Find low-cost or free alternatives to commercial software

We're all guilty of the scenario where we decide that we're going to take up a new hobby or skill, such as learning a language or producing music on our computer, then go out and spend hundreds of pounds on the software, books and magazines we need to make this happen. It doesn't and we later realise that we spent far too much on the commercial software. Ironically, it's the steep learning curve presented by the software that stops us from going past first base.

AlternativeTo is a website that attempts to present some of the best free or low-cost alternatives to some of the expensive commercial applications. For example, run a search on Dreamweaver and you'll find various cheap apps that will do much the same thing. If you can't pick one of the alternatives yourself, simply refer to the number of people who like a particular application. If you only want freeware, just to view only the free alternatives.

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