alternative-To

Brad R Wednesday 11 January 2012 - 12:54:51  

I just stumbled across a very useful site: alternativeTo.net. This is a site to help you find "alternatives to" any given software product. The page has a very clean design and a powerful interface: you can specify what platform you want -- Windows, Mac, Linux, online (web apps), iPhone, Android, Winphone, or Symbian S60 -- and then search for a product by name.

When I selected "Linux" and searched for "Photoshop" I got 20 alternatives, most of which were new to me, ordered by the number of "likes". It's no surprise that GIMP was on top, but I'd never heard of the #2, GimpShop, which is GIMP modified to more closely resemble Photoshop.

And, relating to my previous post -- it found twelve alternatives to "Kompare", including Meld, Diffuse, tkdiff, xxdiff, and Kdiff3.

I think I'm going to be using alternativeTo a lot. I've added it to our links (under "Linux Application Software").
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