9 Free Software You Didn't Know You Needed! (2025 Update)

If you’re looking for free software for your computer, there’s a lot to choose from. To separate out the good from the bad, I will show you 9 free programs that you may not know that you needed!

Free Software Playlist

0:00 Intro
0:16 Image Viewer
1:25 Video Editor
2:15 Media Player
3:11 Raster Graphics Editor
4:07 Virtual Machine
5:10 System Profiling and Monitoring
6:08 DJ Mixing
7:11 Video Editor
8:40 Cursor Maker

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Nomacs
Kdenlive
PotPlayer (XP-8.1)
PotPlayer (Windows 10/11)
Krita
VirtualBox
CPU-Z
Mixxx
VSDC Free Video Editor
RealWorld Cursor Editor

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[BrettInTech]

This video has been updated removing software that is no longer available or no longer recommended. What is your favorite software that you recommend for people to check out? Thanks for watching :)

[shadowminister]

Brett, our son has been using Kdenlive for editing his YouTube Channel for over 10 years, both on Linux and Windows. That and Audacity, is all he needs.

[extremelydave]

Wow, some interesting stuff I have not seen before!!! Good one Brett!!!!

[TamsosPadaras]

FontForge - create/edit fonts
Keysticks - assign keybord keys to gamepad (to control PC games)

[ShaunakHub]

Another old and excellent image viewer for Windows is Irfanview. It is also 100% free.

[ushkowski]

Great stuff again. I still reference your Top 55 Free list from last year as well as your newest stuff. Idea for you, a video with your top three in each category?? Something to think about. Keep it up!!!

[noroy]

Great contribution for the digital community, awesome video!

[peterjansen]

How about featuring text to speech software?

My own free favourite is still Panopreter Basic, able to read out text in many formats, turn it into MP3 files, even in batches, so that one can make audiobooks with little effort, and use different languages, even mixing them in the same text with the aid of a subset of SSML (speech synthesis markup language) tags.

[sapelesteve]

Terrific programs! Thanks for posting this Brett! 👍👍

[nagesharas]

Vivaldi browser is my top favorite. It goes way beyond tabbed browsing. Extremely powerful and productive.
Ideally, it should also be used with productivity enhancer extensions such as Searchbar, infinity new tab, Chrono Download Manager, Bookmark commander, Read aloud, Table capture, OneTab. etc.

Maybe you should have a separate video on this subject alone!

[victoriabrister]

Great content as always. Most helpful.

[CamonaTempest]

This was an outstanding video! Thank you so much! 🎉

[DrinkingStar]

There are 2 or 3 software apps that I will give a try to. Thanks for the info.

[antoniiocaluso]

terrific presentation AND app-selections!! even for this ol' PC-dog 🙂>> there's a ton of free cursors and icons on that Cursor Editor's site!!! <<

[SteveMacSticky]

Yes Krita is great. Free AI plugins from huggingface for offline AI image generation available for it

[davinp]

You could test the insider preview versions of Windows 11 in Virtual Box.

[totomomo]

Your videos are great! They deal with things that interest me, are clear, short but educational. However, I would prefer that each video deal with a topic and not a platform.
For example, instead of a video about websites, software or apps, there would be one video about editing photos, another about learning code, a third about tools for handling PDFs, and so on.
Each such video that presents a topic could present it on one platform, for example PC or on several platforms, for example PC, Web, Apps, and so on. That way you can also teach us about the communication and connectivity capabilities of tools between different platforms, and that way it would be easier to come back and watch your videos when you need something specific...

Anyway, thank you very much, either way I'm a subscriber and will continue to be.

[franciscohorna]

i still use vlc here and media player classic and media player classic BE editions

[bkThundr]

There is a linux version of CPU-Z called, CPU-X. It is available in the repositories.

[flight]

I have used Pot Player for a long time, albeit in a simple manner. I need the function of being able to move or delete a file while that file is playing.