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A curated list of awesome programmers and software projects to support their development

A curated list of awesome programmers and software projects you can support!

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Awesome Software Patreons / Open Source Projects
Akira , - Linux application for UI and UX design
Albert launcher Keyboard launcher written in C++/Qt
bcachefs Linux filesystem
Blender 3D creation suite
Bottles Easily manage and run Windows apps on Linux
Calibre E-books manager
Compiler Explorer Online decompiler and compiler explorer
Deluge BitTorrent client
DokuWiki Wiki application
Duplicati Backup client
F-Droid , , - An installable catalogue of FOSS applications for the Android platform
Firezone Self-hosted VPN server using WireGuard
FreeCAD Parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size
Freeter Productivity app for Developers, Designers and other professionals
Godot Engine Complete 3D engine
HaxeFlixel Cross-platform 2D game engine
Homebrew Package manager for macOS
iTerm2 macOS terminal replacement
JabRef Software for bibliography management
JHipster Open Source application platform for creating Spring Boot + Angular/React/Vue projects in seconds
Kismet , - Kismet wireless tool
Laigter Automatic normal/specular/occlussion/parallax map generator for 2D game sprites
LogSeq Knowledge management
Memcode Platform for flashcards
MuseScore Music notation software
NativeScript-Vue Native mobile applications with NativeScript and Vue
Neovim Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
NewPipe FLOSS video player on Android for services like YouTube, Soundcloud etc
Olive High quality video editing and compositing software
Open Broadcaster Software , - Video recording and live streaming software
Open Chemistry Umbrella of multiple open source chemistry projects including Avogadro, cclib, DeepChem, MSDK, Open Babel, RDKit, and 3DMol.js
Open Source BIM Collective Tools for building information modeling
openage Real time strategy game engine
OpenFAAS Serverless platform
OpenShot Video editor
OptiKey , - Full computer control and speech with your eyes
Paperwork Personal document manager
Perkeep Personal storage system
PHPStan PHP static analyzer
PHPUnit PHPUnit and related projects
Pixelorama A free & open-source 2D sprite editor, made with the Godot Engine
PlantUML UML diagram creation software
Project Lombok Java editor plugin
Remmina Remote desktop client
ShareX Team Screen capture and screen sharing tool
Sonic Pi Code-based music creation and performance tool
SysV init System V init implementation
Termux Android terminal emulator
Thirty Bees Ecommerce software
Tiled , , - A 2D game level editor
Transmission BitTorrent client
V Programming Language Statically typed compiled programming language similar to Go, influenced by Oberon, Rust, Swift
VideoLAN Maker of the VLC video player
Vim-Go Go plugin for VIM
Weblate Localization tool with tight version control integration
Webpack JavaScript module bundler
Wiki.js , , - Wiki platform built with Node.js
WireGuard , - Next generation secure network tunnel
Xfce Desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems
Zig System programming language which prioritizes robustness, optimality, and clarity
Zrythm A highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation
Kitbashery 3D kitbashing solution & CC0 model library

Awesome Software Patreons / Open Source Projects / Messaging and social media
BookWyrm , - Social reading and reviewing, decentralized with ActivityPub
Dekko Project Ubuntu email client
Flarum Forum platform
Funkwhale A free, federated and social music server
The Lounge Modern web IRC client
Mastodon , - Federated social network server
Matrix , - An open network for secure, decentralized communication
MissKey Federated microblogging platform
Nitter , , - Free and open source Twitter client focused on privacy
PixelFed , , , - Federated image sharing powered by the ActivityPub protocol
postActiv Microblogging platform
Reddit Enhancement Suite Reddit browser extension
Retrospring , , - A social network following the Q/A (question and answer) principle
Secure Scuttlebutt A distributed and secure peer-to-peer protocol and social network

Awesome Software Patreons / Open Source Projects / Libraries
ApexCharts JavaScript charts library
Asset-Importer-Lib Loads 40+ 3D file formats into one unified and clean data structure for game-developers
Babel JavaScript compiler
Dear ImGui 61,793 11 months ago Immediate Mode Graphical User interface for C++
Hapi.js Node.js framework
HaxeUI User interface toolkit
Iced , - A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
Laravel PHP framework
LibGDX Game development framework
MicroG , - A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space apps and libraries
Moleculer Progressive microservices framework for Node.js
Musl libc The Musl libc project
OpenFL Cross-platform application framework
Phalcon Web framework delivered as a C extension for PHP
stdlib Standard library for JavaScript and Node.js with an emphasis on scientific computing
Tabulator JavaScript library for building interactive tables
Vapor , - Server-side Swift framework
Vue.js Vue.js
Yii framework PHP framework
Zappa A server-less Python framework

