
  75. ProtoPie → Penpot
  76. Zeplin → Storybook
  77. Adobe Audition → Ocenaudio
  78. Camtasia → ShareX + OBS Studio
  79. Microsoft 365 → ONLYOFFICE
  80. Google Workspace → ONLYOFFICE
  81. Adobe Acrobat Pro → Stirling PDF
  82. Microsoft Visio → yEd
  83. Microsoft Project → GanttProject
  84. QuickBooks → GnuCash
  85. Xero → GnuCash

300 PAID TOOLS.
300 FREE ALTERNATIVES.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/15855/list-of-300-paid-apps-with-free-alternativesRSS for NodeFri, 28 Aug 2026 23:32:18 GMTSun, 23 Aug 2026 19:10:46 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to List of 300 Paid apps with Free Alternatives on Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:34:01 GMT]]>Adobe Fonts → Google Fonts ?

Adobe Fonts → Bunny Fonts!

https://fonts.bunny.net/

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/128553https://forum.cloudron.io/post/128553Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:34:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to List of 300 Paid apps with Free Alternatives on Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:16:45 GMT]]>There a loads of such lists out there.

I don't particularly rate some of the suggestions included on the above list (many are proprietary, not possible to self-host, etc. etc.)

Some of my favourite similar lists/ directories (in no particular order and all with different focuses and good a different things):

  1. https://switching.software/
  2. https://www.privacyguides.org/
  3. https://alternativeto.net/
  4. https://ethical.net/resources/
  5. https://selfh.st/apps/
  6. https://european-alternatives.eu/
  7. https://prism-break.org/en/
  8. https://awesome-selfhosted.net/
  9. https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/
]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/128540https://forum.cloudron.io/post/128540Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:16:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to List of 300 Paid apps with Free Alternatives on Tue, 25 Aug 2026 02:56:59 GMT]]>Holy smokes.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/128510https://forum.cloudron.io/post/128510Tue, 25 Aug 2026 02:56:59 GMT