Cool Software

Affinity

Fantastic alternative to Ad*be Illustrator / Photoshop. One-time payment!

FireAlpaca

A simple yet amazing art program! It's generally free and has a paid version on Steam.

GIMP

Great alternative to Photoshop! It's free!

Krita

A slightly more complex art program with many features. It's free!

MediBang Paint

Another yet simple yet amazing art program. It is generally free and seems to have a subscription model for certain features. There also seems to be a paid version on Steam.

Paint Tool SAI

A lightweight art program. It's known for its amazing stabilizer and blending brushes. One-time payment!

Note: I heard the dev team is solo / small. Please do consider supporting them if you are interested in using this program!

PureRef

Let's you create a board to add images like references / inspirations / etc!

Rainmeter

Customize your desktop background with widgets and accessories! It's free!

WindowBlinds

Customize your Windows 10 / 11 to look different! One-time payment.

Note: Themes can be found directly on the software or you can look on Wincustomize.

Winstep Nexus

Need an extra dock for shortcuts? Try this! It's generally free and has a paid version with more options.

AntiMicroX

Used to map keyboard buttons onto a controller. I use this for art program shortcuts! It's free!

Xpadder

Used to map keyboard buttons onto a controller. One-time payment!

Note: The dev has been running this over 15 years now and still makes it work today. Gotta respect. I used this to map my Maplestory shortcuts on it.

FooBar2000

Another great music player with tagging features. I mainly use this for ripping my music CDs. It also have a database lookup that allows for auto-tagging. It also has skins!

MP3Tag

A cool tagging editor for your music files. I have been using this for many years and it still works great! It also supports online database lookups for finding proper tags.

MusicBee

A great music/manager player. Very customizable and also supports podcasts and web radio stations. I like to use this for its album cover organizer and the fact that it also lets me make seperate scanned libraries with different folders. Skins are also available.

Music Presence

An application you can use to that shows your music status on Discord. It supports a large variety of music players along with web music players as well. Has Linux support!

Calibre

A pdf / e-book organizer program. I arrange all my e-books here! There is a neat tagging system as well.

FilePilot

Very nifty file explorer. Runs fast and works like a charm!