Awesome Software Patreons / Open Source Projects / Operating Systems
/e/ Privacy-focused mobile OS
Elementary OS Ubuntu variant
FreeDOS MS-DOS compatible operating system
GhostBSD Desktop-focused BSD OS
GrapheneOS A privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility
LineageOS , - Fork of CyanogenMod
Linux Lite Linux distribution
Mobian Debian for mobile
Parrot Security-related Debian distribution
PostmarketOS A real Linux distribution for phones
Qubes OS A reasonably secure operating system
ReactOS A free Windows-compatible Operating System
Redox OS OS written in Rust
Serenity OS A graphical Unix-like OS for x86, with 90s aesthetics
Slackware Linux Linux distribution
Solus Linux distibution
Ubuntu Mate Ubuntu variant
Ubuntu Studio , - Ubuntu variant for creating audio, video, graphics etc
Ubuntu Touch , - Touch-friendly mobile version of Ubuntu

Awesome Software Patreons / Open Source Projects / Games
Battle for Wesnoth Turn-based strategy game
Cemu Nintendo Wii U emulator
Citra Nintendo 3DS emulator
Citybound City building game
Cxbx-reloaded Xbox emulator for Windows
Eigengrau's Generator TTRPG/Dungeons and Dragons Town and NPC Generator
Fheroes2 Free Heroes of Might and Magic II engine
Heroic Games Launcher , , - Open source GOG and Epic Games launcher
Improved Initiative D&D tabletop role-playing game combat tracker
Libretro Team Libretro, RetroArch and Lakka
Lutris , - Game launcher & platform
MelonDS Nintendo DS emulator
Play! PS2 emulator
Rpcs3 PS3 emulator
Ryujinx Nintendo Switch emulator
Xemu Xbox emulator
Xenia Xbox 360 emulator
yuzu Nintendo Switch emulator

Awesome Software Patreons / Open Source Projects / Open Source Art
Alexandre Prokoudine , - GIMP contributor, editor of Libre Graphics World online magazine
Andrea Ferrero Developer of PhotoFlow image editor, maintains various Appimage packages
Duduf Tools for animations and motion pictures production
GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program
Inochi2D Opensource editor and libraries for realtime 2D puppet animation and rendering, e.g. VTubers
Marc Jeanmougin Inkscape contributor
Morevna Project Various contributions to open source animation tools and animated shorts sources released under CC
MyPaint Painting and drawing program that works nicely with pressure-sensitive tablets, and its dynamic brush engine library
Øyvind Kolås , - Lead developer of babl & GEGL libraries used in the graphics editor GIMP
Pablo Dobarro Sculpting improvements for Blender
Synfig , - 2D animation software
Tavmjong Bah Working on Inkscape vector graphics editor
ZeMarmot , , - 2D animation film project to be released under CC. GIMP contributions from Jehan Pagès, art and direction by Aryeom Han
Damien Maguire Electric vehicle projects
DIGImend Improving Linux support for (non-Wacom) graphics tablets
Espruino JavaScript interpreter for microcontrollers
Frank Buss FPGA and other hardware projects
GitClear Improved Linux support for touchpads
Geoffrey D. Bennett Linux Focusrite Scarlett software
Hector Martin "marcan" , - Asahi, Linux support for Apple Silicon Macs
LibrePCB Software to develop printed circuit boards
Martin Povišer Reverse-engineering and writing Linux drivers for audio hardware on Apple Silicon Macs
Nefarius Software Solutions Windows drivers for the Sony DualShock controller and others
OctoPrint Web interface for 3D printers
OpenRGB RGB lighting control application
Pinout.xyz Pinout diagrams for various microcontrollers
Professor Abrasive Retro gaming

