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20 Best Free or Freemium Alternatives to Popular Paid Software Programs

Android is an open platform and most developer tools can be obtained for free. That’s great especially for hobby enthusiasts like me and a lot of other developers out there :)

So if Eclipse and the Android SDK are free to use why pay a lot of money for Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Office and all the other accessories you might need to create your homebrewn software? LostInTechnology.com has a nice article about the 20 Best Free or Freemium Alternatives to Popular Paid Software Programs:

Microsoft Office Alternatives

  • Google Docs
  • Open Office
  • Neo Office
  • Zoho
  • gOffice

Adobe Creative Suite Alternatives

  • Aviary
  • Seashore
  • GIMP
  • InkScape
  • NVU
  • Picasa

Adobe Acrobat Alternatives

  • PDFreDerict
  • PDFescape
  • PDFedit
  • XPDF
  • Skim
  • PDFpen

Check out the full list over at LostInTechnology.com. There’s not much to add from my side… Maybe Paint.Net is worth mentioning as a quite good photo editing software for all you Windows fans ;-)

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