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AlternativeTo is a site I use quite a bit. Personally I use it when I get fed up with an Android app having too many ads / creepy network behavior or want to find a self-hostable version of a freemium service.

It has filters for free, open source, platform type, etc. From my understanding it's all crowd sourced, so if you disagree with a rating put in a vote! Sharing this in hopes that others find it as useful as I do.

If you know of similar or better resources I would love to hear about them.

Edit: many people are noting that the comments and reviews are out of date. I agree! Despite that I still find it to he useful. It would be great if this little bit of visibility gets more folks engaged over there to improve it.

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[–] Bezier@suppo.fi 17 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It is actually useful?

In my experience it just looked like SEO farm that polluted my search results with irrelvant machine-generated content.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Totally. I often go directly to it to find applications.

It's how I found kdenlive, it's how I found audiobookshelf, etc.

[–] Bezier@suppo.fi 2 points 2 weeks ago

Guess I should give it a proper look, then.

[–] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yep! There are so also many niche applications people never heard.

I regularly checking it for any FOSS alternative to any closed-source software. For example: Inochi2D, AB Download Manager, Miria, OpenUTAU, Our Paint, and Wick Editor.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

How do you think relevant search results get to you?