Awesome Software Patreons

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

Help individual programmers or open source projects funding the development of your favorite software sponsoring them via Github, subscribing to their Patreon accounts or using other forms of sponsorship.

A tangible way to give back to the open source community!

Contents

• Open Source Projects
• Libraries
• Operating Systems
• Games
• Open Source Art
• Hardware related
• People Doing Open Source Work
• Other Kinds of Content
• Articles and Tutorials
• Videos
• Podcasts

Open Source Projects

Projects released with an open source license.

• Akira, #2 - 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, #2, #3 - 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, #2 - 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, #2 - 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, #2 - Full computer control and speech with your eyes.
• Paperwork - Personal document manager.
• Perkeep - Personal storage system.
• PHPStan - PHP static analyzer.