Awesome Software Patreons / People Doing Open Source Work
Adam King RLTrader, Tensortrade and other trading related projects
Andreas Heinisch LibreOffice developer
Andreas Kainz LibreOffice designer
Andreas Pardeike Programming tutorials, games and mods
Andrius Štikonas KDE contributor, mainly KDE Partition Manager
Attogram Project Shared Media Tagger, Open Translation Engine, and many more projects
Bailey Burnsed FOSS Nerd developing open source games in Godot and Rust
Daniel Gultsch Conversations Jabber client
Daniël Klabbers Contributor to Flarum and other PHP projects
Dave Täht Working on improving the Internet
David Hewitt ElementaryOS contributor, Torrential, Clipped
Dimitri Fontaine Various contributions to the PostgreSQL ecosystem (pgloader, pg_auto_failover), Emacs libraries (el-get), author
Dominik Honnef , - Working on tooling for the Go programming language
Dragan Djuric Creator of Uncomplicate, a family of Clojure libraries for AI, ML, and GPU high performance computing
Drew DeVault , , - sway, wlroots, sr.ht, scdoc, aerc, and more
Eevee Games, applications and articles
Egoist Various JavaScript libraries and tools
Eric S. Raymond Nethack, GPSd, author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"
Ethan Lee Contributions to FNA, SDL2 C# and other projects
Fabio Zadrozny Working on PyDev and related projects
Felipe Lima Various projects and libraries like OkReplay, AirMapView, AsymmetricGridView, GifImageView, Wombat
Feross Aboukhadijeh WebTorrent, StandardJS, and other JavaScript projects
Flammie , - Apertium, linguistic tools for minority languages
Franck Nijhof Creates Home Assistant add-ons and helps out on the main project
Gabriel Gonzalez Dhall language, Nix and Haskell educational projects and Haskell libraries and tool
Gilbert Pellegrom Raneto, Vue.js libraries and more
Jacky Alcine Projects in the IndieWeb sphere, Koype and contributions to other open source projects
James 'Purpleidea' mgmt config, articles and more
JeanHeyd Meneide Creates C++ libraries and standards proposals
Joey Hess git-annex, keysafe, other Linux software
Johann-S Bootstrap JavaScript developer and various plugins and projects
Jorge Bucaran Hyperapp and many other JavaScript projects
Jonathan Müller Various C++ libraries, tools, articles
Kevin Cozens Contributor to projects such as GIMP, OpenSimulator, KiCad and TinyScheme
Kévin Dunglas API Platform, Vulcain, Mercure and Symfony contributions
Khoa Pham A multitude of libraries, applications and articles about iOS/Cocoa,
Kozec Syncthing-GTK and SC-Controller
Kurt Kremitzki , - FreeCAD contributor and Debian packager
Lars Moelleken Various PHP libraries and OSS contributions
Luke Dashjr Author of bfgminer and other substantial contributions to Bitcoin
Matt Lewis Angular-calendar and other angular components
Matthieu Napoli Bref, PHP-DI and other PHP libraries
Max Bridgland Various pentesting frameworks and tools
Max Howell Creator of Homebrew, maintainer of PromiseKit and a multitude of other project for Apple platforms
Michal Čihař Contributor to Weblate and phpMyAdmin
Nate Graham KDE contributor
Nick Sweeting ArchiveBox and OSS contributions but also articles and documentation
Nicolas Hafner Various Common Lisp libraries
Nils Maier Download Them All! Firefox and Chrome extension
Oleh Krehel GNU Emacs plugins, maintainer of Ivy/Swiper/Counsel, Hydra, Avy, Lispy, and more
Ondřej Surý Debian packager
Patrick Wardle Owner of Objective-See, various macOS security tools and articles
Pedro Piñera Tuist and XcodeProj libraries, articles
Pedro Carrasco Various iOS libraries and projects
Povilas Kanapickas X server, Buildbot CI, Barrier and many others
Raph Levien druid and other Rust projects
Reini Urban Maintaining and developing software such as cperl, parrot, a lot of perl5 modules, safeclib and libredwg
René Rebe T2 System Development Environment
Rekka Bellum & Devine Lu Linvega Open source tools and games
Rob Landley Working on Toybox, mkroot and various other projects
Ryan C. Gordon , - Linux ports of games, game-related utilities
Sanjay Madan , - Mowglii apps, author of Itsycal and Snk
Scarlett Moore KDE contributor
Scott Lahteine Contributor to Marlin Firmware for 3D printers
Sindre Sorhus Countless open source projects
skypjack C++ libraries such as uvw and EnTT
Stéphane Peter AudioKit contributor, Makeself and other libraries and projects
Steve Purcell MELPA lisp package archive and other software tooling
Steven Troughton-Smith Various iOS/macOS software
Thomas M. Edwards Gaming related projects
Tim Oliver Multitude of iOS libraries and various contribution to the iOS ecosystem
Timothée Giet GCompris contributor
Tobias Koppers Founder and maintainer of Webpack
Yorik van Havre , - FreeCAD contributor

Awesome Software Patreons / Other kinds of content / Articles and Tutorials
Alecaddd Various programming tutorials
Boiling Steam , - Linux gaming news, reviews, guides
Chris Bradfield Programming tutorials for kids
DistroWatch Reviews and tutorials for Linux/BSD
Fluent C++ C++ articles
GamingOnLinux articles and videos about Linux, Steam Deck, SteamOS gaming
Kyle Simpson Author of the "You Don't Know JS" book series. Doing articles, podcasts and OSS contributions
Meeting C++ C++ articles
Modernes C++ C++ articles

Awesome Software Patreons / Other kinds of content / Videos
Corey Schafer Python tutorials
Fun Fun Function JavaScript and general programming videos
Joel Yliluoma , , - Programming videos
LiveOverflow IT security videos
The Coding Train Programming tutorials
ThreatWire Hak5 security show

Awesome Software Patreons / Other kinds of content / Podcasts
Destination Linux Linux discussion and news related podcast
Late Night Linux Linux and news
More Than Just Code Podcast for iOS developers
The Debug Log Game development
This Week in Linux Linux News Podcast, 2-3 times more topics per episode than other podcasts

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